this relation i was in just a nice reading behave when you spin or to just fine. in the day's headlines russian and british vaccine creators signed a deal to task their coverage vaccines together in the hope of boosting their effectiveness. a new highly contagious covert strain discovered in the u.k. stores international but they had of the russian fun behind spotting v 6 to dispel those fears. and we actually got involved for all of us by. the fact the school. deceive you many ways. that latest cope with 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 day 70 and texting of trains been cancelled you have to get out of the country now face a case of just to do with my family and not be alone for christmas. international bring you your live news update from our studio here in moscow welcome to the program. britain's astra zeneca and russia's center have signed an agreement to cooperate in the fight against corona virus joint clinical trials will be starting in just days from now i was joined earlier by artie's erosional of explain the significance of the tech team up. a russian research institute and a british pharmaceutical giant astra zeneca they have decided to join their forces

in making this new vaccine against the corona virus more effective they have signed an agreement a so-called a memorandum and they are said to begin joint clinical trials a very very shortly basically they will be trying to marry the 2 different formulas and to make the job as efficient as possible have a listen to how the sea of astra zeneca put what was achieved today we have 2 main goals the 1st one is to allow. professional loaders to use 11 vaccine all the other for the for the 1st injection and the 2nd goal is to hopefully get better when you combine to the front 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 company. or what you set of works and for the world it's

about making the vaccine as reliable as possible because right now astra zeneca efficacies stands at around 70 percent it's a good number but again it could be much much better the producers of the russian vaccine sputnik we are placing its efficacy at around 90 to 95 percent and such international corporation has been promoted and pushed for by the russian president vladimir putin himself i am glad to congratulate you on this significance 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 what about when it comes that this new highly infectious corona virus strain that we're hearing about how can think can we be that the vaccines that we have well work against it the thing to understand about this. particular corona virus the type of this infection it's a so-called are in a infection r.n.a.

virus and of these viruses they mutate very rapidly so essentially there could be dozens of different variations of this 1000 virus but i should say this is something that any vaccine producer any scientist will keep in the equation because it doesn't make any sense to make a vaccine against only one particular strain of the virus because which is one strain of the virus now say 6 months from now on it could mutate and develop some different traits so this is something that the producers of the vaccine again that something would keep in mind this mutation. another produces what you call you or because we just need a war to gather and it's our national operation. you believe. these. are against the strain just as was the. other day show that you or your dispatchers america believes are good will lead to advocacy. if they use

this approach but again it still need to be tested and we will do so i mean several months now when it comes to these 2 vaccines that we have at this point it hasn't exactly been smooth sailing for them how well absolutely astra zeneca is vaccine it has faced its own share of criticism it has been centered around its average advocacy of 70 percent essentially the company behind the vaccine astra zeneca has been criticized for not being transparent when releasing information about how they tested this vaccine because essentially they said that well a full dose was less efficient than a half dose and it didn't make any sense because it has to be more effective than half the dose and then it turned out it proved to be less efficient among the. elderly people and that was something amid the initial press report by astra zeneca when it comes to sputnik it has also been criticized people have been pointing out

and claiming that it didn't go through all the necessary phases of testing before going to the market but the scientists behind sputnik the they have addressed this criticism both have been critical. as a just critical because you don't know all of the facts and all information sometimes a critical and purposeful competitive for reasons for geopolitical reasons what you've seen as it's ever by step there is just less also goal arguments by the critics so 1st of all this or vaccine or maybe install it well it's clear that small because it's very different from others that we believe it's better in many ways than others so if there was criticism what about phase 3 and we've scenes of there are a 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 africa as well with demonstrated advocacy more than 90 percent on points to 2700 or

to 6 people who participate in clinical trials into the sea. best of both astra zeneca and the russians they have put their cards on the table and now basically independent people you know object who can objectively look and study both back scenes and put all the marketing all the politics aside and just genuinely make the job better. and i joined live by dr mohammad moneer a viral just at lancaster university now what's your view of this team up between astra zeneca and russia's galileo institute is it promising in your opinion. i think it's very healthy because the scientific collaboration beyond excited government is always up to share to it and i think one of the major who wanted this collaboration will bring in 2 is definitely to improve the efficacy of fosters i think oxford a vaccine because they've got one technical challenge and the challenge is that in

the whole of this vaccine they use the same of actor to do to use board bills it's 1st build and the 2nd using the same factor which is technically and scientifically a relatively weaker approach because the immunity against those will also neutralize the virus against the 2nd dose and the beauty of the sport navy is that they use to despair devices to deliver the spy program not sauced to and that has certainly very wanted us so for for all of this collaboration what do you make of the reaction we're seeing to this new strain of kobe that that started in the u.k. all these countries are stopping flights coming in from the u.k. anymore is that an appropriate reaction. well jeff you know one thing is very clear that this white house has surprised if you recall the time back in january the virus you know pos on from china to other countries through a crowd will and through the communication people are having so i think it is

really critical that we do something so that this particular strain doesn't move beyond u.k. or to to to other countries because if this were to be the case that it distribute to other countries which means that this would become the most predominant strain in the ward and that is already having hard to also disability i mean here in the u.k. 70 percent more inspections nessa has been reported for this particular strain so what we don't really want 'd is to make this one the most predominant stranger on the board at the same time we do have vaccine developers saying that they seem confident that their shots will work against this new strain does that seem right. yes i think it is just about right because what we have seen is that when you human always somebody using vaccine of any of the. one that is available at the moment the immune response is not raised against small 'd parties it is different components of the virus which mean if 2 or 3 mutations come that is not going to make this vaccine in effect about as it stands but the important thing is that if

this white is keep accommodating those mutation don't the line that ultimately it will reach to the point where it would become render ineffective against the law against the vaccine so that is what we have to avoid either by reducing the source of contact or by putting even more stringent restrictions on to the movements polls continue to suggest that a large share of the population are still skeptical about coded vaccines is there any way to overcome these fears. generally this is very important and very challenging at the same time that we bring in the public confidence onto these vaccines because until we don't really reach to 70 percent of the word population we were not going to stop this shirt immunity and these vaccines are lifesaving these are not blocking the plus mission of the that they're the inspections so that means the stilling their own i think the important thing here is to highlight is that how quickly and transparently we can bring the information to the general

public so that they are on board because ultimately it's not the vaccine is the vaccination that program against infectious diseases i've been speaking with dr mohammad near lancaster university thank you very time and your comments thanks for having me now russia has joined a growing list of countries banning flights from the u.k. after the discovery of that new corona virus strain it's believed to be 70 percent more transmissible than earlier variants are to shoddy at once 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 countries that neighbor the united kingdom have not quite gone to the extent of shutting the borders down entirely the doing all they can very extreme measures to try and contain this new strand of covert 900 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 go with friends or 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. my dream is meant to be evening. but they sent me a text like 2 o'clock this afternoon saying the train's been cancelled you have to get out of the country now basically if you want to go but 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 19 which the health secretary. has said it's 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 are strict 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 to 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 criticised for mixed messages and indeed broken promises. we think yes you would be like you'd probably be free you might be like remember this is a prime minister that gets worse i think you go with the basic you know you probably just playing this with bookies well despite this is verity of these measures some people online on twitter especially have managed to see the funny side.

while boris johnson may be seen as the grinch that stole christmas at least christmas this year effectively being cancelled 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. journalist and broadcaster neil clark thinks the british government has mismanaged the latest crisis and caused unnecessary chaos the fact of the matter is that this so-called use throat was known about in september we had scientists writing about it discussing it in september. and yet the health secretary only says this just a few days before christmas why didn't he make announcement about this in september why did need to get up in september those big get up now so those are the good

example is going to happen and it's also to link up with the other main story will ever get to where the british government is trying to terrify is in iraqi w m d star about this terrible strain of course our closest trading partners are going to say wow you're sorry we're going to what's likely to stop people coming in from britain if what you say true 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 etcetera coming in so it really is a total disaster really and the disaster is the responsibility of the british government to. an extent of on there is claiming to have spoken to the man who tried to kill him the russian opposition figure had who was allegedly poisoned over the summer says he tricked his assassin into revealing the details of the operation which he blames on the kremlin artie's maria for national can you give us more on that story maria tell us about this phone call he seems to have happened. yes hijacked leno earlier on monday alex in

a place to the video that shows him talking over the phone with the alleged f.s.b. agent who claims he was involved in his poisoning back in august but that person did not know exactly who he was talking to as the violin claims he managed to trick him by posing as a senior official from russia's national security council maxine saying that his boss had been seeking an urgent report quotation about the alleged assassination plot in august and the alleged f.s.b. agent says that was poisoned was supposed to be killed but was poisoned with novacek nerve agent planted in his underwear and then discuss it in details and throughout the conversation they come back over and over again to this topic just to remind you before to day only repeatedly said that his clothes had been taken away from him before even he left russia and shortly after he was transported to berlin we started hearing from german authorities that he was poisoned with nerve

agent and later a german laborde theory claims that found traces of it on a bottle of water from alexina vial is whole tell room no bottles of water were discussed during this phone conversation with the alleged f. is the agent published on monday this topic was not brought up at all during this conversation also never. asks this agent in quote marks why this whole operation went wrong and why did not violently survive at all and the person he was over the phone with by saying that that's probably because plane made an emergency landing and doctors came very quickly to were on the way to help police the violin and there was another interesting moment in this conversation when the volley or again it must seem asks what that agent alleged agent things about me and he answered that in the violate was. very courses and carrying

a lot of security interesting is that they alleged f.s.b. agent that vali claims to have been involved in he's poison had been trailing the opposition figure for years was not able to expose mr in a volley during these 49 minutes long conversation it was not even able to recognize his voice which is very surprising to be honest and very important to add is that there is still no confirmation of the authenticity of the conversation back to you are very often thank you for bringing us that report. british spies may be given a real life 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 with impunity saskia 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 the agents may be involved in serious criminality overseas or 6 months up to the original submission. a 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 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 m i 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 a 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 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 are arrangements are amongst the strongest and most effective in the world but then again birger how certainly he's not just ok with this shady wild of undercover crime as he actually wants it to become legal 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 aren't goody 2 shoes informants but not everyone's convinced we have us in the c.h.l. is bill in the case that legalizes government to commit any crimes against ordinary people seems its overreach in democratic states is the 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 in a what i 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 wrong i would hope that this bill would fail. for the for the for the 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. 9 people have been killed in a car bombing in the afghan capital 20 others were injured during the blast on sunday among them a member of parliament now groups have so far claimed responsibility but the attack comes after a new report by a u.s. watchdog revealing that military equipment handed over to the afghan government has gone missing artist clicks 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 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 pentagon has lost track of thousands of weapons and billions of

dollars of foreign military aid and once in a while the lethal cargo ends up in the hands of the terrorists the earth. 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. seems to stay the same and the pentagon maintains its several 100000000000 dollar 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 inventory it passes from and and and eventually u.s. forces journal you lose track of what you need human sensitive equipment such as your night vision and. that's our wrap up of the day's top news for now but don't forget you can always find us on many of your favorite social media platforms like twitter and facebook for up to the minute reports. the demonstrators right now. good. luck leg.

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