russia starts testing a scaled down version of the sputnik vicodin vaccine requiring one dose instead of 2 to meet the rising global demands. e.u. leaders openly criticize the us tech giants boy cos of president trump saying it has a worrying implications for free speech. times the british prime minister responded cycling several miles from downing street in an apparent breach of his own government's lockdown grooves.

everyone welcome its 10 pm here in moscow and you're watching r.t. international with me in the key area. russia is developing a simplified version of a sputnik the covert vaccine as a long term measure to meet international demands the new drug dubbed sputnik light protects for a shorter time but it 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 on 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 want girls to have reports. the sputnik the vaccine once school ended 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 as a lineup i can say the vaccine is effective more than 90 percent based on the trial doubts and also less allergic reaction that ability skill ability cost all these all the pet me to a better idea of what 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 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 nucleus of this with the worse in that it's using an energy as good as it's worth the sin and universe has been used in forth is different in order to reduce the muses 1st as. to whether the reverse of the cause of the believe yes it is a good chance to know that the lesbo 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. we heard from a man good public health expert in new delhi he spoke about the large scale testing of sputnik in india on the drug's advantages on the global markets. there was no doubt the board of the fees to save preserves would be similar to what we have seen in the other pods but just the fact that it is happening in india it sort of gives the ground over to your surance. creates the safety profile of the we. please freeze isn't there if i just look good or are the number of vaccines i will see a sporting is in is in the dobbs league as the different countries look you know

using which they were going to vaccines would mean we would be should be one of the pride the choice just because of the science behind it which is kind of a non-science safety profile it's if we could see proof. of the whole are the largest things in the transportation side of it. despite the rapid progress in vaccine developments the red cross is the people to be patient and keep up basic measures to slow the spread of the pandemic we heard from emanuel bianco the director of the health and care department of the i.c.r.c. . it's something that we need to be prepared and we need to do is physically something is moscow avoiding being in crowded places is making sure that we one gets sick gets isolated and people are in contact with somebody sick we are in thailand up for some provide the support that is needed and to the person can go out again these are critical measures that can save thousands of life until

vaccines will be widely available in all countries we can not lower the guard right now because the. researchers are worried about what we have been seeing. the u.k. and in south africa where. developed at me furthermore patients occur we may see potentially also reduction of the effectiveness of all but some of the vaccine the majority of the world unfortunately not just started vaccination programs yet and we know that we need to vaccinate people all over the world to assure safety for everybody around the world so we'll we'll have to accelerate to be the pace at which a back scenes 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.

don't trump as a case the democrats have been danger in the country by impeaching him for a 2nd time the house of representatives is expected to vote later on wednesday on whether to charge the president with inciting an insurrection over the capitol hill riot. 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 for many days to our country and it's causing tremendous anger. well trampas also condemned twitter as decision to ban him calling it a catastrophic mistake the social network sanctions have even along to repeat in late is this piece all over expects. 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 it problematic the lead counsel 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 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've heard from teary brits on the commissioner in charge of these things is there are 2 pieces of legislation that would tabled by the e.u. commission at the end of the senate that would be looking to address this further

europe they'll be putting tight rings on the social media giants as well as what can be posted on their platforms. in the wake of last week's capitol riots u.s. senate minority leader chuck schumer has called for all those involved to be put on the no fly list any of those who were inside the capitol should be placed on the no fly list and not be allowed to. take a look 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 snapshot the list goes on don't trump out of his accounts so good that his biggest step yet to limit president trying to reach twitter has permanently suspended president trump's account where there has announced it is cutting off president trump's ability to post on the social media site permanently president of course used twitter extremely frequently and to extreme controversy president trump has been violating rules all over social media for a long time so the american president given a mandate by tens of millions of voters to run the country silent spite on the elected technocrats instead of. out with the american constitution on in with twit says thompson uses but even that apparently is too little too late in today's

america we need solutions that don't start after untold damage has been done change 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 by doctors of free while trump loyalists of noise leading the election ford 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 oh and if you are trump paid well good luck finding a job or any 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 show you. some amazing work by jason railton and friends here easy. race and i guess his mom's paying attention to the shows and hacks and glasses. that a star direct marketed in maryland you've got an employee to investigate. no not to tapped out of orwell's 19 eighty-four to stem merica the land of the free

in 2021 paula a social network popular with rightwing groups is now suing allison for being removed from its web hosting service but the crackdown on proton voices is continuing apace that twitter has suspended more than $70000.00 accounts promoting the unknown conspiracy theory well you know bringing a justin welby a young coast of the politics politics politics punk cost you i cohen internet lore expert and lionel legal and media analyst thank you all for joining us on the program this evening my 1st question to justin please them what do you think is the big tex motive heroin and was the n.b.a. . well for them there are 2 things number one obviously they want to protect their share price and they want to protect the fact that they are an advertising platform remember all of these services live to sell ads they don't live to do anything else secondarily obviously they know which way the wind is blowing donald trump is no longer going to be in the white house almost all of these companies

face antitrust suits that are going to be decided by the biden department of justice and so no there is going to be less of a priority to maybe make these arguments internally that donald trump and his account should be protected but these are self interested actors 1st employed. i asked do you think that these tech giants have become too powerful and is this the trends they can be reversed and how. they have. become too powerful it is it is obvious that they are now controlling pretty much the the entire communications system all over the world which is unprecedented what will happen eventually they do we are going to see at least some backlash because it will be a matter of time before censorship will be move on to other part of our perhaps democratic party. remember the parties made out of many different

factions so it is only a matter of time before one or 2 of them are going to be perhaps consider there is too extreme to bob's to do kerman is thought to fascias to do something and we will be seeing father bugs and censorship at the end of of which i think social media companies will lose all credibility and the people will effectively revolt by by moving or moving to other type of social medias perhaps you will see the creation of different type of social media in the future well i know the democrats are mostly tearing on this anti tran crackdown on line but they also be worrying to the hands of companies has so much power. well they should be that would make sense if they did but the problem is this i'm

a practicing lawyer and i'm going to tell you right now that the law american law always lags 25 to 50 years behind technology let me give you this example we always talk about the internet or we talk about platforms in social media imagine this one day you're on your mobile phone and you say something and your call drops and you pick it up again and you say the same thing and your call drops and it turns out that your internet provider or your phone company decides that it does not like the particular type of speech that you are a nun c.a.t. on your phone and you say wait a minute this is a utility. what's the internet catch just a private company and she sees kids man bond kind of young nerdy types in silicon valley who put together this thing and well if you want to do your own go someplace else this it means that we have to rewrite the 1st amendment in this country because this is a quote private company that 99 per cent of all the people on the planet use our laws are outdated and unless that is changed nothing will change at least in this

country i sticking with the airline no for now in the latest twist twitter has condemned the government of uganda for allegedly blocking internet service provider let's just take a listen. head of the ugandan election we're hearing reports that internet service providers are being ordered to block social media and messaging apps we strongly condemn internet shutdowns they're hugely harmful violate basic human rights and the principles of the open internet. so that's the word from twitter what do you make of that line 11 hypocrisy. pot crazy they have elephant time. yeah in order to do that it boggles the mind where they can say that with a straight face look the thing is that we all know it's not that they're too big you're too draconian let me say them very quickly they just won an election they're going to see how far they can push this this is

a stress test to see how far the law will go how long how much people will tolerate and are going to go as far as they can because drunk with power like in gorged that is filled with blood just can't get enough of this so where it ends who knows i'm just and next question for you if companies like twitter facebook and imus and can do this to their own president could they do it anywhere in the world to any government they don't like. oh certainly so. they that the largest problems within these companies is that there really is no actual basis for which they are operating there is no bible there is no constitution there is no their terms of service are often edited and malleable and even then subject vague enough to be subject to the whims of internal discussions within the company to eat those of silicon valley where i am based here in oakland california at least the

bay area the san francisco bay area is move fast and break things it is absolutely antithetical to the idea that they are going to have hard and fast rules that are understandable by their users and so we can all say ok well this line is crossed and in the absence of that that means that everything is possible up to and including banning leaders throughout the world and here in america. i question if a higher place less said try to look on the bright side could something good to come out of this could we say alternatives to twitter facebook and google popularity perhaps. absolutely the risk going to be a lot of good coming out of this 1st we conceded the that is the those just the internet giants of being is exposed for the actually are being exposed for war they're really after interesting this is this is this is.

a mission statement to give everyone the power to create and share ideas and information instantly without barriers now people used to believe this people used to believe that that twitter's goal was to serve absolutely everyone to give everyone an opportunity and it to to let people express themself without barriers does anyone believe that anymore i don't think so so this is one good thing it is always better to know then not to know the next a good thing that will happen i think is that we will see the internet evolving we are going to move to internet states for where there will be a different type of internet company different type of social media the reason there will be a different business model arising i'm not sure yet what it is but something will

change very dramatically because i just don't see how this situation can be sustainable for for much longer. and lionel and when social media platforms where created do you think the creative intended it to end like this with nothing bans and censorship. of course absolutely look one of these days we're going to find out that this this this fraudulent story about these kids these nerdy kids who came up with the idea there was so much involvement in not only private equity but in government sponsored equity in-q tel and others we have our own darpa going to find out that there were basically one could argue they're almost like silent partners of the government the idea that they just existed on their own independent and that goes for amazon and all these huge corporations and so right

now you have this device that they bring into my home that you can listen to and follow me and know everything about me does it if if george orwell were here now 984 this idea of people voluntarily steady in long queues to purchase their own share of valence information i mean machinery i mean this is a world nobody ever imagined this was ever intended to be good this is some kind of a scrap book that we keep this was one of the biggest cons that we fell into hook line and sinker just then a russian made messaging out telegram has seen a surge in popularity in recent days 5600000 downloads since wednesday and 5 lester's of people ditching won't stop which is owned by facebook in fact turkey is president obama's to store in telegram as well is that an encouraging sign your thank you. to be honest what saps the client has little to do with anything that

happened in the capital on wednesday but rather an announcement by facebook that they would begin injecting ads which is something that they promised from the acquisition of whatsapp that they would never do again without with all respect to to our my fellow panel made lionel about this being the greatest con in history this is the greatest sales job in history all of these platforms redefine the concept of advertising not only online but also in terms of display and television all of it is ravaged for the sake of facebook google and twitter. so yes rising social media is going to be a benefit the question that i have is are we now bifurcating the internet are we going to totally solve select from the point of adolescence or before or to be handed down by our parents to our children that we now only go on social networks and only interact with people and that are only hosted on servers that either are liberal or conservative or possibly even more extreme versions of that that to me

is a dystopian vision that i think is something that is closer today than i've ever known it my left eye line although we mentioned q and on which the poets done the interim twitter has suspended 70000 accounts of the movements follow is that do you think they pose any real threat does the internet pose of these on or long. well the idea is that if you are deemed to be a part of a conspiracy theory is that for some reason whatever reason given is verb boden that's it so whether it does or doesn't whether anybody understands it who i mean who knows the point is that how interesting leif immediate people will say oh ok we love to call people conspiracy theorists if you question 911 you're

a truth or if you had any questions about president obama where he was from your real birth or if you question anything you are an earth we take what ever you have that we don't like and we call it it is very easy that we don't forget the words of gore of a dollar he said i'm not a conspiracy theorist i'm a conspiracy analyst so that is just a buzz word that just people will start nodding is a ok sure it must be bad but conspiracy theories are basically ideas that somebody doesn't like or understand a final question fayad plays that i clearly that has to be some kind of moderation and no one is suggesting terror propaganda or piece of images should be allowed on the internet and on social media but who decides where the line should be drawn well this is a difficult one for me in particular because i've been advocating for many many years for for some formal form of internet policing often with the ration but really are going to be off of the little man and woman who have been victimized by

by by internet polls and the interesting thing again he's that is that this is the u.k. select committee talking about twitter saying that the trigger was was affected responsible for inciting promoting their resume killing. people effectively not cooperating with governments induct respect and treat the reply back then was well you know. it we are here to to provide the problem we don't you to moderate that the question who should be moderating perhaps the series this should be a form of duration but it needs to be transparent so internet companies say social media companies will need to be transparent they might need to have people who are independent neutral sitting on the boards sitting on those committees they decide what is acceptable what is not acceptable is amended boom a requirement but the state of affairs at the moment that we don't know who makes

those were the regimes that will make the decisions even though going to be certainly acceptable the alternative of course is must've government intervention which i think we are seeing european leaders becoming extremely uncomfortable. the current state of affairs they don't like it the true minds them dark days in day 19 thirties 19 forty's where very few had far too much control over information and without control they were able to influence the hearts and minds of the good people otherwise and the rest of course as they say is history. thank you very much to all of you for joining us on r.t. international this evening we've been speaking to justin rather young host of the politics politics politics point cost an internet lawyer expect and line a legal and media analyst. thank you. and thank you for joining us here on out

international with back to the topic. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be an arms race is on all fronts very dramatic development only mostly i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. franklin kind of one of the architects of america and he told us how it was going to ask when you can vote for free money the republic is done and this is what just happened in the 20 electoral people voted to for free money and now it's officially

per ben franklin it's done it's.