shares plummet. is a warning to. those with a history of allergies america's drug regulator reveal 6 people died during trials with paralysis a possible side of. london in the book because they are. remarkable getting really emotional while calling for tougher covert restrictions in the. number of deaths today this appeal hasn't won over everybody. after 15 years germany is a country that does not want to protect its borders against illegal immigration and instead imposing curfews and its features and. branding on facebook the u.s.

government and almost every single state takes a legal action against the social media giant accusing it of breaking the law to maintain its online. today balance exactly 15 years that article has been throughout the day will be bringing you a look back at some of our major stories from a decade of questioning more. of a very good morning to you watching our international. shares in pharmaceutical giant pfizer dropped nearly 2 percent on wednesday on the news of deaths and warnings in the u.k. people with a history of allergic reactions were advised against taking the company's kovi jab well in the u.s. drug regulator the f.d.a.

revealed 6 people had died during trials that stress that this was no cause for concern and within statistical expectations they try on thursday is deciding whether to give the vaccine approval for emergency use in the united states our correspondent steve has more. this was very very bad for publicity at a time when people are already nervous with all the rush that scene's all the cut corners and now warnings any person with a history of a significant allergic reaction to a vaccine medicine or food should not receive the pfizer beyond vaccine how did they miss during clinical trials that people with severe allergies best stay the heck away from pfizer's vaccine was hardly a mere coincidence 2 british nurses went down with a severe reaction on the 1st day of public vaccination the question it begs is what outs that pfizer mean is that in addition to what we already knew that the vaccine

can cause pain headaches fatigue fever swelling and potentially even think szell 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 look that scene's can take decades to test it is a miracle that so many have been developed so quickly a marvel of silence and rest assured if pfizer's that exceed most of this safe this possible wouldn't be allowed anywhere near you at the press sold it is all but a gift from god pfizer makes a final push drug company pfizer says it is a great day for science this is really a historic day we have pfizer the company's vaccine is not only safe it is effective authorities doctors scientists watchdogs

a confident it's safe more or less and every death during clinical trials was thoroughly investigated a total of 6 of unrolled participants died during the reporting period all deaths represent advanced that occur in the general population of the. groups where they occurred at a similar rate again it's unlikely their words that the pfizer vaccine caused any deaths but what irks me is that we learn that people had died during clinical trials and that others had developed think szell paralysis we learned this not from pfizer who made the vaccine but from the f.d.a. whose job it is to greenlight mass vaccinations and it's very safe to say that people would be grateful for a little more transparency when it comes to knowing what exactly it is that's being injected into their their the i suggest you are serious not only functional it's an incision but also most. people targeted or that particular person the main question

here is to assess what clinical association or an initial it dated correlation. between the doses of defiance in the scene and the actual death of those people these are serious things that has to be that they have they should be treated investigated before if you send the politics and it probably should be informant i mean this is not only a thing that goldman should know before the order. but also the party has to be informed. should intimate and you'll decision as to whether to use the cincinatti you can kind of understand those who are uncertain everyone's jump in march they were telling us that a vaccine would take years few months ago they were bashing the russian vaccine saying there's no way it could have been tested properly and now here we are wise

it's vaccine is out albeit with undocumented side effects and surprisingly if unpleasantly eventful clinical trial history the end of the day the vaccine is as safe as it can be that's past european american. testing in rigorous standards there really isn't much to worry about but it would be nice to get a little more information in the future not have to learn about facial paralysis only after that sedation has begun meanwhile new york lawmakers have introduced a bill to make covert 90 vaccination mandatory amid a storm of criticism the bill would require those in the state without sufficient immunity to have the job but only if it's deemed safe for them to have it the association of american physicians and surgeons says that it would amount to a violation of human rights is what new yorkers think about the bill. well what happened with england yesterday that's going to be huge i think depending on how

that goes we're going to be more inspired and feel safer to take it think that's that part of it too we're really questioning. you know if people have their decree actions to accedes sure even try and get it so you know there's no questions that are answered i think it's a good idea for people who are actually. sure there's money to falsely fully support for civil liberties civil liberties for our bill of rights fully fully support those rights but i also have to consider if there are public health risks that move back scene is important but it's not mandatory if the common thing can be the same way mandating it seems like it might actually why cause more problems than a texas just because it might if people. do it their backs against the wall but i think everyone should take it i mean it is concerning but i'm the only way forward is trial and error so obviously i want i want to keep my freedom and i but i don't

think there's a way that has been is it's proven to be safe for people even medical exceptions that are real medical exceptions yeah i would be in favor of it. you might send geos accuse rich nations of hoarding covert vaccines claiming only one in 10 people will have access to the jobs in the poorest countries we're taking a closer look at that later and all but listen. the 1st the 1st of season when germany's had some of the shine taken out of the grim specter of the pandemic looming on wednesday the country posted a record of nearly $600.00 deaths in just 24 hours discussing the need for a tougher response in the bundestag chancellor angela merkel became uncapped to risk tickly emotional. there's a dot on my nothing left in his. feet and he. begins his lessons i don't feel asian i'm thinking that's the london in the book because they also know that i live in michigan and i got one for do that i target don't you think they did doesn't.

certainly animated to put the chancellor's lockdown proposals have drawn outrage from opposition politicians who've lashed out at michael's government for failing to provide effective covert measures with more details his audience peter oliver. it was an impassioned angler merkel an emotional german chancellor who addressed the german bundestag on wednesday the chancellor doesn't have the power under germany's federal system to implement a a nationwide strict lockdown but she was speaking to the people of germany as well as the lawmakers do implore them to agree to much stricter covert 19 restrictions this is after 590 people died on tuesday that's a record for germany through this pandemic and that was simply unacceptable and we are in a crucial phase of the pandemic control only historical experience shows that the

2nd wave of the pandemic is much more difficult than the 1st one. and i'd like to simply say that if we now have too many contacts before christmas and afterwards it will be the last christmas with the grandparents then we will have failed we should not do that the german chancellor is in agreement with the german academy of sciences and the plan that they put forward for a stricter lockdown they would want to see all schools and kindergartens finished on the 14th of december for an extended christmas new year break that would extend into january some saying as late as january 10th they would also want to see all non-essential retail closed from the 24th of december with as many people as possible working from home or the chancellor's plea was well it wasn't greeted very well now after 15 years of america germany is a country that does not want to protect its borders against illegal immigration and

its instead imposing curfews and its citizens and dispatching legions of police officers to control mask wearing on the trains. these are purely symbolic restrictions which firstly are ineffective so. secondly the interfere disproportionately with people's freedoms and thirdly they really intended to simulate a planned course of action for the audience but heading into the christmas and new year's holidays the chancellor implored german citizens to be responsible when it came to mixing with others and not to try and do anything that would spread covert 90 in the country had done exceptionally well in the 1st wave of the coronavirus those days same a long way away now. social media giant facebook has branded antitrust lawsuits against the firm in the u.s. as revisionist history it insists that when it acquired the instagram and whatsapp

platforms it had permission to do so that hasn't stopped lawsuits from most us states and also from the federal trade commission aimed at breaking up the company . 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 posts 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 whatsapp and instagram a very big deal in the tech world and other media john you tube is also generating concern this time over its policy on the u.s. elections is deleting videos that alleged fraud and violations is how the google owned company explained its decision we also work to make sure that the line between what is removed and what is allowed is drawn in the right place our policies prohibit misleading viewers about where and how to vote we also disallow content alleging widespread fraud or errors change the outcome of a historical us presidential election the decision comes after the so-called safe harbor deadline the last day on which states can challenge the election you chief says of the passing of that deadline was one of the reasons for deleting videos

that the platforms actually been removing thousands of election videos going right back to september with the trump of ministration taking election all the way to the supreme court t 2 sons has rubbed many people up the wrong way starting today they will remove content about election fraud even though the record case is about election fraud going through the system at this very moment to yours for the speech the bindings are coming. google owns you tube officially announcing free speech no longer allowed if you have concerns about election integrity you must sit down and shut up repeal section $230.00 and break these companies up corporate media and liberal politicians claim for years trumps election was illegitimate due to russian collusion and you tube promoted them meanwhile many videos containing unproven allegations remain on you tube think lou claims of russian collusion in the us elections and conspiracy theories about the 911 terrorist attacks we

discussed the matter with lauren chen host of the pseudo intellectual pub cast right now what we see is that you tube has declared itself the arbiter of the 2020 election even though there are still active court cases going on in the supreme court challenging results so it's if you're really anywhere not just the us this should scare you we do not want an elected officials like the people who work at youtube and at google deciding what we can and cannot say in regard to politics slowly but surely we've seen tech companies like you tube but facebook and twitter as well start to exert more control and more censoring of what their users say this is concerning this is absolutely a threat to free speech and if you're someone who believes that you should be able to say whatever opinions you want then you need to look at this seriously because yes these are private companies but at the same time the way the public discourse has evolved essentially these online platforms function as the public square. place

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so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy to. let it be an arms race. spearing dramatic development only. i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical. in. welcome back the lion's share of. vaccines will be distributed in western countries according to human rights n.g.o.s the people's vaccine alliance which includes international and oxfam found wealthy nations have reserved enough vaccines to cover their populations 3 times over till the end of next year as a result only one in 10 people in the 70 poorest countries will have access to jobs

and the group's urging follow the giants to share their intellectual property to allow other firms to produce the drugs at a lower cost. discuss 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 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 right and news were funded using taxpayers' money these are public property and not a prop to private 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 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 as 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 way beyond what is reasonable and in this situation is public money in the public good i think as the the months unfold and we see rich nations making their populations and we still see many many people dying in poor countries so 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 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 interests of protecting the profits of few firms. space x. starship project has suffered a setback after

a prototype exploded while attempting to land incident occurred on wednesday evening after a high altitude suborbital 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. found already called the launch a success adding the company got all the data it needed starship project has a number of goals think leaves space tourism a mass colonize a ship and while some early tests of the starship did go badly this year the company started to receive nasa funding for launching new systems. ok the corks already popping on the candles are burning on the cake because today marks a special birthday for r.t. .

i. it was back in 2005 that artie burst into broadcasting life and i think it's fair to say that from those humble beginnings we have gone on to make quite an impression on the world. earl it was a room good girl is gone you know the research group where you learned the value. to know that those who knew already knew the world only. knew that waiters merriman is a very good value and of them he's going to resent mobile devices more than 12 surely you're not going to i'm going to conjure if you don't need to know both like your mother your own narrow narrow. range

to alternative vision. you'll start to question. your way through all the. time and it is. rare. for you to mediocre. really undercover to not going to destabilize. you will get exposed on to your kids way decontaminate you're lying low self you are used as brave everything to. strip down truth. so you can defend yourself and your loved ones from the weapons of mass communication. thanks for the r.t. . it was given to me i think it was you.

during all 15 years on iraq he's been reporting on major events around the world ensuring that the voices on all sides are heard and it's part of our anniversary coverage today we're going to take a look back now at auntie's focus on the u.k. and in particular the julian assange saga. do you remember when julian a song was dragged out of london's ecuadorian embassy. the images are now iconic role of the notorious our video agency ruptly worked round the clock for weeks constantly monitoring this building in order to make sure that the ecuadorian government eviction of the wiki leaks founder as well as his name will take any of the rest by the british police with captured for all the world to see. the channel's reporter

has also worked tirelessly but i would say that to bring view is news on a story that the establishment and the mainstream media was keen to forget. holed up inside the ecuadorian embassy in london for years on end he has heard all after hurdle to overcome julian assange has found guilty. to be scathing the judge could carry a maximum sentence of 175 years behind bars to police officers and a prosecutor from he said that i can then be head going through his things there are thousands of supporters in the middle of central london credibly important day for both truth and justice as wiki leaks founder julian assange is back here in court julian assange and.

in fact julian assange how does one show on r t u k r t gave that we set it to that platform today we're on a quest for revolution. but then again according to think tanks in the mainstream media r.t. has bred an army of useful idiots. useful idiots including jeremy called with nigel fire on the president of afghanistan hamid karzai and. rudy giuliani one very clear signal you could do is stop appearing on russia today which has been described by one of the road business as a kremlin propaganda vehicle and i think that's right because i think from what we've seen from washington times goes beyond objective journalism i way this is good boris johnson accused labor m.p.'s for doing interviews on t.v. before learning that his father stanley had a pair on the channel on numerous occasions. i do notice how you take sides in

this book what does this mean or take kerry stokes the former mayor of london how he was absolutely living up to the expectations people have a real wowing the crowds were everywhere he could be serious too if it was absolutely necessary who is this former mayor of character and look i'm not saying that that particular character is a 1000000000 miles away from another member of my family it's not just the guests though one headline accuses of spreading a multitude of the law is and absurd stories sure if you call observe the stories and their perspectives but the only news channels on showing back in 2040 are covered the scottish independence referendum some reports allege that it moskos request so-called operatives to the flames of independence if that's what you call reporting both sides of the debate not just the pro union side

that dominated the mainstream media 2 years later the accusations came flying this time our team had poured oil on to the and. why reporting on what was happening around the country not just on the thoughts of those in the westminster bubble fisherman in scotland farmers in kent industrial workers in the middle and all of them told us the same thing when the banking crash happened london may have recovered but they'd been left behind but giving a voice to the people that were being listened to was apparently russian propaganda as was artie's reporting of a whistle blower as concerns about safety on the trident nuclear submarine i mean.

remember them are the. he covered the movement on an almost daily basis in the wake of the 2008 banking crash i want about the crippling all started cuts of the cameron years r.t. brought you stories from the demonstrations against them and from the people and the organizations most affected by that. appreciate you staying with us throughout this morning here on our team international plenty more news coverage coming your way join me with more of our top stories in 30 minutes. join me every thursday on the alex i'm i'm sure and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then.

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