breaking news on r.t.e. british drug giant astra zeneca agrees to cooperate with the makers of russia sputnik job to study the activeness of combining their respective run of virus vaccines. also this hour the international criminal court drops a probe into alleged war crimes by u.k. forces in iraq despite having a reasonable basis to believe that the atrocities actually took place. plus goodbye russia gates hello china gate with us intel choose a burning beijing the greatest threat to washington today and yet sign a spy scandal unfolds. and as the u.s. struggles with the pandemic and its economic consequences the nation's billionaires

and the well by more than a trillion dollars is some big enough to cover any major relief bill our guests get their teeth into the issue. it's a good story of the system being out of control so that it just. keeps getting worse that large corporations are offering people rescued from these heavy handed government policies which never have to be short every year and. a very warm welcome to the program from all of us here at r t h q in moscow let's get started with your live news updates we start with some breaking news russian and british scientists are ready to put their heads together and their vaccines to talk about the coronavirus pandemic britain's astra zeneca said in a statement that it's ready to work with the developers of russia sputnik the. today we announce

a clinical trial program to assess safety and immunogenicity of combination of a visa d $1222.00 developed by astra zeneca and oxford university and sputnik v. developed by russian research institute. maria for national is in the studio with us with all the details so bring us the latest how important is this will we hear about this huge collaborations between the developer is of the bridge swedish and the russian drug at the time of global call the 19 vaccine race and both sides believe everybody will only benefit the head of the malaya research institute the company behind russia's sputnik we says that astra zeneca is not efficient enough but if used in combination with sputnik we its efficacy could be dramatically boosted while it's a good news you know for for both sides of course in this is what astra zeneca press release says about why is it so important collaboration with the gamma layer research institute is important to explore the potential of vaccine combinations

unlocking synergies in protection and accessibility through a portfolio approach. they had of russia's investment fund the company responsible for foreign distribution of russian vaccines sputnik we also believes that this is a breakthrough this unique example of cooperation between scientists from different countries will play a crucial role in achieving the final victory over the pandemic astra zeneca its decision to conduct clinical trials using one of the 2 sputnik viveka says to improve the effectiveness of its own vaccine is an important step towards joining forces in the fight against the virus. yeah the more vaccines the more effective vaccines the better and we hear that they're going to start and roll in a doll's aged 18 year is and older very soon and earlier on friday we heard president putin spokesperson saying that competition is a very good thing but god is not when it comes to vaccine aimed at protecting the

nations these proces he had it should not be politicized and i think this corporation is a good example of what he meant of course this seems to be the 1st of its kind that we're hearing about how did they come to this arrangement it was the initiative of the russian side the research institute and they made this offer after asked after are announced interim early results of their clinical trials showing that the drug is safe and has an overall efficacy of 70 percent in protecting against 19 again as the head of the research you said that's not enough but it could be fixed if used in. combination with splitting it could be and meanwhile mass vaccination is in full swing and we hear that the russian capital is preparing to launch a huge factory able to produce $10000000.00 doses a month well let's hope something good comes out of this cooperation than maria from national thank you for bringing us that report earlier i spoke with simon

clark a microbiologist at the u.k. is reading university who says global cooperation is a vital during the pandemic. i wish that i could know what they're doing a good except unless they thought it was a real deal something that they should do the more data that is produced on any vaccine doesn't matter where it's produced or by whom is a good thing and it provided of course the dates there is positive then it can only . quell any public fears that people might have about actually people need to come together and find a way of getting those things that work maybe to work better or to be able to produce a more quickly or a greater amount starts what's important now. meanwhile the argentinian president says helping 1st in line to receive russia's covert job later in the bolton alberto fernandez explains why.

the international criminal court has dropped a probe into alleged war crimes by u.k. armed forces and the rack that's despite the prosecutor having quote a reasonable basis to believe that the offenses took place the court explained its decision by pointing to the fact that the u.k. had investigated the matter itself although investigations into more than 3000 cases resulted in no prosecutions takes a closer look. and that story after 6 years of what was called a preliminary examination of allegations of war crimes by the u.k. military in iraq the international criminal court says it's not going to proceed and so just before calling the british justice system one of the best in the world this is the way you case proud defense secretary reacts their statement today indicates our efforts to pursue justice were allegations have been found that i'm pleased that work we have done and continue to do in improving the quality and

assurances around investigations has been recognized by the international criminal court what i suggest though is reading beyond the 1st 2 lines of what the i.c.c. prosecutor ruled it will only take a few seconds to get to the part that says the office has previously found and today confirmed that there is a reasonable basis to believe members of the british armed forces are responsible for the following. i'll continue reading out bits from pretty much every paragraph one after another

civilian supervisory and military command failer contributed to the commission of crimes against detainees the initial response of the british army and theater at the time of the alleged offenses was inadequate not a single case being submitted for prosecution to date a result that has deprived the victims of justice i could keep going but it's already clear that these conclusions sound like they're from a different report not from one that leads to a major case being dropped or a senior cabinet member bragging about an amazing justice system the judgment is it is a travesty given the actual content of the report which not only says. reasonable evidence of all sorts of systematic violence against people in the british. during the iraq war but it also makes clear that sounds about negotiations and that not

one of those cases has been prosecuted and all they can say at the same time on the record can say the same time that it has been no shield to be no cover up what i recommend is that people read the report itself it's an indictment of the british army its enjoyment of the british justice system and it's also in a strange way an indictment of the international criminal court it sounds however if that's the way things are in the world of international criminal law london tick the boxes by launching domestic probes and the i.c.c. couldn't prove any seal doing. or deliberate covering up so the rest is out of the tribunals jurisdiction which only makes you wonder following up on the i.c.c. zone statement does it all mean the iraqi victims will never get justice the u.k. government has repeatedly shown precious little interest in investigating and prosecuting atrocities committed abroad by british troops the prosecutor's decision

to close a u.k. inquiry will doubtless fuel perceptions and an ugly double standard in justice one approach to powerful states and quite another for those with less clout the news from the i.c.c. comes as london pushes for a controversial overseas operations bill it's supposed to quote unquote protect british troops in overseas call flights from big say says litigation and repeat investigations critics though say it would allow more offenders to escape the law the overseas operations bill will do nothing to address the issue of repeat investigations of u.k. armed forces personnel list will do is make arifin cases like the death of iraqi national even more difficult to prosecute. the u.k. would also be violating numerous human rights treaties by not ensuring abuses are properly dealt with but even without the bill as we now know the international criminal court has pulled the brakes on probing the british military earlier when

the court was going to look into potential abuses by the us troops in war zones washington simply hit back by sanctioning senior staff members at the i.c.c. what if after that the tribunal just didn't want to go too far with investigating uncle sam's number one in iraq well there's no way of knowing. top u.s. politicians are calling for heads to roll after a member of the u.s. intelligence committee was targeted by a suspected chinese spy it comes as u.s. intel chiefs identify beijing as washington's number one abscess 3 more aggressive digs deeper. so trumps out and the russia gate thing is slamming shut behind him because there's a new scare story in town china you know it doesn't take long to dig up dirt in a town like washington q us democrat representative eric swalwell until now

moves through well this crist so far the evidence is on contradicted that the president used taxpayer dollars to ask the ukrainians to help with an election this time around it's his links to a suspected chinese spy who is in the stink not least because and this is awkward he sits on the house intelligence committee not the only shall be removed from the intel he should be removed from congress as well yes house minority leader kevin mccarthy there spotted an opportunity to claim his 1st victim so the background in a nutshell swalwell hod a chinese national called fang fagged in his early political career and this person quickly started raising suspicions within the intel community he got rid of her but his recently refused to answer whether he slept with her which probably means yes but before we burn mr swalwell at the stake let's see you out might have to join him once this chinese witch hunt really gains momentum you've got

a feel for mitch mcconnell he survived the title most good image but can he now survive the fact that is wife secretary of transportation chouteau is from one of china's most prominent political families that would be one hell of a honey trap and you and jean shall have served on the board of the holding company for china's teach to build in a state owned enterprise that makes chips for the chinese military. is also on the board at the bank of china and top lender to the ship builder remember also the former speaker of the house john boehner aka the original orange man is there is the high. republicans actually give john boehner a harder time than they give me. which means orange really is the new black. these days the former speaker of the house just happens to be a lot b. is for a certain people's republic of china is this guy aggie purdie chief security officer

who are way the u.s. is really china on a number of issues and they want to hurt one way to hurt china very afraid of the competition between china and the u.s. so they're focusing on hurting while way before getting professionally agri for you our way for a living and you purdy was a member of the white house start team that helped draft the u.s. national strategy to secure cyberspace this is just the tip of the iceberg therefore the head of u.s. intelligence has declared open season on big thing calling it threat number one if i could communicate one thing to the american people it is that the people's republic of china poses the greatest threat to america today and the greatest threat to democracy and freedom worldwide since world war 2 what they might find is that there aren't many politicians left who don't have links to this new enemy because they used to be friends really is getting hard to keep up.

and now to a developing story out of russia a suicide bomber has blown himself up in a small village in the caucasus region and attack happened near a federal security service building the images you're seeing now on the screen reportedly show what remains of the improvised bomb 6 people are said to have been injured including 5 f.s.b. of officers and one civilian this is i bomber was allegedly a radical islamist russia's anti-terrorist committee said that the man dead needed the bomb as he was being detained there global news update continues after this short break. is your media a reflection of reality. in

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welcome back more americans have died of co bed the last farthing and world war 2 the death toll is now close to 300000 while the total number of cases is over 15000000 the pandemic may be the country's worst crisis and decades but that hasn't stopped the rich from getting richer and that worth america's billionaires has soared by one trillion dollars since march according to a new report. as tens of millions of americans suffer from the health and they cannot mcraven just over these pandemic a few 100 billionaires to their massive fortunes their pandemic profits are so immense that america's billing errors could pay for a major covert relieve bill and still not lose a dime of their provider is reaches the updraft of wealth to the billionaire class

is disturbing at a time when millions face eviction to situation and loss billionaires are extracting wealth at a time when essential work is pushed into the vajra line 5 the campaign group americans for tax fairness found that the extra wealth accumulated by billionaires during the penda mic would be enough to dish out 3000 dollars to every single american it's roughly equal to the entire amount spent by the federal government on health care and $21000.00 and nearly 4 times more than the stimulus payments made earlier this year to 100 and $59000000.00 americans and the report included $651.00 billionaires and we can take a look at just a few of them the wealthiest of course being jeff bezos is now worth over 100 $80000000000.00 which is more than the g.d.p. of iraq elon musk's wealth grew almost 6 fold during the pandemic while mark zuckerberg almost doubled his both musk and zuckerberg are worth more than

$100000000000.00 now our guest abated profiting from a pandemic. this is capitalism on government life support and the side effect of that is to make those who own shares the overwhelming bulk being owned by the richest people even richer and while everybody else is in trouble in the way that they blame capitalism for destroying the poor and and creating great inequality these government policies do exactly that have lockdowns crushing small medium businesses we have state homeowners which drove people into an unemployment largely virtual existence we don't wait a month for policy which drove a crisis the financial markets i always love these kinds of analyses is it the government has a day or 6 not going into drugs from the government there's nothing naive here the government isn't doing something then as a result the government is itself the result of the way this society works which puts enormous wealth and therefore political power in the hands of

a very small number of people who turn out to have a government policy that makes them richer this burst of new wealth is just as purely a product of government policy and was unnecessary you know the unintended consequences of lockdowns and such and in this case they call them non-pharmaceutical interventions but there's also capacity limits on businesses are going to be almost the opposite of what we're hoping for the draconian policies they've increased the gap. between the rich and poor that created new controversies of wealth this tremendous consolidation going on right now let me be clear here we could have been prepared for this virus the way other countries where we could have handled it better the way other countries than it's a pathetic sad story of a system spinning out of control so that it's unjust inequality keeps getting worse we have a monopoly in this country that it for a century we have 2 parties we don't allow 2 businesses that dominate most of our industries but we allow these 2 parties to dominate our politics that's very

convenient for the computer they. the class of corporate directors who donate the bulk of the money to both of them who pull the strings from both of the bodies and you can't really have a monopoly without government help because innovation never stops you have you would you need to have a monopoly as richard said is you need government controls you need artificial controls like patents and my copyright and all that sort of thing health care is a perfect example of that's a business and it's a sector which is super regulated. and it therefore you have entrenched interests there and for that reason we shouldn't be surprised that those costs are rising rising rising and you know to juju jujube with no end in sight i mean i think that is. what one of the one of those maybe maybe the picture perfect examples of what happens when government gets up to its neck in an industry to think of this is a government policy is strange the beneficiary ear our corporations they are

aberrate with 4 industries doctors hospitals device and drug makers and the insurers they've got us by the throat we have to pay those prices that they control yes peter is right they use the government to cement their monopoly as monopolists always have but the impetus the desire that need to control the market to squeeze more profits that's what drives the government to do what they do in support of these interests trying to maximize the money they can squeeze out of our health care if you look at these lockdowns how many people i mean if you think of people locked in home people with nothing to do stores being closed what was keeping people alive what was keeping people fed was keeping people's minds same right facebook google amazon netflix things like that those no service providers and as many of the businesses to me is but large corporations are offering people some some sort of refuge from these heavy handed government policies which never had to be so heavy hand. members have stressed the need to develop

a coordinated approach to vaccines certificates a common new approach to vaccination certificates is likely to reinforce the public health response and member states and the trust of citizens in the vaccination effort electronic vaccination certificates would show whether it traveler had been immunized against corona virus before crossing borders the system was a key part of discussions on how the block is going to lift pandemic restrictions over the coming year earlier the world health organization advised against any such system we heard from its representative. we generally have price not to make it made a tree 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 that you to ensure that everybody gets the exit interview because people are then become frightened and there's no reason to be fight no something like this which is

a little. scientific a neutral can open eyes ation just like any organization we do get criticized but we also have noticed they have been some politicize ation of the response and we do ask leave the quality well certainly we have been concerned and have been warning against taxing 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 staging up the facility the kovacs facility and talking with all the different countries to join that. we will see the changes we will see big improvements in 2021 if we keep doing what we must do if we all will play out part continue with the garbage health measures continue with the tracking and tracing finding in every case bringing the numbers down and as we bring the numbers

of infections down and as we increase the vaccination the virus will have no way to go and we will we did. the president of argentina has given a thumbs up to russia's coronavirus vaccine alberto fernandez said that once the drug is approved by the country's medical regulator he would be the 1st person in the country to receive the sputnik the job adding that he had no doubts about its quality. and. in argentina some raise doubts about the quality of russian science the russian get a lay institute has several nobel prizes among its staff of scientists to everyone's downswings sputnik v. is here in knowledge and so you know i will be the 1st one to take that vaccine because i have no doubt about the quality of the vaccine argentina has been badly hit by the pen demick with nearly 1500000 cases and a total of more than 40000 deaths it remains the 2nd worst hit country in latin america after brazil arjen time president has confirmed the country has signed

a deal with russia on sputnik supplies high risk groups in the country will be the 1st in line for the job the country's president says they are buying anough doses to vaccinate 10000000 people. most not political. we would be able to count on the north to the system x. 1000000 argentinians between january and february 1st a batch of 600000 doses to vaccinate 300000 people before the end of the year by january will have enough vaccines for 5000000 people and by february it will have enough vaccines to reach the 10000000 people with a c. that's that's all for this hour news wise but if you're looking for more how to never tell website r.t. dot com thanks for tuning in.

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