here in. the front line in the fight against. visitor center that's. russia's. the u.k. revealed plans for id cards. most unavoidable. floyd co-founder roger waters reveals why he thinks the u.s. election and disappointments no matter who won it's been reelected it would have been worse for everyone in the world but that doesn't make good candidate.

from moscow thanks for joining us here on our team. welcome to the program. and moscow has become the 1st russian city to begin a mass of. program. being available free of charge front line workers including hospital and school staff will be up front of the queue for now it's not be given to anyone over 60 years of age or russia's daily infection rate has reached around $29000.00 cases. september. visited a company that's preparing for mass production of the vaccine. we are the 5 car companies a fetus in every way i am a different scene as being of told here that if being caught this particular line for jay says $6000.00 but our sputnik the is a too short adenovirus based effects of x. seen 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 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. 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 also it is measured in years because i'm actually your position 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 on my everything or thrust course i received a text saying that i can be one of the 1st of all the vaccination i'm so led and i trust that senior ministers don't leave 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 of the 2 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 work summation is probably the only way now to put an end to the pandemic. assy. were often cited as there was among the 1st to receive a job in moscow told us war 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 carry 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 to in the 3rd phase of clinical trials it would be more difficult to save all that convinced me personally to take decisions have a shot now again for each individual it's the weight of risk and reward in my case the risk of having. the kernel wires disease and completions associated with that is so high that i was looking forward to having this

opportunity to to get the show on mass 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 performance will name the vaccines provider the date it was given and the batch number and also state when the 2nd job is needed and list god lines over potential side effects but the id plans are raising concerns the job will be unavoidable despite of ortiz saying it would be compulsory 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 see the official overseeing the vaccine rollout in england has admitted there could be pressure in society to go questions have also been raised there were the shops and restaurants could stop serving people without the vaccine certificate put the issue up for debate. we've had to carry such a fake scroll 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 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 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 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 colored as a class or an aide memoire as it would to the fact that you've got to get your 2nd that sedation it's a fin dividing line those that 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 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 full. 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 front 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 and 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 the coronavirus has certainly had a devastating impact on the wild so much so time magazine has now declared 2020 the worst yet ever. has been assessing if that's really 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 blew. out of the park for a time it was the wost year. there have been worse here sheen yes 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 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 talking 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 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 freeing better homes and war zones all the soldiers dreaming over night in their own beds those few months of snow globe netflix and chill with just the wildest why aren't 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 our 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 art is going underground among the

targets in his sights was the recent us election you can watch the full interview on our website is 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 of 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 has to look out either 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 i'm completely impartial you have campaigned for upholding of u.n. 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 of the 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 2 per. hour is no longer in the

white house pretending to form foreign policy for the middle east. nothing but clear political aggression that's all russia's foreign ministry has been describing u.s. pressure over the north stream to gas pipeline projects 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. despite washington's attempts to stop the project construction of the pipeline resumed over the weekend that's after but only granted permission for the work in the german waters of the baltic sea nord

stream to is almost complete now with 94 percent of the pipeline completely built. it is close to completion that is yet mightily 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 sounds next certainly i think 1st and foremost it's an economic come to the states russia and germany committed to and the country bartulis should be allowed to act as they have with 3 dawn i think demand like us especially by the us at the top. presents us sanctions on north stream to include asset freezes transaction buy ins and visa restrictions who have a right before work restarted over the weekend the us congress approved an expanded sanctions bill it targets insurance firms providing services the companies supplying key equipment and or stream to becomes bishan 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 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 discipline's version of the governments but mr biden it's a very difficult choice the new american president will have to follow it really follow the old policy of 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 but not only germany at it at an early stage of his presidency. a suspected russian hacker who's been at the center of an international tug of war has now been handed a 5 year jail sentence in france and xander vinick was originally arrested on the u.s. more aunt in greece 3 years ago this case has seen claims of being politicized and rights violations or a lot of positive has that entailed. 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 have an expression or a 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 today to 5 years in prison means that his 2 children will essentially be orphans who will not get to see their dad for at least a few more years he's a young children who are just gutted that the father is not near because of documents which we don't have the originals or copies and the french judiciary system doesn't have the originals either don't know since you know 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 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 now 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 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. our life will never be the same again the moment he was snatched away that very 2nd everything changed we'll never leave like we used to. i'm here being treated he's there on hunger strike but our children are the worst affected 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. u.s. i knew you are refusing to recognize the weekend's follow and free election in venezuela with the opposition refusing to take part the majority of the vote supporting current president nicolas maduro the result doesn't represent the will of the venezuelan people that opinion goes under it is rare enough that it is the leaders to pray that it does seem to the people and to really come together to

start a. transitional process. and we are ready to support such a process the episode of the good old me despite the fact that they have announced more persecution against us against the people of venezuela against its slow makers and against illegitimate national assembly as the president and judge say we will continue here together with. this force was nothing more than an attempt to install a complicit puppet national assembly beholden only to the dura 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 u.s. backed one who declared himself interim president last year following his election then we'll do a as essentially consolidated power which she claims was through democratic means. believe that 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 lawmakers and we have had a tremendous and gigantic electoral victory motions and rejects those years mostly of the current one is white and government and the violence fair and democratic elections and while colorado has been recognized by many foreign powers as interim president so far struggle to gain significant political traction within the country but the view of a ph d. candidate in public policy and. i think there's a ridiculous charge and. this accusation was just to be expected it is of course the same is it in the of of privacy coming from the drug ministration which is in the middle of the nuclear power grab in the war against the venezuelan people has been 5 hottest foreign policy establishment is bipartisan the pentagon budget in

the unit the aggression against imperialist nations so i'm forced to lead the other democrats are more hawkish even than republican influence on foreign policy issues in the i think the sanctions will not change and so i mean you know massive in ruthless people's movie. you know city hands on than it's worth and recognize there are elections that people in the democratic majority in venezuela support the socialist government in oppose this while it was in the upper class elites in venezuela who are a tool of the i.m.f. in washington the. focus look at some other news making headlines space x.'s new generation and next generation a cargo ship was successfully launched from florida it's on a supply run to the international space station taking with it almost 3 tons of essential. drenching rain is cause for the flooding in northern italy where the

proud river has burst its banks rescuers have taken to doing these to help evacuate people from affected areas. a word in the russian city of rostov has led to an impromptu pyrotechnical display fireworks were being stored at the site some $300.00 firefighters battled the blaze there are no reports of any injuries. i want a mysterious illness struck down u.s. diplomats in cuba and china fevered speculation in the media suggest that a new weapon was being wielded in the world war now washington's released a report into what's been dubbed haven't a syndrome. some

cia analysts when russia experts diplomats and scientists contend good evidence points to moscow which has a long history of experimenting with the technology a source familiar with the 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 cia offices suffered a mysterious symptoms.

and this episode of the cause a reporter michael stacy look at the chasm between the positive innovations and developments in the world and reforms whenever a bleak outlook on so population we're backing off with a light inside lines to join us again then. thank. you. join me every thursday on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to guest on the world of politics sport that's less i'm show business i'll see you then. joe biden be inaugurated in january of next year will you have

a legitimate linux campaign starts when the next president takes office and the new liberal is going to be going to be marriage and. problem drugs has come from unscrupulous dealers from pharmacies to in every state in the united states we've seen these very sharp increase in the number of people seeking treatment for addiction to prescription opioids. invited to america under the banner of medicine persisted with the pain but instead of trying to wean him off though she did go separate dose after dose after dose and really became his drug dealer so who is to blame patients don't use manufacturers or the government.

this is a boom bust for the one business show you can't support a myth or in washington coming up the vaccine deployment is upon us as some major nations are beginning their mass rollout straight ahead we're going to take a look at the state of the mass vaccination endeavor and effort that has gone into production and up pivotal moment has arrived for stimulus talks in the united states as millions have been battered by the copen 1000 pandemic coming up we're going to take a look at the state of negotiations the united kingdom and the european union are back in post trade talks on monday as tensions still run high later i want to bring you the latest back show today so let's dive right in. and we lead the program in the united kingdom as the nation is preparing to

administer the 1st pope 915 vaccines to the public after regulators gave emergency approval to the drug from pfizer in bio in tech last week the 1st doses will be given on tuesday to frontline health workers home care workers and those over the age of 80 last week u.k. prime minister boris johnson said there are quote immense logistical challenges and quote in rolling out the vaccine while saying the struggle is not over as of yet scottish 1st minister nicola sturgeon echoed this sentiment while visiting a hospital in edinburgh on monday it's a massive logistical exercise lots of people want to really hard to be optimistic about when to retain their home and with governments across the u.k. we do not see that just a collector's item it's. going to be bank city take over the next few months significant numbers of people the 1st night seeds you'll get ice is not the easiest backs.