believed in this room. russia confirms its finest case of the new covert strain that originated in the u.k. the medical chiefs say russia's vaccine is up to the task and the job has not been approved by algeria and palestine. from dismissal to acceptance and several mainstream journalists who were initially skeptical over this but take the vaccine are now lining up to take the job. the festive season brings no response for germany which is reported a surge in covert cases the chancellor warning the most difficult phase is still to come. donald trump faces a 2nd impeachment just days before leaving office as pro trump rioters are charged

over the storming of the capitol. a very warm welcome to you would say 8 pm here in moscow and you're watching r.t. international with me. russia has confirmed his 1st case of a highly infectious covert mutation 1st discovered in the u.k. but health chiefs have given that assurances that the russians axion also is full protection against the new strain production of the job is being ramped up millions more doses are set to be released within a month 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 home batting 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 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 a 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 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 at least 3 mass 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 back 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. roll out a vaccine so ready so roars so unstudied even now the tables 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 it with the product of 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 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 greve 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. palestine has formally approved the sputnik the job for emergency use making it the 1st middle east nation to do so

this comes a day off to algeria gave it the green light and the russian sun's behind sputnik the says it expects 10 more states to register the drug by the end of january we heard from through all the just at limehouse to university in the u.k. he thinks that all gerri is approval could encourage other african nations to follow suit. if you look on to there are now 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 an 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 there 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 the minus 74 or 5 that are mcgonagall they're not practical over there

so i mean vaccines those are all stored food temperature those are really a great 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. germany has tightened says tighten this national lockdown after a surge in covert cases over the festive season i have car spondon piece on the president's house. germany continues to post high numbers of infections with covert 19 deaths associated with it on thrive. 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 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 ian 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 it is an issue 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's 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 bridge protesters are inside statuary hall right now you see the statues this is a a moment i never saw in my life my only mark 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 doe's 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 them. to some amazing work by james railton and 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 got an employee to investigate.

us democrats have launched impeachment proceedings against donald trump for the 2nd time in 2 years accusing him of inciting the mob the storm's capitol hill that's after republicans blocked an effort to remove the president from office under the 25th amendment following last week's riots in washington house speaker nancy pelosi branded trump an imminent threat to democracy persons running executive branch is a drainage unhinged dangerous president of the united states he has done something so serious that there should be prosecution against him. many republicans want the impeachment effort stops and have called for common ground because democrats are seizing more advanced explains. what did america learn from this this

painful all full incident. they finally realized that things had gone too far that the left far 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 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 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 bru 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 they're going to these hate all mostly 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 and to pull control of the federal government why oh why would they start compromising now we spoke with latin american studies professor daniel schorr he said the political divide is splitting families including his son this is certainly a unique moment we can see many families across the country very divided with and i have family members who you know will talk to me who threaten 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 a certainly an unprecedented unique situation i think we're living through. another chapter of divisiveness in american history the polarization is intense think this decades and centuries of polarization but it's unique right now because big twitter

facebook their bedding no truck certainly this should be no platforms for bigotry or zener fulvia everything that trump represents but if it is trump has been will be binned tomorrow. has lashed out at donald trump in the wake of the capitol hill riots the hollywood star and former california governor spoke about his childhood in post nazi all stria and compared the president's actions to what happens in the run up to world war 2. no i grew up in austria and very aware of christian one or the night of broken glass wednesday was the day of broken glass right here in united states president trump sobs to overturn the results of an election you saw the cool but misleading people with maurice by far than our neighbors were misled also with lies. and know were such lies lead schwarzenegger referred back to

kristallnacht a wave of attacks on jews across germany and austria in 1938 the name comes from the shouted glass that littered the streets after nazi paramilitary forces raided and vandalized synagogues and jewish owned stores thousands of jews were arrested that night and dozens were killed mary klute director of the holocaust and genocide center thinks the parallel parallels with last week's events are misguided. i believe that allergies are i'm helpful and certainly holocaust and energies are in the program but we always have to look at the context each circumstance and each shift our local context needs and the new aren't needs to be. always taken into consideration in each occasion and each circumstance needs to be unpacked in its entirety because for the many survivors still alive today the holocaust is

not a memory is not history it's lived experience it's the loss of their family members the torture of the the palling circumstances that they were forced to endure and so as dreadful as these events and these particular events last week were on capitol hill we need to be careful in making analogies around calling it crystal not. the leaders of azerbaijan and armenia has met for the sus time since signing their russia brokered cease fire ended more than 6 weeks of deadly hostilities in the tower back region the meeting lasted for almost 4 hours here in moscow hosted by president putin and was followed by a nice conference. she would use new stitcher should scritching the washington this meeting has been extremely important and useful we have signed a joint declaration on the region's development. and is

a government in the implementing the agreements outlined in the statement can change the economic outlook of the region and to security overtake national ready you and the like would look at a bus to compete in the going to karabakh conflict is a thing of the past and we should now look to the future we need to solve problems together with our natures its tool well the fact that said the leaders of russia armenia and azerbaijan have met so face to face here in moscow during this very uneasy time of the coronavirus bonds and it certainly speaks volumes about the seriousness of their intents 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 all in how many have said that said the meeting with putin and passion was very important for the future of the entire region meanwhile he is our meeting counterpart. and said that there are still many issues on the table including the

status of mcgauran a car a box 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. and. it's now been over 2 months that it's been called and quads nagorno-karabakh region tens of lie to me putin said on monday that as many as $48000.00 people. i have already agreed certain to their homes in an hour gordon a book 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 agreements signed with armenia and azerbaijan he said so far they have de mines and cleared hundreds of hacks heirs of aware and from unexploded munition a you also talked about the fact that hundreds of tons of aid have been delivered from 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 there facilitating their return of the refugees and of course monitoring for the case or any provocations for the cease fire agreement. california suffered a record number of covert 900 fetes hala sees this week the state has registered 2700000 cases and almost 30000 deaths since the start of the time demick and it's put a huge strain on frontline medics. i've

been here 21 years have seen more people passed away last week. in the past couple weeks really than i almost a combined an hour of my career as a nurse you just see them die they just die and then they fight 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 and outside the hospital.

which firms are already counting the cost of border delays with europe less than $2.00 weeks into the post-breakfast reality it is black and he walks it works religious takes 5 in the u.k. describes the new obstacles we found the clarity of requirements for wartime exposure of being called problematic since the expression has come into place to be . and we have a regular write downs from hygiene masi on what decorations need to work. however those who regularly change it. traffic through the port of dover is down 85 percent for the same period at 2019 and according to some estimates firms will have to fill out an extra $400000000.00 customs declarations this year to sustain cross border freight drivers are reporting hours long delays resulting in huge losses as their cargo this being held up

a video from the netherlands shows one driver having his ham sandwich hold the skated as it violated the e.u.'s rules of origin. it only able to vote or not yeah ok let me take them all for a living yeah ok then i'll take you to meet the great no everything will be. rugged to the ranks of those already. and it's black and again says there's been a lack of information from the government on how to comply with the new customs rules. the logistical issues that with. minute work i'm going to quote you clarity from the government and what we can pass on to. the end of the. trick shot warner has been changing the he believed it would work alternately 'd as it worked out that way. and i don't know you know what. let's take a look at some other world news now argentina is where strict ing beach county

rings off to crowds flocks to the coast at the weekend ignoring coronavirus social distancing rules is one of the worst hit countries in south america with more than $40000.00 fêtes helicity since the start of the pandemic. at least 4 people have died and thousands have been rescued across madrid after a storm for the main are brought one of the most intense snowfalls in 50 years and most of the services continue to clear the snow with around 600 roads still blocked officials are urging people to stay at home. japanese 20 year olds have marked a milestone no news coming of age day celebrations were relatively low key due to the pandemic but thousands of young people gathered at venues across the country wearing traditional dress to celebrate and. thanks for joining us here on r.t. international we're back at the top of the hour with all the latest was to you that

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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 exists. to discuss these issues and more i'm joined by my guest george samueli in budapest

he's an author and you to her at the gavel and here in moscow we have dmitri by which he is a political analyst and editor in knows me internet media project hi 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 are it is dizzying to say i believe here we have the incident last wednesday on the council which was deplorable tragic and a unforced error 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 because they get a a major move to us stifle. alternative narratives people that are questioning and people obviously expressing their anger. this is in my mind george.