the latest headlines and the week's top stories right here on our 2 international british pharma giant astra zeneca and the makers of russia's. agree to cooperate to find out if something combining vaccines boosts effectiveness visitor center that is ready to produce the russian shot. behind me different scene is being told here in. this particular case is 6000. riots broke out in several u.s. cities between left wing groups and supporters and exposing a deepening rift over the election. plus goodbye russia gate hello china gate u.s. intelligence chiefs to beijing the greatest threat to washington amid claims of spy

infiltration. by broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow recapping the week's top stories with our weekly program this is our international. are now russian and british scientists have agreed to combine their vaccines in a bid to tackle the pandemic astra zeneca says it is ready to work with the developers of russia's. today we announce a clinical trial program to assess safety and immunogenicity of combination of a's a d $1222.00 developed by just as a nick and oxford university and sputnik v. developed by russian research institute it is hoped that by combining the drugs it could lead to a better immune response into the corona virus the clinical trials will be held in russia the job created by oxford university and astra zeneca has shown varying

results depending on the dose with an average efficacy of 70 percent compared with put mcgreevey claimed results of 90 percent. they have a problem vaccines efficacy isn't high enough this should be improved we have 2 different adds a new viruses they will take one of them and use it as a booster molecular oncology professor lawrence young believes cross border cooperation will be vital in tackling 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 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 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. well moscow has become the 1st russian city to begin a mass covert inoculation program this project reshad is being made available free of charge and front line workers including hospital and school staff will be 1st in line although for now it is not being given to anyone over the age of 60 russia's daily infection rate has reached 228000 cases the numbers have been steadily rising since september earlier this week r.t. as you worship of allah visited a company that has been ramping up production of the vaccine. we are the 5 car

companies say feed us back in the day we hired me the famous being told here that if they got this particular line for jay says $6000.00 but our sputnik the is a 2 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 that siemens requiring significantly lower temperatures for storage after the injection doctors monitor you for 30 minutes before you're free to go to the bone. 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 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 for us i received that 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 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 oxidation is probably the only way now to put an end to the pandemic. you know ship all about. 4 people have been stabbed in

washington d.c. during clashes between pro and anti trungpa groups place moved in to separate the opposing crowds detaining at least 23 demonstrators in the process the stabbing victims are reportedly all still in critical condition while on the west coast in washington state one person was shot and injured as a rival crowds faced off police deployed at tear gas and stun grenades and say a suspect has been detained conservative radio host dave perkins believes the violence is coming from fringe groups. from 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 problems they are not a conservative group they're libertarians and they're not racists they're founder and current leader is a man who is half black and half cuban and if anyone wants to research the problem he's online it's easy to figure out they don't belong to the conservative movement and they aren't really all that pro trump 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. paris was engulfed in renewed unrest on saturday over a controversial security bill 142 people were detained during clashes with police.

riot officers used water cannons and tear gas as the situation spiraled out of control the anger stems from plans to criminalize the filming of police officers and publish that footage online with quote ill intent the government later said that it would rewrite the clause but not the entire bill outrage has continued over other parts of the draft law as well including the boosting of surveillance powers . this week the u.s. set its sights a firmly on china with intel chiefs identifying beijing as washington's biggest threat this comes after a member of the u.s. intelligence committee was targeted by a suspected chinese spy or his but i have picked up a story for us. 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 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

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 at 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 low b.s. for a certain people's republic of china there's 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 legendary pink floyd co-founder roger waters didn't hold back this week while appearing on archie's going underground among his targets was the recent us election you can watch the full interview on our website but here's a quick tease. 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 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 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. or is no longer in the white house pretending to form foreign policy for the middle east. more news after a short break this is the weekly arch international.

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welcome back this is archie international now a british newspaper has claimed alexina volley was poisoned with no joke not once but twice before being airlifted from russia to germany the times cited unnamed intelligence sources as saying the would be assassins tried to finish off the top kremlin critic while he was in a coma but failed. 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 lacson of ali fell ill during a domestic flight back in august the pilot made an emergency landing in a square the politician was put into an induced coma 2 days later he was flown to berlin where military elaborate concluded he had been poisoned with an overtrick nerve agent western governments were quick to point out the finger at the kremlin which has denied any involvement moscow has also repeatedly asked for access to the

lab results but to no avail the volley is still in germany where he is currently recovering and political commentator hammer believes there are more questions than answers about the new revelations of this island so ridiculous it sounds somebody hear from somebody you get something from a friend so it's nothing and whenever you are asked for a proof whenever you are asked for a libel 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 with me and i think every child knows it by now i think they don't know how to get out of this story and they just dig themselves far into it.

and now to bragg's it sunday was meant to be make or break for trade negotiations but the british prime minister and european commission chief have decided negotiators 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 would be away from the talks that the people would expect us to do go the extra mile. well the 2 sides still don't see eye to eye on 3 key areas the e.u. wants access to u.k. fishing waters post bragg's it something firmly opposed by britain's believe campaign negotiators have also still not agreed on the level playing field for future tariff free trade or on how disputes would be resolved if either side doesn't play by the rules of the u.k. officially left the e.u.

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 and revert to trading on world trade organization rules with the way in a go she asians have been going so far many see that as the most likely outcome political commentator anthony webber believes most people just wanted to be over one way or another. but people inside are great at making progress but i think the general public can we find out because because we proceeded to lead the e.u. in 2016 so no i don't think community people would be strictly surprised yes we're not going to look i think we have to remember the our e.u. referendum in 2016 question or 2 leading the e.u. it wasn't leaving the e.u. if we had. started trying to set up a deal yes of course this causes it to try and achieve again my skateland all again

it's having a good working relationship with the e.u. what we don't want to do was messing around on the fronts confer. because to be sorted out of place of all i'm just made on top of the. rules not. more americans have died of covidien 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 it has not stopped the rich from getting richer 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 health and economic river just over these pandemic a few 100 billionaires at 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 campaign group americans for tax fairness found that the extra wealth accumulated by billionaires would be enough to give $3000.00 to every single american that is 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 americans the report included $651.00 billionaires here as some of them you know the wealthiest to jeff bezos is now worth over $180000000000.00 which is more than the g.d.p. of hungary elon musk's wealth grew almost 6 fold during the pandemic while mark zuckerberg almost doubled his both mosque and as a burger with more than $100000000000.00 now earlier my colleague you know neil debated with our guests the issue of profiting from the pandemic. always love these kinds of analyses is it the government has a day or 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 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 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 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. us

federal trade commission is pushing to break up facebook accusing it of holding an illegal monopoly over the social media market and has filed a lawsuit backed by almost every state targeting facebook's acquisitions of the instagram and what's up platforms ben swan host of boom bust on our team 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 does it for this edition of the week we'll be back in let's say 34 minutes and 10 seconds with another look this is our 2 international glad have with us.

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