those still search for grown children for the parents. the man widely considered to be the greatest footballer of all time, diego maradona has died at the age of 60. donald trump continues to pardon a number of key aides before leaving office with the latest being former national security advisor michael flynn, raised over the astra zeneca covert vaccine. as a us study claims, it doesn't work well on older people and european partners and russia as north stream to gas pipeline. slam u.s. efforts to derail the projects we hear from germany's energy chief. currently, u.s.

pressure to give a new stream to you has reached an unprecedented high. it's an attempt by the americans to be economic interests. actually this behavior reminds me of the matthew wherever you are, whenever you are, whoever you are. it's time for the news on r.t. international on down the corridor. joining us here in the studio, thanks for joining us. the death has been announced of the argentinian football legend, diego maradona. he was 60 and he died of a heart attack just 2 weeks after having brain surgery for a blood clot. maradona was considered one of the greatest footballers of all time and was a colorful character both on and off the field. as peter all over explains, diego marriage dollar was hero to many a villain to some the devil that played football like an angel,

he will be sadly missed as a character. but he certainly lived a life 60 years old. fit more into those 60 years. the most people would do in a 100 lifetimes. he started his football in korea at home in argentina, but it was in europe that he really burst on to the scene in 1982 he signed for barcelona for a day and world record feat of just over 7 and a half $1000000.00. he spent a short time with the catalan giants his time. there was marred by fights on the pitch off the pitch with the club's management, with the club's owners hierarchy directors, anybody who he could fight with. he pretty much did. he did win 2 trophies while he was there as well, but he later moved on to napoli and to italy, where put away again, a world record for this time. for just over $10000000.00 the 198-6287 season. he pretty much won the italian league for not believe by himself. he played in

a team that was a very good team, but it certainly, i don't think it's for think it's fair to say wasn't the greatest team in italy at that time. but him being in that site, he was the talisman. he was that mecurio player, he scored the goals, he made the goals he put the tackles in. he raised the spirits and he drug that's not police. cite to the league championship in 87, they won it again. in the 8990 season as well, while he was there, he picked up also some european success as well with the u.a.e. for cup internationally though he is argentina's favorite son, and i'm including messi of course, the current incumbent of that number 10 shirt. i think it's fair to say, particularly on this day, everybody's thoughts are going towards towards diego maradona when it comes to who is that greatest? argentine number 10, it started out his international career in the $82.00 world cup. it was and a great one for argentina in self found himself pretty much mogue by the italians

during a group stage much that was as far as tina went in $82.00 in spain, but it was $86.00 in mexico. that was mara, donna's world cup, coming from england myself. it's the quarter final against england that comes to mind immediately. he scored one goal. it's known as the hand of god, wary. well, he put it in the back of the net with his hand, but his 2nd goal in the $21.00 victory against england goes down as the greatest officially. the greatest goal of the 20th century. as maradona picked the ball up inside his own half beat 5 england players before dropping a shoulder and leaving the england goalkeeper peter shilton lying on his back side as he slotted into the into the goal in the final against west germany. mara dollar was mocked heavily through that game. it would still know it in german football journalism. shaw in german football journalism shorthand as maradona marking what they did there. they had 2 people on him at all times,

trying to stop him from playing. one of those was low to mattel, yes. regarded as probably the best defender of his generation maori thought it was still able to get that half a metre of space and play through the ball that resulted in the winning goal. as argentina won 32 in that world cup his international career came to an end in 1900 for the world cup in the united states, where under a cloud of some sought see tested positive for a performance enhancing drug and was sent home into scrapes even taped up until the day he died, that it was, it was taken by accident that it was something that was in a supplement that was different in the united states than it was in argentina. books, he did have his problems with substance abuse from the 1980s. he struggled with cocaine addiction, also troubles with alcohol as well, and it saw him leave napoli's the club where he was loved and still viewed with religious zeal in the southern italian city. he left there under

a cloud in 1992, after a time on the sidelines following up on for testing positive for cocaine, you have to remember he struggled, big change in football. at the time he started. the way to deal with him was to basically kick him and stop him from playing. he was able to get round that and still when he moved into the time in the ninety's where real professionalism came into world football in the game, saw the change. what, how would he stand up against a messy all rinaldo? in today's game, i still think diego maradona would have had the ways to beat the run. the world fans have been mourning the death of their hero in the italian city of naples, where mera donna helped the team win the league for the 1st time in their history. people took to the streets to mark his passing while plans were announced to rename the local stadium in his honor. and in our argentina, people have been gathering to pay their respects. that's as 3 days of national

mourning have been declared in the country. here's what people in one of cyrus have been saying, i never thought this day would come my 1st time. he's the greatest of all the monsters of football, the one who gave the same 3 thing. do you go? amanda maraton a means everything. the whole world has to be murray doona today. the whole world price for diego armand murdo, for someone to come and tell me that's a lie. that's all i ask. players and football officials around the world have been paying tribute and we heard from the former real madrid, president calderon, i saw him many matches here in spain when he was in the league for 2 years with barcelona. it works in the best time for him, but this by the, to keep played to the very, very good matches. he led to the idea that we were,

we were what's in the very, very incredible player. and i remember none of those that know what's with the reality. they are just being here with our coach. and i want to play year glorfindel in mexico with him when he scored that goal in 86 against england, he was, he told me, does, he was running close to him all the time. he was asking him to pass the board in when they were in the dressing room, the chair where he said, no i, we're really trying to pass through the board as a so many england english players were trying to tackle me with a breakthrough. it crippled them and then i found myself in front of the gold and i don't offer any of the option that was called i don't do many players that played with him. and he said that he could win a match by himself. and everybody knew when they were playing with him,

that the moment they were in trouble or if they gave the board to cream, he could score, he could change completely. the fate of a much argentinian journalist, sebastian salgado, spoke to us from where maradona was most recently coaching, and he says the whole country has been left devastated by the news one outside of province, the city of la plata. this is the team. this is a field where my owner was a coach and to do so. you can imagine here, it's a really sad day for everybody in this club. most of the people in the argentine republic, or most of the argentinian people, was a man that went even beyond the argentinean republic. for us, there are 29,

when we are out of the country. if we are far away, sometimes some people don't know where to sign argentinian them up, but everybody knows what a great soccer player for many of them their best soccer player ever saw. i want to go beyond sports like the argentinian hero because he comes from a poor neighborhood. the same time he was, he was recognized a lot where there are. so some people even say today about god. today in argentina, because even for some people, the hope going to go playing soccer and now us a call. it's like this in this stadium here in the city of la plata. it's really going off a really good in other news president trump has issued

a full pardon for his former top security advisor, michael flynn. flynn was caught up in the federal probe into discredited claims of trump, russia collusion, and he pleaded guilty to lying to the f.b.i. . with more details. here's archies, new york correspondent, caleb martin. the long drawn out legal battle surrounding donald trump's. former national security advisor appears to be coming to an end. michael flynn, formerly trumps national security advisor, and a figure within the u.s. military had pled guilty to charges that he lied to the f.b.i. . however, the white house has issued this statement along with a full pardon for michael flynn. the president is pardon general flynn because he should never been prosecuted. an independent review of general flynn's case by the department of justice conducted by respected career professionals supports this conclusion. in fact, the department of justice has firmly concluded that the charges against your move, flynn should be dropped. this full pardon achieves that objective. finally,

bringing to an end, the relentless pocs exam pursuit of an innocent man flynn his. his interview from the f.b.i. stemmed from the robert mueller special counsel investigation into allegations of trumped russia. collusion. it was alleged that michael flynn essentially misled the f.b.i. about russian contacts. however, at this point, we did see previously moves from the u.s. department of justice indicating that they might be dropping charges. they said that the interview that was conducted with michael flynn was untethered and unnecessary in regards to the f.b.i.'s counterintelligence investigation. the deal g.'s not persuaded that the jury 24th 2017 interview was conducted with a legitimate investigative basis and therefore does not believe mr. flynn statements were material, even if untrue. moreover, we do not believe that the government can prove either the relevant full statements or their materiality beyond

a reasonable doubt. now the judge overseeing the case chose to continue proceedings against michael flynn, despite what the department of justice said. however, at this point, the presidential pardon makes michael flynn a free man, joe biden will not be able to bring new charges against michael flynn when he takes office now this pardon for michael flynn is just one of many pardons that have been trumped. promised by donald trump as he prepares to leave office at this point, the transition process and which the biden administration will be moving into the executive branch has already begun. joining me now live is the eurasia center's executive vice president, earl rasmussen. earl, thanks for joining us. on the program now the white house calls flynn, an innocent man. the department of justice said that his prosecution was unjustified. what do you think about the democrats' investigation of flynn? is it fair justified? you know, i don't think so. i think i think with set up it was entrapment from my perspective

. it should never have occurred. i think there was a vendetta against general flynn previously from the obama administration. that's why he left the day. he was opposed to certain policies within there, which i personally, i support general flynn perfective on that. and i think this was specially as a result of unclassified recently on classified document. it was purely a set up for general flynn and one to get back to general clinton to to hamper the the trumpet ministration. i disagree with the democratic perspective. it's all political and i, i find no basis whatsoever. general flynn should never have been charged in. and he'd been given disrupt, harmony parts, financial burden and everything else as a result of that that should never have happened. well,

the white house said flynn was actually the victim of hardest part of some government officials engaged in a coordinated attempts to subvert the 2016 election. how bold do you think this statement is? i think it's right on target. absolutely. and when declassified notes from the f.b.i. and we see very high level officials that were in the oval office at the time of the meeting, they'd be sickly adana phaidon. discuss how to get general flynn and those notes are unclassified now and clearly clearly the, the administration was targeting general flynn and i think, again if the are purely a partisan saying it never should have happened it. it saddens me that our country went down this direction in tackling a very credible and outstanding officer,

a general flynn was right. well the white house even already claimed that that f.b.i. agents who interviewed general flynn didn't think he was lying. are you surprised by the statement? no, it's actually correct. your original people that interviewed him didn't see any reason. but rather the, the internal at the high level of the b.-i rather overrode the initial investigation by the officers to pursue this. i mean, it's purely bad judicial decision at the time of that occurred. and like i said, i firmly believe the great decision by general by the president and personally myth. i don't know, i'm very question on judge sullivan and some type of investigation probably should be initiated. against him as well. and this is general flynn needs to give his

given his day and allow him to move forward. and i think this is about time. this is coming well as many of our viewers probably know trump's part in this general, flynn means that the democrats can pursue further legal challenge. little challenges to this regard, to what happened. how much fallout and what kind of fall i do you think will result from trump's move? you know, look, the democrats have been after crumb since before he even got in office, which is unfortunate. i mean, you may disagree with some of policies, but i mean, the whole thing of the russian collusion hoax was exactly that is the plan orchestrated a lot of the documentation that justified it were paid for by the by the opposition campaign. and i mean, it was everything good. i mean, we spent $47000000.00 on the mueller investigation that should never have happened

this sad thing. so i, you know, i think will there be a political fall? of course they're going to be political fallout. and the other thing is, i'm sure the democrats do not one general flynn to release some of the things he knows. he knows some things that i'm sure are quite damaging. and, and i'm sure that one of the reasons the was targeted with to keep him quiet as well. so it's will there be politically follow up? hey, donald trump, is he's a brave person to move forward on this. and i think it's the right thing to do and take whatever political action will happen. i don't think that's going to disrupt him from doing the right thing. and i think the right thing, earl rasmussen, executive vice president of the eurasia center. thank you very much for joining us . thank you for the lead among the story still ahead for you. our u.s.

study of the new astra zeneca kovan vaccine raises doubts over how well it works on older people. that's right after the break

with a post-mortem. how did you major political parties change to this election cycle? joe biden maintained an already weakened and divided democratic coalition. is there such a thing as trump is? did he change the g.o.p.? or did the g o p? welcome back to the program. concerns have been raised in the u.s. over just how effective one of the new coronavirus vaccines is. a new study of the astra zeneca shot appears to show it doesn't work so well on older people. that's despite its british swedish developers, claiming this week that the shot is 90 percent effective. done and has more. so essentially, this whole thing is about the discrepancy between what the manufacturer of this

vaccine is saying. and the claims made by us researches and us specialists who also had a look at the ceremony. so when on monday astra zeneca published a press release saying that the average year that on average this vaccine is 70 percent efficient. and it gave an explanation to this figure as to why essentially they said that there were 2 groups of people who participated in the clinical trials. one group of people was given 2 full doses of the vaccine, while another group of people got a smaller dosage. and they are saying that in this 2nd group, the vaccine was actually 90 percent efficient. while in the 1st group, it was only 62 percent efficient. some people asked questions as to how exactly a lower dosage of a vaccine can be more effective than a larger dose of but now americans have had a chance to examine this ceremony as well. they're saying that it has nothing to do

with how much of the vaccine a person gets. it was more efficient, the 2nd group that got a smaller dosage. they were aged from 18 years old to 55 years old, while the 2nd group were the vaccine turned out to be less efficient. had some participants who were over 55 years old. and so they're saying that this is the main reason and not the amount of the sarah, and that each person gets is how they put it. there are also differences in the age brackets present in the quartz in the 1st that received those and fooled those who lose had a cap on the asia at the age of 55 when they're older, people included in the city did receive who lose and to lose i have to say this is how vaccines often work because a younger person tends to have a stronger immune system and therefore, stronger immune response develops more antibodies than in all the person on average

. so it could be, it's, but the question is rather why would astra zeneca leave out this information about people being differently aged from its initial report and why you, we're learning this from a 3rd party astra. zeneca is looking for f.d.a. approval because the u.s. is a huge market for the vaccine with a huge demand for the vaccine. so the american side is that this difference in dosage. yeah. you know how much each group of people was getting. this vaccine apparently was an intentional. according to the u.s. specialists, it was just a mistake. this was a change in the way the quantity of vaccine the amount of actually put in of was tested. and when they, when they realized that there was an error or a change in their approach technique used,

they corrected it. astra zeneca has been losing value on the market. so a lot of people are skeptical because we've had our scientists have had really little time to study the virus. and so people will be asking questions. what exactly they are suggested to be injected to be injected into, into their bodies. so it's sort of a message and a lesson to every producer over vaccine that the more transparent they are, the more details they give out right away is the better it will be, because people don't want any more surprises and they want to feel safe. washington's behavior has been described as mob like by a senior german energy official. he was talking about u.s. efforts to derail the nord stream 2 gas pipeline project between europe and russia . last month, the u.s. state department intensified sanctions on european firms involved in the scheme and we spoke to the head of the german energy committee about that it's going to be for secret affording only the currently u.s.

pressure over north stream 2 has reached an unprecedented high and it's not tempted by the americans to lobby their economic interests to go behind the backs of their supposed partners. actually this behavior reminds me of the matthew, matthew c, come to the restaurant and say, we must protect you. but if you don't pay for this, we will smash all your places. and it's the same thing here. the americans say they protect us from the russians. but in fact, we don't want this protection. we want to trade with the russians, we want russian gas. and then they say, if you don't let us protect you, we will kill you. in other words, they impose sanctions on companies, threaten them with economic collapse. and this is what's actually happening. but we must reject such methods, simply objecting to them is pointless. only real action will help you need power and other phone finance. but do you agree with union paris statement that this is all about undermining europe's energy security and an infringement on its independence? or we cannot allow

a country to dictate to us what to do with our own energy supply. this is not about our security. this is about the americans who want to sell us their liquefied gas shale gas that harms the environment. moreover, that type of gas is more expensive, they have problems with sales. they have too much gas and prices a so low that it's not profitable. and here they want to impose their gas on us. of course it's way easier if we don't have an alternative. that's why we avoid this, because otherwise we will be stripped of alternative, sellars, in my opinion, the pipeline will be finished at the same time, i think for now the e.u.'s key goal is its own sanctions against the u.s. . my suggestion is simple. we introduce sanctions, tariffs on american liquefied gas. they think they have a right to dictate to us where to buy gas. we'll show them with a tit for tat move. we can do that then declare, how would that affect transatlantic ties, boss?

what do you mean if we're talking about sanctions they might make the americans realize that it's unacceptable to treat this as a colony and that they'd better treat us as an independent partner. maybe they'll be a bit confused, but if they want to carry on trading with us and maintain economic ties and cooperation in different spheres, they will have to accept the fact that we have our own interests and that we follow them. i mean, this approach will lead us forwards any other to deadlock. it's more world news stories in just 30 minutes. how do you price value? how do you value prices that most makes up an economy? and all we've been saying for 10 years now is that if you use money as the underlying unit of measure, you're going to end up disappointed and in the casino as we've been describing and

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inmate in the shadows. greetings and salyut ation. since u.s. president donald trump drastic a devastating loss to former vice president joe biden, all the way back on what feels like ages ago, november the 3rd of our brand name in chief has been running a sort of scorched earth transition policy from outright denying his defeat in a half brained attempt to muddy the upcoming electoral college vote on december 14th to his randomly on purpose firings of panic.