midday here now in the headlines this monday moscow confirms its 1st case of the new far more contagious covert strain of merged in the u.k. but medical chief saying nonetheless russia's vaccine is up to the task. from dismissal to acceptance we hear lead time from the mainstream journalists who want scoffed at the sputnik v.a. vaccine now making a u. turn on themselves getting russians. and christmas bringing no rest for germany which is reported to surge in covert cases along with a lot of the rest of europe for the country's chancellor warning the situation will only get worse. so we can get u.s.

president faces a 2nd impeachment bid as pro trouble writers are charged with domestic terrorism look at how democrats deepening the country's divide. from russia than this 11 for january kevin owen here for the next 30 minutes with the latest from r.t. international for you and starting with this moscow's health chief saying the sputnik the covert vaccine does protect against the highly contagious new strain that emerged in the u.k. after russia confirmed its 1st case of it meantime the vaccine continues to gain traction around the world for ports. 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 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 will be a stronger candidate as the ones created in western laps a lot of countries foreign countries there are approving the sputnik grieve for use in its soil 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 of brazil and south america is also looking forward to producing sputnik v.

and making it available for its population he goes talking about algeria there becoming the 1st african nation to register the vaccination campaign there is due to start this month mccullagh unit o'neill spoke with dr joe dabrowski a pain management expert at the washington pain center he believes the fact that russia's vaccine is easy to store compared to western shops makes it a big selling point. this is a 1st world problem that they have it has to be stored so cold so we're straight in the making of us wells in america but for the continent of africa this is not even sorry not even a place to start sputnik 5 that scene is easier to just store in a north american 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

a if you 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 caught sure that aspect of the protein where you could have you know resistance or vaccine immunity with both the cove and one you know the code in 1000 as well as do bury it so it is very positive. also amid warnings of the worst few weeks to come still the holiday season brought no code relief to germany the countries reported a spike in cases of more than $40000.00 deaths now confirmed since the pandemic began it comes just days after for the tightening of its national law your correspondent peter all of his called the latest from that. germany continues to post high numbers of infections with covert 19 deaths associated with it on thrive day 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 cases 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 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 the end 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. away from coated for a bit in the u.s. those scenes that shocked the world last week with images of trump supporters storming the symbol of american government capitol hill authorities continue today to probe exactly what went on reporting now more than $40000.00 online tip off from the public about the identity of the rioters and it seems the nationwide hunt has got nasty. look at this these protesters are inside statuary hall right now you see the statues this is a moment i never saw in my life of my only march of troops supporters storming the

entrance to the capitol grounds for an unprecedented security breach in the capitol at least 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 the public's assistance in identifying those who made unlawful entry into the 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. to some amazing work by james railton friends here is his face and i guess his mom's pay attention to the shirts and glasses.

never start direct marketing in maryland you've got an employee to investigate. so then the fall out u.s. democrats now page donald trump for a 2nd time in under 2 years just days before his successor is inauguration the procedure could in fact start later today and it could stop the president long term even stopping bunning for the white house if he so choose to in 2024 following those riots on capitol hill house speaker nancy pelosi branded trump an imminent threat she said both democracy and the constitution. person chinese head of 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 democrats who are loath to compromise here's our senior correspondent steve what did america learn from this this painful this all full incident. that they finally realized that things had gone too far that 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 offered in peace we must come together and publish 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 but if you and senator holly must resign probably not the best time to be calling for political blood given how breaux 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 tootle unwillingness to accept other views opinions and even on race. 2. goals were marked storming the capitol what will be no if you are 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 do. 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 adam's huge change and we can all see that attitudes are changing democrats just won the senate for the 1st star been almost a decade there are too cool control of the federal government why you why would they start compromising now and sometimes at home behind closed doors latin american studies professor journal show revealing 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 is 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 of big twitter facebook there being no truck certainly this should be no platforms for bigotry or xeno phobia everything that trump represents what if today trump has been who will be binge tomorrow thanks check in with us today i mean the team most appreciated if not you stick with us to off the break israelis ignore laws rules to demonstrate against prime minister netanyahu again and stale demand he resign but is it having an effect. on the break.

seemed wrong. just don't call. me. yet to shape out this day become educated and engage with equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. franklin kind of one of the architects of america and it's all this out i was going to add when you can both the free money the republic is done and this is what just happened in their 2020 election people voted for free money and now it's officially

per ben franklin if. it's. done. and. starts to bring to california is set a state high for covert deaths over the weekend it now has 3000000 cases and almost 30000 deaths it's the area worst hit in the us by the pandemic. here 21 years have seen more people pass away past week. in the past couple weeks really then i almost say combined in our my career as a nurse you just see them die they just die and they they fight dying and it's so

sad. yes i'm angry yes i'm upset but the only thing that we can do is 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. thousands of israelis have to find a national law to rally against benyamin 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 lost it for more than 7 months. the short history a 2019 netanyahu was indicted on charges of breach of trust accepting bribes and fraud he denies any wrongdoing and says the charges are politically motivated here in june last week was postponed indefinitely now because of the pandemic but political analyst. levy thinks the release of failed to make their mark. they're having it is. rather limited because. of the political force the political power that was almost. the most popular israeli politician if we like. he didn't lose these problems through all these.

regimes reports show wallace the same. yes. over 1000000 israelis were already vaccinated plays to his hand sente should get credit. but the obviously not the whole picture the elections which will be in your weeks will show we've seen this really change is it looks now will. be over so the next hour of the elections and it is going to be a writer who will be the next prime minister. 60 seconds it's time for a little bit more of what's happening around the world this for a start argentina is bringing in restrictions on beach gatherings after hundreds flock to its coast this last weekend ignoring coronavirus social distancing more than 40000 people have died in the pandemic in one of the countries that is are

just it on the continent there. bad weather at least for people reported dead and thousands rescued in the snow across madrid bizarre but you seeing it after storm filomena bowl one of the worst and most intense snowfalls there in 5 decades emergency services continue to clear it with around 600 road still disrupted officials have issued warning still for people please they say stay at home. now try to have a bit of fun despite the pandemic hundreds of japanese 20 year olds of malta milestone known as coming of age day although pandemic restrictions temperately typically. because festivities many young people came out in traditional dress to celebrate out old hoods and where he goes things will get better so we have. less if an ad from a following developments all of those stories and throughout the day at r.t. dot com and of us social media all that great up we've got ready headlines will go straight to your mobile device but for now we have the tape of

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