100 people arrested in paris at a protest against the new security bill critics say the legislation will make it harder to prosecute police brutality. in a round of top stories british farmer joins us to. find out if. it's effectiveness you also visited a center that spreads to produce the brush. here in. this particular she says. she sounds.

good by russia gates and hello china gates with. the greatest threat to washington today a spy scandal is a. good morning to you thanks for joining us here on r.t. international paris was. today over a controversial security bill 140 people were detained i mean clashes with the police. water cannon and tear gas as the situation spiraled out of control there's been huge anger over plans to protect police officers by handing them extra powers and by boosting surveillance. was at the rally for us. well we have seen a number of what i would describe as smash and grabs by the police members of the

security forces going in to the crowds and grabbing out individuals that they think of causing trouble buffaloed tensions with apostles accept a whooping for the police officers who also had seen gas already deployed at 2 gas is being used directing from air assault sprays axe the protests. there are thousands and thousands of trying to get a camera to me to look up the street which is completely packed and then if it's possible to channel a camera around you'll see how many people are still coming. through there were other demonstrations across the country as well all against the global security lowered our people are unhappy with article 24 specifically this would

have criminalized individuals who published images of the police if there was intent to harm that provoked huge theory here in front as a result parliamentarians are going to rewrite their specific rules but people are angry again don't just about that but also a new law that was approved by the french captain it here in the week and this also contains an article which is very very similar to the controversial article $24.00 that is that it would become a criminal act to post images of somebody online if they could be identified and if there was intent to home so take out the would police and it's essentially the same act and the police are also unhappy about some of the comments made by president michael in the last week he said. in interview that the police are controlling more people who are normally white than white. but emanuel mccrone ends

up telling the media that the police are racist i can guarantee my colleagues are not racist days no racial control or even the police limited to clean up the problem is that the police lock resources and personnel they lock many things and when they ask for help no one is listening on the other side with an criticize the police which i think is like a step in the back of things i think you would have thought this was the road i. was on the last things right here is a protest that there are. 4 people have been stabbed in washington d.c. as clashes between pro trampas and their rivals turned vicious the victims are said to be in critical condition because of the outgoing president of rallied to denounce the election result but they were met by counter protesters and violence

broke out similar scenes played out on the west coast in washington state where one person was shot as rival protestors faced off is unclear about the victim's condition police say a suspect has been detained they tried to keep the sides apart by using tear gas and stun grenades. russian and british scientists are set to combine forces and their vaccines in the latest bid to tackle the pandemic that's after astra zeneca said that it's ready to work with the developers of russia sputnik the job today we announce a clinical trial program to assess safety and immunogenicity of combination of ease a d $1222.00 developed by astra zeneca and oxford university and sputnik v. developed by russian research institute. the factory developers hope that combining their vaccines could lead to a better immune response to the corona virus the clinical trials will be held in russia and involve volunteers aged 18 and over astra zeneca is jabbers shown verbal

results depending on the dosage with an average efficacy of 70 percent compared with these above 90 percent they have a problem very vaccines efficacy isn't high enough this should be improved we have 2 different added new viruses they will take one of them and use it as a booster. for molecular on college professor lawrence young says that cross border cooperation is going to be vital in ending the health crisis i think as i found sas the 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 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 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. talking of germs moscow has become the 1st russian city to begin a mask over vaccination program the spin of the shots being made available free of charge for line workers including hospitals schools staff will be at the front of the queue although for now it's not being handed out to anybody of of the age of 60 . russia's daily infection rates reached around 28000 cases the numbers have been steadily rising since september earlier in the week artie's really sharp of

oliver visited a company that ramping up production of the vaccine. we are the car companies they feed us but in the way we are i mean the backfill is being told here that it's being tied to this particular line for jay says $6000.00 but our sputnik the is a too short adenovirus based backs of exene the difference between sputnik v. and some other international coded 19 vaccines is this vaccine is a human based one not an animal so what's a vaccine it's an engineered virus lacking the gene for representation therefore it's unable to in fact what it does is serve as a vehicle for coronavirus proteins over 3 weeks a patient receives 2 different jobs to form antibodies and disease resistance before taking a coronavirus vaccination everyone is examined to make sure they're healthy that it takes another 510 minutes to store the vaccine sputnik these stored at minus 18 degrees c. and developer say that's an advantage compared to other countries vaccines

requiring significantly lower temperatures for storage after the injection doctors monitor you for certain minutes before you're free to go. i'm a teacher i think the vaccination is a great way to protect myself and most importantly my relatives my parents are already 65 blots also it's free which i was initially examined by a doctor he asked if i had any chronic diseases measured my blood pressure looked at my electronic medical record that i was allowed to undergo the procedure everything was fast i received that saying that i can be one of the 1st for the vaccination i'm so glad and i trust the vaccine. yes i had doubts but i've made my decision and i'm here today the vaccine is now being supplied to all corners of the country at the same time the military is receiving sputnik vitti in russia the cove in $1000.00 job is voluntary and free of charge and even though some people still remain skeptical about the safety and efficiency of the vaccine most agree that

large scale works a nation is probably the only way now to put an end to the pandemic. union ship on the scene. this week the united states appeared to shift its gaze away from russia said setting its sights firmly on china to us until she started to find beijing is being washington the biggest threat this comes after a member of the u.s. intelligence committee was targeted by suspected chinese spine because the if digs 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 themas for well this crist so far the evidence is one 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 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 had 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 swallow 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 moscow mich 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 honeytrap and you and james shall have served on the board of the holding company for china's teach to build in a state owned enterprise that makes shapes for the chinese military and us show is also on the board at the bank of china at top lender to the ship builder remember also 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 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 low 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 really china on a number of issues and they want to hurt while 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 stuff 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 is the open season on beijing calling it threat number one. if i could communicate one thing to the american people it is that the people's republic of china poses the greatest threat to america today and the greatest threat to democracy and freedom worldwide since world war 2 what they might find is that there aren't many politicians left who don't have links to this new enemy because they used to be friends we is getting hard to keep up. floyd co-founder roger waters has been putting the world to rights on the latest edition of vanity is going underground among the targets in his sights the recent

us election you can watch the interview in full on our website for now is a preview. if trump had been re-elected it would have been worse for everyone in the world but that doesn't make biden a good candidate biden is a dyed in the wool were among grading servant of the oligarchy that rules the united states american will continue to be so for however long he remains president of the united states he's not to be trusted on anything do you think joe biden is going to move the american embassy back to tell of a are you kidding he's made it quite clear that he's the staunchest zionist friend of. of israel that could possibly be in office so he i hope that he and kids stomach a happy sleeping in that caught that they're going to share for the next few years kiss our reality has to look out either of them having any power under any

circumstances because they are clearly not clear thinkers they clearly don't believe in human rights they clearly have no interest in the law to have no interest in the united nations they have no interest in the geneva conventions they have no interest in any of the things that in near to my heart and to your heart should i'm completely impartial you have campaigned for upholding of un security council revolution resolutions all your life you don't expect biden to reverse the trump position on the golan heights the illegal declaration by the united states is going to oppose the un security council resolution making out that it was israeli now of course not i don't expect him to. reverse any of that nonsense i expect him to absolute they abide by the deal of the century obviously i'm pretty happy that skinny piece of. no. cushion or is no longer in the white house pretending

to film foreign policy for the middle east. still to come every american would get $3000.00 if u.s. billionaires shed on the profits that they made during the pandemic i'll explain all after the break. is you'll be a reflection of reality. in a world transformed. what will make you feel safe. isolation community. are you going the right way or are you being led. direct. what is true what is faith.

in the world corrupted you need to descend. to join us in the depths. or a maid in the shallows. join me every thursday on the alec simon show and i'll be speaking to guests of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. more americans have now died of cove vids than the last fighting in the 2nd world war the death toll is close 230-0001 the total number of cases exceed 60000000 and may be the country's worst crisis in recent history but it hasn't stopped the rich

from getting richer and that worth of u.s. billionaires is sought by want trillion dollars since march according to a new report the stance of millions of americans suffer from the health and economic river just over these pandemic a few 100 billionaires to their massive fortunes their pandemic profits are so immense that america's billionaires could pay for a major corporate relieve bill and still not lose a dime of their proviron streatch. well the campaign group americans for tax fairness found that the extra wealth accumulated by billionaires during the pandemic would be enough to dish out $3000.00 u.s. dollars to every single american that's roughly equal to the entire amount spent by the federal government on health care last year and nearly 4 times more than stimulus payments made earlier in the year to 159000000 americans now this report includes 651000000000 or so many of them let's take a look at the most famous among them the wealthiest jeff bezos now worth over $180000000000.00 that's more than the g.d.p.

of iraq musk's wealth grew or 6 fold during the pandemic or marks of coburg some out of money doubled almost earth must go worth more than $100000000000.00 now i guess debate is the issue of profiting during a pandemic. always love these kinds of analyses is it the government has a day or 6 not going to the drugs from the government there's nothing naive here the government isn't doing something then as a result the government is itself the result of the way this is science he works which puts enormous wealth and therefore political power in the hands of a very small number of people will turn out to have a government policy that makes them richer this burst of new wealth is just as purely a product of government policy was unnecessary you know the unintended consequences of lockdowns and such and in this case they call them non-pharmaceutical interventions but there's also capacity limits on businesses are going to be almost the opposite of what we hoped for the draconian policies they've increased the gap

. between the rich and poor that created new controversies of wealth is tremendous consolidation going on right now let me be clear here we could have been prepared for this virus the way other countries where we could have handled it better the way other countries that we left a lot of the private preparation for disease into the hands of private enterprise and markets and they fail as they have failed us so often in the past it's a pathetic say adds florrie of a system spinning out of control so that it's unjust inequality keeps getting worse the government's inability to get anything right they're going to do everything everything everything wrong in a crisis including decreasing employment crushing firms crushing the engine of employment. all those sorts of things never once even considering maybe that should be a lower i mean i agree from hiatus from certain regulations on that sort of thing we

have a monopoly in this country have had it for a century we have 2 parties we don't allow 2 businesses that dominate most of our industries but we allow these 2 parties to dominate our politics that's very convenient for the computer they the class of corporate directors who donate the bulk of. the money to both of them who pull the strings for both of. us federal trade commission is pushing to break up facebook accusing it of holding an illegal monopoly of the social media market has filed a lawsuit by $48.00 different states targeting facebook's acquisitions of the it stick around what some platforms and one host of boom bust on r.t. told us more facebook is really coming under fire now that it is facing an antitrust lawsuit from the state's attorneys general of $48.00 different states across the united states the allegation that's being made in this lawsuit essentially states that facebook has violated the law and violated anti-competitive behavior during its acquisition in the early 201314 of instagram and whatsapp at

the time that facebook acquired instagram it had about 30000000 users today it has over a 1000000000 users worldwide at the time that it acquired facebook said that instagram wasn't really a competitor but today instagram has become very much a competitor to facebook and fully integrated into the facebook system for advertising data collection of users and even cross promotion of posts here's what some of those states attorneys general had to say about the lawsuit today we are sending a clear and strong message to facebook and every other company and any efforts to stifle competition. hurt small businesses reduced innovation and creativity will be met with the full force of our offices the f.t.c. filed their own lawsuit against facebook today as well. and we look forward to collaborating with them in the litigation process the state's attorneys general are calling for an actual divestment of instagram and whatsapp what does that mean it

means that if these states attorneys general when their lawsuit they would force facebook to actually sell off the assets of whatsapp and instagram a very big deal in the tech world. several senior democrats a voice their opposition to joe biden's pick for defense secretary the president elect announced that he chose retired general lloyd austin on wednesday austin would however need a waiver from congress in order to take up the row auntie's police explains why. 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 stands as 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 it's a great country we're drinking it is a green light so austin actually needs a special waiver from cloned grass to take the job because he only 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. deal with. the most interesting thing about biden picking all stand is that all stand. for to the world with. pres picking a man to be secretary of defense is a little bit blurry and by which i mean it's not progressive everyone expected find until point michelle through and i as secretary of defense because she's actually experienced she's

a civilian she tells the 3rd brings me to draw me 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 donna 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. which was shared he's linked to defense contractors and he's presided over a hot mess in the middle east if you're wondering how much of a hot mess he is admitting that the u.s. paid 500000000 dollars 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 actually be ist heading up his own ministry when he appointed james mattis who had been on the board of another major defense contractor general dynamics. by the time we got to find and success. the head of the military and major weapons company could end up being the same job and still be. plenty stories we have covered for you by heading to a website called. larry

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america undercover and i'm going to destabilize. if you will get exposed or i'll take your kids way decontaminate you're my low self your audience is as brave later everything to. track down where mary so you can defend yourself and your reference from the weapons of mass communication. or transfer the teen girls give the enemy of them gave you an error. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy to confront station let it be an arms race is on offer and very dramatic that this policy is only personally i'm going to lose this i don't see how that strategy will be

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fund welcome to worlds apart my guest today likes to say that he takes intellectuals to come up with really stupid ideas ideas that down spread across society just like parasites draining the host organism and making him behave in strange and sometimes even south in danger in ways from identity politics to council culture to the now emerging call big bang teenager how do seemingly noble propositions turn toxic well to discuss that i'm now a joined by god sadat a professor in marketing of concordia university and author of the newly released book the parasitic mind how infectious ideas killing commonsense chris aside it's a great pleasure for me to talk to thank you very much.