one of the things. that may never reach. in the stories that shaped the week here on archie international the developers of russia's sputnik v. vaccine signed an official memorandum to operation with astra zeneca they hope that by combining their 2 vaccines the efficacy rate for the rights of. a new more contagious strain of cold it has been detected in england causing panic worldwide with more than 40 countries banning arrivals from the u.k. . and a victory or a defeat while the u.k. prime minister celebrates and historic brags it across the english channel the european union's chief negotiator describes it as a lose lose result. in

broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow this is arch international i'm john thomas glad to have you with us as we recap the week's top stories with our weekly program. i 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 headscarf official notice doctors and nurses to use 11 vaccine all the although for the for the 1st injection and a 2nd to make the alex simpler and the 2nd go on 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's no one single company that can put you a cent 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 old world and it's got rid of it so we're on the safety for around the world or asian disaster as america and other producers but it's equally or something because we just need to work together and it's our national operation can be just. or think you meant a cog. 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 book nick 5 and 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 you get over this problem of developing immunity to the carrier the virus can 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 oxo that's there's any current vaccine could well improve its efficacy a lot of greater than the individual vaccines apart now the problem with. biotech back scenes is that they are caught a very strict 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 we also sat down with the 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 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 though not identical against not only a bowl of 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 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 his and tancred asking the questions there now meanwhile on wednesday argentina officially approved of the sputnik jab for emergencies there. 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 that our vaccine helps to save the lives of millions of argentina. a plane carrying argentina's 1st batch arrived in paris 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 that he would be the 1st to take it and when a similar in argentina some raised doubts about the quality of russian science to clear everyone's doubts when v. is here in argentina i would be the 1st one to take that vaccine because i have no doubt about the quality over the vaccine and some breaking news here on r t international president trump has finally signed off on the massive coronavirus relief and government funding bill freeing up much needed cash to get to struggling citizens and businesses and averting an imminent government shutdown trump had been threatening to veto the bill which would have left millions out of pocket and would have derailed an agreement which took months of talks in congress i am signing this

bill to restore unemployment benefits stop evictions provide rental assistance and money for p.p.p. return line workers back to work at substantially more money for vaccine distribution and much more. procrastination during a golfing break in florida has still done damage though it has meant millions of jobless americans have seen their welfare benefits expire and it could take several weeks before the next payment comes through the 2.3 trillion dollars package includes $900000000000.00 in pandemic aid and a one off $600.00 payment to all americans who qualify and the $25000000000.00 has been earmarked for rent aid as well as extending the moratorium on the vixens elsewhere the european union has launched a cross border vaccination program here you can see the 1st jobs being administered under the roll out this 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 is actually double what is needed for the entire blocks population to get an ocular also this week of the world health organization raised the alarm over a new highly contagious strain of covert. 16 countries have now confirmed their 1st cases of the new corona virus variant it is believed to have 1st emerged in the u.k. and spread 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 and more than 50 countries have imposed some level of restriction on arrivals from the u.k. eurotunnel 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

toilets and within say state a closed society close just moves 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 be a problem. sanitation side every day i am here and that shower head knocking all day i can't cook and i think i'm too old to me and i have to change i mean i can taste it was nice maybe i did it i guess i'm going down to ground but i really believe that 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 and they have been accused of not reacting quickly enough here's the take of journalist and broadcaster you know clark the fact of the matter is that this so-called new strike was not about in september but 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 an announcement about this in september why didn't he get up in september don't speak it up now so it was evident he could get double what was going to happen and it's also to link up with other mainstream will ever get to where the british government is trying to terrify is in iraqi w m d style about this terrible strain of course we are closest trading partners are going to say wow you're sorry we're going to blow up flights going to stop people coming in from britain if what you say is 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 etcetera coming in so it really is a total disaster really and that disaster is the responsibility of the british government 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 virus with crematoria in the region struggling with

a body backlog our video agency ruptly film listen to asian. on thursday the u.k. and the european union reached a landmark trade deal after 4 years of will they won't they however the chief brags that negotiator described the divorce as a lose lose prime minister johnson though was upbeat about the situation this 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 your dollars if 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. 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 u.k. will now control its own borders and has pulled out of the long running a rasmussen student exchange scheme between universities opting for a much more smaller swap program 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 bragg's it she added 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 to speak 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 contest i didn't support bret so i didn't pull pranks a i have really guides to not be part of you know pretty 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 cases but there is

a to this is i suppose some people a big christmas present it's just i think it's really easy to do to see it i think we will see a return to the troubles that it was it st louis. extremely disappointing. and naive but short saudi government has a for their own short sighted aims as a such a terrible practice of the so you know this country is dreadful but in a 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. while boris johnson's christmas wish may have come true it has been overshadowed by a tough year of coded closed borders and economic woes. taylor looks now at a past 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 felt like. sending. sending a president who home printer on christmas. yet i feel like christmas has been known to be free 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 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 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 our destiny 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 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 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 which is that it is. teaching position. 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 because speakers 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 they say that only cannot who's devoted 48 hours like 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 to do 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 and you might think of it after so long the u.s. top brass would have come up with something truly original. soldiers sailors airmen marines and guardians will be depending on me.

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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 has been doing the sums. 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 the

dollars to get 6 lizards want 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 one point $5000000.00 place your bets on how much it costs to spray drunk rats with bob katter 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 a barely someone has concluded that surviving a gruesome war is comparable to being sprayed with urine 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 it was initially washington's this is 54000000000 dollars of taxpayer money but look on the bright side at least we can sleep well now we know. 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 of the sudden they're worried about their pocketbook or the desire for me in the weekly this hour i'll be back in about 33 minutes with another look national stay with us.

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need new world where industry doesn't want any regulation it just want. to put the products on the market. we need a regulation so we don't do. crazy things because maybe sometimes we would do crazy things i don't know but i'll accept that we have regulation we want to regulation i was in this. industry don't behave when you're sprinting that's why. i always say that the industry makes money of course it does if the industry did not make money how many people would be out of work.