the good book on your deal. russia confirms its 1st 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. dismissal to acceptance several mainstream journalists who were initially skeptical of this but v are now lining up to take the russian job. the festive season brings no respect for germany which has reported a surge in coded cases of the chancellor warning the most difficult phase is still to come. on still trying faces a 2nd impeachment just days before leaving office as protracted rioters are charged over the storming of the capital.

very warm welcome you're watching r.t. international broadcasting to you live from moscow and the caring for russia has confirmed its 1st case of a highly infectious covert mutation 1st discovered in the u.k. but health chiefs have given that assurances that the russian vaccine offers full protection against the new strain production of the job is being ramped up millions more doses of that said to be released within a month he coached on the report. 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 i was 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 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 visa 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 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. to rule out a vaccine so ready so rules still unstudied even now the tables have turned and at 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 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 vive 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 middle east nation to do so this comes a day after algeria gave it the green light and the russians found behind sputnik

the says it expects 10 more states to register the drug by the end of january but we can now speak with that yes a bizarre as the director general of public health at the palestinian health ministry thank you for joining us on the program is a pleasure to have you on now the 1st dose is all the russians x. in are expected to be delivered to palestine by the end of january how soon will you be able to start mass vaccination. ok thank you very much for having me it's moer bridger to be with you this evening and the actually mission that is the 1st country in the middle east that already registered with the west scene overshadowed for them or just used with or is ition and today we had a meeting with leaders from the sputnik and from the russian front and another almost 100 people to spend in this room meeting and it has been that i had explosive to make in there and she is officially request of 100000 does this.

in the as a mere density of the state of palestine in order to starve the it's an issue of the. the group which is identified as the medical personnel working in the 1st on its canal with with vision and those with their only with more with conditions or as mentioned by their colleagues from the russian front that could be by. end of january we can receive the rex's saw immediately was that our negotiation and connection of communication with the assumed embassy must go under the center and russian embassy or blistering. as a city presented as mr president are ready to start the books initial assume has received a look see because they already did everything related to the exhibition program included the sedition blown and all the logistics and all the sister sites and all this is a group or the fight for us so we just really think for the look seemed to come

through the stand in order to stay we didn't leave the extradition hoping that we can reach our and other works in a 60 to 70 percent of the population that is there the really the routine we can see this we can interrupt the 1st instruction over where they are as if they wanted to government to suspend agree vaccine rather than the compact has. again beast why did your government choose sputnik v. rather than the other vaccines the national or the has a communication with colleagues since december of 2 on this one and there we requested almost 4000000 those of the ocean about her excellent syria and we ask for the group of the sport that works you know has been sent over this to start the rest of it has been interviewed by all who lives in the midst of the thick. and effectiveness since the so the fix for the split the works in which was

a very good if it's if it's more than 92 percent almost as if the person at the same time the side effects was minimal and there's no serious of the fix has been reported with or in the present do or 3 and this is the vaccine has been the. almost for the 4000 or 4000 people of the physically with and so there's also the shah rukh chose the good if it is the old one most and this is all things that in the best because all of this is true others simply on. condition for the storage of the vaccine is almost within the hour capacity in the fullest are supposed done because there's not another culture in. to be stored as other works is so best of this information. that has been already sent to us and that was this has been the view of. the can. it is that the post done has been from has been

extensive the filmmaker the mr lopez after reviewing all these that was on the fuzz with them couldn't. we count officially who denies under the just of us but that will all. but what we were sure were all the best yeah suppose i a director general of the public health at the palestinian health ministry thank you. germany has tightened its national lockdown after a surge in covert cases over the festive season by europe car spondon peter all of the has the details germany continues to post high numbers of infections with kovac 19 deaths 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 in which she called on german citizens to think about their actions and

the impact their actions would have on their fellow citizens. who could feel hits 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 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 will 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 retails closed also things like head dresses 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 u.n. 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 the government spokesperson is that chancellor angela merkel that spoken with russian president vladimir putin about the russian sputnik vivax seen 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 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 bridge 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 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.

yes democrats have launched impeachment proceedings against donald trump for the 2nd time in 2 years is accusing him of inciting the mob the stones capitol hill for us all to republicans blocked an effort to remove the president from office under the 25th amendments following last week's riots in washington house speaker nancy pelosi branded trump and those threats to. christie. 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 asset stopped and have called for common ground with democrats are to

smart gas you have explains what did america learn from this this painful all full incident. that they finally realized that things that gone too far that the left fired 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 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 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 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 it is goes beyond political do. differences beyond reason it's hate for both so you go into these. obviously it's hard to see how it's going to get better unless attitude change and we grew through the 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 while you why would they start compromising now. european leaders have questioned twitter's decision to permanently banned donald trump in the wake of the capital riots representatives of the german chancellor and the french president both spoke out saying the me by the social network has a worrying cations 1st free speech. the chancellor considers a problematic council the us presidency has now been permanently blocked. banishing the person silencing them on social networks which have become a form of public space seems to me a complicated matter in the absence of specifically established criteria. right after twitter blocked donald trump's account the company's shares took a hit sliding more than 6 percent in a mass of hours the president had $88000000.00 twitter followers and constantly

used the platform twitter has also taken down the accounts of former national security advisor michael flynn extra employee sidney powell and other high profile supporters of the president's. as part of the crackdown on proton voices tech giants have rounded on the alternative platform parlor it's a social network popular among right wing groups but it's now being forced off the internet after amazon blocks access to its servers citing a spike in violence content google and apple has already removed the part of a similar concerns or parlor has called amazon's actions politically motivated and illegal and is suing the company meanwhile of right leaning users are looking for alternatives the social networking gap is one such option is used the base has surged by around 600000 per day since the major tech firms started tightening the

screws on trump's supporters. visitor numbers are up by 400 percent let's go live now to journalist and commentator chadwick moore great to see you now i understand that you were an active user of parlor until it was taken offline was it really full of extremist and violent content as the tech giants are claiming. no in fact i i never saw anything really extreme or violent on the platform you know certainly it became a home for people who've been banned off the mainstream internet various. outlets for a long time you know people who are you know we forget that big tech has been silencing and banning people since the 26000 election people that they helped that they thought helped get the president elected so i never really thought in that content to be honest that that's not to say it's not there but you know like all of these like any social media site like twitter used to be it's free association so

you are free to block people you're free to follow people you're somewhat interested in if there are sort of hate groups out there you're free to not interact with them which is what. your twitter used to be like and it's a day put the power in the user instead of the platform decided deciding who should be heard and who should not be heard let's take giants at facebook apple google twitter and on as they all acted around the same time in what appears to be a coordinated response so what do you think was behind the decision. right that's nothing new with the way they behave and when they've gone through some shit bagnet in the past they coordinate across platforms so if you call people like alex jones you you know i got a conspiracy theorist a runs and so are their voices the platforms facebook twitter instagram accorded across one another now what you have going on here you have amazon actually pulling down amazon was hosting parlous servers and they actually took took them off of their servers this also happened to gab

a couple years ago and gab was beginning to get more popular now we see a lot of issues around big tech and how they behave you hear things about censorship section 230 privileges coming up but what's going on here and people been saying this for a while is you may have a rocketeer in case you may have conspiracy he seemed to be a direct violation of rico laws in the united states and you have republicans like that a new and yes used to be in talking about this whether or not they'll do anything who knows but part of justice has had years to move on this than done absolutely nothing but when you have these companies coordinating across platforms and forget the whole censorship argument you can big are going to hear their crushing competition they are injecting themselves into the market so this is a time entirely different case that we may have going on here just with conspiracy and racketeering which many people say seems quite obvious what's going on here and that's why you mentioned the need is that france and germany think twice i went too far in blocking trump is that something that america should be worried about.

absolutely and americans are course deeply worried about this and this is the land that prides itself so much on free speech and on previous o.c.a. shouldn't you also see in europe i just saw recently that poland has is working on legislation to start banning these companies $2000000.00 every time they censor a constitutionally protected speech of one of their citizens this is something the united states could very well do all it would take would be one red states to pass something similar and say you know what if you said to one of our citizens we're going to find you and if you have if that were to happen you would create a political moment you know right now there's not really a political moment to do this and a lot of people feel that the tech companies are too rich too powerful and they bought politicians on both sides and now that they are squashing out the competition's you know a lot of conservatives are right wingers didn't necessarily love marler again but it was their only option you know a lot of people want to be in the main public sphere they want to be where the liberals are in the independents and everyone else and to to debate and to get

information and now the they've been executed gated from the mainstream public square and now they've closed down their alternatives like they have no where to go i mean what's next are they going to start banning pigeons so that job supporters can send messages to one another that way. on that night chat with more debt and commentator thank you for joining us on the program thank you my pleasure. 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 in the karabakh region the meeting lasted for almost 4 hours here in moscow hosted by president putin and was followed by a news conference. she would use new stitcher should get it in the washington this meeting's has been extremely important and useful we have signed a joint declaration on the region's development is the when your idea is a government in the us to implementing the agreements outlined in the statement can

change the economic outlook of the region and to security overtake national id you like would look at a bus to compete in the going to care about 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 tools 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 been damaged 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 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. and. it's now been over 2 months that it's been called and quads nagorno-karabakh region bands of bloody mir putin said on monday that as many as 48000 people. i have already returned to their homes and not bored me 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 do you mind and cleared hundreds of hec there's of aware and from unexploded mission a you also talked about the fact that hundreds of tons of aid have been delivered from gordon corera box as well. trades and trucks as well now about that agreement that the sides signed russian peacekeepers are in the region and they're facilitating the return of the refugees and of course are monitoring for the case or any provocations for the cease fire agreement. which is found solve ready counting the cost of border delays with year a place than 2 weeks into the post breaks a reality alice markham who works at a logistics found in the u.k. described the new obstacles. we found the clarity of the requirements for boards and explore she had been all problematic since things broke she is going to be in the. can we have a regular write down it's from how you more see on what the russians need to. do

with those who regularly challenge traffic through the port of dover is down 85 percent from the same period as 2019 and according to some estimates firms will have to fill out an extra 400000000 customs declarations this year to sustain cross border phrase drivers are reporting hours long delays resulting in huge losses and it's not just their cargo this being held up as video from the netherlands says one driver having here's how we found which confiscated as it violated the e.u.'s rules of origin. yeah yeah ok let me take them off i mean yeah very good article to me say. no everything will be. as 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 and with the for each minute we're

going to require some clarity from the government and what we can pass on to our forces. the end of the. trip short you want to go. in changing the eve believed that it would work fortunately he hasn't worked out that way. and i don't know what effect you know what i would. many thanks for joining us here on aussie and some ashland to get in touch if you have anything to say because we love to hear from you about and that's the minutes.

away and welcome to cross talk where 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 just said 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 a you tuber 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.