coming together british swedish farmer astra zeneca the makers of russia's sputnik . to cooperate to study this of combining their coronavirus. the u.s. sees a record. with figures surpassing the country's. international criminal court. more crimes by u.k. forces in iraq despite the reasonable basis to believe the atrocities actually took place.

as your r.t. international my name's you know me 30 minutes of news and views started. russian british scientists are said to combine their vaccines the virus pantomimic u.k. swedish farm and seneca said in a statement on friday it is ready to work with the developers of russia's sputnik before we hear. the collaboration with my colleague. let's take a look at 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 outer novara says 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 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 on your own friday we heard what mr putin's spokesperson the middle school 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 it can be 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 covered 19 if you remember. vaccine is over 95 percent efficient 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 massive accident. and he is in full swing and moscow is about to launch a huge factory able to produce 10000000 doses of sputnik the a month let's hear some of what the experts are saying about this molecular oncology professor lawrence young is of the view that cross border cooperation is vital in tackling the pandemic. i think it's a fine caustic opportunity 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 last in your 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 that 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 trying to me work together and i hope that one of the consequences of something like this is the 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 known died of cold food than were lost fighting in world war 2 with the death toll creeping up on crete 100000 or your correspondent kill up and 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. 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 implant everyone for the 1st 100 days of my administration to wear a mask that will start with my signing an 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 masked 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 have been sense mid september 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 hopefully whatever we do can prevent more and the rate of the more debt from occurring more debt. pretty soon sad to say that one lost their lives and world war 2. how many more businesses have to shut or 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 off 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. say let's keep

attention stateside because us president elect joe biden has unveiled his latest round of cabinet picks they include yet another obama era official tom vilsack culture secretary for secretary of agriculture nominee tom vilsack an outstanding 2 term governor of iowa the best secretary of agriculture i believe this country's ever had he was there with the great recession was probably ruin america. over 8 years you oversaw a record breaking investment to bring us back. you know as joe biden was alluding to the former governor was agriculture secretary under barack obama his tenure was plagued by accusations that he favored major industrial giants though including months son to support a number of controversial measures including the expansion of genetically modified crops and helped ease industry restrictions well biden's comment has so far been

packed with figures linked to big corporations former c.n.n. contributor asian psaki she's been chosen as the new white house press secretary lloyd austin's nomination as defense secretary a spark concerns over his ties to arms supplier raytheon while unfunny blink and 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 cornell 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 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. living the program on the international criminal court has dropped an investigation into alleged war crimes by u.k. armed forces in iraq that's the spot the prosecutor having quote a reasonable basis to believe that offenses took place the court explained it's the sation by pointing to the fact that london had investigated the matter itself although probes into more than 3000 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.

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 fail or contributed to the commission of crimes against detainees the end missile response of the british army and theater at the time of the alleged offenses was an adequate 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. they raised reasonable evidence of all sorts of systematic violence against people in the british news hounds during the iraq war but it also makes clear that being thousands of on occasions and not one of those cases has been prosecuted how they can say at the same time the report can say that the same time data 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 an enjoyment of the british justice system and it's also in a strange way an indictment of the international criminal court the south 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 insuring 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. this is r.t. international still ahead classified documents show that canada was planning to train chinese soldiers but of the game under pressure from the u.s.

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remain in the shallows. you 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 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 comes as u.s. intel chips identified beijing as washington's number one. rough guess the it has been digging a little 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 moose thing well this crist so far the evidence is on contradicted that the president used taxpayer dollars to ask the ukrainians to help them cheat for 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 the sponsor going opportunity to claim his 1st victim so the background in a nutshell swalwell hod a chinese national called fang fag 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 say 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 it's got a feel for mitch mcconnell he survived the title most good image but can he now survive the fact that these wife secretary of transportation chowk 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 an estate on the former speaker of the house john boehner aka the original orange man is days the house republicans actually give john boehner a harder time i'm a 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 purdy 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 the perjury was a member of the white house starved 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 he is getting hard to keep up. as the of kicking us through

when scrap joint military exercises with beijing last year it was doing washington's bidding not is according to classified documents revealed by a canadian news network they trudeau government plans to invite chinese troops to train in on tardio 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 trimming event was eventually canceled 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 the region it is primarily from the us we do not have

a record of other 5 i countries expressing this concern 6 canada the revealed documents also suggest the exercise was killed still directly by canadian armed forces bypassing trudeau as liberal government we've asked global affairs candidate to comment on the situation will let you know if we hear about from them earlier experts told us why geller this top officials might want to see better ties with china. the relationship between canada and china is. reasonably good so this is my as world history real this exercise trend 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. let's return to a topic we spoke about a little earlier in the program several senior democrats voice their opposition to

joe biden's pick for defense secretary the president elect named retired general lloyd austin wednesday he'll become the 1st black person to head the pentagon but as polly boyko 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 he's got. and that is great. well done right you very much at all since i retired 4 star general and that has raised a lot of lefty eyebrows. dozens ignore the longstanding tradition of having a civilian at the helm of the most well unclipped fighting force in the world america it's a great country we're drinking it is agreed 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 you spent the last 4 years on the board of a massive defense contractor called great. we're. going to miss the most interesting thing about biden picking austin is that alston is the. one she implored to the world with. pres taking to be secretary of defense is a little bit during by which i mean it's not progressive everyone expected find until point michelle through and i am as secretary of defense because she's actually experienced she's a civilian she tells the 3rd thing is to be a drone 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 show she's linked to defense contracts and she's presided over a hot mess in the middle east so biden picked a guy. which was shared he's linked to defense contractor he's presided over a hot mess in the middle east if you're wondering how much of a hot mess he is getting that the u.s. paid $500000000.00 to train a syrian fine 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 at the. head of the military and major weapons company could end up being the same joke and still be. if you'd like to dig further into any of the stories are 2. dozen was well worth some of your scrolling today hope to catch you all again so. which is a pretty good sign. that this fear highly of geology is that it's the

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