among the stories that shaped the week. the developers. of cooperation with. the hope. the new more contagious strain has been detected in england. with more than 40 countries arrivals from the u.k. . also. for whistleblowers dozens of pardons from trump exclude those who spilled the beans on american war crimes but include guilty of involvement in the murder of civilians in iraq. there is no justification iraqi blood has become per miscible and has no significance.

we hope that there will be justice. will not just disappear the iraqi government must act as soon as possible. victory or a defeat while the u.k. prime minister celebrates a historic. the european union's chief negotiator described it as a. result. of the past 7 days and up to the moment news developments as well welcome to the weekly an r t international. institute have started clinical trials of a joint coronavirus vaccine it combines elements of jobs developed individually by

the 2 sides. c.e.o. explained why they decided to join forces with the russian team. we have 2 main goals the 1st one is to allow headscarf official notice doctors and nurses to use 11 vaccine all the although for the 1st injection and the 2nd to make the alex simpler and the 2nd go on is to hope pretty get better he 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 that gunplay new 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 lower middle income countries can't afford the expensive accident we're on the myriad of the disease when the whole world and its growth rate of it so we're on the safety issue are going to stay around the world

orations. and other producers but it's equally or because we just need to work together and it's our national racial. or think you meant a color or we spoke more on this with 2 experts from the u.k. paul hunter is a professor of medicine and peter smith an epidemiologist they explain why this 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 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 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 tectonic scenes is that they are card 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 we also don't with the sputnik v. vaccine developer he told us how their job differs 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 the not identical against not only ebola viruses but also the mers coronavirus so when we were working against covered 19 we were able to use around 70 percent of an existing element one of the indicators by which the effectiveness of a vaccine is most easily measured is the presence of and to bodies in the blood if we proceed from that's experimental data in a similar vaccine against

a 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 $23.00 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 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 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 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 lane city of vaccine 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 it by protective proteins but i'm not sure where the my colleagues most to solve all the problems on a large scale. artie's. asking the questions there meanwhile in argentina officially approved the sputnik the jump for emergency use 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 argentines. well a plane carrying argentina's 1st batch arrived in buenos aires 1st thing law school said it will provide enough doses for up to 10000000 people earlier this month the argentine president himself expressed confidence in the russian vaccine promised he would be the 1st one to take it. and. 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. elsewhere the european union has launched a cross border vaccination program here you can see the 1st jobs being administered under the rollout it comes after the e.u. authorize pfizer is vaccine 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 shipment of more than 2000000000 doses actually double what is 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 cold bit.

well 16 countries have now confirmed their 1st cases all of the new coronavirus variant it's believed to 1st emerged in the u.k. then spread to europe the middle east asia and australia as well on saturday it was detected across the atlantic with. reporting its 1st case well the discovery of the new strain prompted many countries to adopt stricter measures more than 50 countries have imposed some level of restrictions on arrivals from the u.k. euro tunnel services from england to the continent being suspended that left hundreds of people stranded in ports on train stations over christmas the travel ban also left more than 4000 lorry stranded for days at the british port of dover

things got moving again only on christmas eve but hundreds of drivers are still waiting to cross the border at one point tensions threatened to turn violent with the police. a lot of people were on the for people just to get in and also usenet facilities that toilets. stayed close to closest movers on and close it down to anybody using the toilet now when you're talking. thousands of people in the town will be a problem. station side every day i am here and that shower head

knocking off that i can't cook and i think i'm down to me and i have to change i mean it was i mean i did it i guess i'm going down to the ground but i really think that the tougher covert restrictions have been imposed within the u.k. to come but it's a surge in infections and while the british government has said that stricter measures are necessary they've been accused of not reacting quickly enough let's take a look at the take of journalist broadcaster neil clark the fact of the matter is that this strike was known about in september we had scientists writing about it discussing it in september. and yet the last one called the health sector only and says this just a few days before christmas why didn't he make announcement about this in september why didn't they get up in september now so it could get double what was going to happen it's also to link up with the other main still we'll get to what the british government is trying to terrify is in iraqi w m

d style about this terrible threat but of course 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 screw the british government said it why should we have british people coming over to our countries and of course we've 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 soft stuff is the responsibility of the british government. still ahead on the program after 4 years of wrangling the e.u. and united kingdom finally got their trade deal over the. take of people across britain to that long awaited announcement after the. move.

max kaiser this is the kaiser report with stacy herbert an special year and guest misfires. i must say the kind of sensitivity to world events of markets were seen anywhere except here on.

welcome back. mercy for mercenaries but whistleblowers you can stay in prison donald trump issued dozens of pardons this week but not for defenders of freedom of speech like julian assange john edward snowden instead the outgoing u.s. president set off alarm bells at the united nations by giving clemency to 4 former contractors of the block water a private military company they were jailed for their involvement in the mass killings of civilians in iraq. and i wondered.

if you were listening. among. iraq's foreign ministry has condemned the decision saying it didn't take into account the seriousness of the crime and also stated the move isn't in line with the commitment to human rights and just the 3rd by washington by doug said it would urge the u.s. to reconsider the people of iraq responded angrily to the fore. 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 kill citizens a nice to a square today we hear they've been released on the personal rulers of president trump it's like the u.s. doesn't care if the spilled the 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 had tunnies to insurgent groups himself now at this point there is widespread. outrage this seems like the trumpet ministration 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 trumps 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 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 police today could do is to end the suffering of duty this launch 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 climate. on thursday the u.k. and the european union reached a london more trade deal after 4 years of will. however the chief e.u. brings it negotiator described the divorce as a lose lose prime minister boris johnson though 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. there is no winner and brax it's a lose lose situation to separate especially in the world as it is today eagle and

the united kingdom has chosen to be solitary rather than stand together. so after all the talk let's look at how the you can e.u. will cooperate from january the 1st there will be no tariffs on each other's goods no limit on trading london will not control its own borders and has pulled out of the long running a rosmah student exchange scheme between universities opting for a smaller scheme politicians will return to westminster to vote on the deal on wednesday. or shortly after the deal was announced scottish 1st minister nicolas sturgeon said that britain has lost more than its gained from break that she added scotland to decide on its future as quote an independent european nation meanwhile the deal has triggered mixed feelings among scots and other britons. i think it makes it to be because over the past couple weeks i should be just so much hype and misinformation and media fatigue because it's been going on 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 pranks a i am really guides to not be part of you know a penny more 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 naïve with short sighted government has a for their own short sighted aims as a such a terrible practice of the say this country is dreadful. i'm very very sorry 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 arrangement we have come before we left the european union a while boris johnson's christmas wish me of come true it's been overshadowed by a tough year of covert close borders and economic woes saskatoon or looks not a past 12 months like no other. 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 you know sending. sending a president who home printer on christmas. yet i feel like christmas has been known and history you might be like remember it is the prime minister has. been 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 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 rose from the past and a haunted porus for 11 months that's how long it took to negotiate a deal a deal that has followed 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 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

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. that it is. the guy who let me 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 the confusion on

exhaust peroration grew 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 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 you tube but i don't know if i'm really about to be going through. you were you did you 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 love is your pick of the news from the week that was next we shine a light on a dark chapter in japanese history the country's notorious unit 731 our documentary

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food supply if we look at our world today there are still famines but there are political famines are caused. 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 injustices how can we make things better because certainly we can handle those things better than we have. jointly every day on the alex salmond shill and i'll be speaking to us of the world of politics sport that's less i'm show business.