latest headlines a week's top stories on r.t. british and. the makers of russia's. greed to cooperate to find out if. affect of this business center that's ready to use the russian show. me different scene is being fulfilled he is saying this particular line produces. riots in several u.s. cities between the left wing groups porter is leading to stopping. exposing a deepening rift over the election outcome.

china gate u.s. intelligence chief beijing the greatest threat to washington amid claims of filtration. with the top stories from the past 7 days and right up to the moment to this is the weekly international hello and welcome we will get to those headlines stories in just a moment but 1st some news coming out of new york this hour at least one person has been shot outside a church in manhattan that's according to local media reports a gunman reportedly opened fire on police officers who then returned fire hit him the suspect has been taken to hospital is said to be in a critical condition there is at this stage no information about any possible civilian. these of course this is

a story we're closely following any and all significant op dates we will bring it to you later in the hour. russian un british scientists have agreed to combine forces and there are vaccines in a bid to tackle the global pandemic astra zeneca ses it's ready to work with the developers of russia sputnik the job the statement which was released earlier in the week today we announced a clinical trial program to assess safety and immunogenicity of combination of a zip d 1222 developed by astra zeneca and oxford university and sputnik v. developed by russian research institute the 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 russia and involve all in tears aged 18 and over the job created by oxford university and astra zeneca shown varying results the bending of the dose with an

average efficacy of 70 percent compared with but the results so far of over 90 percent. they have a problem vaccines efficacy isn't high enough this should be improved we have 2 different ads no viruses they will take one of them and use it as a booster or molecular oncology professor lawrence young say as cross border cooperation is a vital component in tackling the health crisis. i think it's a fine stick 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 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 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. while talking on germs moscow has become the 1st russian city to begin a massive covert inoculation program the sputnik shot is being made available free of charge front line workers including hospital and school staff will be 1st in line although for now it's not being given to anyone over the age of 60 russians daily infection rate has reached 28000 cases the numbers have been steadily rising since september earlier this week shop of oliver visited a company that's ramping up production of the vaccine. we are the 5 car companies

a fetus in every way i am a different scene is being told here that if they caught this particular line for jay says $6000.00 but our sputnik the is a too short adenovirus based effects of x. seen 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 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'm

a teacher i think the vaccination is a great way to protect myself and most importantly my relatives my parents are all right to 65 also is reaching has become much and that your passion i was initially examined by a doctor after he asked if i had any chronic diseases measured my blood pressure and looked at my electronic medical records and when i was allowed to undergo the procedure on my everything or thrust force i received a text saying that i can be one of the 1st all the votes in the show i'm so led and i trust that senior ministers don't leave 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 they coded 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 work summation is probably the only way now to put an end to the pandemic. you know i should of on of our own saying. 4 people have been stoned in

washington d.c. during clashes between trump supporters americans the police need to separate the 2 opposing crimes detaining at least 23 demonstrators in the process the stabbing victims are reportedly all in a critical condition. while on the west coast in washington state one person was shot and injured as rival crowds faced off their face the foid tear gas and stun grenades and say a suspect has been detained conservative radio host day perkins told the program earlier the violence is not coming from the president's followers but from fringe groups. not 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 the trump

people just show up and wave flags and wave signs and a lot of america violence you're talking about is between the 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 problem is they are not a conservative group they're libertarians and they're not racist they're 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 let's bring it to par a switch was engulfed in renewed on risk on sunday over a controversial security be a run $140.00 people were detained during clashes with police.

riot officers use water counting on tear gas the situation spiral of control the younger stem from plans to criminalize the filming of police officers on published out footage with quote ill intent the government later said it would rewrite the clause but not the entire. region has continued over other parts of the. including the boosting of surveillance powers. this week. period to shift its gaze and away from russia instead setting its sights firmly on china with the 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 or senior correspondent out of picks up the story. 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 move 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 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 jane shall have served on the board of the holding company for china's teach to build in a state owned enterprise that makes ships for the chinese military. is also on the board at the bank of china and took lend it 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 purdie chief security officer who are way the u.s. is really china on a number of issues and they want to hurt war 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 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 weenies getting hard to keep up pink floyd co-founder and a man regarded as musical royalty roger waters didn't hold back this week while appearing in artie's going underground among the targets in his 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 it 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 i hope that he and kids start a happy sleeping in that caught that they're going to share for the next few years kids are as 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. or is no longer in the white house pretending to film foreign policy for the middle east. roger waters in conversation with art ok we get the news or running in 90 seconds from 'd now i find out what else made the news this week but.

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the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. 17 minutes into the program welcome back a british newspaper claimed that alexina violently was poisoned with novacek not once but twice before being earl it did from siberia to germany the time cited all named intelligence sources as saying the would be assassin tried to finish the russian opposition figure off while he was in a coma but fit. german security sources have told their associates in the u.k. that the attack has struck again as in the 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 some background alexina volley passed on during a domestic flight on the 20th of august the pilot made an emergency landing in where the politician was put into and use coma 2 days later he was flown to berlin where a military law concluded that he had been poisoned with a nerve agent from the novacek group western governments were quick to point the finger of blame at the kremlin which has denied any involvement moscow's also were previously asked for access to the large results but to no avail the valley is still in germany and now appears to be on the road to a full recovery the political commentator i care homer told the spot where the story is based entirely on anonymous sources it raises more questions than answers . well this is so and so ridiculous it sounds somebody hear from somebody you're something from a friend so it's nothing and whenever you are asked for a 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 in 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 that by now i think they don't know how to get out of this story and they just dig themselves far into it. ok let's talk bragg said where some of it was meant to be make or break for a trade negotiations but after a phone conversation the british prime minister and european commission chief decided to negotiate or should talk 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 would be away from the talks that the people would expect us to do go the extra mile the 2 sides still don't see eye to eye on 3 key areas the e.u. wants an access to u.k. fishing waters post rates 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 a free trade or disputes would be resolved if either side doesn't play by the rules well the u.k. officially left the you back in january but remains in the single market and customs union during the transition period if a deal isn't reached by the end of this month britain will depart the block referred to trading on world trade organization rules with the way negotiations have been going so far many see it as the most likely outcome i spoke to anthony webber on things a political commentator from britain he believes that most people have grown tired

of these negotiations on just want it to be over one way or the other. well you keep on saying that mikey curtis but i think in the general public you we find out because because we voted to leave the e.u. in 2016 so no i don't many people would be strictly surprised that our us are not going to look i think we have to remember the our iraq throw him in 2016 question or leave it in the e.u. it wasn't leaving the e.u. if we had to do so trying to shut up until this causes it to try and achieve good most people are not going to stop a good working relationship with the e.u. what we don't want she's almost muscular on the front stoop her things to be sorted out of later on i'm just me but on top of the. rules now.

more americans have now died of coven than were lost fighting in world war 2 the death toll is approaching 300000 while the total number of cases exceeds 16000000 the pandemic may be the country's worst crisis in recent history but that hasn't stopped 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 reaches yet something else they complain group americans for tax fairness find was 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 in $29.00 diena nearly 4 times more than the stimulus payments made earlier this year to $159000000.00 americans well the report included $651.00 billionaires let's take a look at some of them that wealthiest top of the pile this month jeff bezos now worth over 100 almost doubled his both. are worth more than $100000000000.00 now while i debated with guests profiting from the public. 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 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 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 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 these. big news in the tech world this week the us federal trade commission is pushing to break up facebook accusing it of holding a legal model targeting facebook's acquisitions of the instagram and what some platforms ben swan post of boom bust all 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 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 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 what's app and instagram a very big deal in the tech world. just before we go to break i want to give you a recount of the breaking news coming out of new york this hour at least one person has been shot on its side a church in manhattan office according to local media a gunman reportedly opened fire at the end of a christmas carol concert in the afternoon being held on the steps of the church of course all churches and other places of religious celebration are closed in the city he started shooting of police officers who then returned fire hitting the suspect reports say in the head he's not being taken to hospital on this had to be

in a critical condition there is no information but any possible civilian casualties will lot is one of the stories we'll be keeping across right throughout the night here on the program any and all further updates bring it to you. is our lot for now about more great programs get going in moments discover what's showing in your part of the world right off the break this is 247 r.t. international. it's not over yet folks the latest on breaks it would tell you what you need to know also what should we make of all this talk of secession in the united states is a divorce in the car.

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