but every single day. history of the usa america. behind me. here in thing coming up on the program we visit a tennis center that's ready to. moscow begins a. program in some parts of the u.k. revealed plans for. cards prompting fears that getting a vaccination although not so. we get reaction. to some sort of good summation this report then he does become subliminally. sure. our civil liberties over this what are we really you know we speak to roger waters the co-founder of legendary rock group pink floyd he tells us why he

believes the result of the u.s. election was always going to be disappointing. if it's been reelected it would have been worse for everyone in the world but that doesn't make a good candidate. around the clock across the world this is your r.t. international my name is you know neil in 30 minutes of news and views. become the 1st russian city to begin a must vaccination program the country sputnik the job is being made available to the public free of charge front line workers switching to hospitals schools will 'd be the 1st to get the vaccine although it 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 uli a shop of olive a visit to a company that's readying test for mass production. we are at the fire because company is a fetus in every way i am a different scene is being told here that it's being hot this particular line for jay says 6000 souls but our sputnik the is a 2 short adenovirus based backs of exene 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 to different jobs to form antibodies and disease resistance before taking a coronavirus oxidation 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 that ceilings requiring significantly lower temperatures for storage after the injection doctors monitor you for 30 minutes before you're free to go to the pond no but i'm a teacher i think the vaccination is a great way to protect myself and most importantly my relatives my parents are already $65.00 was also it's much on the bush i was initially examined by a doctor he asked if i had any chronic diseases measured my blood pressure and looked at my electronic medical record that i was allowed to undergo the procedure everything was fast or so 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 the shadows don't you 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 co the $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 explanation is probably the only way now to put an end to the pandemic. we spoke to a russian scientist who was among the 1st to receive the job here in moscow he told us more about the vaccine and 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 isn't. just a few who are long term investments into fundamental research in life science but of course. if i had not have this access to the data from people actually

participating in 2 3rd phase of 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. risk and reward 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 this from. the u.k. meanwhile is also about to start mass vaccinations and wheels 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 of the data was given on the bottom or will also be used as a reminder of when the 2nd job with guidelines in place of side effects occur or

for the spot officials insisting that vaccinations will be mandatory they. made many people comfortable and very worried about the system of id cards to be given to those who have had covered vaccination whales 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. the official overseeing of vaccine rollout in england has admitted that while it's not obligatory there could be societal 'd pressure to have a questions also being raised where shops restaurants etc could take it upon themselves to stop serving people without the certificate or we discussed the issue with a puddle of gas. we've had to carry certificates school but fax nation things like

this you know paul sport so 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 restored i think we've lost our collective minds with respect to how viruses work in the united states we had 80000 deaths from just the flu 10 years ago with the swine flu it was 120 $5000.00 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 frontline 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 order 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 prescribed 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 consumer. 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 where it goes off 'd so that what we do for those people who already 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 scenes 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 the 2nd one of course is that it may actually give you personally immunity but does it actually stop being spread of the thoughtless 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 front 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 the fact that my occur because of this for a virus that has such a low mortality rate it seems to be quite an extreme measure is the cure worse that it just seems well if we're going to lose our civil liberties over this what are we really treating and 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 the science we always question. one way and many others the corona virus has certainly had a devastating impact on the world on time magazine believes that 2020 was in fact

the worst year ever but is that really the case r.t. southgate taylor's been ticking at 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 sheen 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 and 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 delivery 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 writes. this 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 over 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 perfect 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 bad homes and 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 biting 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 the unraveling 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 is the latest guest on ortiz going on the ground among many subjects touched upon we got roger waters as the president elect of the united states the full interview will be heard here throughout the day for no here's a snippet. dave 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 grating 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 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. 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 revolution 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 into

opposing 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 film foreign policy for the middle east. still to come this hour we look into the latest on the nord stream to gas pipeline is calling out of the u.s. for months political pressure against the project and more after the shortest.

join me every thursday on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. the world is driven by a dream shaped by. the day or thinks. we dare to ask. joe biden be inaugurated in january of next year however will you believe man will

the next campaign start when the next president takes office and the new liberal order is headed back to. their original. 19 minutes into the program welcome back in a case that spawn multiple countries and indeed years russian national alexander vinick has been sentenced to a 5 year jail term in france and fund 100000 euro 'd he was originally arrested on a us warranting greece 3 years ago over suspected cyber crimes however his time in detention has been marred by claims of rights violations and his case becoming politicized artie's from on 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. alexander vinick swank's passed away on the 11th of november and to sentence him to day to 5 years in prison means that his 2 children will essentially be orphans who will not get to see that that for at least a few more years these are young children who have just got to the father is not near 0 because of documents which we don't have the originals or copies and the french judiciary system doesn't have the originals either. 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 they decision by the greek order violates international law and then greece decided to extradite the man to friends now his lawyer that science said that then it denies all allegations against him and that he spent 80 days on or hunger strike now i interviewed the next 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. that our life will never be the same again at once 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 studies there on hunger strike when our children are the worst affected they're waiting but they don't know where the future how 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 vinick will spend the entire 5 years behind bars in france as say he is wanted by the united states as well. the russian foreign ministry has accused the u.s. of political aggression over mounting pressure on the nord stream to put here's what spokeswoman ria so horrible to say 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 list well it's all the american attempts to stop the project i write construction of the popular actually restarted over the weekend permission for work in the german waters of the baltic sea it was obtained from the german federal office for shipping and hydrography and that means from the word 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 on transactions and

also visa restrictions a 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 an extension of the already existing nord stream pipeline which also goes through the baltic sea it will be able to pump 50 $5000000000.00 of cubic meters natural gas from russia to germany every year from then it will go on to other european nations so what about its future we got the views 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 baltic sea for nothing but of course

the u.s. also already has u.s. administration. continues to or pressure approaches to pressure the puck just happens pressure the government's own wisdom by an it's a very difficult choice the new american president will have to follow it will be follow the old policy of his feet he says and on the truck 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 what lho would negatively load his relations to europe or not only to germany and it at an early stage of his presidency. of the u.k.

to a story that got quite a few people talking of late the united states has released a report on the possible causes of so-called hum valas sitting room and mystery illness suffered by u.s. diplomats in cuba and china alone the report didn't say who was responsible the media were quick to point fingers. at the god. the thank god today. 2 some cia analysts who are russian experts diplomats and scientists contend good evidence points to moscow which has

a long history of experimenting with the technology a source familiar with them told n.b.c. news the cia had determined that some russian intelligence agency did look weapons programs were present in the same cities at the same time that cia offices suffered a mysterious symptoms. well we are just moments away from more great programs getting there start find out what is being shown on your part of the globe after the short break so i'm going to nail this is our interest.

well the pandemic no certainly no borders and is blind to nationalities. as americans we don't observe the we don't look like seeing the whole world peace to be. people. judging. coming every crisis. we can do better we should. everyone is contributing each or own way but we also know that this crisis go on forever the challenges create the response has been masked so many good people are helping us. it makes us feel very proud that we are in it together.

yes there is a saying. look there won't be cheap. and then we went to all the countries let's idea the right to go to a country that he said if we give them everything to do the best. thing to. this country. this is what we don't understand how we are in such i'm calm. this until the ones at the same time. you know. the soon to run out for the similar. one legacy because if you feel if the minutes of on board not that god can we believe again in the world with the fall of the cup the trip with the plane. would come back to the place story you

have to see. the best. if you move. to. hello and welcome to cross talk you're all things are considered i'm hearing about joe biden may indeed be inaugurated in january of next year however well you have a legitimate mandate will the next campaign start when the next.