in the stories you shake the week here on our t.v. developers of russia sputnik the vaccine sign an official memorandum of cooperation with astra zeneca they hope that combining their 2 vaccines will improve the efficacy of a new more contagious strain has been detected in england causing panic worldwide with more than 40 countries banning arrivals from the u.k. and clemency for killers but known for whistleblowers dozens of pardons from donald trump excluding those who spilled the beans on american war crimes but do include mercenaries found guilty of the mass murder of civilians in iraq one way out so that there is no interest if acacia iraqi blood has become or her miscible and has no significance. that we hold that there will be justice or god willing your plot

or not just disappear the iraqi government has to act as soon as possible and a victory or a defeat while the u.k. prime minister celebrates in the story breaks that deal across the english channel the european union's chief negotiator describes it as a lose lose situation. good evening the latest news and a look back at what's been happening to you over the last 7 days you're watching weekly here on r.t. international now the pharma giant astra zeneca russia's gammel a institute have launched clinical trials of a joint coronavirus vaccine it combines elements of jabs developed individually by the 2 sides astra zeneca see explained why they decided to join forces with the russians we have 2 main goals the 1st. one is to allow

care professionals doctors and nurses to use 11 vaccine all the of her for the for the 1st injection and the 2nd to make the alex simpler and the 2nd goal is to hope pretty get better if you just say 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 that produce and of x. and probably employing a world and some of these vaccines have to be easy to use and they have to be cheap because the lower middle income countries cannot afford the expensive rexton we are on a myriad of this is when the whole world goes on it's got rid of it so we're on the safe. around the world orations astra zeneca and the other produces what you call you or something because we just need to work together and international operation can be just. or of thinking about

a quarter we spoke more about this but to experts from the cape or hunter is a professor of medicine and peta smith is an epidemiologist explained why the scientific cooperation between britain and russia is significant and one of the problems with the. i don't know virus the vaccines like the sputnik 5 and the oxford is that there's always a risk that you can develop immunity to the area rather than to the targets which is what you are wanting for now if you actually makes these 2 that seem so that you maybe give one vaccine to start and then the other 134 weeks later then you get over this problem of developing impunity to the carrier that virus can 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 elation of the sputnik and the ox so

that's there's any current that see could well improve its efficacy a lot greater than the individual that seems apart now the problem with both him and biotech vaccines is that they are they would guard a very strict 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 very many parts of the world probably also i spoke with a sputnik 3 vaccine developer he told us how their job does differ from others on the global market. with that we developed a vaccine from the start of receiving funding to just ration really quite quickly in 5 months the main reason is that for 25 years or more we have been developing at the government a institute

a technological form of one 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 and you respond with minimal side effects or. the safety of the vaccine has been fully proven on a very similar vaccine or not identical against not only a bowl of viruses but also the mers coronavirus so when we were working against coverage ninety's we were able to use around 70 percent of an existing element that was one of the indicators by which the effectiveness of a vaccine is most easily measured and this is the presence of until bodies in the blood but if we proceed from that experimental data in a similar vaccine against it all of this protective immunity lasted 2 years we simply didn't have a long observation period little bit reports by the pfizer vaccine needs to be transported and minus 70 degrees and yours at minus 23 rate or nothing the 3 minus

18 for now i'm not some months down the line and i hope that we'll be able to amend the registration certificate so that this vaccine can be stored not at minus 18 to the household refrigerator temperature plus 2. the side effects still to force you out of action maybe a rash headache or muscle discomfort and i think the most noticeable effect is maybe your temperature going up to 38 degrees for 2 days to take the vaccine yourself yesterday on march 30th very long with all my employees and you're still alive not just a lie even look pretty active which vaccinated my 14 year old granddaughter so you violated your own instructions against vaccinating children that's outrageous you were raised to kill your entire family for the sake of getting vaccines and 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 game elaine's. 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 pathogens if 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 pathogen which were not quite accurately calculate 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 but it by protective proteins which i'm not sure where the my colleagues may solve all the problems on a large scale but it's the sound on kosofsky pushing the questions there meanwhile argentina has officially approved the jab and then on wednesday. 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 say in russia a friend in need is a friend who held the door a vaccine. to save the lives of millions of argentine. while a plane carrying argentina's 1st batch did arrive in buenos aires on thursday moscow has said it will provide enough doses for up to 10000000 people earlier this month the argentine president himself to express confidence in the russian vaccine and promise that he would be the 1st person to take it. and women who are still in argentina some raise doubts about the quality of russian science to clear everyone's downswings vs here in argentina i will be the 1st one to take that vaccine because i have no doubt about the quality of the vaccine you know meeting elsewhere the european union has launched

a cross border vaccination program against hey you can see the 1st jobs being administered under the european road act comes after the block authorized by iss vaccine and according to the head of the european commission it's been delivered to all 27 member states contracts have been secured with several drug companies for the shipment of more than 2000000000 doses although that is double what's needed for the entire block population to get inoculated. also this week the world health organization raised the alarm over a new highly contagious strain of copd. 16 countries have now confirmed cases of the new coronavirus variances 1st emerged in the u.k. and then spread to europe and then to the middle east asia and also

a strain and on saturday it was detected across the atlantic sea with that canada here reporting its 1st case the discovery of the new strain prompted many countries to adopt stricter measures more than 50 countries and will have an imposed some level of restrictions on arrivals from the u.k. and euro turning services from england to the continent have also been suspended that in fact left hundreds of people stranded in airports and train stations over christmas the travel ban also left more than 4000 lorries stranded for days at the british port of things got moving again only on thursday but hundreds of drivers is still waiting to cross the border and at one point tensions threatened to turn violent with police. i. i.

i know a lot of people on the forecourts just to get it and obviously using their facilities their toilets. within the 1st day the clothes side closest movers on and close it down to anybody using the toilets no one you talking. green. thousands of people in the child is going to be a problem. started station side every day i i am here and not shall where i'm not going on that i can't look at. mike lang lang turned to me and i may have to look at me like that and i've met adam and i damn going down to ground mike and i'm going to leave that remark tough to cope with restrictions have been imposed within the u.k. to combat a surge in infections there and while the british government has said that stricter measures are necessary and this broadcast neil clark does believe that the crisis

has been mismanaged the fact of the matter is that this so-called use throat was known about in september we had scientists writing about it discussing it in september. and yet the health secretary only in the house is 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 those big it up now so it was over the . what was going to happen and it's also to link up with government still will ever get to where 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 block flights going to stop people coming in from britain if what you say it's true the 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 et cetera coming in so it really is a total disaster really and disaster is the responsibility of the british government

still to come few only 4 years of wrangling the e.u. and we finally got a trade deal over the line we'll look at how people live across britain are reacting to it that's the come you stop. join me every week on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sport i'm showbusiness i'll see that. chemistry is also given us fulfillment in many ways by guaranteeing and abundant food supply if we look at our world today there are still famines but there are political famines are caused by political problems are not caused by an inability to grow food and if we look at infectious diseases if you were in the middle of

a pandemic now with a pandemic is killing less than one percent of the people that are in facts and in past times pandemics could kill 30 to 70 percent of the people that were infected so chemistry has given us much improved quality of life in many ways and then we have to ask well with these unintended consequences that are causing species go extinct that are causing environmental injustice is how can we make things better because certainly we can handle those things better than we have a. welcome back so we can see mercenaries but whistleblowers can go whistle donald trump issue dozens of pardons this week but not for defenders of freedom of speech like. edward snowden instead the at getting u.s. president set off alarm bells at the night united nations by giving clemency to 4

former contracts is that the blackwater private military company they were jailed for their involvement in a mass killing of civilians in iraq. i know 100. there were dead bodies everywhere are losing the argument going badly with you people and so are among the dead bodies on the street those who are. 7 years old. i. i. i. well iraq's foreign ministry has condemned the decision saying it didn't take into account the seriousness of the crime and also said that the move isn't in line

with the commitment to human rights and justice declared by washington baghdad said it would urge the west to reconsider the people of iraq also responded angrily to the part. when my i said that i was here there is no justification iraqi blood has become per miscible and has no significance one day they will pay the price because iraqi blogs does not spill easily. good enough we hope that there will be justice god willing of their blood will not just disappear the wreckage government must act as soon as possible because the courts of the infamous black water company citizens and this was when we thought them today we hear they've been released and the person ruled as president truman didn't make it on it's like the u.s. doesn't can't spilled a rocky blood shot and killed on the united nations the international community and human rights organizations which have to intervene immediately on condemning these killings voting 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 been pardoned 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 the names that were missing that many were optimistic and hopeful about were julian a son john edward snowden these 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 yes i think the least you could do is to end the suffering of duty response to pardon him this man has for be enough for the interest of the public and was donald trump since you're given pardons to people please consider pardoning those who at great personal sacrifice expose the septuagint 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 to 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. for the bill in reporting that now on thursday the u.k. and the european union reached a landmark trade deal after 4 years of wrangling however the chief breaks it

negotiate to describe the divorce as a lose lose but the prime minister. was upbeat. this is the least. 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 yet but getting your dollar there is no winner and brax it's a lose lose situation to separate especially in the world as it is today england the united kingdom has chosen to be solitary rather than stand together ok well let's look quickly then it's how the u.k. and the e.u. will cooperate from january the 1st these are some of the key points that will be no tariffs on each other's goods and no limit on trading new border checks have been agreed on too while the u.k. has pulled out the long running your asthma student exchange in between universities politicians will return to westminster to vote on this deal on

december 30th and it is fully expected to go. now shortly after the deal was announced the scottish 1st minister nicola sturgeon said that britain has lost more than it's gained from brakes it and that scotland now has to decide on its future is quote an independent european nation meanwhile the deal has triggered mixed feelings among scots and other brits i think it makes a few of these because of a past couple of weeks so it's been 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 complete retrograde step i think that the feeling of being part of a multinational international. i word looking community i think has been found fantastic i didn't support break so i didn't pull pranks a i have really guides to not be part of you know petty boy it does make me nervous to think about when i get to visit the european cities and you know friends i have

to live in speed and in france and other parts of europe it would be a disaster if there had been no deal so very pleased but there is a deal this is i suppose to some people a big christmas present it's just i think if i was really seated in this year i think we will see a return to the troubles or was it st louis. extremely disappointing. and naive shortsighted government as a for their own short sighted aims as to what such turmoil practice of the so you know this country is dreadful a very very sort of i think it's really. funny going off to 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 now while boris johnson's christmas wish may have come true it has been overshadowed by a tough year of closed borders and also economic woes. looks back at the last 12 months. 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 this practice of negotiations food shortages coronavirus close borders economic collapse felt like you know sending your. friends in your presence who home grinch who stole christmas. yet i think what christmas has been so far in history you might be like remember it is the prime minister. best so while it's about a man who wanted to be remembered as the one who got brecht's it done 4 years of preparation for a cause he believed in thompson was set up for trial and he even promised back in january that it was often 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 control the sea. except to say that it begins with billions receding the past behind us

well be rose from the past and haunted porous for 11 months that's how long it took to negotiate a deal a deal that has followed praxedis claims could be resolved over a cup of tea 11 months the brink of no deal a nation of disappointed 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 the 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 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 facts 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. distinction. guys. let me let i will absolutely get back to christmas would 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 because speakers 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 initiated on you cannot who's devoted 48 hours so it's so confusing i don't even. know my parents live. there with the kids so i am allowed to go to youtube but i don't know if i'm really about to be going through. you know what he did to you was it a case of bad timing of the boat was 2020 year you just couldn't shine no muck to

what was it the man himself who failed to meet one thing's for sure the bars johnson it's been not ahead of the year but rather a year from how. you can watch the week here not the time to get there you can also keep yourself updated on our social media pages and you can check. max keiser this is the kaiser report with stacey herbert and special year end guest misfires dine the men who i must say the kind of sensitivity to world events of markets really seen anywhere except here on kaiser for mit welcome back. this is not like. it's

not a money spinner but it is expensive. and it's dangerous . and this is. the breaks. some people.

so if someone wants to authorize a product in europe let's say a plant protection product dispersant we call this person or this company the applicant has to provide data that allows us as the risk assessors to judge whether this product is safe or not and this information comes from the applicant and the studies that are commissioned by the applicant to allow us to assess the safety are paid by the applicant obviously so it's the intellectual property of the applicant and we can properly parts of the studies 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 to the european commission and to f.c. so the european food safety authority and they have the tenor 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 panels we have a lot of people with ties with the food industry so that means a conflict of interest. so.