to live with this. building will be moved and just leave the building these riki to. be able to use this. in jewels and. you can help regulators more people with a history of allergic reactions against taking the pies or be on tiger coated vaccine after 2 people receive the job fell ill. the warning comes as america's drug regulator reveals that 6 people who took part in trials for the pfizer be on talkback seen died. also this hour france's emanuel mccrum pushes ahead with a controversial bill but aims to tackle islamist extremism. it's now 5 pm here in moscow on this wednesday evening i'm glad you decided to join

us for your world news update this hour u.k. health regulators are warning people with a history of allergic reactions against taking the pfizer be on top vaccine as comes after 2 people who received the job one day after the u.k. launched a massive vaccination program. any person with a history of a significant allergic reaction to a vaccine medicine or food should not receive the pfizer beyond vaccine very unfortunate news for pfizer and this is piling on to what we've already learned about deaths and side effects but in this instance 2 nurses became very ill. after being injected with the vaccine they were apparently they had a history of allergies and they're doing well now they're recovering but again this is something that somehow slipped clinical trials that people with previous conditions the history of severe allergies and reactions to allergies they are

vulnerable they're vulnerable to the side effects tell us more about what the u.s. food and drug administration has revealed the problem is that we learned of these deaths not from pfizer whose very exceed the c's i mean you'd think that they're obligated to go public and to tell people be open and transparent about how their trials are going how how people are taking the vaccine you know these deaths 2 of the people who died received the jab while 4 of them. injections so they're saying that the vaccine is still safe they still believe it's safe it is effective. and that these deaths were it is unlikely that these deaths 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 well they believe that they're part of the statistical norm

obviously you know we learn that people with severe allergies shouldn't take the prize of vaccine only today and after the fact of the vaccination public vaccination had gotten which is you know. alarm bells and people ought to know you know what they're getting into but the problem. here is that there's there's seems to be a lack of communication from. the press and bear in mind the visor never published in open sources never published in medical journals for peer review the data that it gathered throughout the clinical trial so they really gave that to to various officials and watchdogs. greenlighted their vaccine and what else is there to be found in the f.d.a. as reported well the other scary thing i would say that has struck people and cause some concern is the side effects notably one side effect which is. paralysis it is a condition and not a lot known about what causes it but for people so there were 2 test groups the

placebo test group and the test group that received the actual vaccine the interesting thing about these side effects is that nobody from the placebo group experience that nobody should any symptoms while 4 people in the group that received the real vaccine display these symptoms of partial thinks will paralysis 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 did not represent a frequency above that expected in the general population. they've already dismissed these concerns saying this new scientific link between. may merely an anomaly why by some people suffered from these symptoms and others didn't do. a group or test group this large tens of thousands of people somebody with or without a vaccine should have experience if you have just statistics but you know it's

piling on top of each other so these deaths these side effects and now we learn that people with severe allergies are at risk if they take the vaccine obviously it must be it is understood that every quarter that was cut safely they believe had to be cut to get a room to rule of actually doubt as quickly as possible to get a vaccine out now before the end of the year less than a this is a process that usually takes decades it could take take the years at least to study the effects of the vaccine to study how people take it through throughout the years you know how it affects them and their life and obviously that didn't happen because of the agency because of the huge worldwide to get this vaccine out and this year successful vaccine return the world to more or less normal so there is you know a sense that people should approach vaccination with abundant caution. we're

now going to bring and live lawrence young professor of molecular oncology very welcome to the program now the f.d.a. is saying this is no cause of concern what do you make of the news of these 6 deaths during the vaccine trials well i haven't heard very much about this it's also i don't know the details of calls that are seen trolls that were both people vaccinated with the. vaccine control vaccine but it was still parson a to be to find out more about this and we're also learning from the day after yesterday's vaccination in the u.k. you do have to be very careful particularly. have very very allergic type of reactions to things if there are allergic you really shouldn't be undergoing marks a nation well exactly the information that we have at this point is that 4 of those people who died were actually given the placebo where only 2 were actually given the vaccine itself and saying that those deaths were caused by heart attacks and

strokes and as you were mentioning out of the u.k. saying that those with severe allergic allergies should not be getting this vaccine are these all just par for the course things that happen when a vaccine comes out or is there a possibility that something's been missed i think it's very unlikely that something they missed i think is made for the coals remembering that in the far as a trial you're looking at over $40000.00 people being vaccinated and you also have a significant proportion of elderly people you would expect that folks will unfortunate side of the suffer from other conditions completely unrelated to the vaccination but clearly one has to look at that and each of these cases needs to be investigated in a lot of details so what we're learning from yesterday in the u.k. is that we do have to be very careful if you are an individual who has other g.'s to 2 other things and you just need to be cautious about vaccination is it unusual at all that this risk associated with allergy sufferers cers did not emerge during

trials. it is quite surprising and of course what's happening in the u.k. is that this is this vaccine is being rolled out predominantly for for individuals over the age of 80 and for health care workers so it could be that the population mix is slightly different from those that underwent vaccination say none of this is really surprising and we just have to be very cautious about ensuring that individuals who are who have allergies and indeed we know for instance that pregnant women should undergo vaccination because we have no data on the response of women in pregnancy to back seems not so general issue when you are using a new vaccine so i think certain people will have to be excluded we just need to know more about exactly what's happened with these with these 6 tests. well we also have the f.d.a. saying that facial paralysis is a documented possible side effect of the pfizer and astra zeneca jobs is that

something that's going to feed into the skepticism that people have or is that something that people should just realize that no matter what vaccines of that grade are always going to have side effects. i think it's quite unusual to have that type of side effect of vaccine. the vaccine from astra zeneca is a bit like the sputnik 5 vaccine and he's very very different from pfizer a very very different i think you also one has to get this into some perspective because every drug that we take be a drug for headache like a paracetamol albeit medication for blood pressure all come with significant side effects you want to read the leaflet sort of associated with even common drugs that tell you all of the so-called contra indications and side effects so no no no drug no vaccine is 100 percent safe but given the world wide experience with vaccines over 200 years or more they do they are on the whole much safer than the regular

drugs that many of us take professor of molecular oncology lawrence young thank you for your time on your comments thank you earlier donald trump signed an executive order aimed at ensuring that americans have priority when it comes to access to vaccines produced in the u.s. but the outgoing and incoming presidents are upbeat about the prospects of mass vaccination. 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 vaccine is expected to become the 1st to be approved for emergency use in the u.s.

but they plan deliberate falls a very short of covering the needs of the nation with many doses having already been shipped abroad film up and picks up the story. pop 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 a baxi will have vaccine by that point time although not everyone is going to take it. 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 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 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 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're confident that it will have $100000000.00 doses suffices vaccine is agree 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 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. muslim rights groups in france have lashed out at the government over a new bill targeting islamic radicalism the measures being pushed by president mccrone to follow a wave of terrorist attacks and they'll include tougher surveillance from mosques and curbs on home schooling and we're going to cause live now to our to charlotte devinsky and paris charlotte tell us more about this new bill and the backlash it's caused in france and beyond. well this new bill is essentially called the reinforcing republican values bill it was presented to the council of ministers on wednesday and it has now been approved by the prime minister cast x. was giving his press conference following that outlining parts of the bill he said that this is about promoting republican values fighting against separatism that has

been something that has been coming from certain parts of the muslim community here in france the largest muslim community in europe and the prime minister said that france had to defend itself and it had to emancipate its citizens from the yoke of religion logica radical islamism is an ideology directed to dividing people and spreading hatred and violence in society faced with this the republic intends to defend itself. so what's in the bill much of it we can find of knew already but let's start off with the fact that local authorities now will have more power to deal with religious spend news where they see there is hate speech coming from them whether there is a call to violence following the beheading of a teacher back in october a new edition has been added to the law this is article 25 and it basically says that it's a new offense to endangered their life somebody by identifying them that could be

online or social media no strange enough that it sounds very very similar to controversial article 24 of the global security bill of which there have been many protests over the last few weeks about that one was specifically aimed at the police this is far more generalized to be interesting to see what the reaction is to that given that they are very very similar this bill will also fight against clandestine schools and it will make homeschooling much much more difficult the idea of ensuring that all children have access to their right a right to education we know that doctors issue virginity certificates will now face prison and fines possibly as well and we know that the religious associations will now have to declare for and funding but the prime minister also outlined that there would be more money more investment into social housing because the

government he said realise that he needs to tackle the issues of things like ghettoisation and to improve social cohesion to make sure that people have access to proper social housing now muslims have long criticized this law it's been debated for the last few months saying that they are unfairly targeted by it and in fact this rule has already provoked huge reaction in some muslim majority countries who've also been unhappy about the fact that president mackarness defended the fact that blasphemy is not in. legal here in france now islamic scholars have described president macaroons views as being racist while the turkish president talked about this law specifically and said that it was open provocation. for micron is a burden on france macron and france are going through a very dangerous period actually my hope is that france gets rid of this mccraw in trouble as soon as possible. but some here in france say that this doesn't go

far enough they say that there needs to be a real declaration on a war against islam ist separatism here in france so there will be a huge amount reaction to this this bill now after being approved by the council of ministers will go to the parliament in 2021 where it will be debated and i'm sure those debates are going to be incredibly heated as will the reaction on the street are to charlotte devinsky reporting live from paris thank you. still to come this hour joe biden has announced his nominee for secretary of defense retired general who is the main architect of the u.s. led offensive against as long state in syria and iraq more on that in the 2nd half of the program.

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just far beyond our wildest imagination. welcome back turkey's president has condemned an alleged racist incidents that interrupted a champions league match between paris st germain and instead in stamboul here and the french capital scandal involved a match official but present everyone has pointed his finger elsewhere our days alexei if you had a shot skate picks up the story well it's not too often that events at a football pitch turn political but that is the case when the turkish president lashed out at the french authorities for an incident on the pitch involving a romanian official let's listen to what am i going to have to say this approach is unforgivable our determines times will continue france has become a country where racist rhetoric actions are intensified. now of course there has

been some sort of a war of words between president aragon and his french counterpart emmanuel mccrone for a while now but in this case of course the official was romanian it was a usa for match held in paris between barry sounds german and istanbul bush actually here now the incident happened just about midway through the game when one of the officials was clarifying as to which stuff member of the turkish club he needed to send off for unsportsmanlike behavior and after that he used the word black but use that in romanian which in romanian sounded very close to an offensive word in english that caused a very angry reaction from the entire bench of the istanbul club and the club itself the team decided to walk off the pitch in protest believing this was a racist incident now of course this caused now widespread condemnation you a for promised very thorough investigation into this case and the club itself but the sons are among the french club came out with this statement all forms of racism go against the values held by perry since the club's chairman staff and players

there are however opposing forces in this case believing that this was not a case of racism one of them is a former liverpool what ford and england national team player john barnes who left out on twitter saying that this official was simply speaking his language and this was not a case of racism as it often happens these days in the world in any case the match will be replayed at least that part of the match which wasn't played last night will be replayed tonight in paris with a different set of officials but it's interesting to see whether emmanuel necron will respond to this swipe by his counterpart regard is that the french really had nothing to do with it. 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 will 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 us central command he designed and executed the campaign he did ultimately beat back isis lloyd austin served under the obama administration a 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 widely remembered for admitting that a $500000000.00 training program in syria had failed back in 2015 it was shut down after producing just a few trained fighters and some 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 is we're talking for 4 or 5 years is that still the goal to have about 12000 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 established for shelves 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 you know a presidential stumbling block for a lloyd austin candidacy 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 that senior research fellow at the global policy institute or assembly thinks exceptions will be made. general masses became drawn to the defense secretary also had to overcome 1st hurdle and he overcame it without too much difficulty and of course that was senators of the time was that this is just a one off 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 about matters

they don't like it's on around and. make difficulties for often particularly as it would be on us of others i mean he is all so would be the 1st black man who is the head of the pentagon so i don't think anyone's going to want with any hurdles in his wake. that's our wrap up of the day's top news for now but don't forget you can always find us on many of your favorite sussan media platforms like twitter and instagram for up to the minute reports. but is the fate of the progressive movement can continue to co-exist with the mainstream establishment left is its current trajectory. and temperance recipe part of a greater political real. problem

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this country tries desperately to stem a west coronavirus death for capita rate the trumps usa brazil coming up in the show 42 years since the communist party of china voted deng xiaoping paramount leader of the people's republic paving the way for lifting 800000000 people out apology we speak to the britain who introduced. because of the global superpower of the 21st century it is routinely defamed in the west for terminating us at your money power and as the un predicts coronavirus may push over 200000000 more people into extreme poverty we speak to a book along with a novelist about his portrayal of london's underbelly of ultraviolet crime arguably created by upper class political ideology and ask why politicians in the media get violent crimes so wrong all this more coming up in today's going underground at 1st as china looks to vist stars after a successful moon landing and with its public health vaccine program looking to be the largest in history on top of lifting 800000000 people out of poverty will

nations look to the people's republic not just for public health but for the organization of society itself joining me now is robert glover o.b.e. whose new book as many as the stars a story of change for the children of china charts the openness of china to respond to new methods of development for children he joins me now from nora to norfolk rather welcome to going underground china in the news probably more of a coronavirus but people will know that china's one child policy arguably may have helped it become the superpower of the 21st century people are going to be surprised on reading your new book that there was no fostering programs for children one of the side effects of that one child policy before you turned up on the scene well that's right thank you very much for having me yes when we landed in china they want me to see i had known no understanding at source of course most of the children. were either abandoned or found their way and ended up

believe that you should and with a very little younger babies got the opportunity for international doctrine but there is nothing happening in china now i know you write about your child in oratory speaking to me from now but the book tells of how you were a navy royal navy submarine. during the cold war why is it you didn't seem to have any of the prejudices which are arguably being thrown about now i mean boris johnson has just put 6 enough 1000000000 extra into the military budget and says china is an adversary well why did it not affect you that china is an enemy it's not some country that you need to go out there and help the hundreds of thousands of children that you've helped after all work from an early stage when i was a teenager most teenagers look to hollywood and the united states you know for. their attraction are i was just fascinated by this culture. for centuries

very mysterious very interesting their interests and i think once i found i was there you know how we perceive the chinese is not the way the people on the ground are the people i certainly were were with of are the most humble generous kind hearted and seeing the culturally intricate nature of their family networks and how they make up traditionally the community was fascinating because as we said god and football big facets of this story take us back to when you arrive in hong kong because you paid a nightmarish picture of british rule dong kong you talk about. triad gangs and. the kind of crime ridden on kong that was very different there we see today when we talk about hong kong being encroached by the chinese authorities what was on the

lake well i mean again today.