persisted with the pain but instead of trying to wean him off though she just goes after a dose of her dose after dose and really became his drug dealer so who's to blame patients doctors manufacturers all the governments of. the headlines this hour with covert 19 cases creeping towards $3000000.00 in russia experts say the infections are reaching a plateau it was the country ready spent weeks 3 of its mass vaccination program in an r.t. exclusive wiki leaks confirms the authenticity of the recording that could spin the narrative on julian assange shows the whistleblower did try to prevent not facilitate the release of thousands of sensitive u.s. cables it's claimed that the calls knew about the tape when deciding on his extradition to america this evidence led you heard and i can through him but this

is also. not new to the reports in the u.k. transcript talks for this conversation was presented to the court in september russia says it's banned from all major sporting events over alleged doping cut in half to 2 years but the country's clean athletes can't understand why a whole nation is being punished still for the crimes of a few. cities are not sent to prison for the crimes of a few it was clear the attack was on the way on russian sport so it would hardly be allowed to play on draw flag. hello good evening just gone 6 o'clock here in moscow you're watching r.t. international now here in russia more than 28900 cases were confirmed this friday and that takes the total number of infections in the country so almost 3000000 in the meantime the rollout of the sputnik the. vaccine has begun and from monday

journalists and transport workers in the capital will be among the next in line to receive it so let's get more now from our reporter there on costa that he joins us from and good evening again as we were saying earlier this vaccine is being rolled out but for now at least the infection numbers seem to be going up not improving a great deal what are the authorities saying yes and more so in moscow because this is the largest city in the country so the number of cases here to russian capital remains very high however a group of scientists from the st petersburg state university and now that the pandemic already peaked in the russian capital this week now they supported the claim with their own mathematical model created to predict the spread of a covert 19 now while it may seem like good news from moscow the situation in st petersburg remains alarmingly tense cording to local health officials only 4

percent of hospital beds that were earmarked for cold with 1000 patients remain vacant and that means that the hospitals are almost filled to capacity now the situation is certainly different throughout the country president putin's spokesperson this call for said earlier that at the moment there are no plans for a complete lockdown in russia while the head of state himself he admits to country having some issues with a pandemic but everything is under control the symbolism. and you've got to work across those you know health care system in any country was prepared for it our system proved to be more or less efficient we are aware of issues that we've had and we are dealing with them the pandemic required closing down some facilities and production unemployment has been on the rise and incomes unfortunately have been going down and this is not just empty talk we know how to make it better russia was the 1st country in the world to come up with and start producing its own vaccine

it's 95 percent effective not a single serious case of side effects foreign colleagues are ready to work with us . now the russian president also announced earlier that in addition to sputnik the end rhona. vaccines are now in development and putin also suggested that former soviet republics that are now part of the commonwealth of independent states could also get involved in the production process of russian vaccines meanwhile russia is now in 2 weeks where people can get in molecule a to begin to coronavirus and speaking about moscow in particular so for more than 15000 people were vaccinated at one of 7 dedicated places in the russian capital mayor of the city sergei said bannon said that a 1000000 more citizens may get their codes healed starting on monday december 21st

now inoculation is currently limited to people in the 18 to 60 age group and those people who are older will also get their vaccine however that will happen a little bit later. ok thanks for the update they have romano was artie's the roman coaster there. well the play site we can speak with stanley out in portland he's an american physician he works as a consultant to vaccine manufacturers as well as to buy technology firms and he joins us right now and we're very pleased to have you on thanks for your time tonight stan lee look back seems it being rolled out at the moment we know in russia and the u.k. today there are among the 1st do you think these vaccines will make a massive difference to this crisis. well yes of course assuming that they are all as protective as as we hope. the data

from the 1st messenger r.n.a. vaccines indicate very high efficacy what we don't know for any of the vaccines thus far is whether they will consistently prevent infection which is important because if they do that will prevent the virus from spreading if they don't then we have a situation where vaccinating vaccinated people will be protected by the unvaccinated people will not be protected so we have a lot to learn about the vaccines and if that is the case stanley what happens with the vaccines i mean do we go back to square one and find a vaccine that means that you will not transmit the virus even if you have the you know. well yes the point is that we have at this time we do not have all of the day that we don't have all

of the facts these are these data are being chain's now by numerous vaccine developers but they have not been established so we're waiting for the science to tell us what the what the reality is i am not pessimistic about a fact scenes at least reducing the infection whether they will completely obliterate the infection remains to be seen. number or sort of timescale are we looking at them would you expect to be able to tell this within the next month or 2 would we have to wait until the spring. oh i think we should have data on the 1st vaccine that's. a let's say february or march.

but you know those science has to be done carefully and. we need good data that we can rely on and also a day that are disseminated one of the great difficulties that i have let's say with respect to the russian vaccines also is the publication of data. and the stem anation of data which is a critical point for science. just on that point i mean people he cited stanley and just as a member of public they might be considering should i get this vaccine or not. do you feel that these vaccines. ah saif and i say that you think everybody should take them or can you understand why people might be reluctant. all right so the

answer to that question the. permit the. better involved. in this sense that yes there are many people fear vaccines and this is true throughout the world and yet when one really looks at the records back scenes in general have been quite safe now the thing that one has to understand is risk if the risk of the disease as it is for covert 19 if the risk of the disease of your getting the disease let's say is 20 percent that's 2 in every 10 people right. and the risk of reactions to the vaccines that i'm familiar with is about one in a 1000000 so if you compare the risks if you're intelligent you would take the vaccine

but a lot of people have these vague fears. and of course in the nothing is 100 percent safe. there are going to be reactions but the they will be. at least so for they will be uncommon whereas the disease is very common show and i take your point about the long term effects i stand the i'll be guessing what the long term effects will be because had we know without waiting you mean the long term effects of the vaccination yeah. well the day that will be collected and certainly through in the next year or now if you're talking about safety. examination of safety is really. can be done in

a month or 2 after vaccination it is very unlikely that there will be reactions beyond that whereas if you're talking about efficacy then you need warning observations to term and how. how effective a vaccine that is and over what period of time that's another issue that we don't have any information on i will not have any information for many months in terms of all the vaccines that are out there at the moment tonight is a handful that keep making the headlines what's your appraisal for example of the sputnik vivax saying. i am really unable to answer that question and that he let me make this point. you know i'm old enough i worked with. professors more than c.

of truman cause of or a shell of way back in the polio days so i have great respect for russian science that being said english is the language of science you know whether you like it or not and until we have in english from the russian vaccines it's impossible for someone like me to judge and so that not becomes a critical point. current. actually trying to encourage. russian girls to. speak. international meetings so that we we know what success there have

been so i think that's an important point i had saying to you that this talk that they might try to combine sputnik with ashton astra zeneca has vaccine what are the benefits of trying to combine vaccines and i would also last what's the point if we both know that they are very successful they have 95 percent efficacy. well so again i don't have all of the russian all the data from the guy malaya vaccine but the point is that it's a scientific point and i hope. i can explain that to you. the both the comolli vaccine and the astra zeneca vaccine are based on a virus called add no virus but the i know viruses come and many different kinds and so astra zeneca is using admin virus 26

as their vector and they and they give 2 doses but the problem with using 2 doses is that immunity may develop to the vector itself as well as to the in certain protein so the astra zeneca people probably feel that that they could. improve the response by using not one add no virus but 2 and that was the good idea of the malaya vaccine to use one that had no wires since a prime and another and the virus has a boost and that seems to work better so that's why astra zeneca is coming to ga malaya. to see whether using one of the. vaccines as. a 1st or 2nd dose i'm not sure which interesting ok

let's move on to the other vaccines one in particular the pfizer and what then of vaccines because a using a very new technology well what show assessments of that what can you tell us about you'll you'll failings for success with these vaccines well clearly they have been very. successful up to this point and if i might say perhaps the best answer i can give it is that. i am waiting impatiently to receive one of those vaccines myself because they're clearly very very effective once again there are questions which are being answered but i haven't seen the answers yet for example how long will the protection last and what effect will it have on people excrete ing the virus and possibly

passing it its wonders but the efficacy of those 2 messenger r.n.a. vaccines. is impressive and. and this is a platform that will be used for other vaccines in the future these are the 1st ones that have been used in such large populations but i see this technology as being one that's going to be use for many other vaccines and can you explain stand what why this technology and so important and why it could be so useful in the future. well so the technology is based on as i said what's called the messenger r.n.a. and basically what that means is that you take the code for one of the proteins called the spike protein of

a virus and instead of using. the protein in the spike protein itself you you go back to the genetic information for the spike protein and so when you inject that genetic information those cells in in the human body. translate the code into a protein and that protein is then taken to the immune system and the immune system responds to that protein so it's a different way of providing to the by the aid to human bodies the information. which allows them to make a response to the. sort of the viral protein which in which response induces immunity to the virus itself because the

virus itself needs that protein these suits breasts that protein in order to cause a disease i say we really appreciate you trying to explain what is detail information but just on that point does that mean then if this technology successful in the future it could be a very quick way of finding an appropriate vaccine to a particular virus well absolutely the both the r.n.a. and the d.n.a. approaches they were able to launch that in the matter of weeks so that is to launch the production of a vaccine and that is. something that's never happened before basically i go this is great yeah exciting isn't it and just lastly stanley we've got a minute to say left i just wondered what you all fought saw on whether you think this pandemic has been positive in any way g feel it's brought countries together

or g fail it's only seen countries compete against one another to try and find this sort of how we drill the vaccine. well you know we would be rash for scientists like me to make such a pretty prediction i would hope that it would bring countries together and. would also mention that what we've seen with this epidemic also is the response of companies in the developing world that there's vaccine companies now exist throughout the world and they responded as well as the the. the country manufacturers soul i'm optimistic relatively that this is if you if you could say such a terrible thing that this epidemic has been

a great stimulus for vaccine development throughout the world. ok well it's a positive note to end on stanley we really appreciate your time this evening we're going to have to leave it that was a stanley allen popkin an american physician who works as a consultancy vaccine manufacturers as well as to biotechnology fans to appreciate your time thank you for them. now the head of wiki leaks has confirmed the authenticity of recording that could be a gang change if the cheating asuncion an ati exclusive the audio seems to prove the a striking whistle blow in fact tried to warn the u.s. state department about a mass breach of data back in 2011 which turned. to be one of the biggest leaks in american history washington later claimed that a songe wanted to endanger lives kristen had often says the tape could put the brakes on the sound his extradition and charges which could amount to 175 years in jail this evidence that you heard and i can control him but this is authentic is

not new to the courts in the u.k. a transcript of for this conversation was presented to the court in september well this should have a tremendous weight because it's basically the argument that is in the narrative for the justice department in their indictment and they are tried to use you know to get emotional and loudly u.k. they are talking about irresponsible behavior and putting lives at risk that following these revelations more than 400000 people around the world have already signed a petition calling on u.s. officials to drop charges against the sanch politicians and activists want donald trump to pardon him before he leaves office in january saskia taylor has not. public enemy number one a man with no conscience no morals no remorse judean a solemn child's been smeared as a villain who revealed the ugly face of u.s. foreign policy but i would argue that it's closer to being in the high tech

terrorists this disclosure is not just an attack on america's foreign policy interests it is an attack on the international community wiki leaks walks like a hostile intelligence service and talks like a hostile intelligence service but sarge is a narcissist who has created nothing of value here lies on the dirty work of others to make himself famous he is a fraud a coward hiding behind a screen 10 years that narrative ron but is it all about to change is it actually that the whistleblower was more concerned about the collateral damage of his exposé than washington itself a new t released tape has revealed a song just tempted to warn the us state department and then boss had to reclaim 10 back in 2011 not only does it seem she had to mold the cools she went as far as this he has to answer for what he has done so what was the motive for helping a firestorm was coming in the form of

a rogue wiki leaks employee online. i think over time. because. it came. right kate. spread around. to. the degree that. we believe we've. become public. some possibility. so no right can see dropping a political bombshell standing back and watching it burn as we've been told is easy is disguise. traitor a treasonist i'm not for the death penalty so if i'm not for the death i don't want to do it illegally shoot the son of a done great discredit to this nation should be assassinated he should be treated as an enemy combatant with you should be closed down permanently and decisively no

instead we hear a song trying to protect those and washington the very same who now want to send him down so life. having. people out of you are dissidents more and more. we have been calling. the embassy. every day trying to train. the holdback it's cool to the wiki leaks at its even advise the state department to tell anyone why the encrypted files could be allegedly found and also help to remove them a decade on a song just sitting in london's belmarsh prison waiting to hear whether he'll be extradited to the u.s. to face a potential 175 yes sentence that's a hell of a sentence for someone who tried to warn the very top of what was coming so is it any wonder now that cools a mounting for president trump to pardon the whistleblower on hoping that he will

pardon julian assange it's the right thing to do donald trump since you're given pardons to people please consider pardoning those who at great personal sacrifice expose the deception and criminality of those in the deep state mr president if you grown so you want to act of clemency during your time in office please free julian assange those you alone can save his life if you don't i'll try him can save julie and encourage brave activists world worries time and timing is everything it's change the image of a man who was cost out as a traitor and without running out for donald trump's presidency i'm on wiki leaks but on to replace him in the white house this could be the last chance for america to pop. an unfair give a man who wanted to save washington from its shame time is of the essence for a sourness to avoid a life in jail the assistance was offered to to to stop this or

mitigate any any possible harm to this i have no idea why this was not to follow through and took up the offer. to help the julian was was clear fully and i'm considerably. worried in offering to say to the state department never came back to julian for more information and seem to have not done anything based on his warning . in other news tonight sports top court has cut russia's ban from all major sporting events for typing offenses from 4 years to take and says that the country's athletes will only be able to compete as neutrals however russia's limpid chafes still believe that the punishment is too harsh. this is we do not welcome the decision to partially satisfy world then to doping agency's claim and deprive russian 1000 oping agency of its compliance status with the world anti-doping code our position is initially based on the fact that there are no grounds for any full

or partial punishment for saddam and consequently any sanctions against the participants of the case we believe that in this part of the court did not fully take into account the presented dark humans everyone is so used to sanctions against russia as a whole this is no surprise i would not like to be categorical but in general this is abnormal it is necessary to punish but cities are not sent to prison for the crimes of a few here and the whole country has been punished because someone stumbled. it's an ambiguous story in general this decision was predictable but this is not for us to decide sports politics is such that if you have inside information about what is happening at the top and therefore we were only in the process of waiting but the rough picture was clear it was clear that an attack was under way on russian sport so it would hardly be allowed to play under our flag but i am glad that there was no complete dismissal. so the ban then means that no russian flag or anthem at an

international sporting events until the end of 2022 and that includes the next summer and winter olympics and the football world cup but is not it gas they have now explains there could still be twists and turns to come. in what may be described as a remarkably anticlimactic conclusion the court of arbitration for sport refrained from an outright ban then watered down waters recommended participant after years of scandal and accusations bickering and petty insults the duping sega is over for now russia which categorically denied allegations of state assisted duping wanted all restrictions lifted but instead must settle for 2 years rather a 4 year battle during this period it could neither host nor bid for the major sporting tournament its flag a national anthem will also be bad but clean russian athletes not involved in the

doping scandal will be allowed to participate at the olympics the collective punishment clause that saddam wanted to play into every russian athlete is a potential cheat is gone that was nice because of the most important result of our collaborative effort is the fact that the court of arbitration for sport has been extended its support for a world on to duping agency in applying measures of collective accountability and refused to introduce additional participation criteria for russian athlete and the olympic games paralympic games and world championships the world and he duping agency wanted. but it says it respects the court's decision for his fare for the next 2 years so no more scandal no more investigations who fully it all ends all restrictions will be lifted it's a new start which not everyone is happy about the united states especially has made a stink of it that have preferred

a more permanent battle usada acknowledges the devastating decision from the court of arbitration for sport in the russia case that hands water and clean athletes a significant loss at this stage in this sordid russian stay. sponsored doping affair now spanning close to a decade there is no consolation in this week watered down outcome to once again escape a meaningful consequence proportional to the crimes much less a real ban is a catastrophic blow to clean athletes the integrity of sport and the rule of law which of course is ridiculous given the unprecedented enmity between the u.s. and the world adze duping agency largely because washington allegedly attempted to seize control of it and threatened to cut its payments to wada if it didn't play along it didn't and it made clear that american athletes risk being bought.