because. of the good. deal. in the day's headlines moscow confirms its 1st case of the new far more contagious coded strain that emerged in the u.k. medical chiefs say russia's back scene is up to the task. from dismissal to acceptance we hear from mainstream journalists who once walked out the sputnik feedback scene now making a u. turn and themselves giving russians jack. also this hour the christmas period brings no worse but for germany which has reported a surge in kobe cases other countries chancellor morning the situation will only get worse. and a weekend that a u.s. president faces a 2nd impeachment bit as pro trump riders are charged with domestic terrorism

a look at how democrats are deepening the country's divide. you're watching our 2 international coming to live from the russian capital where it's just turned 3 pm welcome to the program. moscow's health chiefs say the sputnik vicodin vaccine does protect against the highly contagious new strain that emerged in the u.k. after russia confirmed its 1st case the country is ramping up production of the job millions more doses are said to be released within a month or 2 reports. new strain has crossed its borders and sneaked into russia along with one of the passengers on board of a jet that came back 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 it should not fear this new mutation because the existing sputnik vive vaccine will be effective they are saying against this strain. from our data testing systems used in russia can identify the strains and vaccines registered in russia definitely provide protection against this strain . 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 in fact it is roughly the same amount of citizens who have been vaccinated if you have germany and spain combined and these are the countries that

are leading the european rates of vaccination how's the russian sputnik of a 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 and 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 excel. aerated they're still trying to figure out safety and they're they've approved it so it was presented as something ridiculous it's something outrageous like what russia thinks of itself how could it roll out a vaccine so unready so rules so unsteady that even now the tables have

turned and the same 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 it 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 of vaccination sites in the united states and other countries so the sheer availability of the vaccine and the lack of side effects reported by patients who received the jab has made it entice enough for the western audience also the lack of cubes and new countries or approving sputnik be to be used on its soil like the 1st country in africa. and more countries are in fact looking into the possibility of becoming producers of sputnik vive like germany has shown interest and the latest one is brazil that is looking to produce sputnik be on its soil to make it available to all of its population and perhaps south america so we'll see how that

fares. as they are just mentioned in his report algeria has become the 1st african nation to register sputnik the vaccination campaign there is due to start this month mohamed merah a biologist at lancaster university says other countries in the region could follow their lead. if you look on to the more than $25000000.00 have been already given in $42.00 countries that are on the war but none of the single dollars has been given to any country in africa outside the clinical trial that is really on acceptable having approved one vaccine into one country in any continent going to open up the possibilities for other countries to uphold it and i don't think that as you go would have access to the vaccine that is a pool in the best and we know that you have to go 1st not just because of the tropical region but also lack of infrastructure is there to have a storage on minus $74.00 or 5 determinant of those are not practical over there so having vaccines those all are stored at 3 temperature those that wanted not only to

transport but also to reach to the places where the virus would hide ultimately at the end here for it is a great school for vaccines like sport needs to be able. to get into be as we go and get them on actable access amid warnings of the worst few weeks to come the holiday seasons brought no relief to germany the countries are part of a spike in cases and more than $40000.00 deaths now confirmed since the pandemic began as comes just days after a further tightening of its national lockdown our europe correspondent peter over has the details. germany continues to post high numbers of infections with covert 19 and debts 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 effects 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 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 close 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 spawn 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 money fund should here in germany and you know 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. and the you asked at the ready is continue to probe the scenes that shocked the world last week when trump supporters stormed capitol hill officials report getting more than 40000 online tip offs from the public about the identity of the rioters. a look at this week's protesters art inside statuary hall right now you see the statues this is a a moment i never saw in my life of my only mark of troops supporters 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 not 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. usa today needs your help identifying the people who broke into the u.s. capitol on wednesday view the photos and fill out self-will. let's name and shame them. to 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 well. never star direct marketing in maryland you've got an employee to investigate.

democrats are out to impeach donald trump for a 2nd time and under 2 years just days before his successors and i get a ration the procedure that might start later today could stop the present long term and even stop him running for the white house and 2024 following those riots on capitol hill house speaker nancy pelosi in a trump in an imminent threat to both tomography and the constitution person trying to get of branch is a drainage unhinged dangerous president of the united states he has done something so serious that there should be prosecution against him but most republicans want the impeachment process stopped and to find common ground with democrats who are loath to compromise are just modest if explains what did america.

from this this painful full incident. they finally realize the things that gone too far that the left fly the me here 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 terrorists 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 instead 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 put this 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 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 u.s.

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 no come for 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 do. differences beyond reason is hate from both sides and. these. obviously it's hard to see how it's going to get better unless absent huge change and we could all see their attitudes are changing democrats just won the senate for

the 1st stockman almost a decade there are too cool control of the federal government why you why would they start compromising now latin american studies professor daniel schott told us 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 have threatened 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 twitter facebook their bedding of truck certainly this should be no platforms for bigotry or xeno phobia everything that trump represents but if today trump has been who will be binge tomorrow. still had on the program israelis ignore lockdown rules to demonstrate against prime minister netanyahu and the man to resign i'll be back with details on that story and more after this break. join me every thursday on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics or business i'm showbusiness i'll see that.

welcome back there's been a rare face to face meeting for a lot of mir putin during the pandemic as his armenian and as eric counterparts have flown to moscow to gauge the peace deal on the. moscow help to negotiate an agreement back in november and 6 weeks of fighting in the disputed region cannot cross live to our correspondent or among course are for more on this what was said during these talks. the fact that the leaders of russia armenia and azerbaijan all key figures in the border karbala have crises met face to face here in moscow during the coronavirus pandemic certainly shows a very serious intent from all of the sides in these talks now vladimir putin thanked his counterparts for coming to the russian capital and noted that the cease

fire agreement which was brokered by the kremlin is unfolding very steadily and at least 48000 people have already returned to their homes. let's have that. story when you do know what is the we can satisfactorily state of the trilateral agreements are being consistently implemented we are convinced that this creates the essential preconditions for the long term and full scale resolution of the longstanding conflicts on a fair basis in the interests of both the armenian and as a people. now a lot of me also noted that since the kremlin broke through a brokered truce and the arrival of far russian peacekeepers to the region off nagorno karabakh hundreds off the head tears off land have been cleared from mine. and also unexploded ammunition also hundreds of tons of full humanitarian aid were delivered to nagorno-karabakh territory via air railways and of course by

a road as well meanwhile the ceasefire in the border karbala has been the fact already for over 2 months and basically to give you some background it's about territory is internationally recognised as part of azerbaijan but it's mainly populated by ethnic armenians and it's been a source of major tension in the region for decades now the latest major flare up unfolded back in late september with intense fighting taking place for over a month and was finally put to violence nagorno-karabakh for kremlin brokered a truce which was which took place right here in moscow now according to the deal. or paris to azerbaijan control also there was president station of the return of refugees and of course the implementation of

a russian peacekeepers who are closely following the situation. parties are among thank you for bringing us that report. california a state high it record for coma deaths over the last week now has 2600000 cases and almost 30000 deaths since the start of the pen demick as the area worst hit in the u.s. by the aids virus. here 21 years i have seen more people passed away last week. and the past couple weeks really than i almost hate combined in all of 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's no room inside the hospital that we are making tents outside the hospital. thousands of israelis defied a national lockdown to rally against benjamin netanyahu their protesters want their prime minister to quit over corruption charges as well as the government's alleged mishandling of the pen demick demonstrations have now lasted for more than 7 months .

19 that yahoo was indicted on charges of breach of trust accepting bribes and fraud he denies any wrongdoing and says the charges are politically motivated by hearing due last week was postponed indefinitely and due to the pandemic political analysts communally be. thanks the rileys have failed to make their mark. you know having it is. rather limited because. of the political force the political power of the was almost on the. most popular is really put it through if we like you know he did lose the squabbles throughout all these. demonstrations good porn show wallace the same. yes.

taken over 1000000000 views are everywhere already vaccinated. whose hand sent to you you should get critique but that's alright i'll just ignore the old picture the elections which will be few weeks will be shown if seeking to really change it looks now will. be over so the next. that the elections ended in any case it's going to be a right we will be the next privatised so it's. a return to some world news in brief this monday argentina's bring in restrictions on beach gatherings after hundreds flocked to its coast over the weekend ignoring coronavirus social distancing roles more than 40000 people have died in the pandemic and one of the countries hardest hit on the continent. at least 4 people are reported dead and thousands have been rescued across madrid after storm

filomena brought one of the most intense snowfalls and 15 years emergency services continue to clear the snow with around 600 roads still disrupted and officials have issued warnings for people to stay at home. and hundreds of japanese 20 year olds have marked a milestone known as coming of age day pandemic restrictions tempered the festivities many young people came out in traditional dress to celebrate adulthood . that's all for this hour news wise but if you're looking for more you can always head on over to our web site r t dot com for countless articles and interviews thanks for telling. us franklin kind of one of the architects of america and hear all those how it was

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the war in syria has lost in longer than world war 2 what is happening in this country i think that syria fall victim to horrific experiment when the discontent of some people and religious tensions in the country were exploited by external players these outside forces try to overthrow the regime and use the international terrorism phenomenon in to advance their agenda. human rights of syrian people were sacrificed for the sake of someone's ambitions. for and countries involved in the syrian war exerted influence and pursued their conflicting goals seeking their own political economic or military interests. but who has been suffering the most in this almost a decade long conflict and regular syrian people. they are the ones paying the

highest price in this endless war the price is their lives and their lives are still loved ones. their country is destroyed and bleeding. i'm a journalist from kazakhstan i have been following the tragic events in syria from the very beginning i have also been covering just on a process an international initiative aimed at settling the syrian crisis to talk stick place in my country's capital. a while ago i got a facebook message from your land. who lives in aleppo. she invited me to visit their city so i could see everything with my own eyes and hear the stories of its residents. one group in particular russian wives of syrian man. us.

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