u.s. considers whether to approve the files or biotech covert vaccine after the u.k. warns people with severe allergies against taking the drug at america's drug regulator reveal 6 people died during a trial. let's look monday then look at the opening of the muslim women should not go on to do the target. and a marble gets emotional while calling for tougher covert restrictions as germany sees a record high number of daily deaths for the chancellor's appeal as one of arrival . after 15 years of america germany is a country that does not want to protect its borders against illegal immigration and use instead imposing curfews and its citizens. also this hour the u.s.

government takes legal action against facebook accusing the social media giant of breaking the law to maintain its online dominance. and today marks exactly 15 years that our team has been on the air drop a day will be looking back at some of our major stories from a decade and a half and more. welcome to the program this is art international bring you your live news update this hour let's get started. u.s. authorities are widely expected to greenlight the pfizer biotech vaccine later on thursday regulators are now meeting to discuss emergency use of the coated job this comes despite some major safety concerns with the u.k. warning people with severe allergies against taking the drug on the u.s. the f.d.a. has revealed that 6 people died during trials my gosh if reports. this was

very very bad for publicity at a time when people are already nervous with all the rushed that scenes 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 added the myths 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 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 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 hack 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 dissimilar rate again it's unlikely their words the size of vaccine caused any deaths but what do 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 greenlight 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 new york lawmakers have introduced a bill to make over 1000 x. nation for some mandatory and a storm of criticism the bill would require those in the state without sufficient immunity to the shah but only if it's deemed safe for them to get it this is 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 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 degree actions to see this show 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 fully supports the real civil liberties part of our our bill of rights fully fully support those rights but i also have to consider that there are public health risks for a flu vaccine 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. 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 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 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 going to begin some lessons out of the nation i'm 60 of them with looking also at the old windows i use my eyes i don't live in michigan i'm not going to do that i target really didn't doesn't if it was on then the actual benefits if you like but i should is this the sense of i don't think you'll sit down. one of the measures the chancellor is pushing for is an extended winter holiday for schools and kindergartens idea is backed by the german academy of sciences another proposals shutting all non-essential shops from december 24th also michael's government wants as many germans to work from home as possible. over the chancellor's lockdown proposals have drawn outrage from

opposition politicians who have lashed out at her for failing to provide an effective covert response in their opinion now 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 its citizens and dispatching legions of police officers to control mask wearing on the trains. these are purely symbolic restrictions which firstly you know ineffective secondly the interfere disproportionately with people's freedoms and thirdly they really intended to simulate a planned course of action for you what do you. germany has stepped up its covert restrictions several times the last being in november but the number of new cases is still high it's restoration among lockdown where you germans boiling over into widespread protests. number of germany is the last party being on top us only believe the government has seriously mishandled the cope with crisis in his country

. everything had been find it was going to test done over the last year we wouldn't be finding ourselves in such a tough position right now in a situation of deep crisis such as this. not be acting alone all the measures rely on one thing and that is probably the 2nd many people approach this business on us that loves their life. where they got him and closed down their businesses in november promise. not that money has to reach the intended fisheries yet with regards to the schools they face if you knocked him down and his 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 really manage the money 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 u.s. over antitrust concerns the country's federal trade commission has filed a lawsuit as well and is 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 and swan host of artie's boom bust has the story. 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 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 made 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 aries 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 that he has sent september and 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 at the same time is included claims of russian

collusion in the $26000.00 u.s. election and even conspiracy theories about the $911.00 terror attacks egypt decision to remove vote fraud allegations how rub 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 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 selection 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 essentially these online platforms function as the public square. staying with the recent us election texas has filed a lawsuit with the supreme court against 4 key states won by president elect joe biden the case is being supported by 17 other states attorney general of texas alleges that wisconsin pennsylvania georgia and michigan illegally changed their

election laws and prop compromising the results of the 2020 bout certain officials in the defendant states present to the pandemic as the justification for ignoring state laws regarding absentee and mail in voting the defendant states flooded the 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 to what it calls voting irregularities we asked media and legal analyst lionel why the case a significant. the reason why this is important is that under article 3 of our constitution the supreme court is the site of original jurisdiction meaning you go directly to disappear in 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 basing this lawsuit the reason for this is that it is allege that it is against the constitution for the courts in essence 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. it on musk space x. starship project has suffered a setback after a prototype exploded while attempting to land incident happened on wednesday evening after a high altitude sub orbital flight test in texas. the

flight which was to test things ranging from engine performance to aerodynamic capabilities have 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 a starship project has a number of goals including space tourism and mars colonization and all some early tests of the starship went badly this year the company started receiving nasa from launching new systems. today marks a special birthday for r.t. with our channel celebrating its 15th anniversary. i.

was back in 2005 that our t. burst into broadcasting life and it's fair to say since those humble beginnings it made something of an impression on the world. earlier it was room for $30.00 gun another researcher to the during. the rally move weapon the left hand of the jesuit newspaper editor bill keller. and there's a way to marry the day when young girls on t.v. is the result of mobile devices the border jewels are literally going to a letter to congress if you will need to know both the your mothers were married. or liked the east coast of the division. if you start to glasgow a little like you it. will be

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a look back at our 2 you focused on the u.k. and the joy in a fond saga. do you remember when julian a song was dragged out of london's ecuadorian embassy i the images are now iconic or rather 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 reporters 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 was found guilty. to escaping the judge could carry a maximum sentence of 175 years behind bars to police officers and of course a q tip from the state that i'm going to be here i'm going through his things but 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. in fact julian assange is there and show on r t u k r t gave that we said to that platform today we're on a quest for revolution. but then again according to think tanks than the mainstream media r.t.

has bred an army of useful idiots. useful idiots including jeremy called nigel farage the president of afghanistan hamid karzai and. rudy giuliani one very clear signal you could do is stop appearing on russia today which is we describe the 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 attacked labor m.p.'s for doing interviews on on t.v. before learning that his father stanley had a parrot only 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 had 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 1000000 miles away from another member of my family it's not just the guests though one headline accuses art of spreading a multitude of the law is and absurd stories sure if you call observe the stories and the perspectives that the almighty news channels on showing back in 2040 r.t. covered the scottish independence referendum some reports allege that it most goes request so-called operatives had stoked 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 again this time our team had poured oil on to the and see. why reporting on what was

happening around the country not just on the phone. or those in the westminster bubble fisherman in scotland farmers in kenya and industrial workers in the middle and all of them told us the same thing when the banking crash cancer and lungs and 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 all t's reporting of a whistle blow as concerns about safety on the tritone nuclear submarines and the own comply protests remember them on t.v. covered the movement on an almost daily basis in the wake of the 2008 banking crash and what about the crippling austerity cuts of the cameron years ati brought you stories from the demonstrations against them and from the people and the

organizations most affected by them. that's a news break down for this hour and that's all for me as well today but we're not going on we'll be taking over in about 30 minutes time and telling him. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy going foundation let it be an arms race is all off and spearing dramatic development only really i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time time to sit down and talk.

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