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yes. join me every thursday on the alec simon show and i'll be speaking to guest on the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. the headlines are russian president vladimir putin wraps up his annual q. and a session with journalists and the public lasting just over 4 hours for the 1st time it was remote by video link with 19 well from plans to fight the global pandemic to present peyton running for another term the russian leader fielded a huge range of pressing questions. russia was the 1st country in the world to come up with and stop producing its own vaccine we see an expansion we see nato infrastructure coming closer to our borders shouldn't we respond to this i haven't
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decided yet whether i will be running for the 2024 election. and also to become the world health organization warns of a post christmas surge in europe as the continent sets new coronavirus track called ahead of the festive period. hello good afternoon welcome just gone 5 o'clock in moscow you without an international. in the last hour or so the russian president vladimir putin has finished his annual q. and a session with journalists in the public lasting just over 4 hours and for the 1st time was removed by video link you to k. with 19 still the russian they did it encompass all the crucial things on the minds of the russian public and the media so let's get through some of those he was there for the whole duration hello again just run through then some of the k.
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things that were brought up to that. andrew hi again wall surely. you had made me many things that came out of that residence of lot of that we will now have to die just from things like saying that. the u.s. and russia are clearly in a new arms race right now to vladimir putin's assessment that the attempt at establishing multiculturalism in europe has failed and also finding out that so far a lot of our putin didn't take the covert vaccine in fact the whole press conference started with many questions about coronavirus and about ways to deal with it the promise came from the russian president that in the next few weeks at least
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several 1000000 doses of that vaccine will be produced in russia we're talking about sputnik v the job that was developed here in this country and the advice from the russian president is if you are in that age group that allows getting vaccines go forward this is the way to go and this is the way to deal with the pandemic. because russia was the 1st country in the world to come up with and stop producing its own vaccine is 95 percent effective not a single serious case of side effects foreign colleagues are ready to work with us and be glad for world renown specialist to join forces with russian partners i'm sure the result will be good. after the russian president finally sent congratulations to joe biden on his election as the next u.s. president it was time to look back at the campaign and also to hear whether the
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russian side is rightly that we had to work with joe biden and his team and we would we do understand at this point that there will be a lot of difficulties but the russian side is ready to turn the page according to president vladimir putin and print one point though. one of the journalists so to say that person actually isn't a journalist he was a very popular musician here but now he has a job at one of the russian t.v. stations and he's also become a politician well he stood up and started throwing questions at a lot of marbled in the likes of hey why did donald trump lose this guy where are the russian hackers are they all of a sudden to move to the silicon valley. so that a lot of our putin decided not to joke and respond in a serious tone and remind everyone that neither the 26 staying nor in 20 to 20 of
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the russian hackers or the russian government had to do anything to do with the final result of the u.s. election is going through. russian hackers have never helps any american president get elected and never interfered in the domestic affairs of the usa these allegations are all used to make relations between our 2 nations worse to undermine the legitimacy of the still incumbent president of the us and in this case now our bilateral relations a hostage to american domestic issues. now moving on to reports that really grabbed a lot of attention in the recent days reports surrounding the case of opposition activists alike saying the volley who has now were covered after treatment in germany after falling severely ill while on a plane from siberia to moscow we were getting reports from some western media
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organizations and also on you tube from alexina bali himself of various 3 year theories asked stu how it all happened there your speculations about a 2nd poisoning at some point in that story i like saying. avali also is saying that his team has already investigated the matter and that they found a team of russian secret agents that were following him all all along sorry and attempted to poison him so this is something that. the western media in particular was worried about and there was a straight forward question from a b.b.c. journalist about it and there here's what vladimir putin responded to it. the patient at the pearling clinic is actually supported by american intelligence
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and so then of course he's followed by other intelligence services but even if he's followed by russian services or others it does not mean that he should be poisoned with it. but this wasn't the end of it there was an important message from the russian leader again to western countries to germany in particular crucial data on all the biological material that was retrieved on all the tests that were undertaken to understand really what happened to all i see no mali in order for the investigation to proceed here in russia but mr putin keeps saying that none of these calls gone none of these requests are being somehow. taken seriously in the west and russia is not getting any kind of response to it and now some more highlights of this conversation included.
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in saying that multiculturalism in europe house failed after a number of terrorist attacks in the e.u. and also this whole spats between the french government and emanuel macron in particular with the islamic community not only in france. but worldwide also mr putin. was asked about the chances that he could run for another presidential term in 2024 this question follows the changes in russian can in the russian constitution the amendments that were adopted this year after a federal vote here in russia and mr putin's went on to say that for now he has not made up his mind. he's going there with you. this question we should understand one thing well what we do help our country if not we shouldn't
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do it if it does we should i haven't decided yet whether i will be running for the 2024 election formally it is permitted i will see whether i will or not the. world that was really a long one more than 4 and a half hours of course the whole q. and a session has been uploaded on you tube you can check it out on our youtube channel you can follow the list of our day that are still there on our website if you want to find out more of what mr putin had to say well for me that said hopefully i was able to really shed the light on some of the most important things that came out from putin's residents this thursday. yes certainly thanks we appreciated i was artie's there covering that massive question and answer session was held by fatima putin earlier today thank you. so the french president is tested
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positive for cave 19 officials to say that the man you macro isolate now and continue to work remotely so let's get more on this with sharon pinsky she joins us from paris good afanasieff charlotte what's the latest on his condition. well that's right president not contested positive 19 the latest world leader to do so that was because the palace said that he presented with some mild symptoms so apparently he had a dry cough and a fever he will now self isolate as is the rule here in france for the next 7 days but he will of course continue to carry out his functions as the head of state but he will do so remotely now the fact he's tested positive for 19 has many ramifications particularly for ministers here in france and other individuals who have met him but also other european leaders we've heard in the last few hours that
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the belgian prime minister the portuguese prime minister and the spanish prime minister all had contact with mr mack on in the last few days and they will all now be self isolating we also heard that the president of the european council shall michel although he doesn't consider himself to have been a contact case he was at that european summit earlier this week the president back on and he is also self isolating now this comes of course as france is battling with the virus a few weeks ago president said he hoped by this point in december we would be seeing around 5000 positive new cases every day the figure is still above 10000 every day and because of that france has had to delay a some of the lifting of the struction xit had hoped to do on december 15th including opening cultural places they won't now be opening until at least january of next decision taken that are around the 7th but there is this hope that's being
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pinned on the fact that this vaccine. could be approved for use in europe in the next few weeks the prime minister who is also now in self isolation after meeting president mack on was at the national assembly yesterday where he was outlining the timeline for hopefully administering that jap. all conditions are met the 1st reaction nation could be from the last week of december 4th by mass vaccination from january this 1st piece was 6 to 8 weeks. well there's a bit of a problem with this because people have been urged to do their civic duty in the past by the prime minister to go and have the job but it does seem as if there is a large section of french society who are not keen to line up for that vaccination for 19 surveys have shown that there is sort of this disconnect with the french
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public and the latest one showing that around a half of the individual surveyed said that they would not be getting the job now they've cited concerns such as effectiveness of the serum unwanted side effects and the fact that they perhaps mistrust vaccines generally that's a theme that we've heard a lot about here in france now president machen had said previously that he would get the vaccine but only when it was the right time to do so and he said that he wouldn't make that vaccine mandatory of course all ringback eyes on how the president continues in terms of his health with this virus but there is a sense that there are plans in place if he does become ill with covert $900.00 seriously ill then it seems that the president of the senate would take over from his duties but for the moment president matt corn is tested positive for 19 but it said that his symptoms are only mild. ok thanks for the update there are charlotte
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the charlotte in parish. meanwhile the world health organization has issued a stark warning that the 1st of period is no time to relax on code read adding that the pandemic may even get worse. there is a high risk of further resurgence in the 1st weeks and months or 2021 and we will need to work together the roof we are to succeed in preventing it. or germany has registered its worst coronavirus death toll on wednesday on the same day tented strict new lockdown numbers announced on thursday morning a slightly improved however they are still the 2nd worst on record but these weren't the only grim statistics to hit europe ahead of christmas as peter all of my reports. the christmas lockdown period is a part of here in germany comes at a particularly odd time the couldn't treat posted record breaking covert figures this week they. 'd are saying that they will roll out
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a vaccination program in the coming weeks but also warn that the foundations of already. for a 3rd wave of coronavirus. we saw that a 3rd wave had started to build before the 2nd one actually subsided we need to give a clear signal this christmas the new year must be different to usual it's not just germany italy is facing a grim record of its 700000 deaths this year the highest figure since 1944 during the 2nd world war rome has put in place new regulations to run from monday the 21st until january the 6th that will see restaurants closing at 6 pm and 10 pm curfew but hospitality workers say these measures will ruin them they actually destroyed our sector by making us clothes are established at 6 pm and blaming us for things they were guilty of instead. during lockdown we didn't
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receive anything not the 1st time the 2nd 3rd or 4th a similar scene is playing out in france where the stay at home order has been replaced with a curfew that move has seen thousands of workers at cultural venues protest a shutdown on their places of work i did. i. was. 'd in spain testing is found that one in 10 of the population had been infected with covert 19 the scale of this pandemic is hitting home in sweden as well with more deaths this november than any since the spanish flu pandemic over a century ago. and an official investigation into sweden's coronavirus strategy has found that stock must take the blame for its high death rate prompting the swedish prime minister to put out a statement saying the country got its tactics of role. i think most health
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officials didn't see such a wave in front of them they spoke about clusters it's not like we weren't prepared for something to happen again but no one could have predicted the strength of it some conclusions have been made about where we could have done better in a week's time families would be coming together across europe to celebrate christmas however this year we coded dictating the rules the festive period may well be a lot more distant than we used to as european leaders to keep contact to a minimum peter all of a party girl is. now another blow to pfizer's code vaccine to health care workers in alaska have reportedly suffered allergic reactions to the jab with one rush to intensive care one of the workers who did not have a history of allergies remained in hospital on wednesday night she had an allergic reaction 10 minutes after receiving the vaccine and suffered rashes all over her
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face and body shortness of breath and also an elevated heart rate and despite getting treatment she was rushed to intensive care and say the woman is now making a recovery though it is kind of mocking reports this is far from the 1st disturbing news on the shot but now there are reports that we have received indicate that the person did not have a history of severe allergic reactions now this comes on the heels of reports about 2 health care workers in the united kingdom who both had severe reactions to the vaccine as well and that caused the united kingdom to actually issued this warning any person with a history of a significant allergic reaction to a vaccine medicine or food should not receive the pfizer beyond vaccine it's in. it's a note that when pfizer looked into the case they did emphasize that the 2 individuals in the united kingdom did have a history of allergic reactions the f.d.a. of the united states has gone ahead and through pfizer's vaccine but made clear
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that it is only available to those who are 16 years of age or older and who don't should not be given to people with a history of severe allergic reactions and at this point we have got some very prominent officials praising this new jab that's available to fight against cove it today our nation has achieved a medical miracle we have delivered a safe and effective vaccine in just 9 months this is one of the greatest scientific accomplishments in history we have these reports about the health care worker in alaska so people are waiting for more information many are concerned about this vaccine will it be safe will it actually put an end to the pandemic as some have predicted so many are keeping their eye on this situation is this certainly disturbing news to hear that a health care worker has had an adverse effect going to open the will the hospital the minister of the vaccine has said that the instance when to fact we've also reached out to comment for comment from pfizer and they got back to
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a saying that they will closely monitor all reports suggest evolve serious on the cheek and the reactions following vaccination pfizer also claims to that people with a history of adverse reactions to vaccines were excluded from the trials. in other news tonight a leaked tape reveals that the sun trying to warn us officials old and limits widespread internet releases of us information back in 2011 well that tell you because been revealed by conservative investigative project very task on the recoding a songe and legibly speaks to cliff jones and an attorney the state department. we haven't told. the proper database. because. cable news. spread around. the degree of that. program
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we've. become public. some possibility. while on the tape a songe said that classified cables had been stolen by a former weekly colleague and were being quote spread around the internet where we can expand express concerns also over possible dangers to u.s. government employees and he suggested that authorities covertly remove the files from the internet and offered to help track them down now it appears that officials failed to take action on the information that he provided there a leak in the leaks information went on to become known as cable gate more than 250000 classified u.s. state department cables were released into the public domain it contained data on u.s. officials as well as information about washington's foreign policy and secret operations abroad now despite its efforts to science feed extradition to the u.s.
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and in 2012 took refuge in london's ecuadorian embassy he was under investigation by washington his role in quote publishing documents on possible u.s. war crimes in iraq and afghanistan last year british police tracked him from the embassy to the prison cell an extradition hearings to continue journalist daniel is ari says the audiotape does show the allegations against the son and the question. is that the quote was was clear as to just simply not concerned i mean i told this person that you know. he had spent 24 hours calling very various u.s. government offices and no one no one would talk to em no no no one would call him back the tape shows quite clearly that assad is concerned about the release of these unredacted files so he he's quite conscious of how the information could be
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misused and therefore he wants to alert the relevant parties i'm sure that washington will argue that it still is wiki leaks fault but i think anybody who listens this tape will show that wiki leaks is quite conscientious and trying to prevent any individual from suffering any kind of retribution as a consequence of the release of these files are the democrats have been extremely hostile to or to wiki leaks much more hostile than republicans so so therefore it be a good way for a buck for a trump to stick it to his enemies washing out international we'll have more news just after. the u.s. economy was booming doing numbers of people made homeless. you can work 40 hours in a week and still not have enough to get housing everybody believes america still is
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again now in the last hour or so the russian president vladimir putin has finished his annual q. and a session with journalists and the public lasting just over 4 hours for the 1st time it was removed by video video link with 19 restrictions still the russian leader did field a huge range of questions from the russian public and also the media and we can get more on what happened i would. been there 1st at the residence of the russian president hugo good evening not your usual conference was it this one. no not at all and in fact i was lucky enough to be among the very few journalists who had a chance to ask their questions in person because after very strict quarantine i should say to you because everybody else had to do that via a video link again as you've said because of covert but this was this is not the
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only thing unusual about the event namely it wasn't just a media conference it was a full on marathon which duration fell literally a few only a few minutes short of 5 hours the range of topics discussed well it literally ranged from some very small and specific issues that affected maybe only a few 100 russians living in a remote village to some huge geo political aspects which could send ripples all over the world and the latter was what the question over the b.b.c. correspondent was about essentially he asked the russian president whether or not he felt at least a little bit at least partially responsible for the rather well poor state of relations between russia and some western nations namely the united states and the united kingdom he also asked whether or not putin thought that russia was quote
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unquote all white and fluffy here is putin had to say to that. yes we are peaceful and calm nato promised it wouldn't expanse of the u.s. but didn't deliver on this we see an expansion we see nato infrastructure coming closer to our borders shouldn't we respond to this who quit the antiballistic missile treaty it wasn't ours so we have to invent brand new types of weapons to protect us from a possible threat and then our american colleagues left the i.n.f. treaty again not you know it's our partners then they withdrew from the open skies treaty so what should we do leave everything as it is you're smart people so why do you think we are dumb. well actually when.
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