thanks. in the day's headlines joe biden gets his 1st dose of the pfizer kovi vaccine amid reports from alaska where at least 2 health care workers develop allergic reactions . we talked to alexander ginzburg the director of the institute behind russia sputnik vbac seen all continents and the japanese. by 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 are too pleased by the influx of londoners

playing a stricter lockdown we hear from people living in manchester were pretty irresponsible by just talking everyone on the trains i'm really not sure that we should believe what is obviously a massive outbreak. a very warm welcome to the program from all of us here at r t h q in moscow thanks for joining us this hour u.s. president elect joe biden has received his 1st dose of pfizer's coated vaccine got the shot live on t.v. to encourage others to get the job when it's more widely available also commended the trumpet ministrations efforts and getting the shot produced so quickly. ministration desertion created their units off the ground operation were seen it's one thing to have a graphic scene showing the hospital is going to write a scene from that evolve into

a needle and on at least 2 health care workers in alaska develop symptoms after they got the pfizer job with one being kept under hospital observation for 2 nights the cases come after the u.k. medical regulator issued a warning about the vaccine to anyone with a history of severe allergies vaccine will continue to be rolled out in alaska and 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 the health care providers know about this earlier we spoke to malcolm kendrick a doctor and author who believes 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 we just definitely should not be vaccinating cetera et cetera so i think from a medical sort of understanding point you were 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 just you know i think most of the public this isn't a purpose if you start and i think you might but far from them but i'm definitely not surprised concerns have also been raised not only over the vaccines quality but it's quantity leading to a number of u.s. states considering putting ethnic minorities 1st in line for the shot artist 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 it's because minorities are 3 times more likely to die from code 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 an ocular rated even if it means waiting in line i think it makes sense to give our most marginalized population back to me 1st and i my partner 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 1st 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 newsom has even

warned the states to leave against using their influence to get a hold 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 rings 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. pharma giant astra zeneca and russia's galileo

institute have launched clinical trials of a joint corona virus vaccine as combines elements of jobs developed individually by the 2 sides artie's until i spoke with alexander ginzburg the director of the institute about how their vaccine differs from 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 ebola 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 until bodies in the blood if we proceed from that's experimental data in a similar vaccine against a bowler 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 about the 1st and 2nd phases we published not just anywhere but in the lancet and is no secret that's in 3 or 4 days' time a major english language article on the results of the 3rd phase will be ready. the pfizer vaccine needs to be transported at minus 70 degrees and yours at minus 23 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 effect may be your temperature going up to 38 degrees for 2 days did you 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 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. what is the difference between the oxford vaccine that is astra zeneca and the gamma lanes to do vaccine 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 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 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 where the 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 and residents of northern england where many londoners are heading aren't too pleased about the influx we heard from some people and manchester. i think it is a little bit concerning the amount of people who are experts in the middle to the know i think a lot of people lost confidence in the advice they've been given and they gave everyone a tallis know. what they were going to do for christmas so it can really on the

stand how you can justify a journey but you've got to think really about the implications it does have on those people who have businesses obviously people want to get to the families and the loved ones but i'm really not sure that we should be leaving london what is obviously a massive outbreak and going into the regions and potentially taking the virus with them i think people are very inconsiderate about when we leave the city of london and we don't realize that it's going to spread very thin across the whole of the country. in london the long lines have formed outside supermarkets over concerns of food shortages and the run up to christmas here has been fueled by a combination of factors including a potential no deal brags that stricter to or for a lock down regulations and border closures because of the new corona virus strain or especial say that the new variant has already spread to other parts of the country however the new variant is spread around the country is 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 were already the message has been very clear and i think i want to reinforce it is state local we spoke to former british m.p. george galloway he says it's suspicious that 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 government council the whole thing is inherently suspicious if i tell you that there are a few months ago the british government was paying people to go out and dined in restaurants yto to help out they said we spent billions of taxpayer smuggling

actually big house 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 duck to look for dears before christmas cancelling the whole thing it's been there shambles draw start to finish and the very expensive shambles no i said the government was talking up this . in order to divert attention from which all cataclysmic filioque. members of the united states space horse have finally been given a name one year after the elite branch of the armed forces was created and you think that after so long the us top brass would be able to come up with something truly original but some can't help but think that they took inspiration from hollywood.

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still had the phones of dozens of al jazeera journalists have allegedly been hacked with israeli spy ware raising questions about the security of apple devices a story and more after the break. played. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be an arms race. and spearing dramatic development the only move really exists i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. we started talking

about the point of the dollar back in 2011 we've been pushing and telling people about a 10 dollars 100 dollars 1000 dollars 10000 dollars and still buy at these new all time high prices on the new york times washington d.c. c.n.n. we're all pushing their. conspiracy theories and dissuading folks from watching our show as a result many people around the world mexico latin america asia everywhere got it in 100 countries that are broadcast it and they have made millions we've made over 100000 millionaires a big point but not so much in the u.s. because the u.s. is blinkered by its love of keynesian economics there's a lot of this said it's dead. welcome back the u.s. congress has now passed a long awaited $900000000000.00 coronavirus stimulus package the deal now just

needs to be signed off by donald trump on makers struck the agreement over the weekend after months of negotiations and it's the 2nd relief fund since the start of the pandemic are to come up and reports 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 look for leaders of. follows an agreement to the millions of small business owners who are worried their businesses would go under 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 hope 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. 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 and a lot of a lot of people that are are very unsatisfied with this stimulus agreement artie's boom bust co-host christine believes that the measures 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 good news for it really is not enough for many americans potentially facing eviction next year is unemployment in this way in a small business closure that's not going to stand so this is what a lot of measures i'm proteges jammed all into one proposal but the problem is that the 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 vary so much unlike 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. a recent hack of al jazeera journalist was allegedly ordered by saudi arabia and the united arab emirates team looking into the breach also claims that it was carried out with israeli made spy ware in july and august 2020 government operatives used and so groups pegasus spyware to hack $36.00 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. the technology used was developed by israel's tech and spyware firm and a so group it's a tourist for previous hack scandals worldwide including the targeting of journalists in morocco and politicians in spain in those cases it exported

a vulnerability and what's up and the messenger service has since sued n.s.o. group over that but the spyware firm insists that its technology is meant only for governments to track down terrorists and criminals in the latest al-jazeera case all the target devices turned out to be i phones which hadn't updated to the newest operating system other such i phones arena vulnerable to the discovered malicious code apple prides itself on security but technology expert roger kay says it was only a matter of time before its phones were breached apple only had a reputation for being on hackable it wasn't ever really iraqi people in the past. most of the focus. went to microsoft platforms because that's where all the money was but at some point in the last you know 10 even 20 years has come out of the wilderness and become colossus and in fact powers a lot of very interesting platforms there's also. that have been hacked i think

twice now from the us. 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 an industry. lastly we bring you some world news in brief. a noise around the took place in barcelona where people are angry about the latest anti pandemic rules these affect bars and restaurants some of the demonstrators took a cheeky approach to expressing their discontent. well. you know. what you just heard there is locals in hawaii singing as a volcano erupted before them they had 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

labile spectacle that's been your breakdown of today's top headlines for now if you're looking for more you can always head to our website r.t. dot com thanks for tuning in. join me every socially on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to us from the world of politics or business i'm show business i'll see you then. today the industry prefers to spend millions of euros in you know being a d.j. regulations 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 chronic diseases that are out in every community today it is not due to new viruses

all new microbes that's not true so it is due to environment. not going to say you know that momentum is simply the out of this sort of muscles of really just accumulate could only come into use even though to the side that don't allow us to play. 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 into street not except that we have regulation we want regulation has an interest and if we don't behave zaniest penalty that's fine . is your media a reflection of reality. in the world transformed. what will make you feel safe.

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nurses hospital workers and senior living facility aids all across the nation stood in line and took injections for all the world to see from kalamazoo to providence all the way down to san diego in tallahassee and while pfizer and their stockholders are now no doubt patting themselves on the back for their swift and remarkable leopard's to be the 1st in market to hit us streets with relatively few issues well you know minus the whole an aflac tick epi pen incident in london let's not forget that pfizer is not the only game in town this week the f.d.a. will be announcing their ruling on the dermis covert vaccination and it's now being reported that astra's a need. is to start clinical trials to test a combination of its experimental coronavirus vaccine with russia's sputnik 5 shot to see if this can boost the efficacy of the british drug makers vaccine but before we all jump up and down roll up our sleeves and cries stick it here doc let's

remember that despite all these new code with 19 vaccinations flooding the marketplace things are not coming up wine and roses for everyone the people's vaccine alliance a coalition that includes oxfam and amnesty international has discovered that according to the latest numbers nearly 70 poor countries will only be able to vaccinate one in 10 people against the cove and 19 virus in just next by next year and that by contrast wealthier nations have brought have bought up enough doses to vaccinate their entire populations nearly 3 times over by the end of 2021 if those currently in clinical trials are all approved for use. so we while we rightfully celebrate the achievements of code with vaccination makers in germany russia the u.k. and the us we must not let wealth greed and political tribalism get in the way of ending this pandemic now let's start watching the hawks.

who want to. see this as this. great displays systemic deception. which. brings up the old. welcome are going to watching the hawks. and i will be. all right as i mentioned at the top of the show russia's sputnik 5 vaccine is gaining acceptance outside of well the obvious circles with the united kingdom and russia sign just now teaming up in the hopes to create a more effective mix of their competing vaccines russian scientists working with british scientists to help save the world from coated oh my goodness can you believe russian scientists and british scientists given together to save the world russia gators may be losing their minds art.