leave. russia confirms its 1st case of the new code strain that originated in the u.k. but medical chiefs say russia's vaccine is up to the task the shot as of now been approved by algeria and palestine. from dismissal to acceptance several mainstream journalists who were initially skeptical over sputnik video are now lining up to take the russian. faces a 2nd impeachment just days before leaving office as pro riders 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. are broadcasting live from moscow this is arch international and sean thomas surely glad to have you with us. now 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 drug is being ramped up millions more doses are set to be released within a month earlier my colleague. spoke to kevin owen about the latest details. this new strain has crossed its borders and sneaked into russia along with one of the passengers on board of a jet that came back from the u.k. after all it's

a british strain now it's important to understand that right now russia has its borders with the u.k. shut down but that happened back in december when the borders were still open and the world was still learning about this new mutation of the virus but russian officials who are tasked with home batting this coronavirus are saying that the citizens of russia should not really fear it should not fear this new mutation because the existing sputnik the vaccine will be effective they are saying against this strain when it comes to russia and the people the number of people vaccinated moscow is leading the charge here in total in all of russia more than a 1000000 people have been vaccinated if you compare it to any european country that is more in fact it is roughly the same amount of citizens who have been vaccinated if you have germany and spain combined and these are the countries that are leading the european rates of vaccination russian support live

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 at least 3 mass trial completed it sounds like the process hasn't run its course here and there to stop researchers say russia's cutting corners to develop its coronavirus 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 unready so rule or so on study 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 levy etudes another reason i chose to could not kill it with products russian genetic engineering was more basic it was available russian clinics have not been dogged by the lines or logistical snafu reports of vaccination sites in the united states and other countries so the shia 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 v like germany has shown interest and the latest one is brazil that is looking to produce a button and 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 vaccine for emergency use making it the 1st middle east government to do so that comes a day after algeria given the green light and the russian fund behind v. says it expects 10 more states to register the drug by the end of january. the director general of the public health of the palestinian health ministry explained why he chose the russian shop. we asked for the list with the works you know this has been sent over this to post i think it has been interviewed by old who lives in the midst of the dick. and defectiveness. 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 decide to fix was minimal and does most of it so the 5th has been reported so they just do it before the looks. in order to still need the works in

issue hoping that we can reach our books in it 60 to 70 percent of the population is there the really the to the new district going into the worst institution over. the surge of covert cases and 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 democrats have moved closer to impeaching donald trump for 18 unprecedented 2nd time after launching the 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 the person trying 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 this rep to 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 thwart his potential return to the presidency and 2024 he would also lose the benefits granted to former presidents many republicans want the impeachment effort stopped and have called 'd for common ground with democrats artie's but i've got your comments what did america learn from this this painful this

all full incident. they finally realized that things had gone too far did 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 terrorist 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 or foot in peace we must come together and publish and get in 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 brutal 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 to call on 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 they're in different worlds here in their minds this goes beyond political do. differences beyond reason it's hate from both sides and predominantly it is hate honestly it's hard to see how it's going to get better unless adds it's a huge change and we can all see that attitudes are changing democrats just won the senate for the 1st star been almost a decade there 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 capitol efface charges including violent 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 for an unprecedented security breach in the capitol at least in my experience it is hard to put into words what exactly we witnessed today because we've got seen this before. f.b.i. washington field office seeking the public's assistance in identifying 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. 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 marketing in maryland you've got an employee to investigate.

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 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 constantly use the platform twitter has also taken down the accounts of former national secretary adviser michael flynn lawyer sidney powell and other high profile supporters of the president as well as part of the crackdown on protests voices tech giants have targeted the alternative platform parlor it is a social network

a 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 part of their 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 its user base has surged by around 600000 per day since the major tech firms started tightening the screws on trump supporters earlier my colleague nick aron spoke with journalist and commentator chatted with 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 that they helped that

they thought how to get the president elected so i didn't really thought in that gun 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 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 the 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 or the night of broken glass waste 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. shorts and egg are referred there to kristallnacht a wave of attacks on jews across germany and austria in $1038.00 the name comes up 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 cloke director of the whole cost and genocide center thinks that the parallels with last week's events are misguided i believe that an elegy. unhelpful and seemed to me holocaust and energies in

appropriate we always have to look at the context each circumstance and each shift article context that 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 survivors similac today the holocaust is not a memory is not history it's a lived experience it's the loss of a family members the torture that 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 quoting it kristallnacht. still ahead the leaders of armenia and azerbaijan have sat down with russia's president for their 1st head to head meeting since

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thinks. we dare to ask. welcome back this is our 2 international germany has tightened its international 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 covert 19 and debts 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 her a sobering speech over the weekend and which she called on german citizens to think about their actions and the impact their actions would have on their fellow citizens. the coming winter weeks are probably the most difficult phase of the pandemic hospitals across the country are working to their limits current infection rates do not even reflect the effects of christmas any years eve heating at a possible surge in a number of key cess and virus mutations are not helping to reduce anxiety well locked down 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 house guests non-essential retail's closed also things like hay 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 vivax seen 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 is open to buy a way to a corporation with russia for the purpose of developing european for abduction capacity for the russian vaccine well in order for the russian vaccine to be manufactured here in germany it would 1st have to be approved by the european medical agency that hasn't happened as of yet but it does seem that should that happen we could well see that russian vaccine being manufactured here in germany as well as in russia california suffered a record number of covered 1900 calories 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 hate 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 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 car back region 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 that he and his government in the implementing the agreements outlined in the statement can change the economic outlook of the region and boost security over dick maturity you 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 face to face here in moscow during this very uneasy time of the coronavirus buns and it certainly speaks volumes about the seriousness of their intents their russian president said after the meeting said that this sides have

signed a joint statement on the future development of azerbaijan now the budget and leader ali 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 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 airs of a land from unexploded munitions a you also talked about the fact that hundreds of tons of aid have been delivered from the gordon corera box as well via air via trades and trucks as well now about that agreement that the sides assigned russian peacekeepers are in the region and they're facilitating the return of the refugees and of course monitoring for the case or any provocations or the 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 ellison black m who works at a logistics firm in the u.k. described the new obstacles we found the clarity of recalling minutes for even dollars and explore she had been called problematic since she expects it is going to be the. one we have a great deal right diets for on hygiene mossie on what the russians need to. do with it those who regularly check engine. traffic through the port of dover is down 85 percent from the same period of $2900.00 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 is not just their cargo that is being held up the video now shows from the netherlands one driver having his ham sandwich confiscated as it

violated the e.u.'s rules of origin. it's an older brother not yet ok let me take them all a marriage yeah very good article to me leave me the greatest no everything will be . no go to breakfast sorry. alice black i'm 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 would by the pool. minute i am going to cause some clarity from the group and what we can pass on to our. then openly. should so. being changed in the evil e that it would work alternately as it worked out that way every night and i don't know. what. either does or for me i'll be back with more news in about 31 minutes

this is our 2 international. was a pandemic no certainly no borders just lying to nationalities. you . know so much we don't have a charity we took a back seat to teach to be the. judge of. commentary crisis with this system to times we can do better we should be. everyone is contributing each of our own way but we also know that this crisis will not go on forever the challenges grateful to response has been so many good people are helping us. it makes us feel very proud that we are in it together.

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terrorism phenomenon in to advance their agenda human rights.