if you look. around the makers of russia's sputniks job agreed to cooperate to study the effectiveness of. state's records coronavirus that's what. was in the country's pitot of these during world war 2. and the international criminal court drops a probe into alleged war crimes by u.k. forces in iraq and despite having a reasonable basis to believe the atrocities take place. here in moscow you're watching r.t. international with me daniel hawkins wherever you are tonight's welcome to the

program. a russian and british scientists are set to combine their vaccines in the latest bid to tackle the global pandemic that's after astra zeneca said it's ready to work with the developers of russia's sport nic the job before we hear more detail in the new collaboration with my colleague jacqueline vega let's see the actual remarks today we announce a clinical trial program to assess safety and immunogenicity of combination of d. 1222 developed by astra zeneca and oxford university and sputnik v. developed by russian research institute i think it is quite important that this will be here from both sides and we hear about this huge corporation between the developer of the bridge swedish and the russian drug at the time you have to understand a global call $1000.00 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 a new 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 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 is 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 spokes person 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 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 covered 19 as you remember the rush is 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. and he 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 molecular on

quality professor lawrence young believes cross border corp will be vital in ending the health crisis 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 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 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 an hour died of coburg than were lost fighting wars war 2 almost 300000 of lost their lives to the virus has the latest details. 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 in 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 i'm asking please everyone for the 1st 100 days of my administration to where madness it 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 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've been since 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 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 to nancy pelosi and the democrats will act if 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 elect joe biden has unveiled his latest round of cabinet picks include yet another obama era official tom vilsack as i grew cultural secretary for secretary of agriculture our 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 when the great recession was. rumored over 8 years you oversaw a record breaking investment to bring us back. well the former iowa governor was agricultural secretary under barack obama on his tenure was plagued by accusations you favored major industrial giants including monsanto bill sachs supported a number of controversial measures including the expansion of genetically modified crops and helped ease industry restrictions on in the cabinet and so far been packed with figures linked to big corporations former c.n.n. contributor gent sarky has been chosen as the new white house press secretary at austin's nomination as defense secretary has sparked concerns over his ties to arms supply raytheon well as i do blinken is closeness with the big and powerful is being questioned over his nomination for secretary of state well let's bring in

a professor of political economy jack russell must live now for more on this thanks for joining us professor good to have you on the program today. are you surprised by this nomination or was it predictable given that. fact the recycled quite a few obama era officials. no not really because all his appointments nearly all the the now have been retreads from your bomb administration or pro corporate appointees you know it's not only that bill shack was. doing when he need to do to benefit monsanto n.g.o.s but he was in husband mystere i believe the head of the dairy council us a big agribusiness very very farmers and also i believe he was very instrumental under bombings ministration pulling inspectors or shrewd food processing and you know inspection. poultry industry so and this guy has a long history of corporate agribusiness friend and it's not surprising that you

know obama i mean discus biden has put him back in in the in the job but other positions revolving president work the same thing you know trying to look like this guy austin which will probably being the trust clinton secretary and you know a general who went to a one way revolving door and went in to reach the on top corporation being on his the defense corporation and now he's coming back to say no it's not mary benefits very convincingly less so we're going to have much of a change in your readership and if the appointments similar why biden are any indication of the do of what the policies might be another word whether we're live nomics it's going to be obama in the mix $2.00 and then we better worry because obama nomics little one boy no didn't do very much some for bankers and big businesses that because of the very quickly in 2910. workers are secured just to

get back to the level of jobs they lost and of course the crisis this time is much worse and i don't see by guns policies the yorn can be very aggressive in terms of a stimulus that's needed to get the economy and get this country going again and ending here and if the democrats don't come up with the robust stimulus economic policy in my mind thinks in office i think and then they are facing our nominee had none 2020 tuning in congress. sort of also more you know what next question professor but in terms of policy of these these cabinet nominations how much do they depend on you know the individual character here i mean could the policies differ from the people behind those policies in effect i mean we're in a different era now of the country faces different challenges with the pandemic with coronavirus do you think different policies are possible with the same names. well that's a good question but i would hope too much in that regard because you know the

political institutions here in this country are almost broken and what you've got was not a population that's split right down the middle and the democrats have barely holding on to the house we'll see whether they can barely hold onto the senate here with these elections in your origin if they lose you just one of those nuns mr mcconnell's no clue drawn into shero part and mitch mcconnell's the big problem right now you know he's been proposing only 500000000000 stimulus since last june and he hasn't budged on that the democrats have come down to 3 trillion last year one to 2 trillion in in august to 980000000000 now but the republicans and mitch mcconnell in the broad they want to get their way or no other way and then it doesn't work promising knowing into you know the next next administration because the priest never in charge nothing else is going to get

really done in terms of stimulus and even if it's not even if the democrats in my opinion are able to take those 2 houses down in georgia i think you know the democrats and biden are going to going to go very slow because of their narrow majority and they're not going to do with they need to do to stimulate this economy i mean just look at these appointments the depressive ring of the democrats get any room not one not one appointment which really should tell you where the politics of the administration probably an adult. boyden one this president selection on a platform of promising change with these old faces brought in do you think if the electorate chose biden and it meant i was a popular vote electoral college votes because of change or because they wanted to return to the obama era they really knew that was what they were going to get. i don't think they anticipated return to their bomb or her that were i don't think it's so much that biden won that trip last i was mostly his personality and the

things he's been doing and attacking democracy and so forth that's why he's particularly lost in my in my opinion if you look at congressional races the democrats actually lost ground why because their whole campaign was a look not terrible trungpa is not for me biden rather than really pushing what they were going to do for people in terms of new policy i think people are hungry for some really policies here and that will benefit the most in the most of the country which is being left behind you know a good 1000000000 recently reported to billionaires $61.00 of their own billionaires not increase their role by one trillion dollars it's been $3.00 to $4.00 trillion just 8 months just make months and what are we got on the other side with people we've got 25000000 people unemployed not as your previous guy and mentioned turn yarn and because that's the churn unemployment numbers we've got 2121 1000000 people just getting benefits in this country we've got 44000000

students are going to have if you look we're back we understand a lot of them we've got 11400000 richards who are behind in their rates we've got my half 1000000 mortgages who are behind in their mortgages we have 3300000 small businesses that have closed permanently and more coming i mean this is a crisis of no major dimensions economically going on and what do we got in congress you know we got mitch mcconnell won't budge for 8 months often fly 100000000000 ameena and biden with these appointments the don't dare impress me that he's going to come out with the aggressive prowess and he's going to need or you know the democrats are going to be toast in 22 until. right certainly going to be interesting at time politically domestically for the united states so cross most thanks so much for joining us here on naughty international. still to come this

classified documents show kind of i was planning to train chinese soldiers and put a bomb in that's when the pressure from the united states that story and more still to come off to the break. when almost seemed wrong. just don't call. me. yet to shape out this day comes after. and in detroit equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. in january there may be a new american president but what change is washington stance towards iran is

military conflict inevitable what is the value of diplomacy if one side they was faltering bremer. what are iran's. we are discussing a new school of economics alien economics and this is really brought about by negative interest rates means contact with the galactic federation. welcome back to the program the international criminal court has dropped in the us today shouldn't the war crimes while your forces in iraq at this point the prosecutor having a reasonable basis to believe offenses did take place. and of story after 6 years of what was called a preliminary examination of allegations of war crimes by the u.k.

motel 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 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 being thousands of monica asians and not one of those cases has been prosecuted how they can say at the same time on the record can say the same time that there 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 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 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 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 head 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. senior u.s. politicians are demanding action after a member of the intelligence committee was targeted by a suspected chinese spy this comes as u.s. in told chiefs have identified beijing as washington's number one threat or does

the earth has the details. 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 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 fag 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 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 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 days 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 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 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 weenies getting hard to keep up when canada scrapped military exercises with china last year it was doing washington's bidding that's according at least the classified documents revealed by the media the trudeau a government plan to invite chinese troops the trainer on taria just months after 2 canadians were arrested in china the chinese military contingent was expected to study cold weather military tactics classified documents obtained by rebel news show the event was counsel at the request of the u.s. state department. we recall for example that back in december department of national defense and canadian armed forces were keen 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 concerns to canada or the documents also suggest the exercise was cancelled directly by the canadian armed forces bypassing trudeau's liberal government we've contacted the canadian government for comment will bring you any response we do get in the meantime we asked an analyst why kind of there may be seeking better ties with china 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 kind of the long term success will rely more on china than it will perhaps on the united states by january there may be a new american president but will that change washington starts towards iran foreign cross-talk next $31.00 are back in half an hour with the latest join us again that.

hello and welcome to cross talk where all things are considered un 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 is a national security analyst as well as a g.o.p. strategist and omar we have scott ritter is a former intelligence officer and united nations weapons inspector and into and we have mohamed.