washington considers whether to approve of. people with severe allergies against taking the drug. regularly 6 people. also ahead. of them. calling for. germany a record high number of. up to 15 years to american germany's a country that does not want to protect its borders against illegal immigration and instead imposing curfew. the u.s.

government takes legal action against facebook with a view. to using the social media giant breaking the law to maintain its online dominance. and today marks exactly 15 years. brought the day we'll be looking back at some of our major stories from a decade. one minute past 8 in the evening here in the sim where the a warm welcome to our to international my name is you know. our top story u.s. authorities are widely expected to greenlight the fellows are. seen later this thursday regulators are meeting to discuss emergency use of. co but it comes to

spite some major safety concerns with the u.k. warning people with severe allergies against taking that drug while in america the f.d.a. has revealed that 6 people die during trials our senior correspondent picks up the story. 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 genes 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 that exceed most of this 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 is me is that we learn that people had died during clinical trials and that others had developed things szell 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 us that a vaccine would take years few months ago they were bashing the russian vaccine saying there's new wait could have been tested properly and now here we are wise

it's 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. as the meanwhile new york lawmakers have introduced the bill to make covert 19 vaccination munda tree sparking a storm of criticism of 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 do so the association of american physicians and surgeons sees it would have meant to violation of human rights here's what new yorkers meanwhile think about the bill. well it happened with england yesterday that could be huge i think depending on how

that goes people 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 should even try and get it so you know they're still preston's that are answered i think it's a good idea for people who actually. i'm sure there's many footballs fully support for civil liberties civil liberties hard 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. 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. the german chancellor angela merkel has made on the emotional plea for tougher restrictions to be taken in the fight against co but 19 after the country reached a grim record of $600.00 deaths in a single day. this is i don't know my not being up in the student and weeks in the field and he didn't begin to lessons i don't feel a sometimes they just see money in the book because i they also know that i missed most i don't live in d.c. and i'm not going to do that i target documenting data doesn't even ones i did then the answer well they know 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 starting this school holidays several days early to a lot of people to self isolate that ideas by

a german academy of sciences another of her proposals is shutting all non essential shelves from december 24th christmas eve also the merkel government want as many germans to work from home possible. while the chancellor is locked on proposals drew outrage from opposition politicians the accuser for failing to provide in effect of response in all now months after 15 years of america germany is a country that does not want to protect its borders against illegal immigration and is instead imposing curfew senate citizens and dispatching legions of police officers to control mask wearing on the trains. into these are purely symbolic restrictions which firstly are ineffective secondly the interfere disproportionately with people's freedoms and thirdly they were only intended to simulate a planned course of action for the audience germany has stepped up its covert

restrictions on a number of occasions the last time was in november but the levels of new cases are still high. among locked on a weary germans frequently boiled over into protests we spoke with. who is from germany's left party he sees a growing sense of public disappointment over the government's handling of the pandemic. did anything happen find that this government has done over the last year we wouldn't be finding ourselves in such a tough position right now in that situation of deep crisis such as this new government should not be acting alone all the measures rely on one thing and that is probably the 2nd many of the people protesting business on us that have lost their livelihood and when the government closed down their businesses in november they promised. now that money has reached the intended to beneficiaries

yes with regards to schools that is basically nothing now and is regards to the pirates some of whom are very reluctant to send their. to hamas who are either situation has been managed for money and the response is far too late for. the u.s. federal trade commission is pushing to brick a place book accusing it of holding a legal monopoly over the social media market its follow the lawsuit backed up by 48 states targeting facebook's a physician's of the instagram what's up platforms and swan host of boom bust on r.t. or just more. 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 well another large tech firm you choose has been criticized for supposedly stifling free speech after the platform took the decision to remove videos alleging voter fraud in the u.s. election this is what the company had to say in response. 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 while the decision to remove the video is comes after a deadline passed for states to challenge the election season enough states have

not certified their results although the platform has actually been removing thousands of channels since september it all comes as the trump administration takes the election all the way to the supreme court many videos containing on proved allegations are made up on you tube they include claims of russian collusion in the 2016 u.s. election conspiracy theories about $911.00. drive to remove voter fraud allegations as that response of such as this 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 adios free speech the bindings are coming google on 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

a century these online platforms function as the public square. texas has filed a lawsuit with the supreme court against for the states won by president elect joe biden in last month's election the case is now being supported by 17 more states the attorney general of texas alleges that wisconsin pennsylvania georgia and michigan illegally changed their election laws compromising the result of the 2020 presidential vote. certain officials in the defendant's states presented 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 are lawfully received evaluated and counted. you know just to clarify the lawsuit doesn't allege voter fraud but point so i thought there were voting irregularities but we media and legal analysts loyal why the case is important the reason why this

is important is that under article 3 of our constitution his supreme court is the site have the original jurisdiction meaning you go directly to dish 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 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. space x. starship project suffered a setback after a prototype exploded while attempting to love the incident happened on wednesday evening after a high altitude suborbital flight test in texas. well the flight which was to test things ranging from engine performance to early dynamic capabilities had gone well so much so the space x. founder called the launch a success despite the explosion the company got all the data it needed the starship project has a number of goals saying pleading space tourism mars all in the. spot

a number of early tests of the starship having gone well less than well this year a company started receiving funding for launching a new system. today marks a special birthday for r.t. . celebrating its 15th anniversary. i. indeed it was back in 2005 that r.t. burst into broadcasting life and it is fair to say since those humble beginnings and impressions being made. earlier it was room good girl is gone for another researcher to. remove the

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to. trim down through the for for good. you can defend yourself i enjoyed reforms from the weapons of mass communications. going to explode i'll teach. it was given to me i think it was your own earlier. well during your 15 years on their party has been reporting on major events around the globe ensuring the voices on all sides are heard as part offer on the 1st recovering today we have a look back at our teeth focus on the us where we've been reporting on things the authorities would rather perhaps we haven't. over the years our fan base here in the us has grown not just bigger but louder becoming a belting chorus among the rich and powerful propagate their bulls t.

television up again to be sure but the russian propaganda machine propaganda machine russian propaganda on stories 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 us 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 you. it took americans the 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 all males are gone and that was our bread and butter around here in the coal mines and to show their 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 n.-s. ganesan the us 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 so 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 check this out i'm going to just try another tactic i just i'm curious you are and the fall out of that u.s. 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 then at the turn of the decade has outage was

a hero of the pundits cheered his eeks exposing bush era war crimes exposing the elites corporations politicians how they loved him for it for his outstanding journalism their words he was given on or off on a come on we all know the exact moment these people turned against their former hero edward snowden has been publicly justifying his security leaks in a german magazine he also launched a broadside at washington's persecution of fame i mean you've his calls for better global protection for people's rights and privacy so sure we haven't won over everyone here in the united states with our reporting especially the war makers and the elites but perhaps that's how it should. r.t. new york. well to another show about being here a good few years as well and are still going strong i would add watching the hawks

were crossing to washington for the gang's latest take on the season. which is the plan that would find moods and atmosphere highly active geology and. a little bit of water since you're in need. of those for biology is just far beyond our wildest imaginations. russian state television is on the demonstrators right not to mention the propaganda machine to make. sure i should trust. to.

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it's the same wrong. but old rules just don't. let me. get to shape out disdained you can stick out to it and engage with equals betrayal . when so many find themselves worlds apart. just to look for common ground the. and sell you take shims my friends things are not going well in trump country this week not only has the brand name and rudy giuliani the mr smeaton his captain hook get struck down and hospitalized with coded but trump also saw his own hand-picked supreme court viciously strike down the 1st wave of the president's legal efforts

to reverse the results of the you know member election but now the united states house of representatives in a supposedly be tope majority passed the over $740000000000.00 national depends authorization act and yet another act of defiance to the now lame duck president you see trump had made it abundantly clear that he would veto the bill a if it did not remove a provision to rename military bases name for confederate generals yeah because apparently we need to keep that and it should also have included a repeal of section 230 liability protection for social media companies naturally the donald is none too plus as the n.d. double a now waits of 0 in the senate where it will more than likely get passed through the democrat out of washington representative adam smith the chairman of the house armed services committee gloriously amounts to throw up on high.