good. destabilize the global economy you need to protect yourself and get in for as. russia says its job job will cost less than $10.00 per dose as it presents its putting v 2 u.n. member states. 4 people were killed after a large explosion at a waste water treatment plant in the west of england. and recordings of c.n.n. staff meetings are linked by a project very top to the conservative group claims that the take showed the t.v. networks biased against president trump. broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow this is our to international i'm john thomas certainly glad to have you with us. and now less than $10.00 for covert immunity that is the price for russia's vaccine internationally as it was

presented to the u.n. general assembly on wednesday moscow wants the job to be available to the whole world and has already agreed on deliveries to foreign countries we will be producing. those this was a week seeing already just starting from february in 4th. in brazil korea and argentina will radiate reach supply agreement and production agreements with those countries more than 40 countries have expressed an interest in buying sputnik v. however many western critics have already written off the russian vaccine artie's down hawkins looks at why. the media today is full of big headlines pfizer's covert 19 vaccine is officially the 1st to be approved in a western country with the united kingdom leading the way there's a sense of excitement that lives can be saved on the 1st steps towards codewords final defeat have been taken i would like to pay tribute to him to who made this

possible it is the protection. that will ultimately allow us to recreate our lives and get our economy moving again this is a victory but the real winner in the race for a covert job has been vaccine protectionism to many in western media and establishment only western produced vaccines can even be considered as part of a global solution to the pandemic and other a break through from the last event is that field shares are seneca higher as pfizer makes a final push drug company pfizer says it is a great day for science c.e.o. of pfizer tweeting out his congratulations. this is really a historic day we have pfizer we have take you up while the european medicines agency has confirmed it's in contact with the developers of sport mcvie the e.u. has also been clear it doesn't recommend any e.u. state makes up its own mind about importing the vaccine even if they wanted to the

reason strong lobby against vaccines that are being developed outside the european union but that's life we're already used to it and it in hungary is interest to get us a vaccine as quickly as possible hungary isn't alone this has been global since the sputnik viz existence was 1st announced back then media and members of the scientific community were quick to criticize russia for failing to provide public data on the vaccine safety and even when phase $1.00 and $2.00 clinical trial data it was later published in the lancet skepticism mistrust and suspicion of were still rife at any mention of sport mcvie moscow has been accused of cutting corners user. the steal western research russia rushed to register it as a world 1st raising eyebrows in the scientific community putin this might be his personal back through plenty even here still need persuading that sputnik v. is a reliable choice there's always room for healthy skepticism and critical thinking

as with any new vaccine but it seems some require slightly more scrutiny than others take my den or the company has requested emergency approval from the american and european regulators for its vaccine 10 days before that pfizer and biotech sought the same clearance for their job yet neither company has publicly released full data from late stage clinical trials for peer review in any medical journal and it's not just about peer review moscow's been clear it's open to international corporation on covert vaccination to save lives and win the battle against corona virus we are ready to cooperate with others in terms of vaccination particularly on the council of europe platform the cruellest pandemic has made it clear that europeans need to know it in the face of common threats these offers appear to fall on their fears whether it's a deep mistrust or the belief that sport mixed views just the way for putin to gain political approval truly joint efforts to find

a vaccine never materialized this is probably of little concern to develop states most already have brought up the majority of vaccine surprise produced by their own companies while the rest of the world is unlikely to get access to the vaccines for years to come vaccine protectionism has truly try out with only western produced vaccines touted as world saving despite being unavailable to most and many alternatives trashed and dismissed from the outset the world never really stood a chance at making a united stand against coronavirus this isn't a competition between ourselves it's about doing the best for our world for the global population and that we must all work together. to get vaccines distributed i think there was a very good paper that was published in the peer review journal about the russian vaccine a long sit the general issue about the rush to produce vaccines has been that many of the vaccines have been presented in press releases or all of the in peer

reviewed papers it's important that we have doing clinical trials that these are reported properly i know that the sputnik vaccine is being trialled in india now as well and that's a great thing it's about sharing the responsibility we all have to ensure all vaccines are safe effective and that we share them particularly in parts of the wall going to struggle like developing countries where we need to be helping with large populations in an interview the head of a pharmaceutical company responsible for the mass rollout. has western skepticism is groundless. what has happened is placed in exploited say that russians are rushing with a back seat back scenes to the tried and tested cliff and the long period of time and that we've done everything so fast. company can win a western counterparts make statements we need to look very closely it's who is saying it and exactly what they are saying for example they frequently complain that the gamma institute hasn't published enough data and so all of the same time

we should realize that just a research institute is not a pharmaceutical giant like astra zeneca or pfizer a lot of p.r. specialists who are usually presenting the data selectively and in a favorable light so once again you shouldn't compare the data published by the government institute with the data published by western companies on the other hand if you still want to make a comparison that's compared to the oxford research group when they hadn't yet signed an agreement with astra zeneca no one knew them and no one saw the results until big pharma got involved. just how realistic is it to prove that the vaccine is safe. at this point we've seen convincing dates of the proof put in it really is safe it was proven during pre-clinical animal testing please consider that i'm talking about safety mail not effectiveness then it was proven during clinical trials on healthy volunteers we've done all that statistics to show that the vaccine is safe. getting

a good vaccine out there could see us getting out and enjoying ourselves again after a year in the dark for the performing arts we catch up with a russian prima ballerina to talk about staying informed during a lockdown and how theatres are preparing for curtain up once more that a little later in the probably. the most unexpected of places want to take holy orders to get round the lockdown and to kill a bar in central england has applied for a church license and a tongue in cheek bed to highlight what it calls the absurdity of selective restrictions as places of worship can stay open but restaurants and bars can.

under the new to this is that we wouldn't be allowed to i. could be months and months as we don't have a substantial future for a kitchen so there's no need to do that and so we look to other ways all the other businesses in the news that i can under all this is a place of worship was one of them so we've reached the bridge to define you as a or send off cation trench to the right here is a place of worship. as the church of the 400. main reason is to sort of point out that the contradictory nature of the rules our everything from jim. church is in massage parlors every shot we've got a christmas market happening in ochsner outside of it all for us to go ahead while what we have to say shows that. it just myself so it is mrs clarke was completely avoidable we need more government support. to get us through

this so the wise. as we've seen in the news the last couple of days the high street is already with ok here in devon and. it's been decimated and hospitality next to the guys that put. 4 people have been confirmed dead after a large explosion in the west of england the incident happened at a waste water treatment facility outside bristol reports from the site. well around 1120 this morning local time emergency services called to this water treatment facility here just outside bristol in the southwest of england been an explosion at a chemical plant the at the site and not too long ago in the last hour or so we've had a press conference being held by the local chief of police and the local head of the fire service the fire service lead the rescue operation but sadly despite the best

efforts of all those involved we can confirm that before they kind of seize the scene fully 3 employees that were 6 water and one contractor a 5th person was also injured but their injuries are not believed to be life threatening. but the investigation will be carried out into what happened today involving a number of agencies and the help they feel they can see into pools police have confirmed that they have now and this the no longer looking for missing people don't expect that to be any more casualties in terms of death or injury one thing that was interesting that came out from the press conference held not to long ago was a plea by the police not for people to be remarked to jump to conclusions not to listen to any of rumors or anything that they've had on social media this is more being treated as an act of terrorism he said but of course those investigations as to be

exact cause of that explosion will be going on over the next coming days and weeks and the majesty services do remain on the scene for that express purpose. we managed to speak with a nearby office worker who described what he witnessed. first of all we just heard you know the sound wasn't too loud it was like bone sound to us to like fume in this life and it's all more. we i so silly copter just coming in here so 'd i sit in place and they have the police horn just as well and just and the same area. just went there for i was there alone the police was. there. as well was there. i just i was front of the workers there. they told me. this is explosion. with that with.

11 tank this was exploded so you know because it's an industrial area there's no houses they it's all industrial area and the house is somehow far from this explosion i don't know if they fall down mark but we see that in our office we live it so we're just now waiting for information of the ship of force to tell us what happened and what's going on. but a conservative group in the u.s. has leaked tapes of staff meetings at c.n.n. project veritas claims they prove the network's bias against the president in one clip c.n.n. special correspondent jamie gangle is heard saying how news organizations should be wary of giving trump too much airtime. i just keep hearing the same thing. jennings who have not been there to congratulate me. but also to you know what happened to democrats and that is that we have to

be news organizations. responsible. not keeping track too much of a platform. doing. forward the network says project veritas may have broken the law by snooping on its staff and it defended the language used in the recording saying diversity of personal opinion is what makes c.n.n. strong earlier my colleague saka taylor spoke to the communications manager for project very tough who was involved in releasing the recordings. you hear the outgoing president of c.n.n. jeff zucker dictating to his hosts reporters editors and producers what the news will be not based on whether it is true not based on whether it's important but whether or not it fits jeff zucker's worldview and personal political agenda

there's no diversity of opinion nobody objects nobody challenges c.n.n. did react very quickly on twitter that said it is going to get your enforcement involved my question is are you ready and t. think the door is on your side i don't believe for a minute that the police are to come knocking on our door everything that project veritas does is legal we have a very well trained and very well paid legal staff and i'm highly confident that everything we did was within the legal guard rails you know and no one has called us from from law enforcement that's just something they said that tweet came from cnn's p.r. staff and i think you can call that a p.r. stunt and i want to ask you one of the tables what todd and you'll private discussions without his work space would you support it as well don. who who is

objecting c.n.n. i mean they ran secretly recorded tapes of 1st lady malani a trump just weeks ago they were in the access hollywood tapes they ran tapes secretly recorded of mitt romney when he was the 2012 republican candidate for president the idea that c.n.n. is suddenly upset. about somebody were chris secretly recording a meeting or a conference call and put and putting out to the public that's absolutely absurd. still ahead this hour over 70 mosques in france are facing closure as the government cracks down on radical islam that story much more after a short break this is all. international.

shows seem wrong but all roads just don't call. me the world is yet to shape out these days to come to advocate and engage with because the trail. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. what happens when people lose trust in the family in the central banks and now that's a we're going to find out. continuity or change this is what's being asked when considering a potential fine foreign policy trump made a point to undo obama's legacy when fighting do the same to trump's like this or is this all only rhetorical continuity drives foreign policy not the occupant in the

oval. welcome back this is our to international now president trump has urged the supreme court to intervene in the u.s. election and overturn the results in multiple states and a 46 minute speech posted online he repeated his claim that he believes the vote was stolen. this may be the most important speech i've ever made i want to provide an update on our own going efforts to expose the tremendous voter fraud and irregularities which took place during the ridiculous lead along nov 3rd elections i am determined to protect our election system which is now under coordinated assault and see if we are right about the fraud joe biden can't be president trump pointed to irregularities in the voting system including millions

of illegal votes and dead people casting ballots he accused democrat run areas of voter corruption and changing the results trump added he would accept any outcome as long as it's accurate but his attorney general has already undercut some of the claims we have not seen fraud on a scale that could have affected a different outcome in the election meanwhile president elect joe biden and his team are dismissing the allegations of voter fraud calling the election result fair professor of latin american studies daniel shah believes the fraud claims are a distraction from the real problems underlying the u.s. voting system. it's clear that these elections are corrupt through and through but not for the reasons that donald trump highlights the corrupt are going through because there's an electoral college that does not recognize the popular vote there's already a complete lack of trust people do not respect the electoral college most americans can't even explain the electoral college or provide any type of justification or

logic for which there is none many americans don't even participate in presidential elections because they understand that it's. a choice between 2 oppresses for the next 4 years between tweedle dee tweedle dum trump is just expose the system from the right created these decisions that have long existed. france is threatening to shut huge numbers of mosques after announcing massive and unprecedented raids on more than 70 islamic places of worship the stated goal is to fight quote separatism and liberate french islam from foreign influences are too strong to be explained well this fight against separatism is something we've covered many times here but now it seems that $76.00 more mosques same fronts are going to be caught in the crossfire of that the interior minister has confirmed the reports in french newspapers that those mosques are now in the next few days going

to see what he described as being unprecedented action. in accordance with my instructions the state services will launch massive precedented action against the bridges and 76 mosques suspected of surprises might be checked in the coming days and those that have to be closed will be where the mosques that are due to be targeted are said to have clandestine rooms or have mark in moms who are on alert for the prevention of terrorist radicalization these are some of the reasons why these mosques are said to be targeted no muslims have already been saying that they fear of reprisals and there have been allegations of attacks taking place on muslims because of their faith most recent emerged on wednesday of this week this took place at a mosque just in the south of paris and as you can see from the images it said that the car deliberately drove into the front of the mosque smashing those windows of

the doors now the tensions have come at a time when the council of ministers is in the next days due to look at this new law to promote republican values it was previously called the separatism or prevent separatism at all here in france it's a long time coming present my confers talked about it earlier on this year but the law itself the draft law was released in the weeks following the brutal beheading of teachers patti who had been targeted for showing controversial images of the muslim prophet during a civics class back in october now following his brutal assassination there was a clampdown on muslim associations here in france and the closure of a mosque in punk we went to that mosque and spoke to the congregation there who said that they felt that they had been unfairly targeted on are crucial to man we have a very kind of man who speaks to us and erratic and french and doesn't tell people what to do it never gathered us together to tell us to do anything bad. that bush

was rejoicing over and i don't know if i told people you should gone by. a weapon and then they go and buy weapons and kill someone i'm not responsible for that. i'm not happy about the mosques closure i mean just what happened to the teacher i condemn it i do not agree with those who committed the crime but for the mosque it's a shame. all these clampdowns who france are provoked huge reaction elsewhere particularly in some muslim majority countries where there have been protests with tens of thousands of people turning up effigies of president back home burned and a call for a boycott on french products being sold in their countries many muslims are concerned they are living in an element of fear at the moment and they feel that they are being targeted by this law and for many this announcement that $76.00 more mosques will be either closed or subject to new restrictions will make them feel

that even more so france is becoming an unfriendly place to live. staff at french mountain resorts are up in arms over the government's decision to keep ski facilities closed after the festive season unrest broke out after the government announced that covert 1000 restrictions will remain in place for christmas and new year hundreds of people rallied to at a major alpine resort on wednesday they say they've already taken far reaching measures to comply with health regulations and keep visitors safe and the season long shutdown could ruin their livelihoods but it is not going to leave everything in place so we can welcome tours our representatives met with authorities to discuss procedures for opening the ski resorts we were ready we were told to wait for a decision but nothing has come out of there so hard left you hope to open the cable cars as soon as the health situation improves obviously the goal is not to create

a cluster in our valley but we have to think about all those workers at the resorts and their economic survival. we are very concerned we are doing everything we can to complete our season but we hear the many french people will be going abroad to ski it feels like having the rug pulled from under us we're willing to make sacrifices but not to be taken for fools if people want to go on holiday let them come to a mountain they're going to be safe. the french government is standing by its decision which follows a nationwide spike in crime of virus infections and prime minister john caustics has urged people not to go skiing abroad saying random border checks will be imposed we spoke with the mayor of a resort village he thinks the measures make no sense. this is absurd we do not deny the risks but it's ridiculous to think that outdoor activities are very risky be aware that the ski resorts that close now but people will still come from a security standpoint receiving these guests is

a very big challenge mr juncker stakes these words are frivolous he underestimates these contradictions we face today i'll give you an example that might make you smile the only entity allowed in on new year's holidays is to go to the cinema this is how decisions made above are affecting territory that falls under so many restrictions. just about every industry has suffered during the covered crisis and the performing arts it's no exception uncertainty and lock downs have left them starved of audiences with the curtains down for much of 2024 stay at home performers that meant extra challenges to stay in tiptop condition ready for when the audiences return we spoke to russian prima ballerina the heart of our from the show a ballet about how moscow's premier stage has been weathering the pandemic. just what out of most of the theaters across the world are closed we keep working however the circumstances are unusual we'll have to perform with 25 percent

auditorium capacity so the middle of january and i hope it will not last longer have you already performed under such circumstances no not yet so much over him we're living through crazy times because it's safe to measures all that has become a hard challenge it may have been very difficult to get fit misers not what has been keeping you through that. and if the 1st month of the quarantine was like a nightmare we were in the complete dark with regard to the future the lack of awareness was making me nervous shiver do you know what the hardest thing was we all realised that it could have been over at any moment and we would have to get back to training being in good shape of course we all trained at home in the early days of the quarantine there were gags on the internet about belly dances not just only russian but for a guy who were the 1st to have been put on lockdown there was shown training holding on to the sink to the stove in the kitchen or literally in the corner at 1st it seemed to be funny but later on with every new extension it had been getting

increasingly tense but the pandemic has proved to be a challenge to seasoned dancers what about young dancers who are right at the start of their careers such a disruption at a time when the foundations of been laid how consequential is it which it is a very challenging time for the graduates who had to train at home as well which apprised of all that they had aspired to they missed the graduation concert exams hard times for them and their mentors what will you wish yourself what else do you need to achieve when it comes to your career i'm happy to be here our government supports us it doesn't matter that the auditorium capacity has been limited to just 25 percent of course such ballets as small lake spartacus all of bias there i did. to dance without the same applause and screams of bravo to which the bolshoi theater stage is used to do each i'm used to but still the fans try to support us

and therefore i think called we continue to work and have the opportunity to go on stage and downs them with those 2 year old to get 31 minutes that's when i'll be back with another full and fresh look at your news this is our 2 international stay with. things become more extreme which leads to right when this is like breaking norms

not necessarily in a good way. as the. right strain is like a reality you. could look back on the tell me they are they need to check cause up at the end of their lives which. political mental image of myself in the world is the digital visual they. need to get that. matter that good looking willing to listen to the body.