i think it was. russian and british sign a deal to test their jobs together in the hope of boosting their effectiveness. discovered in the u.k. . but the head of the russian fund behind the shop seeks to dispel any fears. about big deal. we actually go to. war. never to see in any way. mutation

prompts a growing list of countries to ban flights from the u.k. . cross-channel traffic leaving good people potentially stranded over christmas. day 70 and taking a change been cancelled you have to get out of the country basically yes just to do with my family and not be alone for christmas. u.s. attorney general says russian appear to have targeted american institutions with. the familiar concepts i like. live from moscow thanks for joining us tonight on all the international walk ins welcome to the program. britain's astra zeneca. have signed an agreement to cooperate in the fight against corona virus joint clinical trials are set to start just days from now. in the studio explaining the significance of the title.

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 set to begin joint clinical trials of 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 or astra zeneca put what was achieved today we have 2 main goals the 1st one. official in order to use 11 vaccine all the other for the for the 1st injection and the 2nd goal is to hopefully get better if you just you when you combine to the front accident i don't think companies are competing against each other everybody is racing against the virus we need many

1000000 vaccines because there is no one single company. or what you set of works in 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 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 what about when it comes to this new highly infectious corona virus strain that we're hearing about how confident can we be that the

vaccines that we have will work against it the thing to understand about this. particular corona virus the type of this infection is the 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 and 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 they would something would they keep in mind this mutation or asian. and other produce what you call it or don't because we just need a war to gather and it's a national operation. you believe. these. are against the

strain just was. there deshaun that you or your dispatchers america believes are good will lead to africa see. 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 has it or 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 b. . elderly people and that was something amid in the initial press report by astra zeneca when it comes to sputnik really 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 the information sometimes a critical purpose for competitive reasons for geopolitical reasons what you've seen as it's ever vice is 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 it has more because it's very different from others that we believe it's better in many ways than others so there was criticism what about phase 3 we've seen there are

a few many factors also registered as it were seen on emergency use basis just as russia did before all of these 3 are completed terms of what questions about africa sit well with demonstrated advocacy more than 90 percent on point it will cells and 746 all of who participate in clinical trials and to see. both astra zeneca and the russians they have put their cards on the table and now basically independent people you know object to can objectively look and study both back scenes and put all the marketing all the politics aside and just genuinely make the job better. a professor pulled from lawrence medical school in britain explain to us why mixing the 2 vaccines could dramatically boost their efficacy. now one of the problems with the. i don't know virus that seems like this but 5 the oxford is that there's always a risk that you can develop immunity to the carrier rather than to the target for.

wanting for. you actually makes these 2 that seem so you maybe give one vaccine to start and then the other 134 weeks later then you. get over this problem develop it into the carrier by this time i think there's quite a lot of that that it does work like that but people showing this works in other areas so to me that can combine nation of the sputnik and the fox so that's there's any back seat could well crew its efficacy a lot greater than the individual vaccines apart. russia has joined a growing list of countries buying flights from the u.k. after discovery of the new corona virus strain and there is believed to be up to 70 percent more transmissible than other variants idea it was that the reports from

other. 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 they're doing all they can very extreme measures to try and contain this new strain of covert 19 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 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 i go with.

my family i'm heading back to france to see my family couldn't see for more than 4 months just to be with my family and for. everybody to be my dream is meant to be put to my name. but they sent me a text like 2 o'clock this afternoon saying your trains been canceled 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 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 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 london as 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. we think you would

be like you'd probably be free you might be like remember this is a prime minister. but i think you go with the basic you know you probably are just playing this week. 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 newell clarke thinks the british government has mismanaged the latest crisis and caused unnecessary chaos. the fact of the matter is that this so-called new strain was known about in september we had scientists writing about it discussing it in september and yet the health secretary only in the house is 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 notice the get out now so it was never the predictable what was going to happen and it's also to link up with the other main story we'll get to where the british government is trying to terrify is in iraqi w m d start about this terrible strain but of course the our closest trading partners are going to say wow you're sorry we're going to block flights going to stop people coming in from britain if what you say through 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 etcetera coming in so

it really is a total disaster really and the disaster is the responsibility of the british government the. u.s. president that joe biden's received the 1st dose of the covert vaccine he did it on live t.v. to encourage others to get a job when it's what vailable as well as those in the public to wear masks and socially distance during the holidays kelly warpaint has more on the incoming u.s. and his bid to boost confidence among skeptical americans. joe biden the president elect of the united states who is set to take the oath of office in january has gotten his 1st jab now it is a 2 part vaccine but he has gotten the 1st vaccination the 1st part of the vaccine now camila harris who is his running mate who will be the vice president interestingly will be holding off for the moment and that forces many people to recall some interesting remarks she made in the debate about being skeptical of donald trump and his vaccine it is true that that pfizer and madonna both had their

vaccines approved as part of operation warp speed which was which was the trump administration's efforts to get a vaccine as soon as possible and to make sure a safe vaccine was available in order to end the pandemic right now health care workers are getting priority and this is what we heard from the health and human services secretary about the vaccination process this week we have allocated more doses of the father vaccine proximately 2000000 more doses for states and other jurisdictions to order on top of that we've allocated 5900000 doses of the madonna vaccine i look forward to receiving this vaccine myself in the coming days as part of our efforts to demonstrate to americans that these vaccines are safe and incredibly effective at preventing covert 19 all eyes are on a small health clinic in alaska a small hospital in alaska where there have been several health care workers who

received the vaccination and did have an allergic reaction now the 1st health care worker did have an apple laugh that reaction shortness of breath and an elevated heart rate the other how experienced i puffing is light headedness and a scratchy throat and now according to reports so we do have another clinician who had difficulty breathing and experienced tongue swelling 10 minutes after taking the initial vaccine now the local medical chief. is that these reactions at this small hospital in alaska will not be disrupting the vaccination process around the country at this time we have no plans in changing our vaccine schedule are due seeing their regimen this is all kind of part of what we've been looking for and expecting and looking out for we are making sure that health care providers know about this much of the public does remain somewhat nervous about the vaccine hoping that it is absolutely safe and that there won't be a continued allergic reactions breaking out but many remain quite optimistic hoping

that soon the pandemic and its economic fallout can be brought to an end. the u.s. attorney general has pointed the finger at russia over a major data hack of government departments america's own intelligence agencies have so far stopped short of a song playing the ball though from drawing conclusions. from the information i have i agree with secretary powell's assessment it certainly appears to be the russians but i'm not going to discuss it beyond that not a shred of evidence has been made public and yet we're seeing how the attorney general of the united states seems to already be calling russia guilty until proven innocent while refusing to say anything more about the matter now in the court of law this wouldn't really work out but over the past several years we've seen how when it comes to russia all you need is a person of importance saying that things are pretty clear and this is no exception or we can say pretty clearly that it was the russians that intuition is exhibit a this is a bit surprising coming from pompei although because throughout trump's administration

we've seen mostly democrats jumping on the anti russia bandwagon but this time it's been bipartisan finger pointing and dancing around the fact that nobody really knows for sure what happened we don't know fully what happened the extent of it and frankly we don't know fully for sure who did it and we also did hear from donald trump who caught a lot of flack from the mainstream media and politicians from both parties for daring to suggest that this could just be a bunch of baloney 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 lame she media is for mostly financial reasons petrified of discussing the possibility that it may be china it may trump we have another baseless accusation which the chinese foreign ministry has even criticized as spreading false information but who knows who is

going to listen to that because when russia makes similar statements like denying having anything to do with hacking major u.s. government servers it seems like it falls on deaf ears within america's political establishment u.s. political consultant liberal quote says sawyer esplanades happens all the time one culprit is that moscow. the the u.s. government by the way is always spying on every other country it's seeking to hack every other country whether it's russia china germany everybody else and this of course a good sort of perfectly fine although i've never seen it addressed and u.s. media it's just not ever not ever mention so the u.s. is by and large very bad actor internationally russia does make a big deal out of it either that or most other countries because they just know it happens and it's a terrible thing they all have to put up with it the democrats hate russia and they like china republicans. don't like either one so i guess that's you know

that's why russia i don't i don't think china should be attacked either by the way i think both russia and china are there are the the powers that are constantly under attack by the u.s. by its propaganda by a by all the various things it does to these countries us that actually goes to the key evil power in the world it's the evil empire ronald reagan used to call russia the evil empire the us is the evil empire of today no question and i just wish and hope the american people are going to wake up a little bit. british spies be given a real life license to kill on the u.k. little controversial legislation being considered in the house of lords would protect agents from prosecution for serious crimes committed abroad this comes as a new report reveals the extent to which they've been acting with impunity so it's a lot 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 6 months up to the original submission. 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 a red line said most likely been breached every year the i p c o 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 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 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 world of undercover crime is he actually wants it to become an eagle and for perpetrators to be immune from prosecution the pm is carney pushing the cause that human intelligence sources bill through parliament i did 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 u.k. that legalizes government to commit any crimes against ordinary people seems it's overreach in democratic states these days 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 ken macdonald q.c. observed it will be easier for police to commit a serious crime than to search a shed redlines transparency or know what's 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 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 it 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 it says we don't tolerate murder we don't tolerate robbery we don't tolerate these these high crimes. and extent of ali has claimed he spoke to the man who tried to kill him the russian opposition figure who was allegedly poisoned over the summer says he tricked his would be assassin into revealing the details of the operation which he blames on the kremlin with more on the story is more of an awsome. earlier on monday alexina finally posted a video that shows him talking over the phone with the alleged f.s.b. agent who in the valley claims he himself was involved in his poisoning back in august but that person did not know exactly who he was talking to as a violent 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 the valley was poisoned was supposed to be killed but was poisoned with nobby chalk a nerve agent planted in his underwear and they discuss it in details and throughout the conversation they come back over and over again to these topics to remind you before today alex in a violent 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 the german authorities that he was poisoned with an overtrick nerve agent and later had german laborde theory sad that it found traces of when a bottle of water from a nixon of on his hotel room this topic this subject was brought up during this conversation published earlier on monday with mr an avanti or seem asking the alleged f.s.b. agent about these bottles that person who was over the phone never confirmed that any bottle of water was involved another interesting moment in this conversation

they alleged f.s.b. agent that volley claims to have been involved in his poison had been trailing the opposition figure for years was not able to expose mr in the valley during these 49 minutes long conversation it was not even able to recognize his voice which is very surprising to be honest with the russian federal security service so the scrub develop his investigation as a pre-planned provocation discrediting agency employees well up next the boom bust examine the recent blacklisting of major trauma and what reverb it could have moving forward. and more economic news coming up but we're back in 30 minutes with the latest do join us again.

with time running out will ensure the job of trying to intervene and stop the persecution of julian assange also as this tumultuous year comes to an end we assessed the cost to average working people any quality just getting worse. the industry prefers to spend millions of you know the. daily conditions i will be sniffing all about making money making profits in some of the corporations international markets import export do you imagine the number of printing diseases in every community then it is new due to new viruses own new microbes that's not true so it is due to environment. not going to say either the momentum of disability or the sort of muscles i really just accumulate could only come into use even though to be say in the us that. the legacy. if

the so food industry is successful 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 in history the extent that we have regulation we want regulation i was the industry and if we don't behave in the aspinall to last time. this is boom bust the one business show you can't afford to miss i'm boring in washington coming up the u.k. has title lockdown due to a new fast spreading strain of the coronavirus to bring you up to speed on the global spread of the virus and travel restrictions across europe and moves.

struggles with controlling the latest outbreak a key deadline has passed for the e.u. and great britain to strike a pose trade deal going to bring you the latest and later u.s. lawmakers have come to terms on another coven 1000 relief package will go over the details and see how markets are reacting with a packed show today let's dive right in. and we lead the program with the latest restrictions on travel in europe as countries across the continent have banned travel from the u.k. in an attempt to stop a highly infectious new strain of the corona virus which is quickly spreading in london and the southeast portion of the nation the move comes after british prime minister boris johnson on saturday laid out a new set of lock downs in the areas most affected by the new variant of the virus given the early evidence we have on this new variant of the monitors the potential risk it poses with a very heavy heart i must tell you we can't continue with christmas as planned we will introduce new restrictions in the.