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new york correspondent. it's like something straight out of a spy thriller revealing predetermine to russia wherever you're tuning into the program from this hour. welcome to our, to international my names. you know, many of you with us the transition process for the u.s. presidency is still in limbo with donald trump refusing to concede defeat. but joe biden is already lining up candidates for his proposed administration. there are some familiar faces from the obama era. from the details, let's speak to our u.s. correspondent, kill up in kill of the biden hardest team name, their next secretary of state, tell us more about him, and indeed the significance of the appointment. indeed, well,

at this point, we've heard from the biden harris administration that they have named 6 individuals that will be in their cabinet, one of those the nominee and the person they will select for their secretary of state is anthony blinken. now anthony blinken is certainly not a newcomer to the washington d.c. foreign policy establishment. he served as a deputy assistant to president barack obama as a national security advisor to joe biden, as well as a deputy sheriff deputy secretary of state. now he has indicated that basically under his leadership of the u.s. state, department trumps america. 1st foreign policy will most likely come to an end. take a listen whether we like it or not, the world simply doesn't. we're going to itself and until the trumpet, ministration. the united states had played a lead role in doing a lot of good organizing and helping to write the rules. and joe biden starts with the proposition that we need to reassert american engagement in american leadership

. now let's examine his record to see what we can possibly expect to. now, blinken was a big supporter of the usa as unilateral invasion of iraq in 2002. he was advising joe biden, when joe biden voted for the resolution of congress to support george w. bush's invasion of iraq. furthermore, blinken argues that the situation in syria is the result of a failure by the united states to adequately intervene. he blames the crisis in syria, not on u.s. intervention, but on a lack thereof. this is what he said about syria. we failed to prevent a horrific loss of life. we failed to prevent massive displacement of people internally in syria, and of course, externally is refugees. and it's something that i will take with me for the rest of my days. now,

when it comes to the situation in libya, he was actually critical of joe biden, and more in favor of u.s. intervention than joe biden was. he spoke critically of joe biden, who was his boss at the time saying that intervention in libya was, was more needed and basically indicating that joe biden wasn't as supportive of intervention as he was. furthermore, blinken has repeated the allegation that russia is paying bounties for the killing of u.s. troops in afghanistan. this is him repeating that allegation. when president trump stands with peace and on the world stage and takes his would about russia's attacks on our elections over that's for intelligence agencies that exacerbates the problem . when we have a president who is told that russia may be putting bounties on the heads of our troops in afghanistan and does nothing. in fact, worse than the thing by his own knowledge meant speaking to president putin at least 6 times. that reports and not raising it,

not confirming him and even inviting president putin to washington and russia back into the g. 7. we have a real fundamental problem. now furthermore, it's important to note that u.s. intelligence has admitted on multiple occasions that there is actually no concrete evidence to back up that allegation about russia and bounties in afghanistan. there simply isn't any evidence to back it up that didn't stop mr. can from repeating it so many people look at mr. blank and say this will be a return to more of the obama era u.s. foreign policy that mr. blinken is certainly not a noninterventionist, certainly not an isolationist. and certainly an advocate of u.s. military interventions around the world and efforts to overthrow governments that washington doesn't approve of. artes us correspondent, kill up and taking us through that the race for a working vaccine is heating up. no, the british swedish farmer,

a giant astra zeneca has published interim test results for its job. it was developed with oxford university. but as artie's done, the hawkins reports, the finding so far, somewhat underwhelming. astra zeneca, all the latest company to join the front runners in the covert. 19 vaccine race announcing an efficacy of 70 percent off to concluding that phase 3 trials. know, these preliminary results may sound humble compared to other vaccines. the company's c.e.o. is optimistic, same as i will be highly effective and will have an immediate impact with the u.k. having already preordered 100000000 jobs. but was johnson is more than happy with the results. 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. so why

the relatively low efficacy of developers say that 70 percent figure is an average of 2 dosage. regimens to high doses gave a result of 62 percent with a high dose following a low one, raising advocacy 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 who raised their of a can see from an initial 90 percent result with a russian sputnik v. vaccine 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 out to an unexplained illness in a participant in the u. . as one company makes use, try 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 there in the united states. the delay lasted several weeks. and today's results don't include data from american trials, or 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 modena 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. the astra zeneca job would not only be easier to manufacture and store, but the cost for both those whose could be as low as $8.00 for the race is now on to register 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. held workers in a 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. hawkins taking us through. well, while many around the world, the way to cope with china has come up with a way to limit the spread of the virus. it's calling for a global fire wall in the form of a system of q.r. codes that what a lot of cross border trouble to resume china has proposed a global mechanism for the meat recognition of health says if it gets 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, essentially digital bar codes to prove health status since february to generate that users have to install a smartphone up which stores medical data on trucks, their movement. the system has been questioned in the western data. privacy groans . europe though, has proposed similar schemes, including the idea of a new unity passports in the u.k. . so i ask you to discuss the issue with a number of guest. these tests can be a lot of false negatives, a lot of false positives, and you're now better track and trace where on going in terms of this town or that this is incredibly dangerous and it's 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 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 europe retaliated and we can't fly there. and now we're living under the region 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, 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 the virus respond differently in different regions, that there are different conditions and different places on climate and so forth. so, you know, we don't want a lot of all standards because global standards means that global mark down

a fact. 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 you turn the saw, it's very hard to turn off. they will never relinquish. i mean, passports were supposed to be temporary and rubra still stuck with them. speaking of health issues, a texas man suffering from a rare muscle disease has come all the way to russia for treatment. when spencer was told buck at home in the u.s. that he'd never walk again. but since arriving in the russian city of perm in october, he's been open about it and shared his story with us exclusively. i had to use this everywhere. i went. when i was going to, when there was a new partner, chicken, what without it, i had to go walk with alan spencer could have been dead by now or in a wheelchair or bed bound. 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 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 untrue. 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 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 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 the sentiment e-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. 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 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 this magnetic field on my here, 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. we'll hear from america. it's a wonderful thing. i mean, it shouldn't be a secret of a good job. this is our to international still ahead on the program. if you've ever dreamt about being a correspondent, get ready to deal with hit squalled, cyber, a, shadowy military figures. at least one major news outlets. the latest job is to be believed that story coming up after the break.

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really settled, some of trump's enemies for the president and his supporters to be a price for the past 4 years. and in rumors of war, as trump tries to bring troops home, some say the start of the war i 19 minutes past the hour. welcome back. moscow has condemned the u.s. decision to poets 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 on armed surveillance flights and to share data. washington has accused russia of breaking the terms of the agreement, a claim. moscow denies. my colleague neil harvey discussed the story with artie's elite 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, 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 $33.00 more signatories towards that includes very important european, players like the u.k., germany, france, etc. and they've been critical of the decision by the u.s. 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 flood event stuck 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 withdraw 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 in 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. the new york times has been accused of research phobia, with its elaters job for a moscow correspondent. successful candidates are expected to deal with hit squads

cyber agents. shall we military figures that the scription of russian mites and more like the plot of a spine movie. but as eager as it all of explains fact and fiction can often get mixed up. 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 its enemies. most recently, the opposition leader alex in nevada, only it has its cyber chaos and disharmony in the west to tarnish his democratic systems while promoting its full version of democracy. it is deployed private military contractors around the globe to secretly spread its influence at home. its hospitals are filling up fast with coated patients as its president 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 hit 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 in 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. live from moscow, this is our to international. we are about to take a look at what's on offer for you in terms of programming over the next week or so

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world is driven by shaped by the day or thinks we dare to ask it's been decades since the fall of spain's fascist regime, but old wounds still haven't healed up until the mid twenties. and that's because only from you know it. when we suppose in the past at the source me, they were the ones that i think ultimately, you know, thousands of newborn babies were torn from their mothers and given away and forced

adoption. only for feaster to this day mothers still search for grown children while looking in hope for their birth parents. we're going underground 24 hours after voters headed to the ballot box in bikini the 1st of its presidential election amid i.m.f. reviews of its economy. that could see its country's future pegged to a biden presidency coming up in the show. as neoliberal nations look to a coronavirus vaccine to save their economies from potential collapse. we asked the director general of the international vaccine institute about the global efforts to vaccinate the entire world, including africa with a growing

a virus has been far less deadly than in europe and will a global mental health crisis be the next pandemic. we'll ask c.e.o. of the center for mental health about a surge in mental health issues as a result of coronavirus and why it's just proportionally affecting the poor in society. all the more coming up in today's going underground a 1st, it's been 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. drew kim, thanks so much room for coming on 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 success.