in the day's headlines the u.s. food and drug administration reveals it's now probing 5 allergic reactions to the pfizer fantastic vaccine including 3 alaskan workers. also this hour a top u.s. consultant to vaccine manufacturers tells r.t. that while cobra jobs do look promising only part of the solution. i'm not pessimistic about. taxing is reducing the infection whether they. completely obliterate the infection remains to be seen. and

a senior member of the british government sparks outrage with his criticism of the unicef multi-millionaire jacob riis smaug dismissed the agency's efforts to feed hungry children in the u.k. as a political stunt. and watching aren't international bring you your live news update from our studio here in moscow welcome to the program. authorities in the u.s. have said they're now investigating 5 adverse responses to the pfizer biotech vaccine including 3 alaska health workers officials admit they still don't know the exact cause. i think we'll be looking at all of the data we can from each of these reactions to sort out exactly what happened and we'll also be looking to try to understand which component of the fact he might be helping to produce.

that news came just hours after a 2nd vaccine development or not was approved by u.s. regulators in all vice president mike pence received the pfizer biotech shot live on t.v. along with his wife and he gave the job his vote of confidence. karen and i are than happy to step forward before this week was about. to take the safe and effective coronavirus vaccine that we have secured produced for the american people are now been several confirmed cases of allergic reactions to the pfizer biotech vaccine a 3rd health care worker in alaska was hospitalized after getting the shot 2 others had also had an inverse response with one taken to intensive care you know while the u.k. registered 2 adverse reactions to the shot and the country's health officials have warned against back saving people with a history of severe allergies there's also controversy that americans cannot sue

pfizer or madera and february authority has brought in the public reading this an emergency preparedness or prep act it provides immunity for all vaccine makers for 4 years attorney explain why even if americans fall sick they may never get compensation. if they are sick and they miss a couple of days of work and they don't feel good for 3 or 4 weeks they're going to get 0 compensation under the american legal system typically an individual injured by a product or service can sue and you can have a class action where literally tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of people can sue the government when they implemented this war speed. to have a vaccine developed much faster than normal the companies weren't willing to do that for fear that they might get sued so the government said we will protect you companies so you can't be sued. meanwhile in brazil

a bizarre case of verbal gymnastics is emerging over a very serious issue locals are debating the difference between the words compulsory obligatory and mandatory as the supreme court forces a coven vaccine on everyone or doesn't bother that later in the program. a top u.s. physician and consultant to back the manufacturer spoke to our channel about the state of cope in jobs stanley plotkin told us whether the shops can stop the pandemic or not. many people fear of vaccines and this is true throughout the world and yet when one really looks at the record 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 ringback covert 19 let's say is

20 percent that's 2 in every 10 people right. and the risk of reactions to 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. 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 base situation where vaccination vaccinated people will be protected but unvaccinated people will not be protected so we have a lot to learn about the vaccines. both the gamel

a vaccine and the astra zeneca vaccine are based on a virus called addinall virus in the astra zeneca people probably feel that that they could. improve the response by using not one ad no virus but 2 and that was the good idea of the gama lay a vaccine to use one that had no wires since a prime and another and no iris has a boost and that seems to work better. they will be collected certainly through the next year if you're talking about safety. examination of safety is really. can be done in the end a month or 2 after vaccination or as if you're talking about efficacy then you in

the long observations chairman how effective a vaccine is and over what period of time that's a nother issue that we don't have any information on i will not have any information for many months but i'm not pessimistic about. attack scenes at least reducing the infection whether they will completely obliterate the infection remains to be seen. a senior member of the governing conservative party has drawn shock and ridicule for his latest comments on child poverty take a priest madhu's net worth is estimated at more than 100000000 pounds lashed out at unicef saying it should not be helping impoverished children in the k. the real scandal that unicef should be playing politics in this way when it is

meant to be looking off to people in the poorest the most deprived countries in the world where people are starving whether of famines or whether civil wars and they make cheap political points of this kind giving i think 25000 pounds to one council it is a political stunt in parliament i just challenge jay caprice malk about unicef having to feed working class kids in the u.k. it's shameful for kids to go hungry it's not shameful to feed them the only person who should be ashamed is you mr rees mog. innocent recently launched a wide ranging program aimed at tackling food insecurity only granting over $700000.00 pounds to community groups all over the k. organization is also helping fee children in the south of london giving out food parcels and assuring breakfasts are distributed to schools there are the cam campaign has put a spotlight on food poverty in the u.k. considered one of the wealthiest countries in the world according to unicef an

estimated 2400000 children live in so-called food insecure homes preschool meal programs have seen huge numbers of families sign up and unicef has defended its decision to provide humanitarian help unicef ukase responding to the some president it crisis and building on our 25 years experience to working on children's rights in the u.k. with a one off domestic response launched a notice to provide support to vulnerable children and families around the country during this crisis period earlier we spoke with the founder of britain's largest independent food bank who says the government's handling of the poverty crisis has been unacceptable. i think the reality is the government's own figures show that in britain 4.5 children get 1000000 children get free school meals and before the pandemic the government's own figures confirm that 12000000 people in britain a word in poverty i think what unicef of dawn has of course given some money to

people in britain and britain is one of the great generous countries in the world for giving money so it's only just rights that when our people are in crisis that unicef gives us some cash by the scandal is we have a government that keeps pussy footing around the real crisis or brush it i'm not spit 15000 people 15000000 people in the 1st 6 richest economy on the planet going hungry and that's not acceptable we should be leading a global campaign to end poverty not pussyfooting around it we now feeding so many people we can hardly cope it's not something that we can just depend anymore on our government our government around the world are all tied up with the pandemic trying to get people safe and stop people dying letting people go hungry is not a priority and so we as people and we as communities need to take back power and politicize it in a way but we can eradicate the problems. yes present

like joe biden's promise to unite the country as its next later but his words don't always match his party's actions as everyone from his campaign manager to the incoming deputy chief of staff told the vice of insults at republicans i'm up in reports. putting the star in stars and stripes joe biden the great healer of america is on a winning streak and he will not stop until these states are united i pledge to be a president who seeks not to divide but unify. who doesn't see the red states and blue states only sees the united states but there might be a small problem not everyone in the democratic camp is so keen on the healing process i'm not saying they're not a bunch mitch mcconnell is terrible not exactly a white flag coming from the new administration and she's not alone many democrats are not very keen on smoothing things over with trump supporters people who stood

by donald trump for the last 4 years and now claiming to be offended at the time democratic campaign manager used to curse word i don't think so so if the side of washington that's winning is already talking trash what about the other ones still sore from losing a 2nd term biden talks about unity and healing but you want to know what they really think reid how the person he wants is the next white house deputy chief of staff called republicans in congress a bunch of. button complain manager call that he can try to walk back but this is volumes about him boss who calls for unity while shouting that we are assaulting democracy they think we're a deplorable. sick getting over these ill feelings post-election will be no easy feat the hatred has been there for a long time and some of them are as she said deplorable to just be grossly generalistic you could put half of trump's supporters into what i call the basket

of deplorable zx their race is sex is homophobe big xenophobe. as long. and unfortunately there are. people like that. and he has lifted them up this has been tried before the whole unity montra at least while the cameras are rolling well i will be a president for democrats republicans independents for the struggling the striving the successful for all those who vote for me and for those who don't for our 7 god i cast you have to go that's what the country needs. a sense of unity a sense of inclusion. a respect for our institutions. our way of life. rule of law. and respect for each other so we've

got a new administration full of familiar faces we've got a brand new president who used to be the vice and at this point we've got a new post to trump america with many things remaining the same and they probably won't be fixed what's been going on for the last 8 years right well america has been in the domestic abuse situation you have one side of the political already that has spent more years gaslighting line abusing manipulating. pretty minor wounds looting berty impeaching and coming up with every fake news story that ended everything they cared to turn the population against this president doing everything they can to divide this country and now it somehow managed to it appears in seoul joe biden is president of the cause for unity or not only the lariats but also extremely cynical i can assure you there's going to be no unity in this country in fact i've heard many people on the right saying that they're quite excited for the next 4 years to do everything the luxman doing to them over the

last couple years but 3 full now that's an issue because those republicans who would be willing to work with the other side are going to win many friends in the electorate and they're not going to be very popular. secretary of state like pump air has accused russia of carrying out a major cyber attack on government departments that's despite the lack of any official conclusions from u.s. security agencies but this was a very significant effort and i think you'd have a case but now we can say pretty clearly that it was the russians that engaged in this activity the breach was reported last weekend and is believed to have targets several government bodies including the departments of state and homeland security the treasury and the nuclear security administration a number of private companies are also believed to have been breached. hackers are said to have hijacked software used by the u.s. government to gain access official say it was done by

a patient and well resourced adversary and national cybersecurity agencies have called the attack a grave risk to u.s. infrastructure but it has not named any suspects so far russia has denied any involvement in the. use that it has to do to look at you but we didn't register any official messages from the united states about hacker attacks and accusations about such attacks we've become accustomed to the fact that the united states as well as other western countries simply announce in the media about new accusations address that russia. we're joined live now by independent political analyst gilbert dr out now we have like pompei are blaming russia for the hack even though u.s. government agencies are doing no such thing are you surprised by this no not particularly gross but. all. the merits of these accusations and i pointed for seachange. all we were in the.

war against the regime. in 7 solutions but go back to the start of. the election or watch. what i have annoying to watch in the war or we could which made no sense whatsoever about his interests were very good for political talking points for the new wards hooves. when we look at this it's of the hacking that's been described in the press when we look at the sensitivity. to the national security interests that are us and we come from us and i would say that this particular incident is a defense for that that order which like we have only a state rather than malevolence private individuals will all sub contractors could muster and there 'd are in the world there are several states in the world they can

pull of doing this and one of them of course is russia. on the one way while i reconsider whether russia may have been responsible in a deed for this attack i think of a president who can see several statements during his national. in the middle of his last week one in which he said in answer to a question what the united states be destroyed by russia in 30 minutes and his answer was less than 20 minutes but when asked about what ought to be mr putin said that if the russian security agents have wish to go they would certainly have succeeded if now these statements were very very clear warnings to the united states to take russia very seriously that is up playing these children's sandbox games accusing russia of and of malevolent

intervention where he was in the russian state interest because when you consider that russia has in the past he of bailed still more strategic weapons that are here in the world but that a kid or a performance for dziedzic destruction of american has sets if not the united states as a whole because we have to consider but it would be in russia's interests to know performed on hacking such as we saw this past week to make a point not to cause any damage to american. equipment or american systems were to make the point that they're capable of doing so that in turn how bad do you think this could get possibly do you think this is going to go beyond russia bashing are sanctions we do have lawmakers in the u.s. calling for severe reactions to be taken i don't think there will be any severe reactions precisely because the implications of this are so devastating. i

think it makes it their own way across usenet mystery statement is don't tread on us those played at our expense because if you want to start a war we will lose that war now of course the trump administration will be gone and the few weeks that we do have joe biden saying he's treating cybersecurity as a top priority in the wake of this breach what expect him to do what most of what joe biden says that's an empty statement there's nothing he can do if there were something to be done it would have been done already there is nothing to do about this the experts say it will take months if not longer one to stand. right there or to react to what happens in the near future is impossible to oppose. kone of sanctions on russia could only lead to not to worsening the relations but to approaching a hot war and as i just said all indications coming from moscow in the last week so

far the united states go nearly new was that war we've been speaking with in the pendant pill political analyst dr i think your time and your comments thank you so much. still ahead as the price of cryptocurrency bitcoin hits record high as r.t.s. business grew up max keiser tells us what it means for the future of the economy as he said i plan our story after the break. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics or business i'm showbusiness i'll see if.

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welcome back to the program a russian peacekeeper has been killed by an explosion in the disputed no corner cut of the region he was clearing mines left behind after a 6 week conflict between armenia and azerbaijan according to russia's defense ministry the incident happened on thursday the officer was fatally injured and died on the way to the hospital the 1st death of a peacekeeper since russia sent a 2000 strong contingent to new go in aqaba followed a november ceasefire between armenia and azerbaijan. yemen's devastating war has been reaching for almost 6 years now with the u.n. warning of a humanitarian catastrophe and the threat of famine the world food programme spokesperson called food insecurity there a ticking time bomb and urged the world to act immediately 2000000 yemeni children are already suffering malnutrition and need urgent medical treatment according to humanitarian reports the conflict has also left nearly 4000000 people displaced and

desperate families are even forced to hide out in the mountains. we moved here and even had our wedding ceremony here we do not have a place to live or anything else we need help. the man she said for many transports and we have children they are cold and hungry and they want tea so far from this area. as you see our situation is difficult we need help we need housing food and blankets we are in danger inside this case.

both legal and language experts are scratching their heads after brazil's supreme court appeared to force coded vaccination on everyone in the country but with even the supreme court justice struggling to clarify the difference between obligatory mandatory and compulsory and the present coming out against confusion is rife. every brazilian will have the obligation to be vaccinated which just not mean they can be forced to take the vaccine compulsory does not mean that compulsory means that any noncompliance will lead to a penalty for the beginning of the oversimplify he said nancy if you don't want to be treated you have the right not to be treated if i decide for example not to do

chemotherapy and to die it's my problem and we in the federal government have already made clear that the vaccine will be offered to everyone but those who do not want to take it don't have to. the country is suffering a spike in cases brazil is the 2nd worst hit country in the world behind the u.s. reporting more than 800 deaths from the virus on friday alone we asked brazilians what they thought about the supreme court decision i agree with the nation been mandatory because brazilians are not aware of how dangerous the virus is how people going to leave with others without being vaccinated i don't agree with making it mandatory because everyone has to make their own decision about taking the vaccine or not. i agree with the penalties because for the good of all humanity to be able to go out and be a tease on the street i agree with the vaccine being mandatory for the good of the whole world. i believe there has to be a middle way that everyone understands the importance of the vaccine and how it can

help us but with the nazis being mandatory i believe taking the vaccine shouldn't be mandatory although i also understand that in case the person doesn't take the vaccine it could be difficult for them because it could put other people's lives at risk. the price of the cryptocurrency bitcoin has hit a record new high of $23000.00 prices up 30 percent just in the last month and up more than 200 percent this year that coins reputation as digital gold has grown with several high profile investors name yet as an emerging inflation hedge financial expert and host max kaiser told us why he thinks it's a stable investment. big coin is it was going to go to $400000.00 a coin regardless of what what the situation is with the pandemic or regardless of what the situation is between nation states because it will trade similar to a market capitalization of gold the player really is caused by paper money and big

coin solves the problem of poverty how does big going to the problem it capitalizes the banks capitalize the central banks it puts them out of business because everybody has their own bank no paper money has ever survived ever in history over the past 300 years every single form of paper money as either gone completely bankrupt or lost 99 percent of its value not have ever work it's impossible to work paper money it's a it's a faulty idea so we only have really goal but in the 21st century bitcoin is better than goal so the big coin is actually pushing gold off the world stage people are buying big going not goal because it's superior to gold and that's the inflection point that we're on in the 21st century we're at we're witnessing a remarkable transformation of the global economy right now this year it's incredible. that's a wrap up of the day's top news for now don't forget you can always find us on many

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