we. ask. this hour's headlines stories joe biden gets his 1st dose. vaccine. where at least 2 health care workers developed allergic reactions after taking it to. the program this hour we also speak to alexander ginsberg. the institute behind the vaccine he says he has full confidence in the. vaccinated my 14 year old brother. so you violated your own instructions against vaccinating children. 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. northern england sees an influx of londoners fleeing a region along we get reaction to that from people in manchester. city of responsible packing everyone on the trains i'm really not sure that we should be leaving. a massive outbreak. of your churning in from across the world this hour welcome to. your company. u.s. president elect joe biden received his 1st dose of. the scheldt live on television to encourage others to get the job when it's more widely available while also commending the ministrations efforts in getting the shot produced so quickly.

ministration very crude off the ground operation we're being it's one of the you know you have a graphic scene show a hospital there's a lot of you going to various saline that while you're doing we're going on. for at least 2 health care workers in alaska develop symptoms after they got the pfizer job with one being kept under hospital observation for a number of nights the cases come after the u.k. medical regulator issued a warning about giving the vaccine to anyone with a history of allergies it will continue to be rolled out in alaska at 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 i spoke to malcolm kendrick a doctor and or 3 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 about we don't know who is most likely to have a problem are there some people who just definitely should not be vaccinating he said so i think from a medical understanding point being left with them will just give it a walk 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. i think most of the public this is a publicity stunt and i think it might but far from them but i'm definitely not surprised or concerns have also been raised over the fact scenes a veil ability leading to a number of u.s. states considering putting ethnic minorities 1st in line for the shots artes to be tree poke takes a closer look at that. 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 stirred debate especially in the us where americans have been split in surprise already 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's 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 and i'm 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 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 front line 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 verdi's. the nation's order mike. 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 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 shut down 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 u.s. 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. institute have launched clinical trials will be joined crown of virus vaccine the aim being to combine elements of the job developed individually by the 2 sides are talking chris salty spoke with alexander ginsberg the director of the gumley 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 the 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 we're about the 1st and 2nd phase as 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 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 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 lane city of 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 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 where the my colleagues most to solve all the problems on a large scale. let's bring you to britain or the u.k. health secretary is called follow the rules of londoners irresponsible after they opted for last minute trip side side big help at all to avoid

a strict lockdown some residents in the places they're fleeing to aren't happy either we spoke to people in manchester. i think it is a little bit concerning the amount of people who are excess in london called little to the north i think a lot of people lost confidence and the advice they've been given and they gave everyone a challenge know. what they were 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 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 the people of london are very inconsiderate about when we leave the city of london we don't realise that it's going to spread the barrier across the whole of the country you know the backdrop to this what was being alluded to there it comes after a highly infectious mutation of code was detected in southern england the british

government's chief scientific adviser says it's also been detected elsewhere. the new variant is spread around the country it's localized in some places but we know it's got there are cases everywhere so it's not as though we can stop this getting into other places there's some they're ready the message has been very clear and i think i want to reinforce it is state local images here in london long queues forming outside supermarkets over concerns of food shortages in the run up to christmas if you fear is being fueled by combination of factors or potential no deal breaks it stricter lockdown regulations border closures because of this new coronavirus trade we got reaction from former british m.p. george galloway george sees it strange that the u.k. is reacting to a new strain of the virus just know when in fact it was identified months ago. i should tell you that sir patrick vallance says that this mutant corona

virus was identified last september and it's a couple of days before christmas got the government council of the whole thing that is inherently suspicious if i tell you that only a few months ago the british government was paying people to go out and restaurant to help out they say we're spending billions of taxpayers' money at. the bill at the restaurant for someone like me who go for it to pay for their own don't know we've gone from that to look forward to before christmas cancelling the whole thing is these are shovel strong start to finish i don't. know i said the government was talking about this. in order to change from a cataclysmic fill you know. dozens of journalists out there

qatar based news network al-jazeera their smartphones hacked according to cyber security researchers in canada the team looking into the breach leads that happened on the orders of saudi arabia the united arab emirates using is really made to spy or. in july and august 2020 government operatives used n.s.o. group's 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. well let's take a closer look at the israeli software for believed to be involved n.s.o. group is known for other cyber scandals worldwide including the targeting of journalists in morocco and politicians in spain in those cases have exploited our

vulnerability in what's up leading to the messenger service to so group they've been selling the software for quite some time and in fact in 2019 there was some accusations that their software have been used in the tracking of jamal khashoggi and they then withdrew their support from the saudi arabian government their only supposed the son of the government's response to some of the organizations that have got a moral and ethical code they have been accused of not doing that across the globe and that's what's brought them to attention of a number of the civil rights organizations i think this software specifically targets of devices and if you remember a couple of years ago there was a big legal debate about whether the f.b.i. could get access to. a terrorist uppal device in the states and it went through the courts were refusing to give them the codes to get into it and then all of a sudden the caucus disappeared because a company most to get into it was one of these really companies stuff by former

israeli intelligence officers and any device transmitting anything along even if you believe that you're using a secure and the bottom line is someone somewhere can listen in to the. members of the united states base force finally being given a one year after the elite branch of the armed forces was created no you might think that after so all the u.s. top brass would be able to come up with something truly original but healthy. soldiers sailors airmen marines and guardians will be defending.

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has imposed restrictions on exports to dozens of russian and chinese companies accusing them of having military ties from american companies will have to apply for special licenses to sell the firms goods or technology. the department recognizes the importance of leveraging its partnerships with u.s. and global companies to combat efforts by china and russia to divert u.s. technology for their destabilizing military programs including by highlighting red flag indicators such as those related to communist chinese military companies identified by the department of defense the us department of commerce has put 103 entities on the list 58 from china and 45 from russia they include arms manufacturers research institutes and the russian state firm that builds soyuz rockets russia's space agency has in fact sent a letter to nasa expressing fears for the future of the international space station

the restrictions imposed by the u.s. on russian enterprises jeopardize the future of the international space station program could you please inform us how nasa will react to this development so as to avoid any risks to the i assess program the russian and chinese governments have condemned the u.s. move saying it's likely to for other damage relations. this is yet another aggressive step against russia we can only regret that another old go and us administration has decided to deal a blow to already very poor russians used bilateral relations each blow delays normalization and significantly hinders the process of breaking this deadlock that is so that financial to our bilateral relations you don't. make some time the united states under the pretext of national security has been using state power to constantly abuse export control measures for the purpose of tracking down foreign companies this is a serious breach of free trade rules a serious threat to the security of global industrial and supply chains in the

cause of serious harm to the wellbeing and interests of the people of all countries including residents of the united states you know one of the things that we've seen . hundreds talking about there are few days is something really quite remarkable and i think probably unlikely but nevertheless signal the type of optimism that biden should really consider cooperating with china and bringing china into the international space. which of course includes united states and russia but i think that one of the things that. we'll see is that the more of these types of lift coming out of the top administration as well as a lot coming out of congress that will try to prevent any sort of cooperation between by as well as american companies that might be wanting to do business with . china and russia.

moscow has expanded the list of e.u. officials banned from entering the country it is a mirror response to e.u. sanctions against russian nationals over the alleged poisoning of opposition figure out alexei navalny ilia the tranquil reports. 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 those kind volved in escalating sanction

rhetoric against russia within the on choose the the embassadors 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 puts it 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 aid of all the incident and all the medical and chemical research that has been undertaken during and following his treatment and the german cherry take clinic earlier the german foreign minister high called 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 volley who was on board 1st the opposition activists was. treated and then moved to berlin where of venture leave the german doctors said that he was poisoned with a nerve agent of the novel 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 like same evolving 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 just thing with this story journalist thomas from spender believes there's risk of a worsening confrontation between russia and the e.u.

over than the felony case. nobody is like the fight between the west and russia and this gives. provides both sides with an instrument both sides want to escalate to the emphasis is not on cooperation or solution the emphasis on is on getting the opposition and in the conflict europe things that mr marandi is credible you know the european no authorities believe that they have identified the nerve gas. nerve gas always in his body and that it was that minister on the russia they they believe that the session of the evidence is enough and not the presentation to moscow as moscow requires russia now has an easy position to. find these outside of russia to blame him and we we can simply can even see this even as a madman a complete traitor would do everything by would work with anybody to damage russia i see this more and more coming as the coming strategy from moscow which

will be met by strategy $180.00 degrees the opposite from the west where now finally is treated as an absolutely credible political act of. the us congress passed a long awaited $900000000000.00 coronavirus stimulus package and it is the 2nd relief since the start of the pandemic and it just needs to be signed off by donald trump lawmakers struck the agreement over the weekend after months of contentious negotiation artie's killam up and brings us more 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 the senate and of. 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 that $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 get 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 if there are 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 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 agreement new. 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 we go to forty's boom bust co-host christiane this she believes the measure won't be enough to help enough 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 the unemployment in this way in a small business closure that's not going to stand so this is

a lot of measures and provisions jammed all into one proposal but the problem is a total dollar amount isn't enough. 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 a 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.