plummet to the touch is a warning. for those with a history of. drug regulator reveals 6 people died during trials with facial paralysis a possible side effect. on you do you get the feeling that this isn't. clearly getting emotional while calling for tougher. these a number of deaths today chance in this appeal. after 15 years germany is a country that does not want to protect its borders against illegal immigration and instead imposing curfew senate features and. rounding on facebook the u.s.

government and almost every single do a state is taking legal action against the social media giant accusing it of breaking the law to maintain its own mind. today marks exactly 15 years that on. the day we'll be bringing you a look back at some of the major stories from a decade of questioning more. of that very good morning to you watching our international. shares in the 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 covert job when the united states drug regulator the f.d.a. revealed that 6 people had died during trials though it stressed that this was no

cause for concern and within statistical expectations they told thursday's deciding whether to give the vaccine approval for emergency use in the u.s. auntie's for against the of a small. 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 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 sheens can take decades to test it is a miracle that so many have been developed so quickly a marvel of science and rest assured if pfizer is that seen most of the as safe as 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 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 they be a suggestion where messiness not only shouldn't you know it's an incision but also most. people transited or that particular person the main question here is to

assess what clinical association or an initial it dated a correlation. between the doses of the science of the scene and the actual death of those people these are serious things that just has to be that they have they should be treated investigated. and 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 warm. for the intimate and you're going to see shouldn't a store where they're going to see you see marty 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 in the meantime new york lawmakers have introduced a bill to make covert $900.00 francs a nation mandatory amid a storm of criticism the bill would require those in the states without sufficient immunity to have the job but only if it's deemed safe for them to have it he said station of american physicians and surgeons says that it would amount to a violation of human rights is what new yorkers think of the bill. well it 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 in that's been part of the 2 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 question it's not our answer and i think it's a good idea for people who are actually. sure there's money but also fully support for civil real civil liberties part of our our bill of rights fully fully support those rights but they also have to consider if there are public health risks that move back scene is important but it's not mandatory as the common thing can be the same way mandating it seems like it might actually work 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 here i mean it is concerning but i'm the only way forward is trial and error so obviously i want to like my freedom and i but i don't

think there's a way as mine 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. human rights n.g.o.s accuse rich nations of hoarding covert vaccines claiming only one in 10 people will have access to the jobs in the poorest countries will be hearing from oxfam about why that is that later in our bulletin the festive season in germany has had some of the shine taken out of it with the grim specter of the pandemic looming on tuesday the country saw a record nearly 600 daily deaths discussing the need for a tougher response this was in the bundestag chancellor angela merkel became uncharacteristically emotional. this is i don't know my nothing of any student and weeks in fear and yes i'm no i didn't begin to lessons i don't feel a thing i'm 61st monday in the book because they also know that i miss most i don't live in michigan and i'm going to do that i target don't you think that it doesn't

if it was i don't then the odds of a not it's a feeling. i should is this those lips of i don't think it was and i'm one of the measures the chancellor is pushing for is an extended winter holiday for schools and kindergartens the idea is backed by the german academy of sciences another of her proposals is shutting all nonessential shops from december 24th also merkel's government wants as many germans to work from home as possible. but the chancellor slow down proposals have drawn outrage from opposition politicians they've lashed out at her for failing to provide an effective covert response. since 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 secondly the interfere disproportionately with people's freedoms and thirdly they really intended to simulate a planned course of action for the audience and germany stepped up its covert restrictions a number of times the last of them being in november but the number of new cases remains high with frustration among locked down weary germans boiling over into widespread protests. social media giant facebook will not be hitting the like button over news that it's being sued by almost every state in america over and he trusts concerts the country's federal trade commission has filed a lawsuit as well and is pushing for a breakup of the company something facebook has likened to revisionist history or legal action targets facebook sequestrations of the instagram and whatsapp platforms. well facebook is really coming under fire now that it is facing an antitrust 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 and hurt small businesses reduce 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 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. another major legal case is in the united states with texas filing a lawsuit in the supreme court against 4 key states won by president elect joe biden and it's being supported by 17 other states attorney general of texas alleges wisconsin pennsylvania georgia and michigan will illegally change their election rules thereby compromising the results of the 2020 presidential vote. certain officials in the defendant states presented the pandemic as the justification for ignoring state laws regarding absentee and mail in voting the defendant states

flooded their citizenry with tens of millions of ballots applications and ballots in derogation of statutory controls as to how they're lawfully received evaluated and counted the lawsuit doesn't allege voter fraud but points out that there were voting irregularities with legal and political analyst lionel why the case is important the reason why this is important is that under article 3 of our constitution the supreme court is the site have a regional jurisdiction meaning you go directly to the supreme court in cases of lawsuit or dispute between states was very rare for the supreme court to hear or the answer anything. but in this particular case the supreme court is acting not as an appellate court not as an appeals court but as the original court and this is unlike any other case and the reason that they are facing

this lawsuit the reason for this is that it is allege that it is against the constitution for the court in essence to change the rules of elections they should be done so by legislatures this is unlike any other case because it goes directly to the supreme court and it's being brought by states and not people that's critical. as the u.s. election is contested in the supreme court you chew says that it will be deleting videos that allege that the vote was rigged for months after the short break. is your media a reflection of reality. in a world transformed. what will make you feel safe.

isolation or 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 on the debt. or a mate in the shallowest. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation let it be an arms race is on on. spearing dramatic development only and going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time time to sit down and talk.

the end of free speech that's what some have branded you tube's decision to delay videos that allege fraud and violations in the u.s. election 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 decision comes after the so-called safe harbor deadline and that's the last day on which states can challenge the election you tube says that the passing of the deadline was one of the reasons for deleting the videos or the platform has actually been removing thousands of election videos going all the way back to september and this all comes as the trump ministration takes the election all the way to the supreme court in the meantime many videos

containing unproven allegations they still remain up on you tube and they include claims of russian collusion going back to the 2016 u.s. election also conspiracy theories about the $911.00 terrorist attacks it seems decision to remove vote fraud allegations though has rubbed some people up the wrong way starting today they will remove content about election fraud even though there are court cases about election fraud going through the system at this very moment yours free 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 trump's election was illegitimate due to russian collusion and you tube promoted them 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 have 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. the lion's share of promising covert vaccines will be distributed in western

countries that support into human rights n.g.o.s the people's vaccine alliance that includes amnesty international and oxfam found that wealthy nations have reserved enough bank same 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 cova jobs the group is urging pharma giants to share their intellectual property to allow other firms to produce the drugs at a lower cost him a colleague in an o'neill discussed the issue with oxfam's my source. you know would be suicidal politician who did not macof to his own citizens our point is we do not think it's acceptable for rich countries not united states for the united kingdom to protect the profits and the intellectual property in the monopoly of these big pharma. soup can 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 romney use were funded using taxpayers' money these

are public property and not a prop to private 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 enormous profit way beyond what is reasonable and in this situation is public money in the public good i think as 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 in the in the interest of the global economy it doesn't make sense to us to kind of hobble we global economy in the interest of protecting the profits if you for. other course of impolitic and candles burning on the cake because today marks a special birthday for us at our take. i. it was back in 2005 that artie 1st burst into broadcasting life and i do think it's fair to say that since those home bill beginnings we have made somewhat of an impression on the world. early it was a room go there the girl is gone another research group. where you learn of

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a. trip down through the narrow. oh you can defend yourself and you're a voice from the weapons of mass communications. thanks for the r.t. . of the enemy your fingers you. receive. german are 15 years old iraq has been reporting a major events run around the globe ensuring the voices on all sides of the story heard and it's part of our anniversary coverage today we're going to take a look back now at how we reported on some events that helped shape europe over the last decade and some that had less of an impact. had it not been for our tea there's a whole host of stories out of europe that you may well have a very different view on from the dramatic greek debt standoff that shook the e.u.

to its core we brought you not only the views of brussels and athens bureaucracy but also of those bearing the brunt from the front lines of that fight. we've seen violent clashes here in the center of athens greece has seen a marked increase in support for far right neo nazi groups while greece was being punished for its bailouts with austerity we looked at the way switzerland was aiming to change the way wealth inequality was handled. cash by the truckload the proposed basic income initiative arrived with a splash and the promise of 2000 euro a month for every swiss citizen intended to let them live without basic financial wherry while people were making dangerous journeys to come here from war torn parts of the world here at r.t. we met those people coming to europe and looked at why their home countries at

being made so unsafe. while this beach is one that's used as a regular arrival ground for refugees coming from syria afghanistan and elsewhere 60 people. in a move i think. i would know are 60 we were also among the 1st to see the political and social consequences of mass migration and the rise of those who did not commit. this need to gain a group to write it by their critics is far right extremists and some even called then neo nazis they however say that their and. against radical islam and defending europe against what they see as the islamification of the continent some things have stayed the sea and over the years.

we've also been at the forefront of new innovations changing lives and on occasion asking just because we could does not always mean that we should. do this germany is selling one big con for 85 euro. ok and if this continues pretty soon big coins might not be only for nerds they could be the cash in all our pockets we weren't the only ones watching of course. it's a question germans have been wanting answers to since the summer of 2013 how much are they being spied on but it has been for a long way. these days more and more people are concerned where their food has come from but for some just because you like pork chops doesn't mean you want to come face to face to pick up. this bike here contains around 3 grams

of plastic explosives i'm going to go and hide somewhere here in the terminal while fraga tries to track me down. sure enough she finds me trying to check in for a flight. to in good don't get me even if not all of the decisions from my site have been the best i don't know what i was thinking with that be it. with greece having being in a rears to the international monetary fund and not having any bailout money with no bailout on the horizon as it stands anyway thanks for being with us for the last 15 years from all of the team here in the german capital i'm peter all over frothy burley. yeah even george stay where there's a place when he was on the way they sworn in to stay with his subjects and often.

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washington coming out canada became the 3rd country to approve pfizer's covert 19 back to the u.k. health authorities that warn against giving the shots to those prone to severe allergic reactions much hostage taking for congress to pass a covert relief felt as they struggle to reach an agreement with benefits that took fire at the end of the month we have a panel standing by we have a lot to get to so let's get started. canada became the latest and 3rd country to authorize pfizer and biotechs kovan 1000 vaccine pfizer spoke. and for the canadian unit said the drug maker will supply $76000000.00 doses of the vaccine to canada the country joined it britain and bahrain in approving the vaccine and said it already secured 249000 and actual doses to begin inoculations by early next week this comes as the us federal drug administration confirmed the safety and efficacy of.