russia confirms it's a 1st case of the new covert strain that originated in the u.k. but medical chiefs say russia's vaccine is up to the task the shot has now been approved by algeria and palestine. from dismissal to acceptance several mainstream journalists who were initially skeptical over are now lining up to take the russian job. faces a 2nd impeachment just days before leaving office as pro trumpet rioters are charged over the storming of the capital. and the festive season brings no respite for germany which has reported a surge in covert cases with the chancellor warning the most difficult phase is

still to come. by broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow this is r g international i'm sean thomas certainly glad to have you with us are now russia has confirmed its 1st case of a highly infectious covert mutation 1st to discovered in the u.k. but health chiefs have given their assurance that the russian maxine offers full protection against the new strain production of the drug is being ramped up millions of more doses are set to be released within a month it was done of 4 pts. 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 how's the russian support mcvey 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 piece 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 it's something outrageous like what russia thinks of itself how. roll out a vaccine so unready so rules so unstudied 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 physically etudes another

reason i chose to do with the product a russian genetic engineering was more basic it was available russian clinics have not been dogged by the lines or logistical snafu reports of the vaccination sites in the united states and other countries so the shia availability of the vaccine the lack of side effects reported by patients who received the jab has made it entice enough for the western audience also the lack of cubes and new countries are proving to be used on its soil like the 1st country in africa. and more countries are in fact looking into the possibility of becoming producers of sport and it could be like germany has shown interest and the latest one is brazil that is looking to produce v. on its soil to make it available to all of its population and perhaps south america so we'll see how that fares my colleague kevin on speaking earlier with. palestine has formally approved of this vaccine for emergency use making it the 1st middle

east government to do so that comes a day after algeria gave the green light and the russian fund behind it sputnik v. says it expects 10 more states to register the drug by the end of january. the director general of public health the palestinian health ministry explained why they chose the russian shop. we asked for the condition of this with the looks you know this has been sent over is that. it has been interviewed by old believes in the midst of the pick. and effectiveness and. so the fix for the split works in which was a very good if it's if it's more than 92 percent almost but if the person at the same time the said the fix was minimal does most of it said if it has been reported so they just do it before the look seems to come through. in order to state media an issue hoping that we can that each and all of the books in it 60 to 70 percent

of the population that is there the really at the root to them you can see the street going into the worst institution over. the surge of coverage cases is seen in germany over the festive season with angela merkel warning of the hardest weeks yet to come details for you later in the program. us the 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 vote count in congress that has prompted house speaker nancy pelosi to brand trump an imminent 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 brought forward by the democrats charges trump with encouraging an insurrection at the capitol building endangering 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 that effort was earlier stalled by house republicans and impeachment could have critical consequences for trump's future in politics if convicted in a senate trial he could be banned from ever holding office again which would floored his potential return to the presidency in 2024 he would also lose the benefits granted to former presidents many republicans wanted the impeachment effort to stopped and have called for common grounds with the democrats i was artie's but i have comments what did america learn from this this

painful all full incident. they finally realized that things had gone to fog that the left finally 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 anger and division behind us we must and i'm confident we will have a peaceful and orderly transition of power santa cruz you must accept responsibility for how your craven self-serving actions contributed to the deaths of 4 people yesterday but if you and senator holly must resign probably not the best time to be calling for political blood given how breaux can and hurt the 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 and willingness to accept other views opinions and even on race . to. goals were marked storming the capitol what will be no if you are no 2 americas sounds right it does doesn't it they live in the in the same streets and the same towns but there are different worlds here in their minds this goes beyond political do. differences beyond reason it's hate from both sides and predominantly these hate obviously it's hard to see how it's going to get better unless absent huge change and we can all see that attitudes are changing democrats just won the senate for the 1st stop in almost

a decade there are too cool control of the federal government why you why would they start compromising now meanwhile dozens of suspects have been arrested in the u.s. over last week's storming of the capital they face charges including violent entering disorderly conduct and illegal possession of firearms and the f.b.i. is asking the public to help identify the participants. look at this these protesters are inside statuary hall right now you see the statues this is a moment i never saw in my life of my only 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 public's assistance in identifying those who made

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european leaders have questioned twitter's decision to permanently banned donald trump in the wake of the capitol riots representatives of the german chancellor and the french president both spoke out saying the move by the social network was a worrying has worrying implications for free speach. so the chancellor considers it problematic that the accounts of the us president have now been permanently blocked and you know. 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. the president had 88000000 twitter followers and to constantly use the platform twitter has also taken down the accounts of former national security advisor michael flynn x. trump lawyer sydney powell and other high profile supporters of the president as part of the crackdown on the voices tech giants have targeted the alternative platform

parlor it is a social network popular with the political right wing but it has now been forced off the internet after amazon blocked access to its servers citing a spike in violent content google and apple had already removed the parlor app over similar concerns parlor 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 it's easier base has surged by around 600000 per day since the major tech firms started tightening the screws on supporters earlier my colleague nicky aron spoke with journalist and commentator chadwick more about the social media ban. 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 abate helped that they thought how to get the president elected so i don't really feel like in that confidence i'm barley 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're free to block people you're free to follow people you're somewhat interested in if there are sort of 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 pretty association arnold schwarzenegger has lashed out at donald trump in the wake of the capitol hill riot a hollywood star and former california governor spoke about his childhood in post nazi austria and compared the president's actions to what happened in the run up to world war 2 i grew up in austria and very aware of christine the highest well

the night of broken glass waste it was that they have broken gus right here in the united states president trying sought 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. schwarzer nigger referred there to kristallnacht a wave of attacks on jews across germany and austria in $1038.00 the name comes from the shattered 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 clue coo director of the holocaust and the genocide center thinks the parallels with last week's events are misguided i believe that an elegy. unhelpful and seemed to me holocaust and energies.

appropriate we always have to look at the context each circumstance and each shift article context needs and the nuance needs to be. always taken into consideration and each occasion in each circumstance needs to be unpacked in its entirety because for the how many bibles similac today the holocaust is not a memory is not history it's lived experience it's the loss of the family members the torture of the the polling 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 according to chris down. still ahead in the program the leaders of armenia and azerbaijan have sat down with russia's president for their 1st head to head meeting since

a cease fire signed in november that and other stories after this short break this is our international. the world is driven by a dream shaped by from person. the day or thinks. we dare to ask. franklin kind of one of the architects of america and he told us how it was going

to end when you can both feel free money the republic is done and this is what just happened in there 2020 election people voted for free money and now it's officially her band frank what it's done it's done it's done. welcome back this is our g international germany has tightened its national lockdown after a surge in cold cases over the festive season our europe correspondent peter oliver has more. 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 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 e 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 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. 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 adoption capacity but 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. california suffered a record number of covert 1900 tallis this week the state has registered 2700000 cases and almost 30000 deaths since the start of the pandemic and it has put a huge strain on frontline medics. prepared 21 years i've seen more people passed away last week. and the past couple

weeks really than i almost they come by my career as a nurse you just see them die they just die and 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 it

russia brokered cease fire that ended more than 6 weeks of deadly hostilities in the car bomb 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. about in the city 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 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 the 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. on said that there are still many issues on the table including the status of mcgauran a car a buck 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 light a mere putin said on monday that as many as 48000 people. i have already roots are into their homes you know and i 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 hex there's a land from unexploded munitions he also talked about the fact that hundreds of tons of aid have been delivered from the gordon corera box as well via the trades and trucks as well now about that agreement that the side says signed russian peacekeepers are in the region and they're facilitating the return of the refugees and of course wanted summering for the case or any provocations with

a cease fire agreement. british firms are already counting the cost of border delays with europe less than $2.00 weeks into the post brags that reality ellis a black who works at a logistics firm in the u.k. described the new obstacles we found in the clarity of recalling minute school boards and explore she had been called the problem and she seemed to expect she is going to be in the. end we have a great leader right diets for all my age and mossy on what decorations need to work. i would pose a regular challenge and traffic through the port of dover is down 85 percent from the same period of $2100.00 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 and it's not just their cargo that is being held up a video from the netherlands shows one driver having his ham sandwich confiscated

as it violated the e.u. rules of origin. bit older brother not yeah yeah ok then you take them all i mean yeah very good it's a good to me to be the great no everything will be. local to the bronx if there are stories. ellis black him again says there has been a lack of information from the government on how to comply with the new customs rules. the logistical issues. it's a minute. we've got some clarity from the group what we can. be. sure so. in china in the believed it would work. as well. and i don't know. what i'm. looking at some other world news now argentina is restricting the beach

gatherings after crowds flocked to the coast at the weekend ignoring the coronavirus social distancing rules it is one of the worst hit countries in south america with more than $40000.00 fatalities since the start of the pandemic. at least 4 people have died and thousands have been rescued across madrid after storm filomena brought one of the most intense snowfalls in 50 years emergency services continue to clear the snow with around 600 roads still blocked officials are urging people to stay at home. a japanese 20 year olds have marked a milestone and known as 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 adulthood. and it is for me that i'll be back in let's say 30 minutes with another.

war in syria has lasted 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 playing. these outside forces try to overthrow the regime and use 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 contraries 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.