he said of the 23. i felt that i deserved to be. confined within the green. choosing. to leave this room. in the day's headlines russia starts testing a scaled down version of the sputnik recoated vaccine requiring one dose and set of to meet rising global demand. also this hour e.u. leaders openly criticize the u.s. tech giants boycott of president trump saying it has warning implications for free speech. and the british prime minister is spotted cycling the several miles from downing street and then apparent breach of his own government's lockdown rule.

a very warm welcome to the program from all of us here at our teach q. in moscow thanks for joining us this hour. russia is developing a simplified version of its sputnik vicodin vaccine as a long term measure to meet international demand the new version sputnik light protects for a shorter amount of time but only requires one dose instead of 2 its efficacy is thought to be around 85 percent compared to $95.00 for the full version clinical trials involving $150.00 volunteers should be completed by december meanwhile mexico has become the latest nation to consider buying tens of millions of doses of russia's original code back seen on 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 the a other countries and move by as a lineup i can say the vaccine is affected more than 90 percent based on the trial doubts and also less allergic reaction that ability skill ability cost all these all the pet meter that are already in 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 fridge will do them 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 scrooged ration to

leverage and production palestine denied the vaccine by israel has become the 1st in the middle east to greenlight sputnik the main interest of the. sport the worse in that it's using a. lot the sim and universe has been used in force does this it is different in order to reduce the. first. verse of the cause of the believe us it is. just a little to be different it 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 or vaccine 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 openly question twitter's decision to ban president representatives of both the german chancellor and french president one the tech giant's move raises concerns are freedom of speech artist there are has more. 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 ban a sitting u.s. president from their platforms nothing can be the same again the food the c.e.o. compiled 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 bunning donald trump from their platforms as poured gasoline on to. the fire of a free speech the bait that's been going on for a while now what we've heard from teary brits on the e.u. commissioner in charge of these things is that 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 europe they'll be putting tight to reins on the social media giants as well as what

could be posted on their platforms. but it's not only politicians human rights groups are warning that the trump boycott could be a slippery slope and as r.t.s. saskia teller explains there's 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 and 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 site 5 black mirror episodes twitter facebook instagram snapshot the list goes on don't trump out of his accounts so good that its biggest step yet to

limit president trumps or reach put or has permanently suspended president trump's account with or 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 amount it by tens of millions of voters to run the country silenced by on the elected technocrats instead of. out with the american constitution 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 in these dangerous dynamics requires more than just the temperature silencing or permanent removal of bad actors from social media platforms and just like

a paranoid dictator is convinced he's surrounded by enemies big taxis bontoc does everyone trump loyalists and noise leading the election forward claims right wing talk show hosts all sense that the story blocked because apparently that clinton got michael very 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 all 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 after thought in influx of

people angry a twit to 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 coal and oil companies to big banks have turned off the money tap to lawmakers who backed trump in questioning the election results in fewer trump paid well good luck

finding a job irony of trump's fellow fabulous 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. grace and i guess his mom's pay attention to the shirts and hats and glasses well. they have a star direct market and 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 as now suing amazon for being removed from its web hosting service r.t. america has been bust discuss the latest 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 get all the way we want you to we'll simply shut you down and it's a pretty shocking thing they 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 sure 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 213 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 that is not being afforded the parlor to say hey we're not

a publisher so if people come on our platform and they say things that you know 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. the british prime minister has been spotted riding his bike 11 kilometers from downing street asked to spite his government's ban on people exercising outside their neighborhoods and it comes just days after 2 women were fined several 100 pounds for driving a climate arse to go for a walk as penalties were cancelled after a public outcry are shoddy edward style she looks at how johnson's bad example comes at the worst possible time for britain. 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 numbers into the next chance 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 freezing and the most grave means of this on. your this is 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 at 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 they're not down shouldn't be in place at all and they clashed with police over the weekend. to the vaccine for that does provide some light at the end of the tunnel but there are many. pull out that have no doubt that 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 there's a shortage 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 was to really employ people to follow the rules 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 or regionally we are an island we could have closed our borders easily but we let people in from china and from northern italy and from spain they brought the infection with them there were too slow to get people to 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. so have this hour a truck driver from the u.k. gets his ham sandwich confiscated on arrival in the netherlands to post parts of customs rolls it was a love story and more after this. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy on sunday shouldn't let it be an arms race based on often spearing dramatic developments only really i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. the world is driven by a dream shaped by one person or those great. dares

thinks. we dare to ask. a come back 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 and post nazi austria 'd 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 christine well the night of broken glass waste it was the day of broken glass right here in united states president trying sobs to overturn the results of an election you saw the cool but misleading people with my eyes my father no no he was full misled also with lies and i know we're subsidizing the. kristallnacht was a wave of attacks on jews across germany and austria in 1938 the name comes from the shattered glass that litter the streets after a nazi a paramilitary forces raided and vandalized synagogues and jewish owned stores dozens of jews were killed and thousands arrested that night but merrick luke director of the durban holocaust and genocide center is parallels with last week's events are misguided. believe that analogies all help and soon to be holocaust and energies. 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 many survivors still out today but 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. on capitol hill we need to be careful in making analogies the round according to. the us is imposing new tariffs on high alcohol e.u. wines amid a long running trade dispute between washington and brussels on producers warn this

could lose them almost a 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 on 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 levy is on some european lines as more 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 a fall a country which is in danger. 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. but french wine isn't the only product getting punished on the continent a dutch news clip has gone viral showing a u.k. driver having his ham sandwiches confiscated is banned british meat products over fears they contain dangerous pathogens like foot and mouth disease but even the

dutch border guards found their move wildly amusing. because older brother not yet i'll get them to take them off a marriage yeah right you know it's a good to me to leave the great no everything will be gone go to. the concert of rugs if. you know our british companies are suffering huge delays and are even being turned back at the border as they try to ship to europe post frank said traffic through the key u.k. port of dover is down 85 percent on 2019 and drivers are reporting hours of all the ups also back home who works for one logistics firm in central england broke down the new obstacles. we found the clarity of requirements for boards and unexplored shipments have been called problematic since the expression has come into place to be in the. and we have a regular write downs from hygiene marci on what decorations need to work. however those who regularly changes the logistical issues and with faction of the ports

manager to work i'm going to quote some clarity from the government and what we can pass on to work with. the 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 good effect if you don't what i would. and another brags that related problems developing up north the a pro independent scottish national party is demanding and one put paid billions of pounds in compensation to scotland for the damage it brags it is doing to its economy party member and us mcneil told us why. of course nobody's benefiting from black said blacks it's a complete lose lose scenario but in my part of the unit and it's a scotland now we're going to see the worst of all of you know from this exhibit x. that there's been visited on people of the european union can give 5000000000 in

5000000000 euros then 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 and it 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 in the european market has to keep the bureaucrats with the clipboards happy people that never saw before they're certainly seeing that no. recent poll suggests that support for scottish independence is growing as angus but they are again explains well in 2014 scotland was told that by voting just in the united kingdom was going to get in t. a place within the european union whether less than 2 years later for the blacks at referendum we saw that wasn't too tall scotland was lied to effectively but also told don't just need 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 we're going to the status quo we we've got that dealt with england and wales what is significant is in 24 to 55 percent of scots footed. if you 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 all for this hour news wires but if all those stories have been quite sure thirst for news head on over to our website r.t. dot com for countless articles and interviews exciting it. was a pandemic no certainly no borders and i'm just glad to nationalities.

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when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. the war in syria has lasted longer than world war 2 what is happening in this country i think that syria fall victim to horrific experiment when the discontent of some people and religious tensions in the country were exploited by external players 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 exerted 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 regular syrian people. they are the ones paying the highest price in this endless war the price their lives and the lives of beloved ones. their country is destroyed and bleeding. journalists from kazakstan i have been following the tragic events in syria from the very beginning i have also been covering just on a process an international initiative aimed at settling the syrian crisis to toxic place in my country's capital. a while ago i got a facebook message from your. lives in aleppo. vitamine to visit their city so i could see everything with my own eyes and hear the stories of its residents. one group in particular russian wives of syrian man.

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