an evil villain in israel you know blows. because it's but it's a. good one. russia started testing a scaled down version of the sputnik be coded vaccine requiring a one dose and set up to meet rising global demand. also this hour you leaders openly criticize the us tech giants boycott a president trump saying it was boring implications for free speech. and the british prime minister is spotted cycling several miles from downing street in an apparent breach of his own government's lockdown rolls.

watching r t international coming to live from the russian capital this an every hour welcome to the program. russia is developing a simplified version of its sputnik coded vaccine as a long term measure to meet international demand the new version of sputnik light protects for a shorter period of time but only requires one dose and set of to its efficacy is thought to be around 85 percent compared to $95.00 for the full version clinical trials involving $150.00 volunteers are ready to start and developers are hoping to complete all tests by december in all mexico's become the latest nation to consider buying tens of millions of doses of russia's original code vaccine more advanced if has more. the sputnik the vaccine once scorned and maligned is turning into an international bestseller production is surging to an average of 830000 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 more buzz aligning up 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 ideal 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 the night the vaccine by israel has become the 1st in the middle east to greenlight sputnik the main thrust of the uniqueness of the worse is that it's using a g.p.s. goes as the sim and universe has been used in both those as it is different in order to reduce the. first. verse of the cause of the believe us 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 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 questioned twitter's decision to ban donald trump representatives of both the german chancellor and french president when the tech giants move raises concerns over freedom of speech artist peter arbor has 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 brett 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 to. the fire of a free speech the bait that's been going on for a while now what we heard from terry brett on the 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 the senate that would be looking to address this further europe they'll be putting tight reins on the social media giants as well as what

can be posted on their platforms. are asking a teller looks now at the 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 his biggest step yet to limit president trying to reach twitter has permanently suspended president trump's

account twitter 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 by tens of millions of voters to run the country silent spite 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 changing these dentures dynamics requires more than just the temperature silencing or permanent removal of bad actors from social media platforms and just like a paranoid dictators 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 that the story looked because apparently that clinton got michael voters 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 fast amendment take the twit to start up scene as a safe space for conservative voices while no more afterthought an 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 car in oil companies to big banks have turned off the money tap to lawmakers who backed trump in questioning the election results when in fewer trump 8 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. to some amazing work by j.s. railton and friends here easy. face and i guess his mom's pay attention to the shirts and hats and glasses well. never star direct marketed in maryland you've got an employee to investigate. know not to tap that out of all whiles $984.00 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 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 2 3rd 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 the 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 block. the british prime minister has been spotted riding his bike 11 kilometers from downing street and that's despite 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 kilometer is to go for a walk those penalties were cancelled after a public outcry artists shouting i would stop it looks at how johnson's bad example comes at the worst possible time. 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 an advisor to the government says tougher restrictions are absolutely unavoidable the next few weeks are going to be the worst weeks of this time so mom is 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 freezing and the most grave means of 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 of 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 they're not down shouldn't be in place at all and they clashed with police over the weekend. to the vaccine very much does provide some light at the end of the tunnel but there are many peace. pull out that have no doubt some things are going to get west 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 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 has been too slow right from the beginning that would too slow to 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 that 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 had

a truck driver from the u.k. get his ham sandwich as confiscated on arrival in the netherlands duty of postdocs a customer also a story and more after the break. join

me every thursday on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm showbusiness i'll see you then. welcome back 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 christine well the

night of broken glass waste it was the day of broken glass right here in the united states president trying solids to overturn the results of an election he saw the cool but misleading people with my eyes my father was full 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 the name comes from the shattered glass that litter the streets after non-state paramilitary forces raided and vandalized synagogues and other jewish owned stores dozens of jews were killed and thousands were arrested that night eric luke director of the durban holocaust and genocide center thinks parallels with last week's events are misguided harbor. believe that an elegy is all unhelpful and suited to me holocaust and energies in the 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 in each occasion and each circumstance needs to be unpacked in its entirety because for many survivors today the holocaust is not a memory is not history it's lived experience it's the loss of the family members the torture of the the polling circumstances that they were forced to endure and so as dreadful as these events and these particular events last week were on capitol hill we need to be careful in making analogies around calling it crystal not. the us is imposing a new 25 percent tariff on the high alcohol wines from the e.u. amid a long running trade dispute european exporter say it could cost them almost a $1000000000.00 euros 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 levies on some european wines and more now being targeted french producers are calling on their government for help by 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 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 due to post to customer. don't older brother not yet ok let me take them all i'm married yeah right you know it's

a good to me to be the greatest know everything will be. the good of rocks of earth . and all british companies are suffering huge delays and are even being turned back at the border as they try to ship to europe post said traffic through the key k. port of dover is down 85 percent on 21000 and drivers are reporting hours of all the ups else back home who works for a logistics firm in central england brought 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. and we have a greater write downs from hygiene marci on what decorations need to work. however those who regularly changes the logistical issues it with faction of the ports manager to work on once we've got some clarity from the government and what we can pass on to our crews to. the end of the. truth so we want to go.

in changing the eve believed that it would work but unfortunately 'd hasn't worked out that way. and i don't know good effect you don't want. another brags that related problems developing up north at the pro independence scottish national party is demanding england pay billions of pounds in compensation to scotland for the damage bracks it is 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 you know to hell is analogous scotland now we're going to see the worst of all of you know from this crazy but accent that's been visited on people of european union can get 5000000000 in 5000000000 euros in the u.k. go and understand cough up too and i would argue that the highlands and islands deserve more than others because they are disproportionately disadvantaged by the

exit they get at and is the blacks of tears have made the european union be to curse that made them king because no every best has one of every company selling it the european market has to keep the bureaucrats with the clipboards happy people that ever saw before they're certainly seeing them know. and recent polls suggest that support for scottish independence is growing as angus macneil again explains. well in 2014 scotland was told that a voting just in the united kingdom was going to gather in t.o. place within the european union whether less than 2 years later for the brics it will fit in the loose all that motion. scotland was lied to effectively but also told don't just steve the united kingdom would lead the united kingdom but we wanted to show a lead by steve in the european union we were too low to have any sort of veto within the united kingdom and that we're going to the city to school we we can thank dealt with it a little wheels what is significant is in 24 to 55 percent of scots floated to the

united kingdom if you knew him but in 201662 percent of stores would you just be in the european union if european union more popular with sports and referendums than the united kingdom. that's all for this hour news wise but if you're looking for more head on over to our website our team dot com for countless articles and all our shows exciting at. best frankly kind of one of the architects of america and it's all this out there was going to and when you can both are free money the republic is done and this is what just happened in $20.00 election people voted for free money and now it's officially her band frank what it's done it's done it's done.

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this is boom bust the one business show you count on star month i'm still going to washington coming out we saw a tidal wave of tech headlines this weekend as president trump was slammed with a barrage of social media bans following last week's breach of the capital some of cheering big tax but others are worried about the fate of free speech we'll discuss the fallout that will sit down with him and to seize an expert to audit the coronavirus vaccine roll out how exactly is operational speed panning out and now that we've rung in the new year our markets reacting to an already new it 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 and facebook permanently banned president trump but app stores apple and google have removed parlor that's known as

the conservative twitter currently there's a running list of tech platforms are moving trump's accounts and those affiliated with the president including q and on there's also reddit twitch you tube and snapped out to name a few many are calling it a violation of their 1st amendment rights so for more let's bring in so much of us here journalist ben swan let's start with the basics what's happening with parlor. ok so parlors that essentially run into 2 problems the 1st was that on friday a google for their play stored announced that they were going to remove it without warning they removed parlor from the google play store which means if you have an android device you cannot download partner then apple 24 hours later said the exact same thing where they were going to remove part of their what they claimed was because part of their refuses to moderate confidence in content and control what users see and what they say and have fact checkers the same way that everybody else is doing right now the way that twitter and facebook are acting because they refused to control the speech on their platform they were going to remove them from

the place stuart then separately from that amazon which to its a w s service its amazon web services company controls the servers on which parlor is built so they announced it was shutting down the servers so as of monday you go on to parlor on your phone or on the web it's not there you can access like a kind of a blank page and there's no service being provided from the server so right now what part of their is doing they're scrambling to be able to get back on line trying to go a different route for their servers trying to start basically all over again it was shocking to me because i've been warning this was coming for a long time sarah and the reality is i can't believe a company like parlor built their services on the amazon web services that's insane to me assuming that they were never going to get shut down well could probably have prevented this type of backlash they there's several things they could have done that the biggest of which is you don't you don't you.