every thursday on the alex simon short and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics or business i'm show business i'll see you then. the f.d.a. reveals that 6 people who took part in trials for pfizer scope of vaccine have died . public versus the police 1st is the president after weeks of violent protests in france offices voiced their anger over a perceived lack of support for the one year mark from the save face mounting public hostility you speak with the deputy secretary of the country's largest police union. he succeeded in the force he succeeded to the police 150000 policemen and 100000 gendarmes angry with mack brown his words are unacceptable for a president of the republic. so the us president elect makes his choice for the

country's defense secretary nominating a retired general responsible for a half a $1000000000.00 training program in syria which was deemed a complete failure. hi there thanks so much for joining as you're watching international. 6 people have died during pfizer's cove in 19 vaccine trials 4 of them had taken a placebo the 2 did have the. 55 the revelation was made by the u.s. food and drug administration which is responsible for approving the vaccine. so the deaths are nothing to worry about as they are statistically in line with participants of that age group. a total of 6 of unrolled participants died during the reporting period old deaths represent advance that occur in the general

population of the age groups where they occurred at this similar rate earlier donald trump and signed an executive order aimed at ensuring americans have priority when it comes to access to vaccines produced in the u.s. both the outgoing and incoming presidents are a bit about the prospects of mass vaccination signed the executive order to ensure that american citizens have 1st priority to receive american vaccines and then we're going to be working with other countries all over the world this team will help get at the latest at the last 100000000 covert 9000 vaccine at least 100000000 covert vaccine shots into the arms of the american people in the 1st 100 days 100000000 shots in the 1st 100 days of this week phases vaccine is expected to become the 1st to be approved for emergency use in the united states but the plan delivery falls very short of covering the needs of the nation with

many doses having already been shipped abroad caleb maupin as the story. top u.s. officials are reassuring us that there's enough vaccine to go around and every american can get a jab hundreds of millions of doses will be available every month and we expect to have enough vaccines for every american but by the end of march early april enough across all of our vaccine portfolio to have for every american who would like to be dux it and 100 percent of americans that want to back c. will had the vaccine by that point time although not everyone is going to take it. 6 6 6 really got to see. how kind of the kind of i mean it's nice to have a choice isn't it well as trump rolls out his vaccines for americans 1 first

policies there are mounting fears that washington will not be able to deliver on its promises a white house summit expected to celebrate the victory of the jab had 2 key guests missing pfizer and madonna pfizer is reported to have told the trumpet administration that it cannot provide additional doses of the coded 19 vaccine until mid 2021 they say other countries beat the united states and bought up the supply of global justice now by u.k. based group reported back in november that 80 percent of pfizer's vaccine over 1000000000 doses had already been sold the buyers some of the wealthiest governments around the world now the usa did get some but only 100000000 vaccines the u.s. government placed initial order over 100000000 doses for pfizer beyond techs covered $900.00 facts even and pfizer is ready to begin ship an initial dose a soon after receiving an emergency use authorization from the u.s.

food and drug administration any additional doses beyond the 100000000 subjected to sever. in mutually acceptable agreement rumors are circulating that after that pfizer offered to sell more to the united states but trump said no deal now the white house denies that let's do the math pfizer says you need to do with this per person so $100000000.00 vaccines covers only $50000000.00 people roughly 15 percent of the u.s. population but u.s. officials say they checked the numbers and there won't be any shortage we're confident that it will have 100000000 doses of find this vaccine is agreed to in our contract and beyond that we have 5 other vaccine candidates including 100000000 doses on the way from london so what does this america 1st document really mean pfizer privately funded to work without u.s. government support so washington cannot force its will to be 1st on the company and its free to sell its vaccine across the planet private property and free markets

something that america loves. in canada's ontario province people could face restrictions if they refuse supposedly voluntary vaccination against covert raising fears people will be pressured into taking the job will break that story down for you later this hour. let's turn to france the divisions deepening the tensions between the public police and president escalates and the new micro is now calling for urgent reforms to law enforcement as public mistrust of the police force mounts while officers are complaining about a lack of government support. reports. it's been described as a crisis of public confidence in the security forces amidst a violent protest against the global security law that was aimed at strengthening measures to protect the police there's been a renewed focus on police violence. 7

president corn though while acknowledging issues refused to politicize the subject yet live your lives in a society there is violence in society there is racism in french society today this is a fact and as the police reflects a society some members of the force display violent behavior and we must go after and punish them but higher profile incidents including that of black music producer michelle in his studio have not only shocked those at the very top they've also led to fresh questions about the police's own internal disciplinary body a body that has been routinely criticized for siding with its own and now to add

fuel to the fire surroundings ecas case the 4 officers implicated ought to be given financial support from the police as they are investigated by the body all have admitted his beating was not justified there was no reason for the police union to dish out funds from its money part of the paris police profit d.d.l. manned granted protection to the 4 police officers indicted in the michaud it's a clear case this should not be done the default decision. we are not on the same side he picked his side that of the violent police he has crossed the line of republican dignity that he should have in his position i want him to go once and for all be felt right now though is much wider the police to offer furious week after week violence on the streets at demonstrations has seen them injured.

it's been over 2 years that we've been suffering demonstrations every saturday demonstrations for economic and social reasons which eventually turn into police violence and we've become the center point of recriminations from demonstrators they openly attacked the police not only by words if it was only that it wouldn't even matter but it's also acts of physical violence against our colleagues they've been several 100 injured over the past 2 years so this is completely unacceptable but of course today to be a policeman is extremely difficult in all of france not only in paris because there's no place in france where police are not singled out and not violated and not a target for that certain segment of the population which is extremely violent because today we see it the demonstrations and protests are no longer peaceful then insult was added to injury when president mccaul and this. we're going to set up a survey online so people can say where and why they were discriminated against it's

about police i.d. controls based on racial profiling housing unemployment and daily life other comments he made suggesting that officers carry out more checks on people who are not white made the police unions furious one called on its members to stop carrying out identity checks all together he succeeded in this tour de force he succeeded to alienate the police 150000 policemen and 100000 gendarmes are angry with macro his words unacceptable for. president of the republic he acted just like an average citizen he gave a personal opinion on the subject but if our colleagues have done something illegal it's up to the justice system to sanction them and they would accept the sanction if there must be one the issue now so controversial that mark or himself is to intervene it's been announced in january he'll hold a top level meeting bringing elected officials together with citizens earned the

police in a bid to find a way to reform the force so it didn't ski r.t. paris. u.s. president elect joe biden has chosen a retired general as his defense secretary if approved by the senate 67 year old lloyd austin would become the 1st african-american to lead the pentagon i chose lloyd austin as my nominee for secretary of defense because he will do whatever it takes to defend the american people when the islamic state emerged as a terrorist threat in iraq and syria president obama and i turn to austin who then lead u.s. central command he designed and executed a campaign that ultimately beat back isis lloyd austin served under the obama administration leading u.s. central command he was the main military architect of the u.s. led offensive against islamic state in syria and iraq he was also the one who candidly admitted the failure of

a 500000000 dollar training program in syria in 2015 it was shut down after producing just some 5 trained fighters instead of the several 1000 that have been planned. can you tell us what the total number of trained fighters remains it's a small number and. the ones that are in the fight. is we're talking 445 is that still the goal to have about $12000.00 of them there is that still the goal what's the expectation then for them at the pace we're gone we want to reach the goal that we had initially starbucks for ourselves but but but the the overall goal is to make sure that we have enough mass to be able to get work done on the ground meanwhile a potential stumbling block for us to know is candidacies the fact he only retired 4 years ago u.s. law states an officer must have left the service at least 7 years prior to becoming

secretary of defense senior research fellow at the global policy institute showed some welly thinks exceptions will be made to the rules general markers would begin trumps the defense secretary also had to overcome this horrible and he overcame it without too much difficulty and of course there was some of the time was there that this is just one all of we're not going to do this again you know we really mean it this time but we don't have to take it very seriously so having said all that matters they're not likely to turn around and. make difficulties or austin but they. will be honest about it i mean he is all. would be the 1st black man who would be head of the pentagon so i don't think anyone's going to want any hurdles in his way meanwhile in canada's ontario province people who refuse supposedly voluntary vaccination against cove it could be facing certain

restrictions that's the warning from the provinces health minister. there may be some restrictions in terms of travel or other restrictions step may arise as a result of not having a vaccination but that's going to be up to the person themselves to make that decision on the basis of what's more important to them than the health officials remarks come amid concerns that people will be made to have a job but the authorities are insisting vaccination will be voluntary earlier canada's prime minister announced that the country would receive its 1st doses of pfizer's vaccine next week political analyst tells under bruno says the threat restrictions on the best way to make people trust a jump i think. forcing people to be vaccinated with the. premise that we've heard in ontario is not the best way to persuade the population to consider being vaccinated in fact it is the worst way to do it

especially now that we are in the very early stages of the rollout of the vaccine nobody has been vaccinated yet and at any rate the 1st people who will be vaccinated will be medical staff and personnel in high risk places for example or the jones and. other similar facilities so i think the ontario health minister position was irresponsible in fact because i myself become even more. concerned about this practicing. america's new defense bill includes aggressive policies aimed at russia and china will be taking a closer look at those after the break. what

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desperate for a deal the british prime minister boris johnson will meet with the european commission president of underlying later on wednesday this is in a bid to try and reach the post briggs's agreements the deadline set for december 31st previous negotiations between the 2 and the deadlock on your correspondent peter all of a pix of the story the center the 31st at midnight brussels time the transition period ends and britain leaves all of the regulations of the european union if there isn't a deal that would mean tariffs on all trade between the u.k. and the e.u.

that's why potus johnson is heading to brussels on wednesday to have dinner with us live on the line the e.u. commission president they'll be hoping they can achieve more face to face than they were able to in a phone call over the weekend. as agreed on saturday we took stock today of their go in negotiations we agreed that the conditions for finalizing the agreement and not the edges of the remaining significant differences are still a number of big issues for them to sort out though fish is one of them probably more of an emotive issue than it is an economic issue said she what the year wants to happen is they want to keep a hold of fishing rights in u.k. waters that they currently have the u.k. says no then there's the issue over what's called a level playing field brussels essentially doesn't want the u.k. outside of e.u. regulations when it comes to things like workers' rights environmental regulations and state subsidies and then there's the issue of what happens when there are

disputes the europeans want to see the european court of justice play a role not a chance says the british side and they've been going backwards and forwards over these issues for quite a while now an agreement between u.k. and you bring union she seems unlikely. i simply do not understand why we are risking value. they want the continued ability to control our lives to do freedom fisheries in a way that is completely unacceptable to an independent country concerned it is the united kingdom who wish to leave and is leaving the european union they need the greenman much more than we do the deal can only be done if the e.u. recognizes that the u.k. is a sovereign independent nation progress has been achieved in many areas nevertheless significant differences remain it's not all bad news though away from trait there was some progress made over what to do about northern ireland and the british

border on the island of ireland an agreement was struck on tuesday between the u.k. and the a you over allowing goods and medicines to move across that border the european side happy with that but say there's still a long way to go i hope. this will create a positive momentum also for that and discussions on the free trade agreement as you know we are still very far apart than we are not hiding this from from anyone the idea behind this deal on wednesday is for johnson and vonda lion to sit down and work out exactly where they can give ground that will eventually give their respective negotiating teams nation to try and push forward to get a deal this time continues to run out steve mccabe from the center for briggs studies a birmingham city university says the u.k.'s divorce from the e.u.

was always going to be difficult for. briggs it the story that keeps giving and it's a soap opera that there's a part of me that thinks this whole sort of thing is a big charade we're being played here that the something is going to happen quickly we've got some of. you to try and sort of stimulate the sort of the discussions and again there was something from the this said they're perfectly prepared should there be no agreement to continue discussions into the new year the reality is if we get a new deal it can't remain us that we then have to start having sort of side agreements what we're into is a sort of a huge cry of graphing of some sort of really skinny data you know it's not quite hard i mean we'll avoid the tariffs but it will be so the pretty poor and i think they'll get plenty of opportunity should a new prime minister in 2024 particular start to want to revisit this opportunity come back and so that it will say but again i would not put

a lot of money on anything at the moment. the u.s. house of representatives has approved the annual defense bill which includes some new hardline initiatives the senate's going to vote on legislation in the coming days here's a summary of what's contained this year's bipartisan and d n a a conference agreement focuses on the following priorities implementing the national defense strategy to confront current and future security challenges from china russia trans national terrorism and beyond regaining a wide margin of military superiority. well specifically the defense act will expand sanctions on russia's nord stream to gas pipeline project and impose manned treat sanctions on turkey that's for the purchase of russia's s $400.00 missile system the bill also allocates 200 $50000000.00 to the ukraine security assistance initiative now more than 2 thirds of the house voted in support of this legislation that would be enough to overturn

a veto if donald trump was to use that right the outgoing president expressed concern the bill seeks to slow down u.s. troop reductions and rename monuments and bases honoring confederate figures and to war activist richard becker says the initiatives in the bill could amount to implicit aggression this is a continuation of this very hostile and very dangerous or a technician u.s. military and foreign policy which you know can be missed in directions which would be could be catastrophic for the world but either way or pass it always has bipartisan support every year for the last 6070 years news you norma's military just get passed. a bipartisan majority of democrats and republicans who i would say there is that while. the aspirations that are higher i don't think that either russia or the chinese leadership it's all war with the united states if it were to happen would be a disaster for humanity we have

a continuation of this very hostile powers and it's one in 50000000 so called your credit security is really another manifestation. of that hostility toward russia toward china and that brings you right there today thanks so much for joining us here in r.t. this morning i'll be back with updates in half an hour. yes there's a saying. i think they're on the cheap bus and then you went through all the countries let's ideas on their right to scold us company he said if we give them everything they do to pass. this country because this is what we don't understand how we are in such contracts

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to see like. to see that people don't understand here and it's hard every day is. a struggle because this. is not easy and these people are dying in this just injustice nobody should died that way nobody should lose their lives trying to get a better life. or trying to help their families. they're coming for a couple from countries that are in conflict and they then saw poor people there they don't have any chance to survive they basically abandoned by their governments so and the biology and so it's to me many of these cases that i see every day they are there that they're going to die there anyway they know the risks and they still do it because there is something really bad happened there. you know incremental or instead of interlocutors get up it is $400.00 they made it

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