over $100.00 are arrested in paris at a protest against a new security bill and they say the legislation will make it harder to prosecute police brutality. plus in our roundup of the week's top stories and british farmer john astra zeneca and the makers of russia but the job agree to cooperate and find out of combining their vaccines abuse and their effectiveness also we visit a center that's ready to produce the russian shop. and are you mind me different scene is being bought sold here at the time this particular the fine print she says 6 pounds a bottle. plus goodbye russia gates hello china gate u.s. intelligence chief brand beijing the greatest threat to washington and the claims

of spying infiltration. this is the weekly here on archie international welcome to our roundup of the headlines that shape the week. paris was engulfed in renewed unrest on saturday over a security bill 142 people were detained amid clashes with police riot officers used 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 in the country artist charlotta penske attended the rally for us. so we have seen the number of what i would describe the smash and grab spike the police members over the security forces going in to the crowds and grabbing out individuals that. they think of causing trouble with

a buffalo tensions where apostles except a whooping for the police officers who do so had she a gas already deployed to add to gases being used directing from air assault sprays axe the protests. there are thousands and thousands i try to get a camera to see to look up the street which is completely fact and then if it's possible to turn the camera around you'll see how many people are still coming. that there were other demonstrations across the country as well all against the global security lowered our people were 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 capital 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 it could be identified 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 mccollum in the last week he said in an interview that the police are controlling more people who are known why than white people are expected. emanuel

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 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 police. he told me you know if. this was the last piece right there is the critics out. there are. 4 people have been stabbed in washington d.c. during clashes between trump's supporters and their opponents the victims are in critical condition backers of the outgoing president had rallied on saturday to denounce the election result that were met by counter protesters similar scenes played out on the west coast as well in washington state where one person was shot

and injured as rivals approach rival protestors faced off they say a suspect has been detained trying to keep the sides apart using tear gas and stun grenades. russian and british scientists have agreed to combine forces and their vaccines and a bit to tackle the global pandemic astra zeneca says it's ready to work with the developers of russia sputniks e. today we announce a clinical trial program to assess safety and immunogenicity of combination of a z d 1222 developed by astra zeneca and oxford university and sputnik v. developed by russian research institute the developers hope that combining their drugs could lead to a better mune response to the coronavirus clinical trials will be held in russia and involved in tears age 18 and over a job created by oxford university and astra zeneca has shown at varying results depending on the dose with an average advocacy of 70 percent compared with sputnik

these results so far are 90 percent. they have a problem very vaccines efficacy isn't high enough this should be improved we have 2 different ads or no viruses they will take one of them and use it as a booster like your oncologist professor lawrence young says cross a border cooperation will be vital in tackling the 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 in your responses to our competition so this is fantastic news and i think it will. raise confidence both in terms of the astra zeneca vaccine and also the sputnik vaccine it demonstrates that the power of scientists working collaboratively we're all very keen scientists around the world to work together and work in collaboration

and i think this will provide an excellent opportunity for the very best people working in the u.k. in the very best people working in russia to me work together and i hope that one of the consequences of something like this is the longer term collaboration in other areas of science and medicine so i think it's a very very important important day for us actually it's very exciting. moscow has become the 1st russian city to begin a mass covert and occupation program the sputnik the shot is being made available free of charge front line workers including hospital and school staff will be the 1st in line although for now it's not being given to anyone over the age of 60. russia's daily infection rate has reached 28000 cases the numbers have been steadily rising since september earlier this week r.t. as your shop i visited a company that's ramping up production of the vaccine. we are the car companies if

they feed us back in the way i am a different scene is being told here that if they had this particular line cases 6000 times but our sputnik the is a too short adenovirus based effects 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 production 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 oxidation everyone is examined to make sure they're healthy but 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 30 minutes before you're free to go. i think the vaccination is

a great way to protect myself and most importantly my relatives my parents are all right the 65 was also it's free actually 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 course i received that said saying that i can be one of the 1st for the vaccination i'm so glad and i trust the vaccine in this matter to me oh 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 v.t. 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. you leadership of all of our see. this week the u.s.

appeared to shift its gaze away from russia and stead setting its sights firmly on china after u.s. intel chiefs to identify beijing as washington's biggest threat it comes after a member of the u.s. intelligence committee was targeted by a suspected chinese spy or a gust of dick steeper. so trump's 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 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 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 teach to build in 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 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 purdy chief security officer who are way the u.s. is ready for china on a number of issues and they want to hurt one way to hurt china the very afraid of the competition between china and the u.s. so they're focusing on hurting while way before getting professionally agri for you our way for a living and 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 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. for it co-founder roger waters has been putting the world to rights on the latest edition of r.t. is going underground among the targets in a science was the recent us election you can watch the full interview on our website but for now here's a quick taste. dave 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 the v.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 i hope that he and kids start a happy sleeping in that caught that they're going to share for the next few years kiss our. term of 8 or 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 have been 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. longer in the white house pretending to film foreign policy for the middle east.

still had every american would get $3000.00 if you ask a billionaire shared all the profits they made during the pandemic a story and more after a short break. join

me every thursday on the alex 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. welcome back to the weekly more americans have now died of coded than or lost fighting and world war 2 the death toll is now close to 300000 all the total number of cases exceeds $16000000.00 the pandemic may be the country's worst crisis in

recent history but that hasn't stopped the rich from getting richer there the net 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 house and they cannot mcraven 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 covert relieve bill and still not lose a dime of their provider its reaches. the group americans for tax fairness found that the extra wealth accumulated by billionaires during the pendency 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 in 2019 and nearly 4 times more than the stimulus payments made earlier this year to $159000000.00 americans now the report included some $651.00 billionaires and we can take a look at just a few of them the wealthiest of course being jeff bezos who is now worth over

$180000000000.00 which is more than the g.d.p. of iraq elon musk's wealth grew almost 6 fold during the pandemic while mark zuckerberg almost doubled his both musk and zuckerberg are worth more than $100000000000.00 our guests debated profiting from a pandemic. i always love these kinds of analyses is it the government has a day or 6 not going at it drops 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 who 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 and increased the gap. between the rich and poor that created new controversies of wealth this 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 had we left a lot of the private preparation for disease into the hands of private enterprise and markets and they failed as they have failed us so often in the past it's a pathetic sad story 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 from 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 who 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 it's filed a lawsuit backed by $48.00 states targeting facebook's acquisitions of instagram and whatsapp and so on host art has been bus as more 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 and hurt small businesses reduce 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 democrats have voiced their opposition to joe biden's pick for defense secretary retired general lloyd austin will need a waiver from congress to take up the roll artist polly book explains why. not even his own coffee is happy with joe biden his choice for secretary of defense lloyd austin alston's a 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 learned so alston 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 guarantee he spent the last 4 years on the board of a massive defense contractor called rapier. with the storage fundamentals but the most interesting thing about biden picking austin is that alston is that. well and she implored to the world with. the 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 as secretary and defend because she's actually experienced she's a civilian she tells the 3rd things seniors civilians drawn into pentagon under obama she was head of defense policy she's an expert on china next year or is going

to be china and china china china china and yes she's a she but trauma is a full show she's linked to defense contractors and she's presided over a mess in the middle east by a guy. which was and sharon he's linked to defense contractors. he's presided over a hot mess in the middle east if you're wondering how much of a hot mess he is getting that the u.s. paid $500000000.00 to train the 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 job and still be a. that's our breakdown of just some of the biggest headlines from the past week for more on the stories our latest news head to our website r.t. dot com. the world is driven by shaped by fun person with those great.

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