it. was. going to. russia stars testing a scaled down version of the sputnik vicodin vaccine requiring one dose instead of 2 to meet rising global demands. e.u. leaders openly criticize the u.s. tech giants boycott of president trump saying it has worried and give locations 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 rules.

a very warm welcome to you you're watching r.t. international with me nicky aaron. now russia is developing a simplified version of expose the coded vaccine as a long term measure to meet international demands the new drug sputnik lite protects for a shorter 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 are ready to start and tests will continue throughout the year meantime mexico has become the latest nation to consider buying tens of millions of doses of russia's original covert black seed right garcia reports. 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 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 sputniks biggest 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. us with the worse in that it's using a. lot the sim and universe has been used in both those us it is different in order to reduce the. risk. to the. reverse of the cause of the believe us it is a good chance to learn the difference is in the next 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. donald trump has accused the democrats of in danger in the country by impeaching him for a 2nd time the house of representatives is expected to vote late on wednesday on whether to charge the president with inciting an insurrection over the capitol hill riots. or the beach bridge is really a continuation of the greatest which it is pure politics is ridiculous i think it's good to prevent a danger to our country and it's causing tremendous anger. or trump has also condemned twitter as decision to ban him calling it a catastrophic mistake the social networks actions have even along to you are

a peon lead to peace all of a explained. 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 respect c. to the chancellor considers a problematic the leader council of the us president has 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 yet 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 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 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 tighter reins on the social media giants as well as what could be posted on their platforms. take a look now at the growing disconnect 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 it's 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 silenced by on the elected technocrats instead it can validly 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 dangers 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 by doctors of free while trump loyalists annoy is leading the election fraud claims right wing talk show hosts all sense that the story looked because apparently that clinton got michael voters riled up and off 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 caps 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 after thought in influx of people angry a twit to censorship story policy pano was dropped by apple google and amazon 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 a fewer trump paid well good luck finding a job or any of trump's fellow fabulous suburban forbes will assume that everything your company your firm 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 in and friends here easy. face and i guess his mom's pay attention to the shirts and hats and glasses well done twice out that a star direct market and in maryland you've got an employee to investigate. know not to tap tap out of all whiles 19 eighty-four to stem merica the learn to

fly free in 2021. hala a social network site popular with trump supporters is now suing amazon for being made from its web hosting service journalist chadwick moore thinks the tech giant saw abusing them and open a position to forget that big tech has been silencing and banning people since the 2016 election people would be helped if they thought how to get the president elected any social media site like twitter used to be it's free association so you are free to block people you're free to follow people you have similar interests and 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 it a day at the bowery in the user instead of the platform decided deciding who should be earth and who should not be urged the platforms facebook twitter and ceramic were made across one another and when you have these companies coordinating across

platforms and forget the whole censorship argument you can bet you are going to hear their crushing competition they are injecting themselves into the market so this is a time ace that we may have going on here just with conspiracy and racketeering which many people say seems quite obvious what's going on here americans are of course deeply worried about this and this is the land that prides itself so much on free speech. the british prime minister has been spotted riding his bike 11 kilometers from downing street 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 8 kilometers to go for a walk with those penalties were cancelled after a public outcry and artie's that shown here was dusty 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. 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. times 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 most grieved. on. your p.c. . but 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 that we can't. thank you. thank. you. thank. you. for the vaccine very much does provide some light at the end of the tunnel but there are many p. put out that have no doubt some things are going to get west before they get the n.h.s.

is struggling in some parts of the country there are no beds and people are being shipped around the country and in some places this issue audi's 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 all people to follow the rules do not go out and less it's necessary the n.h.s. i think it's close to breaking point i think the government has been too slow right from the beginning that would to slow the law down to originally we are in island we could have closed up borders easily but we let people in from china and from northern italy and from spain they pull the infection with them they 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. still to come this hour u.s. officials voice that frustration i have a day lazing get some vaccines to the population before that story and plenty more coming up to play.

join me every thursday on the all excitement short and i'll be speaking to us of the world of politics or business i'm sure business i'll see you then. come back and go back to our top story now russia's covert vaccine has seen a surge in global demand with palestine and algeria among the latest countries to approve sputnik v.

production is also being ramped up with major deal signed with india and south korea we can now cross live to oman go to a public health expert in new delhi and welcome to the program it's great to see you now as we mentioned earlier in the program india is going to be a major production hub for sputnik to be producing 300000000 doses of the russian drug how crucial could cooperation be in countering the pandemic do you think. over nikki i think you know india has been kind of a pharmacy of the world and has a very signal to pick and roll in terms of the vaccine development and delivery and i think this partnership between india and our house and ratio for. it is agreed. for us to really put the right fight for the core in $1000.00 pandemic as it is happening across the world because that is a science which we are getting from from russia and in that is the whole manufacturing and the distribution system which indian industry has certain that to

do so it can really play a very critical role in fighting going 100 and i understand that india is a major pharmaceutical company has reported that phase 2 trials of sputnik of the in the country showed quote as a very good safety profile so how promise think is this but the potential approval of the russian vaccine body or thirty's if phase 3 is the excess but as well when i think this is a part of the process and there was no doubt aboard the fees to save trees those would be similar to what we have seen in the other parts but just the fact that it is happening in india it sort of gives the kind of reassurance. retrieves the safety profile us but the we are as we know this is kind of a phase 2 slash phase see trial so we will it was sort of continuing the freeze trees is a great step and i think of the know what we really need to look forward to is the next couple of weeks once the phase 3 trial is or and we are able to get the

approval. the vaccines to be available to all the indians in the coming weeks and india has of course approved its own covert vaccine now developed by biotech how promising does that drug look. well i think you know or are on the deck which has been developed in association with the i c m r r. like to wait for the trial data to come in while it has been. approved for the image and c u's i think that is the deed which is not completely available to us so i think we will sort of have to wait for the beta to come in as i've always said in the past also you know for us to really ensure that i'll be able to come out of this pandemic we've would need more than one vaccine and from that perspective you know india are playing it as the and innovative hope for

vaccines and pharmaceutical product this is a step in that i direction but you know until that day we do not have the exact date i was sort of still sort of hold my judgment on it and so far what we've seen is the sputnik rollout has been focused on economies like algeria bolivia palestine argentina do you expect more to follow suit. well i would sort of certainly hope so because i think if i just look good or are seeing the number of vaccines i will see a sport is in it is in the dark are in the dark league as the different countries look you know using which we're going to vaccines would mean we would be should be one of the of the pride the choice just because of the the science behind it which is kind of an on science safety profile it's their frequency profile of the whole are the largest is in the transportation side of it so i think it should be

a private details but again the need to us is the the ability to produce is that one factor so you know i'm just not spinning we i think rather than didn't have to call into the others also and we know that in the next couple of months we may have to be more rad scenes their data out and they will be available for the long ones to look at which ones they can sort of really use for their population. among the tap public health expert in new delhi thank you very much for your time. thanks a lot mickey. the u.s. officials are calling for a quicker rollout of vaccines so far 25000000 doses have been delivered to hospitals nationwide but less than a 3rd of those shots have been administered there ripping up too slowly this past monday i said to them you have until friday to ramp up use it or lose it it would be much better to move quickly and end up vaccinating some lower priority people then let vaccines sit around while states try to micro-manage this process. as

things stand there are strict criteria on who can receive the vaccines and that's led to technical delays with doctors unable to give the job to the target groups and some unused dose is going to waste some states are trying to address that problem by widening the list of eligible paypal in new york and now includes people older than 75 and essential workers that as teaches infectious disease a disease expert william schaffner spoke to artie's boom bust about the difficulties hospitals are facing. there are all kinds of problems out there it depends on the location my state is actually one of the top 3 or 4 states. thanks amazing people or proportion of vaccines delivered you know arms now is pretty good but even within our own state we're seeing that some locations are doing better than other some locations or swamped with the early except they just want the

vaccine but they haven't got enough other places and this is happening to many people surprise and health care facilities that not all health care workers are ready to get the vaccine they need reassurance the persuasion the information so all of that's rolling out if you plan for it your vaccination program is a little slower than we would like so it's a whole spectrum of issues kind of coming together one and the incoming administration under joe biden his axing advisers they've been expressing a caution about being able to hit they're talking about 100000000 vaccine in the 1st 100 days how possible is it for them to help these states ramp up these in occupations to a 1000000 per day at the current rate i wish that the goal had not been so specifically expressed it's very aspirational one of the things that the administration says it will do is release a lot of doses of vaccine that are currently in warehouses. that will then put the

stress on all the people who are delivering the vaccines to get that 1st dose into as many arms as possible as quickly as possible the other concern is a vaccine dose deferred is often the vaccine doses not received and we really need to bring everybody back for the 2nd dose in order to get that 95 percent effectiveness. a university of milan studies found the origins of the pandemic are closer to home than previously thought if new reports say that patients vero may have been infected in italy back in november 29 tain a whole week earlier than the 1st registered case in china a world health organization investigative teams and jews who arrive in china on thursday to probe how the virus started it comes as china reports the biggest daily

surge in covert cases in almost half a year. the room. i left home on january deforest and haven't returned yet the neighborhood is close jobs given the office now you. 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 mass at all that along with 3 others can test 30000 samples a day. the

u.s. is imposing any 25 percent tariff on high alcohol wines from the e.u. i made a long running trade dispute european exporters say it could cost them almost a $1000000000.00 euros this year alone. of course these new terror of suppose 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 escalates in 2019 and disagreements over airplane subsidies resulted in tit for tat moves and america putting 25 percent levies on some european wines with laurie you alcohol now being targeted at french producers are calling on led government for help. we can export by placing them on the edge of the best it is the entire wine and spirits sector the 2nd largest contributor to the balance of our country which is in danger. in this case it would be better if taxes and other payments were decreased for example we wind 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 yet . many thanks for joining us here on r.t. international this now we're back in 30 minutes with the latest say that. well the demick no certainly no borders i'm just delighted to nationalities. new players as americans we don't have a territory we don't have a back seat the whole world needs to be pretty people. judging. a crisis of his system to stop.