in the headlines today the f.d.a. reveals that 6 people who took part in trials for pfizer's coated vaccine have died . the public versus the police versus the president after weeks of violent protest in france officers voiced their anger over a perceived lack of support from emanuel much as they face mounting public hostility we 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 angry with his words on acceptable for president of the republic. also this hour the u.s.

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. a very warm welcome to the program from all of us here at r t h q in moscow let's get started with your live news update. donald trump signed an executive order and aimed at ensuring that americans have priority when it comes to access to vaccines produced in the u.s. both the outgoing and incoming presidents are beat about the prospects of mass vaccination. i 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 this week pfizer's a vaccine is expected to become the 1st to be approved for emergency use in the u.s. but the plan deliberate falls short of covering the needs of the nation with many doses having already been shipped abroad kill more often 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 back see will have vaccine by that point time although not everyone is going to take it.

i know 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 lets do the math pfizer says you need 2 doses 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 check the numbers and there won't be any shortage we're confident that we'll have 100000000 doses to find this vaccine is agreed to in our

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 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 as ontario province it's been said people could face restrictions if they refuse a supposedly voluntary vaccination against kobe $1000.00 raising fears that people will be pressured into taking the job and we're going to break that down for you more later in the program. 6 people have died during pfizer's coated 1000 vaccine trials that's been revealed

in an f.d.a. report on the job stay 50 r.t.s. explains what's incredibly all of the 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 also the vaccine has a good production off the public and the people are being vaccinated and we've already learned this. flies. 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 this and this happened and then only then pfizer came out and 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 the these deaths and side effects were caused by the vaccine a total of 6 of unrolled participants died during the reporting period all deaths reprise enter vents that occur in the general population of the age groups where they occurred at this similar rate the gist of it is what they say is that these deaths can be attributed to natural causes one of the one of the volunteers who died he suffered from. an artery condition so the underlying causes and he died 3 days after his injection the 2nd man who received the real doozies of the vaccine he died of a heart attack 60 days after the fact after the injection the other 4 would die who died were given apply a placebo one of them suffered a stroke and other 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 cheap seen this didn't happen we're learning one of this from from the f.d.a. but the f.d.a. is adamant you know who rule this vaccine is safe and the dangers people dial suffering awful side effects the very small. maybe this person is absolutely 100 percent safe people would want to know about side effects and surely before they decide to take that well this this is the point this is the point that is being made now why are we learning about this ok fine you know you may think that it is safe you may think that the it is worth it but surely people who are going to take the injections who are going to accept this vaccine surely the 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 you loony find this information about people died in the footnotes in the final paragraph of these huge articles but it is after all 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 let's talk about possible side effects because that let's be honest there's a difference it's tension between somebody taking events in not taking it if they think don't want to chance among the test group the clinical trial group tens of thousands of people and yet a handful all of the all of the people who developed this particular side effect and this is paralysis part of your face becomes paralyzed the mouth the muscles

become lax. troops this is a new condition there isn't a lot of knowledge about what causes it nevertheless only the people who received the job developed this condition nobody from the placebo group developed among non-serious unsolicited adverse events there was a numerical imbalance of 4 cases of bell spell seen in the vaccine group compared. gnocchi says 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 very important to understand that this is you know there's no black and white this is rule still very much being studied because every corner that could be cut in 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 less than a year of the of the virus you know spread around the world we have vaccines been

rolled out across the world only 4 people develop the paralysis temporary facial prior 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 were over the age of 55 all of the deaths are believed to be from natural causes so it must be studied how the vaccine if a tool it did affected them obviously this is all going to take much more time they believe that it's safe enough now to roll it out for people to get vaccinated despite the dangers of the nudes and this is easy 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 that you have social aspects all these locked out and people believe doctors believe these administrations believe in the u.k. u.k.

in the united states that the dangers of the pfizer vaccine way less than the benefits. divisions in france are deepening as tensions between the public the police and the president escalate emanuel micron is now calling for urgent reforms to law enforcement and after 2 of the largest place unions have called on their members to stop performing id checks they were angered. by macross comments about police officers during an interview on friday evening french president said that police are much more likely to stop and check people of color we spoke to one of the leaders of the largest police unions in france who told us about the challenges of being an officer in the country today. he succeeded in this tour de force he succeeded to alienate the police 150000 policemen and 100000 gendarmes are angry with macro today to be a policeman is extremely difficult in all of france not only in paris because there

is no place in france where police are not singled out and or violated in order to 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 are france correspondent charlotte reports on the divisions affecting 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 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 declare in his

studio have shocked those at the very top. 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 at 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 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 be felt right now though is much wider the police to offer furious week after week violence on the street demonstrations has seen the 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 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 they 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 and the police in a bid to find a. way to reform the force so it didn't ski auti 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 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. 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 can lay admitted the failure of a $500000000.00 training program in syria back in 2015 it was shut down after producing only a fraction of the 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 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 established 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 austin lloyd's can of the sea is the fact that he only retired 4 years ago u.s. law states an officer must have left the service at least 7 years before becoming secretary of defense but senior research fellow at the global policy institute george family thinks exceptions will be made to the rules general market is. trumps

the defense secretary also had who come to this horrible and he overcame it without too much difficulty of course there was some of the time we said this is just one all 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 peculiarly as you know will be honest about it i mean he is old. would be the 1st black man who would be head of the pentagon so i don't think anyone's going to want many hurdles in his way. still ahead british prime minister boris johnson will meet the european commission president after negotiations between officials and deadlock about story among others after the short break.

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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 and tell of those ontario province people who are a few supposedly voluntary a box nation against kobe it could face certain restrictions that's the warning of the province's 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 that remark comes amid concerns that people will be made to have the shot but the authorities are insisting that vaccination will be voluntary earlier account of the prime minister announced that the country would receive its 1st doses of pfizer's vaccine next

week political analyst also under burner says the threatened restrictions aren't the best way to make people trust the vaccine 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 rule out of the vaccine nobody has been vaccinated yet and that any rate the 1st people who would be vaccinated will be medical staff and personnel in high risk places for example or. other similar facilities so i think the ontario health minister position was irresponsible in fact because i myself become even more. concerned about this

vaccine. desperate for a deal the british prime minister will meet the european commission president ursula on the line later on wednesday and a bid to once again try to reach a postbox that agreement that the deadline set for december 31st previous negotiations between the 2 sides ended in deadlock our europe correspondent peter all over has the details. 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 boris johnson is heading to brussels on wednesday to have dinner with 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 sides and they've been going backwards and forwards over these issues for quite a while now an agreement between you can't you bring you in seems unlikely. i

simply do not understand why we are wasting valuable 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 greenman 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 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 involved the lion 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 steve maclean from the center for brags that studies that bring him birmingham city university says the case divorce from the e.u. was always going to be a difficult affair. briggs it's the story that keeps giving and it's a side of prof rock that there's a part of me that thinks this whole sort of thing is a big show right we're being played here that something is going to happen quickly we've got some of the johns going over to you to try and sort of stimulate the sort

of the discussions and again there was something from the this is said they're perfectly ok it should be no agreement to continue discussions into the new year the reality is if we get a new deal the economy remains that we don't have to start having sort of side agreements what really is a sort of acute kind of grousing of some sort of really skinny dale. hogg i mean will avoid the tariffs. to say it will be so the pretty cool and i think they will get plenty of opportunity should a new prime minister in 2024 particular to want to revisit this opportunity to come back and so that it will say but again i don't want to put a lot of money on anything at the moment. just before we go we bring you some breaking news on our pfizer vaccine story people with severe allergies have been warned not to take the vaccine after 2 n.h.s. workers who were among the 1st vaccinated in the u.k.

yesterday experience an adverse reaction and both of them had a history of allergic reactions and are reportedly recovering well that's been our breakdown of the day's top news for them thanks for tuning in we are bringing a maybe. childes seemed wrong. but old rules just don't hold. any of the balls to get to shape out just to come out ahead and in the game because betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. funny.

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