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well we. do know what money we want to hire. joe biden. made reports from. health care workers developed allergic reactions taking it. over. who say he has full confidence in the. vaccinated my 14 year old granddaughter so you violated your own instructions against vaccinating children. who 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
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safe. in the north of england sees an influx of londoners fleeing. we get reaction from people in manchester. i'm really not sure that we should believe. the world this is or to international my names you know me hello and welcome to the program. the us president elect has received his 1st dose of. the shot live on t.v. to encourage others to get the job when it is more widely available joe biden also commended the trump administration's efforts in getting the shot produced so quickly. moves duration desertion. of the ground operation were
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very it's one of the you're going to have a graphic scene showing a hospital is not really going to run or saline. that well into a needle and on some issues though 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 ruled 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 we are making sure the health care providers know about this earlier i spoke to malcolm kendrick malcolm's a doctor at north who finds the latest developments concerning. we're going to expect reactions but this seems to be quite. so i think it's something that people
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should be quite worried that 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. with them we'll just give it a want and hope it doesn't cause a problem so we don't understand the rush but it is a concerning thing politicians will demonstrate or they think they're going to demonstrate. by taking it 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. your concerns have also been raised over the fact scenes availability leading to a number of u.s. states considering putting ethnic minorities 1st in line for the shot r t s dimitri polk has been taking a closer look at. 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
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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 code of 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 and my partner getting it when it's my turn. her
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deaf i think it should go to critical 1st and then i have the opportunity to get back 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 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 birdies. and you order my. or are requesting the vaccine kindly kindly letting him know that you
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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 rings a little hollow all those fancy dinners with healthcare 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
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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
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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 before me. institutes have launched clinical trials of a joint coronavirus vaccine though the aim being to combine elements of the jobs of elop individually by the 2 sides or. spoke with alexander ginsberg the director of the galilee institute there are vaccine differs from other. 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
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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 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 about the 1st and 2nd phases we published not just anywhere but in the one sits 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
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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 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
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safe. what is the difference between the oxford vaccine that is astra zeneca and the game elaine stritch of vaccine there are a lot of differences but they're not significant oxford and as 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 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. this bring it to britain where the u.k. health secretary herz called thousands of londoners irresponsible after they opted for last minute trips outside the capital to avoid
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a strict locked on some residence in the places they're fleeing to or to 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 think a lot of people of all confidence and the advice they've been given and they gave everyone a chalice 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 view of business and 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 it me leaving the city of london you don't realize that it's going to spread the barrier across the whole of the country you know a lot of frustration out there it comes after
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a highly infectious mutation of covert was detected in southern england 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 a lot of those who haven't been fleeing have been buying long queues forming outside supermarkets in london over concerns of the churches in the run up to christmas fear has been fueled by a combination of factors including a potential no deal bragg's a stricter lockdown regulations on the border closures because of the new coronavirus train we spoke to former british m.p. george galloway he say's it is strange the u.k. is reacting to the new strain of the virus only now when in fact it was discovered months ago. i should tell you that sir patrick vallance says that this new
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mutant corona virus was identified last september and it's a couple of days before christmas the government council 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 ito to help out they say that we're spending billions of taxpayers' money actually in the bill in the restaurant for someone like me to go for it to pay for their own don't know we've gone from that to look for before christmas cancelling the whole thing it's been there schauble strong start to finish i don't experience a shambles no i say the government was talking about this. in order to change from which cataclysmic phil you go. to moving the program on dozens of
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journalists out the guitar based news network al-jazeera have had their smartphones hacked that's according to cyber security researchers in canada the team looking into the breach believes it happened on the orders of saudi arabia and the united arab emirates using its really made spyware. in july and august 2020 government operatives used n.s.o. group's pegasus spy web 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 m.p.'s really software firm 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
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a vulnerability in what's up leading to the messenger service to sue the firm but n.s.o. group saying it's tech is used by governments to track terrorists criminals well in the. uk all the targeted devices turned out to be i phones which had not updated to the newest operating system the hackers could listen in through the built in microphone take pictures with the camera and access locations on passwords i spoke with former british intelligence officer philip ingram he say's the is really firm behind the mower as a track record of helping us. the n.s.o. 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 they're only supposed to set up 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
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and that's what's brought them to attention of a number of the civil rights organizations i think this software specifically targets of apple 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 apple 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 disappears because a company must get into it it was one of these really companies stuff by former israeli intelligence officers any device transmitting anything along even if you believe that you're using a secure up the bottom line is someone somewhere can listen in to. a russian space rocket maker chinese tech for a new u.s. blacklist war that's the reaction that's caused as well of the sharpest.
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i'm max kaiser one more of my guide to financial survival this is. a device used by professional scallywags to earn money. that's right these has flaws are simply not accountable and we're just adding more and more to them. totally destabilize the global economy you need to protect yourself and get informed because we are for. the world is driven by shaped by.
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the day or thinks. we dare to ask. 19 minutes past 10 pm here in moscow welcome back the u.s. has imposed restrictions on exports to dozens of russian chinese companies accused of having military ties meaning all american companies will have to apply for special licenses to sell those 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.
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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 let's go to realty tell us the u.s. department of commerce has put a 103 entities on the list adequate to their 58 from china 45 from russia they include arms manufacturers research institutes and the russian state firm that builds soyuz rockets are spaced agency has 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 chinese government have condemned the u.s. move saying it's likely to further damage relations. this is yet another aggressive
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step against russia we can only regret that another outgoing us administration has decided to deal a blow to already very poor russian use bilateral relations each blow delays normalization and significantly hinders the process of breaking this deadlock that is some of the 3 mantle to our bilateral relations you don't you know sometimes the united states on 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 serious threat to the security of global industrial and supply chains because of serious harm to the well being interests of the people of all countries including residents of the united states then we should interpret anything coming out now and before biden takes off his technical measures transmix for his benefit or the benefit of the republicans don't necessary what biden or dean democrats will continue to china's does we acting in
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a constrained manner with chinese and foreign minister saying that the united states should choose by a lot in consultation with china instead of pushing septa ball sanctions against chinese companies by over stretching the notion of national security opportunity suppression after all we have all seen what the us has done to its global competitors 1st we see unfair treatment to french else wrong japan's to sheeba and now we see china's highway t.g.i. and cetera i think whoever we are rife with the yes we did next to be suppressed. the u.s. congress has passed a long awaited $900000000000.00 stimulus package it is the 2nd relief payout since the start of the pandemic and i just need to be signed off by donald trump lawmakers struck the agreement over the weekend after months of fractious negotiations ortiz killer blow up and that's mean. 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
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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 son of. sam laws are in 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
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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 get an extension so that helps but then i wasn't able to get anything else i still haven't since
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july i've lost my car i'm about to lose my aunt means it's that hard no christmas for my kids that 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 and. 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 it will open taken us through from. coast christiane who believes the measure won't be
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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 unemployment and this wave of small business closures 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 to try 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. let's finish up with some world news in brief.
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a noisy rally in barcelona where people are angry about the latest rules affecting bars and restaurants some of the demonstrators even took a cheeky approach to expressing their. you know. what you just heard our locals in hawaii singing volcano erupted before them they had been warned to stay at home there's been a series of minor earthquakes in the region but many clearly couldn't resist the lava spectacle. broadcasting live from moscow every hour of the day this is our team or great programs get going in moments stay close to find out what showing where ever you are today.
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was a pandemic no said you know blood is just lying to nationalities. to . judge. common every crisis with this system to. we can do better we should. everyone is contributing. but we also know that this crisis will not go on forever the challenges created the response has been so many good people are helping us. it makes us feel very proud that we are in it together. the industry faces in the media.
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business is all about making money making profits and some of the corporations international markets import export do you imagine the number of printing diseases in every community it is not due to new viruses though new microbes that's not true so it is due to. the city though that moment discipline of this sort of muscles are really yes to cuba they could only come in to see the way to. the legacy of the sky 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 interesting except that we have regulation we want relation i was in just belief we don't behave any aspinall to you that's fine.
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greetings and sell you taste it's all right all right all right here in the united states of america this week marked the release of pfizer's now f.d.a. approved vaccination against 19 yes frontline workers including doctors 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 anna flack picked up the pen incident in london.

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