it's really seen anywhere except here. welcome back. to the stories that shaped the week here on r t international the developers of russia's would make the vaccine sign an official memorandum of cooperation with astra zeneca they hope that by combining their 2 vaccines at the efficacy rate it will further rise. 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. . victory or defeat while the british prime minister celebrates and historical regs that deal across the english channel the european union's chief negotiator describes it as a lose lose result. and days and after of ladies and leaving struggling americans running out of cash donald trump finally signs the

huge relief and government funding bill narrowly averting another government shutdown. broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow recapping the week's top stories with our weekly program this is our t.v. international i now pharma giant astra zeneca and russia's gemmell a institute have started clinical clinical trials of a joint coronavirus vaccine it can bind 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 notice doctors and nurses to use 11 vaccine all the all there for the 1st injection and

a 2nd to make the alex simpler and a 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. 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 cannot afford the expensive exton we waited on the myriad of the disease when the whole world wanted to go to read it so we on the safety issue are going to be safe around the world oration was asked was america and the other producers but it's equally important because we just need to work together and it's our national operational can be just. or think you meant a cog now 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 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 you get over this problem of developing impunity to the carrier direst 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 oxo that's presented vaccine could well improve its efficacy

a lot 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 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. but 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 the dollar this protective immunity lasted for 2 years we simply didn't have a longer 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 at 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. 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 where the my colleagues most to solve all the problems on a large scale artes and asking the questions for us there now meanwhile on wednesday argentina officially approved the jab for emergency use. 300000 doses of the vaccine are on argentinian territory these will be distributed in all of 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 and we held that our vaccine helps to save the lives of millions of argentina. a plane carrying argentina's 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 everyone's downswings vs here in knowledge and so you know i would be the 1st one to take that vaccine because i have no doubts about the quality over the vaccine. president trump has finally signed off on the massive crowd of virus that 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 in 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 and line workers back to work at substantially more money for vaccine distribution and much more trumps procrastination during a christmas golfing break in florida has still done damage millions of jobless americans have seen their welfare benefits expire and it could take several weeks before their next payment comes through the $2.00 trillion dollar package includes 900000000000 in pandemic aid and a one off $600.00 payment for all americans who qualify trump says that's not enough and wants it to be raised to $2000.00 by cutting foreign aid elsewhere in the spending plan the house of representatives will vote on that on monday but it is up against stiff competition from trump's own republicans in the senate

now elsewhere the european union has launched a cross a 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 inoculated also this week 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 coronavirus variant it

is believed to have 1st emerged in the u.k. and then 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 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 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 see usenet facilities that toilets. within say stated close to closest movers on 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 cook and i think i'm going to meet and i replicated me make status quo when i meet and then i get going go to france but i don't think that. tougher covert 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. the fact of the matter is that this so-called new strain 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 to notice big it up now so it was never 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 in iraqi w m d style about this terrible strain 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 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 etc coming in so it really is a total disaster when the un and the 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 the situation.

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 negotiator described the divorce as a lose lose prime minister johnson though was upbeat about it this is the feast. full of fish by the way and i believe that 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 dollar to play 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 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 instead politicians will return to westminster to vote on the agreement on wednesday. now shortly after the deal was announced the 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 leave because of it perhaps coupling so should be 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 multi national international. i word looking community i think has been thompson fantastic i didn't support bret so i didn't pull pranks a i am really guy 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 in france and other parts of europe it would have been a disaster if there had been they do so very peaceful 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 but i know even short saudi government has a for their own short sighted aims as a such to a boil practice of the say this country is dreadful 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 covert closed borders and economic woes are good taylor looks now

at a 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. sending. fencing of presidents and who home grinch who stole christmas. yet i feel like 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 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 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 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 the

time of global insecurity we're no longer part of one of history's greatest and most noble projects bring nations together to build peace out of the ruins of war. this is a disastrous brags that outcome for a 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 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 no they're not we're lifting the knocked out actually stay at home little wonder then the confusion on exhaust peroration grew a bit confused because you don't like things agreed creek and we don't get that much information about what's going on and 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 through. q you could 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 now you might think that after so long the u.s. top brass would come up with something truly original right.

soldiers sailors airmen marines and guardians will be depending on me. and i will be back what i just said.

here's something completely different jogging machines for lizards just one of the stranger 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 park 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'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 book can't urine of predators oda 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 are 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 hods of trying to get adults to watch less t.v. and bugs 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 what does it for me and for the weekly for that matter but don't worry my colleague kevin owen he'll be here let's say 32 and a half minutes with a full and fresh look at the news this is our chief national.

2020 has been a year like you no wonder no it's a coming crisis changed our lives how we will continue to shape our lives meet for . a long things you know that may never reach or. max keiser this is the kaiser report with stacy herbert an special year end guest misfires by the men who i must say is the kind of

sensitivity to world events and markets really seen anywhere except here on kaiser for mit welcome back. time after time c. and welcome to going on the ground the team and i will be back with a brand new season starting on my birthday january 13th but until then we will be showing some of your favorite shows from this season. this is part one of the. special looking into what trump so called abraham accord signed between the leaders of the united states israel the united arab emirates and bahrain mean for the future of the middle east the accords normalize relations between israel and the

tube arab autocracies the 3rd and 4th arab countries to open diplomatic relations with israel to egypt and jordan the agreement to see by u.s. president trump as the dawn of the new middle east and the beginning of a new era of peace but others see it as the building of a stronger front against iran and a potential end to any chance of a future for the palestinian people on wednesday's show i'll be speaking to the palestinian ambassador to the u.k. has a lot and later in this program we'll be hearing from the editor in chief of the jerusalem post yack of cats but 1st joining me now from tel aviv is the 10th prime minister of israel ehud barak who also served as defense minister from 27 to 2030 and former province effects so much for coming on before we talk about anything i suppose we must talk about the lockdown in israel perhaps the 1st 2nd lockdown in the world your prime minister netanyahu saying that your country is on the edge of an abyss what do you make of the situation every major critic of of the girth.