special. misfires demand i must say is the kind of sensitivity to world events and markets really seen anywhere. welcome back. in the stories that shape the way here in our see the developers of russia's put nick 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 can take your strain of code that has been detected in england calls in panic worldwide more than 40 countries now banning arrivals from the u.k. and clemency killers but known for whistleblowers dozens of pardons from donald trump exclude those who spilled the beans on american war crimes but do include found guilty of the mass murder of civilians in iraq. that there is no

justification iraqi blood has to be called per miscible and has no significance and . we hope that there will be justice god willing their blood will not just disappear the iraqi government must act as soon as possible on the victory or defeat while the u.k. prime minister celebrates and the story breaks that deal across the english channel the european union's chief negotiator describes it as a lose lose situation. hello there welcome you're watching a weekly here on r.t. international now the pharma giant astra zeneca and russia's camel a institute of started clinical trials of a joint corona virus vaccine it comes sorry 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 headscarf official notice 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 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 call you son of x. and probably entire world and some of these vaccines have to be easy to use and they have to be cheap because the low income countries cannot afford the expensive rexton we waited on the myriad of the disease when the whole world and its got rid of it so we are he said. around the world or asian disasters that america and

mother produces but it's equally important because we just need to work together and it's our national operation can be just. 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 pay to smith is an epidemiologist 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 and 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 immunity to the carrier

direst and i think there's quite a lot of evidence that actually does work like that and people have shown this works in other areas so to me the compound a nation of the sputnik and the uk so that's because any 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 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 showing in terms of being delivering being able to deliver in many parts of the world where we also spoke with the sputnik 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. but 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 with the pfizer vaccine needs to be transported at minus 70 degrees and yours at minus 23 rate minus 18 for now some months down the line i hope that we'll be able to amend the registration certificates that this vaccine can be stored not at minus 18 but at 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 vaccines there are a lot of differences but they're not significant oxford and us to seneca went from my point of view along the classic path of working against airborne pathogens our colleagues applied all the rules for creating influenza vaccines to the creation of a vaccine against covered 19 and it seems to me that the epidemiological features of this disease this pathogen were not quite accurately calculated 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 by protective proteins but i'm not sure where the my colleagues most to solve all the problems on a large scale parties and on kosofsky pushing the questions then i mean while argentina officially approved jab for emergency use on wednesday.

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 argentines while a plane carrying argentina's 1st batch did arrive when his aires on thursday moscow said it will provide enough doses for up to 10000000 people earlier this month the argentine president himself expressed confidence in the russian vaccine and did promise to you that 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 it or he can see the 1st jobs being administered under the european rollout and it does come after the block authorized for pfizer's vaccine according to the head of the european commission it has been delivered to all 27 member states contracts have been secured with several prague companies for shipment of more than 2000000000 doses of oh that's double what's needed for the entire blocks 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 their 1st cases of the new coronavirus variant 1st emerged in the u.k. and then spread to europe and the middle east asia and australia on saturday it was detected across the atlantic also with canada now reporting its 1st case while the discovery of the new strain to prompt many countries to adopt new strict to measures more than 50 countries have imposed some level of restrictions on arrival strum the u.k. at the moment and euro tunnel services from england to the continent have also been suspended that left hundreds of people actually stranded in airports and train stations over christmas when the travel ban also left more than 4000 lower east stranded for days at the british port of dover things got moving eventually on thursday but hundreds of drivers to still waiting to cross the border and at one point tensions did threaten to turn violent with police.

because. i i. i know a lot of people was parking on the forecourts just to get there and obviously using the facilities that toilets. with in 1st aid the clothes side the closest movers on and close it down to anybody using the toilets now when you talk in one public toilet i mean. thousands of people in the town is going be a problem. sort of station side where a guy i am here and not shall where i'm not a lot that i can't. and i claimed and bowed to me and i never feel jaded i mean like that was a nightmare i did and i damn going down the round back and i'm going to believe that you while tougher restrictions have been imposed within the u.k. to combat a surge in infections and while the british government has said that stricter

measures are necessary they have been accused of not reacting quickly enough is journalist and broadcaster neil clark 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 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 those big it up now so it was never the predictable what was going to happen it's also to link up with government still we'll get to what the british government is trying to terrify is in iraqi government the start about this terrible strain but of course the 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 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 disaster is the responsibility of the british government still to come on the weekly off 4 years of wrangling the un the u.k. you finally got a trade deal over the line we look at how people across britain have been reacting to it best to come just after the break. the world is driven by dreamers shaped by those great. military thinks. we dare to ask.

so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy foundation let it be an arms race is often spearing dramatic development only closely i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. and. welcome back. whistleblowers can go whistle trump issue dozens of pardons this

week but not for defenders of freedom of speech like cheating the sun jewel edward snowden instead the outgoing u.s. president set off alarm bells at the united nations by giving clemency to 4 former contract is 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 were dead bodies everywhere a busy month going to be with you people and so are among the dead bodies lying on the street those who are child forces of 7 years old.

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 a 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 pardon. when my i said that i was here there is no justification iraqi blood has become per miscible and has no significance one day 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 court of us is asleep the infamous black water company killed its citizens a nice suit a square thought and today we hear they've been released on the personal rulers of president truman it's like the u.s.

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 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 been 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 had ties 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 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 you don't think the least you could do is to end the suffering the beauty the songs to pardon him this man has for be enough for the interest of the public will towards 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. and then i want u.k. and the european union reached and i'm a trade deal after 4 years or however the chief negotiator described the divorce is the least of their you spot the prime minister was picked this is the least. flu 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 dollars there is no winner and 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 well let's have a look then at how the a and the e.u. will cooperate from january the 1st there will be tariffs on sorry no terrace on

each other's goods and no limit on trading a new border checks have been agreed on to while the u.k. has pulled out of the long running year as miss student exchange game between universities politicians will return to westminster to vote on the deal on the same the 30th and it is fully expected to go through shortly after the deal was announced scottish 1st minister nicola sturgeon said that britain has lost more than its gain from breaks it and that scotland now has to decide on its future as quote an independent european nation meanwhile the deal has triggered mixed 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 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 pull the brakes

a i am 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 saved any of 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 i think it's really. funny going after all 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 in spain overshadowed by

a tough year of boarders in the water economic well use. looks 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 close borders economic collapse like. sending. fencing of presidents and home printer on christmas. yet i feel like christmas has been known 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 scene. except to say that it begins with billions receding the past behind us well be roses from the past and a haunted chorus 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 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 the time of global insecurity we're no longer part of one of history's greatest and most noble projects being 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 a 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 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. distinction. let me let i will absolutely get back to christmas would be cancelled actually christmas is off schools are reopening actually you know 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 3 separate creek and we don't get that much information about what's going on and then suddenly boom the new school down

we don't know what to do so nobody can use and they say to only cannot who's devoted 48 hours so it's so confusing i don't even remember my parents live. there with it so i am allowed to go to do but i don't know if i'm really about to be going. you were shooting was it a case of bad timing for bojo was 2020 year you just couldn't shine no mark to what was it the man himself who failed to need one thing's for sure for boris johnson it's been not a hell of a year but rather a year from how. just coming up to you al faw 70 here in moscow good to have a company but back again at the top of.

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