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just a few moments into a brand new day here in moscow and it is the weekend saturday december the 12th welcome to the pro. russian british scientists are set to combine their vaccines to tackle the corona virus pandemic after a farmer. said in a statement today it's ready to work with the developers are freshest but maybe before we hear maria finishing their breaking dawn collaboration with my colleague jacqueline let's see the actual remarks. today we announce a clinical trial program to assess safety and immunogenicity of combination of these a d 1222 developed by us to seneca 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 of 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 ads or no viruses 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 unlocking 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 viveca says 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 you're 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 to 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 public 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 exodus. russia is in full swing and moscow is about to launch a huge factory able to produce 10000000 doses of sputnik the month who among the reaction we've been getting to this development was from molecular oncology professor lawrence young who sees cross border cooperation as vital in tackling the pandemic i think as i found that unity to work together in developing a more effective vaccine and there's lots of evidence that when you mix and match different vaccine platforms you get stronger and longer lasting immune responses to our competition so this is fantastic news and i think it will. raise confidence both in terms of the astra zeneca vaccine and also the sputnik vaccine it demonstrates the the power of scientists working collaboratively we're all very keen scientists around the world to work together and work in collaboration and i think this will provide an excellent opportunity for the very best people

working in the u.k. in the very best people working in russia to actually work together and i hope that one of the consequences of something like this is longer term collaboration in other areas of science and medicine so i think it's a very very important important day for us actually it's very exciting. more americans have no diet of kovar than were lost fighting in world war 2 with the death toll creeping up 130-0000 or a new york corresponding killer moping can tell us more about the infection crisis . we've got 15000000 cases of covert 19 in the united states we've got hospitals overwhelmed 107000 people are in the hospital at this moment doctors say these numbers are going to keep getting worse on wednesday there were more deaths from covert 19 on one day than there were on september 11th these are pretty big numbers

that people are looking on at the situation then and just appalled at how massively coded 1000 has expanded throughout the united states how much the pandemic seems to be completely out of control now joe biden is promising that when he takes office he will tackle this issue for his 1st 100 days in office he's talking about a mask a mandate but i'm absolutely convinced that in 100 days we can change the course of the disease and change life in america for the better i'm going to ask for a mask in place everyone for the 1st 100 days of my administration to wear a mask that will start with my signing a new order on day one to require mass where i cannot be the law there is some concern about how a mask mandate would be enforced around the country where there are states and localities that have mandated masks be worn we've seen kind of rebellion among sheriffs and local police officers who are refusing to enforce it for example in

california this local sheriff referred to a mask a mandate as dictatorial here is what he said he is expecting us to arrest anyone violating these orders cite them and take their money close their businesses make them stay in their homes and take away their civil liberties or he will punish all of us the riverside county sheriff's department will not be blackmailed bullied or used as muscle against riverside county residents in the enforcement of the governor's orders unemployment numbers in the united states are actually the highest they've been sense mid september we. we had a situation where this week 853000 people lost their jobs bringing the total number of unemployed to 10700000 according to the u.s. department of labor now despite this there is a deadlock in congress they're fighting over the stimulus package others not a clear agreement between the 2 major parties about how relief should be provided

and of course we've got the 2 major parties blaming each other take a listen and hopefully whatever we do can prevent more and the great of the more deaths from occurring more debt. pretty soon sad to say that one lost their lives and world war 2. how many more businesses have to shutter how many more dreams have to be shattered. how many more people have to be laid off. before and see palosi of the democrats will act we need more time to take more time but we have to have a bill and we cannot go home without it things are pretty out of control the rival parties are blaming each other joe biden is promising that he will turn things around however there's a strong amount of opposition to the measures he's already proposing even before he takes office quite a problematic and serious situation here in the united states. u.s.

president joe biden has unveiled his latest role and of cabinet picks they include yet another obama era official tom vilsack culture secretary. for secretary of agriculture nominee tom vilsack i'm outstanding 2 term governor of iowa the best secretary of agriculture i believe this country's ever had he was there when the great recession was probably ruin america. over 8 years you oversaw a record breaking investment to bring us back. and just to add to that up the former iowa governor was a group culture secretary under his tenure was plagued by accusations that he favored major industrial giants including monsanto supported a number of controversial measures including the expansion of genetically modified crops and helped ease industry restrictions biden's cabinet has so far been picked

with figures linked to big corporations former c.n.n. contributor. has been chosen as the new white house press secretary not austin's nomination as defense secretary concerns over his ties to arms supplier well anthony blinken closeness with the big and powerful is being questioned over his nomination for secretary of state. biden received much of his funding for his campaign from the darks the billionaires and the corporations and wall street and so as cornel west who once said you know we were seeing black faces in high places more seeing other leaders people of color who are saying we're seeing people in high places that aren't necessarily representing the people who've helped put joe biden into office and kamali harrison that is the the progressives so we're seeing many people coming be there from raytheon the new general austin who was once on or

is on the board 'd of raytheon and was a 4 star general and then we're also seeing some people who had once worked at or still do work with blackrock coming on board so this is you know we'll call it business as usual for the corporate class in the corporate cronies that have been running the neo liberal democratic party for almost 40 years. having the program on the international criminal court has dropped an investigation into alleged war crimes by u.k. armed forces in iraq that is the spike the prosecutor having quote a reasonable basis to believe that offenses took place the court explained his decision by pointing to the fact that london had investigated the matter itself although probes into more than 3 fellows in cases resulted in no prosecution. and that 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 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 fail or 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 the cage and 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 it's who 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 take 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 conflicts 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 a 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 tribunals didn't want to go too far with investigating uncle sam's number one ally in iraq well there's no way of knowing. and the i think taking us through about still to come in the program plus if i document was planning to train chinese soldiers in this scheme under pressure from the us not story and more fuel for the.

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we are discussing a new school of economics alien economics this israeli brought about by negative interest rates means contact with the galactic federation. 15 minutes into the program welcomed by 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 now as washington's number one for serie right goes to give exactly for. 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 him choose 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 has recently refused to answer whether he slept with her which probably means yes but before we burn mr swalwell at the stake at sea we're 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 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 tea chip building and state owned enterprise that makes chips for the chinese military. is also on the board at the bank of china and took lend it 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 ah these days the former speaker of the house just happens to be a lot b.s.

for a certain people's republic of china there's this guy aggie purdy 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 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 staff 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 threats 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 but he is getting hard to keep up when scrap joint military exercises with beijing last year it was 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 canadian cold weather military tactics classified documents obtained by rebel news show that a training event was a venture counsel that the request of the u.s. state department. we recall for example that back in december department of 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 originated primarily from the us we do not have a record of other 5 i countries expressing this concern 6 canada the reveal documents also suggest the exercise was counsel directly by canadian armed forces bypassing trudeau as liberal government we've lobel the 1st caliber to comment on the situation to let you know if we hear back from them earlier experts told us why kalidas top officials might want to seek better ties with china. relationship between canada and china is. reasonably good so this is my as world history real this exercise plan and in 2090 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 c.

than 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. several senior democrats voice

their opposition over joe biden's pick for defense secretary the president elect name retired general lloyd austin on wednesday he'll become the 1st black person to head the pentagon but as polyploid explains it seems there is concern austin could still be too close to the army. not even his own caucus is happy with joe biden's choice as secretary of defense lloyd austin is back. and that is great. well john you're right you very much at all since i retired 4 star general and that has raised a lot of lefty eyebrows. since ignored the longstanding tradition of having a civilian at the helm of the most well unclipped fighting force in the world america the it's a great country we're drinking it is a group we're learning so austin actually needs a special waiver from cloned grass to take the job because the army retired in 2016

he hasn't been out of active service for the required 7 years no one seems to care that he spent the last 4 years on the board of a massive defense contractor called great. deal with the storage fundamentals of the most interesting thing about biden picking austin is that alston is the. one she employed to the world with. pres picking to be secretary of defense is a little bit bigger marriage by which i mean it's not progressive everyone expected find until point michel through and i as secretary and defend because she's actually experienced she's a civilian she tells the 3rd brings civilian enjoyment into pentagon under obama she was head of defense policy she's an expert on china next year or is going to be

china and china china china china and yes she's a she but trauma is a full. she's linked to defense contractor and she's presided over a hot mess in the middle east so biden picked a guy. was and sharon he's linked to defense contractors he's presided over a hot mess in the middle east if you're wondering how much of a hot mess he is and that the u.s. paid $500000000.00 to train a force of syrian fighters numbering people find it's a small number. the ones that are in the fight. we're talking 445 but before you talk about how corrupt the democrats are if you're looking for someone to blame for this story state of affairs played the orange one

i think it would have been a good general that's right donald trump started the trend of an ex general and said that. he is just heading up his own ministry when he appointed james mattis who had been on the board of another major defense contractor general dynamics. i disagree that dividing success. from the head of the military and major weapons company could end up being the same job and i'll still be. taking those through the law for noah be here with all the updates affecting your world today at the top of the hour in the meantime check out our programs they begin in moments.

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