and even if it was an israeli double 00. because it's but it's a. good one. in the day's headlines russia starts clinical trials of a light version of its sputnik to be coded back seen as global demand grows. also this hour leaders openly criticized. president from the warning it brings up a broader question about freedom of speech. mind you the dollars. and britain's prime minister is reportedly caught exercising many miles from his home in an apparent breach of his own government's world.

welcome to the program and a happy tuesday to you all this is our 2 international bring you your live news update this hour. russia is developing an express variant of its sputnik vicodin vaccine as national and global demand grows the simplified version dubbed sputnik lite protects for a shorter period of time but only requires one dose instead of 2 rounds of shots and suffix t. is thought to be around 85 percent clinical trials involving $150.00 volunteers should be completed by the end of the year you know all blacks because become the latest nation to consider buying tens of millions of doses of russia's original coated vaccines but mcphee or augusta reports. the sputnik the vaccine once scorned and maligned is turning into an international bestseller production is surging to an average of 130000 doses

a day so $4000000.00 doses over the next month the vaccine has already been approved in algeria and argentina serbia believe ia other countries and move as well lining up i can say the vaccine is effective more than 90 percent based on the trial doubts and also less allergic reaction that ability skill ability cost all these are the better meter better idea for any vaccine to roll out. one of the scrutiny experienced advantages over the competition aside from price is that it's easier to transport or to store so a simple frege will do the 5 of them and then the vaccines they require deep freeze as low as minus 70 degrees celsius so cold storage which isn't widely available in much of the developing world which is most of the world the sputnik the vaccines high quality and efficacy are stimulating growing interest from more and more

countries these translates into wider jorgen feel free scrooge creation to leverage and production palestine the nih the vaccine by israel has become the 1st in the middle east to greenlight sputnik the main interest of the. us with the worse is that it's using a. lot the sin of universe has been used in force does this it is different in order to reduce the. first. verse of the cause of the believe yes it is a good chance to know that the difference is a deliberate future in india the russian shot has just passed phase 2 trials without a hitch with only phase 3 to go already deals have been signed to produce 300000000 doses of sputnik in india the phase 2 study in india showed a very good safety profile we are working closely towards fast tracking the launch

of the sputnik the vaccine in india all in all few nations are putting all their money on any one horse saw that see anything could happen from supply shortages to unforseen side effects like the pfizer vaccines allergic reactions which is why it makes sense to make sure that you've got different jobs. european leaders have publicly questioned twitter's permanent ban of president trump representatives of both the german chancellor and french president while the tech giants move raises right wider worries on freedom of speech r.t. our correspondent there are as the details. who regulates the free speech gate keepers is concerning european leaders at the moment while they were united in their condemnation of the violence that we saw in washington d.c. last wednesday there has been no objections to the subsequent actions of companies like twitter and facebook to dump donald trump from their platforms german

chancellor angela merkel has said that it's not the job of social media companies to decide who gets a voice and who doesn't speak to the chancellor considers it problematic that the accounts of the us president have now been permanently blocked there's also concern in france over the power social media giants have shown that they have and you know the person 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 digital regulation should not be done by the digital or the go cute self regulation of the digital spheres amounts of sovereign people governments and the judiciary the commissioner for internal market bret's on has long been a big voice calling for tougher regulations on tech giants he described the capitol hill riot that we saw last wednesday in washington d.c.

as the 911 moment for social media according to mr brett all following that violence and the subsequent actions of social media companies to a sitting u.s. president from their platforms nothing can be the same again the food the c.e.o. composed the plug on poets is loudspeaker without any checks and balances is perplexing the oldest emotions in his proof that a powerful and brigley to digital space room innocent of the wild west has a profound impact on the very foundations of our modern democracies social media giants and banning donald trump from their platforms has poured gasoline on. into the fire of a free speech debate that's been going on for a while now what we heard from terry brett on the commissioner in charge of these things is there are 2 pieces of legislation that would tabled by the e.u. commission at the end of december that we'll be looking to address this further

that europe will be putting reins all in the social media giants as well as what can be posted on their platforms. but it's not only world politicians rights groups are also warning that the trump ban could be a slippery slope and as artists explains as apparently a growing disconnect between the values that washington preaches and current developments across the country. america the land of the free people i've met in china and russia in afghanistan and iraq and other places who yearn for freedom and who look to this building and these shores as a place of hope the american people and the greatest democracy the world has ever known this temple to democracy over the policy a few decades the u.s. has been busy exporting its brand of democracy all over the world but it looks like fine meet the wells run dry in its own backyards and what could have been lifted from a dystopian sayf i block mayor episodes twitter facebook instagram snap top the list

goes on don't trump out of his accounts so good that his biggest step yet to limit president trying to reach twitter has permanently suspended president trump's account witter has announced it is cutting off president trump's ability to post on the social media site permanently president of course used twitter extremely frequently and to extreme controversy president trump has been violating rules all over social media for a long time so the american president given a mandate by tens of millions of voters to run the country silent spite on the elected technocrats instead of. out with the american constitution on in with twit says thompson uses but even that apparently is too little too late in today's america we need solutions that don't start after untold damage has been done change and these dangers dynamics requires more than just the temperature silencing or

permanent removal of bad actors from social media platforms and just like a paranoid dictate is convinced he's surrounded by enemies big taxis bontoc does everyone trump loyalists annoy is leading the election for claims right wing talk show hosts all sense of the story blocked because apparently that clinton got michael votes as riled up enough to storm the capital now. duct taping trump and a few of his cronies is one thing but what to do about the 75000000 americans who've raylene like red taps now we need to on brainwash and reeducate about 71000000 voters and their children who follow trump supporters need to rejig gave themselves a lot of things but one of them is the definition of democracy now we have to figure out how to reeducate all the people trump and fox news have damaged but before this great how about some good old erosion of the fust amendment take the

twit to start up scene as a safe space for conservative voices while no more afterthought an influx of people angry at twitter censorship story policy pano was dropped by apple google and this is obviously a collusive action on the part of these incredibly powerful entities who are seeking to not just destroy their competition but effectively to silence people who are supporters of the president online for years i heard it invalid to object to political censorship by facebook and twitter because if you don't like it you can just create a competing social media platform parlor tried and in 24 hours google apple and amazon united to destroy it that's what monopoly power means it's not just the internet that's become a no go zone so these new enemies of the state big time political donors from car in oil companies to big banks have turned off the money tap to lawmakers who backed

trump in questioning the election results when a few are trump paid well good luck finding a job or any of terms for suburban forbes will assume that everything your company your phone talks about is a lie i mean what's next informing on people oh wait let's name and shame them off to some amazing work by james reynolds and friends here easy. and i guess his mom's pay attention to the shows and acts and glasses well. never star direct marketed in maryland you've got an employee to investigate. no not to chapter out of all whiles 984 just america the land of the free in 2021 parlor the social networking site popular with trump supporters is now suing amazon for being removed from its web hosting service r.t. america's boom bust discuss the latest and whether online giants give users the

same protections they allow themselves what we're seeing right now also is truly unprecedented in terms of tech companies deciding what companies can exist and deciding that if you don't behave the way we want you to if you don't act the way we want you to will simply shut you down and it's a pretty shocking thing to have happening right now in the technology space it is and i think there's a difference here i want to play devil's advocate here but where it is a private company technically so they're allowed to make these rules you check the box when you log in you create your cow and sign up for it right. well you get us through of all the companies right but what's really interesting about this is this whole argument over section 230 right everyone's talking about section 2 thirds again section 230 is written in a way that essentially protects a platform from being responsible for what users upload so in theory the same section $230.00 protection that twitter and facebook and google and youtube use to

protect themselves is is not being afforded a parlor to say hey we're not a publisher so if people come on our platform and they say things that you don't like we're not the publisher of that but we're merely a platform for people to speak and these tech companies are saying hey you can't be a platform you have to be a publisher therefore controlling editorializing every piece of content on your platform. a case of one rule for some but another for those who make the rules british prime minister boris johnson's apparently been caught exercising 11 kilometers from his residence and that's despite his government's clear instructions to people not to exercise outside their local area it's just days after 2 women were fine hundreds of pounds for driving just 8 kilometers for

a walk and finds were rescinded after massive public criticism artie's ashanti edwards daschle it looks at how johnson's bad example comes at the worst possible time for britain and the endemic. the relentless surge of 1000 infections up and down the country has prompted a stark warning from the health secretary matt hancock. it's an unwelcome message for many across britain but professor chris witty who's the chief medical officer advisor to the government says tougher restrictions are absolutely unavoidable the next few weeks are going to be. under the terms of mamma's internationalists well hospitals are being pushed to absolute breaking point last week we had the mayor of london city karnit declare a major incident which just gives you an idea of the scale that the n.h.s. is facing but also we've had major incidents also being declared in areas like

sorry and sussex and those on the frontline say the situation is dire we're going most grieve the our hospitals are again you're listening to this when all this comes as the government unveils its vaccination plan includes the opening of 7 mass vaccination centers across the country but there is a widespread perception that the government keeps over promising and under delivering it it comes as a poll finds that around 72 percent of people think that the government has not acted fast enough with 42 percent say they're absolutely too slow but there are still plenty of people out there who think the lockdown shouldn't be in place at all and they clashed with police over the weekend.

to the vaccine or not does provide some light at the end of the tunnel but there are many. pull out that have no doubt some things are going to get worse before they get better the n.h.s. is struggling now in some parts of the country there are no beds and people are being shipped around the country and in some places this issue of oxygen there is no doubt about it the n.h.s. is on the brink and the big message from the secretary of state is to really employ people to follow the rules and do not go out and less it's necessary the n.h.s. i think is close to breaking point i think the government have been too slow right from the beginning that would to slow the law down to originally we are an island we could have closed up borders easily but we let people in from china and from northern italy and from spain they brought the infection with them they were too slow to get people where moss they were too slow here originally lot down and

they've been to slow down since and of course we've had the relaxation of christmas which was a very foolish thing to do in my opinion so yes i think we've had we have a prime minister who's been hesitant to lock down and he's been too slow to act and that's been the story throughout this very sorry. and britain's and they double bind up the moment it's not the worst point of the pandemic according to the health secretary us it's caught up in red tape as companies trying to trade with europe as frank said you tell them that story and more after a break. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics or business i'm show business i'll see if.

so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be an arms race. spearing dramatic development only closely. i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. 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 there 2020 electoral people voted to for free money and now it's officially her ben franklin it's done it's. done.

welcome back a university of milan studies found the origins of the pandemic are closer to home than previously thought as new report says patients 0 may have been infected in italy it back in november 21000 a whole week earlier than the 1st red shirt case in china the world health organization investigative teams due to arrive in china on thursday to probe how the virus started it comes as china reports the biggest daily surge in coma cases and almost 6 months. but. i left home on january deforest and haven't returned yet the neighborhood is closed up for i live in the office now. will take 10 random samples and test them at the

same time this is a routine operation to increase efficiency while maintaining an accuracy using this method along with 3 others can test 30000 samples a day over. the. the in. the. arnold schwarzenegger has lashed out at donald trump in the wake of the capitol hill riots a hollywood star and former california governor spoke about his childhood and post nazi austria and compare the president's actions to what happened in the run up to world war 2. i grew up in austria and very aware of christian well the night of broken glass wednesday was the day of broken glass right here in united

states president trying so hard to overturn the results of an election you saw the cool but misleading people with. by far than our neighbors were misled also with lies and i know with such lies lead. kristallnacht was a wave of attacks on jews across germany and austria in 1938 and then comes from the shattered glass that litter the streets after nazi apart paramilitary forces raided and vandalized synagogues and jewish owned stores dozens of jews were killed and thousands are arrested that night but merrick luke director of the durban holocaust and genocide center thinks parallels with last week's events are misguided. believe that an elegy is all helpful and suited to the holocaust and the energies of 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 many survivors still alive today the holocaust is not a memory is not history it's the lived experience it's the loss of the family members the torture the the polling circumstances that they were forced to endure and so as dreadful as these events and these particular events last week. on capitol hill we need to be careful in making analogies around calling it chris down on. us as imposing new tariffs on high alcohol e.u. wines amid a long running trade dispute between washington and brussels our producers warn this could lose them i'm sorry 1000000000 euro in exports this year alone. of

course these new tariffs pose a real threat for us moreover previously it's affected only under 14 percent strength winds but now it covers all types of wine it effects the whole french wine industry and no doubt we will feel the consequences of this standoff especially amid those countries that don't have such tariffs and this is such a bad time as the state of trade ties with the us is already dire because of the pandemic and we have kind of a large export volume to the us thus even with a mirror tariff increase on american wines we suffer more than they do. tensions between the us and europe escalated in 2019 a disagreement over airplane subsidies resulted in tit for tat moves and america putting 25 percent levies on some european wines but more eco alcohol now being targeted french producers are calling on their government for help but we can export by placing them on the edge of an abyss it is the entire wine and spirits

sector the 2nd largest contributor to the balance of fall a country which is in danger that in this case it would be better if taxes and other payments were decreased for example we wine producers provide the french economy with money via those taxes and that is ok but when we face a situation when our industry suffers the government would do better to ease some taxes we don't get any support from the government and to receive it well you know we have nearly 0 rights with the current almost communist french administration. a french wine is the only product getting punishment on the continent a dutch news videos gone viral showing a u.k. driver having his ham sandwiches confiscated is banned british meat products are fears they contain dangerous pathogens like foot and mouth disease that even the dutch border guards found their move mildly amusing. become older brother not yet

ok let me take them all i married yeah right you know it's a good to me to be the greatest know everything will be. the good of rocks if. british companies are suffering huge delays and are even being turned back at the border as they try to ship to europe post or exit traffic through the key port of dover is down 85 percent and 2019 drivers are reporting hours of fall ups as well as black man who works for one logistics firm in central england brought down the new obstacles. we found the clarity of requirements for even boards and an exposure had been called problematic since the expression has come into place within the. m we have a great deal write downs from hygiene marci on what decorations need to work. however those are regularly changing the logistical issues and with faction of the ports manager to work on which we've got some clarity from the government and what

we can pass on to our. end of the. truth so we want to go. in changing the eve believed that it would work but unfortunately hasn't worked out that way. and i don't know that you don't want. another bragg said obstacles developing up north the a pro in the pan and scottish national party is demanding boris johnson pay billions of pounds compensation to scotland for the damage bracks it's doing to its economy party member angus macneil told us why. of course nobody's benefiting from what i said but i guess it's a complete lose lose scenario but in my part of the unit as analogous scotland now we're going to see the worst of all of you know from this these evil acts that there's been visited on people of the european union can get 5000000000 in 5000000000 euros in the u.k. government would stand to cough up too and i'd argue that the highlands and islands deserve more than others because they're disproportionately disadvantaged by the

exit to get out early is the black city years have made the european union beautiful us that made them king because no every best has one and every company selling it the european market has to keep the bureaucrats with the clipboards happy people that never saw before they're certainly seeing that no. reason polls suggest that support for scottish independence from the u.k. is growing as a deal again next month. well in 2014 scotland was told that by voting just in the united kingdom was going to gather in t. a place within the european union where for less than 2 years later for the blacks at referendum we saw that it wasn't true at all scotland was lied to effectively but also told don't just seen the united kingdom but lead the united kingdom when we want to destroy lead by staying in the european union we weren't allowed to have a any sort of veto within the united kingdom there that would go into the status

quo we we could that dealt with england and wales what is significant is in 24 to 55 percent of scots footed. in the european union but in 201662 percent of scores wanted to stay in the european union if european union more popular with spots of referendums than the united kingdom. that's our global news update for this hour but don't forget you can always head to our web site r.t. dot com for the details on all those stories and many more. l. look forward to talking to you all that technology should work for people. a robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders that conflict with the 1st law show your identification should be very careful about official intelligence at that point obesity is too afraid to trust our government

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