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iraqi blood has. and has no significance. just disappear the iraqi government. while the u.k. prime minister celebrates a historic break. the european union chief negotiator. with the pick of the 7 days on up to the moment news developments well welcome to the weekly and international. institute started clinical trials showing. it combines elements

of job developed individually by the 2 sides. explained why they decided to join forces. with the russian team. we have 2 main goals the 1st one is to allow care professionals doctors and nurses to use 11 vaccine all the of birth for the 1st injection and a 2nd to make the our life simpler and a 2nd goal is to hope pretty get better if you just say when you combine the 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 your center of x. in probably entire world and some of these vaccines have to be easy to use and they have to be cheap because the law middle income countries cannot afford the expensive extra we are on a myriad of this is when the whole world goes on it's got rid of it so we are he

said. around the world oration was astra zeneca and mother produces what you call you or something because we just need to work together and international operation can be just. or think you meant a call we spoke more on this with 2 experts from the u.k. paul hunter is a professor of medicine and peter smith an epidemiologist he explained why the scientific cooperation between britain and russia is significant and one of the problems with the. i don't know virus that seems like this but nick 5 in the oxford is that there's always a risk that you can develop immunity to the area rather than to the targets which is what you're 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 that developed in getting to the carrier that by this time i think there's quite a lot of evidence that act. it does work like that but people have shown this works in other areas so to me the compound elation of the sputnik and the oxo that's was any clearer that seat could well improve its efficacy a lot greater than the individual that seems apart now the problem with both via tectonic scenes is that they are they would cart 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 chain in terms of being delivering being able to very many parts of the world and we also sat down 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 though not identical against not only a bowl of viruses but also the mers coronavirus so when we were working against covered 19 we were able to use around 70 percent of an existing element one of the indicators by which the effectiveness of a vaccine is most easily measured is the presence of until bodies in the blood if

we proceed from that experimental data in a similar vaccine against a bowler 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 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 the household refrigerator temperature of plus 2. the side effects don't force you out of action there may be a rash headache muscle discomfort and i think the most noticeable effect may be your temperature going up to 38 degrees for 2 days did 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 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 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 and the people at pfizer also understand this and i'm a 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 until the skiing the questions meanwhile in

argentina officially approved this sputnik be job for emergency use only 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. a plane carrying argentina's 1st bus arrived 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 expressed confidence in the russian bike scene and promised he would be the 1st to take it. and would. 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 effect to nation program here you can see the 1st jobs being administered all of the rollout it comes after the e.u. or theorize pfizer's fact seen according to the head of the european commission it's been delivered to all 27 member states contracts been secured with several drug companies for a shipment of more than 2000000000 doses now about actually 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 covert. well

16 countries have not confirmed their 1st cases all of the new crew of ours variant is believed to have 1st emerged in the u.k. spread to europe then the middle east asia and australia on saturday was attacked across the atlantic 2 with kelleher reporting its 1st case the discovery of a new strain prompted many countries to adopt stricter measures more than 50 countries have impose some level of restrictions on arrivals from the u.k. euro tunnel services from england to the continent have been suspended that left hundreds of people stranded in airports train stations over christmas well the trouble also left more than 4000 lorry stranded for days at the british port of dover things only got moving again christmas eve but hundreds of drivers they're still waiting to cross the border at one point tensions threaten to turn violent

with the police. a lot of people on the full full just to get in and say usenet facilities that toilet. within 1st aid to close this movie and close it down to anybody using the toilets now when you're talking. thousands of people in the town is going be a problem. station side every day i am here and that shall add nothing more that i can't cloak and maybe i'm too old to me and i have to change i mean like status quo when i mean i know that i guess i'm going down to the ground but i

don't see that tougher covert 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've been accused of not reacting quickly enough here's the take of journalist and broadcaster neil clark. the fact of the matter is that this so-called new strait was known about in september we had scientists writing about it discussing it in september. and yet the health secretary only announces 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 this big get up now so it's a middle of the predictable what is going to happen and it's also to link up with government still will get to where the british government is trying to terrify is in iraqi w m d style about this terrible threat because the 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 is 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 and that is all stuff is the responsibility of the british government. 13 times to 9 o'clock in the evening here in moscow still ahead after 4 years of wrangling the e.u. the u.k. fun legal there are trade deal over the line we've got to take a people across britain to about the long awaited announcement after this break. chemistry has also given us fulfilment 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. to. join me every day on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to us of the world of politics sport i'm show business i'll see that.

mercy from our stories 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. instead the outgoing u.s. president sets off alarm bells at the united nations by giving clemency to 4 former contractors of the blackwater private military company they were jailed for their involvement in the most killing of civilians in iraq. i know when you're in america there are. there were dead bodies everywhere in the city months on a bad thing with few people inside among the dead bodies lying on the street that's

. 7 years old of. iraq's foreign ministry house the decision saying it didn't take into account the seriousness of the crime it also stated the move isn't in line with the commitment to human rights and justice the cleared by washington said it would urge the u.s. to reconsider the people of iraq also responded to the pardon. 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. into good enough we hope that there will be justice god willing their blood

will not just disappear and the iraqi government must act as soon as possible because the course of this is to see the infamous black water company killed citizens in nice susquehanna today we hear they've been released on the personal route as 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 killers there has been widespread outrage about the trump administration's decision to grant clemency to some members of the blackwater military 'd contracting company these were guards who were employed by blackwater who killed civilians in iraq paul slow evan liberty and dustin heard 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 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 thing to could do is to end the suffering the purity the songs to pardon him this man has for be enough for the interest of the public 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. the big story on thursday in the u.k. on the european union reached a london mark trade deal after 4 years of will they will be however the chief e.u. brings up the gosia to describe the divorce as a lose lose for mr boris yeltsin 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. very differing words there let's look at how then london and the e.u. will cooperate from january 1st there will be no tariffs on each other's goods no limit on trading the u.k. 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 swap programme politicians will return to westminster to vote on the deal on wednesday or shortly after the deal was done scottish 1st minister nicola sturgeon said that britain had lost more than its gained from break that she added scotland know house to the side on its future as quote an independent european nation into the deal triggered mixed feelings scots and other britons. i think it makes me feel that these because over the past couple of weeks i speak just so much hype and misinformation and media fatigue because it's been going on for so long i hate breaks and i think it's completely retrograde step i think that

the feeling of being part of a multinational international. i word looking community i think has been found. i didn't support bret so i didn't pull pranks a i have really tried 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 peaceful but there is a to this is i suppose some people a big christmas present it's just i think with all the relief aid to them to see it i think we will see a return to the troubles or was it st louis. extremely disappointing. and naïve but short sighted government has a for their own short sighted aims as a. such a terrible practice of this so you have this country is dreadful. i'm very very sorry what's happened i think it's really. funny going on also these years but it

sort of begs the question as to whether this arrangement is going to be better than the regime that we have come before we left the european union and while boris johnson's christmas wish may have come true it's been overshadowed by a tough year of cold but closed borders and. the past 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 your. spending if i feel like christmas has been known and history you might be like remember this the prime minister has the very 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 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 years some would say 47 years i would even mention the name of the can probably see. except to say that it begins with billions receding the past behind us well be rose 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 praxedis claims 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 the 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 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 things are very very quick 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 remember my parents live. there with the kids so i am allowed to go to do but i don't know if i'm really about to be going. if you were to do was it a case of bad timing of the boat show 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. for women in afghanistan seeking a more independent way of life joining the police is one of the few ways they can achieve that and next week chronicle virtually lead cups of chemistry.

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