pfizer shares drop after the u.k. attaches a warning to its job for those with a history of severe allergies and america's drug regulator reveals 6 died during trials with facial paralysis a possible side effect. but none of it in the legal side the only thing is most i'm not going to give the congress i don't believe that it was. angela merkel gets emotional while calling for tougher covert restrictions as germany sees a record high number of deaths a day in the chancellor's appeal hasn't gone over everyone. after 15 years of america germany is a country that does not want to protect its borders against illegal immigration and instead imposing curfews and features there's. also this hour rounding on

facebook the u.s. government and almost every single u.s. state is taking legal action against the social media giant accusing it of breaking the law to maintain its online dominance. and today marks exactly 15 years the arts he has been on the air throughout the day will be bringing you a look back at some of our major stories from a decade and a half of questioning more. you're watching our 2 international bring you your live news update from our studio here in moscow welcome to the program. chairs and pharmaceutical giant pfizer drops nearly 2 percent on wednesday on the news of deaths and warnings and the u.k. people with a history of severe allergic reactions were advised against taking the company's

coated shot on the u.s. drug regulator the f.d.a. revealed 6 people had died during trials that would stress that this was no cause for concern and within statistical expectations later on thursday it's advisory panel is deciding whether the vaccine should be given approval for emergency use in the u.s. . 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 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's vaccine most of us save this possible wouldn't be allowed anywhere near you heck the press sold it as well would 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 advance that occur in the general population of the. groups where they occurred at dissimilar rate again it's unlikely their words the size of vaccine caused any deaths but what me is that we learn that people had died during clinical trials and that others had developed facial paralysis we learned this not from pfizer who made the vaccine but from the f.d.a. whose job it is to read mass vaccinations you can kind of understand those who are uncertain everyone's jumped in march they were telling this that a vaccine would take years few months ago they were bashing the russian vaccine saying there's new wade could have been tested properly and now here we are pfizer

is vaccine is out albeit with documented 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 passed european american testing and 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 our vaccination has begun meanwhile in new york lawmakers have introduced a bill to make over 1000 vaccination mandatory amid a storm of criticism the bill would require those in the state without sufficient immunity to the job but only if it's to seem deemed safe for them to get it he says ation of american physicians and surgeons says 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 and that's that part of it too we're already questioning. you know if people have their decree actions to accedes sure even try and get it so you know they're still questions that are answered i think it's a good idea for people who actually. i'm sure there's many pitfalls and fully support for civil liberties civil liberties part of our our bill of rights fully fully support those rights but i also have to consider if there are public health risks 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 like cause more problems than a texas just because it might get people. to 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 great and i but i don't think there's a way as long as it's proven to be safe for people even medical exceptions that are real medical exceptions yeah i would be in favor of it. the festive season in germany has had some of the shine taken out of it with the grim specter of the pandemic looming over us on tuesday the country saw a record of nearly 600 daily deaths discussing the need for a tougher response in the bundestag chancellor angela merkel became uncharacteristically emotional does what this is i don't know my nothing up in the student and weeks in the field and yes i'm late to begin some lessons of the nation i'm 60 of them with looking also at the old windows as much as i do live in it and i'm not going to do that i target really didn't do this instead. however the chancellor's lockdown proposals have drawn outrage from opposition politicians who've lashed out at merkel's government for failing to provide effective covert

measures there are reports it was an impassioned angle of merkel an emotional german chancellor who addressed the german bundestag on wednesday 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 isn't in and we are in a crucial phase of the pandemic control all the historical experience shows that the 2nd wave of the pandemic is much more difficult than the 1st one if it was i'd like to simply say if we now have too many contacts before christmas enough to us it will be the last christmas with the grandparents then we'll have failed we should not do that the german chancellor is in agreement with the german academy of sciences in 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 they would also want to see all non-essential retail close with as many people as possible working from home for the chancellor's plea was integrated 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 just into 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 but heading into the christmas and new year's holidays the chancellor implored german citizens to be responsible the country had done exceptionally well in the 1st wave of the coronavirus well those

days same a long way away now. member of germany's the left party base on top us ole believes the government has seriously mishandled the covert crisis everything has been find it this government has done over the last year we would be finding ourselves in such a tough position right now in a situation of deep crisis such as this the government should not be acting alone all the measures rely on one thing and that is probably the exceptions many of the people protesting business on us that have lost their livelihood. and where the government closed down their businesses in november promise. not that money has to reach the intended fisheries yet with regards to schools they face if you not been down and as regards to the pirates some of whom are very you know reluctant to send their employees. home loss it's only right

a situation has been banished from me and the response is partially late. social media giant facebook won't be heading the like button over news it's being sued by almost every state in the us over antitrust concerns the country is federal trade commission has filed a lawsuit as well as pushing for a breakup of the company something that facebook has likened to revisionist history legal action targets facebook's acquisitions of instagram and whatsapp. 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 whatsapp and instagram a very big deal in the tech world another large tech firm you tube has been criticized by some for supposedly stifling free speech after the platform took the decision to remove it is alleging voter fraud in the u.s. election this is what the company had to say. 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 that's the last day on which states can challenge the election it says the passing of the deadline was one of the reasons for deleting the videos though the platform has actually been removing thousands of election media since september this all comes as the trumpet ministration takes the election all the way to the supreme court meanwhile many videos containing unproven allegations remain

up on you tube these include claims a russian collusion in the 2016 u.s. election and even conspiracy theories about the 911 terror attacks egypt's decision to remove a product has rubbed some 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 your 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'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 a century these online platforms function as the public square. staying with the us election texas has filed a lawsuit with the supreme court against 4 battleground states one by joe biden a look into that story just after this break.

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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 a lawsuit doesn't allege voter fraud but points out that there were voting irregularities legal and political analyst why the case is significant. reason why this is important is that under article 3 of our constitution his supreme court is the site of original jurisdiction meaning you go directly to the ship priem court in cases of lawsuit or dispute between states which vary where 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 basing this lawsuit reason for this is that it is allege that it is against the constitution for the court in message to change the rules of elections they should be done so by legislature 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. elon musk's space x. starship project has suffered a setback after a prototype exploded while attempting to land instead happened on wednesday evening after a high altitude sub orbital flight test in texas. a flight which was to test things ranging from engine performance to aerodynamic

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a belting chorus among the rich and powerful propagate their bulls t. television up again. but the russian propaganda machine propaganda machine russian propaganda on steroids perhaps part of the reason they love us so much over here is that we never shy away from america's ugly or side violence and chaos continue to rage on the streets of the us suburb of ferguson where protesters and police are squaring off over the killing of an unarmed black teenager the abuse of prisoners in secret cia prisons has been into sharp relief following the release of a report called how america tortures protests over the death of jewel which floyd was being detained by minneapolis police have raged for the night it was revealed that the n.s.a. had been secretly collecting the phone call records of tens of millions of americans using data provided by a.t.m. tea horizon and international criminal court has announced it will move forward with a probe into whether the u.s. committed war crimes in afghanistan of the top 22 developed countries in the entire

world the united states we account for 82 percent of all the gun deaths corporations love wall street which might be why corporate media has not been paying as much attention as we have. going on police brutality running wild in new york americans dragged punched and pepper sprayed women on the ground even if you believe. it took america's least stream media a week to catch up with the demonstrations protestors say some networks deny them coverage. when most were unaware of america's silent majority we had their backs those living in coastal and urban areas were blown away when people in ohio wisconsin michigan and pennsylvania turned out in droves to vote for trump the surprise. election results are seen as proof that the usa is a divided country among americans who say the economy is poor 79 percent voted for

trump and among americans who say their family's financial system is worse off today 78 percent for trump it's pretty clear there's a lot of americans whose voices aren't exactly taking center stage in mainstream media we decided we'd have a talk with a few of them were working class middle america that's going away you know males are gone and that was our bread and butter around here in the coal mines in the southern part of west virginia they're gone there's people who have nothing further away from washington d.c. like you're in wilmington the buildings had already been crumbling for a long time it's not good we don't have jobs. we need jobs poverty is horrible you know business is lost you know like look at airborne and when airborne closed you know thousands of people lost their jobs so it affected a lot of businesses and i just think that we haven't had a voice for you know a long time so i'm excited about the president and i feel like we have been

forgotten or certainly aware of why the u.s. military industrial complex might want to merican zan the rest of the world to stop watching r t the 1st u.s. air strike on libya with actually carried out 25 years ago during the reagan administration and it's since been followed by a number of other u.s. led military campaigns the pentagon is using some of its newest and most sophisticated weaponry and a scan of the u.s. also did not support the resolution on syria put forward by russia which would call for all sides in the conflict to stop the violence and to start a dialogue the u.s. led coalition has been moving troops and bombing syrian territory without any consent from either the u.n. or the syrian government or somebody else who really like to see the back of us most likely is the u.s. state department they never really seem to appreciate our questions on us foreign policy when you want to invade us you know not attacking you i'm not attacking you . i'm not attacking you i would just love to see your institution ask the same kind of questions of your own government your government which is flying aircraft over

aleppo and bombing hospitals i am here asking you what i think are fair questions and i have one more if you can just i'll give you one at tax yes put a texas i'm going to try another tack i just i'm curious you are and the fall out of that us foreign policy is something we will never stop bringing 5 months and counting that's how long the inmates at the guantanamo bay prison have been refusing food to protest in what they call in humane treatment despite international outrage over the situation the hunger strike is showing no signs of ending and today we're taking a close look at why strapped to a chair and having nutrients forced down their nose twice a day and 3 inmates are undergoing similar feeding procedures in hospital the government says the procedure is done in the most humane way possible and is trying to prevent death by using it will snow blowers to some they are traitors to others they speak truth to power we will never stop letting you make up your own mind back

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