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the pick of the stories from the past 7 days and right up to the moment news developments as well welcome to the weekly r t i mean in the. former astra zeneca. institute have started clinical trials of a joint. it combines elements of jump developed individually by the 2 sides. explained why they decided to join forces with the russian. we have 2 main goals the 1st one is to allow headscarf official notice doctors and nurses to use 11 vaccine all the all the awful the well the 1st injection and the 2nd to make valid simpler and the 2nd goal is to hope pretty get better if you just see when you combine 2 different vaccines i don't think companies

a complete thing 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 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 were in on a myriad of the disease when the whole world wanted to go to rio if so we on the safety of her body it's safer on the world orations austerlitz i've got another produces but it's equally or something 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. it's an interesting concept so we spoke more on this with 2 experts from the u.k. paul hunter is a professor of medicine and peter smith an epidemiologist explain 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 this book make 5 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 virus and 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 can combine nation of the sputnik and the ox so that's because any current 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 caught in

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 or we also start dealing 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 the distribution really quite quickly in 5 months the main reason is that for 25 years or more we've been developing at the gum really institute a technological platform on which this vaccine prep. ration 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 how it's 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 until 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 effect maybe 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 along the classic path of working against 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 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 those are. the questions meanwhile argentina officially approved the sputnik 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 that our vaccine helps to save the lives of millions of

argentine. and this is footage of a plane carrying argentina's 1st ballot arriving in buenos aires on thursday moscow has said it will provide enough doses for up to 10000000 people earlier this month the archon time president himself expressed confidence in the russians and indeed promised that he would be the 1st that it. and. in argentina some raise doubts about the quality of russian science to clear everyone's doubts when sputnik 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. 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 the e.u. authorize fines or is vaccine according to the head of the european commission it's been delivered to wall 27 member states contracts have been secured with several

drug companies for a shipment of more than 2000000000 doses that's actually double what's needed for the entire blocks population to get enough to elated. also this week the world health organization raised the alarm over a new highly contagious strain of coated. well 16 countries have now confirmed their 1st cases of the new coronavirus variant it's believed to the 1st emerged in the u.k. spread across europe then the middle east asia and a stream on saturday was the tech that across the atlantic to encounter the reporting its 1st case the discovery of the new strain prompted many countries to adopt stricter measures more than 50 countries have impose some level of restrictions from arrival from the u.k.

euro tunnel services from england to the continent suspended that left hundreds of people stranded in ports on train stations over christmas the travel ban also left more than 4000 larry stranded for days at the british port of dover things only got moving again on christmas eve but hundreds of drivers are still waiting to cross the border one point tensions threaten to turn violent with the police. a lot of people on the for people just to get in and say usenet facilities that toilets. with unfair status quo decide to close this movies on and close it down to

anybody using the toilets now when you talk in one public toilet screen. thousands of people in the town is going be a problem. station side every day i am here and not showered knocking on that i can't cook and i think i am told to me and i have to change i mean i just was and i mean i did it i guess i am going down to the ground but i don't see that. tougher covert restrictions have been imposed within the u.k. to come by the surgeon factions and while the british government has said that stricter measures are necessary they have been accused of not reacting quickly enough here said tank of journalist and broadcaster neil clark the fact of the matter is that this strike was known about in september but we had scientists writing about it discussing it in september. and yet the health secretary only in 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 could get double what was going to happen and it's also to link up with the other main street will ever get to where the british government is trying to terrify is the iraqi government the star about this terrible threat but 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 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 disaster is the responsibility of the british government to just bring you briefly to germany which remains one of the country's worst affected by the pandemic the state of saxony has registered a disproportionately high share of germany's dance link to the coronavirus with kraemer turia in the region struggling with a body by blog or video agency ruptly film the situation.

another big story of the week on thursday the u.k. and european union reached a london mark for a deal after 4 years of will they will they however the chief e.u. breaks it negotiator described the force as a lose lose prime minister johnson the most upbeat the 1st 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 again your daughter 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 or let's look at how london the e.u. will cooperate from january 1st there will be no tar of sun each other is good 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 spa program politicians will return to westminster to vote on the agreement on wednesday. well shortly after the deal was a known scottish 1st minister nicola sturgeon said that britain has lost more than

its gain from bragg's it she added scotland no house to decide on its future as quote an independent european nation meanwhile the pact has triggered mixed feelings among scots on the other britons i think it makes it to be because of a past couple 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 breaks i didn't pull pranks a i have 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 peaceful but there is a to this is i suppose some people a big christmas present it's just i think if god is really faded into this year i

think we will see a return to the troubles or was it st louis. extremely disappointing. and naive and shortsighted government has a for their own short sighted aims as a such a terrible practice of this so you have this country is dreadful. very very sorry 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 regime we had before we left the european union boris johnson's christmas wish may have come true it's been overshadowed by a tough year of covert closed borders and economic woes saskia taylor looks now at a past 12 months like you know either. 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 endless practice of negotiations food shortages

coronavirus close borders economic collapse like. 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 up and 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 comparable seen. except to say that it begins with billions receding 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 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. distinction. 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 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 build a new school that we don't know what to do so nobody can use and cheating 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. if you were trying to do 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 need it one thing's for sure for boris johnson it's been not a hell of a year but rather a year from how. members of the united states space for surf only been given the name one year after the elite branch was created you might think after so will the u.s. top brass would be able to put something truly original. soldiers sailors airmen marines and guardians will be defending our nation.

our. debt. our people what i just said. john king machine for lizard just one of the strange projects the u.s.

government has spent money on this year according to a report that states over $50000000000.00 went the way of such initiatives dimitry poke spain doing. 2020 has been a year to forget for many reasons but it's that time of year so let's reflect imagine you just blown $54000000000.00 in 12 months it is more important than ever for congress to find its fiscal backbone our debts puts at risk the long term solvency of major programs such as social security and why to pay for test use for covert tests that turn out to be soda bottles to see if hot tubbing a few times a week eases stress yeah those don't seem like good investments but u.s. senator rand paul has published a whole list of all the things you can blow your hard earned money on and what washington apparently did spend it on like $1500000.00 to give a couple of reptiles some cardio researches spent a 1000000 and

a half taxpayer dollars to get 6 lizards walk them on a treadmill what's taking x. rays with 3 d. imaging technology and then figure out how their joints moved sure it's fascinating stuff maybe for some but come on $1500000.00 place your bets on how much it costs to spray drunk rats with bobcat just a tidy sum of $4500000.00 in all seriousness here's exactly what the researchers did in layman's terms they spent 5 weeks giving rats intermittent access to alcohol to get them hooked then they put the rats in a cage and literally sprayed them with book can't urine of predators odor to simulate trauma then they tested where the males and females responded differently why that's probably something you're wondering right now the answer research into p.t.s.d. and alcoholism among war veterans are barely someone has concluded that surviving

a gruesome war is comparable to being sprayed with europe so we've gone from paying people to sit in hearts of trying to get adults to watch less t.v. and bugs all of this money wasted. and none of that was initially washington's this is $54000000000.00 of taxpayer money but look on the bright side at least we can sleep well now we know that a coke bottle is not a good substitute for a test tube. the way that the united states government has managed its finances throughout this entire thing is absolutely overall completely abysmal it's been nothing short of criminal what the united states government has done throughout this entire pandemic there were a few ok things but overall the bad outweighed the good by a whole lot and it's really made the united states government out for exactly what it is which it is a corporate coup no one ever asked the question are you going to pay for it when it

comes to giving money to the pentagon or giving money to weapons contractors or given money to the oil and gas industry no $1.00 ever asked how you're going to pay for it but they ask how are you going to pay for it when it comes to giving direct relief to people then all the sudden they're worried about their pocketbook a thought provoking 30 minutes ahead of us her guest in worlds apart a noted eco toxicologist if we reach the point where science has done more good than more harm than good in fact it starts in the moments here 247 international to change. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be an arms race is also an experience dramatic development the only really engaging resists are those that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit

down and. put on welcome to world the part of george bernard shaw once said that science never solves a problem without creating 10 more fast forward. that we takes on a rather grim meaning considering that according to our guest today there is not a single contaminated square sound tomato left on this planet have we reached the point when science does more harm than good and progress that we so well to discuss

that i'm now joined by frank baum hippo professor all you could talks ecology at northern arizona university and author all the comical age how can most 4000 and disease killed millions and change their relationship with the earth frame gives good to talk to you thank you very much for your time and congratulations on your magnificent book. make your son appreciate that now i think your book provides for a very interesting read it 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 than 3 to one as during the time of the yellow fever outbreak in philadelphia that you describe in such a colorful detail and then nerving because it led me to the conclusion that even if we make out of the call that 19 alive humanity as a whole is still

a doomed we are persist. going back to normal is that the conclusion that you intended well i think that's a great launching off point because you ended that phrase with if we continue as we are and you're right we're on an unsustainable path in many ways people are familiar with that in terms of climate change but it's also true with regard to our use of chemicals in our broadcasting of chemicals into the environment so we have to fundamentally change the way that we use chemicals in order to get on a sustainable path that your book is about chemistry or rather looking at the 20th century through the prism of chemistry which i have to say is i turned out to be far more exciting and revealing than i initially expected i know the big you were it wasn't a big fan of chemistry before is that if anything a book but in an indirect way it's also about athletics and the ethics of our entire species and of what we are doing to the rest of the planet and that you know

there was one question that kept bugging me as i was reading at scientific progress is ultimately based on the assumption that human lives are the altimeter values on this planet and whatever is done to improve them is justified can we still afford to keep that assumption. but i think clearly we can't because it's not just humans that are on this planet were inextricably linked to everything else on this planet all of the other life terms of the environment that we live in and we have to be looking at that holistically everything we do how does it affect people but also how does it affect our environment and ultimately you cannot impact the environment negatively without impacting people so even if you viewed this strictly through a human centered perspective you would still have to come away with a conclusion that we have to change the way we're doing things because we're harming the environment so much certainly we're also her mean people yeah and a they.