over $100.00 are arrested in paris at a protest against a new security bill critics say the legislation will make it harder to prosecute the taliban. and in our roundup of the week's top stories british pharma giant astra zeneca and the makers of russia's sputnik v. job agree to. find out of combining their vaccines boost their effectiveness also we visit a center that already produced the russians shot. in the remind me different scene is being fulfilled here it's thinking on this particular mine for she says sit down some locals. go by russia gate hello china gave us intel she was

spreading beijing the greatest threat to washington today and it's sign a spy scandal is unveiled. welcome to the weekly here on our to international where we bring you the latest headline news on the top stories from the past week. paris was engulfed in renewed on rust on saturday over a controversial security bill 142 people were detained amid clashes with police riot officers use 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 boosting surveillance. was at the rally for us. so we have seen the number of what i would describe the smash and grab spike the police members of the security. he forces going in to the crowds and crapping out

individuals that they think of causing trouble buffaloed tensions where apostles accept a whooping for the police officers who are so hard to see gas already deployed to add to gases being used directly from arab source sprains x. the protests. there are thousands and thousands i try to get a camera to see to look at the street which is completely packed and then if it's possible to turn the 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 provokes 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 you paid them to fight and if there was intent to home so take out the word police and it's essentially the same act and the police are also unhappy about some of the comments made by president mcluhan in the last week he said in an interview that the. police are

controlling more people who are normally white than white expect a manual mccrone ends up telling the media that the police are racist i can guarantee my colleagues are not racist today is no racial control or even the police problem it unsecured upbringings the problem is that the police lock resources and personnel there are many things and when they are asked for help no one is listening on the other side with and criticize the police which i think is like a step in the back of the. cop you go. you. are the last piece right there is a pretty. good. year. for people who have been stabbed in washington d.c. as clashes between pro trampers and their rivals turned a vicious the victims are in critical condition and backers of the outgoing president had rallied to denounce the election result but were met by counterpart

testers and violence broke out some are scenes played out on the west coast in washington state or one person were shot as rival protestors faced off it's unclear what the victim's condition is but police say a suspect has been detained trying to keep the sides apart using tear gas and stun grenades but were clearly unsuccessful. russian and british scientists are set to combine forces and 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 sputnik the job today we announced a clinical trial program to assess safety and immunogenicity of combination of these a d 1222 developed by astra zeneca and oxford university and sputnik v. developed by russian research institute. vaccine developers hope that combining their vaccines could lead to a better response to the corona virus the clinical trials will be held in russia

and involve volunteers aged 18 and over astra zeneca job has shown a variable results depending on the dose with an average efficacy of 70 percent compared with fees over 90 percent. they have a problem very vaccines efficacy isn't high enough this should be improved we have 2 different viruses they will take one of them and use it as a booster well i killer on college professor lawrence young says cross border cooperation will be vital and then the health crisis. i think it's a fine 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 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 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. talking of jobs moscow has become the 1st russian city to begin a mass covert vaccination program is about to be shot is being made available free of charge front line workers including hospital and school staff will be at the front of the queue although for now it's not being given to anyone over 60 rushes daily infection rate has 28000 cases the numbers have been steadily rising since

september earlier this week are to zealots up of olive oil this is a company that's ramping up production of the vaccine. we are the car company it's a fetus in the way remind me of a famous being told here that it's being tied to this particular line for jay says 6000 times but our sputnik the is a too short adenovirus based effects of x. seen the difference between sputnik v. and some other international code 19 vaccines is this vaccine is a human based one not an animal so what's a vector it's an engineered virus lacking the gene for representation therefore it's unable to infect or to 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 15 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 to the bone 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 was 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 to me and 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 covert $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. you leadership of all of our own see. this week the u.s. appeared to shift its gaze away from russia instead setting its sights firmly on china after u.s. intel chiefs identified beijing as washington's biggest threat it comes after a member of the u.s. intelligence committee was targeted by a suspected chinese spy rogoff to fix 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 moved 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 the sporting an opportunity to claim his 1st victim so the background in a nutshell swalwell hod a chinese national called thang 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 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 teach to build in a state owned enterprise that makes shapes 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 there is 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 b.s. 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 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 purdy was a member of the white house staff team that helped draft the u.s. national strategy to secure cyberspace this is just the tip of the iceberg therefore the head of u.s. intelligence has declared open season on beijing calling it threat number one if i could communicate one thing to the american people it is that the people's republic of china poses the greatest threats to america today and the greatest threat to democracy and freedom worldwide since world war 2 what they might find is that there aren't many politicians left who don't have links to this new enemy because they used to be friends weenies getting hard to keep up.

still had every american would get $3000.00 if us a billionaire shared out the profits they made during the pandemic that story and more after the break. join me every thursday on the alec simon show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. is your media a reflection of reality. in a world transformed. what will make you feel safe. isolation or community. are you going the right way or are you being

so. direct. what is true what is faith. in the world corrupted you need to descend. to join us in the debt. or a made in the shallowness. welcome back to the weekly more americans have now died of code than were lost finding and world war 2 the death toll is now close 230-0000 the total number of cases exceeds 16000000 and while the pandemic may be the country's worst crisis in recent history that hasn't stopped the rich from getting richer and that worth of american billionaires has soared by one trillion dollars since march according to

a new report as tens of millions of americans suffer from the health and economic reva just over these pandemic a few 100 billionaires add 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 reaches. 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 to every single american that's roughly equal to the entire amount spent by the federal government on health care and $21004.00 times more than the stimulus payments made earlier this year to $159000000.00 americans now the report included $651.00 different billionaires and we can take a look at just a few of them now the wealthiest of course would be jeff bezos who is now worth over $180000000000.00 which is more than the g.d.p. of iraq in one musk's wealth grew almost 6 fold during the penned hallmark's sucker

burger almost doubled his both musk and zuckerberg are worth more than $100000000000.00 as well our guest abated for profiting from a pandemic. always love these kinds of analyses is it the government or is it they are 6 not going into 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 cya the works which puts enormous wealth and therefore political power in the hands of a very small number of people who will turn out to have a government policy that makes them richer this burst of new wealth is just as surely 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're hoping 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 heads glory 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 thaksin should be lower i mean a brief on hiatus from certain regulations on that sort of thing we have a monopoly in this country that 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 to pull the strings for both of. us federal trade commission is pushing to break up facebook accusing it of holding an illegal monopoly over the social media market and filed a lawsuit backed by $48.00 states targeting facebook's acquisitions of instagram and whatsapp and song host of boom bust on r.t. told us market place book is really coming under fire now that it is facing an antitrust lawsuit from the state's attorneys general of 48 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 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 post 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 that 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 what's up 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 have voiced their opposition to joe biden's pick for defense secretary the president elect and nouns he chose retired general lloyd austin on wednesday also would however need a waiver from congress to take up the role or just point by to explain why. not even his own cossie is happy with joe biden his choice as secretary of defense lloyd austin is back. and that is great. well john you're right you very much at all since i retired 4 star general and that has raised a lot of lefty eyebrows. since ignored the longstanding tradition of having a civilian at the helm of the most well unclipped fighting force in the world

america it's a great country we're drinking it is a group we're learning so austin actually needs a special waiver from cloned grass to take the job because the army retired in 2016 he hasn't been out of active service for the required 7 years no one seems to care that he spent the last 4 years on the board at all they must say a defense contractor called great. deal with the storage fundamentals was the most interesting thing about biden picking austin is that all stand is that. one she implored to the world with. those words pros picking to be secretary of defense is a little bit blurry 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's now the 3rd thing is to be

a drone into pentagon under obama and 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 whole show she's linked to defense contractors and she's presided over a very 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 admitting that the us paid $500000000.00 to train a force of syrian fighters numbering people find it's a small number. the ones that are in the fight. we're talking 445 but before you talk about how corrupt the democrats are going to

be 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. but the head of the military has a major weapons company could end up being the same joke and still be a. that's our breakdown of just some of the biggest headlines from the past week or more the stories analyst this had our web site r.t. dot com.

larry was a room there to paris gun another week to refer to the green movement of the arab american. troops weapon of mass and other casual news spreading into the area and file news that way to marinate the day the president of m.t.v.'s the visitors center the mobile devices more than 12000000 contaminated conjured fuel we don't need to be able to keep your mother for larry the fact that against alternative vision. asked if you start to question a little regulator excelsior airtight your mates that didn't know what it is where aircraft are data for your community of marriage day undercover budget estate outside.

or what if you will get exposed to a particular case waived decontaminate reply was alcohol use is as brave as it was and to. track down. where mary was you can defend yourself i enjoyed of the ones from the weapons of mass communications. thanks for the teeth. were there to be our interview earlier. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we. it's crazy confrontation let it be an arms race move his arms off and spearing dramatic development only really i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical daryn time to sit down and talk.

back. on welcome to worlds apart be my guest today likes to say that he takes intellectuals to come up with really stupid ideas ideas that down spread across society it's like parasites draining the host organism and making him behave in strange and sometimes even stealth in danger in ways from identity politics to council culture to now emerging call big bang teenage girl with gee how do seemingly noble propositions turn toxic well to discuss that i'm now joined by god

saad a professor in marketing at 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 for making the time you so much for having me cheers now i've mentioned some examples of what you call idea pathogens thoughts that seem to be well intentioned at least initially until you recognise that they pave the way to how what are some others so also modernism is probably the ground idea just because it reports that there are no absolute truths we are completely sure. by subjectivity we are shackled by our personal biases and as you might imagine there is a kernel of truth to that idea but when taken to the extreme it becomes very antiscientific because scientists do wake up every day under the working presumption that there are truths to be discovered so was not as it would be one

militant feminism would be another it starts off as a great idea like equity feminism is a good idea men and women should be equal under the law but then it metamorphosis into a dreadful idea when it becomes men and women are biologically indistinguishable everything is that they're so focused russian so you start with a noble idea and that metamorphosis and so they seem to makin is not me taishan here would be taking ad an idea out of proportion and i say yes mention anything about 3rd right now you can get a search in the service of pursuing a originally noble goal. now the human mind has never been immunized against of beauty i personally believe that long grass is prone to narcissism but is there something about these time in history that. creates particularly fertile ground for this kind of process well i think so about 4050 years ago the idea pathogens that i discussed in the book began to be spawn on university campuses and

as you so rightly mention in the introduction it truly takes intellectuals to come up with really dumb ideas especially election i was quoting you by the way now yeah exactly. because they are fully coupled from the consequences of their pontification right the reason why for example the business school where i'm house or engineering schools are not espresso caused by this idea that it is is because we are grounded in reality 'd you cannot build bridges using postmodernism but in many other disciplines regrettably you could pontificate within the halls of academia and you're completely dick up and from the negative consequences of your stupidity now the professor sat do you see that as a sort of a natural evolution of human thought we all have a right to make a mistake or is it more deliberate than that is there here is there plan behind this design i don't think it's a sort of a grand.