the f.d.a. reveals that 6 people who took part in trials for finds this covert vaccine have died. the public verses the police versus the president after weeks of violent protest in france offices voiced their anger over a perceived lack of support from the one year mark drawn as they face mounting public hostility we speak with a 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 macro his words unacceptable for a president of the republic. and the u.s. president elect makes his choice for the country's defense secretary nominating

a retired general responsible for a half $1000000000.00 training program in syria that was deemed a complete failure. either thanks so much for joining us here on r.t. international. 6 people have died during phases covert 19 vaccine trials that's been revealed in an f.d.a. report on the job safety let's get more on this story now from our senior correspondent brian gets the have a look at the findings of this f.d.a. report now maybe this is typical for large clinical trials maybe it's not i don't i don't know just how concerned should we be well what incredibly what many people are surprised about is that we're learning about deaths during clinical trials we're learning about. serious side effects during clinical trials after the vaccine

has ended production of the public rule out in the u.k. people are being vaccinated and we've already learned this not from pfizer or it's part of the bio and that but we learned this from the united states food and drug administration which came out and said you know overall it's safe but these and these happened and then only then pfizer came out and corroborate the story said that yes these 6 people have died with regards to the 2 of them were given the actual vaccine while 4 of them received a placebo injection and the f.d.a. says that so far from what they've seen the vaccine seems to be somewhat safe it is unlikely that these deaths in side effects were caused by 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 what they saying is that these deaths can be attributed to natural causes so one of the one of the volunteers who died he suffered from obesity had an artery condition so there are underlying causes and he died 3 days after his injection the 2nd man who received the real deuce of the vaccine he died of a heart attack 60 days after the fact after the injection the other forward who died were given to a placebo one of them suffered a stroke another suffered a heart attack in the cause of death of 2 more still under investigation nevertheless the f.d.a. is saying that this is by the way this is all data that wasn't peer reviewed they never pfizer never published in any medical journal the practice is if you come up with a new medicine a new treatment you publish and everybody reviews it everybody chips in this didn't

happen we're learning we'll have this from from the f.d.a. but the f.d.a. is adamant you know overall this vaccine is safe and the dangers of people dying and suffering tremendously awful side effects they're very small. it was much publicized over the last 24 hours that this fax is now being used in the u.k. i think that the 1st recipient was an 80 year old woman and it was hailed as a triumph. the significance i think of this story in the conversation we're having now is i didn't read anything about any fatalities about any side effects and this is the sort of thing that i mean maybe this vaccines absolutely 100 percent safe but people would want to know about side effects and surely before they decide to take that well this is this is the point this is the point that is being made now why are we learning about this. and you know you may think that it is safe you may think that the eat is worth the surely people who are going to take the injections

who go into except this vaccine surely they should know that these people have died and you know they're looking into why they died these people suffered side effects but even now after we've learned this people may struggle to come upon this information are you google it yourself there are all sorts of articles being made programmes about the pfizer vaccine how how amazing it is you know this is going to save all of us and yet the issue she did precious published a huge article about that there wasn't any mention of these deaths read the washington post bloomberg you loony find. 'd this information about people died in the footnotes in the final paragraph of these huge articles there is a sense that journalists and it will have scared people for no reason you know if the f.d.a. if doctors believe that it's safe to be said there's a lot of worry there's a lot of panic now and there's

a sense that journalists trying to sort of either side the details that you know on pleasant under the carpet get them out of sight so people go out get vaccinated so the life resumes as it was. but it is of true very strange hearing about all of this now that the vaccine is out there in the united kingdom in the united states the f.d.a. and senior officials are supposed expected to greenlight the pfizer vaccine emergency use. on thursday it was about the journalist's involvement in this one of the aspects of journalism is not to flag up definite problems it's at least to discuss potential problems even though they may not the ricer let's talk about possible side effects because that let's be honest it's a difference potentially between somebody taking the banks in not taking it if they think well i don't like the chance i might have that side effect well look the test group the clinical trial group tens of thousands of people and yet handful all of

the all of the people who developed this particular side effect and this is. part paralysis part of your face becomes paralyzed the muscles become legs. droop it's a moon condition there isn't a lot of knowledge about what causes it nevertheless only the people who received the jab developed this condition nobody from the placebo group developing among non-serious unsolicited adverse events there was a numerical imbalance of 4 cases of bell spell seen in the vaccine group compared with no cases on the placebo group though the 4 cases in the vaccine group do not represent a frequency above that expected in the general population. still the very important to understand that this is you know there's no black and white is this is rule still very much being studied because every corner that could be cut in this race global race for a vaccine every quarter that could safely they believe be cut was cut the this

process takes years sometimes decades and now we have less than a year out of the virus you know spread around the world we have vaccines being rolled out across the world the sample groups of the. pfizer vaccine. only 4 people develop the paralysis temporary facial proud of paralysis out of thousands so you know you've got to study these people out of the people the died the 6 people that died 3 of them are over the age of $55.00 all of the deaths are believed to be from natural causes so it must be studied how the vaccine if a tool did affected them obviously this is going to take much more top they believe that it's safe enough now to roll it out for people to get vaccinated despite the dangers in the unknowns and these e's why why there is this tremendous rush

as i mentioned you know everybody's eager to return to life as it was to resume the world economy the social aspects all these lockdowns and people believe doctors believe these administrations believe in the u.k. u.k. in the united states that the dangers of the vaccine way less than the benefits yes a lot of unknowns feel hopeful even just by having this conversation left of years a little better informed many thanks for the attainment. now earlier on donald trump signed an executive order aimed at ensuring that americans have priority when it comes to accessing vaccines produced in the united states both the outgoing and incoming presidents are upbeat 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 19

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 this week pfizer is vaccine is expected to become the 1st to be approved for emergency use in the united states but the planned delivery falls very short of covering the needs of the nation in many doses having already been shipped abroad at more picks up the story. pop u.s. officials are reassuring us that there's enough vaccine to go around in 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 baxi will had vaccine by that point time although not everyone is going to take it.

6 6 really. 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 an initial order of 100000000 doses for pfizer beyond techs covered $900.00 facts seen 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 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 are 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 to sell its vaccine across the planet private property and free markets something that america loves. in canada's ontario province people could face was strictures if they refuse supposedly voluntary vaccination against kobe raising fears people will be pressured into taking the job will be breaking that story down for you later this hour. but 1st the search of france where divisions a deepening as tensions between the public the police and the president escalate ammonia micron's now calling for urgent reforms to law enforcement this is after 2 the largest police unions called on their members to stop performing id checks they

were angered by. about police officers doing an interview on friday the french president said police are much more likely to stop and check in with color we spoke with one of the leaders of the largest police union in france he told us about the challenges of being a police officer in the country today. he succeeded in this force he succeeded to the police 150000 policemen and 100000 showed. doms 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 and no longer peaceful. our correspondent based in france charlotte reports on the divisions effect in the country. it's being described as a crisis of public confidence in the security forces amidst the violent protests

against the global security law that was aimed at strident thing measures to protect the police there's been a renewed focus on police violence. her profile incidents including that of black music producer michel declare in his studio have shocked those at the very top. tried to call my lawyer i tried to call lot 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 at his 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 the paris police prefaced d.d.l. month granted protection to the 4 police officers indicted in the michel that clare case they 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 the only go felt right now though is much wider the police too are furious week after week violence on the street demonstrations has seen their injured well worth of 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 i gather 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 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 this is defense secretary if approved by the senate 67 year old lloyd austin would become the 1st african-american to head 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 tend to austin who then lead the u.s. central command he designed and executed a campaign that ultimately beat back isis or dustin served under the obama

administration leading the u.s. central command he was the main military architect of the u.s. led offensive against islamic state in syria and iraq was also the one who candidly admitted the failure of a $500000000.00 training program in syria can 2015 it was shut down after producing just some 5 trained fighters instead of several 1000 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 so 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 going 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 noice 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 george somewhere thinks exceptions will be made to the rules. general matters would begin trumps the ban secretary also had to overcome this horrible and he overcame it without too much difficulty of course there was senators at the time was there this is just one are are 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 about matters they're not likely to turn around. and make difficulties or austin but peculiarly as you know will be honest about it i mean he is all so 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 that you. british prime minister boris johnson is to meet european commission president live on the lion after negotiations between other officials ended in deadlock will bring you the full story after the break.

which is a planet with 5 moods and atmosphere highly active geology and it's for the border who shoots and sure it could. be of those for biology is just far beyond our wildest imagination. and come of this on terrio province people he refused supposedly voluntary vaccination against kovac could face sudden restrictions just 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 concerns that people will be made the jump but the authorities insist banks initial will be voluntary earlier canada's prime minister announced the country would receive its 1st doses of pfizer's vaccine next week it's glamourous i was 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 of the british prime minister boris johnson will meet with the european commission president the city of on the lion later on wednesday in a bid to try to reach a post briggs it agreement deadline remember set for december 31st previous negotiations between the 2 sides ended in deadlock our correspondent peter oliver picks up the story. december 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 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 their go in negotiations we agreed that the conditions for finalizing the agreement are 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 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 the 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 europe are new in seems unlikely. i simply do not understand why you wish to vote your time they want the continued ability to control our lives is to do freedom fisheries 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 the agreement much more than we do the deal can only be done if the e.u. recognises 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 the 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 i see as you know we are still very far apart that we are not hiding this from from anyone the idea behind this deal on wednesday is for johnson involved the lion to sit down and work out exactly where they can give ground that will eventually give their respective negotiating teams you nation to try and push forward to get it dale this time continues to run out steve mccabe from the center

for briggs studies a burning in city university says that the u.k.'s divorce from the e.u. was always going to be a difficult affair brigs 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 something is going to happen quickly we've got some of. you to try and sort of a stimulate the sort of the discussions and again there was something from the e.u. this is said they're perfectly paired should there be no agreement to continue discussions into the new year the reality is if we get a new deal the economy in is that we then have to start having sort of signed agreements what we're into is a sort of a huge cry of grafting of some sort of really skinny dale you know it it's not quite hard i mean we'll avoid the tariffs. to say 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 in so that it will say but again i would not put a lot of money on anything at the moment. and there it is you right up to date appreciate you company here on r t international stick around more now top stories in 30 minutes. when i will chose seemed wrong why don't we all just don't call. me. yet to shape our disdain become educated and in gains from an equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. join me every 1st week on the all excitement show and i'll be speaking to guest in

the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. hello and welcome the crosstalk are all things are considered i'm purely about what is the fate of the progressive blue.