distances. in the day's headlines british drug giant astra zeneca agrees to cooperate with the makers of russia. to study the activists of combining the respective front of. the international criminal court dropsy crow and alleged war crimes by u.k. forces in iraq despite having quote reasonable basis to believe that the atrocities actually took place. also this hour goodbye russia gates hello china gate us intel chips and branding beijing the greatest threat to washington today and the scandal unfolds. and as the u.s. struggles with the pandemic and its economic consequences the nation's billionaires

have increased their wealth by more than a trillion dollars some vague enough to cover a major relief bill our guest get their teeth into the issue. it's up but she is hillary of the system. so let me i'm just. getting ready to get large corporation draw for. a refuge from these heavy handed government policies which never have to be shown every day. you're watching going to international bring you a live news update from our studio here in moscow welcome to the program. russian and british scientists are ready to put their heads together and their back scenes to tackle the coronavirus pandemic britain's astra zeneca said in a statement that it's ready to work with the developers of russia. today we announce a clinical trial program to assess safety and immunogenicity of combination of

a is a d $1222.00 developed by astra zeneca and oxford university and sputnik v. developed by russian research institute i think it is quite important that this river hear from both sides and we hear about this huge corporation between the developer is of the bridge swedish and the russian drug at the time you have to understand a global covered 1000 vaccine raise and both sides believe everybody will only benefit from that. they have a problem very vaccines efficacy isn't high enough this should be improved we have 2 different add an overseas they will take one of them and use it as a booster collaboration with the gamma layer research institute is important to explore the potential of vaccine combinations and looking synergies in protection and accessibility through a portfolio approach the head of russia's investment fund the company responsible for foreign distribution of rushes of vaccine also believes this is

a breakthrough collaboration 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 vivax does to improve the effectiveness of its own vaccine is an important step towards joining forces in the fight against the virus and astra zeneca says that they are going to start enroll in adults aged 18 years and older very very soon and early on friday we heard what mr putin spokes person the middle of saying that competition is a very good thing of course but not when it comes to vaccine aimed at protecting the world these processes he believes should not be politicized and i think this is a very good example of what he meant these collaborations between us and again sputnik the so we have this unique cooperation how did developers come to the agreement actually it was the russian initiative and they made this offer after

interim earlier results of astra zeneca clinical trials were announced showing that the drug is safe and has an overall efficacy of 70 percent in protecting against 19 as you remember. vaccine is over 95 percent efficient and 42 days after the 1st shot it is a 2 shot vaccine i think this is where the idea of combining these 2 vaccines came from and meanwhile mass vaccination here in russia is in full swing and moscow is about to launch a huge factory able to produce $10000000.00 doses of sputnik the month. earlier i spoke with simon clarke i microbiologist the u.k.'s at reading university who says global cooperation is vital during the pandemic. that it could know what they're doing and wouldn't accept it unless they thought it was a real deal something that they should do the more data that is produced on any vaccine does about so where it's produced or by whom it's

a good thing and i you know provided of course the data there is positive then it could 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 them more quickly or in greater amounts that's what's important now meanwhile the president of argentina has given a thumbs up to russia's coronavirus vaccine about our fernando's said that once the drug is approved by the country's medical regulator he would be the 1st person to receive this but think of the jab at him that he had no doubts about its quality and when a similar in argentina some raise doubts about the quality of russian science the russian gamelan institute has several nobel prizes among its staff of scientists to everyone's downswings sputnik vs here in argentina 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 pandemic with nearly $1500000.00 cases and a total of more than $40000.00 deaths a 2nd worst hit country in latin america after brazil the argentine president has confirmed the country signed a deal with russia on sputnik the supplies high risk groups in the country will be 1st in line for the job the country's president says they are buying enough doses to vaccinate 10000000 people you know most of our political. we will be able to counter the nuff theresa's defection 18000000 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 we'll have enough vaccines to reach the 10000000 people with the see. this.

international criminal court has dropped a probe into alleged war crimes by u.k. armed forces in iraq that's despite the prosecutor having quote a reasonable basis to believe that offenses took place the court explained its decision by pointing to the fact that the u.k. had investigated the matter itself although investigations and to more than $3000.00 cases resulted in no prosecutions takes a closer look and of story after 6 years of what was called a preliminary examination of allegations of war crimes by the u.k. moultrie 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 founded i'm pleased that work we have done and continues 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 famous 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 and adequate not a single case being submitted for prosecution today 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 that 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 enjoyment 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 called like from big safe 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 paid 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 buy it comes as u.s. intel chiefs identified beijing as washington's number one adversary. reports. 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 moved well this crist so far the evidence is on contradicted that the president

used taxpayer dollars to ask the ukrainians to help achieve an election this time around it's his links to a suspected chinese spy causing a stink not least because and this is awkward he seats on the house intelligence committee not the whole nation to be removed from the intel he should be removed from congress as well yes house minority leader kevin mccarthy there sporting 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 that 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 but can he now survive the fact

that is wife secretary of transportation elaine chao 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.s. for a certain people's republic of china is this guy aggie purdie chief security officer

who are way the u.s. is ready for china on a number of issues and they want to hurt one way to hurt china the 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 beijing 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 we is getting hard to keep up.

more americans have now died of covert it than were lost fighting in world war 2 the death toll is now close to 300000 all the total number of cases over $15000000.00 a pandemic maybe the country's worst crisis in decades but that hasn't stopped the rich from getting richer and that worth of american billionaires has soared by one trillion dollar since march according to a new report. as tens of millions of americans suffer from the health and economic river just over these pandemic a few 100 billionaires to their massive fortunes their pandemic profits are so immense that america's billionaires could pay for a major covert relieve bill and still not lose a dime of their provider it's 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 viral line of fire the campaign group

americans for tax fairness found that the extra wealth accumulated by billionaires during the pandemic 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 in 2019 and nearly 4 times more than the stimulus payments made earlier this year to 159000000 americans the report included $651.00 billionaires and we can look at just a few of them the wealthiest of course is jeff bezos and he's now worth over $180000000000.00 which is more than the g.d.p. of iraq musk's wealth grew almost 6 fold during the pandemic while mark zuckerberg almost doubled his both musk and dr berger are worth more than $100000000000.00 are guesstimated 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 not have lockdowns crushing small medium businesses we have stayed homeowners which drove people into an unemployment largely virtual existence we don't wait a month for policy which drove a crisis in financial markets i always love these kinds of analyses is it the government has a day or 6 not going to the drops 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 that they think all the non-pharmaceutical interventions but there's also capacity limits on businesses are going to be almost the opposite of what we hoped 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 hand 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 have had 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 for both of the bodies 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 copyrights 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 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 ju ju ju with no end in sight i mean i think that is. one of the one of the maybe maybe the picture perfect examples of what happens when government gets up to its neck in an industry to think of this as a government policy is strange the beneficiary here are corporations they are operate with for 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's right they use the government to cement their monopoly as monopolists

always had 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 what was keeping people's minds saying 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 handed. in members has stressed the need to develop a coordinated approach to vaccine certificates when you approach to vaccination certificates is likely to reinforce the public health response in member states and

the trust of citizens in the vaccination effort. electronic vaccination certificates would show whether a 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 endemic restrictions over the coming year but the world health organization advised against forcing anyone to take vaccines we heard from its representative. we generally have a price not to make it mandate tree it's much better people want to be vaccinated if you have a mandate or a system it's much just a group so much more difficult that you join sure that everybody gets the exit interview because people are then become frightened that there's no reason to be fight no something like this which is a little. scientific a neutral cause organization. like any organization we do get criticized but we also have knows if they have been some politicize ation of the response and we do

ask these the quality but 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 setting up the facility the kovacs facility until you can 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 will play out part continue with the garbage health measures continue with the tracking and tracing finding in every case bringing in the numbers down and sweeping the numbers of infections down and as we increase the vaccination the virus will have no way to go and we will be. with auto ascribe joint military exercises with beijing last year it was reportedly doing washington's bidding that's according to classified

documents revealed by a canadian news network. the trudeau government plan to invite chinese troops to train in ontario just months after 2 canadians were arrested in china the chinese military contingent was expected to study comedian cold weather military tactics classified documents obtained by rebel news show that a training about it was eventually cancelled at the request of the u.s. state department we were cool for example the back in december to publish a national defense and canadian forces looking to cancel the people's liberation army participation in the winter survival training following their request from the d.o.d. to do so that winter survival training will not take place this winter the security concerns who originated primarily from the us would you know have a record of other 5 countries expressing this concern 6 canada the documents also suggest the exercise was cancelled directly by comedian armed forces bypassing triggers liberal government well squabble affairs canada to comment on the

situation and we'll let you know if we hear back from them earlier experts tell us why kemas top officials might want to seek better relations with china. the relationship between canada and china is. reasonably good so this is my as world history will this exercise trend in 2900 might as well be an event well planned from a larger share of the g. point of view i'm not surprised at all for the pressure of us on canada in fact it's not just canada even the u.k. australia and new zealand they always say if pressure these countries are no longer acting like an independent countries with independent foreign policies from the actions of prince trudeau canada is clearly much more inclined towards the pressure. from the united states i'm not surprised that they're that the united

states is putting pressure on canada. regards to its relations with china and someone decided that it was not in canada's interest and that is the more unusual part is how that the military if these reports are correct managed to supersede the prime minister that is perhaps the more interesting question to ask and of course i don't have any answers for that who does but this is it looks like a case of insubordination canada's long term success will rely more on china than it will perhaps on the united states that's all for this hour news while thanks for tuning in wherever you may be. join me every thursday on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to guest on the world of politics sports business i'm showbusiness i'll see you there.

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hello and welcome to cross talk where all things are considered on peter lavelle in january there may be a new american president but what won't change is washington's stance towards iran is military conflict inevitable what is the value of diplomacy if one side fails to honor agreements and what are iran's options. to discuss this and more i'm joined by my guest adam roosevelt in washington he's a national security analyst as well as a g.o.p. strategist and omar we have scott ritter he is a former intelligence officer and united nations weapons inspector and into and we have mohammad marandi he is a professor at the university of toronto gentlemen crossed out rules in effect that

means you can jump any time you want and i always appreciate it ok let's go to professor marandi interim 1st professor marandi even over the last year iran. saw the assassination of one of its. celebrated military officials probably the greatest. cherice hunter and killer in the world and then we have as scientists. over the last few days sas unaided and by all accounts it was an israeli operation we don't know to what degree the americans were knowledgeable of it but it doesn't really matter here so it looks quite likely a new administration will be coming into power in january there's a lot of speculation about the last days of the trumpet ministration and some saber rattling when it comes to iran and of course there is the j. c.p.o. away on the line here a lot of speculation about what bae may or may not do.