the u.s. drug regulator approved the pfizer biotech coated vaccine for emergency use amid reports of the agency's chief thing threatened by the white house today our nation has achieved a medical miracle it will save millions of lives and soon the pandemic once and for all. the e.u. considers issuing certificates for those who have been inoculated against kobe prompting fears people will feel pressured into getting the shot we gauge opinions from our guests. who are going to speak starting with full implementation prostitutes one thing i would say to the european union is if you stop having so much bureaucracy and let those countries decide for themselves they would tom franks seems by now to. try.

and the british city of birmingham gives work names such as a quality road and humanity post your 6 new roads ruffling the feathers of the anti p.c. brigade. a very warm welcome to the program this saturday it's 4 pm here in the russian capital let's get started with your live news update. the u.s. food and drug agency has approved the pfizer biotech coated vaccine for emergency use that's after reports that the white house chief of staff pressured the watchdogs commissioner into giving the green light to the vaccine under pain of losing his job trump was quick to praise the development. today our nation has achieved a medical miracle we have delivered a safe and effective vaccine in just 9 months this is one of the greatest

scientific accomplishments in history it will save millions of lives and soon and a pandemic once and for all. in the u.k. authorities are advising those with severe allergies not to get the pfizer biotech jab and warning comes shortly after the country began its mass rollout of the vaccine off stateside the food and drug administration has revealed that a total of 6 volunteers died during the trials which involved $44000.00 people although the regulator assure the public there was nothing to worry about it said 4 of those people had received a placebo and the remaining 2 deaths were well within statistical expectations meanwhile more american lives have been lost to kobe than the number that died fighting and world war 2 almost 300000 have succumbed to the virus and reports. 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 where madness will start with my signing in 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 of mandate as dictatorial 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 had a situation where this we. 853000 people lost their jobs bringing the total

number of unemployment 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 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 need more turned on look 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 people who kind of confuse about what exactly to do to. take themselves you also would be many

americans who don't like to be told what to do so the restrictions and they continue to fight the restrictions and by their doctors some of the states are stretched you know beyond capacity following every holiday there's a there's a small surge and now it's a pretty big surge after thanksgiving there's still a significant portion of our population that doesn't get what's happening. while the u.s. u.k. and canada have already approved coded vaccines the european union is exercising caution but they had of its medicines agency saying that safety must come 1st although the e.u. is seeking ways to encourage people to take jobs once they're approved it suggested the idea of vaccination certificates for people who've been inoculated and for block wide mutual recognition of coronavirus test results as part of possible measures to lift restrictions and restore cross border travel. right now the

european union is working full speed to review the safety of vaccines and make them available when these riches you see do we have the opportunity to reach an agreement on how to proceed with covies 19 vaccines and establish a common system for the validity of tests our opponents a back nation certificates are concerned that they could end up becoming de facto obligatory but people required to use them to travel my colleague in an only allegation pinions only issue with a panel of guests. i'm nervous about the idea of having these travel as certificates or the certificates that say you've had the coronavirus vaccine because what that means is that actually will then end up being a coronavirus passport so i think the thing is to encourage rather to rather than to make sure people are automatically told they have to have it it should not be compulsory go green with the gentleman there no problem but for air travel. it

should be made compulsory by the airlines to make sure that the people on the plane are sent to blah blah about really dumb eccentric that's actually one of the problems we got with this. group who are going. to pull information about and so i think there will be more people who are going to call profession coming out to look you eat certain they're very concerned with how rich this client she has come out with who already. are right now because it's nothing against covering vaccines are open but this it's really really helping us. not put sir do your duty as a police. car isn't concerned the one thing i would say to the european union is if you stop having so much bureaucracy and let those countries decide for themselves they would have vaccines by now i think that's an incredibly dangerous thing to say this is been in the making for 20 years we've had a rolling review is this is going on this vaccine is safe the m h

r 8 would not license this vaccine if they did not believe it was safe and the problem is when you start to spread those sorts of rumors that's why people won't be vaccinated and the more you tell them you have to have a vaccine and people believe that there is some sort of miletus thing going on then people will not take up that vaccination and therefore we undo all the good work that's been done to date certain conspiracy theories and go or bordering on factual know looking as if they're going to be happening and this is just going to fuel those more extreme conspiracy theories that one of bill gates trying to use vaccines that plant microchips in people this is simply going to reinforce their fears isn't it yes i somehow i believe absolutely. i'm sorry. you shouldn't believe these people or assume who claims such crazy ideas all the time in the coming months and years we will know about the long term all the details that sank seem and all to such occasion and maybe we'll need to do it again maybe there will

be a 2nd version at all and that will improve the years but we need to save the economy now. 6 people were injured after being struck by a car at a black lives matter protest in new york on friday some viewers may find the following images upsetting. i was was the. police confirm that the injuries appear not to be a life threatening rally was held in solidarity with people jailed by immigration enforcers the driver of the car that plowed into the crowd was arrested witnesses told us what they saw. our people got hit our people got hit by cars for us but

doing a peaceful protest we had those biker cops behind us the entire day the by cops the bikers they were behind us the entire time they could have prevented that if they did their job to let you know where peacefully wants are not shown around i see a car coming i said wait take a look. but i think that there's an easy way out the way you are straight in the car started just getting. like a smack. in germany the daily coded infection rate has been steadily climbing sends october that's led to debate about whether to pull the plug on traditional christmas abounds in a bid to keep people safe artist peter albert reports from berlin. usually where i'm talking to you from would be the scene of one of the busiest christmas markets it's not to be this year there's no room at the inn for the christmas markets due to the global pandemic but one thing that's a memory of christmas past is the smells of mold wine the still on sale of the

restrictions on selling alcohol will harm my business we will leave the lots of income as things stand we can stay here until the 20th december maybe we'll be allowed to work and up again after the lockdown is over but the sale of a cup of festive cheer is causing a divide in the country though while bars and restaurants of being forced to close on the germany's locked down lights old wine in the stalls have become a place to congregate prompting some politicians to warn that they may be leading to the spread of covert 19 across the country the old wine stands subvert our contact restrictions i don't understand why the city of cologne allows this in the end this will lead to new infections and that's it will be time for that later when we are vaccinated the owners of these stalls disagree though. i think we should do everything we can to stop the spread of this virus we wear masks and observe the timi to distance rule and disinfect our hands even germany's most famous christmas

market in nuremberg is closed they've had to make changes to traditions going back to the 16th century with this year's chris kindle christ child opening the advent season from a local t.v. studio. this year everything is different the coronavirus crisis is preventing us from doing many things in the run up to christmas such as adman celebrations and gathering at the christmas market. lock down restrictions that were brought in back in november haven't had the desired effect in getting the number of cases of covert 90 down that means that the federal. the government here in berlin and the leaders of germany 16 states are going to have to thrash out a new set of restrictions even if that means putting christmas spirit on hold is fact greek this nation it as hard as it is and i know how much care has gone into setting up the mood one and waffles tad's it's not compatible we want to be

a greet only take food away and it is home and really saw it from the bottom of my heart but if the price we pay is $590.00 deaths a day that is not acceptable but. obviously the public don't want to cancel christmas but i spoke to people here it asked them what they thought about these mulled wine store big no it's not very christmassy like to try to find a balance between not being scarce and. trying to have a good time maybe i think it's not good they do open at the same time is a little bit sad because it's christmas and they're very won't be together enjoy this time. it is a bit sad that there's not so much to do at this time but i think we need to be cautious and i suppose those few places with mulled wine should remain open it's clear for a bundle of merkel's address to the bundestag that the chancellor wants to see

things go further sacrificing christmas spirit in the name of safety feature all over r.t. . the british city of birmingham has been branded a walk will for the way it's named 6 new street they include diversity grove upon the road and humanity close the names were suggested by members of the public as part of birmingham city council contest and the winner was decided by a panel of judges some locals have been quick to trounce the pics. these new street names are completely vacuous was 0 connection to the people history or culture of birmingham another labor initiative the politicize ation of our landscape continues the art a meaningless but not as the of these new names speaks volumes about the new hollow normal anyway how about cross close compliance crescent woke wash way

i'm calling it now someone's going to put a d at the end of humanity close radio host and columnist john grant has birmingham should have chosen names that reflect the city's achievements instead this is political correctness gone mad this is snowflakes having a field day how ridiculous to name the streets in these close is in this way it's virtue signalling it i'm sure it's not in shoes with most birmingham people it doesn't reflect what birmingham a's well birmingham's becoming birmingham is a modern thrusting city but we could talk about the achievements of birmingham and birmingham people there's luck and loads of people not necessarily people but organization bands groups great achievements they couldn't name this after but no they want to slugger the deluded and the politically correct it's an absolute joke

and i'm sure that brahma jordan every working class birmingham people will be laughing at this as much as everybody here. still had u.k. truck drivers say they're being put at risk by migrants breaking into their vehicles trying to get into the country a story and more after that. given

history has always seemed continuous war open source but in recent years it seems to have become more intense platforming is no common practice and public scrutiny of the future where do we all stand on the battlefield of beliefs. welcome back u.k. truck drivers say they are coming under increased attack from migrants and how lay the alleged spy comes as the brits that transition period. filmed this video

showing men trying to get into the truck ahead of his own 2 of the men holed projectiles at his vehicle we spoke to greg wes the man behind the video about the situation in cali. people that are trying to come across. we call them immigrants they tried very many different tactics to actually port to make sure i have been very american shows as a small man caught up as much the course of the system's 50 foot in the channel tunnel actually make it much more harder for it because they can be detected in the pacific docks for useless unless they're into the who is the snow people consider themselves and so the truck is an opportunistic and there is a feeling that desperation of these people that i've been. the main way migrants reach the u.k. is by boat it's estimated that a record number of planted in britain this year over 8000 but arrivals are set to decrease as the u.k. and france sign an agreement in november as you'll see more patrols and

surveillance the u.k. home office also says it's invested millions in border security greg west again says tougher borders is one reason people voted for it. it's fairly evident that. more inclined to want to be. in the u.k. if you have a genuine political asylum seekers they would probably try to assault them once they come into any of the but they don't tend to back up. over the immigration system services within the u.k. so they struggle to keep up i mean there were many reasons but the reason we voted to remove ourselves from europe was because we wanted to leave the country wanted to try to control of reprisals one of the many factors. as 2020 draws to a close media outlets are rushing to give their predictions about the year to come politico is no exception has just published

a list of who things will be the most powerful people in europe but also place them in on categories as artist with more votes politico has done put together released of $28.00 people who they predict will shape you're up in 2020 what to make lease pointless 6050 less delve a further divide them into totally unnecessary categories so do is dream is and disrupt is to make the unnecessary categories even more useless they apparently consciously put people into the wrong categories. a free speech haven telegram reflects the ideals of its and it matic globetrotting 36 year old created in 2013 to compete with whatsapp and invade kremlin snooping telegram has long been on european governments radar as a tool for terrorists plotting and propaganda lately it's become increasingly popular for guys in mass movements in the west and its immediate backyard what do

you mean the west telegram is the goo to add for protest worldwide from hong kong to belarus to bolivia for the simple reason that it doesn't preach to its uses what's right and what's wrong and doesn't up politically charged moderators to filter people's opinions doesn't set off user data and privacy to market manipulators you'd think doer of would have been a dream up for creating telegraph a free app for free people hell even do it considering what an impact telegram a sad worldwide but that's rob. then again if you consider that this entire exercise makes no sense the scrub there is a great choice and speaking of disruptors. putin has been described withholding vast powers to hack american elections to trick millions into believing in vast conspiracy theories to move governments like chess pieces around the middle east and eastern europe all this without necessarily even lifting

a finger the russian president is likely happy you can write so far on reputation alone because when it comes to actually doing things well lately he doesn't seem to be able to make much of an impact at least not in europe poisoning the opposition leader alexina valmy neither killed valmy nor the controversial nordstrom to pipeline wage of course makes no sense again if putin isn't actually disrupting it in and they say themselves he hasn't made much of an impact lately perhaps he's busy being a dreamer but the odd series obvious in any other category putin wouldn't have an evil redback crowd around him and you can't have the least of influential people without a bad putin in it turkish president there do and you might be interested to learn also made the list is a do a bad get this year for example he reportedly sent thousands of syrian mercenaries and terrorists to fight against armenians on the side of us at about john for money that apparently is a disruption but doing

a real girl get her by the way you'll never guess who's the 2nd most that's right the person putin. j.k. rowling is destructing her own creation and militantly tolerant generation is millennial who grew up reading her books against comments on transgender rights and her deployment of women's rights and fears is part of her argument j.k. rowlings great scene which landed her with the likes of putin no less was saying that women are women you know biologically no wide chromosomes so the scientific definition of a woman but rollin cost a spell and then double down notice to the fury of fads we couldn't care less what people identifies you can be whatever you want to be an all male it for all i care obviously this is a more complicated issue but really 7th greatest raptor for 2021

. could theoretically keep going on about politico's cheap click baiting trying to tell the fortunes of an entire culture to buy during names out of a hat and assigning them to a category based on what they've already done so based on the past hell i actually think politico would have had more luck and be more accurate using sheaves. arab shop owners interest them the old 30 are accusing the israeli authorities of using the pandemic as an excuse to push them out of business hundreds of stores have been closed for violating sanitary rules of their reports. the pandemic has left businesses around the world reeling but here in the bubble huta neighborhood in the old city of jerusalem that's only hot off the story over $400.00 stores and counting have been forced to close here leaving families who've worked in the shops

for generations desperate normally at this time of year the streets are bustling with tourists and traders we're not far from the al aqsa mosque compound but as you can see many of the shops are closed and atmosphere is one of clue there are nato meeting here somebody who once made 100 shekels now makes 15 or less that's life now it's very difficult is no light before now there's no way to earn money the jobs here are reliant on tourism and there are no tourists it's been like this for a year the corner virus is of course the main reason but shop owners yes it is also under pressure from his radio far as he's to move why well they believe that once they're forced out the area will be filled with jewish israelis business or any google business is not function here look at this coffee house it's closed and those that are open there are no customers they're not making ends meet and who is to blame the government of course there's the crown of ours could they make too

much drama out of that there's only so much you can blame on the virus people want to work and they are working but they're not making any money the police say that some motions are flouting the rules by refusing to a face mosques the people here say that some people not true instead they say that the police are either preventing them from reaching their businesses under the pretext that they're breaking the coronavirus and quarantine rules or they coming up with other excuses to force them to close the shops. is because we're arabs look at tel aviv no one gets fined there before us because we're arabs we get fined 2000 shekels and reporters fall for everything. i mean tell you the truth it's racism if you go to the jewish parts of jerusalem many people that don't even when mosques the stores are open people go to work go about their daily lives there for us it's different my wife has to pay 500 shekels because she hasn't put

a mosque in correctly the old city of jerusalem is quiet quanah virus has devastated business in the streets now is hardly the time to be playing politics or perhaps as residents here tell me it's the ideal time policia otty jerusalem. lastly a quick look for some other stories happening around the world clashes erupted in albania for a 3rd day and a row after a man was shot dead by officers and course in one of our skirts few protesters threw flares and firecrackers at police to respond with tear gas and water cannon dozens of protesters have been arrested and a warning the next video does contain disturbing images. nearly $300.00 dead seals have been found washed up along russia's caspian sea coastline some scientists respect a virus called the mass death but the exact cause is not known earlier this year caspian seals were put on russia's list of endangered species. and finally

a cosmic a light show from the russian arctic these images were captured last night outside more months than the northern lights are a natural phenomenon caused by charged particles from the sun clashing with adams in the upper atmosphere this time was much brighter than usual due to a powerful magnetic storm and lasted a full 2 hours. that's a wrap up of the day's top news for now but don't forget you can always find us on many of your favorite social media platforms like twitter and facebook for up to the minute reports. cut.

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