well saying you know what i'm interested in money we just want to have our own money have our own peace of mind and you can go away. u.k. regular business warn the people with severe allergies should avoid taking. some who received the reaction. that morning as america's drug authority reveals 6 people taking part in the trials for the. seeking to split facebook comes under fire as the u.s. government and a coalition of $48.00 states sued the social media giant accusing it of using illegal tactics to maintain its going to. france pushes ahead with the bill aimed at tackling islamic extremism with measures including. mosques.

live from moscow thanks for joining us tonight on. the program. british health warning people with a history of allergic reactions against taking the new coronavirus vaccine this comes after 2 people who received the pfizer jobs suffered a reaction on day one 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'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 good 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 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 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 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 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 rule a vaccine out as quickly as possible to get a vaccine out now before the end of the year less than a year is this is a process that usually takes decades it could take take years at least to study the effects of the vaccine to study how people take it throughout the years you know how it affects them and their life 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 very you know

a sense that people should approach vaccination with abundant caution. managers from a shot of a lot of the knowledge says the news raises questions about the new job. it is. possibly want you need to buy it but at least it's not really nice company summit corp it was they are so what do they get by how the. owner market doesn't always work there she orders behind the scenes that execution economic interests of us are going to sue not are divorced and those we have heard do in the case of the astra zeneca i see in the star serious things i mean they're doing not only reports of oh no don't you go now in new delhi or talking about big asians are no use in all the suffering from memphis to the area and energy. issues and the death is serious i mean it could be. these are serious things they should be so diversity

aged not only a thing that gorman should know before the order. scenes but also the party has to be formed children to make you a decision as to whether g.-d. succeeds and donald trump has signed an executive order aimed at ensuring americans have priority when it comes to access to vaccines produced in the u.s. both from vice president elect joe biden are 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 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 of those have already been shipped abroad and i'm open explains. 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 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 why is or 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 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 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 we'll have 100000000 doses to find this vaccine is agreed to in our contract and beyond that we have 5 other vaccine candidates including 100000000 doses on the way from london so what does this america 1st document really mean pfizer privately funded to work without u.s. government support so washington cannot force its will to be 1st on the company and

its to sell its vaccine across the planet private property and free markets something that america loves human rights groups are warning of an upcoming shortage of code vaccines in poor countries the report by the people's vaccine alliance which includes the international found wealthy nations of reserves enough vaccines to cover their populations 3 times over until the end of next year as a result only one in 10 people in the poorest 70 countries will have access to covert jobs through. the share their intellectual property to what i want to produce the drugs as a lower cost. you don't know neil discussed the issue with. 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 acceptable for rich countries like the united states for the united kingdom to protect the profits and the intellectual property and 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 right now were funded using taxpayers' money these are public property and not the proper to private trying to be a lot of old versus real is 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 or worry for free that isn't 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 is reasonable and in this situation is public money in the public good i think as to the months unfold 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 into a people's backs in which is always in the in the interest of the global economy it doesn't make sense to us to kind of hobble with global economy in the interests of protecting the profits of. social media giants facebook won't be hitting the like button over news it's being sued by almost every state in the us trust concerns the country's federal trade commission has filed a lawsuit to push in for a breakup of the company the legal action targets facebook's acquisitions of things to and what's out platforms. facebook has maintained its monopoly position by buying up companies that present competitive threats and by imposing restrictive policies that unjustifiably into 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 to prescribe 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 joe padan ports controversy as he picks a retired general with a questionable middle east record to be his defense secretary already tells coming

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which is a planet with 5 moons an atmosphere highly active geology and. a little water of the ocean and since you're in need. of those for why all this is just far beyond our wildest imagination. welcome back to the program muslim groups in france have lashed out at the government over a new bill which talk that islamic radicalism the measures for a wave of terror attacks they'll make it easier to stop mosques receiving foreign aid more protection from moderate to community leaders some of the 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 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 by 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 huge reaction in some muslim majority countries who've also been unhappy about the fact that present 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 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. russian authorities are cracking down on bars and restaurants that failed her boy boy code 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's holidays when all food and drink establishments there will be shut down when a cafe owners have said they'll have to defy the rules or face financial ruin. or in canada's on toro province people refuse supposedly voluntary vaccination covert

19 could face a number of restrictions that's 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 that people will be made to have the job authorities though are insisting that vaccination will be voluntary earlier kind of as prime minister announced the country would receive its 1st those of prizes vaccine next week little analyst alexandra bruno says the threat and restrictions aren't an ideal way to make people trust the vaccine. i think. forcing people to be vaccinated with the. premise that we've heard in ontario is not the best way to persuade the population to consider being vaccinated in fact it is the worst way

to do it especially now that we are in the very early stages of the rollout of the vaccine nobody has been vaccinated yet and at any rate the 1st people who will be vaccinated will be medical staff and personnel in high risk places for example aldridge homes and. other similar facilities so i think the ontario health minister position was irresponsible in fact because i myself become even more. concerned about this backswing. vaccinating the economy that's the theme of 3 day research forum here in moscow bringing together scientists and business leaders is called innovative practice and the goal is to rethink the way we live our lives a lot of the drastic changes brought about by the pandemic as a heavy focus on education including the switch to remote learning along with

advances in biotechnology. it's all happening online is being organized by moscow state university along with the non-governmental organizations to go and i guess speakers include the heads of leading corporations and investment firms. yes and it is obvious that the bus coronavirus era will change the ways in mechanisms of communication between people open up new possibilities for the development of digitalization in key aspects of our lives to be prepared for new realities we need to understand how people's values have changed in order to develop society in the economy in the new circumstances and number of challenges not only educational but also technological must be addressed in this regard it is particularly important today to support high tech companies to develop digital and artificial intelligence technologies online education new eco biotechnologies and of course the id field. us president elect joe biden has chosen a retired general as is the friend secretary if approved by the senate 67 year old

lloyd austin would become the 1st african-american to head the pentagon. i chose lloyd austin 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 tend to austin who then lead us central command he designed and executed the campaign did ultimately beat back isis road austin served under the obama administration leading the u.s. central command it was the main military architects of the u.s. led offensive against those that mixed state in syria and iraq is one remembered for missing a half a $1000000000.00 training program in syria had 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 and. the ones that are in the fight is 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 gone we won't reach the goal that we had initially established for swells but what about 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 so you know research fellow at the global policy institute george somewhere he thinks exceptions will be made to the rules. general matters would begin trumps the defense secretary also had overcome this horrible any over game without too much difficulty of course there were senators at the time was there this is just one or are we 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 matters they're not likely to turn around. and they get all these all of the end but they could really. be honest about it i mean he is all so the would be the 1st black man who would be head of the pentagon so i don't think anyone would want any hurdles. you know mosques space x. starship projects or suffered a setback after a prototype exploded was attempting to land incident happened on wednesday evening after a high altitude several wattle flight test in texas. the flight which was to test things ranging from engine performance to aerodynamic capabilities had gone well so much so the space x. founder has already called the launch

a success adding the company got all the data it needed to start a project as a number of goals including space tourism and mars causation and while some of the starship went badly this year the company started receiving nasa funding for launching new systems. boom bust is coming up next all eyes are on the nation's lawmakers attempts to approve additional unemployment benefits plus the latest on bricks and vaccination program rollout. back in half an hour with the latest headlines. what is the fate of the progressive movement can it continue to co-exist with the mainstream establishment left is its current trajectory intellectual dead end and temperance recipe part of

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this is the one business show you can't afford to miss i'm sorry and washington coming out canada became the 3rd country to approve pfizer covert 19 vaccines the u.k. health authorities that warn against giving the shots to those prone to severe allergic reactions the clock is ticking for congress to pass a covert relief bill as they struggle to reach an agreement with benefits to expire at the end of the month we have a panel standing by to help a lot to get started. canada became the latest and 3rd country to authorize pfizer and biotechs coven 1000 vaccine pfizer spokesperson for the canadian unit said the drug maker will supply 76000000 doses of the vaccine to canada the country joy into

britain and bahrain in approving the vaccine and said it already secured 249000 and actual doses to begin in occupations by early next week this comes as the u.s. federal drug administration confirmed the safety and efficacy of pfizer's vaccine. and said it showed a favorable safety profile but u.k. health authorities said there may be a warning for those with allergy history artie's trinity charges has the details. new concerns are brewing over allergic reactions potentially brought on by the pfizer and by a one tech cove in 1000 vaccine the same vaccine set for us approval by the f.d.a. this week as the u.k. started amounts of food to immunize the country beginning with health care workers and the elderly 2 staffers from britain's national health service with a history of severe allergic reactions developed mild allergy symptoms after going .