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in the day's news the developers of russia sputnik the coveted vaccine sign an official memorandum of cooperation with astra zeneca and the hope that combining the 2 back scenes will boost their africa see. also this hour a new coronavirus a variant that's emerged in the u.k. is believed to be around 70 percent more contagious and current strains of the head of the russian fund behind 6 to tell fears about that you're. back to you know. we've actually got the walls of a spider board and if. you mean the way.
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that new coded mutation prompts a growing list of countries to ban the flights from the u.k. france holds all cross-channel traffic leaving goods and people stranded over christmas they've sent me a text saying your trains been cancelled you have to get out of the country now basically just to do that my family and not be alone for christmas. welcome to the program and a happy monday to you all this is art international bringing your live news update this hour now britain's astra zeneca and russia's kemalist hunter have signed an agreement to cooperate in the fight against corona virus with joint clinical trials to begin just days from now we're joined again in the studio by. all the details what's the thinking behind combining these 2 different vaccines well this. thinking
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is that to make the seram to make the job as efficient as possible basically a russian research institute get the gunwale and british pharmaceutical giant astra zeneca they have decided to join their forces in developing you know the vaccine for the corona virus again under this new agreement they will be conducting joint clinical trials which will be aimed at making the vaccine as reliable as possible here's how the c.e.o. of british astra zeneca put it. we have 2 main goals the 1st one is to allow. professionals doctors and nurses to use 11 vaccine all the other for the for the 1st injection and the 2nd. 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 will need many many vaccines because there is no one single. gun for
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us and our backs and probably our world and some of these vaccines have to be easy to use and they have to be cheap because the lower middle income countries cannot afford the expensive rexton we are on a period of this is when the old world well it's got rid of it so we are he said. around the world so the vaccine developed by astra zeneca has average have as its average efficacy at around 70 percent so essentially now they are trying to marry so to speak 2 different formulas and take the best out of each combination and such an international corporation has been promoted and pushed for by the russian president himself lattimer putin so obviously good news for him and he is how he reacted to the announcement of this new agreement struck between mali and astra zeneca. i am glad to congratulate you on the
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significance of vent signing the memorandum of cooperation i'm convinced that this commitment partnership can serve as a compelling example of how science and technology combine to protect the lives and safety of millions of people but. now we've also heard about this new highly infectious corona virus strain in the u.k. and other countries already at this point how confident can we be that these vaccines that we already have will be able to protect against that well that's of course a very good point because a lot of people are on edge because of this latest revelation that the virus has mutated in the u.k. but thing is this particular type of the virus it's inherently prone to mutations so essentially there could be dozens of different strains of this corona virus infections and infection excuse me and it only depends as to in which environment this corona virus has been developing so basically mutates depending on the environment around it so but that's something that the producers of the vaccine
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they keep that in mind because it doesn't make any sense to produce a vaccine only against one particular strain of the virus because 6 months from now for instance these same this virus could mutate as well and develop different traits so if a vaccine is not a fact of the next strain of the virus then what's the point of having this vaccine so basically the russian research institute it has kind of you know calmed down the fears it has laid out laid the fear is aside that something could not work with this new strain of the virus have a listen. but this mutation makes orations us to as america and the other producers but it's equally important because we just need to work together and international cooperation among them to dish on or thinking about a common alcides you believe that these. games this train just a was sufficient begins other mutation of the c. and b.
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or go over to spazz and occur we believe that it will lead to high africa see all of us present if they use this approach but again it still need to be tested and we will do so since upcoming several months sure so we expect some trials to start as early as this year and we expect 3 countries to participate in those clinical trials. so the scientists are pretty sure and they seem very calm and sure that the vaccine will work against this new mutation as well again putting their trust into the combination and into the joint trials but with between astra zeneca and russia's sputnik and so now we have these 2 coming together and they're going to trials with that but it hasn't exactly been smooth sailing up to this point for either vaccine has it no of course not because well the demand for the vaccine is huge you can't really overestimate it but a lot of people they want to be sure that they're getting
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a good job that they want to know what they're putting inside themselves and british astra zeneca has been criticized over the lack of transparency for instance they failed to disclose their vaccine has shown less effective in a group of people in a pool of people. among who basically for the it's not as effective for the elderly people it's not as effective for those who are 5060 years old as it is for those who are 182030 so on the russian vaccine has also been criticized over some people have been saying effectively it hasn't been tested properly a so here is how the produces the scientists behind it sputnik we here's how they have commented on this criticism. both would be critical. as a just critical because you don't know all of the facts and all information sometimes a critical purpose for competitive reasons for geopolitical reasons what you've
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seen as it's ever by staff there is just less also goal arguments have by the critics so 1st of all this or we're seeing or maybe install it well it's clear that small because it's very different from others frankly we believe it's better in many ways than others so if there was criticism what about phase 3 and we've seen sort of there but few manufacturers also registered as it were seen on emergency use basis justice russia did you for all of these 3 have completed zones or were questions about this well when demonstrated advocates of more than 90 percent on $24746.00 all of who participate in clinical trials and that includes safety. but most importantly is that both produces they have put their cards on the table and then kind of so now people can look and study the vaccines independently some of the world's best minds can
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have a look at their well what used to be competitors work and do well evaluated objectively and take the best out of it and hopefully something really good comes out of this corporation and again germany has already announced that it is ready to it is ready to produce russian sputnik the vaccine on its soil so hopefully there will be more over this international corporation and politics and marketing will be put aside and people will just work and put their best efforts into making this pandemic a thing of the past for the greater good artist thank you for breaking down the latest for us. warranty on a professor of molecular oncology at work medical school told us that the existing code vaccines are likely to be effective against the latest strain. we know from recent data that this new variant that's arisen in probably in the u.k. has some changes in that's why protein with it the vaccines that have been
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developed around the world are all based on that those changes will not affect the vaccine because when you vaccinate you get loads of different antibody response it is a many of these will be 2 parts of these 5 protein there aren't affected by this variation so even though we know that variants are rising all the time in this virus the various vaccines that of been developed around the world should be very effective irrespective of these changes russia has joined a growing list of countries banning flights from the u.k. after the discovery of a new coronavirus strain it's believed to be at 70 percent more transmissible than earlier variants and prime minister boris johnson will chair an emergency response meeting on the crisis later today are to shut edwards daschle 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
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countries that neighbor the united kingdom have not quite gone to the extent of shutting the borders down entirely but they're doing all they can very extreme measures to try and contain this new strand of covert 1000 in the united kingdom and not to bring it to their shores now france's freezed transport links with the united kingdom for at least a 48 hours germany is not quite following suit but all travel is being banned and 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 for thousands of people both sides of the english channel are struggling to get back home in time for christmas i live in paris and i always was with my family i'm heading back to france to see my family couldn't see for more than 4 months just to do with my family and for. everybody to view my name is meant to be
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evening. but they sent me a text at 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 a century was canceled 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 19 which the health secretary. has said it's completely out of control you said recently that the virus was under control is it
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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 but for those stuck in the capital they would argue that the government's handling of this pandemic has long been something that needs to be called out on and criticize for mixed messages and indeed broken promises. yet you would be like you probably think you might be like remember this the prime minister that's where i think you go with the basic you probably are just playing this full
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well despite this is verity of these measures some people online on twitter especially have managed to see the funny side. well it seems this mutated version of the corona virus is spreading rapidly across the united kingdom and even 50 in 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 camera 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
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journalist and broadcaster neil clark has told us he's not surprised by the international or domestic reaction to the british coated response. to the matters that this throat was not about in september but we heard scientists writing about it discussing it in september. and yet the health secretary only announces this just a few days before christmas why didn't he make an announcement about this in september why didn't they get up in september those big get up now so it was evidently could get double what was going to happen and it's also to link up with the other main still will ever get to where the british government is trying to terrify this in iraqi w m d style about this terrible news spreading but of course the closest trading partners are going to say wow you're sorry we're going to blow up flights we're going to stop people coming in from what you say screw the british government said it why should we have british people coming over to our countries and of course we got the chaos of the whole issue about the about the french blockade et cetera
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coming in so it really is a total disaster relief that is our stuff is the responsibility of the british government. still have the british government in seeking to give its spies carte blanche to commit crimes are brod expanding on the already existing controversial legislation on that and the 2nd out of the program. and one else seemed wrong. why don't we all just don't call. me. yet to seep out to stay active. and in dangerous equals betrayed. when so many thought themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground.
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the world is driven by dreamers shaped by one person with those words. thinks. we dare to ask. welcome back time people have been killed in a car bombing in the afghan capital kabul 20 others were injured during the blast on sunday among them in member of parliament now groups have so far claimed
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responsibility but the attack comes after a new report by a us watchdog revealing that military equipment handed over to the afghan government has gone missing artes to mature public 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 60 percent 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 us 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
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report found that in 2019 and afghan forces filed over 3000 change of use requests for the transferred articles almost half a 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 president has lost track of thousands of weapons and billions of dollars of foreign military aid and once in awhile the lethal cargo ends up in the hands of the terrorists. perfectly.
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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 every. it seems to stay the same and the pentagon maintains its several $100000000000.00 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 not properly inventoried and it passes from and and and eventually u.s. forces journal you lose track of what the human sense of the big quip such as your night vision of. british spies may really be given
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a license to kill under u.k. law controversial legislation being considered in the house of lords would protect agents from prosecution for serious crimes committed abroad it comes as a new report reveals the extent to which they've been acting without impunity already foskett taylor takes a closer look. do you dream of a life of crime are you just not fussed about human rights does the idea of going rogue excites you yes well then i've got great news and my 6 is hiring oh and don't worry if one syrian you commit a few deeds they don't mind in fact even renew your contract secret intelligence services identify the risk that agents may be involved in serious criminality overseas or renewal 6 months up to the original submission. to number of indicators that the agent may have been involved in or have contemplated the serious criminality referenced above we concluded that on the basis of this new
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information as our red line said most likely been breached every year the i.p.c.c. releases a report on how well behaved the u.k. intelligence agencies and police forces have been in this area turns out not very not only does the report tell that story of a rogue agent apparently probably pretty likely breaking the law without punishment it turns out it wasn't a one off in fact it seems that my 6 continues to rely on section 7 of the 1904 intelligence services act now i might be nicknamed the james bond clause but it's far less shaken not stirred and much more i get out of jail free card if apart from this section a person would be liable in the united kingdom for any act done outside the british islands he shall not be so liable if the act is one which is authorized to be done by virtue of an authorization given by the secretary of state under this section so
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a license to rape torture and kill a license. signed off by someone at the top most people would find this fairly worrying but apparently boris johnson's no one of them this report demonstrates the high quality of the oversight of our security and intelligence agencies use of the most intrusive. powers i'm satisfied there our arrangements are amongst the strongest and most effective in the world but then again berto how certainly he's not just ok with this shady world of undercover crime is he actually wants it to become neagle and for perpetrators to be immune from prosecution the pm is carney pushing the cove out human intelligence sources bill through parliament at a dizzying pace a bill that would literally make being above the law the law for a select few of course now london says that agents have to have this freedom to convince the people best spying on that they are goody 2 shoes informants but not
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everyone's convinced we have us in the c.h.l. is bill in the u.k. that legalizes government to commit any crimes they like against ordinary people since it's overreach in democratic states is. what could possibly go wrong with giving more leeway to secretary of state institutions who consider themselves accountable to nobody. the c.h.i.'s bill places no limits on the crimes that can be authorized as former director of public prosecutions can mcdonald q.c. observed it will be easier for police to commit a serious crime than to search a shed redlines transparency or know what said to be replaced by copy all snow accountability and by any means necessary wild of secrecy to become even more secret and the state on it spooks to become both judge and jury what could possibly go overall i would hope that this bill would fail. for the for the for the
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main reason that. you know we when you serve you know in whether it's in the military whether it's in diplomacy or in the intelligence services you'd like to believe that you're serving a good cause a just cause and like i said sometimes you have to do things that are difficult to accomplish a difficult task. you know just solve a difficult problem. but you you know you're serving the greater good and the greater good is a standard a moral standard that says we don't tolerate murder we don't tolerate robbery we don't tolerate these these high crimes. u.k. home office has admitted it lost track of 37000 migrants over the last 30 years think that asylum seekers people overstaying their visas and those who crossed the border illegally the chairman of migration watch a k has called the situation a failure of the system this is
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a shocking failure it is ridiculous to intercept those crossing the channel illegally or after they emerge from the back of lorries only to turn them loose to disappear into the undergrowth of the shadow economy. a home office spokesperson has said it's likely that many of the absconders have left the country for those still in the u.k. there is a national tracing team dedicated to finding migrants that have dropped off the radar former backset party and ukip member for scotland david coburn believes the u.k. should take a firmer approach to migration normal individuals are stopped at customs or stopped at immigration and they're checked for als and there were little terrorists or whatever but these people are right there not checked and no one seems to want to chase them all but this is going on for years there's no desire to part of the government to stop migration and this is the reason one of the major reasons that people voted to leave the european union so many people are just allowed to stay
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and the government she said it's just too much trouble it gives them bad publicity and they want to get the reelected so therefore they're not chasing it up it's expensive it was a lot of police manpower you must control migration for the sake of the health service and for the sake of our social security system the whole thing will collapse if we don't control migration but they have to be firm about to say no you will not be allowed to stay in the country you will not be allowed to work and you should not people should not be employing people who do not have the right to stay in the united kingdom at all for this hour news wise thanks for tuning in wherever you may be. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to us of the world of politics or business i'm showbusiness i'll see that.
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hello and welcome to cross talk 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 judging brower and bristol she is deputy leader of the workers' party of britain as well as all that are 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 at the capitol or 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
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