to lose to blame patients doctors manufacturers. here on. the frontline in the fight against. mass vaccinations we visit a center that's ready to produce russia. meanwhile some parts of the u.k. revealed plans for even a. promise fears that getting a vaccination will become almost unavoidable. and the big fraud co-founder roger waters reveals why he thinks the recent us election would end in disappointment no matter what. it's been reelected it would have been worse for everyone in the world but that doesn't make a good candidate. from

moscow thanks for joining us tonight on our team's rational hawkins welcome to the program. moscow has become the 1st russian city to begin a mass vaccination program the sport was being made available free of charge front line workers including hospital and schools thoughtful be at the front of the queue for now it's not being given to anyone over 60 russia's daily infection rate has reached around 29000 cases the numbers have been steadily rising since september. visited a company that's preparing for mass production of the vaccine. we are the car company it's a fetus in the way i am a different scene is being fulfilled here but it's being caught this particular line of cases 6000 times but our sputnik the is a too short adenovirus based effects of exene the difference between sputnik v.

and some other international coded 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 representation therefore it's unable to infect or to 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 vs stored at minus 18 degrees c. and developers 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. i'm a teacher i think the vaccination is a great way to protect myself and most importantly my relatives my parents who are already 65 was also its pre-teen years because much of that your passion i was

initially examined by a doctor after he asked if i had any chronic diseases measured my blood pressure and looked at my electronic medical records and when i was allowed to undergo the procedure everything was fast thorsten i received a text saying that i can be one of the thirst for the vaccination i'm so glad and i trust the vaccine initiatives 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 works a nation is probably the only way now to put an end to the pandemic you leadership of all of the. russian scientists that was among the 1st to receive the job in moscow told us more about the vaccine and why he decided to get. 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 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 free skin ward in my case. the risk of having. the current wires. and implications

associated with that is so high that i was looking forward to getting this opportunity to get the full. or massive vaccinations are also about to start in the u.k. in wales there are also plans to issue special id cards for those getting the job the forms will lay in the vaccines produce the dates it was given and the batch number but also state when the 2nd job is needed and list god lines over potential side effects but the id plans all raising concerns of the job will be unavoidable the swaddle thought he's saying it won't be compulsory i'm very worried about the system of id cards to be given to those who have had coded 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 hear fishel overseeing the vaccine rolled out in england has admitted there could be pressure in society to have it questions have also been raised they were the shops and restaurants could stop serving people without a vaccine is it difficult or put the issue up for debate. we've had to carry to figure skoal but facts 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 but 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 125000 americans killed

and we did nothing we do always return immunity they're granted 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 that the good largest part is survivability 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 if i'm an agenda of enforcing the vaccine by virtue of you know not being able to enter a store not being able to fly 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 come out as a consumer aide memoire as it were to the fact that you go to get your 2nd that sedation that safin dividing line those goes off 'd so that what we jail 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 they're having 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 scene's on the side and i'm not an epidemiologist but the for. this one is does the vaccine actually give you a permanent immunity 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 if you look at the history of such uses of such terms as the common good in the greater good it 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 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 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. well the coronavirus a pandemic has certainly had a devastating impact on the wild so much so time magazine has now declared this year 2020 the worst yet ever saskia taylor has been assessing if that's really the case. 2020 not exactly a time traveler's topic yes it was challenging yes it was wet and yes it felt and less but according to time magazine 2020 blue other rotten years out of the park for a 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 to evolve that submitting the fumes while at least they put a positive spin on but 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 so 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 was. such that i mean this is just really the beginning of the end for hillary clinton's campaign. this was

a white against a changing 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 is 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 freeing homes and war zones the soldiers dreaming of a night in the own beds those few months of snow globe netflix and chill would just the wost want they will 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 does. and the un 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 way

worse things happened in 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 paul graham's the black death the holocaust atomic bombs famines genocide slavery and perhaps feeling just a little hard done by. washington is actively attempting to prevent iran from buying any coronavirus vaccines that's according to the chief of iran's central bank so far and in methods to make payment and transfer the required currency have faced obstacles to you to the inhumane sanctions of the u.s. government or to ron has been accusing washington of so-called medical terrorism since the start of the covert pandemic but the latest spot comes after tehran

became a member of kovacs a global collaboration led by the w.h.o. the works to secure vaccines around the world iran's finding its transactions though aren't going through because of u.s. sanctions let's get more on this now and speak to political scientist and author for a c.r.-v. thanks for joining us good to have you on the program today now a spokesman for the kovacs global vaccine program has said iran has actually received a exemption from the u.s. government specifically to procure vaccines at the covert vaccines among them what's the problem here than. the problem is that the u.s. at the same time is doing what they really can to undermine iran's ability to pool cue the necessity medical devices and in this case vaccines that are on the horizon and the case in point is prey sharing government osogbo. and not to unfreeze billions of dollars of the rainy and acid that iran

needs in order to purchase. you know millions of those is a vaccine so. it is an element of the park question on the part of the us and we've paid that many times reporting the past that says or there are no restrictions on iran's purchase of you know many possible pies and so forth and yet when we look at the behavior of 14 banks. around the high school to me by the u.s. as well as all the infinite number of restrictions that the u.s. has imposed on the so-called blue wall used items such as face masks and many calls to us and so on and so there are a lot of. tight restrictions that hamper that beneath the.

people to import medical as well as witness the cities to rerun so that is the gist of the problem today but washington a been quite clear hasn't that it's not out to harm the people of iran with the sanctions the sanctions are that to prevent iran developing. a nuclear weapon that's what washington is saying at least do you think that toxic has been working . i mean don't think that that watch is with anyone in the international community today and be fair that the various you are an official us as well as the human rights organizations that day and just and i might also say illegal u.s. sanctions have seriously how you know man's ability to combat this and then make as you know you don't use one of the a.p. centers. call me 19 in the region we don't want a 1000000 infected 50000 which is you know. 5 times the numbering iraq

and 10 times those of sodium arabia and the u.s. is that out. any use will your arms access to money and goods that's done everything possible he does with an ice or with $19.00 you wanted to undermine data and government therefore basically looking at it as an opportunity rather than a calm one challenge that needs to be tackled by the. international community and this has serious international implications and defy the game's quote me because by causing all of these restrictions and you know the days and shortages for vaccines in iran. and i'm creating that will what it will become by this disease just looking at the water picture here america's allies human rights groups as well across the world they've appealed to washington to lift the sanctions regime against the wrong doing the kind of

a pandemic at least are you surprised it hasn't done that. oh and you know i've written a book on trump on the iran subtitle from you know it's about confrontation and the us is the strategy of basically it's a regime change just that e.g. with so many guises the sanctions are primarily you know financial and trade in need but basically i think all aspects of the rain and economy have serious people effects on their sake and the u.s. just a couple of months ago i did another 18 evening in banks in sanctions list some of which are involved in the trade of food and medicine to iran so you show us is not it will be the quantum has and i mean money to non-consent boy iran will not take such drastic actions that directly affect their well being are millions of

iranians so i don't think that this argument that no we're not getting the meaning people only be in government you know it's many people critical argument that doesn't wash with this in the iranian duty promise to perceive how iran time get around not to solve the problem of getting a vaccine for obvious like so much for coming on good to have you on the program today i pledge. still to come asylum or a pipe dream finally restarts and a huge unknown stream project to supply russian gas to europe the move though provokes the anger of washington. after the break.

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welcome back legendary pink floyd co-founder roger waters has been putting the world to rights on the latest edition of art he's going underground among the targets in his sights was the recent us election you can watch the full interview on our website in the meantime though here's a quick preview. 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 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. 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. nobuko cushion or is no longer in the white house pretending to form foreign policy for the middle east. nothing but clear political aggression but so russia's foreign ministry the scribed us pressure over the north stream to gas pipeline project with europe any russian pipeline no matter where when or how 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 player 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 or despite washington's attempts to stop the project the construction of the pipeline restarted over the weekend and after bahrain granted permission for the work in a german waters off the baltic sea more through into is almost complete with 94 percent of the pipeline now built. it is close to completion that there's not much left to do and that is why i think the sanctions are a load of nonsense and i hope that i made with the election of the new us president biden i hope it will become better and that we won't have such sanctions for science next i think 1st and foremost it's an economic come to prize 2 states russia and germany committed to and the country should be allowed to act as they have agreed on i think the mantle especially by the us at the top or at present the us sanctions on north stream to include asset freezes transaction buy ins and visa restrictions however right before work restarted over the weekend the us congress

approved an expanded sanctions bill it targets insurance firms providing services the companies supplying equipment and all string to comes in addition to the already existing north stream pipeline which also runs through the baltic sea it was able to pump 55000000000 cubic meters of natural gas from russia to germany every year and then on to the rest of europe journalist thomas fassbender shared his thoughts on the project's future. 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 euro 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 his previous estimate 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 would load negatively load his relations to europe and not only germany at it at an early stage of his presidency. but what a mystery illness struck down a u.s. diplomat in cuba and china fever speculation in the media suggest that a new weapon was being wheeled in the wealth on our washington's release the report

into what's been dubbed have on a syndrome. some cia analysts who are russian experts diplomats and scientists contend that 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 had worked on weapons programs were present in the same cities at the same time that cia offices suffered a mysterious symptoms. of. domestic

u.s. politics come january and joe biden's inauguration we're back in 30 minutes with the latest headlines join us again then. well the pandemic no certainly no borders and a slide into nationalities. has

emerged with turkey we don't look like seeing the whole world feasting. to. judge a. commentary crisis like this mr until. we can do better we should be. everyone is contributing it's your own way but we also know that this crisis not go on forever the challenge is great the response has been masked so many good people are helping us. it makes us feel very proud that we're in it together. when i was so small seemed wrong but old boy just don't call. me old yet to shape out this day come to educate and gain strength because the trail.

when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. question u.s. dollar. where it is no longer the world reserve currency after a 100 year. hello and welcome across the considered on puter.