in the day's headlines president elect joe biden gets his 1st dose of the pfizer covered vaccine amid reports from alaska or at least 2 health care workers develop allergic reactions. we talked to alexander ginzburg the director of the institute behind russia's sputnik movie vaccine who has full confidence in the job. by my 14 year old granddaughter so you violated your own instructions against vaccinating children that's so gracious you were ready to kill your entire family for the sake of it in the backseat i wasn't going to kill them but the truth of the vaccine is completely safe. and northern england sees an influx of londoners feeling

a regional lockdown we get reaction from people in manchester. already have responsible by just talking everyone on the trains i'm really not sure that we should believe in what is obviously a massive outbreak. you're watching our to international coming to you live from the russian capital where it's just turned 4 pm welcome to the program u.s. president elect joe biden has received his 1st dose of pfizer's vaccine he got the shot live on t.v. to encourage others to get the job when it's more widely available also commended the trayvon ministrations efforts and getting the shot produced so quickly. it is tradition very clear that your units off the ground operation were very it's one of the you know greg so you show up at the hospital there's a lot of you get

a rather silly wrong that well 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 giving the vaccine to anyone with a history of severe allergies the vaccine will continue to be rolled out in alaska . to us to. lead.

to. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy on sunday shouldn't let it be an arms race based on this very dramatic development the only

really i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time time to sit down and talk. i do apologize we're having some technical difficulties there we are now going to return to our top story of multiple people having allergic reactions to the pfizer biotech a shot earlier we spoke to malcolm kendrick a doctor and author who finds the latest developments concerning. we're going to expect reactions but this seems to be 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 although some people just definitely should not be vaccinating searcher etc so i think from a medical 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 is 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 call the it but also its quantity it leading to a number of u.s. states considering putting ethnic minorities 1st in line for the shot artist to me 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 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 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 a lot so they're verdi's well ations 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 are higher need prior to 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 healthcare 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 out 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 instead have launched clinical trials of a joint coronavirus vaccine is combines elements of jobs developed individually by

the 2 science artie's uncross 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 are 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 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 we're about the 1st and 2nd phases we published not just anywhere but in the lancet and there'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 will 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 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 born 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 whether my colleagues most to solve all the problems on a large scale. health secretary has called thousands of londoners irresponsible after they opted for last minute trips outside the capital to avoid a strict lockdown and some residents of the places they're fleeing to are not happy either we spoke to people in manchester. i think it is a little bit concerning the amount people who are excess in london called little to the north i think a lot of people of all. the advice they've been given and they gave everyone a tallis know. what they're 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 visited obviously people want to get to the families and 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 when we leave the city of london we don't realize that it's going to spread very thin across the whole of the country this comes after a highly infectious mutation of code was detected in southern england and the british government's chief scientific adviser believes the new variant has already spread to other parts of the country the new variant is spread around the country it's localised 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 and long then

long lines have formed outside supermarkets over concerns of food shortages in the run up to christmas fear has been fueled by a combination of factors including a potential no deal breck said stricter lockdown regulations and border closures because of the new corona virus strain 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 on there a few months ago the british government was paying people to go out and that indian restaurant ito to help out they say that we spent billions of taxpayers' money actually did 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 years before christmas cancelling the whole thing it's been a shambles strong start to finish and they're very expensive shambles no i said the government was talking up this dirt in order to divert attention from its all cataclysmic fillion. members of the united states space force have finally been given a name a one year after the elite branch of the armed forces was created i 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. soldiers sailors airmen marines and guardians will be

defending our nation thanks. deb. i will be back what i just said.

russia has expanded the list of e.u. officials banned from entering the country that's a mirror to e.u. sanctions against russian nationals are the alleged poisoning of opposition figurehead. artie's has more. the worst diplomats have called the punitive measures taken by europe against individuals that the e.u. is blaming for links to the alexina volly case unlawful and unacceptable besides this moscow is stressing that the european nations behind these sanctions have not shown anything to back it up both to russia and to other e.u. partners and so moscow has come up with the following measures in response on the basis of versa prosody the russian side has decided to expand the list to

representatives of member states that are prohibited from entering the territory of the russian federation it includes doe's kind volved an escalating sanction rhetoric against russia within the on choose the the ambassadors of sweden germany and france to moscow have been asked to pay a visit to the russian foreign ministry to be informed on russia's response to that unfriendly act by european nations that's how russia put said that is not in line with the international law according to the russian side mainly because of the e.u. nations reluctance to cooperate and to respond to the multiple requests by moscow to get the materials and details on the devolving incident and all the medical and chemical research that has been undertaken during and following his treatment and the german sherry take clinic earlier the german foreign minister high call ma said that the sanctions were appropriate because russia failed to make any steps towards

clarifying what happened with the opposition activists and like i said in response russia keeps blaming europe for complete unwillingness to cooperate with moscow on the matter a few months ago a passenger plane traveling from siberia to moscow had to urgently land because of the critical condition of alexina vali who was on board 1st the opposition activists was. treated and then moved to berlin where adventurously the german doctors said that he was poisoned with a nerve agent of the novacek group moscow keeps sending work west to berlin demanding proof but isn't getting anything in response and one of the latest twists to the story alexina volley and the number of western media outlets published a report in which they blamed a group of russian secret agents for poisoning the kremlin critic that's something the russian federal security service called a provocation and firmly denied. joined live by

journalist thomas fassbender for more on this russia has banned a few european officials from entering the country here not a particularly drastic move do you get the sense that neither side wants to escalate this too far. both sides want to escalate go the emphasis is not on cooperation or solution the emphasis on is on getting the opposition and in the conflict we heard right now in the german media half an hour ago that unnamed german and french and swedish government representatives would be. graded from. entering the country and they will know about this when they land in moscow which adds a little element of spice it is clear that with yesterday's reservation off the alleged telephone conversation between alexander only and one of his attackers the russian government is cornered it can under no circumstances of mental issue of the

truth of its telephone hold so it has to deny it naturally and it has still blame. alexei not only as a trader in collusion with foreign secret services works against russia against the russian president and government i see some logic in this strategy and this was a leap thought for the belittle of escalation we continue to see this back and forth this tit tit for tat says you are saying and yesterday there was that reports that not only said that he spoke with his would be killer by phone could that result in further action now from the european side. surely because you're of the things that mr madani is credible you are there you are being no authorities believe that they have identified the you know the gas. the nerve gas poisoning in his body and that it was administered on the job of russia they they believe that the possession of the evidence is enough and not the presentation to moscow as

moscow requires and then we all have we all have to see this against the brick backdrop of the common joe biden presidency everybody knows and bone in washington there are areas and in moscow that the russian western relations are in for a floor of some hard years probably joe biden has clearly said that he would tighten toughness policy on the so what authoritarian countries like china like russia and others and maybe also that that within the kremlin there is an understanding that the west and the west the western european countries who for a long time have been seen as friends and partners that they are in such use tragic such and she used to teach it situation more useful as a formidable enemy so that rather rather than vying for their friendship or partnership it may be reasonable for moscow.

to create a formidable enemy under these circumstances with more and more also limerick i reckon but when it comes to international relations there's been a complete stalemate on the net on the case with arab to manning explanations from moscow and russia demanding evidence in return can you see that changing over the coming months at all. i do not because the way that mr none of our new operates. with these phone calls and with publishing all the evidence he has no money is lighting a fire between the west and russia and this gives. it provides both sides with an instrument russia now has an easy position to not only is outside of russia to blame him and we we can see clearly see this even as a madman a complete traitor would do everything by work with anybody to damage

russia i see this more and more coming as the coming strategy from moscow which will be met by a strategy 180 degrees the opposite from the west where not only is treated as an absolutely credible political actor journalist thomas fassbender thank you for joining us on the program today. dozens of journalists out there tara based news network al jazeera have had their i phones hacked according to cyber security researchers in canada a team looking into the breach believes it happened on the orders of saudi arabia and the united arab emirates using israeli made spyware in july and august 2020 government operatives used n.s.o. groups pegasus spyware to hack 36 personal phones belonging to journalists producers 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. let's take a closer look at the israeli software firm believed to be involved and also group is known for other cyber scandals worldwide including the target of journalists in morocco and politicians in spain in those cases it exploded a vulnerability and what's up and the messenger service has since sued the firm but also group firm says it's technology is used by governments to track down terrorists and criminals in the latest al-jazeera case all the targeted devices turn out to be i phones which had been updated to the newest operating system other such i phones remain vulnerable to the discovered malicious code of course apple prides itself on security by technology expert roger case 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 are people in the past.

most of the focus of how king 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 there are 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 noisy rally took place in barcelona where people are angry about the latest anti pandemic rules that affect bars and restaurants some of the demonstrators took a cheeky approach to expressing their discontent.

you know. what you just heard it was locals in hawaii singing as a volcano erupted before them and been warned to stay at home as there have been a series of minor earthquakes in the region but many clearly couldn't resist the spectacle that's a news break down for this hour thanks for tuning in wherever you may be. today the industry prefers to spend millions of euros in you know the 2 daily traditions i will be sniffing all about making money making profits in some of the big corporations international markets import export do you imagine the number of chronic diseases that are in every community today it is not due to new viruses

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