russia confirms its 1st case of a new covert strain that originated in the u.k. but medical chiefs say russians vaccine is up to the task the job has not been approved by algeria and palestine. dismissal to acceptance several mainstream journalists who were initially skeptical of us but big feeley are now lining up to take the russian job. although trump faces a 2nd impeachment just days before leaving office as pro trump riots as the charged over the storming of the capital. into the festive season brings no response for germany which is reported just surgeon covert cases with the chancellor warning the

most difficult phase is still. very warm welcome you are watching r.t. international broadcasting to you live from moscow. 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 russian vaccine office full protection against the new strain production all the job is being ramped up millions more doses that be released within a month because dollars 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 sputnik the 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 with out of these 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 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 ready so wrong or so unsteady that even now the tables have turned and 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 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. stein has formally approved the sputnik the job for emergency use making it the 1st middle east government to do so that

comes a day after algeria gave it the green light and the russian funds behinds the navy says it expects 10 most days to register the drug by the end of january yes the desire of the director general of public health in the palestinian health ministry explained why they chose the russian shot. we asked for the condition of this with the works you know that has been sent over show is that. it has been the route by all who lives in the missile. if you can see on defectiveness. so the fix for the with the works in which was very good if it is if it's more than 92 percent almost political person at the same time the side effects was minimal there's no severe so the 5th has been reported so we just rooted for the. lord of. the works in issue hoping that we can reach our books in it 60 to 70 percent of the

population. really. going into the worst institution over. a surge of covert case this thing in germany over the festive season with angela merkel warning of the hardest weeks yet to come the details for you later in the program. like us democrats have moved closer to impeaching donald trump for an unprecedented 2nd time after launching proceedings against the president on monday trump has been accused of inciting his supporters to invade the u.s. capitol during last week's electoral votes count in congress was prompted house speaker nancy pelosi to brand trump an eminent threat to democracy persons running executive branch is a drain just unhinged dangerous president of the united states he has done something so serious that there should be prosecution against him. the impeachment

article growth forward by the democrats charges trump with encouraging an insurrection at the capitol building and danger in the security of state officials and disrupting the peaceful transfer of power a vote is expected on wednesday lawmakers will also vote on a resolution calling on vice president mike pence to invoke the 25th amendment under which trump would be suspended from his office or that effort was earlier stalled by house republicans and impeachment could have have critical consequences the trumps future in politics if convicted in a senate trial he could be banned from ever holding office again which with thought his potential return to the presidency in 2024 he would also lose the benefits granted to former presidents and many republicans were in the impeachment effort stopped and have called for common ground with democrats artie's point gauthier of explains what did america. from this this painful

full incident. they finally realized the things that gone too far that the left fly the me here 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 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. frontiers beyond reason it's hate for both sides to go into these. obviously it's hard to see how it's going to get better unless it's a 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 i mean while 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 as 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 with 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 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 so. let's name and shame. to some amazing work by james railton friends here is his face and i guess his mom pay attention to the shirts and hats and glasses. never start direct market in maryland you've got an employee to investigate.

european leaders have questioned twitter's decision to publicly ban donald trump in the wake of the capital riots representatives of the german chancellor on the french president both spoke out saying the move by the social network has worrying implications for free speach. the chancellor considers it problematic that the accounts of the us presidents have now been permanently blocked. by machine a person silencing them on social networks which have become a form of public space seems to me a complicated matter in the absence of specific established criteria. or so after twitter blocks donald trump's account the company's shares took a hit sliding more than 6 percent in a matter of hours the president tied to $88000000.00 twitter followers and constantly used the plant for twitter has also taken down the accounts of former national security advisor michael flynn x.

trump lawyer sidney powell and other high profile supporters of the president well as part of the crackdown on protests forces tech giants have rounded on the alternative platform parlor it's a social network popular among right wing groups but it's not been forced off the internet so after hours and blocked access to its service citing a spike in violence content google and apple had already removed the parlor over similar concerns paula has called amazon's actions politically motivated and illegal and is suing the company meanwhile right leaning users are looking for alternatives the social network gab is one such option its user base has surged by around $600000.00 per day says the major tech firm started tightening the screws on trump supporters gap say his visit to numbers are by 400 percent 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 the 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 are 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 the groups out there you're free to not interact with them which is what. your twitter was used to be like it a day put the power in the user instead of the platform decided deciding who should be heard and who should not be heard in 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 those forces they guy has lashed out at donald trump in the wake of the

capitol hill riots and a hollywood star on film a california governor spoke about his toilet in posts nazi also and compiled the president saxon's to what happened in the run up to well the 2 i grew up in austria and very aware of christine boxed or the night of broken glass whilst it was that they have broken glass 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 nani was for misled also with lies and i know with such lies lead. schwarzenegger to kristallnacht a wave of attacks on jews across germany and austria in 1938 but then comes from the shots of the glass that lifted the streets off the nazi power military forces raided and designed alliance synagogues and jewish stores thousands of jews were arrested that night and dozens were killed mary klute the director of the holocaust

on genocide center thinks the parallels with last week's events are misguided. believe that an elegy is all i'm helpful and so to me holocaust and energies are inappropriate we always have to look at the context each circumstance and each shift our local context it 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 many survivors still out today the holocaust is not a memory is not history it's been lived experience it's the loss of the family members the torture the the poor ling 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. and 17 minutes past one i am in moscow and you're watching r t international so let's head to the leaders of armenia and azerbaijan have sat down with russia's president for that head to head meeting since a ceasefire signed in november not to and all the stories after this short break stay with us. thank you. thank. you. is your media a reflection of reality. in the world transformed. what will make you feel safe. isolation full community. are you going the right way or are you being

led. by the way. what is true what is faith. in the world corrupted you need to descend. to join us in the depths. for a mate in the shallowness of. last week there was an assault on the nation's capital what does this tell us about the state of american politics is there still a place to disagree and dissent importantly does the idea of a loyal opposition still exist. welcome germany has tightened its national lockdown after

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 friday 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 effects 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 and 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 u.n. spahn 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 v vaccine being money fund should here in germany if you can is you know 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 covert 19th a tallit seize this week the state has registered 2700000 cases and almost 30000 deaths since the start of the pandemic i just put

a huge strain on frontline medics. being. prepared 21 years and i've seen more people passed away last week. in the past couple weeks really than i'd almost say combined in all of my career as a nurse you just see them die they just die and they they fight dying and it's so sad. yes i'm angry yes i'm upset but the only thing that we can do is 'd 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 russia brokered cease fire that ended more than 6 weeks of deadly hostilities in the camera back region the meeting also 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. but in the implementing the agreements outlined in the statement can change the economic outlook of the region and boost security over dick and show it to you like a good 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 the leaders of russia armenia and azerbaijan have mets a 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 the homily have said that said the meeting with putin and passion was very important for the future of the entire region while 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 tension in 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 mcgauran a car bomb a region tens of letting near putin said on monday that as many as 48000 people. i have already agreed certain to their homes in an hour gorney 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 hacks there's a land from unexploded munitions a us it's all to balance 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 side says signed russian peacekeepers are in the region and they're facilitating their return of the refugees and of course monitoring for any case or any provocations for the cease fire agreement. and we'll have to hear your thoughts on our story so i do get in touch via social media that's all from me for today but start actually thomas will be here with all the latest and thanks again. join me every thursday on the alec simon show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm showbusiness i'll see you then. 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 may of 2020 a lecture people voted for free money and now it's officially her band frankly if. it's done it's done. i can show you my face but i'm going to teach you must store in 9093 was sentenced to death. 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 the week with the son of a 23. confined within 4 gray walls. using hot turn on to help him to leave difference room.

time after town c. and welcome to going underground the team and i will be back with a brand new season starting on my birthday january the 13th but until then we will be showing some of your favorite shows from this season going up in this show will trump losing chews days presidential election thanks to coded killing hundreds of thousands of us citizens we go to the white house to speak to one of the only 2 men the us president apparently listens to on the pandemic white house court of ours top school survives a professor 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. grama 1st we're 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 advisers reza scott atlas thank you so much governor 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 lives. lost and from that from the virus and certainly many many loss from the policy 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 is a gross distortion that his surrogates typical of reporting out.