the session in the united states is a divorce and the car. rolls out across the largest country in the world every region in russia prepares to give covert vaccinations in the hope of avoiding hard lock downs over the festive period . dirty dealing dossie films drug gangs taking over parts of the police report a rise in their activity since last summer in the german capital. plus the u.s. the electoral college begins costing its votes to determine the next president's all but the feeling joe biden's with donald trump still digging in with allegations of widespread fraud.

a very well welcome it's 10 pm here in moscow and you're watching aussie international with me karen. are russia has a fast track to the rollout of its sputnik vivax aim to reach every region for the new year period and in some parts of the country the vaccination program is already underway his hope to bring down daily infections which peaks here in russia at the start of the month but of course that has more on today's developments. today's the day that sputnik vs finally made its way to every single region of russia president putin spokes person said that unlike many countries in the west and there will be no strict lockdown of measures for this holiday season and that likely has to do with the russian health ministries latest achievement the president's order has been executed and vaccines but choose from aspects a nation would deliver today to every region in russia vaccination is the path we should take if we are to break the spread of the disease and russia's prime minister has made it clear the vaccine is voluntary however it will. we offered

free of charge to all russian citizens medics teachers and social workers are at the front of the line to be vaccinated since their work is specifically high risk but we also heard from the prime minister that he promised 480000 vaccinations will be delivered across the country in december although inoculations have already begun in key regions like novosibirsk for example where medical workers have already taken the shot i know just people get stuff this way when we can for the vaccine and we're happy to be free is to know and to get the champ let's not forget sputnik he has an over 90 percent efficacy rate and russia's health minister is also saying that the latest information coming out about it is very encouraging so with over 27000 more cases recorded in the country within the past 24 hours alone this is certainly good news for the russian people. want to bring in professor dimitri coalition on the school of the institute of science and technology and must thank you for joining us on the program is a pleasure to have you with us 1st i'd like to ask you the daily kind of infections

in russia have been quite alarming over the last month or so how important is it that the vaccine reach every region of the country. thank you make you absolutely it is crucially important that we've actually made as many people as possible our knowledge that we may have some logistical or social issues use vaccination but each person who will be killed in action 8 we'll be the last person left for the disease we'll be one more person belonging to social solidarity given to you so there's an approximation of just heard yesterday the final clinical data on sputnik were published and your general efficacy is more than fine 2 percent of just blank you 2 percent of the efficacy of 4 senior forward he has is 100 percent

this is very encouraging so as the vaccine is being rolled out across the country how long will it be and so we see the effects of this in the fight against the virus well we all know that it takes more than the monster establish immunity often as a vaccination so you don't need to wait for 23 months i mean you know if they come by vaccine this social just simply him yourself is on the shelf really can see results very fast. let's talk about the the public concerns in every country over the possible side effects of 1000 fact things as someone in the know in biomedical science so those fears justified at all. absolutely so. clearly all if you're sent for since against condit so jurors are in a box and under the viable axiom they will have a little bit more side effects than traditional big scenes that are known to

humanity. however from the point of view of cost bin if you don't know this is this side the 1st irony in school in comparison to the harm and damage coming from the disease now we see a lot of clinical data coming from vaccination yesterday with. side effects are mild rare and non-dramatic well disease is widespread and dramatic so so effects are irrelevant. and we know they are spending very covert 19 vaccine requires a special storage conditions so what are the main challenges of delivering it all across the country. yes i suppose sputnik really requires minus 12 to my last 18 storage basically does minus each year so it will be difficult to. to distribute it but into stockily

possible for a very simple reason the differentiator of sputnik me from many other competing book since is that it can be distributed through the cold chain that was developed in russia and in many other countries for so-called blood products blood products blood components products in real globally so i love saying that it will be easy to do leave more minus each in preparation to humans in a moment. but if the circle possible because doctors and distributors not how to deal with sums that are frozen at minus 3 g. and some other remarks since sugar froze on to minus 20 or even a mile or so in j. and this is a real problem this is a real challenge sporting it really is minus 180 does not provide a shell and that's a great news as it is mentioned we know that there are also at pfizer vaccine

requires minus 70 degree storage why do private vaccines requires that slow temperature. well in order to explain it they have to give you that a long story of box in mechanisms so phaser books are in the book seal you know to stay below him are in a fight is a real worry in the reach of revolutionary ground breaking our life apart your whole life of soul but this particle recorder smiler so meet you for civilization while sputnik is released or better research and more reliable of the long viral construct that history will to my industry this is purely technical explanation demeter coalition professor from the skolkovo institute of science and technology in moscow thank you for joining us thank you. german capital has seen a massive rise in drug use as police attempt to pin down entire districts that are

said to be under the control of dealers our sister channel r.t. german captured the troubling trend that's been building since last year using hidden cameras. the intimidated me a well built a young man came into my kiosk i told him to get out but she refused him then she started grabbing me i called the police but they arrived too late so i gave a statement but nothing has changed.

if not then you can see them looking out for a potential victim and if somebody is not paying attention they smash their bag or wallets. that i move on when i go to the station looking for a dealer i tell him what i need he takes a rubber doze out of his mouth the standard price for a job is just $20.00 euros i give him the money and we go our separate ways. here bronson from the alternative to germany polity told us the drug problem has deteriorated due to an insufficient response from the local authorities. the most important reason for this priest trafficking is a very lenient city government they instructed police to turn a blind eye towards the drug dealers that gurlitz up ethnic groups from africa most

of them rejected asylum seekers multi-port it because into the law. the africans are acting out and go to some parks and trying to make a living. down on illegal immigrants looking for 'd decent work but as i said most of them rejected you saw him saying he is and should not be in this country secondly there are. activities. who are dominating certain areas and. there are very very well organized and organized crime and. their word is the law and this happens not just in berlin but also in other cities in germany. ballots are being cast across the united states as the electoral college for many votes for the country's next president and put joe biden officially across the line as the donald trump is still refusing to concede despite

his floundering legal efforts to overturn the results let's go live to new york and caleb more pinout good to see you now this chapter of the lengthy election process doesn't usually get this much attention but this is no ordinary year is that how well we have fine now and what was being with the reaction. well certainly 2020 has been a tumultuous year we've had the situation around coded in some chaos in the country and we also have had the highly contested 2020 election now it appears that the votes of the electoral college are now under way in which all the u.s. states cast their votes for president now people may not be aware but the president of the united states is not actually elected by a popular vote even though biden is winning in the popular vote by 7000000 votes it's not actually the popular vote that determines who gets to be president the united states every state has

a vote and chooses electors and then it is the electors who then cast their votes for the president of the united states now the electoral college system has been controversial many democrats blamed the electoral college for electing trump a 2016 but it appears that joe biden has a very solid lead in the electoral college and then as the electors are casting their votes things seem to pretty much be expected to go and by and spader favorite now occasionally in u.s. history you will have what's called a faithless elector that when it's time to cast their electoral vote does not vote according to how they were assigned to by their respective state some states actually have penalties for faithless electors the chances of faithless electors intervening and somehow changing the results of this election are quite slim it appears that things are solidly in biden's favor at this point that has not stopped donald trump from maintaining that he has not given up and that he does not accept that result this is donald trump the president of united states. you know it's not

over we keep going and we're going to continue to go forward we have numerous local cases where you know in some of the states a good rig from the from. now it's important to know. it's important to note that the last ditch effort by trump in the supreme court was turned down there was an effort by the state of texas to file with the supreme court arguing that the results in georgia pennsylvania michigan and wisconsin could not be certified that the election results there were not legitimate the supreme court threw out the case and declined to rule on it as a result it appears that as the electoral college vote proceeds joe biden will get the majority of the electoral votes however it will be on january 6th that the u.s. congress will count those electoral votes and certify the winner of the presidential election now it's important to note that in texas there are already

calls to form what they're calling a union of the law abiding states and that some in the trump camp are moving in an interesting direction take a listen to this. supreme court and saucing the texas lawsuit has decreed that a state can take unconstitutional actions and violate its own election law perhaps law abiding states should bond together and form a union of states that will abide by the constitution now there are very clear divisions inside the country this weekend we yet again saw clashes between left wing and right wing protesters members of the right wing organization known as the proud voice clashed with left wing and demonstrators things got rough and actually a riot was declared in olympia after gunshots were fired this is some of what we've seen in the last few months as clashes between americans with different political views have intensified.

so the fact that the electoral college is now convening and casting votes presenting the way for joe biden to become the 46th president of the united states and be sworn in in january that doesn't seem to be a move it's going to reunify the country there are deep divisions in us society deep distrust and deep instability very clearly as we move ahead toward joe biden's inauguration despite donald trump maintaining it was an unfair election there are very very very clear divisions that are deep within the united states. kelly thanks

for bringing us that report so r.t. scallop more pain in new york. was a france now where hospitality workers have gathered in paris against prolonged lockdown measures which they say are crippling their industry although some restrictions will be lifted on tuesday restaurants bars and cafes will have to stay shut right across the holidays until the 20th of january they say it's threatening not only their livelihoods but also as they put it the french way of life earlier my colleague andrew found the discuss this with r.t. show it depends it was a protest. over individuals from a number of different sectors the restaurant cafe and bar sector but also from the tourism sector to a nervous people who own entertainment venues like. venues all come out to tell the government they want to open up their business because they have the most. in 2020 many of them saying they are on the go to bankruptcy with some recent report

showing that some 90200 thousands almost half of the business is. saying that they could be closing up shop for good in the next few months things are really joy i know there is a solidarity fund for businesses worth up to $10000.00 euros per month or 20 percent of. last year but many say that that is simply not enough on the cooling on the government to do. more for this government has provided financial assistance but not everyone meets the criteria some restaurants tours and hotel owners have just recently opened and they're not receiving help not enough help anyway. so popular prefer seussical if the problem isn't the government's not doing enough the problem is that bars and restaurants are closed this is not normal there's no reason for a pandemic is not spreading from other research in france. and restaurants

a hot spot for the virus we've come here today not to demand help for the system we reopened for work i don't. know work expenses continue to multiply human nature but we don't have the money to pay for it we don't have money for children to do just because we can't but we still have to flee with the current economic balance is and if it's for life you can demand money from us if we can't know the current situation here or frons is concerning the government there are almost 60000 individuals who could be considered to died as a result of 19 every day the infection rate is still around $10000.00 cases that is. what president papa was hoping it would be at this point the government is starting a massive screening situation 80 some cities across france although there have been

criticisms of that too and of course the new part sheen phase of the decompile it starts on shoes day progs now many consider. starting on tuesday which means that you could see that starts at 8 pm in the evening rather knowing him as a racially charged but there is concern that on tuesday cultural institutions were supposed to be opening. up because tradition in many restaurants is concerned that there's a possibility that john we 28 which is the date they were originally projected to be opening may not be the telling when. there are many issues are there at the moment in france the spring people latch on to the streets to protest not least at the weekend we saw people. protesting over the new global security law all more expected of their own more protests expected we've seen this protest over the

mostly weeks about. the global security law and then to add fuel to the fire that there is this new promoting republican values many of the protesters who came out of the weekend said that there were certain aspects of that move which used to be known as the separatism will withdraw most they tend to cool article 24 from the global security bill which is incredibly controversial this idea that it would criminalize publishing people who publish images where individuals can be identified and there is no intent to harm them now there was also a huge criticism of the protest of the weekend with the police using new tactics to try and avoid similar violence we have seen over the past few weeks essentially carrying out what i would describe as a smash and grab this is where the police ram into the crowds and they take out individuals who they think all troublemakers.

well almost $150.00 individuals were detained at the protests on saturday many of these detentions coming in the 1st hour or so of protests before it was really too much trouble and all of those detained 2 would journalists now there's been huge criticism of that from many opposition sides also from human rights groups and journalists groups as well and that comes as the new press freedom index the 2020 should front says down the scale yet again it's now at number 4 of the world it was previously at number 32 and this is mainly due to how journalists were treated in 2019 the government says in. freedom of the press here in france but these rank.

is diminished. as parts of the u.k. faces strict covert 19 restrictions this holiday season it's been revealed that the british prime minister boris johnson was warned by top health experts that easing measures for christmas would spark a 3rd wave a relaxation of restrictions on social contact combined with the natural desire to celebrate inevitably increases the spread of the virus whilst we are not at this point asking for a change in the proposed christmas rules we are concerned that the current public debate on those rules is ignoring the significant extra risk involved. a new 3 tier system came into force on december the 2nd in england with many parts of the southeast including london now being moved into the top alert level this 3rd tier is applied to regions where the infection rate is higher while it's strictly prohibits households mixing with each other and allows restaurants and bars to open

for takeaway and delivery only all of the shops and public services can remain open that includes anything from her and beauty salons to churches and gyms are despite hoping to reduce covert cases and allow some celebrations infections are still on the rise u.k. officials have even confirmed a new variant of the virus has been detected national health service chiefs however say they want the government back in september about easing out of lockdown restrictions at the time the n.h.s. was reportedly treating around 500 hospitalized covert 900 patients at the by december the 10th this figure had sought to 13000 patients. the festive period is being put on hold in the name of safety and around many parts of europe to germany will impose restrictions being described as the toughest ever seen in the country all non-essential non-essential shops were closed restaurants and bars will stay

shut for the season and the sale of fireworks has been banned for the new year over in italy the government is looking to restrict movement of the around the country only essential travel will be allowed between regions well on the 25th and 26th of december going to the next town will be banned too. well for some insight we can go live to dr barrett a senior clinical lecturer at the university of extras medical school thank you for joining us on the program it's great to have you with us now the u.k. promised some easing for christmas while in germany the public will get a small window for some festive cheer also do you think these countries are going to regret this come january next year. get together interact and all with. the basic fundamental science the more interactions you haue with some of the human

beings the case numbers go up i am very worried about it. so what restrictions should be in place right now and over christmas in your opinion. well we got a very good steer from angela merkel in germany you know she has accepted the signs she is a scientist so she understands these things better than other politicians definitely do and she has made that decision which is their water as is their case numbers out there we need to have a very restricted christmas and the other positive things to say the same guy me is vaccines have arrived and. as there have. ok we seem to be experiencing some technical difficulties.

but up to barrett are you with us can you hear me ok i am if you behave i suppose the argument would be is that people deserve some relief from the mental strain of this year over christmas i hear this over and over again and actually if you think about it if you are stressed and war. and you meet up with your family the stress and the worry is still there on the other hand and i heard this from. my own next year and as a person who you people something to look forward to and when you give some people people something to look forward to it takes away the stress and the worry there is that positivity of vaccines are coming better times are coming in the meantime keep a low profile and things will get better in the next year and if you don't do that our is prolonged and it continues for many more months than we wanted to do so

that's the way to adopt it well here's hoping for a better year next year dr barrett senior at clinical lecturer university of x. to medical school thank you for your time. thank you and thank you for joining us here at aussie and some national web back at the top of the hour with the latest headlines who see them. it's not over yet folks the latest on break we 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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a matter of time if you were going on the run 24 hours ahead of international passengers arriving in england being given the option to pay for a private test in a class ridden britain still with $1.00 of the worst because of the death rates from grown a virus in the world coming up in 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 crowned historical consultant and author of a new book about royal feuds amidst the heart of so-called british democracy from william to harry and from kate to meghan was more coming up in today's going underground 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's 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 use by sell by dates on supermarket 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 when it's going to go moldy and i said what i'd like to know when it goes moldy and so run a campaign and 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.