joe biden gets his 1st dose of the fine vaccine and had reports from alaska at least 2 health care workers that developed allergic reactions. with alexander ginsberg the director of the institute on russia sport you've been boxing us full confidence in the job. i vaccinated my 14 year old granddaughter so you violated your own instructions against vaccinating children that's outrageous you were ready to kill your entire family for the sake of a new vaccine i wasn't going to kill them but prove that the vaccine is completely safe. and residents of northern england aren't too pleased by the influx of

londoners fleeing the strip to lock down we hear from people living in manchester. city of responsible by just plain everyone on the trains i'm really not sure if you believe what is obviously a massive outbreak. either thanks so much for joining us this international. president elect joe biden has received his 1st dose of the. vaccine live on t.v. to encourage others to get the job when it's more widely available he also commended donald trump's efforts in tackling the pandemic. your units off the ground operation worth 3 it's one of the graphic scenes show hospital is a really good writer actually that well you know when you're going on. however at least

2 health care workers in alaska developed symptoms after they got the pfizer job with one of them being kept under hospital observation but tonight's case is come after the u.k. medical regulator issued a warning about the vaccine to anyone with a history of allergies vaccine will continue to be rolled out in alaska and this time we have no plans in changing our vaccine schedule our do seeing their regimen this is all kind of part of what we've been looking for and expecting and looking out for and we are making sure the health care providers know about this earlier we spoke to malcolm kendrick a doctor and author who says that the latest developments are concerning. we're going to expect reactions but there seems to be quite so we are quite early so i think it's something that people should be quite worried that we don't know who's most likely to have a problem are there some people who just definitely should not be vaccinating. so i think from a medical understanding point you are being left with them well just give it a whirl and hope it doesn't cause a problem so i mean i understand the rush but it is

a concerning thing politicians will demonstrate or they think they're going to demonstrate. by i think most of the public this is a purpose at the start and i think it might but far on them but i don't definitely not surprised the concerns of also being based not only of the vaccines quality but also its quantity leading to a number of u.s. states considering putting ethnic minorities 1st in line for the shot on tuesday meter park takes a closer look. finally the miracle everyone has been waiting for covert 900 vaccines have started making their way around the world but while some sighed with relief most will have to hold their breath for a bit longer distribution turns out to be a bit more complicated than expected who needs it 1st who gets it 1st these people even once it all these questions have started to bait especially in the u.s. where americans have been split into priority groups based on their needs age and even race after health care workers and those living or working at long term health

care facilities receive the 1st round of vaccines black hispanic and other minority residents will be prioritized over whites in the following to phases of distribution well that has raised a few eyebrows the c.d.c. points out that is because minorities are 3 times more likely to die from covert complications however some medical workers who are already getting the jobs aren't excited to be at the top of the list and feel they are part of an experiment nursing staff feels as though they don't want to be somebody science experiment or a guinea pig but nevertheless most americans are eager to get inoculated even if it means waiting in line i think it makes sense to give our most marginalized population back to me 1st and are getting it when it's my turn. turn deaf i think it should go to critical 1st and if i have the opportunity i will get so i'll get vaccinated for sure and i think it's a good place to start to balance it out i would think the older population should get it 1st though personally the priority list has also caused widespread anger

that's are put frontline essential workers above those with high risk medical conditions heartless arrogant unelected c.d.c. bureaucrats have decided that the lives of elderly americans just don't count and while there are concerns over the rapid development of the vaccine those with cash to spare are willing to pay tens of thousands of dollars to jump the line we're getting a lot of calls. so they're birdies. and you order my. or are requesting the vaccine kindly kindly letting him know that you know we have an ethical duty to be able to vaccinate. the people that. need prior d. if you will and then afterwards i'm doing my best to get it for all the patients are a part of my. anybody else who needs it california governor gavin newsome has even

warned the state's elites against using their influence to get ahold of a job ahead of those who desperately need it those who think they can get ahead of the line and those who think because they have results is all they have relationships that would allow them to do it we also will be monitoring that's very very closely although coming from him it brings a little hollow all those fancy dinners with health care officials after declaring a state wide shutdown don't exactly inspire confidence in anything newsom says and the u.s. isn't the only country having a difficult time germany's vaccine distribution plans have also been met with scrutiny unlike the us not all doctors there ended up at the top of the list medical staff in the private sector as well as ambulance workers were not given top priority despite being on the front lines against the not only treat a large number of high risk patients they're also on the front line when it comes to caring for corona infected people nevertheless they are still lower on the priority list for vaccinations that's a risk because these practices form an important protective wall for the already

heavily burdened hospitals german police have also insisted they should be higher on the list due to cost of exposure and the president has stressed the importance of parliamentarians getting the job as soon as possible to make sure the state is capable of running meanwhile the israeli government is getting some unwelcome scrutiny as the country begins to roll at vaccine shots palestinians living in the occupied territories have gotten the short end of the stick today the numbers of covert 1000 cases which is spreading like wildfire in gaza's refugee camps are telling of the catastrophic situation here we call on the international community to immediately end the siege of gaza allow medical supplies in and allocate vaccines for the gaza strip where many face imminent death. while the arrival of these vaccines does raise hopes for an end to the pandemic there is still a very long way to go. form a giant astra zeneca anderson is going to lay institute have launched a clinic of clinical trials of

a joint coronavirus vaccine that combines elements of jobs developed individually by the 2 sides. spoke with alexander ginzburg he's the director of the gambling institute about how their vaccine differs from the others. we developed a vaccine from the start of receiving funding to registration really quite quickly in 5 months the main reason is that for 25 years or more we have been developing at the gum alay institute a technological platform on which this vaccine preparation can be made we already had a wealth of experience not only the technology of how to do it but before that we had even worked out possible concentrations we knew all the dosages needed to obtain an optimal immune response with minimal side effects. the safety of the vaccine has been fully proven on a very similar vaccine though not identical against not only a bowl of viruses but also the mers coronavirus so when we were working against

covered 19 we were able to use around 70 percent of an existing element one of the indicators by which the effectiveness of a vaccine is most easily measured is the presence of and to bodies in the blood if we proceed from that's experimental data in a similar vaccine against a bowl or this protective immunity lasted for 2 years we simply didn't have a long observation period with. some of your opponents accuse you of not publishing reports on the 2nd and 3rd phases so we're about the 1st and 2nd phase as we published not just anywhere but in the lancet and it's no secret that in 3 or 4 days' time a major english language article on the results of the 3rd phase will be ready for the pfizer vaccine needs to be transported at minus 70 degrees and yours at minus $23.00 rate. minus 18 for now some months down the line i hope that we'll be able to amend the registration certificates that this vaccine can be stored not at minus 18 but to the household refrigerator temperature of plus 2.

the side effects don't force you out of action there may be a rash headache muscle discomfort and i think the most noticeable effects may be your temperature going up to 38 degrees for 2 days to take the vaccine yourself yes on march 30th along with all my employees and you're still alive not just alive but pretty active i vaccinated my 14 year old granddaughter so you violated your own instructions against vaccinating children that's outrageous you are ready to kill your entire family for the sake of a new vaccine i wasn't going to kill them but prove that the vaccine is completely safe but. what is the difference between the oxford vaccine that is astra zeneca and the gamma lanes to do next in there are a lot of differences but they're not significant oxford and us to seneca went from my point of view along the classic path of working against airborne pathogens our

colleagues applied all the rules for creating influenza vaccines to the creation of a vaccine against covered 19 and it seems to me that the epidemiological features of this disease this pathogen were not quite accurately calculated and the people at pfizer also understand this and have made great efforts to modify the r.n.a. so that it would not be recognized as far as i understand it by protective proteins but i'm not sure whether my colleagues most to solve all the problems on a large scale. british transport police have been deployed in london to stop a mass exodus of people trying to avoid a strict new lockdown however residents of northern england where many londoners are heading to pleased about the influx we heard from people in manchester. i think it is a little bit concerning the amount of people who are excess in the cover up to the north a lot of people have lost confidence in the only advice they've been given and they gave everyone a cell is no. doubt what they're going to do for christmas so i can really

understand how you can justify a journey but you've got to think really about the implications it does have on those people who have visited obviously people want to get to their families and their loved ones but i'm really not sure that we should be leaving london where there's obviously a massive outbreak and going into the regions and potentially taking the virus with them i think people are very inconsiderate about. leaving the city of london they don't realize that it's going to spread very well the whole of the country. while in london long queues of foreigners supermarkets over concerns of food shortages in the run up to christmas fears been fueled by a combination of factors that include a potential no deal bragg's it strict a tearful lockdown regulations and border closures because of the new coronavirus strain party officials say that the new variant has already spread to other parts of the country. the new variant is spread around the country it's localized in some places but we know there are cases everywhere so it's not as though we can stop

this getting into other places there's some there were already the message has been very clear and i think i want to reinforce it is state local we spoke with former british m.p. george galloway who says it's suspicious the u.k. is reacting to the new strain of the virus only now when in fact it was identified months ago. i should tell you that sir patrick vallance says that this new mutant corona virus was identified last september and it's a couple of days before christmas the other government council of the whole thing that is inherently suspicious if i tell you that on there a few months ago the british government was paying people to go out and diving in restaurants ito to help out they said we spent billions of taxpayers' money actually didn't have the bill in the restaurant for someone like me who could well

afford to pay for their own don't know we've gone from that to look for deers before christmas cancelling the whole thing it's been a shambles strong start to finish and the very expensive shows no i said the government was talking up this we're dirt in order to divert attention from it's all cataclysmic fillion. members of the united states space for so fun to be given a name one year after the elite branch of the armed forces was created you think after so long the us top brass would be able to come up with something original but some can't help but think that they took inspiration from hollywood. soldiers sailors airmen marines and guardians will be

depending on the general. powell set off the bomb at mediately and we'll all be dead. now would be back what i just said.

the songs of dozens of al jazeera journalists have allegedly been packed with israeli spy work raising questions about the security of our devices story after the break. join me every thursday on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to guests of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. is your media a reflection of reality. in the world transformed. what will make you feel safe.

isolation community. are you going the right way or are you being so. direct. what is truth. is. in the world corrupted you need to descend. to join us in the death. or inmate in the shallows. welcome back the united states congress has now passed the long awaited 900000000000 dollar coronavirus stimulus package the deal now just needs to be signed off by donald trump lawmakers start the agreement over the weekend following months of negotiations the 2nd such really fun since the start of the pandemic of

the correspondent killer morgan takes a look now at the finer details we've got a situation where not only are people dying on a daily basis but people's jobs are in jeopardy unemployment numbers are rising however members of the u.s. congress are reassuring us that they have put together a relief package help is on the way moments ago in consultation with our committees the 4 leaders of the senate. follows an agreement to the millions of small business owners who are worried their businesses would go on their help is on the way to families struggling with less money. direct payments mean help is on the way the stimulus package will inject $900000000000.00 into the u.s. economy and for average americans that translates to a check of $600.00 now keep in mind that 6 $100.00 will be lessened for people who make more than $75000.00 per year now there will also be

a $300.00 boost to federal unemployment benefits now this might sound like a lot for some but many americans look at this and say this is completely underwhelming and are quite disappointed $600.00 is a slap in the face no one should be proud of making people so desperate that they're reduced to sing think you for a crumb 600 dollars 11000000000 dollars for a border wall $15000000000.00 for a space force we need a radical revolution of values for many americans it's going to be a quite gloomy holiday season jobless claims have shot up close to 8000000 americans have been driven into poverty 27000000 adults in the united states in december were living in a household in which there was food insecurity and not enough food on the table this is one story of a family that has suffered during the pandemic from the economic fallout i actually was getting unemployment when the endemic hit so that the endemic can't and i have

not been able to get any late unemployment benefits am i going to pick up an extension so that helps but then i wasn't able to get anything else i still haven't since july i've lost my car i'm about to lose my apartment's it's that hard no christmas for my kids i've been taking part time jobs i've had 3 jobs since everything happens that i keep losing because of cove it there is also been a devastation of small businesses across the united states at this point we've got quite a bit of frustration from democrats and republicans about all the amount of time that it took to reach a stimulus a. rayment negotiations dragged on for months many are questioning how things might change in january when joe biden comes into office biden is promising that he will turn things around regarding the pandemic in his 1st 100 days many people are looking at joe biden's words and saying let's wait and see a lot of frustration in the united states right now a lot of economic suffering a lot of

a lot of people that are are very unsatisfied with this stimulus agreement lottie's boom bust co-host christiane i believe that the measure won't be enough to help all americans i think this is a temporary and they just to tide us into next year essentially so this is. really this is not enough for many americans potentially facing eviction next year is unemployment and this way in a small business course that's not going to stand so this is a fight a lot of measures and proteges jammed all into one proposal but the problem is a total dollar amount isn't enough to split the cost so many ways that in the end i'm not sure how big of an impact this is actually going to make it's a temporary band-aid very similar to like the phase one deal of the trade deal we have with china where all the difficult meaningful issues have been left out in order to get it done so it's essentially buy more time to kick the can down the road and the progress of this vaccine that everybody is betting on. the

recent hack of al jazeera journalist was allegedly ordered by saudi arabia and the united arab emirates the team looking into the breach also claims it was carried out with israeli made spy work. in july and august 2020 government operatives used n.s.o. groups pigs and spyware to hack 36 personal phones belonging to journalists produces anchors and executives at al-jazeera the journalists were hacked by 4 pegasus operators including one operator monarchy that we attribute to saudi arabia and one operator sneaky kestrel that we attribute to the united arab emirates. of the technology used was developed by israel's tech and spyware firm and the so group is notorious for previous hack scandals worldwide including the targeting of journalists and brockway and politicians in spain and those cases it exploited a vulnerability in whatsapp and the messenger service in sudan or so group over that the spot were firm insists this technology isn't only for governments to track down terrorists and criminals and then they start syria case all the targeted

devices turned out to be i phones which hadn't updated to the newest operating system or the such i phones are made vulnerable to the discovered malicious code apple prides itself on its security but technology expert roger case says it was only a matter of time before its phones were bridged apple only had a reputation for being on how it got all it was really all in the past. most of the focus. went to microsoft forms because that's where all the money was but at some point where you know couldn't even 20 years out all that's come out of the world would become. there are powers a lot of very interesting platforms there's also tools that have been hacked twice now from the u.s. . are were pretty good tools get out you into the wilderness are usable. by others and can be modified by them so. socially hacking it's

become kind of a new industry. finally for us and we'll news in brief. the noisy rally taking place in barcelona where people are angry about the latest anti pandemic rules they affect bars and restaurants some of the demonstrators there took a cheeky approach to expressing their discontent. you know. you could hear there was locals in hawaii singing is a volcano erupted before them they've been warned to stay at home as there's been a series of minor earthquakes in the region but many clearly couldn't resist the larger spectacle and that wraps it up for this news hour thanks so much for staying with us michael exactly in his opinion rather today in just over 30 minutes.

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the economy talk more than a past sept is that. good enough do you mean that i saw going. around that i was going to use the term obama well i'm going to go. look at what's going to become a monk point out of the motherland going to come up thinking i come up each time she comes home to go tell me it's accomplishing nothing i mean people are really happy that what i'm doing can help with. the industry prefers to spend millions of euros in you know being to deliver a few decent as i will be sniffy is all about making money making profits in some of the corporations international markets. import export do you imagine the number

of printing diseases. every time you need to do this new due to new viruses own new microbes that is not true so it is due to environment. not going to say you know that moment all discipline of this sort of must really be a sick human they could only come in to see them to. see the sky if the same 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 i think into street except that we have regulation we want regulation i was the industry and if we don't behave any aspinall to the last time .

this is boom bust the one business show you can't afford to miss i'm french born in washington coming up the u.k. has title lockdowns 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 amid struggles with controlling the latest outbreak a key deadline has passed for the e.u. and great britain to strike a post trade deal going to bring you the latest and later u.s. lawmakers have come to terms on another covert 19 relief package we'll go over the details and see how markets are reacting with a packed show today so 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 into 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 virus the potential risk it poses it is with a very heavy heart i must tell you we cannot continue with christmas as planned we will introduce new restrictions in the most affected areas specifically those parts of london the scythe east and the east of england which are currently in tier 3 these areas will enter a new t. a for which we really equivalent to the national restrictions which were in place in england in november that means residents in those areas miss stay at home apart from limited exemptions set out in law non-essential retail indoor gyms and leisure facilities and person who can services was close people must work from home if they can but may travel to work if this is not possible for example in the

construction and manufacturing sectors people should not enter or leave to 4 areas in tearful residents must not stay overnight away from home individuals can only meet one person from another household in outdoor public. and during this same briefing the prime minister announced that as of saturday 350000 britons had received their 1st dose of a covert 1000 vaccine and for more on this new strain of the krona virus hitting the u.k. on a global look at the trends and spread of the virus let's go ahead and bring in our to correspondent saya tatter. let's start with numbers globally where are we monday so right now it's looking like a very tragic finish of the year right now global cases rat $77000000.00 and growing global that's over 1700000 and the u.s. continues to lead the world n.k. says plus that's and you know we've heard time and time again from health experts to expect cases to go up.