but you. can post them all sopranos still police when you want them over a child and not all the money. is like. that in the. summer with the more than. headlining this hour the u.s. food and drug administration reveals its now probing 5 allergic reactions to the pfizer biotech vaccine including 3 alaska health workers. the u.k. raises the alarm over a deadly new strain of covert 19 unveils drastic new restrictions across southeast england over the christmas period live reaction on the way the u.s. secretary of state blames russia for a cyber attack on government agencies although security officials admit they don't know who was behind the breach. at a leading british government minister sparks outrage with criticism of unicef

multimillionaire jacob dismisses the agency's efforts to feed hungry children in the u.k. as a political stunt. either this is artsy for moscow my name's colleen bray with the world update this hour 1st a vaccine update for you the authorities in the u.s. have said they're now investigating 5 adverse responses to the pfizer but on tech over vaccine including 3 alaska health workers officials admit that 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 backs we might be helping to produce. well the news came just hours after a 2nd vaccine developed by mcdonough was approved by u.s.

regulators meanwhile vice president mike pence received the fires of bio tech shop 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 for this week. to take this safe and effective corona virus vaccine that we have secured produced for the american people well there's now been several confirmed cases of allergic reactions to the pfizer biotech vaccine a 3rd health worker in alaska was hospitalized after getting the job 2 others have also had an adverse response one of them's been taken to intensive care meanwhile the u.k.'s registered to 2 adverse reactions to the show also and health officials there are warning that people with severe allergies should avoid taking it out there's also control to see the americans can't sue pfizer should the worst happen in february the authorities brought in the public readiness and emergency

preparedness or prep act it provides immunity for all vaccine makers for 4 years of study done explain why even if americans full sake 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 a top u.s. position and consultant to vaccine manufacturers spoke to us about the state of coven jobs stanley paul can tell us whether the shots can stop the pandemic.

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 what is risk with 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 the 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 boyers from spreading if they don't then we have a 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 comolli vaccine and the astra zeneca vaccine are based on a virus called adult virus the astra zeneca people probably feel that that they could. improve the response by using not one had no virus but 2 and that was the good idea of the gama lay a vaccine to use one that had no wires that's a prime and another add no wires as

a boost and that seems to work better. they will be collected certainly through the next year if you're talking about safety. city examination of safety is really. can be done in a month or 2 after vaccination or as if you're talking about efficacy then you in the long observations that term and how effective a vaccine it 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 but i'm not pessimistic about it it's not a crack scenes at least reducing the infection whether they will

completely obliterate the infection remains to be seen. christmas plans are being cold often millions of people in london and across southeast england with some tough restrictions taking effect from midnight british prime minister boris johnson broke the news off for a new mutations of kevin 19 was identified with a 70 percent high infection right. given the early evidence we have on this new variant of the virus the potential risk it poses it is with a very heavy heart i must tell you we cannot continue with christmas those planned on under the new rules people to stay at home and indoor mixing between households is banned over the christmas holidays non-essential shops and recreational venues will also be shelved and foreign travel is only permitted for essential purposes the restrictions will apply for at least 2 weeks ahead of the announcement there

was a last minute dash for christmas gifts leading to long queues outside stores across central london outlets had reopened following of a lifting of a nationwide lockdown earlier in december. i will live now to dr david ball no to many of us in the u.k. for dispensing medical advice on t.v. and fronting major health care and science shows before turning to politics as a party n.d.p. dr bill welcome to r.t. was this lockdown to be expected and does it mean that the measures that have been in place have been ineffective. well you only have to look at what's going on on social media to see the strength of feeling here i think people are absolutely frustrated by the way they're being treated by the government to me it exemplifies how out of those the u.k. government has become and it seems to be lurching from one disaster to another and the fact is it's not being proactive at all it's being entirely reactive and many people would have said well actually we knew about this new strain we knew the

transmissibility was increasing and i think if you were going to put in more draconian restrictions you could have done it and given people a little more time what people are telling you is yes it may be able to spread more quickly i.e. 70 percent more transmissible but it we have no data yet that is more harmful than the strains that are already in circulation and it goes back to a bigger issue for me which is what is the point of locking down at all what we should do and i said this repeatedly our state is we should have taken that 1500000 from the wrong people isolated them ensure that they were safe and then allow people to gain herd immunity that is going to come in contact with the virus and gain their own munity because the thing is locked down simply don't work don't work all the way to suppress the virus and the minute you want are it comes roaring that has confusion played a part in this the government seems to been slightly struggling with its messaging 1st suggesting that there could be an easing over christmas boris johnson wanted

family said i'm going to have a normal as possible christmas but that only to backtrack which let's face it half the country so coming. well i think you've got power play going on between sage which is the scientific advisory group and the government of course age are going to be making sure that they take the least risk so they want to have a purely medical opinion on this and obviously the safest thing to do is to lock everyone away that houses now you then have to bias as a politician with actually what's going to be palatable to the public how on earth do you get out of businesses to continue how do you keep communities alive and don't forget that was with focusing on code 98 we seem to have forgotten every other medical condition the fact is we've got thousands hundreds of thousands of people waiting for elective procedures which simply are happening in many parts of the country we've got people struggling with their mental health it's become a code that only service so i think this action of covert 90 other by any metric a 70 percent more infectious strain is going to be alarming to anybody isn't it

well it yes it may we may well be more infectious but doesn't mean it's not dangerous i don't think anyone has the answers to that at all and the fact is that actually we've only managed to immunize something like 200000 we may have actually got more than that today ounce in the latest figures but we're going to have to give in that you've got to immunizations for each person going to have to give something like $100000000.00 vaccine doses before lockdown is going to be released there is no way you that we are going to be able to do that by march so in terms of forward thinking and future policy this just isn't it and is there any hope to be had from the vaccines now that they're being rolled out and now that this new strain has been identified that it might put paid to some of the anti baxter's yeah i mean i think the vaccine is critical in this and clearly we've got one in the u.k. and it's already licensed we've seen that there are others coming online my hope is that we're going to see the oxford one roll out very shortly and as that happens we're going to be able to immunize more and more people i mean clearly immunization is the way out of this mess and i hope that the anti masses think very carefully

about spreading malicious rumors before they do it vaccines save lives the. most important thing we can do is to make sure that the the isolated the vulnerable the elderly or even i so they'd come to me and then we need to move down those levels those here levels of people who are high risk and ensure that the vast majority of occupation get their name in our eyes oceans it's going to be quite a christmas for many millions but i suppose better be safe than sorry wish you a merry christmas to dr david bell thanks for joining us again i thank you and here . next u.s. secretary of state mike pompei was accused russia of carrying out a major cyber attack on government departments that's despite a lack of any official conclusions from u.s. security agencies this was a very significant effort and i think you know we can say pretty clearly that it was a rush if that indeed is the most activity the breach was reported last weekend and

is believed to have targeted several government bodies including the departments of state and homeland security the treasury and also the nuclear security administration a number of private companies are also believed to have been breached. the hackers are said to hijack software used by the u.s. government to gain access officials say was done by a patient and well resourced adversary and the national cyber security agency's called the attack a grave risk to u.s. infrastructure but it's not named any suspects so far russia has denied any involvement in the. news that it used to do or not that 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 phone louie united states as well as other western countries simply announced in the media or about a new way because asians address that russian. political analyst bill the doctorow believes there are several countries around the world that could have carried out such an attack on the united states. what i have in mind is that watching the war

all we could which made no sense whatsoever from russia's interest but it was very good or political talking points but it was full. when we look at it because it's talk of the hacking that's been described who approached me and when we look at the sensitivity. of the national security or interests that are possibly come the most over syria that this particular incident is our defense or that anybody at all or which like we have only a state rather than low level of private individuals or or or subcontractors could muster or there 'd are in the world or are several states in the world war of doing us. a british government ministers drawn shock and ridicule full remarks made in parliament on child poverty jacob or a small his net worth is estimated at more than $100000000.00 pounds lash out again

a staff saying it shouldn't be helping impoverished children in the u.k. the real scandal that unicef should be playing politics in this way when it is meant to be looking after people in the poorest the most deprived countries in the world where people are starving where there are famines and 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 mark. unicef recently launched a wide ranging program aimed at tackling food insecurity it will be granting over $700000.00 pounds to community groups all over the u.k. the organization is also helping to feed children in the south of london giving out food parcels and assuring the breakfasts distributed to schools that the campaigns

put a spotlight on food policy in the u.k. considered of course to be one of the world's wealthiest countries according to unicef though an estimated 2400000 children live in so-called food insecure homes free school meals programs have seen huge numbers of families signed up and unicef defended its decision to provide humanitarian help. unicef u.k.'s responding to the some press dented crisis and building on our 25 years experience a 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 the founder of britain's largest independent food bank 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 confirmed 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 right 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 to 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. coming up as the price of cryptocurrency big coen heads record high is ati's money go max kaiser tells us what it means for the future of the economy and he sees it as among all stories still ahead of this.

join me every thursday on the alex salmond shill and i'll be speaking to us from the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. hello again also almost 6 years of war in yemen almost 2000000 children are now suffering from acute malnutrition according to the united nations and already

starving population is being pushed into much deeper hardship since the start of the pandemic the conflict in yemen has claimed more than 100000 lives with much of the country left in ruins by a relentless saudi led bombing campaign and 4000000 people have been displaced with many families forced to hide in the mountains. we moved here and even had our wedding ceremony here we did not have a place to live or anything else we need help.

to do so far from any transport and we have children they are cold and hungry and they were to be 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 cave. for the scientists believe they may have made a breakthrough in the decades long search for a vaccine against hiv the virus that causes aids after going through multiple adjustments and showing some highly promising results from uncle seraph explained to me earlier. russia's scientific censor vector who are about to register their goal with 19 vaccine have made a major announcement and this time it has absolutely nothing to do with the corona

virus the scientists claim that their age hiv vaccine has shown a near perfect result with 100 percent of the volunteers developing antibodies now the research itself is taking place in 2 siberian clinics with 240 volunteers participating now vector center says that they have been working on the hiv vaccine since 2011 and there nell certain that it is safe and doesn't cause any side effects according to russia's national registry of drugs the license for clinical trials was received by the actor back in 23rd scene and now let's get some more details about this particular vaccine 100 percent of volunteers showed hiv specific antibodies and so i took 60 lymphocytes off to double vaccination and 80 percent of them had antibodies against hiv viruses so the main question now is proly when the vaccine will actually be ready according to

a vector clinical trials should be completed by the end of next year and as soon as registration is complete in russia it will be made available the head of the country's consumer watchdog also announced a little bit earlier actually back on the 1st of december that russia already developed the hiv vaccine. the price of cryptocurrency bitcoin has hit a record high of $23000.00 it surged 30 percent in the past month and more than 200 percent since the start of the year because reputation is digital gold has grown with some backing of some high profile investors along the way financial expert. told us why he thinks it's a stable investment even in a pandemic. big cohen is it was going to go to $400000.00 a going regardless of whether what the situation is with the pandemic or regardless of what the situation is between nation states because it'll trade similar to a market capitalization of gold the party is caused by paper money and big coin

solves the problem of poverty how does big going to fix the problem it capitalizes the banks capitalized 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 gold so 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 witnessing a remarkable transformation of the global economy right now this year it's incredible. more from max in a couple of hours the weekend cause

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out united states china of the largest chip maker and maybe one last move just from that tough on china legacy presidency coming to a close and e-commerce to shatter shopping records accelerating a trend many experts thought we wouldn't see until one of 25 have a lot to get to so let's get started. the u.s. is preparing to add dozens of chinese firms to its trade blacklist and it includes china's largest chip maker smic the u.s. commerce department confirmed the decision and secretary said entity list restrictions are a message sorry measure to ensure that china through its national champion smic is not able to leverage u.s. technologies to enable indigenous advanced technology levels to support its destabilizing military activities on friday china oppose the decision calling it a way for the u.s. to suppress chinese companies. if that is true this will be another example of the

u.s. using state power to suppress chinese companies trying to firmly opposes it the u.s. politicizes economic and trade issues violates the principles of a market economy and fair competition it is a long been advocating and violates international trade rules it not only harms the legitimate rights and interests of chinese companies could it also impairs the interests of american companies that will seriously it was europe the normal technology exchanges and trade between the 2 countries which and even among countries in the want you got it with further damage the global industrial chains which is why chains and value chains the new rules will require a commerce department license for all u.s. export origin technology going to make ross also told fox business a total of $77.00 companies and affiliates will be added to this so-called entity list including 60 chinese companies for more on this. kristie how does this affect mick. well this is really concerning as this designation basically restricts

companies from exporting u.s. or technology to these firms like snake without a license so this effectively prohibits as i see from acquiring technology to build chips with a meter circuits and smaller which is the industry's top class of chips and this move is now being seen as the latest effort to cement comes a legacy of being tough on china so these latest policies are going to make it significantly more difficult for the incoming administration to unwind and restore so it's kind of almost like crumbs last herat attempt so this move also significantly raises the pressure on the chip maker who receives billions of dollars in state acting and is central to beijing strive to improve the country's self-sufficiency in critical technologies like centuries so china spotted to this and called washington to stop its arbitrary suppression of chinese companies and chinese foreign ministry said that the blacklisting would be evidence of us as oppression of chinese companies and that beijing will continue to take necessary measures to protect their rights so this is also severely very concerning to investors as well as shares of some icy felt 5.2 percent in hong kong friday

weighing down on the entire broader sex tech sector where they are the largest chip maker of from china how does this claim the s m i c has military ties does that have any basis at all. no not at all as some i see it has repeatedly denied any relationship with the chinese military and the u.s. has net to substantiate any proof of its claim that as my supervise any sort of application to the military so everything that the us is claiming these.