thank you, there's about in the day's headlines. shares in the u.k. pharma giant plummet after preliminary results from clinical trials find that its covert vaccine is only on average 70 percent effective. also this hour, a texan with a rare muscle disease comes to russia for treatment. after being told back home, he would never walk again. spencer shares his story exclusively with our team. you see is this all the time it was necessary? we're going to go now plus hit squads, nerve agents, and exposing the regime and new york times job ads for their moscow correspondent,

sounds like something straight out of a spy thriller and reveals the outlets predetermine narrative on russia. you're watching our 2 international for your global news update this hour. welcome to the program, the race to get a covert vaccine to market is heating up with british pharma giant astra zeneca. becoming the latest to publish initial data on the effectiveness of the job. clinical trials established, on average, it works 70 percent of the time. here's artie's down, the hawkins with more well, astra zeneca is the latest company to join the covert 1000000 team from mono race and else in the end of its phase 3 clinical trials with a 70 percent average efficacies result. now those,

these preliminary results may sound quite humble compared to other vaccines. the company's c.e.o. is optimistic. he has said, we highly effective and will have an immediate impact with the u.k. having already preordered 100000000 jobs nationally. the prime minister boris johnson certainly does seem pleased with the result. incredibly exciting news. the oxford vaccine has proved so effective in trials. there are still further safety checks ahead, but these are fantastic results. well done to our brilliant scientists at the university of oxford and astra zeneca and all who volunteered in the trials well, so why the relatively low efficacies will develop to say the 70 percent figure is actually an average the result of 2 different dosage regimens, the to hide those is gave an average result of 62 percent with

a high dose with one low and one high. the result rises to 90, thus giving an average of 70 percent. now that figure is still lower than the results published by other companies with their vaccines, namely modena, with the 95 percent pfizer, which initially came out with a result of 90 percent before upgrading their test results with the emergence of other trials results. and of course, the russian sputnik, the vaccine with efficacy of 92 percent of these figures are actually very crucial given the competitive nature of the vaccine market, particularly to do with covert 19. now it has been a bumpy road overall for astra zeneca. today, as the results were published, the company's share price actually went down on these less than expected efficacy results. the stock's across europe actually went up, given the good news about another vaccine coming onto the market. now, astra zeneca is trials actually had to be halted back in september because of some

adverse results. in october 1, volunteer in brazil actually died, resulting in an investigation and uncertainty about the vaccines future. why the advance trial of a promising vaccine was suddenly passed? astra zeneca has caused its trials after an unexplained illness in a practice in the u. . as one company makes use try in the vaccine race and other drug giant hits the possible option on its late stage trials volunteering where the most and danced. corona virus, vaccine trials in the world has died. and despite the news, astra zeneca is testing continues. now though that those adverse results were investigated and though the brazilian health for florida, he and the company refused to comment in any detail particular case, the trial was deemed safe to continue. now though, the in the us, that delay lasted for several weeks on the results we've seen today actually doesn't take into account the trial results from america. now,

despite the low overall average advocacy, the cost effectiveness is one upside to this vaccine. in terms of price is the estimated price of the pfizer vaccine is around $19.00 per treatment. the modena job between 2025 to $37.00, they require 2 doses. so meaning the total doses could go up to 40 in the 1st case . and as high as $74.00 for the vaccine, the course of the sport that could be vaccine is currently estimated to be around $26.00 for the 2 doses though the final costs are due to be confirmed next week. as you can see, the astra zeneca one trumps all of them at $8.00 for the treatment, while the race is now on to register these vaccines astra zeneca said it would be seeking, emergency use emergency listing from the world health organization. and russia have said they've already begun the process for destroying their sputnik vaccine several

days ago. despite the good news with multiple vaccines emerging, it's still too early to be entirely up to mystic about seeing the back of covert 19 . this is not the time for complacency. while we continue to receive encouraging news about 19 vaccines and remain cautiously optimistic about the potential for the new tools to start to arrive in the coming mines. right now, we are extremely concerned by the surging cases we are seeing in some countries, particularly in europe and the americas held workers and the systems are being pushed to the breaking point. well, as that statement said, despite the clearly good news of several new vaccines hitting the market in the coming months, there is still a long road ahead. the world is in the grip of the covert,

19 2nd wave. there is still much to be done before we can see some sort of return to a 7th of normality. artie's dental hearkens, bring us that report there. now let's bring in live lawrence young, a professor of molecular oncology at warwick medical school. as are just hearing on average, 70 percent effective, but 90 percent effective in lower doses. why not just go with that number and how good of news is this? but i think this is very, very good news. the more vaccines we have, the more likely we are to be able to vaccinate a large proportion of the population across the globe. so it's good news. what this shows is that with a lower dose, to start with, and then with the booster dose, this vaccine is 90 percent of the cases against developing covert $900.00 disease. so there's no reason why not to go with that particular dosing regime. and of course, if you use half the doses the initial vaccination, then it's then it's harder the cost and the vaccine will go further. so i think

this is very, very positive news. so talking about that 70 percent on average, is that just being transparent? i think this group has been extremely transparent. they published only about a week ago, the full data set on the phase 2 analysis of the clinical trial demonstrating quite nicely that older individuals that's of each individual above the age of 75 have very little adverse effects. very heart, hardly any side effects whatsoever, and very good immune responses. and this is a very transparent way of releasing data and being very honest about it. and what i've shown today is that the dosing regime, how much virus you give, how much of the vaccine you gave in the initial inoculation and in the booster inoculation can make a very big difference. russia has recently asked the w.h.o. to approve its vaccine is the british have far off from that. what the british

obviously is going through its its regulator e approval. now i'm showing all the data set. now we know we know that this is going to be fast tracked for approval along with the madonna and the the pfizer bio intake are in a vaccines. and the hope is that very soon, and that will be probably early in the new year in the u.k. anyway, vaccine vaccination can start, but of calls, you have a real challenge with all these vaccines. one of them, of course, is manufacturing. and the 2nd one is how you put in the infrastructure to make sure that you can cover a large portion of your population with a vaccine. and this is going to be the next set of challenges. but all of this together is very, very good news. and as the world health authority has said, organizations said this morning is really encouraging news that makes us all very optimistic was recognizing that we still got to be very careful about this virus. one of the other challenges we've been talking about recently with the other

vaccines is how they're to be stored and then transported as well. not the u.k. vaccine doesn't have to be stored at ultra cold temperatures. could that be a game changer? i think it could not think that what will happen, i suppose, is even with these are in a vaccine that need to be stored, ultra cold temperatures. we know there are new technologies and new approaches that will help with that difficulty. but one of the good things about the ad navarro stark scene and i guess this is also true for the sputnik vaccine, is that you can keep it in the fridge. and that makes distribution much more easy and also gives us an opportunity to think about how we can roll this type of vaccine out in countries that don't have the infrastructure where the freezers except for so a very important part of our responsibility with all of these axes to think about how they could be distributed in the developing world, florence young, professor of molecular oncology at warwick medical school, thank you for finding the time to join us on the program today. the final cost of

any vaccine will be a key factor and how widely it's rolled out. creating fears that poor countries will be priced out as discussed by the director of the international vaccine institute in the latest edition of going underground. the gates foundation, their research suggests that global cova debts will double of high income countries by up to the 1st 2000000 doses of any successful vaccine. do you agree with? that's a great study and we've been using it to advocate for something called codex kodak's intends to purchase $2000000000.00 doses, and those doses will be provided to everyone and what cannot, is paper the gates foundation paper, you quoted says, is that if the 1st 2000000 doses are taken without any consideration of equity, then there will be a doubling of go global covert deaths. hence the reason why go back needs to be successful, needs to be fully funded, needs to be funded beyond the 1st year into the 2nd year. i think the one thing that covert teaches us is that this virus, like all viruses,

will find those weak points in our defense. and we really need and should be working together in this global pandemic to help each other. whether it's, you know, p.p. masks and gloves, whether it's a vaccine solution, whether it's, you know, reaching out to countries to help them understand what the burden of covert is. and once we have the vaccine, it's taking that vaccine from where it's manufactured, to where it can be wherever it's needed, in a way that will reduce the global burden of code. that is the most important thing . and all the world still waits for a job. china has come up with a way to limit the virus that spread of calling for a global firewall in the form of a global system of q.r. codes that would allow cross border travel to resist. china has proposed a global mechanism for the meat to recognition of health, says if it's based on nucleic acid test results in the form of internationally

accepted q.r. codes. we hope more countries will join this mechanism. china has been using q.r. codes to prove health status since february. this is some has been questioned in the west on data privacy grounds. however, although europe has proposed similar schemes including the idea of immunity passports in the u.k. artist asa taylor discussed the issue with our panel of guests. these tests can be a lot of false negatives. a lot of false positives and you're no better track and trace. we weren't going in terms of this town or that this incredibly dangerous. it is not only for my safety and you're seeing in the united states as well as across the globe. the people are starting to rise up saying enough stop, protecting me. i wouldn't live my life the way i'd choose. we not only i was reading today at heathrow airport, used to be one of the busiest. i've seen 82 percent fall and passengers. what's the way that to get wheels out into, if not a set, a similar system to this reason that travels collapse is not the pandemic because

the lock downs. i mean, since march 12th, europe has not been able to fly to the u.s. and then europe retaliated and we can't fly there. and now we're living under the situation where yeah, we once believed in the right to travel, but that's been denied to us so many people are being locked in their nation states right now. the answer is 2 is, liberalism is deliberate, travel and liberate and recognize human rights. again, do you think that we do need a cohesive global policy in order to try and move on somehow to try make 2021 better than 2020? there have been studies that show that the virus respond differently in different regions, that there are different conditions and different places on climate and so forth. so no, we don't want a lot of all standards because global standards means that global lockdown, in effect, this is just unbelievable. i really don't care about cases. i care about the death

rate and the death rate is very slow. and again, we have to be very cautious with technology because once we turn the saw, it's very hard to turn off. they will never relinquish. i mean, passports doing road one were supposed to be temporary. and rubra still stuck with a texan suffering from a rare muscle disease has come all the way to russia for treatment. and spencer was told back at home in the u.s. that he never walk again. but since arriving in the russian city of perm in october, he's been up and about. he shared his story with us and an exclusive interview. i had to use this everywhere. i went when i was a boy or when i was in part chicken, what without it i was thinking i was with alan spencer. could have been dead by now or in a wheelchair or bad band. 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. i'm going to go now into scary people walking in an incredibly allen has escaped all those outcomes

. when i started to notice a little something with my hands, they were going to go on like this as a girl with stern, not some sort of 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 happened to be a rare inflammatory muscle disorder known as inclusion, body myositis. between $5.70 people per 1000000 habit. they said there's nothing we can do for it's completely untrue dribble. what did you feel when you were in 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 totally respect 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 client 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 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 russian hospital looks like. if mayo says that nothing can be done. probably nothing can be done. the sentiment email gave my e-mail interest the next day i got a, an e-mail back from the director. the c.e.o. actually of the clinic and 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 india and others to get people here from america. it's a wonderful thing. i mean, it's, it shouldn't be a secret. here you go. it was a good job, an act of hypocrisy, and just for show, that's how russia describes the america's decision to pull out of the open skies treaty, which permits mutual aerial surveillance flights. also warns there will be air harsh response of any other signatory country to the agreement exchanges. data with washington earlier neil harvey discussed the developments with go. 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 putting 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, 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 its 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 withdrawal 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 has been up to pretty much in the past 4 years and new york times job ad for a moscow correspondent has been accused of being rusa phobic. successful candidates are expected to deal with hit squads, cyber agents and shadowy military figures. the description of russia has struck some as more like the plot of a spine movie. but as your standard explains fact, and fiction are frequently confused by the outlet. what you're about to hear sounds like it's being ripped straight from the blog buster screenwriter's playbook. vladimir putin's russia remains one of the biggest stories in the world. it sends out hit squads on with nerve agents against its enemies. most recently,

the opposition leader alex, in a van only. it has its cyber agents, so chaos and disharmony in the west to tarnish its democratic systems while promoting its phone version of democracy. it is a ploy, private military contractors around the globe to secretly spread its influence at home. it's hospitals are filling up fast with coded patients as its present hides out in his villa. i mean, add some dramatic music. do a call video, add it pepper the whole thing with a few explosions here and there, and you've cooked up a trailer for the next head limited series on netflix. but no, it's not that not by a long shot. it's actually the opening of a job advert for a russian reporter with the new york times. page searches for unbiased to impartial or balance. come a blank, no results found in the text. not that it's much of a secret though, that the new york times isn't that interested in covering

a happy russia. but some readers weren't that impressed with the sudden spasm of honesty from the paper did the see any right. new york times new russia crisp on in job at these job for a new york times correspondent in moscow is telling and not a good way screenwriters wanted for a new james bond film. imagine yourself working undercover in moscow. the capital of love to meet putin's evil empire. if you think you have the creative writing skills to turn the monday into juicy narratives of horror and suspense,

contact the new york times, we've been in touch with the new york times for comment. you know, both sides of the story and all that. but we've yet to hear anything back from them . cynically speaking, it makes perfect sense. positive stories from russia don't tickle the fancy of pulitzer prize. judges allegations lacking evidence. or though, do just believe in the bogeyman. pulitzer prize winning journalist and former new york times foreign correspondent chris hedges says the ad exposes the real russia angle of the paper. i initially thought it was satire, i didn't think it was real. and then i went on the new york times website and read it. and it's really kind of an obituary journalist. the role of a foreign correspondent is to be bicultural. it is to get into that culture and explain how they view reality. and here you have this narrative, pre written, narrative, demonization,

really of russia and vladimir putin. and i have to say that there's nothing in that description that the united states doesn't do in spades and far worse. and so why even to open a bureau in moscow? why have somebody spend hundreds of hours studying russian and reading russian history and literature and, and culture? why not? why not have algorithms do it? it was absolutely appalling, but it's part of the siloing of the american press to serve a particular demographic. in the case of the new york times, it is a democratic party based readership. it's a way to make sure that whoever they send to russia feeds back to them what, what they want. that's our wrap up of the day's top headlines for now. but if you're looking for more details on any of those stories head on over to our website or to dot com,

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