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blood. and has no significance. just. disappear in the iraqi government. thanks for joining us this sunday morning watching the weekly. clinical trials of a joint. combines elements of developed individually by the 2 sides. explains why they're joining forces with the russians. we have 2 main goals the 1st

one is to allow heads care professionals doctors and nurses to use 11 vaccine all the other for the for the 1st injection and the 2nd to make the alex simpler and the 2nd goal is to hope pretty get better actually just when you combine 2 different vaccines i don't think companies are competing against each other everybody is racing against the virus we would need many many vaccines because there is no one single company the gun could use and of x. into the entire world and some of these vaccines have to be easy to use and they have to be cheap because the low income countries can't afford the expensive accident we're on a myriad of the disease when the whole world what it's got rid of it so we're on the safety for good it's safer on the world orations astra zeneca and other producers but it's equally or tums because we just need to work together and international cooperation can be just. or think you know

a cog we spoke to paul hunter a medicine professor at snore each medical school at the university of east anglia and also peter smith epidemiology professor at the london school of hygiene and tropical medicine explained why the british russian scientific cooperation is exciting if we can think. well one of the problems with the. i don't know virus that seems like this but nick 5 in the oxford is that there's always a risk that you can develop immunity to the carrier rather than to the target which is what you are wanting for now if you actually makes these 2 that seem so you maybe give one vaccine to start and then the other 134 weeks later then you you get over this problem of developing impunity to the carrier virus and i think there's quite a lot of evidence that actually does work like that but and people have shown this

works in other areas so to me the compound a nation of the sputnik and the oxo that's presented vaccine could well improve its efficacy a lot greater than the individual vaccines apart now the problem with. biotech back scenes is that they are kind of a street which is going to make it very difficult to deliver in many parts of the world where it is both the oxford and the the russian vaccine have a much more except of all cold showing in terms of being delivering being able to deliver in many parts of the world aunties and uncles spoke with alexander ginsberg director of russia's gamma lanes to toot 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 which is 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 experimental data in a similar vaccine against a bowler with this protective immunity lasted for 2 years we simply didn't have a longer observation period we could board the pfizer vaccine needs to be

transported at minus 70 degrees and yours at minus $23.00 rate. minus 18 for now at 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 or 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 do 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 are ready to kill your entire family for the sake of a new vaccine i wasn't going to kill them but prove that the vaccine is completely safe. what is the difference between the oxford vaccine that is astra zeneca and

the gamma lanes to tube x. in there are a lot of differences but they're not significant oxford and us to seneca went from my point of view on the classical part 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 it's over. meanwhile the e.u. has launched a cross border vaccination against cove it these are live pictures of the 1st jobs being provided this is the same right now in roumania comes after the european commission authorized by this vaccine as i said this is happening across europe now

and this is this enough we switch to austria people very busy receiving their vaccinations against covert 19. now the world health organizations raise the alarm over a new highly contagious strain of covidien was 1st registered in the u.k. and it's since spread across the world. 16 countries have now confirmed the 1st cases of the new corona virus variant 1st emerged in the united kingdom but then it spread to europe then it reached the middle east and asia and australia on saturday was detected in the western hemisphere for the 1st time canada reporting its 1st case now the discovery of the

new strain prompted many countries to adopt harsh measures more than 40 countries banned all arrivals from the united kingdom eurotunnel services from england to the continent was suspended left hundreds of people stranded in airports and train stations over christmas travel ban also left more than 4000 lorries stranded for days in the british port of dover things to get moving again only on thursday yet hundreds of drivers are still waiting to cross the border and at one point tensions over the band led to scuffles with police. a lot of people on the full force just to get in and obviously usenet facilities that toilets. within fair stated quote side closest movers and close it down to anybody using the toilets now when you're talking. thousands of people

in the town is going to be a problem. station side than i am here and i want to show what knocking off that i can and i think to me and i have to look at it i mean it was i mean i did it i guess i'm going down the road but i don't think that. the british government imposed harshly covert restrictions across the u.k. to combat the surge and infections for journalist and broadcaster neil clark says the british government has mismanaged this crisis causing unnecessary chaos the fact of the matter is that this so-called new stroke was known about in september we had scientists writing about it discussing it in september and yet the health secretary only says this just a few days before christmas why didn't he make an announcement about this in september why didn't he get up in september it knows now so it was never the

predictable what was going to happen and it's also to link up with the other main story we'll get to what the british government is trying to terrify is in iraqi w m d start about this terrible strain of course our closest trading partners are going to say wow you're sorry we're going to what's likely going to stop people coming in from what you say true british government said it why should we have british people coming over to our countries and of course we got the chaos of the whole issue about the about the french blockade etc coming in so it really is a total disaster really and the disaster is the responsibility of the british government. mercy for mercenaries whistleblowers though can go whistle donald trump issued dozens of pardons this week but not for defenders of freedom of speech by julian assange and edward snowden instead of the outgoing u.s. president set off alarm bells at the u.n. by giving clemency to 4 former contractors of the blackwater private military company they were jailed for their involvement in the mass killing of civilians in

iraq. i know we're here in america that. there were dead bodies everywhere and the arguments going to be from this are among the dead bodies lying on the street those who are. 7 years old. say. iraq's foreign ministries condemned the decision saying it didn't take into account the seriousness of the crime they also said that the move isn't in line with a commitment to human rights and justice declared by washington i dad said it would urge the u.s. to reconsider the people of iraq also responded angrily. there

is no justification iraqi blood has become per miscible and has no significance one day they will pay the price because iraqi blood does not spill easily. good enough we hope that there will be justice god willing their blood will not just disappear and the iraqi government must act as soon as possible because the course of us is to see the infamous black water company kill its citizens a nice suit a square thought and today we hear they've been released on the personal routers of president truman it's like the u.s. doesn't care if the spilled a rocky blood we cool in the united nations the international community and human rights organizations have to intervene immediately and condemn these killings there has been widespread outrage about the trump administration's decision to grant clemency to some members of the blackwater military contracting company these were guards who were employed by blackwater who killed civilians in iraq paul slow evan

liberty and dustin herd were convicted for manslaughter and the individual nicholas slotting who opened fire and 1st started shooting into the crowd of iraqi civilians he was convicted of 1st degree murder but now the white house is letting all of them off they will no longer be in prison serving their sentences they have the hard this is the feeling of the white house about why they made this decision when the convoy attempted to establish a blockade outside the green zone the situation turned violent which resulted in the unfortunate deaths and injuries of iraqi civilians further prosecutors recently disclosed more than 10 years after the incident that the lead iraq investigator who prosecutors relied heavily on so very far that there were no exigent victims and to collect evidence may have helped tunnies to insurgent groups himself now at this point there is widespread. outrage this seems like the trump administration is

almost approving of the killing of iraqi civilians 2 children were among the 14 people in the crowd who died as a result of their gun fire but at this point people are also looking at the fact that trump's education secretary betsy to vos is the sister of the founder of blackwater erik prince now there's also been a lot of outrage about who is not on the list of trump's pardons so the names that were missing that many were optimistic and hopeful about were julian a son john edward snowden who's prominent whistleblowers had many people calling for the trump white house to grant them clemency among those who called for them were not just activists and advocates of civil liberties and for the protection of whistleblowers but also representatives of the united nations take a listen if president trump is true as well you think the least you could do is to end the suffering the purity the songs to pardon him this man has for be enough for

the interest of the public and will donald trump since you're given pardons to people please consider pardoning those who at great personal sacrifice expose the deception and criminality of those in the deep state now trump still has time to grant a pardon to edward snowden and to julian a son she can grant clemency up until the moment he leaves office he could do it at the very very last minute however the number of people that were pardoned today and the information about who they are seems to have many pessimistic many of the activists supporting the whistleblowers feel like this indicates the trumpet ministration is moving in a very different direction with its clemency appreciate staying with us this morning here on news after the break. the world is driven by a dream shaped by. the

cares thinks. we dare to ask. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be an arms race is often spearing dramatic developments only mostly i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk.

welcome back on thursday the u.k. and european union reached a landmark trade deal after 4 years of wrangling brings it negotiate to describe the u.k. e.u. divorce is a lose lose promise to bush johnson was upbeat in his christmas address this is the feast. full of fish by the way and i believe it will be the basis of a happy and successful and stable partnership with our friends in the e.u. for years to come. yes but getting your dollar to play the reason the winner and bracks it's a lose lose situation to separate them especially in the world as it is today england the united kingdom has chosen to be solitary rather than stand together.

while boris johnson's christmas wish may have come true it's been overshadowed by the fear of covert close borders and economic woes skittle a picks up a story it was almost as if he wanted to become a me we have so much to look forward to in 2020 it's hard to pin down which one of 2020 stretches he meant the end as brett said negotiations food shortages coronavirus close borders economic collapse felt like you know sending your. friends in your presence and who home grinch who stole christmas. yet i think what christmas has been so far and easter you might be like remember this the prime minister has. been so was about a man who wanted to be remembered as the one who got brecht's it done 4 years of preparation for a course he believed in thompson was set up for trial and he even promised back in january that it was up and ready all but done we had ended

a debate has run for 3 and a half years some would say 47 years i would even mention the name of the can probably. except to say that it begins with being as receding in the past behind us well be rose from the past and a haunted bar as for 11 months that's how long it took to negotiate a deal a deal that has followed it is claimed could be resolved over a cup of tea 11 months the brink of no deal a nation of disappointed impatient angry people but boris still gave himself a pat on the back we've taken back control of our laws and our destiny we've taken back control of every jot and tittle of regulation in a way that is complete and unfettered who's going to tell him then that this celebration might be a party for one it sounds like the british team have dropped the ball before the line no wonder they want

a christmas eve announcement to hide the fisheries sell out today amidst all the debate and details of the trade deal one fundamental truth remains that at a time of global insecurity we're no longer part of one of history's greatest and most noble project bringing nations together to build peace out of the ruins of war . this is a disastrous bragg's it outcome for scottish farmer it's and like all other aspects of bracks it for students cortlandt against our will it wasn't just brussels that proved to be bogus on doing fresh from a caribbean holiday and still on a post-election high in the new year boris johnson didn't seem too concerned about a never heard of before virus his message was clear don't exaggerate when barry is going 'd up. and when there is a risk that new diseases such as corona virus will trigger a panic while it was a pretty quick descent from fun to this.

but it's hard not to panic when the person who's supposed to be meeting you flip flops and utahns his way through a crisis to the point his own ministers don't know the rules so make it absolutely clear. that it is. the. guy who let me let i will absolutely get back to christmas won't be cancelled actually christmas is off schools are reopening actually no they're not we're lifting the knocked out actually stay at home little wonder then that confusion on exhaust peroration grew i'm a bit confused because you know it's like things are very very quick and we don't get that much information about what's going on and then suddenly build

a new school down we don't know what to do so nobody can use and they seem to only cannot who's devoted 48 hours so it's so confusing i don't even know my parents live. close to where we keep going so i am allowed to go to you tube but i don't know if i'm really about to be going through. what you did was it a case of bad timing for bojo was 2020 year you just couldn't shine no matter what or was it the man himself who failed to meet one thing's for sure for boris johnson it's been not a hell of a year but rather a year from how ok so let's look at how the u.k. and e.u. will cooperate from january 1st there will be no tariffs on each of these goods no limits on trading new border checks have been agreed to well in the u.k. it has pulled out of the long running erasmus student exchange scheme between universities politicians will return to westminster to vote on the deal on december 30th. and other brutes. i think it makes me feel that these because of

a past couple of weeks as being just so much hype and misinformation and media fatigue because it's been going for so long i hate breaks and i think it's a completely retrograde step i think that the feeling of being part of a multinational international. i word looking community i think has been thompson fantastic i didn't support bret so i didn't vote for frank said i have really guides to not be part of you know petty boy it does make me nervous to think how am i going to get to visit the european cities and you know friends i have to live in spain and in france and other parts of europe it would have been a disaster if there had been no deal so very pleased that there is a deal this is i suppose some people a big christmas present it's just i think if i was really faded into this year i think we will see a return to the troubles or was it st louis. extremely disappointing. and naive of shortsighted government as a for their own short sighted aims as

a. such turmoil practice of the so you know this country is dreadful. i'm very very sorry what's happened i think it's really we've finally got one of these years but it sort of begs the question as to whether this arrangement is going to be better than the regime that you have to come before we left the european union. officially approved russia sputnik vain for emergency use on wednesday officials from both countries said the vaccine would be distributed within days. you know. 300000 doses of vaccine are on argentinian territory these will be distributed in all of the provinces and we will work side by side with the leadership of buenos aires to start mass vaccination. or isn't we are helping argentina which is one of the 1st countries in latin america to receive the russian drudging as we're seeing russia a friend and me as a friend were held there a vaccine that helps to save the lives of millions of argentine. a plane carrying

argentina's 1st batch has already arrived in burma service on thursday under the supply agreement moscow will provide enough doses for up to $10000000.00 people earlier in the month the argentine president expressed confidence in the russian vaccine saying that he'd be the 1st to take it. and one of those here in argentina some raised doubts about the quality of russian science to clear everyone's doubts when sputnik v. is here in argentina i will be the 1st one to take that vaccine because i have no doubt about the quality of the vaccine. finally this hour members of the united states space force that finally been given a name a year after the elite branch of the armed forces was created and you think with all that time us top brass would have come up with something to your original.

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so if someone wants to authorize a broad market in europe let's say a plan protection product. because some of these companies the applicant has to provide data. as the risk is says whether this product is safe when all and this information comes from the applicant and the studies that are commissioned by the applicant allow us to assess the safety paid by the applicant obviously so it's intellectual property of the applicant and we can properly bartz of this in the current legal framework but we also have to respect the pieces confidentiality

claims of the applicants so there's a balance to be found between transparency as much as possible but also to predict the investment of companies into their product innovations. that is that companies have to submit studies to the european commission they do the studies themselves. they have to submit it's to the european commission and to f. stop so the european food safety authority and they have a panel of experts that looks at the studies and then they say ok it's safe or not . so what we have found is that within these expert panel c f m a.