behind me. here if you think i'm coming up on the program we. should bring. some parts all bukhari would be a blog for. prompting fears that vaccination. will become. some sort of. salacious reply then it does become. a. sure we're. going to lose our civil liberties over this what are we really treating you when we speak to roger waters of legendary rock group thankfully he tells us why he

believes the result of the us election was always going to be disappointing. it would have been worse for everyone in the world. where we were tuning in from across the globe this hour welcome to our 2 international my names you know neal good to have you with us our top story. become the 1st russian city to begin a. nation program the country's sputnik is being made available to the public free of charge front line workers which includes hospital school stuff will be the 1st to get the facts although at 1st only those under the age of 60 will receive it . russia's daily infection rate has reached around $29000.00 cases the numbers have

been steadily rising since september so it is hoped the vaccine will slow the spread ortiz yuliya shop of all of a visit of a company that's readying itself for a mass production of the jobs. we are the 5 car company it's a fetus in every way i mean different famous being of told here if they caught this particular line for cases 6000 times but our sputnik the is a too short adenovirus based effects of x. seen the difference between sputnik v. and some other international code 19 vaccines is this vaccine is a human based one not an animal so what's a vaccine it's an engineered virus lacking the gene for production therefore it's unable to in fact what it does is serve as a vehicle for coronavirus proteins over 3 weeks a patient receives 2 different jobs to form antibodies and disease resistance before taking a coronavirus vaccination everyone is examined to make sure they're healthy but it

takes another 15 minutes to store the vaccine sputnik these stored at minus 18 degrees c. and developer say that's an advantage compared to other countries vaccines requiring significantly lower temperatures for storage after the injection doctors monitor you for 30 minutes before you're free to go to the bone. i think the vaccination is a great way to protect myself and most importantly my relatives my parents are already 65 was also it's free actually i was initially examined by a doctor he asked if i had any chronic diseases measured my blood pressure looked at my electronic medical record that i was allowed to undergo the procedure everything was fast course i received the text saying that i can be one of the 1st for the vaccination i'm so glad and i trust the vaccine in this matter to me oh yes i had doubts but i've made my decision and i'm here today the vaccine is now being supplied to all corners of the country at the same time the military is receiving sputnik v.t.

in russia the cove in $1000.00 job is voluntary and free of charge and even though some people still remain skeptical about the safety and efficiency of the vaccine most agree that large scale works a nation is probably the only way now to put an end to the pandemic you leadership of all of us are saying. that we speaking to a number of people including a russian saw interest who was among the 1st to receive a job in moscow he told us why he decided to get it. melissa answer was successful in developing the platform in the way i understand how it works is that once you have a platform to share with the antigen to. then changing the tab and egypt is not big deal and this is what a true this explains these high speed of development and actually to meet it as it is a fundamental scientists this is in. just a few who are long term investments into fundamental research and life science but

of course. if i had not have this access to the data from people actually participating in 2 3rd phase of clinical trials it would be more difficult to say all that convinced me personally to take the decision to have a shot now again for each individual frisk and ward in my case the risk of having. the current owners he sees and completions associated with that is so high that i was looking forward to having this opportunity to get the shot. it's about is the situation here in russia the u.k. is also about to start vaccinations and in wales there are plans to issue special id cards for those getting the job the personal immunization i.d.'s will have the name of the vaccine manufacturer the date it was given the number it will also be

used as a reminder of when to have the 2nd job with guidelines in case side effects occur however despite officials insisting that vaccinations won't be mandatory the id plans have made many people uncomfortable and very worried about the system of id cards to be given to those who have had covered vaccination wales one step away from mandatory vaccination. if wales doesn't plan to exclude unvaccinated from society why do they need id cards for those who took it i'm definitely no anti vaccine but something about the id cards wales plans on using is wrong people have free choice and shouldn't be pressured into doing anything to their bodies they don't want to you know a lot of questions seemingly still to be answered there the official overseeing the vaccine rollout in england has admitted that while it's not obligatory there could be societal pressure to have it we discuss the issue with a panel of guests. we've had to carry certificates call but fax nation things like

this you know paul sports before a certain diseases so that's not new but i do understand the issues about civil liberties and i think there's increasing concern around the world that the condemn make is being used as an excuse by some governments to increase the surveillance and to increase anti libertarian issues and of course once you take away civil liberties it's very difficult to get them 'd restored i think we've lost our collective minds with 'd respect to how viruses work in the united states we had 800000 deaths from just the flu 10 years ago with the swine flu it was one $125000.00 americans killed each and we did nothing we do always return immunity they're great at sometimes it's a natural process and this is how we all get vaccinated obviously front line provider should probably be vaccinated for the overly the people who are sick but this is survivable illness we keep forgetting that the likelihood of death is

incredibly low to the good largest part is survivability increasing the institutions and others will want to see some sort of proof that you have been immunized in awarded to enable you to do certain things then it does become an sublimate and trait that not just a a great concert there is going to be a significant proportion of the american population that is going to see it as an arbitrary imposition of a and of an agenda of enforcing the vaccine by virtue of you know not being able to enter a store not being able to fly not to being able to enter a drop location any number of activities could be proscribed but this could bring things to a head in this country i can't see any harm at the moment of having a certificate or a colored as a class or a. aide memoire as it were to the fact that you've got to get your seconds that

sensational or to have a record of the actual type of the antivirus that you've received it's a fitting dividing line those that where it goes off 'd so that what we do for those people who are have natural immunity for everyone that's been identified there are probably 3 or 4 that already had this virus infected had very minimal symptoms and there have anybody so they don't need a back seat so i understand that point but i think there are 2 big questions that have to be asked about all these that seems on the side and i'm not an epidemiologist but the 1st one is does the vaccine actually give you a permanent immunity or will you have to go 'd back and get further injections 2nd one of course is that it may actually give you personally immunity but does it actually stop being spread of the tautness to other people i think the jury's out on that in many of these these cases if you look at the history of such

uses of such terms as the common good in the greater good it's doesn't have a very good history let's face it this is usually the friendly fight face of totalitarianism but for the vulnerable where we already are doing what we need to do to protect them to keep them isolated and so trip on a vaccine that we don't know the side effects of and we don't know the long term effects the residual concatenation of facts that might occur because of this for a virus that has such a low mortality rate it seems to be quite an extreme measure is to cure worse that it just seems well if we're going to lose our civil liberties over this what are we really treating it americans and we all and the globe need to always push back sides always questions things this is not being a state that's religion this is science we always question. of a krone virus has certainly had

a devastating impact on the world and time magazine believes that 2020 was in fact the worst year ever but is not really the case r.t. saskia taylor has been taking a closer look. 2020 not exactly a time travelers topic yes it was challenging yes it was well it and yes it felt and less but according to time magazine 2020 blue there are often years out of the park for time it was the wost year. there have been worse here seen yes history and said new or serious new world history but most of us in large today have seen nothing like this one if 2020 were dystopian movie you'd probably turn it off after 20 minutes it even got the red cross of death on it you certainly 4 times before in the publications history when hitler died when the iraq war started and went to al qaeda needs as what killed

probably leaving 2020 asking how it found itself in such blood stained company trump lost an election and insisted he hadn't more gaslighting but at least we're having some success topping up devolve that submitting the fuse while at least they put a positive spin on but no if you're american you might think a contested election is the was thing out. to you i want to wind back to how people reacted when the star of the apprentice won the white house hillary clinton has called donald trump to concede the race i decided not to try out what you just say to me in my ear yes a.b.c. news is project oh boy it took florida for. such i mean this is just really the beginning of the end for hillary clinton's campaign. this was a white against a change in country it was a whitewash against a black president if this morning you finally woke up from a coma well you might want to go back to the. me.

so with a meltdown mode for an election is one reason 2020 made time i would say. it's a tie with 2016 although of course the magazine couldn't pass up the is public enemy number one the coronavirus does not positive spin here pandemics take lives and change others for coverage 19 is no exception but it's also not unique the spanish flu took 50000000 lives to buc ulos has killed 1400000 last year alone humanity has weathered these kinds of storms before and on much more lethal scales but for a time it wasn't just about the the malicious mutating virus so no helplessness met its evil twin a partner in crime that would only magnify its mad power isolation that began in march the onset of a period in which most of us felt incased in the globes looking out at the world

that seem to be falling apart never mind the people fleeing their homes in war zones the soldiers dreaming of a night in the own beds those few months of snow globe netflix and chill with just the wost want they are the homes and malibu budding against which the 2004 tsunami of the haiti earthquake just pale in comparison apparently because just like the humanitarian disaster in yemen starving children eating dirt. and young rivaling slave trade in libya this all happened very far away from time snowglobe and that's not gone unnoticed by some of those people trapped in the own lonely little boy. worst cover ever. honestly guys i think you should open your history books where you worse things happened and even recent history without forgetting some countries where life is hell every day of their existence not just a couple of years it's funny how this generation think sitting at home watching

netflix is the worst year ever 2020 is probably flipping through the history books spanning wild wars civil wars pogroms the black death the holocaust atomic bombs famines genocide slavery i'm perhaps feeling just a little hard done by. the co-founder of rock band pink floyd roger waters is the latest guest on ortiz going underground he sure has his views on the chances of joe biden pardoning whistleblower julian a surge and whether he'll scrap dollar trump so-called deal of the century for the middle east the full interview will be heard here throughout the day for now here's a snippet. if trump had been re-elected it would have been worse for everyone in the world but that doesn't make biden a good candidate biden is a dyed in the wool were among grading servant of the oligarchy that rules the united states american will continue to be so for however long he remains president

of the united states he's not to be trusted on anything do you think joe biden is going to move the american embassy back to tell the v.a. are you kidding he's made it quite clear that he's the staunchest zionist friend of . of israel that could possibly be in office so he i hope that he and kids start a happy sleeping in that caught that they're going to share for the next few years kiss our as a term of 8 or of them having any power under any circumstances because they are clearly not clear thinkers they clearly don't believe in human rights they clearly have no interest in the law to have no interest in the united nations they have no interest in the geneva conventions they have no interest in any of the things that in near to my heart and to your heart should have been completely impartial you have campaigned for upholding of un security council resolution resolutions all

your life you don't expect biden to reverse the trump position on the golan heights the illegal declaration by the united states is going to oppose the un security council resolution making out that it was israeli now of course not i don't expect him to. reverse any of that nonsense i expect him to absolute they abide by the deal of the century obviously i'm pretty happy that skinny piece of. no. cushion or is no longer in the white house pretending to form foreign policy for the middle east. a case that has spanned multiple countries on years russian national alexander vinokourov been sentenced to a 5 year deal term in france and fined 100000 euro and he was originally arrested on a u.s. warrant in greece 3 years ago over suspected cyber crimes however his time and

attention has been marred by claims of rights violations 'd and his case becoming politicized artie's from on cost rev picks up the story. now in france alexander vinick was indicted on charges of extortion money laundering and conspiracy it's hard to say whether he will spend the entire 5 year term behind bars in france because the united states also demand his extradition to their soil where he is accused of $4000000000.00 worth of money laundering in bitcoin cryptocurrency now the next french laura maintains that his client is completely innocent and the evidence against him is weak let's take a listen if you don't it's important to mention that a number of charges were dropped he was originally facing 14 the course it based its decision on some of the things that had been found on his computer it's a tough verdict he was sentenced to 5 years on the basis of things that cannot be proven false things sent by the americans via your apology we will definitely

appeal this verdict when it was originally detained in the summer of 2017 while he was on vacation in greece with his family now that was done on request from the united states now following computer requests from the united states from france and from russia where he is also accused of fraud the greek or its decided in favor of extradition to the united states however a russian foreign ministry at that time said that the decision by the greek order violates international law and then greece decided to extradite the man to friends not his lawyer that science said that then it denies all allegations against him and at the time he spent 80 days on or hunger strike now i interviewed to vex wife on a couple of occasions so once in russia once in greece where he was detained and he said that this entire ordeal took a toll on his health and hers as well. our life will never be the same again and the moment he was snatched away that very 2nd everything changed i will never leave

like we used to i'm here being treated that he's there on hunger strike but our children are the. just a fact and they're waiting but they don't know what the future holds which one of us will come back and when it's hard for them to handle this they're young and don't fully understand everything that's going on then excel wife said also on multiple occasions that the united states won her husband for his 2nd call knowledge and not for the crimes that he allegedly committed meanwhile it's still not clear whether minnick will spend the entire 5 years behind bars in france as he is wanted by the united states as well. the russian foreign ministry has accused the u.s. of political aggression over motoring pressure in the north stream to blood here's what spokeswoman maria's or. any russian pipeline no matter where when it was constructed a what documents legitimized it has provoked

a single reaction from the us for decades political aggression and illegal counter work i would like to tell washington you can just break the rules if you want to be a responsible play in the international economic community you have to abide by the rules you know he said that condoleezza rice in the context of russian guess america's own words have quote out with it the spine it's all the american to terms to stop the project construction of the pipeline actually restarted over the weekend permission for work in the german waters of the baltic sea was obtained from the german federal office for shipping and hydrography and it means nord stream to is almost finished with the pipeline 94 percent ready. it is close to completion there's not much left to do and that is why i think the sanctions are a load of nonsense and i hope that maybe with the election of the new us president biden i hope it will become better and that we won't have such sanctions for sasnett i think 1st and foremost it's an economic come to prize the 2 states russia

and germany committed to and the country should be allowed to act as they have agreed on i think the modeling especially by the us is over the top. well our present us sanctions on north stream to include asset freezes and 'd transactions and also visa restrictions however right before work restarted last weekend the us congress approved a bill that includes expanded sanctions against the pipeline they range from measures against companies providing insurance to firms that provide the equipment the north stream to is extension of the already existing nord stream pipeline which also goes through the baltic sea no it will be able to pump 55000000000 cubic meters of natural gas from russia to germany every year from where it will continue on to other european nations so what about its future where we got the fuse of journalist thomas fassbender on the. as we see today both sides the

germans the russians and also the european union they are basically committed to finish this project now it's 94 percent complete it would be simply so silly to. dump almost 10000000000 euros in the in the baltic sea for nothing but of course the u.s. also already has u.s. administration. continues to or pressure approach to pressure the participants pressure the government's own wisdom by any it's a very difficult choice the new american president will have to follow if we follow the old policy of office precess and donald trump going against the project i think very much the opposition to or north stream to is not a pet project of donald trump but it is deeply embedded in the geopolitics of the

u.s. foreign policy establishment on the other side joe biden by really interrupting really boycotting prohibiting that project would load negatively load his relations to europe or not only germany at a at an early stage of his presidency. the u.s. state department has the side of the russians living on the corail islands are in fact japanese that's according to new rules for its green card lottery and moscow is not in the. do you need any more proof that the us is a revisionist state according to the 945 decision the crew islands belong to the u.s.s.r. today the us state department questions the outcome of world war 2 inspiring russia is furious it says the cruel as its territory as it says the islands back in 1905 or rather the soviet troops but talk it disagrees and has even prevented the 2

nations from signing a peace deal to formally end the war hostilities so the territorial dispute goes on for 75 years but it seems it's ok for washington they have no questions this is what the official instruction for green corridor lottery also known as diversity visa says persons born in the humble my islands she could can assure ian at a row who are charitable to japan persons born in southern somalia are chargeable to russia that's especially ironic given that most of the japanese citizens were repatriated from these territories after the end of the 2nd world war and today the island is home to around $20000.00 russians what role if any does america have to play in this well washington has nothing to do with this dispute but it supports japan and there is a long running problem interesting is that how in the 1st place back in 1945 the soviet union decided to join the operation against japan it signed

a deal with the u.s. and the u.k. that in exchange for sending soviet troops there it will get the colonel's silence so this is the story and here's a short clip for our viewers to better understand the issue. well decades of negotiations are behind and it seems that standoff is still there but there is also hope shortly after taking office in september

a newly elected japanese prime minister discussed the disputed islands over the phone with russia's president vladimir putin after that we heard ian repeatedly saying that he hopes to finally find a solution and finally sign a peace deal. earl rosen is and is the executive vice president of the eurasia center he says the u.s. is trying to disrupt talks between moscow and tokyo. i think what we're seeing here is the u.s. . interfering or basically. injecting itself into foreign policy that is going into foreign discussions that are going on between japan and russia in a way they're disrupting the ongoing negotiations i mean i'm sure that if you ask the people that live there what citizen they are from i understand there's a huge percentage of ethnic ukrainians and ethnic russians that live there and i'm

sure they would say russia. regardless of what the united states says you know i find it difficult that any country can decide what citizenship some other country's citizens are but that is this seems to be the case that situated right now and i think the greater the greater objective here is to disrupt negotiations that are on underway. the united states has released the report on the possible causes of so-called haasan a syndrome that's the mystery illness suffered by u.s. diplomats in cuba and china although the report didn't say who was responsible and media were quick to point fingers.

2 some cia analysts experts diplomats and scientists contend good evidence points to moscow which has a long history of experimenting with the technology a source. told n.b.c. news the cia had determined that some russian intelligence agencies. weapons programs were present in the same cities at the same time that suffered a mysterious symptoms.

but we keep the updates coming all day and old i too hope you'll give us some of your time again soon this is r.t. . thank. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guest in the world of politics. i'm sure. i'll see you then.