i'm sure i'll be speaking to us of the world of politics sports business i'm sure i'll see you there. in the source a shape the way karen r.t.d. is a pal of hers of russia sputnik the vaccine sign an official memorandum of cooperation with astra zeneca they hope that combining their 2 vaccines will improve the ethical. and you 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 exclude those who spilled the beans on american war crimes but including this release found guilty of the mass murder of civilians in iraq. there is no justification iraqi blood has become her miscible and has no significance.

we hope that there will be justice god willing their plot will not just disappear the record government must act as soon as possible. and a victory or a defeat while the u.k. prime minister celebrates in the story breaks the deal cross the english channel the european union's chief negotiator describes it as a lose lose situation. hello good evening the latest developments and look back at what's been happening over the last 7 days to watch and wait to hear and i take now the pharma giant ash and russia. started clinical trials of a joint coronavirus faxing it combines elements of jabs developed individually by the 2 sides astra zeneca c.e.o. explained why they decided to join forces with the russians. we have 2 main

goals the 1st one is to allow headscarf official notice doctors and nurses to use 11 vaccine all the of well 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 can put you scent 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 middle income countries can't afford the expensive accident we're on the myriad of the disease when the whole world and it's got rid of it so we're on the safety for good it around the world orations astra zeneca and the other producers but it's equally important because we just need to work together and it's our national operation more competition will be or all i was

thinking about a call that we spoke more about this but to experts from the u.k. paul hunter is a professor of medicine and peter smith an epidemiologist they explained why the scientific cooperation between britain and russia is significant. one of the problems with the. i don't know virus the vaccines like this book 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. get over this problem of developing impunity to the carrier the 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 a nation of the sputnik and the ox so that's because any back seat could well improve its efficacy a lot greater than the individual vaccines apart now the problem with. via technique scenes is that they are cart of. 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 chain in terms of being delivering being able to have very many parts of the world now we also spoke with he's been in the vaccine developer he told us how their job does differ from others on the global market. 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 though 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 bowler this protective immunity lasted for 2 years we simply didn't have a long observation period because 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 safe. what is the difference between the oxford vaccine that is astra zeneca and

the gamma lanes to do vaccine there are a lot of differences but they're not significant oxford and us to seneca went from my point of view on 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 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 with your. arteries and on kosofsky putting the questions then i mean while argentina officially approved the jab for an agency use on wednesday. you know. 300000 doses of the vaccine are on argentinian territory these will be

distributed in all the provinces and we will work side by side with the leadership of buenos aires to start mass vaccination. we are helping argentina which is one of the 1st countries in latin america to receive the russian drug as we say in russia a friend in need is a friend indeed we held the door a vaccine helps to save the lives of millions of argentine. but 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 early this month the argentine president himself to express confidence in the russian vaccine and promised he would be the 1st person to take it. and women who are in argentina some raise 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. elsewhere the european union has launched

a cross border vaccination program against kobe taken see the 1st jobs being administered under the european rollout and it does come after the block authorize pfizer's vaccine according to the head of the european commission it's been delivered to all 27 in the member states contracts have been secured for several companies the shipment of more than 2000000000 doses although that is double what's needed for the entire blocks population to get inoculated well also this week the world health organization raised the alarm over a new highly contagious strain of it. 16 countries have now confirmed their 1st cases of the new coronavirus variances

1st emerged in the u.k. and then spread to europe then the middle east asia and australia and on saturday it was detected to across the atlantic with canada reporting its 1st case where the discovery of the new strain prompted many countries to adopt stricter measures and 50 countries have imposed some level of restrictions on arrivals from the u.k. and euro tunnel services from england to the continent have been suspended 2 that left hundreds of people in fact stranded at airports and train stations over christmas the travel ban also left more than 4000 lorries here stranded for days at the british port of dover things got moving again only on thursday but hundreds of drivers are still waiting to cross the border and at one point tensions threatened to turn violent with police.

i. think a lot of people on the forecourt just to get in and obviously usenet facilities that toilets. stayed closed side closest movers on and close it down to anybody using the toilets now when you talk. mean. thousands of people in the town is going to be a problem. station side every day i am here and that show where not a lot that i can cook and clean and don't do me and i might feel cheated on me next day as it was nice me how did i get going go to france but i don't see that tougher restrictions have been imposed within u.k. to combat a surge in infections and while the british government does say that stricter measures are necessary broadcast neil clark believes that the crisis has been

mismanaged. the fact of the matter is that this so-called new strain was known about in september we had scientists writing about it discussing it in september. and yet the but the health sector only says this just a few days before christmas why didn't he make announcement about this in september why didn't he get up in september those big get up now so it was never the predictable what was going to happen it's also to link up with government still will get to what the british government is trying to terrify is the iraqi government the start about this terrible threat because the closest trading partners are going to say wow you're sorry we're going to book flights going to stop people coming in from what you say through 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 on the stuff is the responsibility of the british

government so to come on the weekly offer for years of wrangling the e.u. and the u.k. and finally got to try and deal over the line we look at how those people across britain are reacting to it yes to come just off right. max keiser this is the kaiser report stacey herbert and special year end guest misfires dine the man who i must say the kind of sensitivity to world events and markets rarely seen anywhere except here on time for 4 minutes welcome back. the world is driven by a dream shaped by thinkers and there is great. slow

dares thinks. we dare to ask. again you're watching the weekly mercy for mercenaries but whistle blows can go whistle trump issued dozens of pardons this week but not for defenders of freedom of speech like cheating the songe and edward snowden instead the outgoing u.s. president set off alarm bells in the united nations by giving clemency to 4 former

contracts is that 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. there are dead bodies everywhere and cities are humans going about it with you people and so are among the dead bodies on the street those who are legal 7 years old. well iraq's foreign ministry has condemned the decision saying it didn't take into

account the seriousness of the crime it 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 u.s. to reconsider the people of iraq also responded angrily to the part. when my i said that i did 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. and took it 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 court of us is asleep the infamous black will to company killed citizens a nice to a square today we hear they've been released on the personal rulers of president truman it's like the us doesn't care if the spilled a rocky blood we call on the united nations the international community and human rights organizations to intervene immediately and condemn these killers 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 iraqi 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 gen edward snowden these prominent whistleblowers had many people calling for the trump white house to grant them clemency mungo's 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 thing to do is to end the suffering the beauty the films 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 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 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. credit reporting that now on thursday the european union reached

a landmark trade deal after 4 years of wrangling however the chief bricks it negotiate to describe the divorce is a noose loose but prime minister boris johnson 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 yeah but go on your dollar but there is no winner in bracks 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 let's have a look then a quick look at how the u.k. and the e.u. will cooperate from january the 1st these are some of the key points there will be no tariffs on each other's goods and no limits on trading the border checks have been agreed on too while the u.k. has pulled out of the long running your asthma student exchange between

universities politicians will return to westminster to vote on the deal on december 30th although it is fully expected to go through well shortly after the deal was announced the scottish 1st minister nicolas to said that britain has lost more than it's gained from breaks it and that scotland now has to decide on its future as quote an independent european nation meanwhile the deal has triggered makes feelings among scots and other brits. i think it makes sense to these because over the past couple of weeks so should be 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 drops in a fantastic i didn't support break so i didn't pull the brakes a i have really guides to not be part of you know penny more 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 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 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 a. such turmoil practice of the so you know this country is dreadful and they are 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 rate that you have to come before we left the european union now while boris johnson's christmas wish then may have come true it has been overshadowed by a tough year of close borders and also economic woes takes

a look back at the last 12 months. it was almost as if he wanted to become a meme we have so much to look forward to in 2020 it's hard to pin down which one of 2020 stretches he meant the endless practice of negotiations food shortages coronavirus cross borders economic collapse like. sending. sending a president who home printer on christmas. yet i think what christmas has been so far and history he might be like remembered as the prime minister. best 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 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 in the past behind us well be rose from the past and haunted porus for 11 months that's how long it took to negotiate a deal a deal that his father praxedis 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 debates 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 poised to 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. let me i will absolutely get back to christmas would be counseled actually christmas is off schools are reopening actually know that not we're lifting the knocked out actually stay at home little wonder then the confusion on exhaust peroration grew up to confuse 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 certainly with the new school that 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 remember 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. fear or fear to fear was it a case of bad timing for bojo was 2020 the 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. it's just coming posix needing a remote sky that's the weekly we're back with more stories from the last 7 days in a bad.

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solves a problem without creating 10 more fast forward 9 cheeriest that takes on a rather grim meaning considering that according to our guest today there is not a single contaminated square santa material left on this planet has been really the point when science does more harm than good in progress it was so well to discuss that i'm now joined by frank for him professor all he could talk to the caller jay abt northern arizona university i'm all for all the chemical age how can best 4000 and disease killed millions and change their relationship with the earth. frank it's good to talk to you thank you very much for your time and congratulations on your magnificent book nature of sun i appreciate that now i think your book provides for a very interesting read that is at the time of a global pandemic very encouraging and very unnerving at the same time encouraging because our chances of survival i gather are much better the.