from the communication. scene. the enemy yes same gave you. washington considers whether to approve the. vaccine after the u.k. warns people with severe allergies against having the. america's drug regulator reveals that 6 people died during trials also ahead. but still funded them up because i deal with my eyes on them and should not go on to do the job that giving and innocent until america gets emotional while calling for tougher restrictions us germany sees a record high number of. the chancellor's appeal doesn't want over every. after 15 years of america germany's a country that does not want to protect its borders against illegal immigration and

instead imposing a curfew senate seat isn't. the u.s. government takes legal action against facebook with a view to splitting it all up like using the social media giant of breaking the law to maintain its online dominance. from today marks exactly 15 years that our c.e.o. has been under threat the day we'll be looking back at some of our major stories from a decade of questioning. around the clock across the world this is our team international from the team and myself you know neal hello and welcome to the program. u.s. authorities are widely expected to green light the fires or bio vaccine later this thursday regulators are not meeting to discuss emergency use of the co but job it

comes this blood some major safety concerns with the u.k. warning people with severe allergies against taking the drug and in america itself the f.d.a. has revealed that 6 people died 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 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 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 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 seed 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 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 greenlight 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 way it could have been tested properly and now here we are

vaccine is out albeit with documented side effects and a 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 after that sedation has begun. well let's get the take note of bob bob is the terminal of the your roller g. division the rudolph in or horse foundation hospital in the and bob good to see you welcome it's widely expected that the f.d.a. will approve the pfizer biotech vaccine maybe in a couple of hours u.s. officials have pretty much made clear do you think they've had enough time to do

a full assessment of its safety. well frankly speaking i think they did and i think it is the same through 40 e.m.e.a. which is in europe and we're expecting some approval but the end of the year again i'm not a vaccine expert but as any human is and it is ition right now in the health care profession we are eager to get a vaccine because we know it's a very serious condemn and despite all allegations that this is just a hoax and everything it is a real problem we have so we need extremes exene is the solution for this problem to get our back alive spec to normal now would you're talking about what was mentioned about all the worries that we have i think we have to put that in context and not make a blanket criticism of vaccine which is a obviously working well one of those our correspondent mentioned the deaths of 6 people during late stage trials it wasn't revealed by pfizer but by the f.d.a.

i suppose that begs the question if the manufacturer did admit to that could there be other mishaps we don't know about it. bragg speaking i was also a bit surprised by this and let me tell you it's not the only of yeah you know i live in europe we listen to the enemy but remember that's why we have those institutions we're not going to listen to companies tell us what to do or to big pharma we would like to have the facts and the numbers and obviously b.m.a. and if they able to also russian officials will look at these data and i have to give credit you know sputnik was a 1st vaccine out there with very good improvising results but we know that vaccines will have problems you know one out of 1000000 vaccines have serious allergic problems for example all over all vaccines all across the board of the vaccines and remembered at this current back seemed to pfizer one remember there is a single farm there's the oxford back seniors there's the russians food nixon just the 1st one of the russian have to get the credit you have they had the 1st vaccine

out in the market working very well nicely studied in a large portion of the population and yet if you look at all those that will be side effects there will be complications and is completely to realistic to think that this vaccine will work in 100 percent of patients with 100 percent saved i would suppose that people would understand that there could be side effects that comes with most medication but maybe what's giving people pause for thought is that the u.k. made it to the fore most of the warning that people with severe allergies should avoid altogether using the pfizer biotech vaccine don't see that as a concern though. i do i do see any complication as a concern and i think i would like to take it away from a political perspective. and perspective and i think now it's up. officials are going to chess and all the other an institution that you look at those complications analyze them and see what component he was allergic reaction again

it's very obvious to all of us that any person who's highly allergic or has an of a leg to react as is a bad candidate it doesn't mean you should be no can. just moving aside to another issue that the big picture really bob worldwide polling in recent months has shown widespread reluctance to take a covert vaccine how do you think people are going to be won over or or should that be put to one side on focus more upon those who need it the most. i think you're absolutely right and i think it's nicely said because at the end of the day yes there is worries and there will be always a lot of skepticism and discussions but again remember when sputnik came out there was a lot of skepticism in the west about this vaccine and i was one coming out and said you give the benefit of that now and you see it work you need who knows of the

backseat you know that if you just you talking about the pfizer vaccine roughly 44000 patients were in this phase 3 trial out of which 42000 already had the 2nd vaccinations and then the complications rates were extremely according to the if the or point 63 percent of the vaccine patients had allergic reactions or point 510.31 percent that's a very low number to seem through the vaccine so all the vaccines are going to market have to be encouraged we have to use every possibility to encourage patients but i agree with you we need to look at the at the number unfortunately there is a big public pressure ok that's where the. well it's been a pleasure having you on the program explaining your thoughts bob professor of neurology of the historic rudolph in our house foundation hospital in vienna austria thank you very much. lawmakers in new york have introduced

a bill to make over at 19 vaccination monday tree sparking a storm of criticism let's go through this story the bill would require those in the state without sufficient immunity to be facts and they said but only if it's deemed safe for them to help the job the association of american physicians and surgeons say is doing so would amount to a violation of human rights here's what new yorkers think about the proposed law. well it happened with england yesterday that could 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 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 has to start answering i think it's a good idea for people who actually. i'm sure there's many pitfalls always support her see what real civil liberties are 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 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 it 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. well the european union is also exploring ways of encouraging people to take over vaccines e.u. council meeting on thursday member states agree to develop a quote coordinated approach to vaccine certificates now that was a key part of the scotians and how the block is going to lift pandemic restrictions

over the coming year restore cross border trouble meanwhile the world health organization has warned against any efforts to force people to get an ocular that we spoke with a w.h.o. representative. we generally have price not to make it mandatory it's much better people want to be vaccinated if you have a mandate or a system it's much difficult too much more difficult actually to ensure that everybody gets specs in asia because people are then become frightened that there's no reason to be fight no something like this which is a every tool and ultimately we want to be up to vaccinate at least 20 percent of each population as quickly as possible because we've calculated that the groups that need to be vaccinated 1st the people who are most at risk and the front line workers will make up about 20 percent of the population in most countries so we are scientific a neutral car organization that just like any organization we do get criticized but

we also have knows if they have been some politicize ation of their response and we do i ask these the quality of this well certainly we have been concerned that have been running against vaccine nationalism for a long time and again that's why entire a little while ago scientists were working on developing the vaccines we were working on setting up the facility the kovacs facility and talking with all the different countries to join that we look at the daily show from the vaccine trials to look at whether they work 1st of all how it's a case of solving how safe either any do they meet the safety standards that we require and thirdly i don't think manufactured at the safest and highest quality standards when each vaccine meets that criteria we will provide it with what we call an emergency use listing and that can be used by any country in the world the german chancellor angela merkel has made an emotional plea for tougher restrictions to be implemented the combo to covert 19 to the country reached

a grim record of $600.00 deaths in a single thing. that's what this is i don't know my nothing up in the student and weeks in the field and he didn't begin to lessons i don't feel a 1000 times they still run them a book because by the hour we know that i missed most i didn't mention i'm not going to do that i target you think i did doesn't even do as i did then the answer well then it's a feeling. i wish to dismiss those lists of i don't think it was and i'm one of the measures the chancellor is pushing for is starting the school holidays several days early to a lot of people to self isolate ideas but by the german academy of sciences another of her proposals is shutting all non-essential shops from christmas eve this ember 24 also the merkel government wants as many germans are possible to work from home but the last. proposal is true or to rage from opposition politicians they accuse her of failing to provide an effective covert response now after 15

years supermarket germany is a country that does not want to protect its borders against illegal immigration and its instead imposing curfews and citizens and dispatching legions of police officers to control mask wearing on the training stock 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 and frustration among the locked and weary germans have frequently boiled over into protest and we spoke with b. john john is from germany's left party he sees a growing sense of public disappointment over the government's handling of the pandemic. everything has been 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 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. when the government closed down their business in november and promise me 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 east to hamas its own artistic creation has been managed for money and the response is far too late. the us federal trade commission is pushing to break up facebook accusing it of

holding a legal monopoly over the social media market it's file a lawsuit but $48.00 states targeting facebook's acquisitions of the instagram and what's all platforms been small been boston r.t. tell us 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 of another large tech firm you tube 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 or something to note here is that the decision to remove the video is comes after a deadline passed for states to challenge the election and you tube sais that enough of those states have no certified their results however the platform has actually been removing thousands of channels since september meanwhile many videos containing all unproven allegations of many other issues remain up on you tube without seemingly any problem they include claims of russia collusion in the 2016 u.s. election and conspiracy theories about the 911 terror attacks while you tube's drive

to remove fraud allegations led to responses such as these let's take a look. 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'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

google and 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. today marks a special birthday for r.t.e. with her child all celebrating its 15th anniversary.

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aircraft early enough for your video. really undercover going to destabilize. you will get exposed on t.v. like if waves decontaminate your mind well you know if your audience is as brave everything to. trim down through the narrow narrow you can defend yourself i enjoyed revelers from the weapons of mass communications. thanks for the r.t. to. give the enemy else things are your own early moon. well during our 15 years on there are to has covered pretty much every major event happening around the globe ensuring the voices on all sides are heard as part offer on a 1st rate coverage today here's

a look back at how we reported on some of the events that helped shape europe over the last decade and some 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 coal 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. greece has seen a marked increase in support for far right groups while greece was being punished for its bailouts with all sturdy 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 to every swiss citizen intended to let them live without basic financial wary 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 so there were 60 people. in a movie i think. would know or 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 get in a group to write it by their critics is paul right in extremis and some even call

them the neo nazis they however say that they are 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. so this gentleman here selling one pick cotton for 85 euro it's great to read ok and if this continues pretty soon but 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 2030 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 take. this pint here contains around 3 grams of plastic explosives i'm going to go and hide some way here the terminal while fraga tries to track me down. sure enough she finds me trying to check him for a flight back. to him good to get me even if not all of the decisions for 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 for all to

see burley. someone else who had a significant part to play in the role of one part of europe during. those past 15 years is almost screens next the former 1st minister of scotland i like some of those jobs on his mind today stay focused. which is the point at which so i think it's an atmosphere highly active geology it's good it's for the border it's it's your it could. be us those 4 by all that is just far beyond our wildest imaginations.

welcome to the alex savage the vaccine cavalry is coming over to help i'm not a moment too soon this week vaccinations that gets covered started across the united kingdom where the 4 administrations are all struggling with containing the virus while standing the economy and england open puts kora votes has broken nights and the ranks of the governing conservative party and public dissent was reflected in ugly scenes in the streets of london the weekend before last. the national long time in england has come to an end i've been a place to find 80 a system which keeps a vast majority of the country and effective loped i but while in england scotland

and northern ireland new covered cases seem to have stabilized and we.