u.k. regulators warning people would severe allergies should avoid taking the new covert vaccine. we received at the reaction. without warning comes as america's drug authority real's 6 people taking part in the trials for the vaccine. seeking to split facebook comes under fire as the u.s. government and the coalition of $48.00 states sued the social media giant accusing it of using illegal tactics to maintain its dominance. and france pushes ahead with a bill aimed at tackling islamic extremism with measures including the surveillance of mosques.

live from moscow thanks for joining us tonight on our team. is welcome to the broke . british health regulators are warning people with a history of allergic reactions against taking a new coronavirus vaccine this comes after 2 people who received the job suffered a reaction one day on day one rather of the u.k.'s 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 were 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 doing 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 this 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 a vaccine need 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 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 should any symptoms while 4 people in the group that received the real vaccine display the 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 do not represent a frequency above that expected in the general population. they've already dismissed these concerns in this new scientific link between. may merely an anomaly why why some people suffered from these symptoms and others didn't do. a group a 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 to 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 quarter was cut safely they believe had to be cut to get a room to roll 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. mana just some sort of you says the news raises questions about the new. do you. use your terms. or simply want you need to buy it but at least this increase company summit corporation it was they are so what do they get by how these. on the market doesn't always work there she orders behind the scenes that execution economic interests of us are going to see we not are all standoffs we have her do in the case of the astra zeneca assume the star student thing somebody did are not going to reports of oh no don't you go don't lose now i'm in new delhi or talking about big asian scientists in all the suffering from empty beer and energy in men's issues some serious i mean it could be. these are serious things they should be should investigate it not only

a thing that goldman should know before the order. scenes but also the party has to be formed for them to make you a decision as to where their duty citizens and. in the meantime donald trump to sign an executive order aimed at ensuring americans have priority when it comes to access to vaccines produced in the u.s. both trump and president elect joe biden a confident about the prospects of mass vaccination signed the executive order to ensure that american citizens have 1st priority to receive american vaccines and then we're going to be working with other countries all over the world this team will help get at the latest at the last 100000000 covert 19 vaccine at least 100000000 covert vaccine shots into the arms of the american people in the 1st 100 days 100000000 shots in the 1st 100 days well this week the yet pfizer vaccine is expected to become the 1st to be approved for emergency use in the u.s.

supplies they will be limited as many doses have already been shipped abroad a level open that entails. 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 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 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 $900.00 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 $100000000.00 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 doses of pfizer's vaccine is agreed to a contract and beyond that we have 5 other vaccine candidates including $100000000.00 is 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 human rights groups warning about the upcoming shortage of covert vaccines in poor countries a report by the people's vaccine alliance which concludes and seems a national an oxfam found wealthy nations have reserved enough vaccines to cover their populations 3 times over until the end of next year and as a result only one in 10 people in the 70 poorest countries will have access to cova jobs the group is urging farmers to share their intellectual property to what i want the farms to produce the drugs at a lower cost them a call to discuss the issue with oxfam snapchat or some. 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 not printing 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. who funded using taxpayer 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 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 profits way 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 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 kind of hobble the global economy in the interest of protecting the profits of. social media giant facebook behaving the lot but mobile news it's being sued but almost every state in the u.s. trust concerns the country's federal trade commission's fall the lawsuit so it's pushing for a breakup of the company legal action targets facebook's acquisitions of the instagram and whatsapp platforms. facebook has maintained its monopoly position by buying up companies that present competitive threats and by imposing restrictive policies that unjustifiably him to actual will potential rivals to facebook does not school can also require facebook is really coming under fire now that it is

facing an anti-trust lawsuit from the state's attorneys general of $48.00 different states across the united states the allegation that's being made in this lawsuit essentially states that facebook has violated the law and violated competitive behavior during its acquisition in the early 201314 of instagram and whatsapp at the time that facebook acquired instagram it had about 30000000 users today it has over a 1000000000 users worldwide at the time that it acquired facebook said that instagram wasn't really a competitor but today instagram has become very much a competitor to facebook and fully integrated into the facebook system for advertising data collection of users and even cross promotion of post here's what some of those states attorneys general had to say about the lawsuit today we are sending a clear and strong message to facebook and every other company that any efforts to stifle competition. hurt small businesses reduced innovation and creativity will be

met with the full force of our offices the f.t.c. filed their own lawsuit against facebook today as well. and we look forward to collaborating with them in the litigation process that what makes this lawsuit very different than the antitrust action that was brought by the department of justice against google earlier this year in the united states is that during the antitrust action against google the u.s. government said that it had no prescription is prescribed no actual solution to the problem but in this case things are very different in this case the state's attorneys general are calling for an actual divestment of instagram and whatsapp what does that mean it means that if these states attorneys general when their lawsuit they would force facebook to actually sell off the assets of what's app and instagram a very big deal in the tech world. still to come this hour so bought and courts control to say yes you pics of a ton general but the question will middle east records to be his defense secretary

will the details coming up shortly.

join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to us from the world of politics sports business i'm showbusiness i'll see you then. welcome back muslim groups in france have lashed out at the government over a new bill which targets islamic radicalism the measures follow a wave of terror attacks they will make it easier to stop mosques receiving foreign aid and offer protection from moderate community leaders shot at their reports from paris. 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 has to defend itself and it has 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 by local authorities now will have more power to deal with religious venues 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 macross

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 they will be huge about 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 the russian authorities are cracking down on bars and restaurants that failed to abide by covert restrictions police conducted several raids in st petersburg on tuesday night targeting bars that illegally remained open after 11 pm the searches were part of citywide police inspections ahead of the new year holidays when all food and drink establishment there will be shut down many cafe owners have said they'll have to defy the rules or face financial ruin. and kind of the province

people who refuse voluntary vaccination against code could face a number of restrictions the warning of the province's health minister there may be some restrictions in terms of travel or other restrictions death 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 people will be made to have the job or therapies and see if the vaccinations will be voluntary earlier counted us promised throughout the country would receive its 1st those of prizes job next week but it'll analyst alexandra bruno says the threats and restrictions are the best way to win people's trust in the vaccine. i think. forcing people to be back and they did 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 or the jones 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 a 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 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 lead u.s. central command he designed and executed a campaign that ultimately beat back isis lloyd austin served under the obama administration leading the united states central command it was the main military architect of the u.s. led offensive against the islamic state in syria and iraq is why they remembered for admitting a half a 1000000000 dollar training program in syria that failed i can 2015 it was shut down after producing literally a handful of trained 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 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 shelves 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 the potential stumbling block for lloyd austin is candidacies 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 a secretary of defense but senior research fellow at the global policy institute george somewhere he thinks exceptions will be made to the rules don't know america's. trump defense secretary also had overcome this horrible and he overcame it without too much difficulty 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

austin but they could really. be honest about it i mean he is all the would be the 1st black man who would be head of the pentagon so i don't think anyone with any hook. up next thought a documentary presents a portrait of america a year before the election exploring key social issues gun violence crisis immigration and homelessness we're back in 30 minutes time with the latest headlines do join us again then. geysers financial survival guide stacey let's alert us out fill out let's say i'm a strike. on greece of the fight well street fraud thank you for.

destroying 6 that's true. slavery. problem drugs don't do is come from unscrupulous dealers but from pharmacies to in every state in the united states we see me very sharp increase in the number of people seeking treatment for addiction to prescription opioids invited to america under the banner of medicine persisted with the pain but instead of trying to wean him off though she just goes after dose after dose after dose and really became his drug dealer so who's to blame patients doctors manufacturers all the governments. seem wrong. just don't all. get to shape

out these days become educated and in gains from an equal betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart. just to look for common ground. when they start crossing for this area in the desert this is where the most of the fatalities happen and it's different reasons the heat or the cold like it's very cold at night and very hot that the day nobody can carry enough water to survive. the trip. to me it's so easy to connect because i'm coming from there but it's also so hard to see like. to see that people don't understand here and it's hard

every day is. a struggle because it's. it's not easy these people are dying in this just injustice nobody should die that way nobody should lose their life trying to get a better life. or trying to help their families. they're coming for come from countries that are in conflict and buried them and so poor people there they don't have any chance to survive they basically abandoned by their governments oh and by alone so. to me many of these cases that i see every day they are there that they are going to die there anyway they know the risks and they still do it because there is something really bad happened there. and they lobby or instead of just get out it is 400 they made it out of us here in

the border but they're not going to leave us if you are coming to that if you must do you better. reporting to us as you know and. it's going to be handled in the north of being very well. to do is it will be good looking let's look at it do you mean good is the. place again this is the. me tell you i think it would get me into his 1000 meals that doesn't exist i'm going to pay someone a little does this place is the sort of those that will receive us and i can only get much you know me you know this implant i'm going to show my boys had to do not do this you know what the will to have to remember you know one family. in accord with all that i'm going to get. a good deal and i'm gone i mean what i. mean and you know my thoughts about to go to some of them to.

our. deputy in the bad. thing they get also and. then we occasionally have at least.