this room. in the day's headlines russia confirms its 1st case of the new code strain that originated in the u.k. but medical chiefs say russia's vaccine is up to the task the job has now been approved by algeria and palestine. from dismissal to acceptance we hear from mainstream journalists who were initially skeptical of be but are now lining up to take the russian shot. also this hour the festive season brings no respite for germany which has reported a surge in co big cases but the chancellor warning the situation that will only get worse. and donald trump faces a 2nd impeachment just days before leaving office as pro trump rioters are charged

with domestic terrorism. a very warm welcome to the program on this day it's 5 pm here in the russian capital let's get started with your live news update. russia has confirmed its 1st case of a highly infectious coded mutation the 1st discovered in the u.k. but health chiefs have given their assurances that the russian vaccine offers full protection against the new variant production of the job is being ramped up millions more doses are set to be released within a month. has more. new strain has crossed its borders and sneaked into russia along with one of the passengers on board of a jet came back 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 it should not fear this new mutation because the existing sputnik the 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 russians put 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 without a visa to remaster trial completed it sounds like the process hasn't run its course here skeptical clinical trials where short they were excel. aerated they're still trying to figure out safety and there they've approved it so it was presented as something ridiculous as something outrageous like what russia thinks of itself how could rule out a vaccine so unready so rules so unsteady that even now the tables have

turned and are 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 a russian genetic engineering was more basic it was available russian clinics have not been dogged by the lines or logistical snafu reported to 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 v. 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 but need to be on its soil to make it available to all of its population and

perhaps south america so we'll see how that fares. in the past 2 hours palestine formally approved a sputnik the job for emergency use making it the 1st country in the middle east to do so comes a day after algeria gave it the green light there were near a biologist at lancaster university says other countries in the region could follow . if you look on to the more than $25000000.00 have been already given in $42.00 countries on the war but none of the single dollars has been given to any country enough to go outside the clinical trial that is we aren't acceptable having approved one vaccine into one country in any continent going to open up the possibilities for other countries to approve it and i don't think that as you go would have access to the vaccine that is approved 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 the minus 70 $45.00 that are madonna those are not practical over

there so having vaccines those are all stored at food 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 good 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 covert relief to germany and countries are part of a spike and cases and more than $40000.00 deaths have been confirmed since the pandemic began as comes just days after a further tightening of its national lockdown our europe correspondent there all over as more. germany continues to post high numbers of infections with kovac 19 deaths associated with it on thrive day the grim wreck order 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 what 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 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 because it is a condition 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 vecsey 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 last authorities continue to probe the scenes that shocked the world last week when trump supporters stormed capitol hill officials report getting more than 40000 online to fast from the public about the identities of the rioters. 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 of my only more troops supporters storming the entrance to the capitol grounds 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. usa 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 and friends here is his face and i guess his mom's pay attention to the show's inherent anti-gay policies. never star direct market and in maryland you've got an employee to investigate.

democrats are a 10 page donald trump for a 2nd time just days before his successors inauguration final last week's riots on capitol hill house speaker nancy pelosi branded trump 8th minute 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. most republicans won the impeachment process stopped and to find common ground with democrats who are loath to compromise artist my god if explains what did america learn from this this painful this is all full incident.

they finally realize the things that gone too far that the left 5 only 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 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 you're mistaken resul 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 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 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 total unwillingness to accept other views opinions and even on race. to. goals were. storming the capitol what will be now come for 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 there are different worlds here in their minds this goes beyond political do. differences beyond reason it's hate from both sides and. these hate obviously it's hard to see how it's going to get better unless absent huge change and we can all see that attitudes are changing democrats just won the senate for the 1st stahmann almost a decade there are too cool control of the federal government why you why would

they start compromising now we spoke with latin american studies professor daniel shah he said the political divide is 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 will 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 twitter facebook their

bedding of trouble certainly this should be no platforms for bigotry for xeno phobia everything that trump represents what if today trump has been who will be binge tomorrow. still had on the program vladimir putin meets with the leaders of armenia and azerbaijan to discuss the peace deal for not going to. be back with details on that after the short 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. the world

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welcome back leaders of azerbaijan and armenia are meeting for the 1st time since signing a russia brokered cease fire that added more than 6 weeks of deadly hostilities in the car bomb region the meeting started about 3 hours ago here in moscow hosted by president putin are to his room on cost for parts. first of all the fact that the leaders of for russia armenia and azerbaijan actually met face to face in this age of the coronavirus pandemic already means a lot of shows there a very serious intent going into these talks now vladimir putin he thanked his a counterpart for coming here to moscow for these talks and noted that the agreements the cease fire which was signed is unfolding very steadily and at this moment moments at least 48000 people have already made their way back to their homes in my gorney carbolic however russian president noted that there is still

a lot of work up ahead start when you do what is a day we can such as factually 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 the latest major flare up began in september of last year with intense fighting going on in nagorno-karabakh a territory and with a sense of thousands of people killed on both sides. and. it's now been over 2 months since the fighting stops in nagorno-karabakh and russian president noted that says since their arrival of russian peacekeepers to

the region hundreds of hectares off land have been made the mind is being cleared from unexploded ammunition and a humanitarian aid hundreds of thousands have been delivered via air via rail and by trucks as well according to the deal ports are. the goal of a quarterback or past about johnny control while russian peacekeepers have been deployed to the region to make sure over a few g.'s are kind of x. their own homes and of course to facilitate the ceasefire as well. california suffered a record number of coded 1900 how these this week the state has red star 2600000 cases and us 30000 best since the start of the pandemic and it's put a huge strain on medics. being. prepared 21 years and i've seen more people passed away last week.

in the past couple weeks really than i'd almost say 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 is no room inside the hospital that we are making tens outside the hospital.

thousands of israelis have to find a national lockdown to rally against benjamin netanyahu once again if protesters want the prime minister to quit over corruption charges as well as the government's handling of the pandemic the demonstrations have been raging since last spring. i. i. and 21000 not now who was indicted on charges of fraud and accepting bribes is a nice any wrongdoing and says the case is politically motivated a hearing to last week was postponed indefinitely because of the pandemic political analyst gideon levy thinks the price has failed to make the market. you know having it. rather limited because trying to be a political force the political power of the 10 yo was almost on the he's the most

popular is really put it through if we like people you know he didn't lose the. ration did porn show more or less the same outcome. yes i do think that over 1000000 views or at least rarely vaccinated. whose hand sent to you should get critique but that's all right over to know the old picture the elections which would be in your greek style i will show you if seacrest really change is he looks now will. i be older so the next. that the elections and in every case it's going to be a right wing will be the next privatised it's a. funny thing we bring you some world news in brief argentina is restricting beach gatherings after crown's flock to the coast over the weekend ignoring coronavirus

social distancing rules that's one of the worst hit countries and south america with more than $40000.00 fatalities since the start of the pandemic. at least 4 people have died and thousands have been rescued across mage. after storm full amount brought one of the most intense no falls in 50 years emergency services continue to clear the snow with around 600 roads still blocked and officials are urging people to stay at home. and japanese 20 year olds have marked a milestone known as coming of age day celebrations were relatively low key due to the pandemic of thousands of young people gathered at the news across the country wearing traditional dress to celebrate adulthood. that's a global news update for this hour but don't forget you can always head to our web site r.t. dot com for the details on all of those stories and many more. i

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away and welcome to cross talk or 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 to her up the gavel and here in moscow we have dmitri by which he is a political analyst and editor in ost me internet media project gentlemen crossed

up rules in effect that means you can jump any time you want and i always appreciate what i was going to george in budapest. the events of the last few days . it is dizzying to say at 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. then 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 us 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 me and that's the way i am this isn't 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 he goes back to the fact that people were on the able 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 5. they punted refused to get involved and that means that millions upon millions of americans felt that they had no redress of their grievances well not address and that is what happens when people feel deeply discontented i mean and this 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 refresher.