in the headlines this late monday morning from moscow the city confirming its 1st case of the new far more contagious covert strain that emerged in the u.k. but medical she was nonetheless a brushes vaccine leads up to the task. from dismissal to acceptance we hear from mainstream journalists who want scoffed at this. now making a u. turn on themselves getting russia. christmas period brings no rest for germany which is reporting covert cases meantime the country's chancellor warning the situation is only set to get worse. and in other news we couldn't do

u.s. president faces a 2nd did pietschmann as pro trump. charged with domestic terrorism look at democrats meantime deepening the country's divide. good morning from russia then this 11 for january kevin owen here for the next 30 minutes for the latest from r.t. international for you starting with news small health chief says the sputnik covert vaccine here does protect against the highly contagious new strain that's emerged in the u.k. after russia confirmed its 1st case meantime the vaccine continues to gain traction around the world to he goes down or 1st explains how the strain got into the country. this new strain has crossed its borders and sneaked into russia along with one of the passengers on board of a jet came back from well from the u.k.

after all it's a british strain now it's important to understand that right now russia has its borders with the u.k. shut down but that happened back in december when the borders were still open and the world was still learning about this new mutation of the virus but russian officials who are tasked with combat ing this coronavirus are saying that the citizens of russia should not really fear to that should not fear this new mutation because the existing sputnik of the vaccine will be effective they are saying against this strain. from our data testing systems used in russia can identify the strains in vaccines registered in russia definitely provide protection against this strain. well in fact when it comes to russia and the people the number of people vaccinated moscow is leading the charge here in total in all of russia about a 1000000 more than

a 1000000 people have been vaccinated if you compare it to any european country that is more how's the russian sputnik vaccine being welcomed round the rest of the world outside of russia the situation here is interesting because of course russia was the 1st country to announce that it has a vaccine ready and as anything new as anything 1st it came under scrutiny and well it was it came close to being ridiculed as people all around the world including journalists took it with a pinch of salt but with out of these 3 mass trial completed it sounds like the process hasn't run its course here skeptical clinical trials were short they were accelerated they're still trying to figure out safety and there they've approved it so it was presented as something ridiculous as something almost outrageous like what russia thinks of itself how could it roll out. vaccine so unready so wrong or so unstudied even now the tables seem to have turned and are the same but the

journalists of the same outlets who were ridiculed the russian vaccine are now getting the jab with many of my fears alleviated another reason i chose to could not kill ated with a product of russian genetic engineering was more basic it was available russian clinics have not been dogged by the lines or logistical snafu reported at vaccination sites in the united states and other countries you know voids the possibility of immunity to the 1st dose impacting the ability of the 2nd dose to work efficiently these details even without the phase 3 results give me reason to think this wouldn't be vaccine may we'll be a stronger candidate as the ones created in western laps a lot of countries foreign countries there approving the sputnik grieve for using its oil the 1st country in africa has approved it and more countries are looking to become producers of sputnik v. germany has shown interest and the latest one to brazil and south america is also

looking forward to producing sputnik v. and making it available for its population here is eager was saying we are the cold tree 1st off in africa because the 1st african nation to register sputnik the vaccination campaign there jude start later this month earlier my colleague you know neal spoke with dr john dombrowski pain management expert at the washington pain center he believes the fact that russia's vaccine is easier to store for a start compared to western shots makes it a selling point. this is a 1st world problem that they have it has to be stored so cold so we're straight in getting it was wells in america but for the continent of africa this is not even sorry not even a place to start sputnik $516.00 is easier to just store in a north african country with maybe less you know sophisticated storage material for another way of getting it out to the population for the globe that is more accessible is is very important the russian vaccine developers claim their job will

prove effective against that how confident can they be at this stage he said when you work with an 80 viral vaccination you're looking at certain proteins of the virus and perhaps there's always something in common with a new strain hopefully they've captured that aspect of the protein where you could have you know resistance or vaccine immunity with both the covert one you know the code 1000 as well as do variant so it is very positive. the holiday season support no relief in old to germany which has reported a spike in cases of more than $40000.00 deaths now confirmed since the pandemic began it comes just days after a for the tightening of its national law or your correspondent peter all of us got the latest. germany continues to post high numbers of infections with kovac 19 deaths associated with it on friday the grim record of numbers of dead was broken

here in germany 1188 deaths confirmed that prompted chancellor angela merkel to give very sobering speech over the weekend and which she called on german citizens to think about their actions and the impact their actions would have on their fellow citizens. the coming winter weeks are probably the most difficult phase of the pandemic hospitals across the country are working to their limits current infection rates do not even reflect the facts of christmas any years eve hinting at a possible surge in a number of key cess and virus mutations are not helping to reduce anxiety. well lockdown measures they were brought in before christmas and new year were extended well strengthened last week and they'll be in place until the end of january they'll be reviewed on the 25th both sits likely that they will be extended even further what that means is all bars and restaurants are closed to in-house dining

and in house guests non-essential retail's closed also things like hey addresses all closed completely as well as schools and kindergartens when it comes to the vaccine now chancellor angela merkel has promised to ramp up germany's vaccine program in germany as well as many other european nations have been criticized for how slow their vaccine program had been put into place the health minister here in berlin e n span it said that he was happy with the way things were progressing that they'd targeted initially those in care homes and then it would be rolled out to the population at large what we've also heard from a government spokesperson is that chancellor angela merkel that spoken with russian president vladimir putin about the russian sputnik v vaccine being manufactured here in germany. generally i cannot report on confidential talks between the federal chancellor and her counterparts but i can say that the chancellor made it

clear that she's open to buy a way to a corporation with russia for the purpose of developing european for abduction capacity for the russian vaccine well in order for the russian vaccine to be manufactured here in germany it would 1st have to be approved by the european medical agency that hasn't happened as of yet but it does seem that should that happen we could well see that russian vaccine being manufactured here in germany as well as in russia. in the u.s. the scenes that shocked the world last week with images of trump supporters storming the symbol of american government capitol hill authorities continue to probe exactly what went on reporting more than 40000 online tipoff from the public about the identity of rioters and the nationwide hunt has got nasty. look at the speech protesters are inside statuary hall right now you see the

statues this is a moment i never saw in my life my only more troops supporters storming the entrance to the capitol grounds for an unprecedented security breach in the capitol i was in my experience it is hard to put into words what exactly we witnessed today because we've got seen this before. f.b.i. washington field office seeking public's assistance in identifying those who made unlawful entry into u.s. capitol building on january 6th if you witnessed unlawful violent actions contact the f.b.i. today needs your help identifying the people who broke into the u.s. capitol wednesday view the photos and fill out self-will. let's name and shame. after some amazing work by james railton friends here is his face and i guess his mom's pay attention to the shirts and hats and glasses.

never start direct marketing in maryland you've gotten into you to investigate. democrats are out to impeach donald trump on tuesday for a 2nd time in under 2 years just days before a successor is an organization the procedure could stump the president long term and even stop him running for the white house in 2024 if you so choose to following those riots on capitol hill house speaker nancy pelosi branded trump an eminent threat to both democracy and the constitution. person chinese had to have branch is a drain just unhinged dangerous president of the united states he has done

something so serious that there should be prosecution against him republicans want the impeachment process stopped and to find common ground if they can with the democrats where those democrats are loath to compromise right now were ghost of a senior correspondent explains what did america learn from this this painful this all full incident. that they finally realized that things that gone too far did the left finally hear the right all vice versa when thousands of your countrymen storming the capitol building you don't have to like it but if you don't bother to pause and learn a single thing from it from your citizens storming your capitol building then

you're a fool. 4 in 5 democrats believe that those who stormed capitol hill a domestic terrorist if you ask republicans only one in 5 calls them terrorists most call them protesters the fact is millions of those republicans believe the election was rigged and stolen the logical thing to do for the left would be to say hold on your mistaken recently action was fair here's how and here's why but that isn't their response their response is to try and impeach trump again and stead of finally deescalating the left sees this as an opportunity to crack down on the right to beat them while they're down to settle political scores and to slap away the hand or foot in peace we must come together and publish anger and division behind us we must and i'm confident we will have

a peaceful and orderly transition of power santa cruz you must accept responsibility for how your craven self-serving actions contributed to the deaths of 4 people yesterday though if you and senator holly must resign probably not the best time to be calling for political blood given how brutal can and hurt the us sees it's as if something has ingrained itself in the american mindset a complete and utter reluctance to compromise and be civil to your own neighbors and citizens to call on willingness to accept other views opinions and even on race . to. goals were marked storming the capitol what will be now come to your no 2 americas sounds right it does doesn't it they live in the in the same streets and the same towns but they're in different worlds here in their minds this goes beyond political. differences

beyond reason is hate from both sides and predominantly it is hate honestly it's hard to see how it's going to get better unless adds it's huge change and we can all see that attitudes are changing democrats just won the senate for the 1st time in almost a decade there are too cool control of the federal government why you why would they start compromising now on a whole lot of american studies professor done to show reveals how the political divides even splitting families including his own. this is certainly a unique moment we can see many families across the country very divided over this i have family members who you know won't talk to me who will threaten me. who see me as a traitor because i have different political views so this call for.

family members to call in other other family members is certainly an unprecedented unique situation i think we're living through. another chapter of divisiveness in american history the polarized nation is intense think this decades and centuries of polarization but it's unique right now because big ted twitter facebook there bidding of trucks certainly should be no platforms for bigotry for xeno phobia everything that trump represents but if today trump has been who will be binge tomorrow. yes because what's his face said now i thought watching r t international yourself this morning we always appreciate it here among stories ahead this israelis ignore lock down roll to demonstrate some more against prime minister netanyahu and demand the reside all those calls being heard find out after

the break. last week there was an assault on the nation's capital what does this tell us about the state of american politics is there still a place to disagree and dissent importantly does the idea of a loyal opposition still exist. i can't show you my face but i'm going to teach you must store in 9093 this man was sentenced to death. they could charged with capital murder even though he didn't have the gun didn't pull the trigger didn't intend to kill anybody imagine living in your bathroom for the week with his 10 to 23. to be.

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god. morning this is new in california set a state high for covert deaths over the weekend it now has 3000000 cases 2 in almost 30000 deaths is the area worst hit in the u.s. by the pandemic. i mean you're 21 years past the market of hathaway past week. and past couple weeks really the night almost a combined in our my career as a nurse you just see them die they just die anything they fight dying and it's so sad.

yes i'm angry yes i'm upset the only thing that we can do is 'd give them the reality of the situation which is this there is no room inside the hospital that we are making tents outside the hospital. isn't it right some world news we got here ok argentina bringing in restrictions on beef beach gatherings doesn't look like it there though after hundreds flocked to those beaches at the weekend ignoring coronavirus social distancing now the repercussions more than 40000 people have died in the pandemic and one of the countries hardest hit on that continent. trying to have some fun here world troy hundreds of 20 year old japanese people marking

a national milestone known as coming of age day however year pandemic restrictions tempered the typically raucous festivities to try to celebrate with better times will come my friends now at least 4 people reported dead and thousands rescued because of bad weather across madrid spain 2 after storm filomena poor. one of the most intense snow falls in 50 years emergency services are continuing to try to clear the snow with a road 600 roads still disrupted madrid authorities have issued warnings are people still to stay home please. thousands of israelis have defied a national lockdown to rally against benjamin netanyahu the protesters want the prime minister to quit over corruption charges as well as the government's alleged mishandling of the pandemic the demonstrations have now been lasting for more than 7 months. i.

i. i i potted history in 2019 netanyahu was indicted on charges of breach of trust accepting bribes and fraud he denies any wrongdoing and says the charges as far as he's concerned a politically motivated hearing last week was postponed indefinitely now because of the pandemic but political analyst gideon levy told us he thinks these rallies failed still to make them are. having it. rather limited because the. political force the political power of netanyahu was almost i mean he is the most popular israeli politician if we like people you know he did lose its power so all these bonds software that will ration the poor

and show more or less the same outcome. yes. that over 1000000 israelis were already vaccinated claes sente should get credit. but that's all of office to know the whole picture the elections which will be in your week's time will surely see this really change is it looks now will. be or so the next hour that the elections end in any case it's going to be a right winger who will be the next prime minister as well as things are shaping up so far this late monday morning from moscow it's coming up to 11 24 in the morning here local time but to follow any developments as they have. more are up if you download it straight to your mobile device or whatever social media but for now. it's all reminds me to say thanks for watching for me in the team. of a great day. i

got this 8 millimeter film purely by accident. time period 963 to 65 place damascus. oh don't don't do y. young. i've watched it many times a man posing the monuments and all poster of the hollywood premiere of town without pity and a fight in a minute so with bruises. i had my doubts if i should waste my time on this

but i came back to that film over and over again tracing a sequence of events happening in syria at that time anderson those who would think the mood of the review at the settlement in the crown in which we're sitting you know neal curiosity is like a petrol motion machine did lives on without a lunch break and then suddenly i saw him stop let's take another look now at low speed this is he like cohen a super spy who some consider a national hero and others an evil villain an israeli double o. 7. because it's bad some of these shows the good at the one. still. if to. the war in syria has lasted longer than world war 2. who

has been suffering the most in this almost an down to long conflict regular syrian people. need is more than them when you live in the many years you live. i could see everything with my own eyes and hear into stories of its residents one group in particular. russian wives of syrian man. look up to the world's. media a reflection of reality. in a world transformed. what will make you feel safer.

by salacious community. are you going the right way or are you being so. direct. what is true what is faith. in the world corrupted you need to descend. to join us in the depths. or remain in the shallows. a little when welcome to cross talk where all things are considered i'm peter lavelle last week there was an assault on the nation's capital what does this tell

us about the state of american politics is there still a place to disagree and dissent importantly does the idea of a loyal opposition still exist. to discuss these issues. and more i'm joined by my guest george samueli in budapest he's an author and you too are at the gaggle and here in moscow we have dimitri he's a political analyst and editor of you know smee internet media project hi gentlemen rostock rules and effect that means you can jump any time you want and i always appreciate it when it was going to georgia in budapest. the events of the last few days aren't it is dizzying to say in the least here we had the incident last wednesday on the council which was deplorable tragic and a unforced error and the way i look at it. the media is playing the blame game i'm

not interested in that i'm interested in the effects here the most immediate effect has been big tech is take it. a major move to stifle. alternative narratives people that are questioning and people obviously expressing their anger. this is in my mind george and i'm going to say it straight because you know i mean that's the way i am this is that at least at the very least they buy a prius authoritarian pre totalitarian moves to control discourse go ahead george i agree with you totally. because if you think about what really caused what happened on wednesday then it goes back to the fact that people were on a will to have redress for their grievances. the true cost the true culprit i believe was the u.s. supreme court which had

a chance to weigh in on this. ruling should we say election. they punted that they refused to get involved and that means that millions upon millions of americans felt that they had no redress that their grievances when not address and that is what happens when people feel deeply discontented i mean that this. it goes on top of all of the other oppressions of everything that had taken place over the last 12 months so now what is he what is the remedy for this well i'm all regression more rigid refusal to give be will of voice to give them a way to express their feelings and many of the biden administration is now saying that its 1st order of business will be an anti domestic terrorism bill there is no reason whatsoever for it because the criminal statutes are already.