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the stories from the past 7 days on up to the moment developments welcome to the weekly an r.t. i mean the. former giant astra zeneca. started clinical trials of a joint coronavirus it combines elements of jobs developed in virtually by the 2 sides astra zeneca c.e.o. explained why have you decided to join forces with the russian. we have 2 main goal 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 the alex simpler and the 2nd goal 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 it's got rid of it so we're on the safety for good it's safe around the world orations austral certainly got another produces but it's equally important because we just need to work together and it's our national operation more competition will be or off i was thinking of a call. or we spoke more on this with 2 experts from the u.k. paul hunter is a professor of medicine peter smith an epidemiologist they explain why the scientific cooperation between britain and russia is significant. 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 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 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 vaccine could well improve its efficacy a lot greater than the individual vaccines apart now the problem with. via technic scenes is that they are cardiff. 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 deliver in many parts of the world are we certain 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 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 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 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 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 whether my colleagues most to solve all the problems on a large scale. artie's anton chris asking the questions meanwhile on a wednesday argentina officially approved a sputnik the germ for emergency use. 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 stop 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 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 vaccine 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 vaccination program here you can see the 1st jobs being administered under the roll out after the or theorize pfizer's vioxx seen cording to the head of the european commission it's been delivered to all 27 member states

contracts being secured with several drunk companies for shipments of more than 2000000000 doses not that number that's 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 coping. well 16 countries have now confirmed their 1st cases of the new coronavirus variant it's believed to 1st emerged in the u.k. spread to europe then the middle east and a street on saturday it was the tech there across the globe to calendar 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 restriction on arrivals from the u.k. euro tunnel services from england to the continent have been suspended that left hundreds of people stranded in ports and train stations over christmas the travel ban also saw more than 4000 lorry 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 at one point the tensions threaten to turn violent with a police. because. a lot of people was pokémon on the 4 people just to get in and obviously usenet

facilities that toilets. within the 1st day they closed side to close this movie zone and close it down to anybody using the toilet now when you're talking. green. thousands of people in the town is going to be a problem. station side where it i i am here and not shall add are not going on that i get michael. and i cleaned and bowed to me and i have to look at me like that was and i mean i don't i don't i'm going down to the ground but i really believe that you know a lot of frustration out there and the tougher covert restrictions have been imposed within the u.k. to come by a surgeon infections and while the british government has said that stricter measures are necessary they have been accused of not reacting quickly and nuff we got 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 but i'm quite the health secretary only and this is this just a few days before christmas why didn't he make an announcement about this in september why didn't they get up in september now so that they could get double what was going to happen and it's also to link up with government still will get to what the british government is trying to terrify is the iraqi government the start 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 through 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. is the responsibility of the british government. this is are to international still ahead on the program after 4 years of growing the e.u.

u.k. finally got 3rd trade deal over the line we get the take of people are prospering to the long awaited announcement to the press.

2020 has been here like you know one of the. crisis changed our lives. that may never reach. your back with the weekly recap of stories from the past 7 days i meet in germany remains one of the country's worst affected by the the state of. registered a disproportionately high share of germany's debts linked to the accrual of ours with credit toria in the region really struggling with

a body but clogged to give you a sense of video agency ruptly film this. on thursday the u.k. and the european union reached a london marked trade deal after 4 years of will they won't they are the chief

breaks and procedure described the the force is a lose lose prime minister barak's johnson though was upbeat. 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 again you're right 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 take a look at how london and the e.u. will then cooperate from 'd the new start january 1st no tariffs on each other's goods no limit as well in trading the u.k. will now control its own borders and has pulled out of the long running a rasmus student exchange scheme between universities opting for a smaller swap program politicians will now return to as minister to vote on the

agreement on wednesday well shortly after the deal was not in scottish 1st minister nicola sturgeon said that britain has lost more than its gain from bragg's it she added scotland has to decide on its future as quote an independent european nation meanwhile the pact has triggered mixed feelings among scots sons indeed 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 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 for frank said 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 peaceful but 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 naive and shortsighted government as 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 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 you have to come before we left the european union. christmas wish may hub come true it's been overshadowed by a tough year of covert closed borders and economic woes saskia taylor in the 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 grinch who stole christmas. yet 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 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 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 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 a time of global insecurity we're no longer part of one of history's greatest and most noble projects bringing nations together to build peace out of the ruins of

war. this is a disastrous bragg's it outcome for scottish forwards 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 that confusion on exhaust peroration grew 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 and they say to 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. q 4 to q 2 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 force have finally been given a name one year after the elite branch was created you know you would think that after so long in the us top brass have come up with something truly original. soldiers sailors airmen marines and guardians will be depending on me.

i will be back what i just said.

for lizard's 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 during the us the look. 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 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 both cat urine and 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 europe so 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 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 lot is are for know of the we thought more from the post 7 days with me again at the top of the hour of people in the tell him to join me then buy from the. but the pandemic no certainly no borders and is blind to nationalities. has emerged with the we don't like seeing

a whole world to. judge a. commentary classes. we can do better we should. everyone is contributing way but we also know that this crisis will not go on forever the challenges create the response has been much so many good people are helping us. it makes us feel very proud that we are in it together. chemistry has also given us fulfilment in many ways by guaranteeing an 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 it infects 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. so if someone wants to also run a broad market in europe let's say a plan protection product. because some of these companies the applicant has to provide it. as the risk.