the latest headlines and the week's top stories on our international british pharma giant astra zeneca and the makers of russia. agree to cooperate to find out if. we visit a center that is ready to produce the russian shop. different feel is being told here in. this particular line she says 6000. riots break out in several u.s. cities between left wing groups and trump supporters and exposing a deepening rift over the election. russia gate hello china gate u.s. intelligence chiefs branded beijing the greatest threat to washington made claims

of spy infiltration. and broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow recapping the week's top stories with our weekly program this is r t international. russian and british scientists have agreed to combine their vaccines in a bid to tackle the pandemic says it's ready to work with the developers of russia's. job. today we announce a clinical trial program to assess safety and immunogenicity of combination of a's a d $1222.00 developed by astra zeneca and oxford university and sputnik v. developed by russian research institute it is hoped that by combining the drugs that could lead to a better immune response into the crowd a virus that the clinical trials will be held in russia the jabot created by oxford university and astra zeneca has shown varying results depending on the dose with an

average efficacy of 70 percent compared with splitting viz claimed results of 90 percent. they have a problem vaccines efficacy isn't high enough this should be improved we have 2 different adding 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 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 actually 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. moscow has become the 1st russian city to begin a mass covert inoculation program is putting the shot is being made available free of charge and front line workers including hospital and school staff will be 1st in line although for now is 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 artie's your leadership of oliver visited a company that is ramping up production of the vent scene. we are the 5 car company it's a fetus in every way i am

a different scene is being fulfilled here it's being hot this particular line for jay says 6000 souls but our sputnik the is a too short adenovirus based effects of x. seen the difference between sputnik vi and some other international code 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 infect or to does is serve as a vehicle for coronavirus proteins over 3 weeks a patient receives to 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 certain 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 all right the 65 was also it's free actually 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 record that i was allowed to undergo the procedure everything was fast taurus i received a text saying that i can be one of the 1st full day vaccination i'm so glad and i trust that senior instructors 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 oxidation 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 stabbed in washington

d.c. during clashes between pro and anti trouble groups police moved in to separate the opposing crowds detaining at least 23 demonstrators in the process having victims are reportedly all in critical condition while on the west coast in washington state one person was shot and injured as rival crowds faced off deployed tear gas and stun grenades and say as how spec has been detained conservative radio host dave perkins believes the violence is coming from fringe groups very much supported 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 brig's 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 love america the 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 racists 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 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 publishing 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 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 but i've got to have picked up the 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

moves through 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 had 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 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 war way to hurt china 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 legendary pink floyd co-founder roger waters it didn't hold back this week while appearing on artie's going underground among his targets was the recent us election and you can watch the full interview on his website but 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 storm is 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 as a 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. cushion or is no longer in the white house pretending to form foreign policy for the middle east. a british newspaper has claimed election of ali was poisoned with never talk 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 to do so german security sources have told their associates in the u.k. that the attack was 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 alexina vali felt severely ill during a domestic flight on the 20th of august and the pilot made an emergency landing in

a school where the politician was put into an induced coma 2 days later he was flown to berlin where military lab concluded that he had been poisoned with a nerve agent from the know which group western governments were quick to point 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 president putin himself said all attempts to cooperate have gone unanswered. bridie to go abroad to those specialists who claimed that poisonous warheads have been found nobody invites we invited them they don't come to us official materials and not given political commentator ike hammer told us that when the story is based entirely on anonymous sources it raises more questions than answers. well this sounds so ridiculous it sounds somebody hear from somebody or get something from a friend so it's nothing and whenever you are asked for a proof whenever you ask 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 no money 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 on 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 to go the extra mile 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 brags that something firmly opposed by britain's leave campaign because haters have also still not agreed on a level playing field for future tariff free trade or on how disputes would be resolved if either side doesn't plan by the rules. now 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 is not reached by the end of this month britain will depart the block and revert to trading on world trade organization rules within the way negotiations have been going so far many see that as the most likely outcome political commentator anthony webber believes most people just want it to be over one way or another were people ready carcass but i think in the general public you.

find out it's because we course we see it's a lead the e.u. in 2016 so you want to. be strictly surprised yes we're going to look i think we have to remember the our iraq throw him into the $60.00 question or to leave during the e.u. it wasn't leaving the e.u. if we had. started trying to stop it yes of course it's. the most capable again it's probably a good working relationship with the e.u. what we didn't want. to do so be sorted out least of all i'm just the bones of the. rules not. more americans have now died of coded 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 has not stopped of the rich from getting richer and 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 they are 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'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 americans the report included

$9651.00 billionaires here's some of them the wealthiest jeff bezos is now worth over $180000000000.00 which is more than the g.d.p. of hungary musk's wealth grew almost 6 fold during the pandemic while mark zuckerberg almost doubled is both must burger are worth more than $100000000000.00 now my colleague unit o'neill earlier debated our guests 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 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 busy 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 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 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 a brief on hiatus from certain regulations on that sort of thing we have a monopoly in this country that it for a century we have 2 parties we don't allow 2 businesses that dominate most of our industries but we allow these 2 parties to dominate our politics that's very convenient for the computer they the class of corporate directors who donate the bulk of. the money to both of them to pull the strings for both of. the us federal trade commission is pushing to break up facebook accusing it of holding an illegal monopoly over the social media market it has filed a lawsuit backed by almost every state targeting facebook's acquisitions of the instagram and whatsapp platforms ben swan the host of boom bust on 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 anti-competitive behavior during its acquisition in the early 201314 of instagram and whatsapp at the time that facebook acquired instagram and 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 advertisers to facebook and every other company and 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 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 political explains why. not even that his own caucus is happy with joe biden's choice as secretary of defense lloyd austin is back. and that is great. well done right you very much at all since i retired 4 star general and that has raised a lot of lefty eyebrows. since ignored the longstanding tradition of having a civilian at the helm of the most well unclipped fighting force in the world

america it's a great country we're drinking it is agreed so austin actually needs a special waiver from cloned grass to take the job because the army retired in 2016 he hasn't been out of active service for the required 7 years no one seems to care that you spent the last 4 years on the board of a massive defense contractor called great. deal with dollars fundamental was the most interesting thing about biden picking austin is that alston is the. one she implored to the world with. pres taking to be secretary of defense is a little bit blurry by which i mean it's not progressive everyone expected find until point michelle through and i am as secretary of defense because she's actually

experienced she's a civilian she 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 how can i as a full shoes she's linked to defense contractor and she's presided over a mess in the middle east by a guy. was shared he's linked to defense contractors. presided over a hot mess in the middle east if you're wondering how much of a hot mess he is saying that the u.s. paid $500000000.00 to train itself of syrian fighters numbering 4 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 if you're looking 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. by the time we get to byron success. the head of the military and a major weapons company could end up being the same joke and still be a man that does it for me and the weekly for this week my colleague kevin oh nobody heard about 32 minutes and 10 seconds with another full and fresh look at your news this is our 2 international.

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england being given the option to pay for a private test in a class or in britain still with $1.00 of the worst but capita death rates from grown a virus in the world coming up on the show as netflix arguably rebukes the british government over a fiction warning for the crown is the true cost of the award winning show british identity itself we speak to the crown's historical consultant and author of a new book about royal feuds a big it's the heart of so-called british democracy from william to harry and from kate to meghan both of them all coming up in today's going on the ground 1st as netflix rejects calls from u.k. culture secretary all of a dowden over claims to a disclaimer warning viewers it's a work of fiction has the british public's imagination been irrevocably harmed after a year of valuable coronavirus misinformation and political spin joining me now is netflix is the crown's historical consultant and whose new book battle of brothers william harry and the inside story of a family untold reveals how in the heart of the british establishment sometimes truth is stranger than fiction robert lacey joins me now from london thanks so much

for coming on i'm going to ask you given that you have such a name in journalism for the fact that everyone in this country knows used by. i sell by dates on to market food for your work at the sunday times inside team why even writing about william and harry out of interest you're going way back into my u.c. and i asked yes i was an investigative journalist on consumer matters and back in the sixty's there were these strange codes on the bottoms of our your guts and i said what does that mean and that's it that's that's when it's going to go moldy and i said what i'd like to know when he goes moldy and so ran a campaign and the sell by dates you can thank me for i mean when i die they're going to talk about my expiring date anyway that's another matter i felt that it was important that the british monarchy shoe.