for grown children, for their parents, russia slams america's decision to pull out of the open skies treaty washington of previously having only feigns commitment to the deal western allies also criticize the move. in other news, a texan with a muscle disease comes to russia for treatment. after being told back home, he would never walk again. and spencer shared his story exclusively with his here at r.t. used to use this all the time. it was a state's rollout new pandemic laws and it's soaring, infection rates, politicians,

a court flouting their own rules. thanks so much for joining us. this is r.t. international an act of hypocrisy. and just for show, that's how russia described the u.s. decision to pull out of the open skies treaty, which permits mutual aerial surveillance flights. moscow also warned that the move would harm international security. trying to join me in the studio to discuss developments. moscow is disappointed to say the least about the decision by the us administration to kick the legs from under the treaty for which as the russian side is posting it. the us has no legitimate reasons whatsoever. moscow maintains that claims of violations on the part of russia, of the treaty that has been in force for 18 years, have all been made up,

plus no one seen any proof of that. moscow has blamed washington for violations to the other side, has denied it, but the question is whether that is a good enough reason to get rid of the agreement. the answer from moscow is no. and we know the answer from the other side. among other things, the russian officials believe that the u.s. government was lying when it said that it was considering the option to stay a part of the deal under certain circumstances. the assumption here in the russian capital is that the u.s. is destroying the greyman deliberately, and that was all part of an earlier plan. in recent months, washington has hypocritically stated that in the keys of a change in the russian position, it could reconsider its decision. in fact, no one there had planned to reconsider anything that was again for the public designed to mislead foreign governments and the public of european states that were

urging washington to come to its senses. when we talk about how the americans could benefit from leaving the treaty, it's very important to point out that moscow believes the u.s. government wants to seek some kind of ban by european countries of russian flights over u.s. military sites in europe. but at the same time, moscow believes that the u.s. wants to continue receiving the information from european countries from its flights in the russian air space. so what's left for russia to do moscow says that it will continue putting pressure on the other signatories to the open skies treaty to make sure that they remain committed to the terms and abide by it. but in a case, the message from moscow is that this decision by the americans heavily damages international security and transparency. you mentioned, european countries involved there. and there will be european countries among the,

the many dozens of other signatories to the treaty. how do they feel about the u.s. pulling it well apart from russia and the u.s.? although the u.s. is no longer part of the deal, there are $33.00 more signatories to would that include some very important, european players, like the u.k., germany, france, etc. and they've been critical of the decision by the us administration as well. we deeply regret the united states has decided to take this step and is now implementing its our own position on the treaty remains unchanged. we consider it to be an important part of the arms control architecture that contributes to building mutual trust in the us to greater security in the northern hemisphere from the tivo stuck to vancouver. but it's not only that we're hearing regrets from russia and the u.s. allies in europe because we have heard voices of concern across the atlantic as well. the administration's decision to withdraw from the open skies treaty is reckless. i strongly believe that president trumps decision to withdraw from the

treaty is a violation of domestic law. president trump brazenly ignored the law and is unilaterally imposing a politically charged withdraw even after losing a presidential election. now here's an ironic aspect of this whole situation. the open skies treaty was initially proposed by washington that happened back in 1955. though then the room, it only came into force in 2002, but still it was out there. and because of donald trump, because of his strategy that we've actually gotten used to, we remember that he left many important international treaties in different fields in the field of security. for example, most notably that was the intermediate range nuclear forces treaty, but you can name agreements in other fields such as, for example, the paris climate accord. that's a very important one. but donald trump may be the lame duck president,

but again, perhaps this is a step from him that we could have expected and has been doing what he's been up to pretty much in the past 4 years. it takes a months of, from, from a muscle diseases come all the way to russia for treatment. and spencer was told back at home in america, he never walk again. this is arriving in the russian city of perm in october. he's actually going to get up and about and he shared his story with us in an exclusive interview. i want to use this where we were, when i was, when i was or what without our food, no water. alan spencer could have been dead by now or in a wheelchair. that's what doctors back home in america told him 5 years ago. i used to use this all the time. it was absolutely necessary. we're going to go now into scary people here in an incredibly allan has escaped all those outcomes. when

i started to notice a little something with my hands, they were going to go on like this. so that some sound right, but i didn't have any problem with strength, so i didn't think i heard anything wrong. 2012 came, i had a fall and i was like, whoa, that was unusual. 2014 i came again and i had a really bad fall. it was like, ok, there's something wrong, something wrong happen to be a rare inflammatory muscle disorder known as inclusion, body myositis between $5.70 people per 1000000 have it. they said there's nothing we can do for it's completely untrue dribble. what do you feel when you read that will i wasn't as disappointed as you would think. my father had died of a form of a.o.s. and so i thought, well that's as a doctor said, good news and bad news. the good news is you're not going to die. the bad news is you're going to be trouble to spare for the vice president of time warner cable for west texas as successful man allen had to quit his job in 2017. he simply wasn't

able to work anymore. that his ease was eaten away at his muscles, stealing his abilities and his life. but then he heard from a friend about a clinic in perm russia that could potentially treat him at 1st, he didn't take it seriously. my friend andy had said in, in february there's going to be a wedding are about this clinic that i think might be able to help you. are you interested in this kind of like, well, not really. i didn't tell him that the way to be perfectly honest with you, you know, i don't, i think is an american you're, you probably have a stereotype of what the breast in hospital looks like. if mayo says that nothing can be done. probably nothing can be got sent to many male, gave my email address. the next day i got a, an e-mail back from the director. the c.e.o. actually of the clinic. they govern touch with me on wednesday and said if you come, we think we can help you. we are not sure to what degree,

but we do believe that we can actually help you. a glimmer of hope was born. but coming to russia in the middle of the college, 19th and jamming with borders shot and planes grounded, it seemed like mission impossible. back in may one of the gals from marty called dandy and said, hey, how's your medical tourism? but building business doing, he said not so well that started the process. it took 17 months to finally come to russia and it was worth every single day of trying. he says, so they started me on this treatment of injections and infusions. and the neurologist put the magnetic field on my hear pulsing through and what it does is it wakes up the neurons in the head. so they started to move in the wake of the muscles. my eye could actually swallow better, and i could talk a little easier if i would, you know, world, this is starting to actually work. what turned out was we were getting this world

class held help in this clinic in perm russia. if we can get travel to open up, i really intend to work with dan di and others to get peeved you hear from america, it's a wonderful thing. i mean, it shouldn't be a secret. here you go. wow, good job. now among the sectors hit, hardest by the cove in $1000.00, pandemic is global sports in all varieties fans around the world have been denied access to stadiums. team earnings as a result of nosedive, and that includes the very biggest hockey league's. well, i'm joined now by one of the greatest talking players of all time to time stanley cup winner 2 world championships. you were in pick champion. you're also now though, i think most relevant to what we're going through at the moment, you own your own hockey club to see cloud? no. in the czech republic, how difficult is it owning the club in times of coronavirus?

it's very difficult. you know, anybody who's going to sit here as an owner are going to tell you it's of the most difficult time. so an offer and you have a lockdown for for 2 months. we start playing again, but no friends, we couldn't practice. so it was kind of tough for everybody will play sports people think, jeremy yog, the hockey player, and you're synonymous with success in the sport? i would imagine this is one of the most challenging experiences you've faced. well, you know, i'm still, i'm still playing, i'm going to be close to 50, so i want to play to 50 hour reset. i want to play golf if they're going to try to play ball 50. but also, i mean the owner. so this is, this is the toughest of course, it's not easy, especially not you know, it's a challenge. you know, i like challenges in my life. so, and i'm trying to do the best, i can do nothing in a previous interview that you did. you took about the challenge of getting fans back into the stadiums. how big a problem is it for the,

for the club to get fans back in financially and maybe in other terms as well. first of all, you know, when they ask us or before the season, if we want to play without offense, i was the guy who said, no, it doesn't make any sense. you know, play sports. you know, the fans would make in a sense, right now when they ask me, you know, i said yeah, let's play, a least play even to play it. you know, we can be on a t.v., you know, you got to know there's a lot of money from the sponsoring, sold to the sponsors. one of them want to play the game the they wanted to do it so . so without. busy offense, there is no money coming in the club,, but at least you know, we can be on the t.v., at least you can play, we can keep playing, we can be practicing and people who love the sports, you know, believe they can do their job. how i mean, how sustainable is that to keep playing when you've got government saying, you can't have fans in only so many fans and this is all sports all around the world. now, a lot of clubs are thinking, we can't do this much longer. we need the revenue concerned, you know,

of the toughest thing is nobody really know what's going to happen. to the tell you one day this thing and next day they have to change it because they don't know where the virus is going to go. you know, how tough is it, and are we in check or probably we're pretty cool. we were pretty good. you know, 34 months ago, we thought it's going to be everything. ok, all of us is the 2nd wave come and you know, they have to lock everything down. how are you dealing with cases where your players test positive? what's going to process is you have a dealing with that same thing. they did you change it before the if one guy got tested, positive the whole team have to go to currently and we, you know, we have, we couldn't do anything. we've relied on for 2 weeks now do the changing little bit . whoever is positive. we just stay home for 10 days and wrestle the team can, can practice and play. it's changing day by day. as a sports fan, myself, watching sports that are taking place on t.v.

. i immediately notice the lack of atmosphere without the fans there. how big a problem is it even just for the players when the performing not having fans more of your professional. so we should, you know, we should be able to do it. but, you know, of course, it's all a different, there's no excitement. you know me, persona always play for the fans always wanted to satisfy the fans always feel like if you know, whoever come to the game, give them the best you can every, every game, all of a sudden there's nobody else. it's like a practice. but again, view of professionals, so we have to, we have to keep playing, no matter what kind of situation is. do you think this might be a moment where sports will have a little bit of a rethink in the way things are going? because i think with similar ages, throughout our lifetimes, there's been this kind of exponential growth in professional sports of the amount of revenue that business is these days. the amount of income that goes to the

players, because the clubs and sells make big money. and there has been a disconnect as established between, you know, the average fan on their average salary and what the players get. suddenly that's become a little bit of an issue. i think when, when fans are maybe losing their jobs, they're struggling to survive. and they see play is getting these huge amounts of money and almost like they're on a different level. or, you know, it's tough to say, you know, it's tough to say depends what kind of sport is it, what kind of country is it, you know, in our country, you know, the players doesn't get anything. you know, the, you know, they don't make that much money. so, you know, the parents, you know, if you're taking a, if you're talking about soccer, of course you're,, if you're talking about hockey in n.h.l., of course you're right. but other countries, it's not, it's not like that. and i believe the defense understand that the fans are going to come. it's going to take time because there's a lot of unknowns is going to be war it. they can, they can get signatures, you know, all of a sudden they find, learn to live without a sport before some fans the, they don't know how to read out or there is no heart. there is no sport,

there is no hard you are going to do all of a sudden they find other other stuff to keep into. so it's going to take time, but i think it's going to be ok. how important i think it is to have sports because we kind of, there was a spirit where all sports seem to stop, then they came back. how important a role do they play in society? because people need some uplifting, a bit of hero. in order to me personally, you know, you have to, you have to look at the sport to raise the professionals for the one way or the other just to, to keep moving to be, to do sport in your life. and i can see it myself and i got all the, if i don't do anything, just sit around, lay around my body is the herd, you know, and everybody have to go through this. so any sports you can do, it's keep you healthy and more happy. you get more energy and you get more exciting for life. so the sport is such a crucial, crucial thing for your life. and i'm really interested to get in to get your perspective on the fans and know you, you kind of become synonymous with

a player who really does just play for the love of game. i get impression, even if there wasn't big money on the table, you would have still been playing the pure passion of the game and the fans. would you like to see? the fans brought a bit closer. see the players because like i said, players are often in their own world now because professionalism and fans are very separate, but i think we realize now there is no professional sport without the fans. also, i think with all the social media internet, instagram and facebook, it's all lists of the t.v. a lot of channels. i think this for the getting closer to the, to the defense. it's not like they're really used to go over and there was just so media newspaper, they can read a double discourse, and that's all. now that you've got all the, all the shows, all the documentary aboard the players. so the fans have to understand the, you know, the, the sports, their idol is also says human being also they have a problem like everybody else. so i think the defense understand them and it's

getting closer and closer. it's about, you know, maybe some of the hockey clubs in the czech republic, you know, we're not talking the premier league football team in terms of the finance. what's become apparent is that even for the very, very wealthy sports teams, there is a problem coming from coronavirus in the sense that the smaller clubs could end collapsing, folding. so the bigger clubs are now going to be thinking where we're going to get the players from where is the kind of the infrastructure for our sport. it's in danger of disappearing. is there maybe a need even just for a discussion of redistributing some of that wealth from the very, very wealthy clubs down to the smaller clubs because before it was the very rich and those just existing but they need them now and they will realize, of course, i don't have a crystal ball so i don't know what's going to happen to you right now you're. 'd either moderate, of course, or all the big clubs, you know, they were getting money from the small, small, small, i mean, getting the players for the small, small clubs,

the same thing. in hockey you rate with the situation. there is a lot, a lot of teams might go bankrupt and it's up to the, up to the countries and the cities, how they're going to support it. you know, it's to do to support it and help those clubs. there is another way, there is not, not many going to survive. i think another way that things are going to change is, you know, for fans, for the average working person now could be for some tough times. people losing their jobs. people are tightening their belts in terms of the money they got. they might be a lot more selective about how they spend their money when it comes to free time. that could change. you know, the sports that people go to watch, they might look for cheaper sports, maybe they'll go for more local sports teams that cost less. it could even be an opportunity for some, for some sports clubs, get the local community rallying around them. well, once again, i don't know,

you know, you give me the question of, well, i'm not going to know until maybe opportunity 5. if i was involved in a club or the local level of it. but our other side, the forwards are very popular in our country, there is soccer. people always going to watch soccer and 2nd sports hockey is always, you know, this is, this is, this is in check or public is number number 2, number one for the fans. so i believe they're always going to come to watch it, but you are in their mind. they might be in the cheaper stuff. you know, they might pick them stuff before they could go everywhere. now they say i don't have much money to go every every day. so i go once a week, i pick the best thing. like i said, you've won so much, i'm sure you've had lows as well in professional sport is the strangest time you've been through. well, it's a challenge and sometimes you can a board, you don't know, you don't have, you don't see the late in the, in the tunnel. it's,

it's for everybody else. also for me, what you, you just have to keep going. you know, we are here once in a new life, so let's little take advantage and take it as a challenge. you know, it's, you know, everybody can live happily everything go easy, you know, you, you know, there are hard times, sometimes helping more than the easy stuff. i want to turn the conversation towards recent news relating to drug use in sport, which is a very wide issue the u.s. senate to pass the bill that in vague terms would allow them to imprison or imposed very heavy fines on people involved in doping, systematic doping, in sports events where u.s. athletes, or even just u.s. businesses, companies were involved. it's very far reaching, it gives the impression some might say, the u.s. appointed themselves as some kind of like sporting doping, world police, i'm sure

a lot of athletes will be quite concerned that at the prospect of, you know, some of the punishments that are out there even want to themselves, he kind of previously had that role or still would think that they did not. they're not very happy about this announcement which wondered what you thought, you know,, that's the 1st time i heard it. when i was in n.h.l., he did that at least 4 times a year. so you know, to me, i was born lucky. so you know, i never have to take anything and everything anyway, the means and never drink alcohol. so, to me, i'm never really care about it, but i think it's a help. it's the sports the clearer. you know, for example, let's see. you know, you're more talented than the other guy. are you, you work harder than the other guy? are no worse than he's been because it taking something. you know, it's not. so i think whatever they do, i think it's for the sports. you talk about fitness, 100 to the age of about 7. you were doing 1000 squats. a day. i did 60 squats the

of the day and i can barely sit down the next day. so now we understand how you play for so many years, how much i know you want to keep playing. i mean, will you just keep it just be a hobby? you just keep playing at any level, just keep going or, you know, what always has not. it's not, it's just a number in order to win. they said, or you 2 all are, you know, i never believed that. so, you know, always believe if you love something you willing to sacrifice and it think it's almost practicing. the only difference is when you order, you need a more time for recovery. that's only a difference. but when you have a family who understand the you love something and you have willing to, and you have some kind of got talent and you're willing to do avoid hurt. h. is just a number. it's, it's hard, it's not easy. recovery, but you can do it plus when, when people were guarded, when they're younger,

there is a muscle memories and it's easy to jump in. you spent 3 years playing in the russia, which is why you know, you go back to visit, revisit your old club. god obviously spent countless years playing in the n.h.l. . now you have played in front of much bigger crowds in the n.h.l. than in the k.h. of both countries who consider themselves major powerhouses in hockey. can you see a way in which the cape could lift itself closer to the level of the n.h.l. to get more people in? i mean, what does it need? is it more? razzmatazz means already a passion for the game out of the lift. to be honest stuff to say because the,, you know, don't forget the history of the n.h.l., it's 100 years. and it was, i remember it was 2006, you know, it in 2017, it was a 100 years celebrating 100 years. the best players, you know, i was there, so i know it's a 100 years history hill. it's only, you know, 12 years. so it's huge. it's huge difference. so, you know, when you,

when you ask around the world, the younger players who are they want to play, what's their goal? they're all going to want to play one day and age well. so the name of the n.h.l. is lot harder. it's understandable. everything is going to take time, but the cage chilled is the 2nd leak. you know, if you, if you are not good enough for your starter, there's a lot of great players in cage and you mention it, i was here for 3 years. so i came here in my age i was, i was 36, i came in h l n h l, i thought it's over, i'm not and i come back. but when i was here, i still love hockey again. we practicing law more than in the n.h.l., . and after those 3 years, i've been back and i play other 5 or 6 years in n.h.l., so the hill hold me a lot just mentally and physically to get ready for the for the n.h.l. . yeah. a lot of people who played with you said that they saw you came back,

reinvigorated, fresh, stronger. i'm just thinking now. i know like, you look at the big time and it shall create that chapter of your life is coming to an end. you're going to keep playing in some way, shape or form, but looking forward, what you think you might do to reinvigorate yourself is the next phase of your life . well, you know, everything happens for a reason. so, so, so i guess, you know, playing russia for a reason i took a chance to do what i was in russia. so did help me a lot, you know, become more religion here in russia. it helped me and i believe in god a lot more. hiding it because in the be a religion in the czech republic, it's not involved in very now it's changing everything changing so i was hiding it . and the, that kind of stuff in my life helped me a lot and also you know, the practicing and all that stuff. so whatever happened happened and, you know,

i just have to take the challenge every thanks so much taking the time can speak to make the best of luck with it was a long and there we go. it was a lot of good. yeah. it was a lot of ball like thing and it was tough questions to i gave you the question, every question. i got to think about it. there's not many people ask me those kind of questions. what are you good. i give you that. you know, that's a good thing larry. i like to say i stayed speaking to you so long and you stayed at home because it was enjoy it was about, it was stuff, it was her. it was her to see you again in a way because i always got more questions to the legendary yoga is my guest. and i hope you guys at home enjoyed it. plenty more news coming your way on our top stories in half an hour.

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a whole year since the 1st identified case of coronavirus was reportedly detected in who by a province in china and for many months big pharmaceutical companies have been racing to find a vaccine. now, big pharma companies, as well as some politicians or from them, are arguably set to cash in big as the long awaited immunizations. start to roll out. joining me now via skype from seoul is one of the world's leading vaccine experts director general of the nonprofit international vaccine institute. dr. jerome kim. thanks so much room for coming in on. you going to tell me what is the international vaccine institute and why it is that nonprofit institutions like yours have failed to find the vaccine. and it's the big multinational, big pharma companies like pfizer that have been so successful companies, i should say, that have been the hit by scandal. well, so you know, the e.u. national actually missed 2 years, an international organization kind of like to view and show your 36 signatories. not a single g 7 signatory, but our mission is to discover, develop and deliver safe, affordable and effective vaccines for global health. and actually, what we did during this pandemic is to say, we're not going to compete,

have our own back seen. it makes kind of companies uncomfortable when we tell them it's. we're working on our own vaccine to see what we decided was to support companies which every company came to us for assistance, helping them with assays with animal studies with clinical trials, with regulatory pathways. anything that we needed to do in order to advance a vaccine as quickly as possible. so in a sense, if the world wins that i.b.i. wins, and that was our strategy, that being advocates of free market, big pharmaceutical companies will say they and your, or your a strategy failed it is pfizer astra zeneca, those big multinationals that create the vaccines no, into your a un mandated vaccine institute. so actually, you know, our vaccines institute is, is funded really by, you know, the governments of korea, sweden, india, and finland and the gates foundation. the welcome trust. and our goal is really to get vaccines over.