if you do if you see. this hour's headlines stories u.k. regulators warn people with severe allergies to avoid taking the. vaccine for some people who receive fell ill. the warning comes as america's drug feels about 6 people who took part in trials for the pfizer biotech vaccine. and the french president pushes ahead with a bill i think extremism measures which include surveillance. live from moscow welcome to our to international my names you know neal on 30

minutes of news and views start. british health regulators are warning people with a history of allergic reactions against taking the fall. vaccine it comes after 2 people who received the job fell ill one day after the u.k. launched their nation program. any person with a history of a significant allergic reaction to a vaccine medicine or food should not receive the pfizer beyond seem 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 have a history of allergies and they're very very 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 who's 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 people are taking the vaccine you know these deaths 2 of the people who died received the jab while 4 of them politically cebu injection 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 advance 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 is they seem 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 showed any symptoms while 4 people in the group that received the real vaccine display these symptoms of partial 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 that 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 risk if they take the vaccine obviously. it is understood that every call to cut safety they believe had to be cut to get a room to rule a vaccine out 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 decades 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 to see it successful vaccine return the world to more or less normal so there is you know a sense that people should approach vaccination with abundant couche little bit

more in the story we heard from epidemiologist marcelo from at denali he ses the revelations posed grave concerns over the safety of the pfizer biotech jobs. these . brits if you supposedly want you really did buy it by decent race company summit corp it was they are so motivated by how these. owner market doesn't always work there she orders behind the scenes that execution economy interests the star and the other sooner all standoffs we have terror indicators of the astra zeneca assume the star student thing somebody did on mobile reports of oh no don't you go now i'm in the lead or talking about big asians are no use in only suffering from memphis to be area and energy. issues and the dr seuss i mean it could be. these are serious things they should be so don't investigate it this is not only

a thing that gorman should known before to be ordered. the scenes but also the party has to be formed sort of intimate if you will to see shouldn't a store where there are decent seats and. earlier donald trump signed an executive order aimed at ensuring americans have priority when it comes to access the vaccines purchased in the u.s. both the going in coming presidents are upbeat about the prospects of mosques and. 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 well this week the pfizer bio on tech vaccine is expected to become the 1st to be

approved for emergency use in the u.s. but supplies will be limited as many doses of already being shipped abroad picking up the story for us kill up and. 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 baxi will had 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 initial order over 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 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 100000000 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 them 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 back across the planet private property and free market something that america loves human rights groups are warning of an upcoming shortage of covert vaccines in low income countries according by rich nations a report by the peoples maxine alliance which includes amnesty international and the charity oxfam. wealthy nations reserves enough vaccines to cover their populations 3 times over until the end of next year those a result only one in 10 people in the 70 countries will have access to co but joe the group is urging pharma johns to share their intellectual property to allow other firms to produce the drugs in the workforce earlier i spoke with mark slawson head of inequality policy. you know it would be a suicidal politician who did not look after his own citizens our point is we do

not think it's except for rich countries not united states for the united kingdom to protect the profits and the intellectual property in the monopoly of these big pharmaceutical companies so that they have enough vaccine for themselves but they don't allow vaccination for the world all the leading candidates that we're hearing names were funded using taxpayers' money lead them to public property and not a prop to progress in trying to be a lot of old versus real isn't if you're going to give away your intellectual property you've got these big big companies who are spending billions or you're saying that from the public purse as well but what incentive do they actually have to do all that work bring it to market and then just give it away it's not going to happen is it everyone makes their money no one is going to give these things away for free that's the point the point is the intellectual property and the barriers that puts up on behalf of these big pharmaceutical companies need to enormous profit why beyond what's reasonable and in this situation is public money in the

public good i think as the months and we see rich nations making their populations and we still see many many people dying in poor countries the pressure on the brands of these pharmaceutical firms the kind of moral arguments are we think we can move beyond a profit tax in you to a people's vaccine which is always to me in the interests of the global economy it doesn't make sense to us to be kind of hopeful with global economy in the interest of protecting the profits a few firms. you know with our to international still ahead the u.s. president elect joe biden kurds controversy as he nominates a retired general with a less than stellar record in the middle east to be his secretary of defense a role which also normally goes to a civilian or not so head in the. one

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that's geysers on it. they say maybe the girl a. lot of judaism this is a central plank supported by the government and the problem right now so you stop to. welcome back to the program russian authorities are cracking down on bars and restaurants that feel to abide by code 1000 restrictions police conducted several raids in st petersburg on tuesday night targeting bars illegally remained open after 11 pm the searches were part of city wide police inspections ahead of the new year holidays when all food drink establishment there will be shut down many cafe owners in some petersburg have said they'll have to defy the rules and stay open or face financial collapse. when it counted on tardio province

people who refuse supposedly voluntary vaccination against covert 19 could face a number of restraint shin's that is the warning of 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 made concerns that people will be made to have the job but the authorities are insisting that vaccination will be voluntary earlier counted as prime minister announced that the country would receive its 1st doses of pfizer's vaccine next week political analyst alice under bruno says the threatened restrictions aren't an ideal way to make people trust in a 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 rollout of the vaccine nobody has been vaccinated yet and at any rate the 1st people who would be vaccinated will be medical staff and personnel in high risk places for example old age homes and. other similar facilities so i think the terrio health minister position was irresponsible in fact because i myself become even more. concerned about this practice in. the us president elect joe biden has chosen the retired general as his defense secretary if approved by the senate 67 year old lloyd austin would become the 1st

black person 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 turn to austin who then lead u.s. central command he designed and executed the campaign that ultimately beat back isis lloyd austin served on the obama administration and leading the u.s. central command he was the main military architect of the u.s. led offensive against this law makes they turn syria under a rock he's widely remembered for admitting that a 500000000 dollar training program in syria badly field back in 2015 it was shut down after producing literally a one full of train fighters instead of the several 1000 planned. can you tell us what the total number of trained fighters remains it's a small number. the ones that are in the fight. is

is we're talking 445 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 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 lloyd austin his candidacy is the fact 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 said you know he thinks exceptions will be made to the rules. general mattis would begin trumps the defense secretary also had to overcome this horrible and he

overcame it without too much difficulty and of course there was some of the time we said that 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 all stand but they clearly 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 with any. muslim groups in front. of the government over a new bill which targets islamic radicalism the measures being pushed by president mccrone follow a wave of terrorist attacks on will include tougher civilians from mosques on curbs on home schooling in paris here charlotte dubin ski. it was presented to the council of ministers on wednesday and it has now been approved by the prime

minister care sticks 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. radical islam islam is an ideology directed to dividing people and spreading hatred and violence in society faced with this the republic intends to defend itself the local authorities now will have more power to deal with religious spend news where they say there is hate speech coming from them whether there is a call to violence 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 foreign funding 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 war has already provoked a 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 illegal 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 as 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 see 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 at going to be incredibly heated as will the reaction on the street charlotte dubin ski to converse through the rubble values your midweek news round up for an hour we will keep the conversation going up at top of the hour after some more great programs on our international or super.

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progressive's be part of a greater political realigning. to discuss this and more i'm joined by my guests jamie right in los angeles she is the founder of the right ball and a political also in los angeles we have is about she is an independent journalist and co-host of the congo out and in new york we have john burnett he is co-chair of public affairs and public policy for new york republican state committee right across up rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i was appreciate it maybe it's going to be unless angelus as a put it. progressive on the panel here what is the state of the progressive movement now you did get the vote out for joe biden at least rhetorically and publicly close ranks and as the presumptive president of the united states next

will be inaugurated in january he's done everything in his power to show progressive so was it worth it what i would say to the progressive movement is extremely fractured at this moment there are a lot of people on the left who feel that now that word is taken for granted and simple o.c. has color some progress that a lot of people have called them so that progress that it has become a rebranding a new wing of the democratic party one that isn't really challenging the status quo politicians even if you look at the squad they're not really challenging nancy pelosi when it comes to that is more stimulus package she just pushed out which basically cut the money and have from what was initially going to happen so there is a huge fracturing in the progressive movement it is a lot of people voted for joe biden thinking that they were making damage and in my

personal opinion i don't see it was worth it i don't we are seeing joe biden fill his cabinet with people that are diametrically opposed to everything for growth of their sense of value whether that's medicare for all whether that is you know cutting the pentagon and cutting our military budget whether it's something as simple as getting a green you deal or any sort of cuts to the environment to the emissions and any sort of progress for the environment i'm going to brief you i mean can i ask you know can i ask you personally do you have any buyer's remorse because i'm sorry and i'm very sympathetic conservative but i'm very sympathetic to a lot of the rest of ideas here but i could've told you so and i don't say that but that of any clique oh no you know i personally i personally did not vote for joe biden i went to her party so i am definitely i definitely did not go that route i mean i live in california as well i was definitely one of the people that had 0 problems.