multiple kron is a burden. and france are going through a very dangerous period actually the turkish president urges france to get rid of its leader as relations between the countries hit new lows. as drugs giant pfizer prepares it to roll out its vaccine in britain and seeks approval in the us its chief executive admits it might not stop those who take it from spreading the virus. in moscow slams what it calls fabricated accusations against journalists to russia affiliated news agencies charged with violating you sanction.

broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow this is r t international i'm john thomas certainly glad to have you with us the turkish president has lashed out at his french counterpart claiming he's a burden to his country and should step down it represents a new low in relations between. and comes as paris looks to crack down on radical islam following a wave of terrorism in france. macron is a burden on france and france are going through a very dangerous period actually my hope is that france gets rid of this mccraw in trouble as soon as possible well the spat between the turkish president at the one in france has been deepening for some time now you will remember that last week the french senate adopted a non binding resolution in which they officially recognize the independence of nagorno karabakh and they called for as a big shiny forces to need to leave the war on terror trees that had been captured

in the disputed territory from september the 27th they're also calling for an international investigation into war crimes and at the same time prohibited weapons and senators also recommended that the french government look into the role that an career has played and has called for decisive action against turkey now it's it all of this while at the same time saying that france's foreign policy has not changed but of course this angered azerbaijan's closest ally turkey. because this you know maybe even as a budget only president believe had some advice for the french what did he say if they love the armenian so much they should give more say to the media was making the same recommendation if they love them so much give them our say the french president also caused outrage last month in the muslim world when he defended the right to publish cartoons of prophet mohammed.

his criticism of political islam comes in the wake of the killing of a french teacher samuel patty that angered at one end of the international leaders not everyone has responded by comparing the treatment of muslims to that of jews before world war 2 and he's also questioned the mental health of the french president at the same time you have a deepening of tensions between a turkey. and the european union and in recent years we've seen the relations get increasingly walk here brussels has repeatedly expressed concern and protested of turkey's exploration of natural gas off the coast of cyprus and greece reached out to turkey to susman does negative continuation of you know where to all acts and horse rhetoric the debate of the european summit and some of the term and we're ready to use the means to tell disposal turkey must stop its provocations and its hostile rhetoric and as we heard there the european union summit on the 10th of

a samantha and e.u. member states potentially discussing retaliating measures that they can take against and. for president. asking for the move all of. it's a nonsense because we still have among the last 2 years to go but what my question is trying to do is to fight against radical islam and. the french prison macron has has been criticized by other. political opponents because they say that macron was too soft. radical islam on the muslim population 'd i can tell you and they can show you that prison micron is not. islam is not a muslim he's just a radical islam and he wants to control radical islam prison michael went on fewer t.v. in order to explain to this population what freedom of speech is what freedom of

satire is that you can make everyone every religion it's not a one religion in particular but every religion and this is part of the freedom of speech of france. president refused to be drawn on the ones comments in an interview though he did highlight that france is under attack for protecting free speach. i'm never a good person though this is the difference between us i believe in respect my point is. becoming more violent and saw the with a leader given the violent example i think of these abuse of a broad between police good leaders is a room where president michael attempting to take the higher ground in that long wide ranging interview broadcast over the internet on friday he talked about what was happening in turkey he didn't address it directly but what he did say is

that he was clear that there was a fundamental difference between france and turkey says suggesting that turkey was a north or a terry in state that was when he was talking relation to issues over freedom of the press he also in that interview touched on things such as police violence saying that he understood that there was violence within the police forces but he didn't think that that was an institutional problem he thought that was an individual problem just like you said there is violence in the general society there's also violence within the police but he also admitted that discrimination has played into a lot of the problems here in france particularly when it comes to the issue surrounding islam isn't saying that france was not against islam but he was aware that some of the problems here were home grown and he was looking to tackle those now he also talked at length about the global security bill this is a hugely controversial subject here in france and we've seen protests about that

much criticized law over the past 2 weeks now with the protests are because many individuals journalists groups n.g.o.s and even. have criticized article 20. from an allies the publication of images of the police had there been intent to harm. now the out as a result of that has resulted in the ruling party saying they will now look at writing that specific article not part of the law but present back room being quite clear in that interview on friday that while it may be written the essence of what article 24 stood for will not change now that is likely to infuriate many people who say that it would even pinch freedom of the press that it would allow the police to have the green light to stop the press from filming to stop the public

from filming is well i know my consent that this wasn't about reducing freedom in the press this wasn't about reducing the rights of citizens but this is about protecting the police and there are more press yes i do against that global security bill over the weekend and it comes when there is even more pressure on my own and the ruling party and with guards to not just article 24 but also the entirety of the bill as a un panel of experts has said that they don't believe that this bill is in line with issues surrounding human rights situation in fact they said it was incompatible with international human rights legislation and they've called for the entire bill to be completely rewritten. one of the latest vaccines being put forward to tackle coronavirus in the u.k. has come under increasing scrutiny the chief executive of one of the drugs firms behind it has admitted the job may not stop those who take it from spreading the

virus when asked directly by a us news channel. even though it's good that protection and most. of the people i think this is something that needs to be examined we are not certain about that right now 2 days ago it was the news we were all of waiting for it was described as a historic moment but now it seems like it's historic so all the wrong reasons the approval of course of the kind of it 1000 vaccination just a few days ago by the british medical regulated meant that as soon as next week the vaccine could be rolled out but now it's been proved almost too good to be true of course the united kingdom was celebrating being world beating well leading and now it seems as though it potentially is just a guinea pig in the science of all of it not because pfizer has come out to admit that actually while the job might be 95 percent effective against david 19 there is by no means any guarantee that it can prevent carrying the transmission of 19 as well now interestingly the e.u. regulator and the u.s.

top health officials have both come out say that the u.k. has entirely jumped the gun here it's been far too quick in its procedures because for their for their every settings they think that approval process is necessary to ensure safety and effective ety kind of a real around the corner of the marathon because. they really rushed. well there you heard from the top u.s. immunologist who has since apologized for slamming the u.k.'s too hastily obviously private tracking saying it was all a misunderstanding however the initial statement sparked some controversy and apparently put the director of the national institute of allergy and infectious diseases on the defensive but regardless 40000000 doses have been preordered by the united kingdom the 1st batch of 1st supply will head towards the united kingdom as soon as next week it could be around the figure of 400000 doses many immunization could start within the next few weeks now top of the list as those most vulnerable

of those over the age of 80 carry home residents and stop. and of course those n.h.s. workers on the front line however there were many people gossip casting doubt even right here within the united kingdom particularly over the logistics whether or not there may be a lag as soon as next week is just around the corner but also in terms of the distribution of the vaccine as well considering it needs to be stored in conditions of minus 70 degrees so those handling the vaccine argue that they need to be instructed exactly how to do so then of course there's the political narrative in all of this because the government has been criticized for many a failure throughout the $1000.00 pandemic from self-imposed targets and deadlines satin missed to really just handling the crisis in general now many people would argue that we really need to see these promises being delivered and at this point in time it's more of a case of more talk rather than action especially when we're hearing rhetoric like this from cabinet ministers i just reckon we've got the very best people in this

country and we've got the best medical regulators much better than the french better than the belgians have much better than the americans and that doesn't surprise me at all because we are much better country than every single one of that also so it did help but we've recruited far and using will in. the number of births in the u.k. must prove that we are in march worse come true than france and belgium not the us obviously what the facile boost that sort of thing you hear in the playground not from an m.p. on national radio world beating jingoism brit's got it 1st because of how badly they're doing and controlling covered 19 so exactly the opposite of what they're claiming to their government williamson saying that the united kingdom is well leading and is a much better nation than any other but at what is the question the public really have. we spoke to a clinical expert and a political analyst about whether a rushed approval is a rush approval. rushing through and cutting safety corners are 2 separate issues

so as long as no safety corners have been cut at the and patient people's health and well being have not been put at risk then getting it through rushed in and the words is not a wrong thing to do what we want to ask the question is we hope you have not cut any corners to put people's health and wellbeing at risk and i don't think so i have faith in the m h r a as an independent body to her work very hard to have rushed it but not cut health and safety concerns about giving that scene to otherwise fit and healthy people i don't think the m h r a have cut any safety concerns or safety corners and i don't think they would ever authorize a vaccine that was not safe so i would say to members of the public if it is authorized by a group presented to or torah t.v.

then please rest assured they would have gone through it terribly they might have rushed but that doesn't mean they cut corners or she struck those fast wraps this. on the basis that it for emergency situation or pandemic i think not such a barrier to brace for because we really have to sort of make any just make here. which is a fact so you can come on the proportion of the population normally what they mean with them and make use of the whole population use potentially reverse so i don't think this really qualify as surgery of astra but. to look at the that absent the great 30000 with a population of 6 you certainly. know where you might. people are all.

pretty good on t.v. so are it's good to read by the reaction we're going to be. thoughts are going to be big amounts of money to be made all right these producers were. going to say. libor should be rationed. really because most people don't actually need it. journalists from russia link to news outlets are released after questioning in latvia i am told they can't leave the country will tell you why and here reaction after this this is art international. seem wrong will just don't call. me. yet to see a palette these days become educated and in detroit because of the trail.

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come back czar t. international now employees of 2 russia affiliated news agencies have been released from interrogation on condition they don't leave lot via the journalist from ball to news and sputnik a lot via were charged with violating sanctions or mancow sort of has more. all we know at the moment is that they've been accused of violating personal european union sanctions against the c.e.o. of russia's a receipt a seaboard a news agency be tricky still for now russian foreign ministry they have already reacted to what's happening in riga and they said that latvia's crackdown on russian speaking journalists under the pretext of the violation of the use sanctions is absolutely unacceptable the foreign ministry also said that the e.u. restrictions are of a personal nature against mr kissel off and they cannot apply to just about

everyone who cooperates with the news outlets that are on there his managements and they consider the aggressive actions of the security service a blatant example of violating the foundations for democratic society which is freedom of media and expression it is a completely punitive action which leaves no doubt about the use of 4 big subtext of the fabricated accusations you would think a crackdown on dissent violation of the fundamental principles of freedom of speech were totally incompatible with the status of an enlightened european state but that's the case and that the complaint before so dissenting media is gaining momentum now the accused journalists and their colleagues certainly. outraged and mind you this is a criminal indictment against journalists and they're being persecuted for coal parading with a russian news outlets now that crackdown on the russian speaking latvian journalist. well it had all of the intimidating attributes and features and they

were there were searches in the homes and places of work there was confessed cations of personal property and equipment they were interrogated which lasted for hours one person was interviewed for 8 hours. after all of that was done the journalists were released but they were asked to. in latvia to leave the country and of course sign a non-disclosure agreement sputnik had a statement about this as well the allotment citizens are accused of violating the sanctions regime because of their work for the receipt of civil and news agency because it's a lot of money and dystonia the agency subject to the personal sanctions of the imposed on the agency's general director dmitri case of the if in $24.00 seen now russian mission and the sea they also expressed their concern they tweeted out saying this is another flagrant violation by rigo of the o.e.c.d.

commitments on freedom of speech and access to information persecution of russian speaking journalists in the baltic countries is not something new for example just the end of last year going into this year. there journalists were forced. to break their contract with the sputnik because this tony and police were threatening them with jail terms of up to 5 years so basically they were forced to resign and the police also cited these $24.00 you sanctions personally against mr however the outlets that we've been talking about today none of them have ever appeared on the sanctions list so that's what we have for now. there were some small protests in regards self against the charges we also heard from reaction from veteran journalist. state affiliated media.

are all over in the united states amuse rarely many other places what is the army radio newsreel what is the b.b.c. what is the voice of america if one starts treating journalists as ah the. media persons just because. their livelihood depends on the state. our reach person who owns the network that is unfair and journalists the world over should rise up against the question was question is why have they done this no and of course the war the question is is it legitimate to use sanctions as a means of preventing. views that you don't like and of course at the most extreme we saw with us in the former yugoslavia the building of the serbian national t.v.

station or the missiles that were used to take a 0. this is in kabul during the the afghan war. more than half a century after the us became the 1st nation to plant its flag on the moon china has planted and pictured its own during a mission to quite a lunar sample material and these are images of the cheney 5 spacecraft touching down shortly after it became began drilling and collecting rock and soil samples that will help scientists learn more about the origins of the moon the video was captured by an on board camera before leaving on thursday if its return is successful it will be the 1st samples brought back to earth since the soviet union's mission in 1906 showing 5 is expected to bump back down in inner mongolia later this month.

u.s. president elect joe biden has invited donald trump to his inauguration and claims it will send a positive signal that the post-election chaos is ending but it is unclear whether the millions who still think victory was stolen from from believe this move will heal the divisions. now. supporters are still coming out chanting stop the steel and citing multiple irregularities officials in the swing state of georgia though say a 2nd recount should confirm biden as the winner or to dunk order comments now how the dispute is affecting the reputation of the u.s. election. is only about a month left until the big transition of power in the white house and yet it looks like the battle for the presidency is not yet over 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 li lo nov 3rd elections if we are right about the fraud. joe biden can't be president trump is sticking to his guns still insisting he was cheated out of the election and calling on the supreme court to overturn the results his lawyers though have yet to prove their case and the justice department says the current administration is full of baloney so what is it that the trumpet ministration is making such a fuss about while in new york one u.s.p.s. driver claimed a trailer with thousands of ballots disappeared into thin air i knew it with return addresses filled out thousands of them while in wisconsin an ex postal worker even claimed his coworkers were ordered to backdate the ballots u.s.p.s. employees were ordered to backdate ballots that were received too late to be lawfully counted ballots in liveries in the middle of the night people filling in the blank ballots for by misplacing duplicate souther wisconsin poll workers claim

similar violations as well the justice department's also made up its mind about these claims we have not seen fraud on a scale that could have affected a different outcome in the election. the thing is though the d.o.j. won't say why what does raise the eyebrows of conservative officials all we're asking for is own where there is evidence of improper impropriety that you examine and we want the transparency we want to understand is investigation going on. what kind of investigation what are you looking for for years americans have been told evil russian meddling is undermining democracy and now that biden seems to have won the election there's not so much as a whisper on that front that the russians really just decide to sit out this very important election or perhaps the very system itself is at fault here 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 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 in tweedledum. trump is just expose the system from the right in created these fissures that have long existed. 33 and a half minutes that's when i will be back with another full and fresh look at your news this is arch international that.

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