team is here in. the front line in the fight against. mass vaccinations we. need to produce russia's new job meanwhile as some parts of the u.k. reveal plans for id cards from getting a vaccination will become almost unavoidable. and the pink floyd co-founder roger waters reveals why he thinks the recent u.s. election would. retain the winner if it's been reelected it would have been worse for everyone in the world but that doesn't make a good candidate.

from. here in the russian capital thanks for joining us and i'm daniel. a moscow has become the 1st russian city to begin a mass vaccination program the sputnik being made available free of charge front line workers including hospital and school staff will be at the front of the queue so 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 5 car companies a fetus in every remind me of a scene is being told here that if they hide this particular line for jay says 6000 souls but our sputnik the is a too short adenovirus based vex a vaccine 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 vector 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 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. 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 blots 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 that said 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 covert $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 you leadership of all of us are saying. the russians saw others through was among the 1st to receive a job in moscow 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 scientist this is in. just a few patients who are long term investments into fundamental research in life sciences but of course. if i had not have this access to the data from people actually participating in to in the 3rd phase of clinical trials it would be more difficult to save all that convinced me personally to take the decision to have a shot now again for each individual it's a way to free skin ward in my case. the risk of having. the occur in the wires he sees and implications associated with that is so high that

i was looking forward to getting this opportunity to get the show. on mass vaccinations are also about to start in the u.k. though in a whale is there also proud of the issue special id cards for those getting a job performs well leymah vaccines produce or the date it was given the batch number it also states when the 2nd job is needed unless the guidelines over potential side effects but the idea plans all raising concerns the job will be unavoidable the spot with already saying it won't be compulsory and very worried about the system of id cards to be given to those who have had kovacs and 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 of the official overseeing the vaccine that england has admitted there

could be pressure in society to have it questions of always been raised over whether shops and restaurants could stop serving people without a vaccine certificate and put the issue up for debate. we've had to carry such a figure at school but facts ation things like this you know the whole 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 a key 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 18000 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 frontline provider should probably be vaccinated the only the people who are sick but this was survivable illness we keep forgetting that the likelihood of death is incredibly low to 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 interest or 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've got to get your 2nd that some nation that safin dividing line those and 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 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 thoughtless 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 the 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 in 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 has certainly had a devastating impact on the wild so much so time magazine is now declared 2020 the worst yet ever has been assessing if that's the case. 2020 not exactly a time traveler's topic yes it was challenging yes it was well yes it felt and less but according to time magazine 2020 blue other rotten years out of the park for time it was the wost year. there have been worse here she knew us history and said new words here is 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 were killed probably leaving 2020 asking how it found itself in such bloodstained company trump lost an election and insisted he hadn't more gas lighting but at least we're having some success topping up the vote of 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 worst thing out. to you i want to wind back to how people reacted when the star of the apprentice won the white house 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 cools 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 buckelew says 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 malicious mutating virus so no helplessness met its evil twin a partner in crime there would only magnify it's met power isolation that began in march the onset of a period in which most of us felt incased you know no nice the globe's looking out at a world that seemed to be falling apart never mind the people fleeing bad homes and war zones all the soldiers dreaming over night in their own beds those few months of snow globe netflix and chill would just the wost want they as well 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 in magic dust 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 that own lonely little boy. worst cover ever honestly guys i think you should open your history books way 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 and perhaps feeling just a little hard done by legendary pink floyd co-founder roger waters has been putting the world to rights on the latest edition of what is going on the ground among the targets in his sights was the recent us election and watch the full interview on

our web site here's a quick preview. 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 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. longer in the white house pretending

to form foreign policy for the middle east. still to come this hour more fun a pipe dream work every stall something huge north stream project to supply russian gas to europe the move provokes the anger of washington story and more to the break . join me every thursday on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to us from the world of politics sports business i'm showbusiness i'll see you then. is your media a reflection of reality. in

a world transformed. what will make you feel safe. isolation community. are you going the right way or are you being led. by. what is true what is faith. in the world corrupted you need to descend. to join us in the depths. maybe in the shallowness. the you and us are refusing to recognize the weekend's parliamentary election in venezuela with the opposition refusing to take part the majority of the votes went to party supporting current president nicolas maduro did result. represent

a relative in israel and people that opinion polls under it is rare enough that it is the leaders to approach it it does seem to people and to really come together to start the. process. and we are ready to support such a process. despite the fact that they have announced more persecution against as against the people of venezuela against makers and against illegitimate national assembly as the president and judge say we will continue here together with you. this farce was nothing more than an attempt to install a complicit puppet national assembly beholden only to madeira while destroying the country's only remaining democratic institution truly representative of the venezuelan people and as well as national assembly was seen as the opposition's last legislative stronghold it's been led by the us backed one who declared himself

interim president last year we're following this election where there are there's actually consolidated power which he claims was through democratic means. we have complied with the constitution that we have complied with this constitution 5 years later i have to say we have a new national assembly the product of a popular vote the people have elected their new law make use of and we have had a tremendous and gigantic electoral victory. washington rejects the legitimacy of the current venezuelan government and demands fair and democratic elections and while one goto has been recognized by many foreign policy as the interim president he's so far struggled to gain significant political traction with the country. let's get reaction to this now speak 200 king ph d. candidate in public policy thanks for joining us on the program today with this result the opposition refusing to take part do you think this election was not

legitimate as both e.u. and us are saying. the ridiculous. this accusation was just to be expect the st louis to be able to see coming from the ministration which is in the middle of the new power grab including. of its own here in the united states really this it's been the most. presidential administration mononucleosis 3 in trouble. right now using the american political in trying to circumvent the. this is a pretty busy lives lost the popular twice now in his still lost the election. of course he is continually the hardest. and is trying to legitimize the sovereignty of the people. do you think the

president is going to care what reaction he's getting from the us and europe i mean what further measures could be taken. right i mean who are all knows what this game is you know. the united states is. criminal and sanctions are the last 3 administrations against this country which is really compromise. government's ability to cope with a deadly coronavirus pinned down like. and you know it and it is that the democrats have been sadly in complicit the democrats in this country the neo liberal democrats every chance they can and they want to point a finger at trump as the enemy a democracy but they're complicit with these accusations of war of when it's a foreign nation it's stronger than the terminations yet now they're getting a taste of their of their own medicine here and. as the you know the frankenstein

which the us ruling classes create is now really in wielding this acquisition acquisition of a legend. you know against the election results here in home so we're seeing this. this to all of us who is coming home to roost as it were here in the united states but go i don't know has been recognised as interim president by quite a lot of foreign powers a lot of countries but he hasn't really gained traction as a political force as a real political power in venezuela itself why do you think that's the case. that's correct because you know i think the people in the democratic majority in venezuela and reverence recognize one bill for what the years into the puppet of the washington consensus of us imperialism in us germany and they've continued to show time and again in the face of a relentless protracted. they will support the socialist government in oppose

the squabbling those in the upper class elites in venezuela who are a tool of the ironman in washington in 21st century socialism appears to live inland america look at bolivia look at you know chile and peru and so many countries rising up against the you know the neo liberal establishment in bed as well of course on the job as they did in seeds that are now continuing to read the years of economic crisis and hardship sanctions. what it is going to come next with what the incoming u.s. ministration joe biden big sworn in do you think anything's going to change between the 2 countries this is a great question you know i don't fortunately it won't right because because again this. the war against the venezuelan people has been bipartisan foreign policy establishment is bipartisan the pentagon in the you know the aggression against

indian peerless nations boards only the other democrats are more hawkish even than republik influence on foreign policy issues in the i think the sanctions will not change and when you know massive and ruthless people. you know say hands on minutes later and recognize there are elections. thanks so much for talking with the program had a great to have your thanks so much. nothing but clear political aggression and that's how russia's foreign ministry at least the scrub 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 condon easy rice in the context of russian guess america's own words have caught out with it despite washington's attempts to stop the project construction of the pipeline restart over the weekend or so after berlin granted permission for the work in the german waters of the baltic sea north stream to is almost complete with 94 percent of the pipe now built 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 i made the elections the new us president biden i hope it will become better and that we won't have such sanctions for samson it's certainly i think 1st and foremost it's an economic come to prize the 2 states russia and germany committed to and the country bartlett's should be allowed to act as they have agreed on i think the mandolin especially by the us is over the top. well at present u.s. sanctions and north stream to include asset freezes transaction bans and visa

restrictions however right before work restarted over the weekend the us congress approved an expanded sanctions bill that targets insurance firms providing services the companies supplying equipment more stream to comes in addition to the already existing north stream pipeline which also runs through the baltic sea it will be able to pump 55000000000 cubic meters of natural gas from russia to germany every year and then on to the rest of europe after that as 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 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 an it's a very difficult choice the new american president will have to follow it really 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. what a mystery illness struck down u.s. diplomats in cuba and china fevered speculation in the media suggesting

a new weapon was being wheeled in the well while our washington is released the report into what's been dubbed have a syndrome. 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 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. the documentary travels to one of the world's most resource rich countries and civil strife of the population and policy despite the country's natural resources join us again in 30 minutes. important question u.s. dollar as the world reserve currency are we on the threshold of an era where it is

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