nobody really can tell the difference between a good confession and one that isn't donald trump claims only his administration was capable of delivering a vaccine so fast as a rich countries scramble to get their hands on the job, leaving poor nations at the back of the queue president clinton says the fighting has stopped in the disputed region where russian peacekeepers are now enforcing a cease fire between armenia and azerbaijan. we hear from refugees who fled the conflict. i didn't want to leave my home, but another my daughter said, mom, they're coming for the sake of my children. i left and russia accuses

germany of playing for time in the poisoning probe. the kremlin spokesperson tells our team that repeated requests for information have been turned down. we want to know the truth. so we said, please help if you have information that we please share it with us. but no one wants to cooperate. are broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow. this is r t international . i'm sean thomas. certainly glad to have you with us. now with many nations joining the queue for the new us german corona, virus vaccine, donald trump claims it was his administration that played a significant role in the development of the covert care through operation warp speed. we're doing it in less than one year. if you had

a different administration with different people, what we've done would have taken, in my opinion, 345 years, or would've been in the f.d.a. forever, a very safe and in a great vaccine. already we have among the lowest case fatality rates, our country any where in the world the entire world. meanwhile, israel has become the latest country to sign up for the new covert vaccine being developed by u.s. drugs giant. pfizer is buying 8000000 doses, but concerns are rising. the much vaunted jab is only affordable to rich countries . while wealthy nations can stockpile drugs, poor ones often lack the specialist storage equipment needed trees. he has more within hours of pharmaceutical giant pfizer and by own tech announcing that couvade $900.00 vaccine was 90 percent effective that you swooped in and signed on the

dotted line. and europe wasn't alone. massive deals have also been struck with the,, u.s. the u.k., egypt, pan, canada, and new zealand, leading some n.g.o.s to question whether this is just a vaccine for rich nations. it's worrying that pfizer bio and tech has already struck deals with rich countries for more than a 1000000000 doses of its vaccine, leaving less than a quarter of its projected supply for the rest of the world. big pharma profits must not be prioritized over the health of billions. now, the european commission has been clear and member states can decide what to do with their vaccine doses. and that includes the option of to meeting them to lower and middle income countries. the u. is unlikely to help a lot because it is in deep trouble itself and many poor. 'd countries are not going to be able to be all the support it spends if coaching, infrastructure,

and storage on time to deliver the missing. this vaccine needs to be stored at minus 70 degree celsius, requiring a special freezer of the type that isn't widely available even in europe and america. meaning countries will have to build deep freeze storage and transportation networks from scratch to keep the vaccine from becoming useless is for the action is costly, its component is unstable. it also requires call chain transportation and has a short shelf life. the requirement for extremely cold temperatures is likely to cause spoilage a lot of vaccine the price tag in building these and the difficulties in administrating the required 2 shots within a month, may be too much of a burden for them. most nations, leaving them essentially frozen out some n.g.o.s of cool. don't follow on tech, to clarify how the vaccine will be made accessible outside high income countries.

and they want the firms to make that vaccine technology available via a w h o scheme. so billions of doses can be produced as quickly and this cheaply as possible. now that's unlikely, because when the scheme was launched, pfizer made its feelings clear, i think is nonsense and at this point of time, it's also dangerous. there's a giant effort right now happening to find solutions. the risks we're taking represent billions of dollars and the chances of developing something is still not very good and adding insult to injury the day. the vaccine was announced, the c.e.o. of fine. so many $5600000.00 worth of company stock. now pfizer says that this was a scheduled transaction once the stock hit a certain value, but for many this was a cold shower. of a reminder, the big pharma is also big money. so a vaccine for coated 19 may be closer, which of course is good news. well,

for those who can at least afford it, i say, centralize profit seeking the period with market in some way. because the last country to be called that really determines when the pandemic it's going to the one who paid for it getting worse. i mean, we complain much, but the point is really if it is eventually optimal for them to leave all these poor countries untreated because we could eventually travel back to the bric countries at the same time. profit incentive shouldn't be in the mind. the world's greatest invention and treatment by a lot by products. one of the biggest, the global changes brought about by the pandemic, is a mass shift to working from home. millions of people worldwide are staying away from offices. and now researchers at germany's biggest bank are saying those people

should be taxed for the privilege of working from home will be part of the new normal. well off to the pandemic has passed. we argue that remote workers should pay a tax for the privilege our calculations suggest the amounts raised could fund material income subsidies for low income earners who are unable to work remotely. and this is you more old economy and health risks. a bank team is suggesting an additional 5 percent levy for remote staff. they argue it's around what people save on transport and food and save the money, could be reduced to a bit redistributed, excuse me, to those who cannot work online. the researchers estimate such a scheme would raise around 40 $8000000000.00 in tax revenue in the us $9000000000.00 in the u.k. and $19000000000.00 in germany. most surveys this year have shown positive attitudes towards home based work. i poll in the us, found

a hefty 72 percent of so-called knowledge. workers want a combination of remote and office duties while only 12 percent would prefer to work soley from the office earlier. my colleague union o'neill spoke with journalist charlie boyd, and geo political analyst. rare rothfuss who gave us their views on the idea of a new work from home tax. they said the best way to invent new taxes all over. if you want more, trust is social justice. why haven't we tried to lift the wage of nurses before? so i think it's not really fair to talk about an extra tax, but i didn't so much through all this year. but actually tony, i'm just speaking specifically about kerry because it's been by stross that doing it's a major cost for people is really nice and that is getting to work and that is going to net 5 to get something every year. and

a lot of cases that automatically remove the you know, significant costs associated with, with getting to joe. i think this needs to be proven 1st. the people who are working from home at the long run will save money, but you need a fully equipped, equipped office. you need hardware. you need to more space, which you need to rent or to buy as a white collar worker as well. i think we have to have a wider conversation about working from long hard work to be quite large fiancee's this year. ryan miller looks through waves 1st and 2nd march, and very recently they made it clear that they don't want their workers and workers tend to want to go back. if people stay at home, work from home, the turnover is reduced for many other businesses. and this hurts the overall

economy. there is a long term conversation about you know, what we do about compensating people. businesses that are asked to brenton in big cities and also it's a, it's a double swing, but this is not going to be resolved in the next couple months because the super slow downs over everyone's getting crunched, going back to what you know best and give a man's have really increased quite considerably. so if this tax, if this extra tax for people who can't work for from home is supposed to be something like a compensation for these losses and for these debts. i think it's a totally misconceived strategy. but i think like, oh my goodness, it's a great idea and principle, it's one for the long. i think in the short term, there's no time to even implement, even if it's called well, and are serious or going back 2 or 3 months next year. once it actually gets rolled

out and we'll have a conversation, and i mean this, which is be a revenue for the state, but what we need is to foster economic growth and activity. and this can never be done through a tax. so i think the stadium channel should be rather limited to its basic functions. but a mere putin says, fighting has come to a complete halt in the disputed region of nagorno-karabakh. since a peace deal was reached between by john and armenia, the russian president updated his cabinet on the situation in ca, to buck where almost 2000 peacekeepers have been deployed. armenia's prime minister has defended his decision to sign in the russia brokered cease fire, claiming it was it would prevent huge loss of life, but he is facing strong public resistance. throughout friday, crowds gathered yet again outside parliament, calling for nicole passion, younes resignation. many armenians are furious about the terms of the truce,

which allow azerbaijan to hold on to the land. it captured in the past 7 weeks, plus armenia is obliged to hand over 3 other districts by the end of the month. here's a look back at the past few days of unrest and yerevan. thank god, i was right. thank god was during friday's cabinet meeting. russia's president also highlighted the dire humanitarian situation in karbala following the conflict. just was it more than 4000 people have died in the fighting, including civilians and more than 8000, injured according to various sources. the number of for

a few g.'s is in the 10s of thousands. many ethnic armenians left immediately after the ceasefire was signed when it became clear that their homes and villages would be handed over to azerbaijan, makeshift centers with volunteers and aid workers have been created in armenia to help accommodate them. but some of those fleeing have found shelter in the homes of total strangers. well, so we built our dreams. we wanted our dreams to come true, but after 30 years it's war again. again, everything is destroyed. there are many places in the world where peace spells torment, but nagorno-karabakh is one of them. the truce between armenia and azerbaijan hasn't brought any relief for those who fled the war, but none i didn't want to run, not at the beginning, at least, but did for the sake of her children. yet as with the 1st bombing, i walked the children and we went to our neighbors basement. we're in an area where

there are no bomb shelters. i didn't want to leave my home, but another siren. my daughter said mom, they're coming for the sake of my children, i left step and i kept to care of the kids. well, while she's holding back tears, her little daughter runs around as if war has never been a feature of her young life. finding home in armenia has never been a challenge. people weren't just welcoming. they were actively searching for refugees to give them shelter from the bomb what i thought something needs to be done. and i started looking for a family to help. and they found me, they found me and i found them. and they have been living with me since october 1st, as none are, was following the war from afar. at 1st, everything seemed bright, just as if victory was around the corner. but then troubling news from her husband on the front line was the 1st sign that all was not well in her homeland. the

husband said that the as there by jan, he's were waiting outside the city to attack. and at night a drone attack, the car in which he and other military personnel were and he reached and his relatives took him to the hospital. but he wanted to go back and fight, and now he isn't stupid, like at the peace deal, which for many looks too much like surrender. hate cab back refugees. like a hammer blow, says the as a by journey's will never give them a chance. at co-existing. my adults, my relatives lived in 100. it was very scary. they were in the basement until mid october, but they were lucky enough to leave there and escape. my other friend lived. she lost her home and her husband, and she has no idea how to continue living as well aware of what happened and how much of new going to care. they have to give up and she finds it impossible to accept, but it looks like she and tens of thousands of other refugees will have no choice but to get used to it. i'm done of reporting from for all to see a new medical

study has found that catching the corona virus can result in mental disorders. we'll bring you all the day after a short break. this is our country national join

me every 1st week on the alex salmond show. and obviously to get a feel of the world of politics. i'm showbusiness. i'll see that welcome back. this is our t. international. now russia has accused germany of stalling the investigation into the alexina valmy case. the 2 countries have been locked in a stalemate for months with moscow demanding lab data. to back up berlin's claim. kremlin critic was poisoned with a nerve agent. now,

russia's foreign ministry claims it is getting nothing but excuses from germany. the new berlin doesn't want to hand over materials from the wind in the case to russia. and it was clinging on to any excuse. you know how much i would like to reiterate, that we do not expect the bearer of bad news, namely us to be criticised. it would be better to deal with the news itself. we, have informed the c.w., an organization that the russian side can approach to ask for the question, as just a recap of what exactly happened. alexina volley fell severely ill on an internal flight in russia. back in august, the plane made an emergency landing in the city of where he was taken to the hospital and put into an induced coma. the opposition activist was then airlifted to germany for specialist treatment in a volley case, and much more was discussed in an interview with the kremlin spokesperson. dmitri peskov exclusive sit down will be airing in full throughout the day. here's

a taste machine to use for when we are interested in the investigation of all the circumstances of what happened. if we want to know the truth. so we said, please help us if you have information that we do not have, please share it with us. but no one wanted to cooperate. sometimes it seems that the patient does not want that truth to be out himself. but sometimes it seems the patient is not that sick. when there are a lot of questions about his illness too. and if he is ill, we need to know how bad and whether his disease can fade and come back. well, you have to agree that there are more questions than answers. all right, germany claims a military lab found traces of another truck type of nerve agent in the valley system after he was transferred to the country for treatment. a conclusion that was later backed up by the global chemical weapons watchdog, the o.p.c. w.

. however, moscow insists that no volley was tested for multiple toxins, including nerve agents while he was still in russia. all of those results came back negative. russia has repeatedly asked the o.p.c. w. to pass on whatever evidence it has. those requests have been denied leading russia's un envoy to question the organization's neutrality. i will be blunt the o.p.c. w.'s technical secretary. it is increasingly turning into a tool in the west's hands, which is being used to exert informational and political pressure on countries that fail to toe the line. this conclusion is backed up by the watch dogs involvement in anti russian campaigns earlier with the screen case. and now with the alleged, poisoning of alexina valmy, russia's permanent representative to the o.p.c. w., alexander explained the months long effort to get answers from the organization. and also from germany. russia has contacted the director general of the

o.p.c. w.'s technical secretariat, offering to arrange for an expert mission to russia, so they can find out along with their russian colleagues. what happened to me,, we've asked the a b. c. w.'s technical secretary about the cooperation between it and germany. and we were told to direct our questions to berlin, citing confidentiality policies under which the a, p. c. w is not allowed to disclose anything without germany's consent. so heating the technical secretary, it's advice we approached by lynn and sent a request there. but we still haven't received a reply. our german colleagues are trying to wriggle out of their obligations under the chemical weapons convention, which requires them to consult us and give us legal assistance as a member state when any questions arise regarding the convention. to be honest, we've got an unseemly situation on our hands. our german partners are saying that this whole story is no longer a bilateral issue, but rather an international one which should be considered by the c.w. . but at the same time, the technical secretariat directs us back to the german side for any questions. so

we find ourselves trapped in a vicious circle. in recent years, everything has gone awry. that's due to a persistent desire by a group of western countries led by the us to replace international law with rules . they invented themselves whenever it's convenient for them. this is resulted in prosecution functions which uncharacteristic of the a.p.c. doubly being imposed on the organization. it's been assigned powers to identify those guilty of using chemical weapons. this was done in breach of the chemical weapons convention and at the expense of the united nations security council. moreover, the americans and their allies have sought to politicize the. essentially they're turning it into a tool for furthering their political agenda. although, a corporation with the technical secretariat of the o.p.c., zoe is currently it's a low point. i would not call it the point of no return is an important platform

for us to present our points of view and defend our interests. a new study has pointed to an unexpected consequence of covert 19 found that infection can trigger mental disorders. the research was conducted by team at the u.k.'s oxford university. they found one in 5 covered patients go on to receive a psychiatric diagnosis. within 3 months of testing, positive tens of thousands of people were assessed. the most common conditions relate to feelings of worry or fear and in some cases cause severe depression. and specifically the team found a heightened risk of post-traumatic stress disorder, panic attacks and insomnia. we talked to a co-author of the study the, the short answer is that we don't know yet, and we have to do more research to find out, you know, we can start to speculate about what might be the reasons. and i think there might be 2 main reasons. one is psychological, the other one is biological. the psychological one is quite intuitive. it is,

you know, people suffer with the 19 which is quite scary in of itself and the fear of having a potentially life limiting in this might cause things like anxiety and depression . and it does also to a possible biological explanation, which is that it is possible that sask of to say the very virus that causes of it 19 might get into the brain. we know that some viruses do. we don't know yet as far as i know where the source of 2 does, but it's possible that it does. and in that way it might, it might be affecting the brain and damaging the brain if you will. within the biological explanation is also an inflammatory explanation. so we know that of 2 as a virus causes an information throughout the body that can be, can expand well beyond the lungs. and it may be that, that inflammatory response also involves the brain. and if that's the case, that in my view that the inflammation to the immune response of the body mount

against infection might be the cause of the cycle. given that there's going to be more people suffering with mental illness as a result of 19, we need to make sure that there is services provided for those people and therapy provided for the people. we know the things that he depression, for instance, for example, is our treatable diseases. most people that receive treatment for anxiety, depression do get better. and so it's very important that those treatments are available to all that need them during the pandemic. and yet another impact of the corona virus has now come to light education watchdog has found some children who were previously being looked after by childminders and carers have forgotten how to perform even the most basic of tasks any working parent will tell you carol care can be a lifeline. but with 2020, the year working from home came into its own. many found that they could combine

business with caring for their children and to save a little money to buy those on furlough also had more time for the family. good news. well, not for those whose business is child care and schools are in danger of closing. now. 46 children in march before their lockdown, and this week 16 children now have lost 2 members of staff and some would sit on jail, went to work. i am what we know is no love lost 3 quarters in january as in when covert restrictions, ease and parents do need to go back out to work. they may find their child care provider simply doesn't exist. a poll by the early years alliance found that one in 6 percent of teens face closing for good for interment. nearly a quarter expect to make any profit between now and spring,

and nearly 2 thirds say they aren't getting any help they need from the government . but more support of the mention about more support of the charge of element of this is either so basically tonight by me, sounds should talk to people instead of just regime, look all of your career to me. money comes after the challenge and i just want the children to be happy. no child should be gone. so when you see a child, but what they used to do, what's a child that misses and missed? there's a father worrying. many have underestimated those vital skills. a professional, cold wind as in kara's. well, some parents have been able to cope many, haven't started by school. what start off that has found partners or regressing, those potty trained back in nothing and many forgetting how to count or even use cutlery. while all the children have lost reading or writing skills, physical fitness and at an increased risk of mental illness, extra hard while trying to harm a child. that's not so well, i clued up on things. but the simple thing in the shoes are the shoes on the rug,

very much. not being the up look at themselves dressed for nursery, or even so it was caught on struggle just going forward. it's working women who could suffer the most often the ones arranging all the childcare, as well as organizing a complicated schedule of jump off. pick ups, favors from friends, and even having to turn down promotions and new opportunities when it all falls apart. for them, affordable child care holds it all together. without it, it's an impossible task. and it's a, it's a constant routine. now if we do, you know what? it's always the mom brings the child and the mom's got to go. and then the child woman, the department of education says it is working to support child care providers through the pandemic, nurseries, preschools and child minders have received significant financial support over the past months and will benefit from a planned 3600000000 funding package in 2020 to 21 for free,

early education and childcare places, we're providing extra stability and reassurance to settings that are open by block, buying childcare places for the rest of this year at the level we would have funded before coronavirus. regardless of how many children are attending the for many that simply isn't enough to knock down, may have made things easier and a little cheaper for parents in the short term. but as the country opens up without the support in place, the long term consequences for both careers and childhood development could be devastating. or that is it for me, this hour will be back in about just over 30 minutes with another full and fresh look at news. this is art international,

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