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with the pick of all the stories from the past 7 days on up to the moment news developments as well welcome to the weekly on r.t. international i mean in the. form of giant. institute started clinical trials of a joint coronavirus vaccine it combines elements of jobs developed individually by the 2 sides astra zeneca 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 1st injection and the 2nd to make bialek simpler and the 2nd goal is to hope pretty get better actually 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 the gunplay new set of x. include the entire world and some of these vaccines have to be easy to use and they have to be cheap because the low income countries can't afford the expensive extra we would on a myriad of the diseases when the whole world and its got rid of it so we're on the safety for good it's safe around the world oration with. him other producers 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. we spoke more on this for 2 experts from the u.k. paul hunter is a professor of medicine peter smith an epidemiologist explain why a scientific cooperation between britain and russia is significant. one of the problems with the. i don't know virus the vaccines like this book make 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 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 elation of the sputnik and the oxo that's because any back seat could well improve its efficacy a lot greater than the individual 'd vaccines apart now the problem with. biotech bank 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 chain in terms of being delivering being able to very many parts of the world we also assert on with the sputnik v. vaccine developer he told us how very 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 when you 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 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 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 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. are. asking the questions meanwhile argentina officially approved a sputnik for a us. 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 arrived in buenos aires on thursday said it will provide enough doses for up to 10000000 people earlier this month the argentine president himself expressed confidence in the russian vaccine a promise that he would be the 1st to take it. and would. in argentina some raise doubts about the quality of russian science to everyone's downswings vs here in argentina i would 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 let's take a look at the 1st jobs being administered under the rule that it comes after the e.u. or theorize phasers vaccine according to the head of the european commission it's being delivered to all 27 member states contracts been secured with several drug companies for shipments of more than 2000000000 doses that's significant

because it's actually double what's needed for the entire blocks population to get in it 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 of the new coronavirus variant it's believed to 1st emerged in the u.k. spread across europe then the middle east asia and australia on saturday it was detected across the atlantic 2 with khaled 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 restraint shown all arrivals from the

u.k. euro tunnel services from england to the continent have been suspended off that hundreds of people stranded in ports train stations over christmas the travel ban also saw more than 4000 lorry stranded for days on the british port of dover things only got moving again on christmas eve but hundreds of drivers are still waiting to cross the border and one point the tensions threaten to turn violent with the police. a lot of people was on the for people just to get in and say usenet facilities that toilets have within the 1st day to close to close just moves on and close it down

to anybody using the toilet now when you talk. mean. thousands of people in the town is going be a problem. on a 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 know that frustration very evident tougher code 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 let's take a listen to the 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 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 now this big get up now so it's a middle of the predictable what was going to happen and it's also to link up with the other main still will 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 screw the 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. this is our team international still ahead after 4 years of wrangling the e.u. in the u.k. finally got their trade deal over the line and we get the take of people across britain to that long awaited announcement.

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bring you back to thursday where the u.k. and the european union reached a landmark trade deal after 4 years of well they will pay more for the chief e.u. breaks a negotiator described the divorce as a lose lose prime minister johnson though he was more 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 getting your dollars 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. well let's look at how london the e.u. will cooperate from january 1st no tar of sun 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 agreement on wednesday. well shortly after the deal was annoying scottish 1st minister nicola sturgeon said that britain has lost more than its gain from that she added scotland no house to decide on its future as quote an independent

european nation when all the practice triggered mixed feelings among scots other britons i think it makes me feel 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 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 brakes i didn't pull the brakes a i have really guides to not be part of you know penny more it does make me nervous to think about when i get to visit the european cities and you know friends i have to live in spain and 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 do this is i suppose for some people a big christmas present it's just i think if others really feed to this year i think we will see a return to the troubles or was it st louis. extremely disappointing. and naive of

shortsighted government has a for their own short sighted aims as a such turmoil practice of the so you have this country is dreadful. very very sorry i think it's really. funny going to 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. and while boris johnson's christmas wish may have come true it's been overshadowed by a tough year of covert closed borders economic war was and suskind has been looking at a person 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. sending.

sending a president who home printer on christmas. yet i feel like christmas has been known in 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 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 bragg's 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 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 let i will absolutely get back to christmas won't 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 and they say to only cannot who's devoted 48 hours like so confusing i don't even remember my parents live. there we keep going 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 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 force have finally been given a name one year after the elite branch was created now you might think that after so long the u.s. top brass would have come up with something truly original. soldiers sailors airmen marines and guardians. will be defending.

our people like what i just said. thank. jogging machines for lizards just wall off 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 to meet

you've been 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 or 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 of 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 hods 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 live from moscow this is our to international just approaching health possible in the morning here meaning more great programs get going in moments find out what's being served up to the shortest of pics. i.

join me every day on the all excitement chill and i'll be speaking to get a feel of the world the politics that's less i'm show business i'll see of that. chemistry is also given us fulfillment 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 a 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. 2020 has been a year like you know wonder how its economy crisis changed our lives how will that continue to shape our lives for me and one of the last things to know that may never return.