in the stories that shaped the week here on our international the developers of russia would make the vaccine sign an official memorandum of cooperation with astra zeneca they hope that by combining their 2 vaccines the efficacy rate will further rise. a new more contagious strain of kobita has been detected in england causing panic worldwide with more than 40 countries banning arrivals from the u.k. . and victory or defeat while the u.k. prime minister celebrates a historic regs that deal across the english channel and the european union's chief negotiator describes it as a lose lose result. broadcasting

live direct from our studios in moscow recapping the week's top stories with our weekly program this is our team international right now pharma giant astra zeneca and russia's institute have started clinical trials of a joint coronavirus vaccine it combines elements of jabs 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 heads care professional nodes doctors and nurses to use 11 vaccine all the all there for the 1st injection and a 2nd to make bialek simpler and a 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 can put you 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 low income countries can't afford the expensive accident we waited on a myriad of the disease when the whole world wanted to go to resolve it so we're on the safety for good it's safe around the world oration was asked was that america and the other producers but it's equally or something because we just need to work together and international cooperation can be just. or all i was thinking about a call that we spoke more on this with 2 experts from the u.k. paul hunter is a professor of medicine and peter smith an epidemiologist they explained why the scientific cooperation between britain and russia is significant. one of the problems with the. i don't know virus the vaccines 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 but and people have shown this works in other areas so to me the compound a nation of the sputnik and the uk so that's because any vaccine could well improve its efficacy a lot greater than the individual vaccines apart now the problem with. biotech vaccines is that they are caught 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 are so so down with a 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 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 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 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 but. what is the difference between the oxford vaccine that is astra zeneca and the game elaine stritch of 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 it by protective proteins but i'm not sure where the my colleagues most to solve all the problems on a large scale are cheese and tongue cross of ski asking the questions there now meanwhile on wednesday argentina officially approved this put an agreed job for emergency use. you know. 300000 doses of the vaccine 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 have that our vaccine helps to save the lives of millions of argentines. a plane carrying argentina as a 1st batch arrived in buenos aires on thursday moscow has said it will provide

enough doses for up to 10000000 people earlier this month the argentinean president himself expressed confidence in the russian vaccine 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 downswings vs here in knowledge and tina i would be the 1st one to take that vaccine because i have no doubt about the quality over 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 and it comes after the e.u. authorized pfizer's vaccine according to the head of the european commission it is been delivered to all 27 member states contracts have been secured with several drug companies for shipments of more than 2000000000 doses that's actually double what is 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 cove it. 16 countries have now confirmed their 1st cases of the new corona virus a variant it is believed to have 1st emerged in the u.k. and spread it to europe then the middle east asia and australia on saturday it was detected across the atlantic as well with canada reporting its 1st case the discovery of the new strain prompted many countries to adopt stricter measures now more than 50 countries have imposed 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 airports and train stations over christmas and the

travel ban also saw more than 4000 trucks 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 threatened to turn violent with the police. a lot of people on the full full just to get in and say usenet facilities that toilet head within say stayed close to close this movie and close it down to anybody using the toilets now when you. mean. thousands of people in the town be a problem. station every day i am here and that shall add

nothing on that i can't cloak and i think i'm too old to me and i may 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 coded 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 have been accused of not reacting quickly enough here's the take of journalist and broadcaster neil clark. fact of the matter is that this so-called new strait was known about in september but we had scientists writing about it discussing it in september. and yet the one called the health sector only and says 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 it's big now so it was a bit of the predictable what was going to happen 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 start about this terrible threat because 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 but if what you say through 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 i think this all stuff is the responsibility of the british government. still have in the program after 4 years of wrangling the e.u. and the u.k. finally got their trade deal over the line we get the take of people across britain so that long awaited announcement after a short break this is our trash. world

is driven by a dream shaped by. the . thinks. we hear and to ask. max keiser this is the kaiser report with stacy herbert and special year end guest misfires dine the man who i must say is the kind of sensitivity to world events and markets really seen anywhere except here on time for 4 minutes welcome back.

welcome back this is the weekly on archie international now germany remains one of the country's worst affected by the pandemic the state of saxony has registered a disproportionately high share of germany's deaths linked to the crime a virus with crematoria in the region struggling with a body backlog our video agency ruptly film the situation.

on thursday the u.k. and the european union reached a landmark trade deal after 4 years of what will they want with a however the chief negotiator described the divorce as a lose lose prime minister johnson though was a be the 1st is the feast. 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 you all a dollar to play the wrist 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. 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 and no limit on trading the u.k. will now control its own borders and has pulled out of the long running erasmus student exchange scheme between universities opting for a smaller swap programme politicians will return to westminster to vote on the agreement on wednesday. shortly after the deal was announced scottish 1st minister nicola sturgeon said that britain has lost more than it has gained from brags that she had in scotland now has to decide on its future as quote an independent european nation meanwhile the pact has triggered mixed feelings among scots and other britons i think it makes sense to do these because of a past couple of weeks so it's been 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 bret so i didn't pull pranks a i have really guides 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 france and other parts of europe it would have been a disaster if there had been a do so very place that but there is a to this is i suppose some people a big christmas present it's just i think it's all the relief aid to them to see if i think we will see a return to the troubles that uses st louis. extremely disappointing. and naive with short saudi government as a for their own short sighted aims as a such terrible practice of the so you know this country is dreadful and you know very very sort of 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 behind him before we left the european union. well while boris johnson's christmas wish may have come true it has been overshadowed by a tough year of cold and closed borders and economic woes archies haskett taylor looks at the past 12 months and how they've been 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 end this 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. 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 and a half years some would say 47 years i would even mention the name of the control the sea. 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 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 brags that outcome for scottish farmer it's and like all other aspects of bracks it poised to 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 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. guys. 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 because you speak 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 down we don't know what to do so nobody can use and they're feeding on you cannot who's devoted 48 hours so it's so confusing i don't even remember my parents live. there with it so i am allowed to go to do but i don't know if i'm really about to be going through. q 4 to q 2 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 need 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 you might think that after so

long the u.s. top brass would have come up with something truly original. or. soldiers sailors airmen marines and guardians will be depending on me. and i will be back what i just said.

here's one for you 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 to me has been doing the sums for us. 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 that 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 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 europe so we've gone from paying people to sit in hods of trying to get adults to watch less t.v. and bugs all of this money wasted. none of it was initially washington 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 to. the way the 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 outweighs 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 asks how you 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 but does it for me in this edition of the week we'll be back in about 32 minutes with another look at this is our international glad to have you with us.

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a complete crisis changed our lives how we will continue to shape our lives make a future when we leave things you know that may never return. our. son welcome to worlds apart of george bernard show one sad that science never solves a problem without creating 10 more fast forward now. that we takes on a rather grim meaning considering that according to our guest today there is not a single contaminated squarest sound to me to laugh on this planet happy if we. the

point when science does more harm than good in progress at least so well to discuss that i'm now joined by a friend from hippo professor all he could talks ecology at northern arizona university and author of the chemical age how can best 4th salmon and disease killed millions and change their relationship with the earth frank it's good to talk to you thank you very much for your time and congratulations on your magnificent book. now i think your book provides for a very interesting read 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 it was during the time of the yellow fever outbreak 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 color.