some of these shows you are going to grow on your deal. would. russia confirms its 1st case of a new covert strain that originated in the u.k. but medical chiefs say russia's vaccine is up to the task but job has not been approved by algeria and on the side. of dismissal to acceptance several mainstream journalists who were initially skeptical of us but big 3 are now lining up to take the russian job. tram faces a 2nd impeachment just days before leaving office as pro travel riots is a challenge to the storming of the capital. and the festive season brings nerve response to germany which is reported as sudden private cases the chancellor warning the most difficult days is still to come.

very warm welcome you watching r.t. international border guards broadcasting to you live from moscow i'm making. for russia has confirmed its 1st case of a highly infectious covert 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 set to be released within a month because donna 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 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 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 outrageous like what russia thinks of itself how. roll out a vaccine so ready so wrong or so unsteady that even now the tables seem to 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 of russian genetic engineering was more basic it was available russian clinics have not been dogged by the lines or logistical snafu reported at 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 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 government to do so well that comes a day after algeria gave it the green light on the russian fund behind sputnik

these is the expects 10 most states to register the drug by the end of january yes a bizarre i or the director general of public health of the palestinian health ministry explained why they chose the russian shot. we asked for the condition of this but it works you know this has been sent over the states. it has been the route by all who lives in the midst of the. if you can see under fictive mr anderson thank you so the fix for the for the works in which was a very good if it is effective more than 92 percent almost as of 2 percent over the same time the side effects was minimal and there's no severe so the 5th has been reported so we just do it before the book seems to come through. in order to start immediately the next initial hoping that we can reach our books in the 60 to 70 percent of the population that is there the really the coach then we can see the

street going into the worst institution over. as just kind of a case of the scene in germany over the festive season with angela merkel warning of the hottest weeks yet pick on the details for you when we come back. 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 of my only march of 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 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 gotten into you to investigate.

u.s. 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 eminent 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 stopped and have called for common ground with democrats are seizing the ever explains what did america. from this this

painful this all fall incident. that they finally realized that things that 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 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 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 tootle unwillingness to accept other views opinions and even on race. to. goals were marked storming the capitol what will be now 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 this goes beyond political do. francis beyond reason is hate from both sides. these. obviously it's hard to see how it's going to get better unless absent huge change and we grew through their 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 when european leaders have questions 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 move by the social network has worrying implications for free speech. the chancellor considers it problematic that the accounts of the us presidents have now been permanently blocked. banishing a person's 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 off the twitter blocks donald trump's accounts the company's shares took a hit sliding more than 6 percent in a monster of hours the president had to $88000000.00 twitter followers and constantly use the platform twitter has also taken down the accounts of former

national security adviser michael flynn x. trump lawyer sidney powell and other high profile supporters of the president's. well as part of the crackdown on pro trump voices tech giants have rounded on the alternative platform pala is a social network popular among right wing groups but it's now being forced off the internet as well as the amazon blocked access to its servers citing a spike in violent content google and apple has already removed the power over similar concerns or parlor has called amazon's actions politically motivated and illegal and is suing the company meanwhile right leaning users are looking for alternatives now the social network gab is one such option its user base is surged by around 600000 per day since the major tech firms started tightening the screws on trump's supporters i got things that visitor numbers are up by 400

percent well earlier i spoke with journalist and commentator chadwick more about the social media about. 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 2016 election people have begun helped people out how to get the president elected so i never really thought of that content on parlor 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're free to block people you're free to follow people you're somewhat interested in if there are sort of he'd been groups out there you're free to not interact with them which is what. your twitter used to be like into a day put the power in the user instead of the platform deciding deciding who should be heard and who should not be heard and americans are of course deeply worried about this and this is the land that prides itself so much on free speech

and on previous o.c.a. ssion on its warts and i guy has lashed out at donald trump in the wake of the capitol hill riots the hollywood star on film a cut california governor spoke about his talented posts not see all story a and compare the president's actions to what happened in the run up to well. i grew up in austria and very aware of kristallnacht or the night of broken glass whilst it was that they have broken gus right here in the united states president trying to solve to overturn the results of an election he saw the cool but misleading people with us my father was for misled also with lies and i know with such lies lead. and i go to crystal next wave of attacks on jews across germany and austria and $938.00 the name comes from the shattered glass that listed 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 parallels with last week's events are misguided. believe that allergies are i'm helpful and suited to the holocaust and energies in appropriate 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 and each occasion and each circumstance needs to be unpacked in its entirety because for the hope of meeting the bible's similar today the holocaust is not a memory is not history it's been lived experience it's the loss of their family members the torture of the the a poorly in 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. still ahead of lot of the church and meets with the leaders of our media and azerbaijan to discuss the peace deal for nagorno karabakh will be packed with that's after the break. the world is driven by a dream shaped by one person. thinks

. we fear him to ask. franklin kind of one of the architects of america and he told us how it was going to end when you can vote for free money the republic is done and this is what just happened in their 2020 election people voted for free money and now it's officially perth and frankly it's done it's. done. welcome back germany has times in this national knock down often

a surge in covert cases over the festive season our europe correspondent peter all of a has the details. 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 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 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 manufactured here in germany. 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. california suffered a record number of coated 19th atallah sees this week this state has registered 2700000 cases and almost 30000 deaths since the start of the pandemic and has put

a huge strain on frontline workers. i've been here 21 years and i've seen more people pass away last week. and the past couple weeks really than i almost hate combined in all of my career as a nurse you just see them die they just die and they 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 give them the reality of the situation which is this there is no room inside the hospital that we

are making tents outside the hospital. the leaders of azerbaijan and armenia have met for the 1st time since signing a russian brokered cease fire that and did 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 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 god in the implementing the agreements outlined in the statement can change the economic outlook of the region and boost security over dick initially to you and the like would look at about the nagorno-karabakh conflict is

a thing of the past and we should now look to the future we need to solve problems together with our neighbors 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 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 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. and. it's now been over 2 months that it's been called and quads nagorno-karabakh region tens of letting a putin said on monday that as many as $48000.00 people. i have already returned to their homes and i gored 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 hex airs 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 there facilitating the return of the refugees and of course are monitoring for the case or any provocations for the cease fire agreement. which is already counting the cost of border delays with the europe less than $2.00 weeks since the post breaks the reality and is blackcomb who works at a logistics firm in the u.k. describes the new obstacles we found the clarity of requirements for boards an export she had been called problematic since she is going to be. and we have a regular write downs from how you more see on what the russians need to. do with those who regularly challenges traffic through the port of dover is down 85 percent

from the same period of $29.00 t. and according to some estimates firms will have to fill out an extra 400000000 customers declarations this year to sustain cross border freight flies as a reporting hours long delays resulting in huge losses and it's not just their cargo this being held up a video from the leveling shows one driver having his ham sandwich confiscated as if violated the rules of origin. it on a bridge or not yeah yeah ok then you take them off i mean yeah ok can i take good to meet the great no everything will be. sorry. and i spot them 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 we shouldn't all such minute we're going to require some clarity from the government and what we can pass on to work

with. the end of the. trick shots we want to go. in change and they believed they would work alternately as it worked out that way. and i don't know but you know what i'm. in other world news now argentina is restricting beach gatherings after crowds flock to the close to the weekend ignoring coronavirus social distancing rules is one of the worst hit countries in south america with more than 40000 fatal it sees since the start of the pandemic. at least 4 people have died and thousands have been rescued across madrid after storms filomena brought one of the most intense snow falls in 50 years emergency services continue to clear the snow with around 600 road still blocked officials are urging people to stay at home. and saturday's 20 year olds have

marked a milestone known as the coming of age day celebrations were relatively low key due to the pandemic but thousands of young people gathered in venues across the country wearing traditional dress to celebrate adult hood. thanks for joining us here on r.t. international we're back at the top of the hour with the latest headlines and see that. you. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to get off of the world of politics or business i'm sure business i'll see you there. the war in syria has lost in longer than world war 2 what is happening in this country i think that's victim to horrific experiment when the discontent of some people and religious tensions in the country were exploited by external players

outside forces tried to overthrow the regime and used the international terrorism phenomenon in to advance their agenda human rights of syrian people were sacrificed for the sake of someone's ambitions. for an countries involved in the syrian war because certain influence and pursued their conflicting goals seeking their own political economic or military interests. but who has been suffering the most in this almost a decade long conflict regular syrian people. they are the ones paying the highest price in this endless war the price is their lives and the lives of their loved ones. their country is destroyed.