the headlines this hour, the developers of russia's vaccine claim, the latest clinical trial data shows that it is 95 percent effective. also to come in, in a dispute, a newborn, it had a back region where explosive devices have killed in this area and injured a russian peacekeeper and also pose a threat to the local population. we're right next to the city full of returning refugees. people who've been scarred by the war people, student shot for the future. the last thing they need is more explosions.

and also to come joe biden taps of the secretary of state and works to pack his administration with establishment figures the same trump relent and agree to cooperate on the transition. good afternoon, just gone 3 o'clock in moscow. you with r.t. international, 95 percent effective. that's the claim being made by the developers of russia's, russia's vaccine for their sputnik jab. the assessment is based on the latest clinical data which indicates the drugs efficacy increases with time. so let's get more on this now, but with this is afternoon. i don't just run through them what the developers have been saying in their latest update. yes. sputnik me is currently in face 3 of its clinical trials and is going to last for at least 4 more months. but already now we

receive interim earlier results, and they are quite impressive. the 2nd interim analysis of clinical trial data showed a 91.4 percent efficacy for the sputnik the vaccine on day $28.00 after the 1st dose vaccine efficacy is over 95 percent. 42 days after the 1st dose, the us based foreign giants, pfizer, and they're there say, just recently they announced that their drugs are also almost 95 percent efficient, but they get malaria research center, the company behind sputnik, the russian vaccine say their drug is unique. we are using 2 forms of the virus administered via 2 different injections. the data from muster a zeneca has confirmed that this is more effective than using just one form of the virus. or method is more than 90 percent effective, as demonstrated by sputnik we, we're open to sharing our human done

a virus with other companies. the developers say that the recent results are based on the analysis of the data on 19000 volunteers who took part in the trials and received already both 1st and 2nd days of the drug would actually cost yeah, you speaking about the price? well, everybody wants to know the answer. it seems that sputnik the so far is the cheapest coronavirus vaccine on the potential market. with the price less than $10.00 per, dose. experts say that to the u.k., sweden, that i was in there would be cheaper, but they didn't announce their price yet officially. and that is versus $39.00 price tag for pfizer and $74.00 per day for more than the vaccines. so the competition is all there is, but russia says that the more vaccines the better and it is ready to become part of

the global ad for global initiative to stop corona virus. this is what they say. it is important for the world to have their respects. we can be part of the countries action package. at the moment we can only produce enough actions for 500000000 people, which means a 1000000000 injections next year. we also see very good tea to crossfire's and my journey actions have been found over 90 percent effective. and we have no reasons to doubt those figures. yes, coronaviruses viruses, coronavirus a number is a growing globally of course. everybody understands that all the countries are interested in effective vaccines. of course, speaking about the price that is announced for sputnik, you have to understand that this is only for foreign buyers for foreign customers and we hear that the sales may start already in january. but for russia and for russians, sputnik, we will be free. good news so far,

but it hasn't stopped people nearly on criticizing the claims were cut corners. developers weren't transparent sufficiently about their research. is the been sort of any response to that criticism? and yes, of course you have to understand that phase 3 of the clinical trials of sputnik we is still on to go in. and according to the rules of any clinical trials, it is forbidden to make any data public at this point. but to give a layer research center, again, the company behind me say that they are ready to publish all data for trial report . share all data as phase 3 is over. but i just lastly maria, i know you were part of the trials weren't you? how would they go and just run through the job she received and what sort of reaction you had? or the most interesting thing the most important is that right now i have

antibodies and 64th day of the trial. yes, i want 240000 volunteers to take part in the clinical trials in the 1st in the phase 3 of the clinical trials of the by the way, it is what is called a double blind trial. so now the participants, the doctor is supposed to know who is receiving placebo, who is receiving the real drug, but i was so like, i couldn't help from go in testing myself. so i got blood. and now i know that i have antibodies, then i can see that they are growing because 40 days ago there was just 8 and now it is $109.00, so he's growing and it coincides with what's going to lay research scientists say. positive news then. ok, thanks mary. that was artie's mary financial. we can get views now from jones. he's a professor at the university of reading and he joins us. you very welcome. thanks

for coming on, ian. just firstly, what's your reaction to this latest news from the developers of sputnik, the saying that they have 295 percent efficacy. it seems that everybody has a very good job at the moment. yes, i think it's very good news release preliminary to some months or 6 weeks ago on the prevention of of 20 cases in the control arm. but this is the fullest sense of it confirms a very high level of protection, 90 percent. so as you correctly say, when you look at the differences that do exist between the vaccines that are being put forward, it seems to be the price and also how they are stored. how important is that? do you think it's important? i would not say it is the most important thing. i think the most important thing is the outcome of the trial data. clearly, even if a vaccine was very cheap and you could store it at room temperature, nobody would want it if it didn't work. so the trial data and the excellent levels

of protection that are being observed is the most important data. however, the practicalities of then how you distribute it is and who is going to pay for it, then kick in. and so both the price and the storage conditions are a factor in how easily it will be able to how he will be able to roll out these vaccines. that i suppose you could argue, can you mean in order to defeat coronavirus? everybody needs to have the vaccine, but if, if some countries are priced out of it or haven't been able to get their hands on it, then you know the whole, the whole process for stan. you know, i think it's important to understand that the primary objective in the vaccine is suppressant disease. what we want to do is to stop people dying of corona virus. ideally, you would stop the whole virus transmitting throughout the population, but that will be a very tall order. partly for the reasons that you say, and partly because there will always be individuals who choose not to get vaccinated. is there

a level of population then you would like to see yourself get backs in a vaccinated in order to protect, you know, a country from another wave of corona virus. would you not say 4050 percent of the population get vaccinated? is there a particular figure that where there is a some sort of consensus? well, the consensus for the so-called herd immunity is something over half of the population, but that may be quite difficult to achieve. i think, to begin with. the most important thing is to identify the vulnerable groups, the aged, and those with underlying health conditions and ensure that they get the vaccine in the 1st wave as, as the vaccines are released. after that, there should be a discussion of the general rollout, but it's still unclear. for example, if you should vaccinate children since they do not seem to suffer much from the disease. so those discussions will be ongoing. the primary thing is to get it to those who need it. and once this vaccine comes out in the shaming the people that

do need it, the nice get it. would you wish a shame then there would be a return to normal life. what should we expect? keep wearing masks during winter months. so this seems to be this. i'm a bit confused personally, because i think this political message that, you know, once this vaccine comes out is positive news being go back to normal. but it is, it is clear, is that i think it is as clear as that, but it will take time. that's the critical factor, the logistics of getting the vaccine out to people that you logistics of actually getting it into people's arms. 2 doses. remember, which will take up to about 2 months, so it's going to be staggered. and so going forward, i think, the social distancing and the mask wearing a probably going to be a factor for the next 6 months. but they should then be simply not needed as the immunity levels increase. and should we be concerned about the long term effects of these vaccines? because obviously we don't know, do we at the present time,

i think there is no need to be too concerned. and the reason i say that is that although these vaccines, both the, i don't know, type, and the are in a type vaccines have not been released massively in the population before. they have nevertheless, been used in a large number of trials. and previous to that, in a whole number of animal experiments, and there hasn't been any long term consequence, other than the maintenance of antibodies to protect you from disease, which is exactly what you want. and just from your perspective, do you feel that the governments are winning the battle against the anti vax is? is this some sort of p.r. battle and confidence battle going on, or do you sense that most people would take this vaccine? yes, my own view is that most will and i think the primary reason for that is that lax vaccine rules are generally around when, when there's no disease around,

people don't feel the need or don't feel threatened. they don't see their friends and neighbors suffering from anything particular so they don't go and get either vaccinated or boosted. i think that's very different. so the current situation, everybody can see that this infection is around and it would be a very good idea to protect from it. there will always be people who decline the vaccine. i'm not in favor of compulsion myself, but i think generally speaking the up so you can slightly to be good. ok and look really nice to see this afternoon. we have to leave it there. but it was seen james for a legion professor at the university of reading in the u.k. . thank you. now in other news today, russian peacekeepers have started hitting mining operation in the disputed and going to cadillac region explosive devices left behind from the recent conflicts still pose a threat to the local population and recently killed in the series soldier as well as injure, a russian servicemen artie's murder, ghastly if reports the sheer intensity of this war,

the sheer quantity of me sells ammunition bombs used are astounding. the sad truth is that it will take years to find that make safe every unexploded munition footage visited by john, raining cluster bombs and cities and towns and in the garden a car, a buck sparked outrage, but adds, rage dissipates, and evaporates. cluster bombs don't have a process, so we're ready for anything, especially edric bombs and cluster munitions. rounds are dropped to learn or don't have enough rotation speed. and they wind up unexploded in people's gardens or kids' playgrounds, or they could be at previous military outposts. the soldiers may have left, but the munitions remained with russian engineers and sappers. part of the

peacekeeping contingent have been tossed with the mining operations other than daily patrols and roads in the outposts. they also assist local sappers. there's plenty of work for both. what complicates matters even further is that we aren't out in the middle of nowhere and you can't very well blew every unexploded shell up . we have right next to the city of state by that kept full of returning refugees. people who have been scarred by the war, people still in shock and fearful for the future. the last thing they need is more explosions. any minute, no munition found is categorized. category 3 is the least dangerous. these shells, or rockets generally and fired, and can be transported for disposal. category one of the worst booby traps cluster bomblets, all volatile munitions that my be destroyed on the spot. in this area we

identified 2 r.p.g. rockets into 125 millimeter tank rounds. it's slow and dangerous work, but helping out a man's and zappa's best friend. the mining dogs with her name is jacqueline. she's a belgian shepherd. she took part in the fee for world championship in 2018. she has been through a lot of training and we've been together for 3 years. you use whatever you can. the war may be over, but every other day we hear of another incident. another casualty, a mine going off or an old grenade, exploding the peacekeepers mission this, the established peace and bring back carm, which you can't do if people are terrified of the very ground they walk on more, i guess the of from the garden in our white house shake

up is underway to the general services administration, which does oversee access to federal agencies has triggered the full transition process to joe biden. president saying, donald trump says his ministration will cooperate chairing this period. although he still to concede the race. i want to thank emily murphy, a g.s.a. for her steadfast dedication and loyalty to our country. she's been harassed, threatened, and abused, and i do not want to see this happen to her or her family or employees of g.s.a. . our case strongly continues, we will keep up the good fight, and i believe we will prevail, nevertheless, in the best interests of our country. i am recommending that emily and her team do what needs to be done with regard to initial protocols and have told my team to do the same well even before the start of the official transition, biden was already fast at work making key cabinet picks and his decision to fill his administration with war hawks is already creating concerns about his foreign policy intentions. kellam up in his more 6 cabinet appointees have already been

named. among them is anthony blanket for his secretary of state. now anthony blanket has certainly got an impressive resume. he is definitely not a washington outsider. he was obama's deputy adviser. he was national security adviser to joe biden, when he was vice president. and he was deputy secretary of state. and you can be expecting that he will be establishing a stark departure from the era of donald trump, whether we like it or not, the world simply doesn't organize itself. and until the trumpet, ministration of the united states have 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 . so where do his foreign policy instincts lie? well, based on his resume, he seems to be an advocate of military intervention. as a blanket was a supporter of the u.s. invasion of iraq in 2002. he was an advisor to joe biden at the time when joe biden

was very outspoken in supporting that war and repeating the later debunked claims about weapons of mass destruction. blinken also thinks that the problem in syria where the united states has been arming terrorists and extremists in the hope of toppling the baathist government, has been a lack of u.s. intervention. 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. lincoln's love for war has expressed itself in some rather odd ways. for example, back in 2011, he called out joe biden, his boss at the time for not being enthusiastic enough about nato, his intervention in libya. we'll take a look at the north african country almost a decade later and see how well that intervention turned out. now blinken also repeats the allegation that russia was paying bounties to afghan terrorists if they killed u.s. soldiers. when president trump stands with vladimir putin on the world stage and

takes his word about rush's attacks in 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 off. he got that report 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. sure, that's pretty bad except that it probably didn't happen. u.s. intelligence has admitted on multiple occasions that it has absolutely no concrete evidence to back up these claims, but it sure made a good talking point for the joe biden presidential campaign, and it was a way to keep the russia gate hysterics a lot. so who cares if it's not true? so while trump is still contesting the election results, biden is getting prepared to get to work in the oval office and based on his

secretary of state pick, it looks like peace will definitely not be a priority. we've seen somebody who has doubled down, defended and read, defended a position that has no defense. he has continued to argue for the type of hope for a policy that has been shown to be false, images that should be ineffective. it's an entirely unscientific approach to try something, see it not work, and then declare success. and we're going to see more and more money through good money thrown after bad as this involvement continues. i don't think anything there is particularly surprising. i mean, we see a continuation of the previous of the obama administration and the clinton administration. i don't see anything there that unusual. i see basically business as usual military overreach, rather than cutting military spending. we're not going to see the shutting down for military bases and bring the troops home. we're not going to see a deal escalation of the conflicts in iran, and sorry, in iraq and afghanistan and syria. we're going to see just an escalation to

continue. asian of bees with the military industrial complex running the u.s. government. back coronavirus skeptics in germany have sparked outrage by comparing themselves to resistance fighters against the nazis, some of even michael themselves to persecuted jews. peter oliver has more. while germany's lock down, light continues, and the government looks to get vaccinations rolled out in the coming weeks. corona conspiracy theorists and those on happy with the measures that have been taken of continue to rally this weekend. the demonstrations took a dark turn with one of those opposed to how angle of merkel is handling the pandemic. comparing herself to a prominent member of the german resistance to the nazi regime. and that prompted a security guard. you had to be there to walk off in disgust. oh, now i'm gonna from class and i feel like sophie surely because for months i have been active in the resistance here, given speeches, going to damn us,

handing out flyers. sophie shore was a member of the white rose resistance movement. she encouraged to confront hitler's dictatorship and in 1943 at the age of just 21, she was murdered by the nazis. this isn't the only time that germany's corona deniers have tried to draw comparisons between themselves and the victims of the 3rd reich. an 11 year old in culture, or likened a self to the frank of the secretly holding a birthday party. despite it being against corona restrictions, both cases of drawn condemnation from the public and politicians alike. anyone who compares themselves to sofie shawl or, and frank today is mocking the courage it took to take a stand against nazis. this plays down the holocaust and shows an unacceptable obliviousness to history. the comparisons are unacceptable. on the one hand, you have people who can express themselves freely in process. and on the other,

those who resisted a state of terror, well, facing depredation, murder, a healthy 22 year old compares herself to sophie schol, probably because she's not allowed to go to bars. grotesque, self pity. anyone who's seen people on ventilators die of pneumonia cannot take such nonsense seriously. as people grow tired of lockdowns and restrictions, the protests seem to continue no matter what they are used to cases, the listening, the memory of the victims of naziism aren't going to win. germany's covert skeptics any credibility and for those who are on happy with the fact that these measures are going to lead to them either losing or having already lost their livelihoods,

it just proves and on one to destruction piece for all of our r.t. the turkish president says his country sees itself as part of europe, it sounds come ahead of an e.u. summit next month. and amid tensions to with one bloc member in particular, challenge, i've been skiing as much. it may have been an all live branch, but the turkish president's overtures to the e.u. and by extension to france over the last few days have met with little enthusiasm. the french foreign minister is saying what paris really wants is to see actions for 2 or 3 days. we have heard soothing statements from president. this is not enough. we need action simmering. tensions between france and turkey are in danger of boiling over into uncooled into question mark khan's mental health. well, marc cohn suggested turkey was stirring up resentment against france in the media.

and it's not the 1st time that the 2 countries have ratcheted up the temperature. turkey has been recognized as a candidate for full e.u. membership since 9095, but a quarter of a century later, the talks have stalled. concerns were raised following the 2016 coup in turkey and the crackdown that followed with human rights issues among the chief sticking points. but then france's president didn't mince his words, he said it was time to end the hypocrisy of pretending that there was any prospect of advancement in membership talks. but as far as the relationship with the european union is concerned, it is clear that recent developments and choices do not allow any progression of the process and which we are engaged. since then, relations have deteriorated. france and turkey have been at loggerheads over syria,

libya, and as a nato allies. more recently there have been new just speech including over turkey, drilling in the eastern, mediterranean in search of natural gas. the waters are claimed by 2 members of the e.u. greece and cyprus. that's it. tell will the you in a quarrel with this warning shot from the top diplomat, it is important that turkey understands that its behavior is quite any it separation from the e.u. will. then there has been the fallout over the controversial what has made cartoons for hours. other than on the here's what happened in france. the fact that the lawlessness towards muslims has become almost commonplace in many western states which are always praising the cells when it comes to the matter of democracy towards islam. and muslims has become

a state backed policy in some european countries, and one which is possibly back to the some incidents by france's head of state. all of this seems to be hardening the against turkey with france leading the charge. france is united and europe is united and the next european council. europe will have to take decisions that will allow it to strengthen the power balance with turkey to better defend its interests and european values. even cautious germany has warned turkey that it needs to think carefully about its next move. all of this could come to a head as leaders meet next month when the real possibility of sanctions against being given the green light. a move that could truly signal the end of the road for turkey, joining the bloc. so what do you, r.t.? paris is going to pass the yard named here in moscow. so that's how things are looking so far today, here in our take the back again at the top. the

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