makes insecurity if you know about the really study of. the u.s. food and drug administration reveals it's now approaching 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 and unveils drastic new restrictions across london and much of southeast england over the christmas period. and the u.s. secretary of state blames russia for a cyber attack on government agencies although security officials admit they do not know who was behind the breach.

broadcasting live from our studios in moscow this is r t international i'm sean thomas certainly glad to have you with us now authorities in the u.s. have said that they are now investigating 5 adverse responses to the pfizer by covert vaccine including 3 alaska health workers officials admit they still do not 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 facts we might be helping to produce. that news came just hours after a 2nd vaccine developed by madonna was approved by us regulators meanwhile vice president mike pence received the pfizer biotech shot live on t.v. along with his wife and he gave the shot his vote of confidence. karen and i

were more than happy to step forward before this week was about. to take this safe and effective coronavirus vaccine that we have secured produced for the american people there have now been several confirmed cases of allergic reactions to the pfizer biotech vaccine a 3rd health worker in alaska was hospitalized after getting the injection to others also had an adverse response with one taken to intensive care meanwhile the u.k. has registered 2 adverse reactions to the shot and health officials there have warned people with severe allergies to avoid taking it there is also controversy that americans cannot sue pfizer or materna. in february authorities brought in the public readiness and emergency preparedness or prep act it provides legal immunity for all vaccine makers for 4 years attorney dunn explained 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 and 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. the top u.s. physician and consultant to vaccine manufacturers spoke to our channel about the state of covert jobs stanley plotkin told us whether the shots can stop the pandemic. many people have fear of vaccines and this is true throughout the world and yes when one really

looks at the record vaccines in general have been quite safe now the thing that one has to understand is or is risk with the risk of the disease as it is for 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 virus from spreading if they don't then we have always 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 add no virus in the astra zeneca people probably feel that that they could. improve the response by using not one. no virus but 2 and that was a good idea of the gamel a a vaccine to use one that had no wires since a prime and another ad no irises opposed and that seems to work better. they will be collected certainly through in the next year now if you're talking

about safety city 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 to determine how effective a vaccine is and over what period of time and that's a nother issue that we don't have any information on i will not have any information for many months i'm not pessimistic about. attack scenes at least reducing the infection whether they will completely obliterate the infection remains to be seen. christmas plans are being called off for millions of people across london and of southeast england with some tough new restrictions now in effect the prime minister

broke the news earlier after a new mutation of cova 1000 was identified which is 70 percent more infectious. but in the early evidence we have only a new variant of the virus the potential risk it poses with a very heavy heart i must tell you we can't continue with christmas as planned you know it's been sparked protests in london with the strict new measures expected to ruin christmas gatherings for millions protesters clashed with police and at least $27.00 people were arrested as quoted skeptics gathered in parliament square according to local reports now under the new rules people are urged to stay at home and indoor mixing between households is banned over the holidays not essential shops and recreational venues will be shut as well while foreign travel is only permitted for essential purposes the rules will apply for at least 2 weeks with similar restrictions being introduced in scotland and wales and the netherlands has reacted by halting all commercial air travel from the u.k.

starting this sunday right now the flight ban is in effect until january and ahead of the measures coming into force there was a last minute dash for christmas gifts leading to long lines outside stores across london outlets had reopened following the lifting of a nationwide lockdown earlier this month we spoke with british t.v. doctor turned politician david bull who thinks the government's mixed messaging has undermined efforts to tackle the pandemic. i think people are absolutely frustrated by the way they're being treated by the government to me it exemplifies how out of this 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 towards being entirely agree at 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 we have no data yet that is more harmful than the strains that are already in circulation and don't forget that focusing on code 98 we seem to have forgotten every other medical condition the fact is we've got 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 that mental health it's become a code that only service so i think this power play is going on between the scientific experts and the politicians and morris to his credit has tried to resist the call of those scientists but i'm afraid they don't seem to want at the end of the day and boris is obviously bound to the pressure that he's getting from the scientists but remember science isn't everything this is a balance it's a balance of political decision making and science. u.s. secretary of state my pump has accused russia of carrying out

a major cyber attack on government departments that is despite the lack of any official conclusions from u.s. intelligence agencies. very significant effort and i think it's a case that now we can say pretty clearly that it was the russians that engaged in this activity. their 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 the nuclear security administration a number of private companies are also believed to have been breached as well the hackers are said to have hijacked software used by the u.s. government to gain access officials say it was done by a patient and well resourced adversary and the national cyber security agency has 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 used to do to look at you but we didn't register any official messages from the united states about how accurate facts and

accusations about such as we've become accustomed to the fact that the united states as well as other western countries simply announce in the media about new makes ations address that russia. political analyst to gilbert doctorow believes that there are several countries around the world that could have carried out such an attack on the u.s. . what i have in mind is that while she was more. we could things which made no sense whatsoever for those whose interests. are very good for political talking points with who wants to. when we look at this scoop of the hurricane that's been described. when we look at the sensitivity. of the national security interests that are possibly the most ever city that this particular incident is different or with anybody at all or which likely only a state rather than the level of private individuals or or subcontractors who

mostly because they're all in the world or are several states in the world. of doing was. haunted by hunter gate joe biden has again been forced to give answers after federal prosecutors launched a criminal probe into his son hunter's taxes in an interview together with his wife the us president elect branded all charges foul play we have great confidence in are so. concerned about and the accusation has been made against him i think it's kind of foul play these accusations are just part of wider claims including corruption allegations over a 100 biden's ukraine dealings and leaked e-mails from a laptop purported to be his party's but i've got to have comments now why this will remain a headache for the man poised to enter the white house. we none of us are clean let's be honest we've all done things we're ashamed of have secrets that we wouldn't want anyone to know sometimes they come to light especially if you're

a politician nixon and watergate clinton lewinsky would joe budden and his boy his son hunter biden is now under a federal criminal investigation like a vine is selling influence over c. hunter biden made millions of dollars in ukraine highlighting the corruption of joe and hunter biden quite the character. his scandal ridden chairmanship of a ukrainian energy company a tax investigation under way suspicion of money laundering sex scandals and even a poncho and for hard drugs crack cocaine you may know all of this or you may be hearing it for the 1st star the pentagon what you watch and who you read because prude democrat networks didn't think all of this is a newsworthy issue and neither does daddy president elect biden is deeply proud of his son who has fought through difficult challenges and grit the vicious

personal attacks of recent months only to emerge stronger personal attacks he says the justice department investigating biden's taxes might disagree or how's this for a personal attack biden jr allegedly using daddy's name to secure 10000000 dollars from the chinese i hope my letter finds you well i regret missing you on your last visit to the united states please accept the best wishes from the entire biden family as well as my partners the biden family is now reportedly under 3 federal investigations with the f.b.i. involved and off to 4 years of russia gate shenanigans i would say republicans probably want a little bit a back a little hunted gate if you will. on top 3 federal investigations are going to take a lot of confidence let's just hope that daddy can handle the pressure because if

he thought that he would escape the gauntlet that they put trump through well he was wrong the importance of the thing isn't that hunter has bad information about him it's that the mainstream media prevented the public from knowing about it until after the election and what's done is done the mainstream media isn't judging stories by their newsworthiness they're judging them by whether they will help or hurt democrat nominees and candidates and particularly in the presidential election the mainstream media has been trying for 4 years to make donald trump go away and i think this time according to the results of the election they finally succeeded they couldn't do it with the russian hoax they couldn't do it with impeachment but finally they got donald trump kicked out of office so they believe by getting joe biden elected in the way to elect joe biden was to protect him by not letting the public know things about him and his family that could be damaging to his election chances it's really not complicated. russian scientists believe they may have

made a breakthrough in the decades long search for a vaccine against hiv after going through several modifications it is showing some highly promising results as correspondent for a monk or sort of explains. russia's scientific sensor vets are 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 has taken place in 2 siberian clinics with 240 volunteers participating 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 vector back in 23rd scene and now let's get some more details about this particular vaccine 100 percent of volunteers should h.l.v. specific antibodies and cytotoxic t. lymphocytes off to double vaccination and 80 percent of them have antibodies against hiv do 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. legal and the language experts are scratching their heads after brazil's supreme court appeared to force covert vaccinations on everyone in the country but with even the supreme court justice struggling to clarify the difference between obligatory mandatory and compulsory and the

president 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 it 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 covered cases that 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 people in brazil what they thought about the supreme court decision. i agree with technician be mandatory because brazilians are not aware of how dangerous the virus is how

people going to live 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. after almost 6 years of war in yemen almost $2000000.00 children are now suffering from acute malnutrition there's according to the united nations and already starving population has been 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 nearly 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 do not have a place to live or anything else we need help. from any transport and we have children they are cold and hungry and the will 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 case. the price of cryptocurrency bitcoin has hit a record high of $23000.00 and has surged 330 percent in the past month and more than 200 percent since the start of the year it has had plenty of well documented ups and downs over the years but bitcoins reputation as digital gold has grown of late with of the backing of some high profile investors or natural expert and host max kaiser told us why he thinks it is a stable investment even in the 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 bloddy is caused by paper money and big coin solves the problem of poverty how does big going to fix the problem it decapitate lies is 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. that's it for me in about 37 minutes i'll be back with a look at your headlines this is our teacher national glad to have you with us. today the industry prefers to spend millions of euros in you know the. d.-day regulations will be sniffy all about making money making profits in some of the corporations international markets import export do you imagine the number of chronic diseases that are out in every community today it is not due to new viruses all new microbes that's not true so it is due to environment. not going to say

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it was exactly the night this is the can do you know are americans in america covering american news are called foreign agents i. get into it bernie sanders. very serious. everyone laughing what it doesn't even make sense it's fake laughter at this there's no audience. i know i know i know but where's the audience the suits didn't want to marry because of the coronavirus thing. well how we're going to do it that's a violation of my rights that i have a right to kill my fans with contagious diseases. this sucks. at least i saw you to kill you we had them straight. why you in my seat get

in my seat and i finish my lunch for no go good news is good news folks i know you were worried that everyone is suffering during this pandemic were lonely were scared and if i have to teach my mother how to use zoom one more time i'm going to throw her out a window not the real her but the laptop with her on it so she sees it as it goes down and smashes into the ground and maybe that will stick with her for a bit but no it's not true not everybody is having a rough time some people are doing only wealthiest americans billionaires have seen their wealth increased by 12.5 percent during the lockdown period the institute for policy studies released a study thursday showing that in the 8 weeks between march 18th and may 14th the country super wealthy have added a further 3 $168800000000.00 to their already

a normal fortunes and besides this ridiculous state of inequality the rich are also not paying their fair share in taxes they got a giant tax cut for donald trump and the super rich hold $32.00 trillion dollars in offshore tax havens meanwhile for average americans it's. not as good. a record $36000000.00 americans have filed for unemployment insurance with millions more losing their employer based health care plans and around a 3rd of the country not paying its rent so how does our society not collapsing how is it i wonder why why is the stock market not so low we can see up my skirt well one of the reasons is that we now have a plutonic me citi group analysts have used the term plutonic me to describe an economy in which the rich are the driving forces and main beneficiaries of economic

growth basically it only matters what the rich do what they buy what they invest in you and i don't matter we matter as much as a gnat as much as a gnat matters to another gnat. that's not that into him it's just just like totally ignore them like they used to have a thing and not him something happens they're going to care and care recent estimates are that only 20 percent of people have 85 percent of the wealth so as long as the government serves those 20 percent they can almost completely ignore the bottom 80 percent of people this explains why our government has not seen the need to truly bail out average people during this crisis they said they'd send a check of $1200.00 to average people while giving $4.00.