it will create more jobs it will create more value added it will create more growth so i don't see why we shouldn't also fight for the interest something into st except that the origination we want radiation was in the eighty's we don't behave with you still to this point. in the day's headlines the developers of russia sputnik vbac seen signed an official memorandum of cooperation with astra zeneca they hope that combining their true vaccines will improve their africa the. us a growing list of countries around the world are banding bites from to you kate calling the emergence of a new strain of corona virus thing that abroad may struggle to get home for christmas that's already in doubt and they sent me a text saying your trains been canceled you have to get out of the country now basically interested in my family and not be alone for christmas.

you're watching r t international bring you your live news update from our studio here in moscow welcome to the program the list of countries closing their borders to the u.k. is growing over fears of a new coronavirus strain u.k. prime minister boris johnson will chair an emergency response meeting on monday a new coronavirus variant is believed to be around 70 percent more transmissible than current strains are. reports from london. well 2 days after boris johnson the prime minister announced his latest set of restrictions it's almost as though the united kingdom is plummeting into chaos of course that also comes with the news that there's a more transmissible version of 19 out there is also known as this stupid strand and so as a result countries that neighbor the united kingdom have not quite gone to the extent of shutting the borders down entirely they're doing all they can very extreme measures to try and contain this new strand of 1000 in the united kingdom

and not to bring it to their shores now france has freezed transport links with the united kingdom for at least a 48 hours now that includes these freight vehicles across the channel which is pretty much putting chaos into u.k. a businesses that many lorries trying to cross the english channel they're all being backed up on that vote to dover now germany is not quite following suit but all travel is being banned in suspended until december 31st that's followed by many countries both within europe and outside europe including the netherlands belgium and italy and further afield canada colombia and saudi arabia with that list of countries growing by the minute well thousands of people both sides of the english channel are struggling to get back home in time for christmas i live in. christmas with my family i'm heading back to france to see my family couldn't see

for more than 4 months just to that my family and. my. name. but they sent me a text like 2 o'clock this afternoon saying a train's been cancelled you have to get out of the country now basically if you want to go there was a glimmer of hope there from the prime minister a few weeks ago when he promised brits that they could celebrate christmas with their loved ones at least for around 4 or 5 days around christmas however that festive joy was absolutely wrenched from many people. within the united kingdom with boris johnson announcing that christmas ascension it was cancelled at least for those in the southeast of the country by saying their slogan returns to stay at home and no indoor household mixing simply saying christmas is counsel for many people now this is all because of this new strain this new super strand of covert 19 which the health secretary has said is completely out of control you said

recently that the virus was under control is it no it's not the new variant is out of control and we need to bring it under control following boris johnson's announcement on saturday thousands of londoners were scrambling to get out of the capital to avoid having a lonely christmas this year because many parts of the country remain in loose a set of restrictions in the south but of course the whole idea of clamping down in the south was to try and restrain this latest strand of the coronavirus so many people in the north are calling londoners they have fled from the capital incredibly selfish and totally irresponsible so this latest u. turn for their stock in the capital is the hardest pill to swallow. for the he. felt like. sending you. sending a president who called grinch who stole christmas.

thank you and you would be like you probably think you might be like remember this the prime minister. i think you go with the basic you probably just plain. well despite this is verity of these measures some people online on twitter especially have managed to see the funny side. but how worried should we really be well it seems this mutated version of the corona virus is spreading rapidly across the united kingdom and even in the last few hours we've seen the 1st case come out of the united kingdom and has been detected and it's only as well so while boris johnson may be seen as the grinch

that stole christmas at least christmas this year effectively being counseled there is a glimmer of hope and that comes in the form of that vaccination hopefully a gift from santa will be that christmas is back on track at least next year award winning journalist john pilger talks about the coded care home crisis in the u.k. and his latest interview on r.t. is going underground and you can check out that interview in for our web site or to dot com but for now here's a short taste one thing stuck in my mind and that was the amnesty report in early october 1st said that 18 and a half. elderly people were discharged from hospitals into care and they too are. they died from cofa if that's not one of the great civil. i don't want to you if people remember nothing else they should not forget those people those 18000

people phone robel people to not have access to the relatives many of them who died . and the way we treated those people and i say we i say that advisedly i'm talking about actually the government the government that has to strong. public health in this country over a number of years in 2016 there was a major drool about a pound make not only nothing was done it was covered up they didn't publish the results of. u.s. regulators have approved a 2nd covert vaccine for emergency use raising hopes of an end to the pandemic and their job is being rolled out alongside the one from pfizer and biotech which has also been given the green light in the u.k.

but despite the apparent breakthroughs manufacturers are facing a wall of public reluctance in the us the latest poll shows only 64 percent of the population are willing to get the coded vaccine that falls well short of the 70 percent that scientists say is needed to gain herd immunity there's also a high level of skepticism in europe a survey in the science journal nature found that only 54 percent of people would take the job in france and italy the figure is 65 percent on the u.k. more than half of the respondents said they were concerned about possible side effects earlier my colleague colum bray discuss what our guests what might be behind the mistrust. for this particular vaccine there's a few reasons why people are skeptical one is that the safety procedures have been very much truncated for the strug and compromised they've skep the animal tests and the observation period for humans subjects is very very low and it's also

a very new type of technology this am or any which has never really been used before the vaccine has not been rushed through and let me explain why in this case this was a global effort and global pandemic and if we came in a bottomless pit of money therefore it was able to do it in a short time not because we were cutting corners but because all the normal barriers the bureaucratic nonsense of funding not being able to find that the the people to do the experiments on except were all unable and that's why we've got the vaccine record time and see all the politicians making it worse i guess the politicians are partly to blame because if you look at the data that people are available to that's available online it seems completely our odds with what the politicians 'd are seeing is as necessary i mean you can't tell from the data from one region to another where is how the heavy law going where it's had our soft one

where is how to my mask and mandy where is not the data doesn't seem to back up what we're being told is good for us what we as experts scientists need to do is take the front stage and talk about our how the vaccine works how it produces immunity what it does what it doesn't do and carry the people with us also these companies are not liable for damages so those who are of an anti of actually persuasion can say or there is something spooky going on here you know usually if you buy a product and it damages. you then you're able to sue the company for damages and no drug is completely safe but at least this form some sort of counter balance against companies skimping on safety you don't just immunize and forget you immunize put it in the g.p. records and national how slow is how to record and you fall of these groups and you

follow it up assiduously over a long period of time to look out for unknown unexpected unusual signs and symptoms in time we will not how well the vaccines are performing and then we will be able to tell immunised therefore protected and protected for a long time or not. recent cyber attacks on multiple us federal agencies have caused a stir in the news for the last week the us government has still not definitively determined who was behind the attacks members of the incoming biden administration have vowed to go beyond mere sanctions when the culprit is identified however i think in terms of the measures that are binding ministration would take it's not just sanctions it's also steps and things we could do to degrade the capacity of foreign actors to repeat this sort of attack or worse still engage in even more dangerous attacks we don't know fully what happened the extent of it and frankly we

don't know fully for sure who did it joe biden i know we'll have a robust response once we find out the perpetrator and the extent of it in all politicians from both major parties alongside us media have already rushed to judgment on naming the perpetrator with more on that hairstyle a quarter. more russian hacking hysteria leave it to the mainstream media to sneak it in under a month before trump's exit from the white house russia is behind a cyber attack massive cyber attack the brits believed to be the work of the russians russia's massive cyber attack by yes the elusive russian hackers whose existence is still a mystery have once again made their entrance into america's political arena this was a very significant effort and i think it's really case that now we can say pretty clearly that it was a russian is that engaged in this activity the national cyber security agency has yet to lay the blame on anyone entity for breaching several private companies and

key u.s. government departments including the treasury homeland security and even nuclear security coming from pompei although the anti russia hysteria is a bit of surprise because his boss seems to think it's just a diversion the cyber hack is far greater in the fake news media than in actuality i have been fully briefed and everything is well under control russia russia russia is the priority chance when anything happens because lynching media is for mostly financial reasons petrified of discussing the possibility that it may be china it may you think after the countless wasted hours since the election hacking accusations of 2016 trying to prove russian collusion with trump trying to find the russian hacker smoking gun the political establishment might want to try something new but actually this time even the republicans are just as much out for blood as the democrats where the president has a blind spot when it comes to russia and so you can expect that that's the response that he would have the cia the national security administration and others who

looked at this well there's no question it's come from russia all indications point to russia for the present united states either tries to deflect or is not willing to call out. the adversary as we make this after a beautician he is not making our country safer for the president to once again so see full it's an eerie. of the presidents are going to see when he also suggested when the russians the elections and when he's 16 that might have been china so what exactly is it that keeps reviving this fear of russian hackers if there was something for people to be scared of surely there would be some evidence of it unless there's other motives at work here. this isn't new right this is exactly what u.s. foreign policy has been for decades which is unsubstantiated or just false claims about a foreign country to then pave the way for some sort of international idiocy and what we're seeing over here is a dangerous echo of that exact same behavior which is assigning blame without any

kind of evidence without any kind of backing with no public scrutiny with no transparency of any kind to me it's been used as a distraction and then after the extensive extensive research on russia the every kind of the legal and and technological scrutiny of russia during after the 2016 election you know if there was something there i would have found it the fact that i'll bet an investigation a bad scope turned up basically nothing so just to me that we're looking at a scare tactic not not really a meaningful analysis of the situation. still had some of the u.s. military equipment given to afghan forces has gone to a wall after an inventory keeping failure they tell them that story and more after this part. of. the world is driven by.

you know dares thinks. we can ask. when else should seem wrong. why don't we all just don't hold. yes to seep out just they come after. and it. equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart. just to look for common ground.

welcome back to the program britain's astra zeneca and russia's center have just signed an agreement to cooperate in the fight against coronavirus with all the details we're joined live in the studio by. tell us more about this partnership well indeed it's nice to see finally politics to be cast aside 2 giants 2 pharmaceutical giants russia's and british astra zeneca signing this agreement to try you tube so to speak ameri the 2 vaccines in order to boost the efficiency of both sermons now under this agreement it has been announced that the clinical trials of the joint clinical trial of russia's sputniks the vaccine and as the

astra zeneca was astra zeneca is excuse me formula they have already begun his how the british company talked about this here's how they described what was achieved today. we have 2 main goal and the 1st one is to allow heads care professional nodes doctors and nurses to use 11 vaccine all the other for the for the 1st injection and the 2nd to make valid simpler and the 2nd goal is to hope pretty get better if you just say when you combine 2 different vaccines i don't think companies are competing against each other everybody is racing against the virus we would need many many vaccines because there is no one single company that can put you scent of x. into the entire world and some of these vaccines have to be easy to use and they have to be cheap because the low income countries can't afford the expensive rexton we waited on a myriad of the disease when the whole world wanted to go read over it so we only

say 3 for a body it's safer on the world. so again both vaccines the russian one and the british one they have faced their fair share of criticism for instance the russian vaccine has been criticised over what some as not not very transparent process of testing they have been saying that there weren't that many people in the 1st clinical in the 1st phase of clinical trials and so on and so forth the british magazine astra zeneca has vaccine in its own turn has been criticised over its efficacy essentially and again it has faced some criticism because they were very transparent in releasing the details as to how efficient their job is essentially right now the average of efficacy of astra zeneca is vaccine sits at around 70 percent so this is what they're hoping to improve by combining the 2 different formulas and you know playing around with them such corporation was promoted and

backed by the russian president himself lattimer putin as he was giving his annual media conference just a couple of days ago which i i was there he spoke he spoke repeatedly about how the world shewed unite and how different producers of different vaccines they should cooperate more this is what he's been talking about it a lot and this time it has happened basically what he was pushing for here is what he had to say. i am glad to congratulate you on this significant event signing the memorandum of cooperation i'm convinced that this commitment to partnership can serve as a compelling example of how science and technology combine to protect the lives and safety of millions of people. so again it's not just some meaningless memorandum of understanding of something like that essentially the clinical trials the joint

clinical trials have already begun and so we'll see how fast and what exactly will come out of this we also have this worrying news coming out of the u.k. of this new super infectious strain did the current vaccines work against that well again this this particular type of of covert covert 19 it has just been it has just emerged again just like covert itself has not been studied properly yet and this particular new mutation it hasn't been studied at all but the russian scientists are saying that essentially there's no reason they don't see why sputnik we won't be effective against this particular strain of virus as well have a listen. you know with this mutation we actually are all asked by or it didn't.

in any way. so there you have and hopefully with this with these joint trials putting both vaccines together it basically the center and the job would become even more effective and it's not the 1st time it's not the 1st case of of the world essentially uniting and cooperating in finding a cure in finding a vaccine something that would help the you know put this pandemic to the past like germany has already announced that they are ready to be also become one of the producers of russia's sputnik we and so hopefully the more the more this whole pandemic goes on the more cases like this of international corporation will see again putting politics aside of course they find those trials close they are to thank you for breaking down that story for us. 8 rockets were fired at the u.s. embassy in baghdad on sunday the attack in the iraqi capital the green zone

triggered the embassy's defensive systems a compound received minor damage and one iraqi security guard was reportedly injured it comes ahead of next month's anniversary of the u.s. killing of iranian general thought money amid fears of reprisals by pro iran groups in iraq. now there was also an attack in the afghan capital where a car bombing killed 9 people on sunday 20 others were injured among them a member of parliament a terror attack comes as a new report by u.s. watchdog reveals that defense a quick meant handed over to the afghan government has been lost track of artie's looks at the possible implications. the pentagon has yet again lost track of its toys according to a new report by the special inspector general for afghanistan reconstruction the department of defense lost track of quote some of the most sensitive articles provided to the afghan military the last gear includes night vision devices

surveillance systems and even controls for laser guided explosives the sensitive equipment was supposed to be inventoried by the u.s. every year to ensure it doesn't fall into the wrong hands but apparently that's exactly what happened after the pentagon failed to keep count of this precious gear the command has never met its 100 percent inventory requirement and is unlikely to ever do so because the security situation in afghanistan prevents some inventories from taking place the report found that in 2019 and afghan forces filed over 3000 change of use requests for the transferred articles almost half of which were captured by enemy forces and the others destroyed damaged or simply lost however the pentagon doesn't seem to be too broken up about the whole ordeal nothing has actually changed in the way the u.s. keeps track of its foreign military aid despite constant promises to do better. over the years the pentagon has lost track of thousands of weapons and billions of dollars of foreign military aid and once in awhile the legal cargo ends up in the

hands of the terrorists. for. the pentagon even gets coronavirus relief funds and even those get misplaced one would think the scale of carelessness would inquire some serious reform but so far everything seems to stay the same and the pentagon maintains its several 100 $1000000000.00 annual budget to the frustration of many with little to no accountability it's hard to avoid the conclusion that the u.s. doesn't really care where its weapons and funds end up just as long as there's constant demand for them i think the problem has historically been that once you

get into. the far reaches of the country a lot a lot of the inventory just goes missing it's that it's not properly inventoried and it passes from and and and eventually u.s. forces generally lose track of what we need human sensitive equipment such as your night vision that's all for this hour news wise but if you're looking for more head on over to our website r.t. dot com. join me every thursday on the alec simon show and i'll be speaking to guest on the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then.

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hello and welcome to cross town where all things are considered i'm peter lugo with time running out we'll in should donald trump intervene in stop the persecution of julian assange also as this tumultuous year comes to an end we assess the cost to average working people in equality is only getting worse. to discuss these issues and more i'm joined by my guest junkie brower and bristol she is deputy leader of the workers' party of britain as well as all the of the drive to war against russia in china and in budapest we crossed to george w.

well he is an author and a you tuber that the cattle are across up rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate it ok let's go to bristol here give me give me and give our viewers the case for giving either a party or dismissal of charges against. because as we all know they do in the rumor mills swirling that trump is contemplating a pardon of joining us i should also add when it is known. and give the case to our viewers. well of course in any kind of justice system no case would ever of been brought in the 1st place in my view it's not a pardon we want but it dismissal of the case there is no case to answer julian assange is guilty of facilitating the truth of publishing facts nobody has ever disputed.