financials i don't buy any i'm with you. as some of my ex in the future crack up. the latest headlines on the week's top stories on our british farm. the makers of russia's. green to cooperate to find out if combining vaccines effectiveness you visit a center that's ready to produce the russians. behind me different feeling is being told here in. this particular case is the 1000. riots break out in several u.s. cities between left wing groups supporters leading to stubbings and gun fire and exposing a deepening rift over the election. plus goodbye russia good hello

china gate u.s. intelligence chief brand beijing a big greatest threat to washington amid claims of spy infiltration. with the top stories from the past 7 days and right up to the moment of elements as well this is the weekly on r.t. hello and welcome. russian british scientists have agreed to combine forces on their vaccines in a bid to tackle the global pandemic astra zeneca ses it's ready to work with the uppers of russia sputnik. today we announced a clinical trial program to assess safety and immunogenicity of combination of the $1222.00 developed by astra zeneca and oxford university and sputnik v. developed by russian. research institute you have

a vaccine developers hope that combining their drugs could lead to a better immune response to the corona virus the clinical trials will be held in russian involve all in tears aged 18 over the job created by oxford university and astra zeneca it's shown results depending on the dose with an average efficacy of 70 percent compared with sputnik these results so far of over 90 percent. they have a problem that vaccines efficacy isn't high enough this should be improved we have 2 different ads a new viruses they will take one of them and use it as a booster molecular professor lawrence young told me that cross border cooperation is a vital component in talking the health crisis. i think it's a fine caustic 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 the 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 trying to me 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 jobs in moscow has become the 1st russian city to begin a mass covert inoculation program the sputnik we shot is being made available free of charge front line workers including hospital and school stuff will be 1st in

line although for not it's not being given to anyone over the age of 60 rushes dealy infection rates reached 28000 cases that the numbers steadily rising since september earlier this week artie's yuliya shop of olive a visit of a company that's ramping up production of the vaccine. we are going to 500 companies say feed us individually behind me if i feel is being bottled here if we want this particular line when she says thanks fountain our spook because he is a too short adenovirus based effects of exceed the difference between sputnik v. and some other international code 916 is this next or is a human based why not animal so what's a vector it's an engine. 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 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 like scenes requiring significantly lower temperatures for storage after the injection doctors monitor you for 30 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 was also it's become much and that your passion i was initially examined by a doctor he asked if i had any chronic diseases measured my blood pressure and looked at my electronic medical record that i was allowed to undergo the procedure everything was fast for us i received a text saying that i can be one of the 1st for the vaccination i'm so glad and i trust the vaccine in the shutters don't you 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 the 2 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 of all of us 80 . 4 people have been stabbed in washington d.c. during clashes between trump's supporters and their opponents the police moved in to separate the 2 opposing crowds detaining at least 20 people in the process the starving victims are reportedly all in critical condition. on the west coast. a in washington state one person was shot and injured as rival cries faced off police deployed tear gas and stun grenades and say a suspect house being detained conservative radio host there perkins told the program earlier the violence is not coming from the president's followers but from

fringe. club supporters aren't violent they just don't show up in the streets with an intent to get in fights with people the preposition weapons the bricks the special radios for communication and backpacks that can't be blocked like cell phones can be blocked all those preparations for riots are made by and chief the trump people just show up and wave flags and wave signs and a lot of america at the violence you're talking about is between anti fox and the proud boys and i've been a monitor of conservative politics in america for 35 years until this year i never heard of the problems they are not a conservative group they're libertarians and they're not racist their founder and current leader is a man who is half black and half cuban and if anyone wants to research the problems online it's easy to figure out they don't belong to the conservative movement and they aren't really all that pro tromp they're just showing up because there is

a left wing enemy that's throwing punches and they're in the mood to throw them back. well not dissimilar scenes and partisan saturday and said he was engulfed in when you don't rest over a controversial security bill 142 people were detained during clashes with only. chaotic scenes there riots officers use water account and tear gas as the situation spiraled out of control. stems from plans to criminalize the filming of police officers and published footage online with quote. the government later said it would rewrite the clause but not the entire bill has continued over other parts of

the draft law including the surveillance powers. but this week the u.s. appeared to shift its gaze away from russia instead setting its sights firmly on china with intel chiefs identifying beijing as washington's biggest threat it comes after a member of the u.s. intelligence committee was targeted by a suspected chinese spy our senior correspondent steve picks up the story. so drugs out and the russia good 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 moves to 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 the sporting 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 has recently refused to answer whether he slept with her which probably means yes but before we burn mr swalwell at the stake at c.u. 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 he's 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 i'm a 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 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 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 pink floyd co-founder and a man regarded quite simply as musical royalty roger waters didn't hold back this week while appearing in artie's going on ground targets in the sights the recent us

election you can watch the full interview on our website but for now here's a snippet. 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 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 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. you know who. or is no longer in the white house pretending to film

foreign policy for the middle east. more of the week's top stories in 90 seconds stay with r.t. . it's not over yet folks the latest on breaks it we tell you what you need to know also what should we make of all this talk of the session in the united states is it your horse in the car. 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. by. what is true what is faith. in the world corrupted you need to descend. to join us in the depths. or a maybe in the shallows. back to the program a british newspaper claimed alexina volumnia was poisoned with not the chalk not once but twice before being or lifted from siberia to germany the times cited all named intelligence sources as saying they would be assassins tried to finish the russian opposition figure off while he was in

a coma but failed. german security sources have told their associates in the u.k. that the attackers struck again as in a valley lay in an induced coma before being put on a medical flight to germany this was with a view to him being dead by the time he arrived in berlin one source said. alexina but only passed our during a domestic flight on the 20th of august the pilot made an emergency landing in where the politician was put into and juice coma 2 days later he was flown to berlin or a military law concluded that see had been poisoned with a nerve agent from the novacek group western governments were quick to point the finger out the kremlin which has denied any involvement moscow has also repeatedly asked for access to the lab results but to no avail the valley still in germany appears to be on the road to a full we heard from 3 political commentator i k homer told us that when the story is based entirely on the normal miss sources it raises more questions than answers

. more of this silence so ridiculous it sounds somebody hear from somebody you're something from a friend so it's nothing and whenever you are asked for proof whenever you ask for reliable information they say sorry we can't handle it over either it is classified or it is it is not for you or whatever this is ridiculous when you make up stories nothing fits together is the russian secret service is not even able to poison somebody with a deadly poison on its own soil this doesn't fit together at all so this is a big lie story and i think every child knows it and now i think they don't know how to get out of this story and they just dig themselves far into it. let's talk a bit i brag that sunday was meant to be a make or break for trade negotiations but after a phone conversation the british prime minister and european commission chief

decided negotiator should talk some more. despite the fact that deadlines have been missed over and over we both think that it is responsible at this point in time to go the extra mile i'm afraid we're still very far apart on some key things but where there's life there's hope we're going to keep talking to see what we can do the u.k. certainly won't be away from the talks or the people expect us to go the extra mile for the 2 sides still don't see eye to eye on 3 key here is the e.u. on some access to u.k. fishing waters post greg said but that was a key part of britain's leave campaign negotiators have also still not agreed on a level playing field for future tar free trade or disputes would be resolved if either side doesn't play by the rules. the u.k. officially left the u.k. back in january but remains in the single market on the customs union during the

transition period if a deal isn't reached by the end of this month britain will depart the block revert to creating a world trade organization with with the way negotiations have been going so far many see that as the most likely outcome when i spoke to anthony webber a political commentator from britain he believes that most people have grown tired of the glaciations on just want to be over it one way or another. we keep on so many key cards but i think in the general public you we care about us because we course we proceeded to lead the e.u. 2016 so you want to. be strictly surprised with our yes we're not going to look i think we have to remember we are iraq from. what we're question leaving the e.u. it wasn't leaving the e.u. if we had to do so trying to stop until. i get my state law again it's a good working relationship with the e.u.

what we don't want. her. to be sorted out later on i'm just laid on top of the. rules now. more americans have died of cold with than were lost fighting in world war 2 the death toll is approaching 300000 while the total number of cases now exceeds 16000000 the pandemic may be the country's worst crisis in recent history but that house and stop the rich from getting richer the net worth of american billionaires has soared by a trillion dollars since march according to a new report. as tens of millions of americans suffer from the health and economic river 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 provider its reach. while they campaign group americans for tax

fairness find out the extra wealth accumulated by billionaires during the pandemic would be enough to dish out $3000.00 to every single american dollars roughly equal to the entire amount spent by the federal government on health care in 29 dina nearly 4 times more than the stimulus payments made earlier this year to 159000000 americans the report included 651 billionaires let's take a look at some of them pretty eye opening stuff the wealthiest jeff bezos is now worth over $180000000000.00 now it's more than the g.d.p. of hungry as take a look at the long musk his wealth grew almost 6 falls during the pun demick while mark zuckerberg almost doubled his both must zuckerberg are worth more than $100000000000.00 each i depended with guests profiting from the pun demick.

always love these kinds of analyses is it the government has a day or 6 not going to the 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 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 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 thaksin should be 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 these. big

news in the tech world this week the us federal trade commission is pushing to break up facebook and cruising in a holding in a legal monopoly over the social media market now it's filed a lawsuit backed by almost every state in the union targeting facebook's acquisitions by the of the instagram what's up platform so a huge amount there ben swan host of boom bust in our 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 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 senior democrats have voiced

their opposition to joe biden's pick for defense secretary retired general lloyd austin said to become the 1st black person to leave the pentagon will need a waiver from congress to take up the role artie's polly boyko explains why. not even his own coffee is happy with joe biden's choice as secretary of defense lloyd austin he's got. 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 the it's a great country we're drinking it is agreed 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 he spent the last 4 years on the board of a massive defense contractor called rapier. with. the most interesting thing about biden picking austin is that alston is the. one she employed to the world with. pres picking to be secretary of defense is a little bit good her image by which i mean it's not progressive everyone expected to 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 civilian enjoyment 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 karma 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 he presided over a hot mess in the middle east if you're wondering how much of a hot mess he is and that the u.s. 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. is we're talking 445 for before you talk about how corrupt the democrats are if you're looking for someone to blame for this story state of affairs blame 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 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 man. well those were some of the stories that ship the past week i'll be back at the top of the hour with more custom recap in 30 hope to see you.