join me every thursday on the alec simon show and i'll be speaking to guest in the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. russia confirms its stars kay start a new covert strain that originated in the u.k. but medical chiefs say russia's dark scene is up to the task the job has not been approved by algeria and palestine. from dismissal to acceptance several mainstream journalists who were initially skeptical of us but make the are now lining up to take the russian job. the festive season brings not respond for germany which is reported a surge in covert cases with the chancellor warning the most difficult days is still to come. and still trying faces

a 2nd impeachment just days before leaving office as pro trumpet rioters are charged over the storming of the capital. a very warm welcome it's 9 pm here in moscow and you're watching r.t. international with me karen. where russia is developing a simplified version of its sputnik v. coded vaccine as a long term measure to meet international demands a new drug dubbed sputnik lied to protect the pretext for 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 vaccine as more downstairs 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 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 me to a better idea of what any vaccine to roll out. one of the sputnik speediest advantages over the competition aside from price is that it's easier to transport or to store so a simple fridge 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 thracian to leverage and production palestine denied the vaccine by israel has become the 1st in the middle east to greenlight sputnik the main thrust of the. us with the worse is that it's using and as good as it's worth the sin of universe has been used in both those as it is different in order to reduce. the. reverse of the cause of the believe us it is. good chance to know that the difference is in the next 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 unforeseen side effects like the pfizer vaccines allergic reactions which is why it makes sense to make sure that you've got different jobs we heard from a man cooked a public health expert in new delhi he spoke about the large scale testing of the sputnik the in india and the trucks advantages on the global market. there was no doubt about the fees to save trees as 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 leader surance. creates the safety profile us for because we. do please trees. if i just look good or are the number of vaccines i will see sporting is in is in the dobbs league as the different countries look you know using which they were going to vaccines could mean we would be should be one of the the pride b. choice just because of the science behind it which is kind of an on science safety profile it's a frequency profile of the whole are the largest things in the transportation side of. or despite the rapid progress in vaccine development the president of the red cross has urged people to be patient francesco rocker stressed the need to keep up basic measures to slow the spread of the pandemic the humbling reality is this pandemic is only gaining momentum a stark reminder that vaccines alone will not end this fight we all need to make sure that in our optimism about vaccines we do not forget the dangers of this farce

or the actions we all need to take to protect ourselves and each other. we can now speak with a manual bianco the director of health care department at the international federation of red cross and red crescent welcome to the program it's wonderful to have you with us now as we just heard mr erakat says vaccine a loans vaccines alone won't stop the pandemic all of the basic precautions such as mosques social distancing is that one going to have to stay with us for the long term do you think. well the answer is probably yes and it's something that we need to be prepared to do is physical distancing is moscow avoiding being in crowded places is making sure that one gets a gets isolated and people are in contact with somebody sick we quarantined up for a simple i do support that is needed until the 1st is going to go out again these are critical measures that can save it thousands of lives until vaccines will be

widely available in all countries we can not lower the guard right now because the epidemic eased at its peak in terms of number of new cases and it's real but. so tell me what sort of timescale do you think we're looking at to reaching me and i say. love to our magic wall to look into but certainly we are looking at several months there are some countries that are moving. a rather fast but the majority of the world unfortunately i was not started vaccination programs yet and we know that we need to docs and 8 people all over the world to assure safety for everybody around the world so we'll have to accelerate the pace at which vaccines will be distributed around the world ensuring a mechanism to do so. in that very safe safe way and until that moment the best line of defense will be individual behavior we've seen

a multiple vaccines develop to in a record time again 19 is this a good sign for the future and for any other new diseases we might encounter. i resigned that yes what we have seen in one year terms of developing a vaccine against a virus that was not known just a year ago and being able to locate vaccines within a year time is extraordinary is an enormous success for science but he's also an enormous success in terms of global solidarity the ability of all the research was fine and serious industries to work together and now a lot of organizations like the red cross red crescent trying to help governments to get that vaccine out to as many people as possible and. these very encouraging not only for called the 1000 but also for future vaccines for other diseases that may happen in the next years i think is

a worrying twist different that we've seen this for the rapid spread of a new strain of it in the u.k. i cut this and future mutations create an extra obstacle to ending the pandemic. now researchers are worried about what we have been seeing. the u.k. and in south africa where. developed and are stopped the spreading in more than 40 other countries these notations are increasing the transmissibility of the virus so the more people are getting expected but we have no indication that these are increasing the the the mortality or they're not increasing or decreasing effectiveness all vaccines but the further mutations occur we may see potentially also reduction of the effectiveness so all summer with a vaccine the good news are that possibly if we need to rejig old the vaccine this could be done easily let's remind ourselves that the flu vaccines that they have to

be changed every year and probably if there are more patients happening are also vocal the $1000.00 seems we may need to have some sort of changes in the future to deduct things but for the moment the vaccines that we do have are working and we just need to push them out fast as we can particularly in those poor countries that have restricted access at the moment for those vaccines absolutely a manual keep a band director of health care department at the international federation of red cross and red crescent thank you very much for your time thank you. i don't know trans has accused the democrats of in danger in the country by impeaching him for a 2nd time the house of representatives is expected to votes later on wednesday on whether to charge the president with inciting an insurrection over the capitol hill riots. on the beach bridge it's really a continuation of the great is which it is your politics it's ridiculous i think

it's a good thing to mention danger to our country and it's causing tremendous anger. well trump has also condemned twitter's decision to ban him calling it a catastrophic mistake the social networks the actions of even along to you were apparently to suss p. to all of us explains. who regulates the free speech day 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 cede to the chancellor considers it problematic because the accounts of the us presidency 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 banishing 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 a matter for a sovereign people governments and the judiciary the commissioner for internal market bret on it's 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. compiled the plug on poet says 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 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 to reins all the social media giants as well as what could be posted all of their platforms. he ses hey looks now at the growing disconnect between the values that washington preaches sound the 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 finally the wells run dry in its own backyards and what could have been lifted from a dystopian saif i block near episodes twitter facebook instagram snapshot the list goes on don't trump out of his accounts so good 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 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 silenced by on the elected technocrats instead it can validly outwith the american constitution in with twit says thompson uses but even bought a pair. he 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 dictators convinced he's surrounded by enemies big taxis bad actors 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 not go 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 caps now we need to on brainwash and reeducate about 71000000 voters and their children who follow trump supporters need to read you give 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 a google apple and amazon united to destroy it that's what monopoly power means it's not. use 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 when in a few or 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. to some amazing work by james railton and friends here is his face and i guess his mom's pay attention to the shirts and hats and glasses well done. 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. the u.s. secretary of state has claimed without providing evidence that iran is now harboring the terrorist group al qaeda. has a new home base it is the islamic republic of iran. my pompei allegation has not been backed up by any by a publicly available intelligence assessment and it comes a day after the trumpet ministration put keeper back on the list of state sponsors of terrorism have an out was removed from the blacklist back in 2015 under the obama administration iran's foreign minister gave his response to the latest moves

. from designating cuba to fictitious surrender classifications and al qaeda clean mr will lie cheat and steal is pathetically ending his disastrous career with more were more marine lars. let's go live now to slide mohammad marandi professor of english literature and orientalism at the university of toronto into joining us on the program so as we just heard my pump a o. ses your country is sheltering al qaeda terrorists where is this idea coming from. well it comes from his own imagination remember pay 0 as has famously said we were tired at the cia to lie to cheat and to steal so he is a very professional liar although he's not very intelligent but that's his job so he must be a profession a professional but i think it's quite clear where al-qaeda came from a kind came from the united states and saudi arabia they were using it to.

create it vietnam part of the soviet union we now know that even before the soviet union invaded afghanistan brzezinski and carter cooked up this idea to support the extremists and even their textbooks even the textbooks of these extremists were initially published in nebraska university in the united states rather than in saudi arabia which happened later and then of course we know that the united states and its regional proxies had allies used al qaeda in the area to overthrow. the libyan leader as of the and then of course through turkey and jordan they used al-qaeda to try to undermine syria and part of that al-qaeda turned into isis so the history of united states and our kind is clear to all and of course the americans allowed the saudis to use al qaeda and isis in yemen against and sort

of law and the government that rules over the capital sana'a let's consider how far this could go now because chunk still has more than a week left in all faith has made plenty of threats in the past do you think you could take any action against iran before he leaves well i think the americans should have no doubt and so should regional regimes if there is any strike on iran. the countries in the persian gulf that facilitated and help americans all here have their bases and facilitate any form of attack their infrastructure will be destroyed the emirates will be wiped out they are all infrastructure we will be hammered and so will any other country in the region that helps the united states or all of these small countries in the persian gulf should take into account the fact that if the united states strikes iran that effectively

means they declared war on iran so i have no doubt that these regimes will collapse they will not last more than a few days if there is any form of attack from the united states the iranian response will be immediate in disproportionate the iranians right now are 100 percent prepared the armed forces are ready for an american strike during the next few days so i doubt that the americans will do this because the price for its regional proxies and allies will be something beyond anyone's comprehension well joe biden has previously said that he wants to revise the iran nuclear deal do you think he really well and does the it radio and government really want to see that happen. well if he's honest and he revives the deal that means that he will effectively implemented the nuclear deal in full and if he does the iranians will do the same but we're very skeptical because after all it was the obama regime that

created the dirty war in syria the help the saudis create genocide in yemen destroyed libya they are they have no moral boundaries and it was their the obama regime that created the maximum pressure campaign in the 1st place that trump repeated although or more harshly it was during the obama regime that iranian scientists were murdered during trump only one was murdered during obama 4 were murdered and of course cyber attacks on iran took place as well during obama so we biden was his vice president no one in the run trusts him and no one believes that he's humane but if he decides to do the smart thing and implement the nuclear deal and fully run will do so as well but iran will accept no preconditions and it will not accept any changes to the nuclear deal nor will it negotiate its defense

capabilities especially with american bases surrounding iran and it will not. negotiate its regional alliances because the united states and its allies helped isis and al-qaeda across the region and it's through iran and its allies that prevented the region and with the help of the russians prevented the region from collapsing into the hands of the holders and the bearers of the blacklegs flagman the euro and a professor of english literature and orientalism at the university of toronto like you very much for your time here. for 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 neighbor. hood's and it comes just days after 2 women were fined several 100 pounds for driving 8 kilometers to go for a walk well those penalties were cancelled after a public outcry r.t. shaadi edwards looks at how dylan songs bad example comes at the worst possible

time for britain. the relentless 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 advisor to the government says tougher restrictions are absolutely unavoidable the next few weeks are going to be. times of mammas into the next 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 means of the. our hospitals. this is. where 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 thanks. to the vaccine very much does provide some light at the end of the tunnel but there

are many p. . 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 this issue orders 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 implore 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 we too slow to law down to 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 the infection with them. to get people where they were to 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 to. us officials are calling for a quicker rollout have coded vaccines so far 25000000 doses have been delivered to hospitals nationwide but less than a 3rd of those shots have been administered. they're ripping up too slowly this past monday i said to them you have been to friday to room. use it or lose it it would be much better to move quickly and end up vaccinating some lower priority people than to let vaccines sit around while states try to micromanage this process as things stand there are strict criteria on who can receive the vaccines announced lead to technical delay if with doctors unable to give the job to the target groups on some unused doses going to waste some states are trying to address that problem

by why didn't they list of eligible paypal and there you go ok now includes people older than $75.00 and essential workers that teaches infectious diseases infectious diseases specialist 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 a 1000000 people or proportion of vaccines delivered in arms now is pretty good but even within our own state we're seeing that some locations are doing better than other some locations are swamped with 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 vaccines 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 an arc . 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 and 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.