f.d.a. reveals that 6 people who took part in trials for this vaccine have died. the public says the police versus the president 2 weeks of violent protest in front of us is boyce their anger over a perceived lack of support coming from the leader emanuel as they face mounting public hostility we speak with the deputy secretary of the country's largest police cd and. he succeeded. he succeeded to the police 150000 policemen and 100000 sean doms angry with his words unacceptable for the president of the republic. and so the u.s.

president elect makes his choice for the country's defense secretary nominating a retired general responsible for hoffa $1000000000.00 training program in syria that was deemed to be a complete failure. here in moscow great time where there's you're watching international. first this hour 6 people have died during pfizer's covert 900 francs seen trials that has been revealed in an f.d.a. report on the job safety let's get more on this story now from our senior correspondent guess the if he's been on a look through that report. it will sound shocking to people who heard this for the 1st time we've heard a lot about the vaccines ever and. nothing particularly bad so far it's something

to be concerned about well this is this is the odd thing here because the claim to be very open about how the clinical trials are going the f.d.a. says that the vaccine is safe that it provides protection against. this is a 2 part job even after the. you know people's bodies organisms develop resistance to. but it is odd that we learned 6 deaths not from 5 and it's part of a book but from the f.d.a. the united states food and drug administration it think this was pertinent information about you know side effects about potential deaths it's important to mention that the f.d.a. says that it's unlikely that these deaths were related to the vaccine a total of 6 of unrolled participants died during the reporting period all deaths

represent events that occur in the general population of the age groups where they occurred at a similar rate. the gist of it is the who died died of natural causes so for example there's one volunteer who suffered from obesity also had an artery condition so underlying conditions and he died 3 days after being given his job another man died of a heart attack 60 days after now those with the 2 people out of the 6 to the died who were given the actual vaccine rather than a placebo for people who were given a plan placebo also died one suffered a stroke another suffered a heart attack and the cause of death of 2 more is still being investigated nevertheless 3 of these people the elderly they were over $55.00 and the f.d.a. maintains that it's unlikely that the vaccine caused any of these deaths and from

what they see so far the vaccines it. he said it they've deemed that it's unlikely that there's every color correlation between the vaccine and the deaths the been witness that said we all know that the vaccines have been kind of rushed through it on an unparalleled pace and we're already seeing them being used much trumpeted in the british media a 2 year old woman i believe was the 1st to get in a vaccination a given that it will happen at such pace and even the f.d.a. say you know it's very unlikely but surely it warrants a discussion but i'm not as i'm aware this is not a story that's really been put out there well this is this is the issue that. the it's the same press i mean you read you google read google for example google pfizer 60. there's almost new news new articles about this that we learned from the f.d.a. just very recently that 6 people had died we didn't learn this from pfizer we

learned this from the f.d.a. and bad news just isn't covering it the a.p. has a huge recent article about the piles of vaccine there's no mention of 6 people died during clinical trials bloomberg had the piece and right at the end right at the end there's a little paragraph about clinical trials and you know this is a vaccine that wasn't reviewed that wasn't published the data wasn't published in any medical journals wasn't peer reviewed earlier or that's one of the issues that they had with the russian vaccine for example many of these journalists that are now saying nothing about pfizer clinical trials and the 6 that during that a side effect serious side effects that have been that have been recorded jury these trials the vaccine is. it's making a fortune fires are states initially signing. citing a deal for 100000000 doses then scaled down to 50 now 'd it's being

ruled out in the. kingdom you know there's this bias or all of the world scrambling of each other in order to get their hands on this vaccine and it's just it's just a get very old that we're learning that there are serious side effects and that people have died during clinical trials. that you know the f.d.a. says that they were unrelated to the vaccine but we're learning it after the vaccination has begun i mean hopefully for humanity sake there isn't going to be any problems with any of the vaccines that have been developed but i mean we have to go into this with our eyes open look at the evidence presented among you mentioned possible side effects what we're looking at the world this is also something that we've learned after the vaccine began ruling out in the united kingdom there on thursday they're going to give it the final go ahead presumably in the united states where they'll deem whether it deserves you know emergency use

rights the vaccine the pi's a vaccine but one of the side effects is facial paralysis through several people have been recorded and these are people who are given the vaccine so nobody from the placebo group suffered from these side effects but one of the side effects was fishel paralysis and generally this is when half of your face will be temporarily but it it becomes paralyzed the muscles go slack. and one half of the face drops a number that could be the difference between somebody wanting to take this and deciding they don't want to well exactly and this is presumably want one of the reasons why the press isn't making a very big deal out of this also there is you know the if the in themselves have said that this is somewhat of a minor issue there are tens of thousands of volunteer volunteers and only a handful suffered from these particular side effects so you know there's this new point the f.d.a. says from ringing alarm bells and. making people worry for new reason they're

saying that they'll monitor the issue as the vaccine. becomes more widely available this is one of the side effects of this global race for a vaccine you know every single corner that could see fully be cut was cut vaccines take years sometimes decades to develop and here we go less than a year the vaccines are already rolling out so there will be side effects there will be no unforeseen consequences and the issue and out for watchdogs all over the world is to make sure that the vaccines that with the side effects and the dangers of within tolerable margins if they are then you know the view of the ultimately they gain trumps any potential pain that they may cause will hopefully by just discussing some of the results of this clinical trials will leave our audience a little better informed many thanks for the latest. now a little earlier donald trump assigned an executive order aimed at ensuring the

americans have priority when it comes to access to such vaccines produced in the united states both the outgoing and incoming presidents in fact are upbeat about the prospects of mass vaccinations 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 the latest at the last 100000000 covert 19 vaccine at least 100000000 covert vaccines shots into the arms of the american people in the 1st 100 days 100000000 shots in the 1st 100 days this week finds vaccines are expected to become the 1st to be approved for emergency use in the united states but the planned delivery falls somewhat short of covering the needs of the nation with many doses having already been shipped abroad killing more picks up 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 vaccinated 100 percent of americans that want to back see will had the vaccine by that point time although not everyone is going to take it. really 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 1st 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 ministration

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 an initial order of 100000000 doses for pfizer beyond techs covered $900.00 x.e. 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 separate. 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 out denies that let's do the math pfizer says you need 2 doses per person $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 one $100000000.00 digits of pfizer's vaccine is agreed to a contract and beyond that we have 5 other vaccine candidates including $100000000.00 just on the way from london so what does this america 1st document really mean pfizer privately funded its work without u.s. government support so washington cannot force its will to be 1st on the company and its free to sell its backplane across the planet private property and free markets something that america loves. canada's ontario province people could face restrictions if they refused supposedly voluntary vaccination against raising fiz

people will be pressured into taking the job will break that story down for you later in the program. but before that let's turn to france where divisions are deepening as tensions between the public police and the president escalate and when you're micron's now calling for urgent reforms to law enforcement this is after 2 of the largest police unions in the country called on their members to stop performing id checks they were angry comments about police officers during an interview on friday the french president said the police are much more likely to stop and check people of color we spoke with one of the leaders of the largest police union in france who told us about the challenges of being a police officer in the country today. he succeeded in this tour de force he succeeded to alienate the police 150000 policemen and 100000 gendarmes angry with macro 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 or violated are 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. our correspondent in france comments on the divisions affecting the country. it's being described as a crisis of public confidence in the security forces amidst a violent protest against a global security law that was aimed at strengthening measures to protect the police there's been a renewed focus on police violence. 7 7

profile incidents including that of black music producer michel in his studio have shocked those at the very top. i tried to call my lawyer i try to callar of people even a neighbor heard my screams he wanted to call the police but it was the police and now to add fuel to the fire surroundings and his case the 4 offices 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. mond granted protection to the 4 police officers indicted in the michel 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 street demonstrations has seen that injured well water for produce been over 2 years that we've been suffering demonstrations every saturday demonstrations for economic and social reasons which eventually turned 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 then insult was added to injury when president mark on 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 id 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 his words are unacceptable for a 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 marc or himself is to intervene it's been announced in january he'll hold a top level meeting bringing elected officials together with citizens police in

a bid to find a. way to reform the force so what do you 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 head the pentacle 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 led the 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 is also the one who candidly admitted the failure of a $500000000.00 training program in syria in 2015 it was shut down after producing

just some 5 trained fighters instead of 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 is is we're talking $44.00 or 5 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 establish yourself 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 austin last candidacy is the fact he only retired 4 years ago the u.s. law states an officer must have left the service at least 7 years prior to becoming secretary of defense but senior research fellow at the global policy institute

george some really thinks exceptions will be made to the rules general managers. trumps the defense secretary also have to overcome this horrible any over game without too much difficulty of course that was senators of the time was there that this is just one or are we're not going to do this again you know we really mean it this time but we don't have to take this very seriously so having said all that matters they're not likely to turn around. and make difficulties or austin but peculiarly will be honest about it i mean the. 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. america's new defense spilling kluges aggressive policies aimed at russia and china will take a closer look at that story after the break a. window

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join me every thursday on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to guests of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. welcome back in canada's ontario province people who refuse supposedly voluntary vaccination against code could be facing certain restrictions that's a warning coming from the provinces health minister. there may be some restrictions in terms of travel or other restrictions that 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 the health officials remarks come amid concern that people will be made to have the job but the authorities

insist vaccination will be voluntary earlier canada's prime minister announced the country would receive its 1st doses of pfizer's vaccine next week political analyst alice under bruno says the threat restrictions on the best way to make people trust the vaccination 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 all the jones and other similar facilities so i think the health minister position was irresponsible in fact because i

myself become even more. concerned about this. desperate for a deal the british prime minister boris johnson will meet the european commission president or so live on the line later on wednesday in a bid to try and reach a post briggs's agreement the deadline has been set for december 31st previous negotiations between the 2 sides ended in deadlock correspondent peter all of a pix of the story. december 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 boris johnson is heading to brussels on wednesday to have dinner with underline 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 the ago in negotiations we agreed that the conditions for finalizing an agreement i'm not there due to the remaining significant differences 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 walked the 8 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 site and they've been going backwards and forwards over these issues for quite a while now an agreement between you can you bring you in she seems unlikely. i simply do not understand why we are wasting valuable time they want the continued ability to control our lives to do freedom officer ease in a way that is completely unacceptable to an independent country conceal it is the united kingdom who wish to leave and is leaving the european union they need 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 throw 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 the discussions on the free trade agreement as you know we are still very far apart then we are not hiding this from from anyone the idea behind this deal on wednesday is for johnson and vonda lyon to sit down and work out exactly where they can give ground that will eventually give their respective negotiating teams munition to try and push forward to get a deal this time continues to run out stephen k. from the center for briggs studies of birmingham city university says the u.k.'s divorce from the e.u. was always going to be difficult for. briggs it's 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. the 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 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 the legislation in coming days here's a summary of what it contains this year is 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 not stream to gas pipeline project as well as impose manderson sanctions that's on turkey for its purchase of the russian s $400.00 missile system the bill also allocates $250000000.00 to the ukraine security assistance initiative now more than 2 thirds of the house voted in support of the legislation that majority would be enough to overturn any veto if donald trump chooses that right the outgoing president expressed concern the bill 6 to slow down

u.s. troop reductions and rename monuments and bases that honor confederate figures and to war activist richard becker says the initiatives in the bill could amount to implicit aggression this is a continuation as very hostile and very dangerous for a technician u.s. military and foreign policy which you know can be missed in directions which will 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 not just get past. 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.