if you. think. russia says its job will cost less than $10.00 per dose as it presents with macveagh to un member state. people are killed after a large explosion at a wastewater treatment plant in the west of england. and recordings of c.n.n. staff meetings are linked by a project very tied to the conservative group claims the tapes show the t.v. news networks biased against president trump. broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow this is our 2 international i'm

sean thomas certainly glad it's now less than $10.00 for covert immunity that is the price for russia sputnik v vaccine internationally as it was presented to the un general assembly on wednesday moscow wants the job to be available to the entire 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 4 jaw gryphus in brazil china korea and argentina will radiate reach supply agreement and production agreements with those countries. more than 40 countries have expressed interest in buying sporting v however many western critics have already written off the russian vaccine artie's down harkins 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 those who made this possible it is the protection. that will ultimately allow us to recreate our lives and get our recall of the movie 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 there's a seneca high as far as it makes a final push drug company pfizer says it is a great day for science c.e.o. 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 nick v. 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 ves 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 one and 2 clinical trial data up 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 using spies to 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 to win the battle against corona virus we are ready to cooperate with others in terms of votes in the nation particularly on the council of europe's platform the cruellest pandemic has made it clear the 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 nick 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 then alternatives trashed and dismissed from the outset the world never really stood a chance at making a united stands 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 world are 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 of sputnik v. says western skepticism is groundless. what has happened is placed and exploited say that russians are rushing with a vaccine back seem to be tried and tested with fairly long periods of time and that we've done everything so fast. company can win a western counterparts make statements we need to look very closely at who is

saying it and exactly what they are saying for example they frequently complain that the gamma layer 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 when the other hand if you still want to make a comparison 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 is safe it was proven during pre-clinical animal testing please consider that i'm talking about safety no 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 all getting out and enjoying ourselves again after a year in the dark for the performing arts we catch up with a russian prima ballerina talk about staying informed during lockout and how theatres are prepping for curtain up once more that's a little later in the program. the most unexpected of places wanted to take holy orders to get around the lockdown to kill a bar in central england as applied for a church license in a tongue in cheek bid to highlight what it calls the absurdity of selective restrictions as places of worship can stay open but restaurants and bars kept.

under the new to this is that we would be allowed to even. be months and months as we don't have a substantial future for a kitchen says know who she needs to do that and so we look to other ways all the other businesses in the news that i can under all that is complicit wish it was one of them so we've reached the branch to define you as a or send off ok should stretch to the venue as a place of worship. as the church of the for the draw its. main reason is to sort of point out that the contradictory nature of the rules our everything from jim. church is in my size part of every shot we've got a christmas market happening in knoxville right outside of it all for us to go ahead while what we have to say shows that. it just makes hospitality business is like ours completely viable i we need more government

support. to get us through this so the weiss. as we've seen in the news the last couple of days the high street is already with ok here it happened and. it's it's been decimated by hospitality nashton the step up. 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 breast all artes reports from the site. well a around 20 this morning local time emergency services called to this water treatment facility here just outside bristol in the south west of. been an explosion at a chemical plant the at the site 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 cease to simply 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 health safe effective in 2 pools police have confirmed that they have now and this is the no longer looking for missing people don't expect there 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 give them more to jump to conclusions not to listen to any 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 the 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 bomb sound to us to like fume in this life and it's all more. we i so the silly cops are just coming in here so today i sit in place and they have the police storm just as well and just and the same area. just went there for i was there alone the police was there and as i fired so there. was one was there. so i just i was fond of the workers there. they told me. this is explosion. with

that with the tight 11 tank just was exploded so. because it's an industrial area there's no houses they it's all industrial area and the house is some how far from this explosion i don't know if they fall down not well you see that in our office we flip it so we're just now waiting for information of the should reports to tell us what happened and what's going on. a conservative group in the u.s. has leaked tapes of staff meetings have c.n.n. project veritas claims that they prove the network's bias against the president and one quote 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 from republicans who have not come there to congratulate me. but also to. what happened to democrats and that is that we have

the news organizations. responsible. not keeping track of too much of a platform. to come. 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 sounds good taylor talked to the communications and manager for project very tough who was involved in releasing the recordings. you'll 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 or not based on whether it's important

but whether or not it fits jeff zucker's world view and personal political agenda there's no diversity of opinion nobody objects nobody challenges c.n.n. did react very quickly on twitter no doubt said that 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 the 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 and you'll private discussions without his work space would you support it as wild and. 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 requests secretly recording the 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 that closure as the government cracks down on radical islam that story much more after a short break this is our 2 international.

something seems wrong but all roads just don't all. i mean you get to shape out these days become educated and engagement equals betrayal. 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 the bad so we're going to find no. continuity for change this is what is being asked when considering a potential fine foreign policy trim 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

building. welcome back this is our to international president trump has urged the supreme court to intervene in the u.s. election and overturn the results in multiple states in a 46 minute speech posted online he replied peter to his claim that 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 appointed to irregularities in the voting system including millions

of illegal votes and dead people casting ballots so he claims 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 those 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 that daniel shaw 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 is 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 a 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 parties show dubinsky explains well this fight against separatism is something we've covered many times here but now it seems that $76.00 mosques him france 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 bridges and 76 mosques suspected of supporters must 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 more 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 now 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 and the doors now the tensions have come at a time when the council of ministers is in the next few days due to look at this new law to promote republican values it was previously called the separatism or prevent separatism law here in france it's a long time coming present 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 in erratic and french and doesn't tell people what to do it he never gathered us together to tell us to do anything bad. for george orwell and i don't know if i told people you should go on by. weapons 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 here in france a 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 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 more

mosques will be either closed or subject to new restrictions that will make them feel that even more so france is becoming an unfriendly place to live. stafford french amount resorts are up in arms over the government's decision to keep ski facilities closed over the festive season on rest broke out after the government announced that covered $1000.00 restrictions will remain in place for christmas and new year hundreds of people rallied at a major alpine resort on wednesday they say that they have already taken far reaching measures to comply with health regulations and keep visitors safe and that a season long shutdown could ruin their livelihoods. everything in place so we can welcome to our representatives met with authorities to discuss procedures for the ski resorts we were ready we were told to wait for a decision but nothing has come out of that. hole to open the cable cars as soon as

the whole city 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're very concerned. we're doing everything we can to complete our season but we hear the many french people will be going to the broad to ski if 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 our mountains they're going to be safe. the french government is standing by its decision which follows a nationwide spike in crime a virus infections and prime minister john key aspects 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 a close now but people will still come in 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 live 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 of the performing arts is 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 is meant extra challenges to stay in tiptop condition ready for when the audiences return we spoke to russian prima ballerina svetlana's the heart of a from the bolshoi ballet about how moscow's premier stage has been weathering the pandemic. was 1st put out of most of the theaters across the world are closed we keep working however the circumstances are on the usual who will 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 at 7 am when they went through crazy times called it safe to measures all that has become a hard challenge if i have been very difficult to get fit not what has been keeping you through that. and if the 1st month of the warranty was like a nightmare we were in the complete dark with regard to the future 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 the only russian but for a guy who the 1st to have been put on lockdown 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 seize and dancers what about young dancers who are right at the start of their careers such a disruption at a time when the foundations of being late 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 does not matter that the auditorium capacity has been limited to just 25 percent of course such ballet's is strongly spartacus all of bias there are . to dance without the same applause and screams of bravo to which the bolshoi theater stage is used to do which i'm used to but still the fans try to support us

going over there for i think or do we continue to work and have the opportunity to go on stage and done so much of the year on the battle to get that does it for me this i'll be back in 31 minutes with another full on fresh news this is our 2 international. was a pandemic no certainly no borders and just blocking 2 nationalities. has a muddled up with the we don't actually. need to. judge a. 2 commentary crisis like this mr until. we can do better we should. everyone is contributing it's your own way but we also know that

this crisis will not go on forever the challenge is great for the response has been much so many good people are helping us. it makes us feel very proud that we are in it together. when things become more extreme than we used to right when this is. not necessarily a good way. the. right is a measure of the reality is. if you're born into a poor family. already family if you're born into

a family that only has a single parent that really.