given away and forced adoption, it only bought about a month. those still search for grown children. well for their parents. in the day's headlines. shares in the u.k. pharma giant plummet after initial results from clinical trials find that it's over . vaccine is on average, only 70 percent effective also this hour, a texan with a rare muscle disease comes to russia for treatment after being told back home and he would never walk again. alan spencer shares his story exclusively r.t. this all the time. it was absolutely necessary are never going to plus hit squads that nerve agents and exposing the regime in new york times job out

for their moscow correspondent. sounds like something straight out of a spy thriller and reveals the outlets predetermine narrative. watching our 2 international for your global news update this hour. welcome to the program, the race to get a vaccine to market is heating up with british pharma giant astra zeneca. becoming the latest to publish initial data on the effectiveness of its job developed with oxford university clinical trials established up on average. it works 70 percent of the time. here's artie's dental hawkins with the details. astra zeneca are the latest company to join the front runners in the covert. 19 vaccine race, analysing an efficacy over 70 percent after concluding their phase 3 trials. you know, these preliminary results may sound humble compared to other vaccines. the company's

c.e.o. is optimistic, saying that job will be highly effective and will have an immediate impact. and with the u.k. having already preordered 100000000 jobs, boris johnson is more than happy with the result. incredibly exciting news. the oxford vaccine has proved so effective in trials. there are still further the 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. so why the relatively low efficacy of developers say that 70 percent figure is an average of 2 doses rose humans, too. high doses gave a result of 62 percent with a high dose following a low one raising efficacy to 90 percent. now this 70 percent average figure is therefore lower than trial results announced earlier by madonna at 95 percent also provides a 95 percent though that company to raise their efficacy from an initial 90 percent

result with the russian sputnik vivax team standing at 92. now these figures are crucial, given the highly competitive nature of the market, and it's been a bumpy road for astra zeneca. today, as these results were published, the company's shares actually fell on the back of the lower than expected average efficacy, even as european stocks rose on the good news of another vaccine entering the market. now the vaccine trials had to be halted in september because of a serious suspected adverse reaction in a participant. and in october 1 of the volunteers in brazil died, causing uncertainty about its future. why the advance trial of a promising vaccine was suddenly passed? astra zeneca has caused its trials after an unexplained illness in a participant 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 volunteer and where the most at vance to

corona virus vaccine trials in the world has died. and despite the news, astra zeneca is testing continues. well, those adverse effects were investigated. though the company and the brazilian health authority refused to comment in detail on the case. the trial was deemed safe to continue, though in the united states, the delay lasted several weeks. and today's results don't include data from american trials, despite the lower efficacy. the upside of this vaccine is cost effectiveness. while the estimated price of the pfizer vaccine is around $19.00, the modern a job between $25.00 to $37.00, those prices go up to over $40.00. and as high as $74.00, respectively for the total treatment of the cost of the sport, mcvie vaccine is estimated at $26.00 per treatment. the final costs are yet to be announced. yes, true seneca's job would not only be easier to manufacture and store, but the cost for both doses could be as low as $8.00 for the race is now on the

register of these vaccines. astra zeneca states that it would seek emergency use listing from the world health organization with russia saying they've already begun the sputnik registration process. despite the good news, it's too early to say. we've seen the back of the pandemic, even with these promising trial results, doos is not the time for complacency. while we continue to receive encouraging news about 19 vaccines and remain cautiously optimistic about the potential for a new tools to start to arrive in the coming months. right now, we are extremely concerned by the surging cases we are seeing in some countries, particularly in europe and the americas hold workers. and the systems are being pushed to the breaking point. even with several vaccines hitting the market in coming months with the world in the grip of the 2nd covert, 19 wave, there is still a very long and difficult road ahead until we see

a return to at least some semblance of normality. 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 at the sky by the director of the international vaccine institute in the latest edition of artie's 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 kovacs. 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 2000000000 dose 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, 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 while they were all the way through a coded jab, china has come up with a way to limit the viruses spread is calling for a quote, global firewall in the form of a global system of q.r. codes that would allow cross border travel to resent china has proposed a global mechanism for the me 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 feb. the system has been questioned in the west on data privacy grounds. although europe has proposed similar schemes including the, idea of immunity passports in the u.k., saskia teller, discussed the issue with a 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 me 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, 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 twelve's, 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 to is, liberalism is to liberate, 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 you lay shouldn't based on climate and so forth. so no, we don't want a lot of your 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 really bristol stopped 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 that he'd 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 going to, when i was in the park chicken, what without it are no walk with alan spencer could have been dead by now or in a wheelchair or bad bound. that's what doctors back home in america told him 5 years ago. i used to use this all the time, but 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. so that 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 have it. they said there's nothing we can do for it's completely untreatable. what do you feel when you read that? will i wasn't as disappointing 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 told to spare for the vice president of time warner cable for

west taxes as successful man allen had to quit his job in 2017. he simply wasn't able to work anymore. the disease was eaten away, 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 by would be able to help you. are you interested? you know, it's kind of like, well not really. i didn't tell him that the way to be perfectly honest with you. yeah, i want, i think is an american you're, you probably have a stereotype of what the russian hospital looks like. if mayo says that nothing could be done. probably nothing can be got sent to me mail 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 in the government touches me all winter 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 damage 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, or 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 this 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 within d. 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. wow, good job. still ahead, if you've ever dreamt about being a correspondent in moscow, get ready to deal with hit squads, cyber agents and shadowy military figures at least one major news outlets. latest job ad is to be believed. that story after this short break. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show. and i'll be speaking to guest of

the world of politics, sports business, i'm showbusiness. i'll see you then. the world is driven by shaped by one person with those words thinks we dare to ask. nothing really settled, some of trump's enemies want, the president and his supporters to be a price for the past 4 years and against in rumors of

a strong tries to bring troops home. some say, instead of the start of the war. welcome back. russia has condemned the u.s. decision to pull out of the open skies treaty calling it an act of hypocrisy. the pact has been in place since the early ninety's, allowing the 34 member states to observe each other's militaries through unarmed surveillance flights and share data. washington has accused russia of breaking the terms of the agreement a claim. russia denies. my colleague, neil harvey discussed a story with our to 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. 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. 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. 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 why 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? there are 33 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 rich 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 stoke to vancouver. 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. 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 and different fields in the field of security. for example, most notably that was the intermediate range nuclear forces treaty. 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. a new york times job ad for a moscow correspondent has been accused of being rooster 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 spy in movie. but as it goes down of explains fact and fiction are frequently confused by the outlet. what you're about to hear sounds like it's been ripped

straight from the blog buster screenwriters playbook. vladimir putin's russia remains one of the biggest stories in the world. it sends out hit squads on with nerve agents against his enemies. most recently, the opposition leader alex, in of only it has its cyber asians chaos and disharmony in the west to tarnish his 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 it's prison 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 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 boogeyman. 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 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 been a wrap up of the day's top headlines for now,

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not about the mad at them and the minimum time because i'm not bad with the internet, but oh, november with a deficit. as of them, they're down to like about nanami and is about hello and welcome to crossfire where all things are considered on peter lavelle with nothing really settled. some of trump's enemies want the president and his supporters to pay a price for the past 4 years. and hence in rumors of war as trump tries to bring

troops home, some say he instead wants to start a war they discuss these topics and more. i'm joined by my guest, george samueli in budapest, he's an author and the you tube. and the gaggle and here in moscow we're joined by robert branch. he is a archie, writer, and political analyst. right gentlemen, crossed up rules in effect, that means you can jump in anytime you want. and i always appreciate it. i mean, it's going to george in budapest you're, i suppose we're entering the face of the political phase of revenge or not to revenge here. there is circles around biden that say that if he were, if and when he is inaugurated and doesn't want to pursue trump a considerable part of the base his base. and of course the media does because, well, trump is the gift that keeps on giving. i mean their ratings,

they should thank this president has the f.p. and when is leaving george, what is this? i mean, you know, they, they, they were criticizing the lack of transition. what was they won't bomb a administrations transition to democracy? probably the most illegal in american history. ok. and they but no, they want to punish people, the president and people around him, the last 4 years, kind of hypocritical. yes sir. does that are right. and what's really going on here is a practice that the united states has it engaged in for a number of years. it is not enough to defeat somebody. you merely a bad person, you have to punish that was done in order to teach others a lesson. and a lesson that has to be learned is that never, never, never go down this populist again. so that's why there's all this dog now. i

mean, we've had articles in the new york times, new york of your books, the nation that we have to punish donald trump. i haven't quite figured out what it is. they're going to put him on trial for what crime did because of committed. but they know that he's a criminal, they're kind of figure out later on what one of the crimes, once they subpoena or his documents or his account, or his bank statements going back out into how many decades they're hoping that they're going to find something they can put him on trial, or alternatively just fine won't be for forever and bankrupt them. so what's, what's really going on here is just this. i'm attempting to use the legal process to intimidate anyone so that any future possible trump the end will get the message. don't go down this bus unless you want to end the bankrupt or imprisoned. you know, robert if they want to go after.