no dairy thinks. we should ask. russia confirms its 1st case of the new code with 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 sputnik are now lining up to take the russian job. donald trump faces a 2nd impeachment just days before leaving office as a pro truck drivers are charged over the storming of the capitol. 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. a broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow this is our chief international i'm john thomas live in with us and russia has confirmed its 1st case of 1 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 still being ramped up millions more doses are set to be released within a month earlier igor's done off told my colleague kevin knowing 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 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 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 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 back saying they're still trying to figure out safety and there they've approved it so it was presented as something ridiculous as something 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 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 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 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 this printed be vaccine 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 fund behind sputnik v. says it expects 10 more states to register the drug by the end of the january. the director general of public health the palestinian health ministry explained why they chose the russian shot. we asked for the condition of this with the books you know this has been sent over this to. it has been interviewed by all who lives in the midst of the. if you can see and if effectiveness and. so the fix for the split works in which was a very good if it is if it's more than 92 percent almost but if the person at the same time the side effects was minimal there's no severe side effects has been reported so they just do it before the look seems to come through. in order to

state media critics an issue hoping that we've done the research and or the books in it 60 to 70 percent of the population that is there the really the coach then we can see this return into the worst institution over. a 3rd of the cases even 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 impeach ing 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 brang to trumpet an imminent threat to democracy person shining heck of 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 in danger the security of state officials and a destructing the peace full 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 could be suspended from his office that effort was earlier stalled by house republicans now an 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 in 2024 he would also lose the benefits granted to former presidents. many republicans want the impeachment effort stopped

and have called for common ground with democrats as archie's my god they have comments what did america learn from this this painful these are 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 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 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 tootle unwillingness to accept other views opinions that 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 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 at our meanwhile dozens of suspects have been arrested in the us over the last weeks storming of the capitol they face charges including violent entry disorderly conduct and illegal possession of firearms and the f.b.i. is asking the public to help identify the participants. look at this bridge protesters are inside statuary hall right now you see the statues this is a moment i never saw in my life of my only 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. 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 ban 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 worrying and has implications of free speech. so the chancellor considers it problematic because the accounts of the us presidents 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. ari the

president had 88000000 twitter followers and constantly used the platform twitter has also taken down the accounts of former national security adviser michael flynn trump lawyer sidney powell and other high profile supporters of the president as part of the crackdown on pro voices tech giants have targeted the alternative from 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 part of the 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 firm started tightening the screws on

trump supporters earlier my colleague 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 don't really feel like in that content i'm barly 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 of donald trump in the wake of the capitol hill riot 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 boxed well 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 you saw the cool but misleading people with us. it was for misled also the lies. of the. arnold schwarzenegger referred there to kristallnacht a wave of attacks on jews across germany and austria in 1988 the name comes from the shattered glass that littered the streets after nazi parliamentary paramilitary excuse me forces raided and vandalized synagogues into jewish owned stores

thousands of jews were arrested that night and dozens were killed many cloke director of the holocaust and genocide center thinks the parallels with last week's events are misguided. believe that an elegy. unhelpful and certainly holocaust and. in appropriate we always have to look at the context each circumstance and each shift article context it 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 lived experience it's the loss of their 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 calling it kristallnacht. germany has tightened its national lockdown after a surge in coli cases over the festive season our europe correspondent peter oliver has more. germany continues to post high numbers of infections with covert 19 on 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 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 effects of christmas any years eve heating at a possible surge in a number of key says 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 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 is. 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 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 cold 1900 tallies 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. you know prepared 21 years that 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 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's 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 buck 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. 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 that 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 had signed a joint statement on the future development of azerbaijan now the budget and leader 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. 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. it's now been over 2 months that has been the call and quiet in the gorn a car box region tens of letting near putin said on monday that as many as 48000 people. i have already read certain to their homes in 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 he also talked about the fact that hundreds of tons of aid had 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 there facilitating the return of the refugees and of course monitoring for the case or any provocations for the ceasefire agreement. british firms are already counting the cost of the border delays with europe less than 2 weeks into the post brags that reality alice blackcomb who works at a logistics from in the u.k. described the new obstacles preventing the clarity of requirement for boards and explore she has been called a problematic change change direction it's going to place me in the right. and we

have a great leader right diets for all marriage in mossy on what decorations need to work. however those who regularly change. traffic through the port of dover is down 85 percent from the same period of 200-1000 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 use rules of origin. the birth or not yeah ok let me take them all i mean yeah right you know it's a good to me to be the greatest know everything will be. welcome to the stars. alice a black them again says that there has been

a lack of information from the government on how to comply with the new customs rules the logistical issues that with all its minute i am going to require some clarity from the group of men and what we can pass on to. the end of the. trip so we want to. be in china in the eagerly it would work alternately as it would. be nice and i don't know. what. that does it for me i'll be back with a look at your headlines at the top the hour stay with us and start international.

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this is a boom bust the one business show you counterparts amassed on star month in washington coming out we saw a tidal wave of tech headlines this weekend as president trump lets lamda with a barrage of. media bans following last week's breach of the capitol some are cheering big tax but others are worried about the fate of free speech we'll discuss the fallout then with jonathan and disease expert to audit the q. and a virus vaccine rollout how exactly is operational speed coming out now that we've wrong in the new year markets reacting to an already new and filled 2021 there are a lot to get through so let's get started. it's been an incredible week and in the tech world not only have tech giants twitter.