headline stories this hour u.k. regulator is warning people with severe allergies to avoid taking the fall. vaccine for some people who received the. morning america's drug for it he reveals that 6 people who took part in trials for the fall. also ahead on the program social media giant facebook comes under fire as the u.s. government on a coalition of $48.00 states filed lawsuits against the company. and the french president pushes ahead with a bill. with measures which include mosque surveillance.

minutes. 1 in the morning in nairobi in kuwait and right here in moscow this thursday december the 10th a warm welcome to our international our top story british health regulators are warning people with a history of allergic reactions against taking the pfizer biotech vaccine and it comes after 2 people who received the job came one day after the u.k. launched a mass 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 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 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 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 it but the problem. here is that there's there's heaps 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 but peer review the data that it gathered throughout the clinical trial so they really gave that to to various officials and watchdogs we 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 do 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 if they take the vaccine obviously it must be it is understood that every call to was cut safely 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 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 are you know sense that people should approach vaccination with abundant. earlier donald trump signed an executive order aimed at ensuring americans have priority when i tell them to access the vaccines produced in the u.s. both the outgoing and incoming president are all about the prospects of a nation 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

the big promise is this week they pfizer a biotech 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 came up on. 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 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 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 agreements rumors are circulating that after that pfizer offered to sell more to the united states but trump said no deal now the white house out denies that let's do the math pfizer says you need 2 doses per person 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 it's a pfizer has vaccine is agreed to in the contract and beyond that we have 5 other vaccine candidates including $100000000.00 just on the way from london so what does this america 1st document really mean pfizer privately funded its work without u.s.

government support so washington cannot force its will to be 1st on the company and its free to sell its backplane across the planet private property and free markets something that america loves. right to a developing story not a social media giant facebook won't be hitting the like button over news it's being sued by almost every state in the u.s. over trust concerns the country's federal trade commission has filed a lawsuit too and is pushing for a breakup of the company the legal action targets facebook's acquisitions of the instagram platforms. facebook has maintained its monopoly position by buying up companies that present competitive threats and by imposing restrictive policies that unjustifiably into actual potential rivals that facebook can also acquire today's suit should send a clear message to facebook and every other company efforts to stifle competition

reduce innovation privacy protections well be met with the full force of almost every torney general's office in the nation. for more this news let's talk to investigative journalist and host of artie's boom bust ben swan ben good to see you again i suppose when most of the country is suing you that's pretty serious yeah i would say so i mean you're talking about the states attorneys general of as you said almost every state in the entire country essentially saying that you have violated the law what facebook is being accused of is essentially anti-competitive practices when it acquired both instagram and whatsapp this is pretty significant because back when instagram was 1st acquired by facebook it had about 30000000 users will today it has a 1000000000 users worldwide now facebook said at the time they instagram is not really a competitor it's ok that we do this but what these lawsuits essentially say is that what facebook was really doing was number one trying to eliminate and stifle

competition and number 2 trying to put users in a position where facebook could access their private information sell that data to anyone they wanted to because there were going to be other options for social media out there and that's essentially what happened you know when you look into the ramifications of this they look huge ben thanks for breaking all the time for us this hour ben saul host of artes. human rights groups are warning of an upcoming shortage of covert vaccines in low income countries juta hoarding by rich nations a report by the people's vaccine alliance which includes on this the international chardy oxfam find that wealthy nations have reserved in the facts seems to cover their populations 3 times over until the end of next year as a result only one in 10 people in the 70 poorest countries will have access to cope a chance the group is urging farm insurance to share their intellectual property to

allow other firms to produce the drugs a lower cost though earlier i spoke with lawson head of inequality policy ox fam. you know you 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 milk committee of these big pharmaceutical companies so that they have enough vaccine for themselves but they don't allow banks a nation for the world all the leading candidates that we're hearing names who funded using tax payers money lead them to public property and not a prop to progress in trying to be a lot of old versus realism and 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 that 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 ignore most profit why beyond what's reasonable and in this situation is public money in the public good i think as the months and forward 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 the 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 the kind of public global economy in the interest of protecting the profits if you. will to a quarter of an hour into the program still to come us president elect joe biden of course controversy as he nominates a retired general with a less than

a stellar record in the middle east to be is secretary of state big role in the cabinet or not to head in the program. what is the fate of the progressive movement can it continue to co-exist with the mainstream establishment left is its current trajectory intellectual and temperance recipe part of a greater political field. is your media a reflection of reality. in the world transformed. what will make you feel safe.

tyson nation community. are you going the right way or are you being so. direct. what is true what is faith. in the world corrupted you need to descend. to join us in the depths. or a maybe in the shallows. at lowick and let's start in russia where authorities are cracking down on bars restaurants feel to abide by kobe had 19 restrictions police conducted several raids in st petersburg choose the night targeting bars that illegally remained open after 11 pm the searches report of city wide police inspections ahead of the new

year holidays when all food and drink establishment there will be shut down many cafe owners in some petersburg have said they'll have to defy the rules stay open or face financial clubs. muslim groups in from subs lashed out at the government over a new bill which targets islamic radicalism the measures being pushed by president mccrone follow a wave of terrorist attacks in the country will include making it easier to stop loss from receiving foreign financing and more protection for moderate community leaders in paris here shortly. 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 republic in 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 present math on this defended the fact that blasphemy is not illegal here in france no 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 mcraney trouble as soon as possible but some here in france see that this law 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. here to a story that's got a lot of people talking going kelleher's on tauriel province people who refuse supposedly voluntary vaccination against kobe had 19 code face a number of restrictions that is the warning of the provinces health minister there may be some restrictions in terms of travel or other restrictions step may arise as a result of not having a vaccination but that's going to be up to the person themselves to make their decision on the basis of what's more important to them the health officials remarks come amid concerns that people will be made to her of the job but the authorities are insisting that vaccination will be voluntary earlier keller's prime minister annoyance that the country would receive its 1st doses of vaccine next week

political as a listener bruce sees the threat and restrictions on an ideal way to make people trust in seeing. 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.

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 pentacle i chose lloyd austin is my nominee for secretary of defense because he will do whatever it takes to defend the american people when the islamic state emerged as a terrorist threat in iraq and syria president obama and i turn to austin who then led the u.s. central command he designed and executed the campaign that ultimately beat back isis lloyd austin served honorably obama administration leading the u.s. central command and 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 badly field back in 2015 it was shut

down after producing literally a full of trained fighters in so that the several 1000 plant. 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 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 gone we won't reach the goal that we had initially starbucks 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 and a potential stumbling block for lloyd austin is come to the see is the fact when he retired 4 years ago and that's important because 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

joins and really thinks exceptions will be made to the. general market is. drawn to the defense secretary also who had who come to this horrible and you know game without too much difficulty of course there was some of the time was 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 peculiarly as you know will be honest about it i mean he is old. would be the black man who would be head of the pentagon so i don't think anyone with any who. is your news round up or no on my input for the day done we'll be here though keeping the conversation going at the top of the hour do you hope you'll join him

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hello and welcome to cross talk are all things are considered on pure labelle what is the fate of the progressive movement can it continue to co-exist with the mainstream establishment left is its current trajectory in electoral did m. and kemp aggressives 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 box herm and political and also in los angeles we have 3 around what is about she is an independent journalist and co-host of the congo couch 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 may i was going to you know and unless angeles as a put the 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 his power to shown progressive so was it worth it why would they say that progressive is extremely fractured at this moment there are a lot of people on the left who feel that now that we're taken for granted and alosi has called herself a progressive a lot of people oppose all the progress that it has become a reprinting 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 most stimulus package she just. push 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 know 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 the pentagon in 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 earth 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 they're not any clique oh no you know i personally i personally did not vote for joe biden i want 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 telling people to vote their conscience and i die don't i agree with you 100 percent peter i told you so is right i mean we a lot of us were telling people this is exactly what's going to happen was a divided administration they're going to put in people that aren't going to respond to you because you already think you could pull a blue no matter who i hope as the 2022 comes up the strategy will be different ok because it has to be if you want to became remain relevant that's what i said in my introduction here jamie if i can go to you how in the world explain to me in simple words because.