so important is the idea of a loyal opposition with. russia confirms its 1st case of the new coded 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. also this are from dismissal to acceptance several mainstream journalists who were initially skeptical of us but think we are not lining up to take the russians out of. the festive season brings no respite for germany which has reported a surge in covert cases with the chancellor warning the situation only get worse. and donald trump faces a 2nd impeachment just days before leaving office as pro trump riders are charged with dismissed it terrorism.

is our 2 international coming to live from the russian capital 247 welcome to the program russia has confirmed its 1st case of a highly infectious coated mutation 1st discovered in the u.k. but health chiefs have given their assurances that the russian vaccine offers full protection against the new strain production of the job is being ramped up millions more doses are said to be released within a month r.t.c. course on the reports. this 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 v. vaccine will be effective they are saying 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 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 russian support 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

while 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 thesis to remaster trial completed it sounds like the process hasn't run its course here and there to stop researchers say russia's cutting corners to develop its coronavirus that saying 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. to rule out a vaccine so unready so rules so unstudied 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 to 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 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 are proving 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 greve like germany has shown interest and the latest one is brazil that is looking to produce but not be on its soil to make it available to all of its population and perhaps south america so we'll see how that fares palestine has formally approved the sputnik the job for emergency use making it the 1st mil east nation to do so this comes a day after all geria gave it the green light and the russian of fun behind sputnik v. says it expects 10 more states to register the drug by the end of january we heard

from mohamed we're near a viral just at lancaster university in the u.k. he thinks algeria's approval could encourage other african nations to follow suit. 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 of axion 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 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 745 that are made on of those are not practical over there so having vaccines those are all stored at food temperature. it wanted not only to transport it but also to reach to the places where the virus would hide ultimately at the end here for it is

a good school for 'd vaccines like sputnik to be able. to get in to be as we go and get them on actable access. germany has tightened its national lockdown after a surge in coverage cases are over the festive season 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 friday the grim wreck ordered 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. hit by 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 pieces and virus mutations are not helping to reduce anxiety. well lock down 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 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. about the russian sputnik vivax seen big money fund shoot here in germany because it is the kind of shows 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. dozens of suspects have been arrested in the u.s.

over last week storming of the capital they face charges including violent entry disorderly conduct and illegal possession of firearms and the f.b.i. is asking the public to help identify the participants. 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 more troops supporters 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 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 contactee

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 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. never start direct market and in maryland you've got an employee to investigate. democrats are trying to impeach donald trump for

a 2nd time in under 2 years just days before his successors and i curation following last week's riots on capitol hill house speaker nancy pelosi ran a trump an imminent threat to both democracy and the constitution. persons running executive branch is a drain judged unhinged dangerous president of the united states he has done something so serious that there should be prosecution against him most republicans want the impeachment process stopped and to find common ground with democrats who are loath to compromise as artist ron guys have explains what did america. from this this painful all full incident. they finally realized that things that gone too far did the left fly the 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 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 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 would 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. these. are mostly 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 even including his own this is certainly a unique moment we can see many families across the country very

divided over the years 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 others family members is certainly an unprecedented unique situation i think we're living through. another chapter of divisiveness in american history to polarize asian is intense think this decades and centuries of polarization but it's unique right now because big 10 twitter facebook there bidding of truck certainly we should be no platforms for bigotry or xeno fulvia everything that trump represents but it is a trump has been will be been tomorrow. arnold schwarzenegger has lashed out

at donald trump in the wake of the capitol hill riot hollywood star and former california governor spoke about his childhood and post nazi austria and compare the present actions to what happened in the run up to world war 2. i grew up in austria and very aware of christie knocked all the night of broken glass waste it was that they have broken gus right here in united states president trying sobs to overturn the results of an election you saw the cool but misleading people with us my father no no he was full misled also with lies and i know we're subsidizing the. shorts nigger referred there to crystal a wave of attacks on jews across germany and austria in 1938 the name comes from the shattered glass that litter the streets after nazi a paramilitary forces raided and vandalized synagogues and jewish owned stores thousands of jews were arrested that night and scores were killed including director of the holocaust and genocide center thinks the parallels with last week's

events are misguided. believe that analogies all helpful and suited to the holocaust and energies. appropriate we always have to look at the context each circumstance and each shift article context it needs and the nuance needs to be. always taken into consideration in each occasion and each circumstance needs to be unpacked in its entirety because for many. to day that holocaust is not a memory is not history it's an experience it's the loss of the family members the torture the the polling circumstances that they were forced to endure and so as dreadful as these events and these particularly bids last week. on capitol hill we need to be careful in making analogies around according to.

california suffered a record number of covert 1900 tell days this week the state has registered 2600000 cases and almost 30000 deaths since the start of the and it's put a huge strain on medics. being. prepared 21 years that i've seen more people pass away the past week. and the past couple weeks really than i almost say combined in all of my career as a nurse you just see them die they just die and they feel 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 'd give them the reality of the situation which is this there is no room inside the hospital that we are making tens of outside the hospital. the leaders of azerbaijan and armenia have met for the 1st time since signing a russian brokered cease fire that ended more than 6 weeks of deadly hostilities and they now go on a kind of. a meeting lasted for almost 4 hours here and moscow hosted by president putin and was followed by a news conference. she would use new stitcher should scritching the washington this meeting has been extremely important and useful when we have signed a joint declaration on the region's development is the with. the gov out in the city implementing the agreements outlined in the statement can change the economic

outlook of the region and security. council or do you like a look at a bus ticket in the going to care about conflict is a thing of the past and we should now look to the future that we need to solve problems together with our natures at school well the fact that the leaders of russia armenia and azerbaijan have met so face to face here in moscow during this very uneasy time of the coronavirus pandemic certainly speaks volumes about the seriousness of their intense their russian president said after the meeting said that this sides have signed a joint statement on the future development of azerbaijan now the budget and leader ali homily have said that said the meeting with putin and passion was very important for the future of the entire region meanwhile his armenian counterpart. said that there are still many issues on the table including the status of mcgauran

a car a block now they disputed nagorno-karabakh territory has seen a major sanction the last few decades between armenia and azerbaijan the latest flare up in tensions took place in september of last year with intense fighting that that saw sense of thousands of people killed on each side let's take a look. it's now been over 2 months that it's been called and quads nagorno-karabakh region tens of letting near putin said on monday that as many as. 48000 people have already agreed certain to their homes you know and are born a buck or a box however he said there is still quite a lot of work to do he also spoke about the russian peacekeepers who are performing their mission there in accordance with the agreement signed with armenia and

azerbaijan he said so far they have de mines and cleared hundreds of hex airs. from unexploded munitions a you also talked about the fact that hundreds of tons of aid have been delivered from the gordon corera box as well via air via trades and trucks as well now about that agreement that the sides assigned russian peacekeepers are in the region and they're facilitating their routes are and of the refugees and of course are monitoring for the case or any provocations for the ceasefire agreement. thousands of israelis have defied a national lockdown to rally against benjamin netanyahu once again 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 lasted for more than 7 months.

and 21000. of trust accepting bribes and fraud he denies any wrongdoing and says the charges are politically motivated harrington last week was postponed indefinitely over at the append demick political analyst gideon levy thinks that the riots have failed to make their mark. they're having it in. a rather limited because. of the political polls that. was almost on the. earth really put it through. if we like but we know he didn't lose the spy wars through old software that will. show wallace the city bio. pic and the over 1000000000

user ideas were diverted to. who's ahead so you should get critique but that's all risky no the old picture the elections which. you'll recall. we showed you see just really tree looks now will. be over so the next produce that the election is. going to be a right wing we'd be the next private it's the. last place in world news in brief argentina is restricting beach gatherings after crowds flock to the coast over the weekend ignoring coronavirus social distancing roles as one of the worst hit countries in south america with more than 40 $8000.00 fatalities since the start of the pandemic. at least 4 people have died and thousands have been rescued across madrid after storm filomena brought one of the most intense snowfalls 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 a 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 venues across the country wearing traditional dress to celebrate adulthood. that's been a wrap up of the day's top headlines for this hour and that's all for me as well today but we're not making and will be here at the top of the hour with their global news update as always thanks for tuning in. 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 that week with the scent of a $23.00. i've got that i'd be very. good i'd be very. confined within 4 gray walls the phone it's using hot turned on to help him to leave this room. the war in syria has lasted longer than world war 2. who has been suffering the most in this almost and back in long conflict regular syrian people. need is more than the many why for many years even the strangest thing

i could see everything with my own eyes and hear the stories of its residents one group in particular russian wives of syrian man. because they were opposed to look up to his nationalist words. last week there was an assault on the nation's cow what does this tell us about the state of american politics is there still a place to disagree and to say importantly is the idea of a loyal opposition still exists. seemed wrong. but i. just don't. get to see palin he's going to come after. and engage me because the trail.

went on find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. time after time c. and welcome to going underground 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 going up in this show will trump lose in tuesday's presidential election thanks to coded killing hundreds of thousands of u.s. citizens we go to the white house to speak to one of the only 2 men in the u.s. president apparently listens to the pandemic white house going to bars top school survives a professor school hapless he tells us why he thinks lockdowns must testing in

mosques go to hold up all of them all coming up in today's going on the ground 1st with just days ahead of the u.s. presidential election which will have a global impact as a global coronavirus pandemic continues to take lives not least in the united states itself let's go straight to the white house and speak to one of president trump's closest coronavirus advisors professor scott atlas thank you so much god for coming on you interpret the data how bad is covidien in the usa i'm sure you know that the democrat leaning mainstream media says it's corona virus that could spell the end of the trump presidency. ok well thanks for having me well i mean it is a it's a it's a deadly pandemic there's no under stating that we've had 230000 lies roughly lost and from the from the virus and certainly many many loss from the policy of shutdowns so it's tragic there's no

question about that but if you want to know what's happening right now i think there's a gross distortion that has sort of been a typical of the reporting on this and that is that there's this frenzy of focusing on a number of cases when we see a lot of reasons to be sort of you know cautiously optimistic here rather than fearful and those reasons are very important for people understand 1st of all the cases number the case number is not the most important matter what's important to understand is that the vast majority of people that are getting these cases are lower risk healthier people we're doing a better job protecting the elderly and it's you know the high risk people the diseases deadly really.