among the stories that shaped the week here. the developers of russia's sputnik v. vaccine signed an official memorandum of cooperation with. the hope. that. the efficacy rate will further rice. a new more contagious strain of covert has been detected in england causing worldwide with more than 40 countries bombing arrivals from the u.k. . victory or a defeat while the u.k. prime minister celebrates a historic deal across the english channel of the european union chief negotiator describes it as a lose lose risk. with

the pick of the stories from the past 7 days on right up to the moment of elements well welcome to the weekly. farmers and. started clinical trials of a joint coronavirus 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 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 he just 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. gunplay new set 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 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 read over it so we're on the safety of her body it's safe around the world oration was asked once and i got another 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. well we spoke more on this with 2 experts from the u.k. paul hunters a professor of medicine and peter smith an epidemiologist explained 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 but 5 of 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 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 uk so that's there's any current that see could well improve its efficacy a lot greater than the individual 'd 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 showing in terms of being delivering being able to deliver in many parts of the world elsewhere the european union has launched a cross border vaccination program we can show you here the 1st jobs being administering the rule and it comes after the e.u. authorize pfizer's vaccine according to the head of the european commission it's been delivered to all $27.00 member states contracts been secured but several drug companies for shipment of more than 2000000000 doses that's actually double what is needed for the entire block 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 now confirmed their 1st cases of new coronavirus variant it's believed to 1st emerged in the u.k. then spread to europe then the middle east asia and australia on saturday it was detected across the atlantic 2 with color the reporting its 1st case well the discovery of the new strain prompted many countries to adopt stricter measures more than 50 countries have impose some level of restraint ssion all arrivals from the u.k. euro tunnel services from england to the continent have been suspended that left hundreds of people stranded in airports on train stations over christmas the travel ban also sold more than 4000 lorries stranded for days out the british port of

dover things only got moving again on christmas eve but hundreds of drivers are still waiting to cross the border at one point the tensions threaten to turn violent with the police. a lot of people on the 4 pull just to get in and say usenet facilities that toilet . with unfair status quo decide to close this movies on and close it down to anybody using the toilet 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 shower head knocking off that i can't cook and i think i'm down to me and i have to change i

mean like that was nice maybe i did it i guess i'm going down to the ground but i really think that tougher code restrictions help being imposed within the u.k. to combat a surgeon and factions and while the british government has said that stricter measures are necessary they've been accused of not reacting quickly enough here to take a journalist and broadcaster nucor 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 health secretary only announces 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 now so those are the good get double what was going to happen and it's also to link up with the other main story will ever get to where 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 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'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 disaster is the responsibility of the british government and i just want to bring in briefly to germany which remains one of the country's worst affected by the demick the state of saxony registered a disproportionately high share of germany's debt ceiling to the coronavirus with kremlin toria in the region struggling with a body back log or video agency ruptly film the situation.

los angeles has been has hard by covert 19 over the christmas period with 30000 new infections in the past 2 days hospitals are struggling to cope with the surge in patients earlier this month a nurse recorded on emotional appeal while actually dealing with coronavirus herself. across southern california intensive care units are full with overwhelmed hospital

setting up make shift towards beds to accommodate us. all the l.a. authorities have as well issued a stay home order in the hope it holds back the pirate emergencies are exempt gatherings for anything other than religious or political means are bound for businesses most non essential companies have been forced to shut the city's mayor urged people to think twice about their plans over the festive period. there's no celebrating this year for health care workers who are facing the toughest times they've ever seen for them which staying home for them with skipping holiday parties every sacrifice makes a difference to stopping the kovac 900 so. i'm very happy to welcome all to the program. the nurse from the appeal video who works out the medical center of the

university of california in los angeles marcy is welcome how are you firstly how long did it take for you to recover from cova tell us i'm on my. 20th day i'm probably 95 percent better but i still have residual shortness of breath and some weird neurological since ations that i get yeah we can only wish you the best with. in terms of the overall picture how stretched are hospitals in l.a. right now what are you expecting as we enter in should be the new year. oh gosh we are beyond stretched we have patients in overflow overflow overflow areas that were never intended to have patients other hospitals are setting up makeshifts units outside of the hospital we are just in the

last were dealing with the last surge from thanksgiving now we're going to have to deal with the surge for christmas and then we have 2 years coming so we're going to be dealing with this for quite sometime now what can be done then to to give the health system enough of a boost to cope as you say with what's looking to be a 3rd wave here i am afraid that we've already passed that people didn't listen and we. we're stuck now we were running low on oxygen on supplies on you know all the respiratory drugs definitely bad definitely staff we don't have enough staff so we've already but we blew it. the public didn't listen we continue to. defy the recommendations of the c.d.c. we continued to gather and i understand how important holidays are they're just as important for me i haven't seen my family in mines. so we need it's too

late we blew it our authorities giving enough health marci it to you as you talk about that having enough beds having enough personal protective equipment has not been supplied. authorities in what way like trying to enforce stand how measures well even to bulk up what you have we know that you have to buy it of course but in terms of just how you mean like like government supplies . yeah i you know our government again they blew it all so they could have released the defense production act and ramped up the production of p.p. and all the other supplies that we need and they didn't do that so the whole the whole nations in a big big predicament of how we're going to be able to treat patients safely and

give them the care that they need you're one of those people buckling in the coal face right on the on the front line can you give us a sense really of your of the timeline perhaps some of your experiences about working since the start of the. well you know at the very beginning of the pandemic we were quite fortunate where i work at u.c.l.a. we didn't see the numbers that. some of the nation was seeing and even some of our state in northern california and southern california and san diego were getting hit much harder so we were lucky we had time to prepare and get ready. and then we kind of got relaxed thinking that we're never going to see the numbers until halloween and thanksgiving came and now we're getting slammed but. it's been a interesting roller coaster ride seeing how this is all been playing out but

we're we really hit the perfect storm right now because of very dangerous storm because we're not only seeing other sick patients you know our strokes our heart attacks our cancer patients but we're short staffed and we're short on real estate and supplies so it's a very dangerous time right now and the public needs to know that i was going to say i don't think it's over standing at the say there's i wish in your voice from from what you've been through from what you've seen from what you the colleagues you've been working with if you had a message marcy or for people just listening in what would it be right now if for those thinking well you know it's not serious. well there's 2 things when it's terribly serious and people need to understand that i had the best protection that i possibly could have every single day i wore it i practiced it and i still got it secondly this is not over this isn't far from over the vaccines are not going to

i mean yes they're going to how but it's going to take a lot of time before we could vaccinate everyone and we don't necessarily just get vaccinated it goes away we have to continue to wear the protective equipment social distance and practice everything that the c.d.c. is recommending until we get a group a good grip on this virus and that's going to take months it's not over and we can't get relax you can't get lazy we can't get to teach about it we must continue or else we're going to be dealing with this over and over and over again or we've been speaking to somebody with a direct experience of working on those front lines marcy if like you very much for coming on the program teeny a nurse of the medical center of the university of california in los angeles my pleasure thank you. this is our cancer national still ahead after 4 years of wrangling the e.u. and u.k. finally gulf there are trade deal over the line we get the take of people across

britain to the long awaited announcement to the brain. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confronting let it be an arms race off and 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. the world is driven by a dream shaped by our own person. who

dares thinks. we dare to ask. the u.k. and reached trade deal on thursday after 4 years of will be while they were the chief brags that negotiator described the divorce as a lose lose prime minister john snow was all paid. this is the least. 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. well let's look at how 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. or world 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 return to s ministry of to vote on the agreement on whedon's well shortly after the deal was a non scottish 1st minister nicola sturgeon said that britain has lost more than its gain from brags that she added scotland has to decide on its future as quote an independent european nation in all the pact has triggered mixed feelings among scots and other britons. i think it makes me feel for these because over the past

couple weeks so 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 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 cases but there is a to 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 naive of short sighted government has a for their own short sighted aims as a such to

a boil practice of this so you know 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 a while boris johnson's christmas wish may have come true it's been overshadowed by a tough year of covert closed borders and economic woes saskatoon or let's know it up 12 months like no other. 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 end as negotiations food shortages coronavirus close borders economic collapse like. sending. fencing in presence and home printer on christmas. yet i feel like christmas has been known and if you think you might be like remember it is the prime minister. 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 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 'd 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 parson who's supposed to be meeting you flip flops and. let me salute you get back to christmas won't be counseled actually christmas is off schools are reopening actually you know they're not we're lifting the knocked out actually stay at home little one to them the confusion on exhaust peroration grew a bit confused because you don't like the zapruder creek and we don't get that much

information about what's going on and suddenly the new school down we don't know what to do so nobody can use in the shooting 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 and i have to be very very careful what you say to 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. jogging machines for lizards 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

polk's been doing this. 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 debt 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. 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 have barely someone has concluded that surviving a gruesome war is comparable to being sprayed with euro zone we've gone from paying people to sit in hearts of trying to get adults to watch less t.v.

and box 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 how 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

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