a struggle on r.t. . r t s news review of the week russia approves clinical trials of the express version of its covert vaccine dubbed sputnik light to meet soaring global demand. grim footage from a german crumb of torreon highlights the extent of a resurgent pandemic in europe meantime as berlet is accused of stockpiling vaccines at the expense of other e.u. members. and the u.s. house of representatives voted to impeach president trump for a 2nd time after an impassioned debate while many of the floor can't wait to see the back of him others say it's more about revenge than just.

hello there just in midday sunday here in moscow welcome to the weekly with me kevin now in our roundup of the big stories of the last 7 days as reported by us to you great to have you company. russia signed off in the week on testing a simplified version of it sputnik the covert and with national and global demand growing the new shot nick light pretext for a shorter time but only requires one dose instead of 2 it's efficacies thought to be around 85 percent compared to more than $91.00 for the full version meantime russia's original covert vaccine keeps gaining traction worldwide mexico is now looking to buy tens of millions of doses and the president of guinea alpha condé it's become the 1st african leader to get the job. of 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 out 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 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 this is

a 1st world problem that they have it has to be stored so cold so we're straight in the ticking of us wells in america but for the continent of africa this is not even start you know even a place to start sputnik that scene is easier to just store it with maybe less you know sophisticated storage material for another way of getting it out to the population for the globe that is more excessive all is is very important palestine denied the vaccine by israel has become the 1st in the middle east to greenlight sputnik the main thrust of the uniqueness of this would be worse in that it's using a genius. it's a lot the sin and universe has been used in both those as it is different in order to reduce the immune response to. the other the reverse of the cause of that they believe because it is a good chance to know that the lesbo different is in the next in india the russian

shot has just passed phase 2 trials without a hitch with only phase 3 to go well ready deals have been signed to produce 300000000 do this 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 v. vaccine in india all in all few nations are putting all their money on anyone who saw that see 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. on top of the news in the way that europe suffering a new surge in covert cases with france germany and spain registering some of the highest daily rates footage of merge from one of germany's worst affected regions highlighting just how bad the situation has become a small snapshot but to see some 300 bodies piling up in a queue for

a criminal room in saxony a coffin stacked one on top of the other at this quiet moment often simply only labelled with the words like ovid and infectious risk. it comes as the european union struggles to maintain unity over covert vaccine purchases that made headlines brussels is urging member states to keep to the block centralized distribution scheme but not all seem to be holding to the agreement as our europe correspondent found out. the european union's water for all and all for one vaccine plan is corp against the problem of members self interest when it comes to obtaining the jobs germany has snapped up an extra 30000000 doses of the pfizer and maternal vaccines being criticized by its partners for doing so it is selfish behavior to buy medicine by yourself disrespecting common decisions is another example of the

german policy of respecting their own interests above the interests of other e.u. countries berlin insists it is playing by the rules and that those extra doses weren't be sent out until the vaccine has been dispatched across the rest of the european union germany says the real problem lies with problems when it comes to production would see it that we have ordered enough vaccines and the question is how can they be produced how fast they can be produced and if we would have ordered more it would. not have been possible to produce it quicker the shortage is due to the lack of production capacity it isn't just germany that's being accused of looking out for itself cyprus is courting israel for vaccine delivery saying that the european union isn't forthcoming with the new doses to provide a mass switch to rollout the initial indications were very encouraging but at some point there was a setback in its effectiveness 2 companies came up with the vaccine 1st phase the

biotech can be done but the number of vaccines is not enough for rapid mass vaccination e.u. commission president has live on the line is telling member states to cut it out and to adhere to the plan that they all agreed on we have all agreed legally binding that there will be no parallel negotiations no parallel contracts so the framework we are all working in is a framework of $27.00 together we are negotiating together we are procuring and together we are bringing forward this vaccination process the e.u. commission aren't doing themselves any favors demanding transparency from member states when it comes to vaccine procurement when they aren't being all that clear on who will get what when b. you 27 agree that brussels would negotiate on their behalf the accusation is that that is being undermined by member states looking out for number one as we see

the the e.u. were very slow compared to other countries both in their regulation approvals both in their backs in asian campaigns and. again no surprise that there is unsaid disaffection we indeed have that across the across the whole front we have a very poor performance by the european union here but the central administration of the european union all they managed was to secure so we 100000000 doses for a. population of $450.00 so taking into account that you need 2 doses per person this was one 3rd of the population for which the vaccine was secured because of some budget constraints it is officially said so no wonder the e.u. population is not very happy with that performance in brussels. but despite all the

distribution problems the european commission president demanding covert sit if it could seriously to everyone who does manage to get a job. it is absolutely necessary if you have been vaccinated have a certificate this is a medical necessity a 2nd question is. and this is a political and a legal decision what you allow to do with this or to fix it cover passports being suggested by other states to poland vaccinated people will be sent q.r. codes to use public services without extra testing airlines want to latch onto the idea as well of course a survey indeed for australia's quanta shows 9 in 10 people said they got an ocular did if it meant they could travel again a lead time soon however more than half a year of talks around the world on from failed to get across the border deal then the head of the world travel and tourism council saying introducing covert passports could lead anyway to discrimination. they don't we weren't sure is totally against health passed bills ok and we believe that as well because that can

lead to discrimination all fortunately there maxine is not available everywhere learn a lot of developing countries that they still don't have access to the vaccine don't see that as the only solution nasdaq's nation should not be the only consideration currently we have a limited supply and we need to where it buys them all in the world we don't have to wait for a vaccine to travel while at the same time people can still travel as long as you have for instance if you're coming from on this to nation with cases of quality to and this nation with lower cases of course it will be helpful 2 percent and this is where we have a nasty in. a test made up before called the survey you're allowed to board a plane with a test in massive testing implemented before boarding or before flying. just before he leaves office donald trump became the 1st us president to be

impinged for a 2nd time on wednesday the house of representatives voted to indict. i'm claiming he fermented last week's riots at the capitol building but almost $200.00 congress members came out against the vote arguing it's no longer about justice they said more about revenge it's now up to the senate to decide whether or not to convict trump on charges of inciting incident action despite democratic party coals for see the trial won't happen before the president leaves office on wednesday but it decision against trump could ban him from ever taking office again we talked about that in the week with law expert charles rose who explained how it could determine his long term future. since he will have already concluded his term what conviction in the senate would do is open the door to an additional vote on a majority basis only determine whether or not he would be banned from. future public office and i think the odds are very hard to go would be successful if the

larger her go is 1st accomplished an actual convergence in the state prosecutions if they make it to trial there's absolutely no gore he can't be pardoned for it at the federal and if the state of new york for exits were to decide that they were going to proceed forward with indictment in trial he would get his day in court just like any of the defendant so as congress prepared to debate him page meant these pictures went viral hundreds of national guard troops sleeping on the floor in the capitol building with many online noting for a bit in the seat of government look more like a military base that was stationed there around the clock following last week's riots which had prompted those impeachment proceedings the president says those involved will be punished i'm probably just a peaceful transition to. there is never a justification for violence those who engaged in the attacks last week will be

brought to justice in washington d.c. we are bringing in thousands of national guard members to secure this city and ensure that a transition can occur safely and without incident the efforts to said sir cancel and blacklist our fellow citizens are wrong and they are dangerous with noting to trump also heard an unusually quiet week own line having been cut off by the major social networks he's been permanently barred by twitter and snap shot but his facebook and instagram accounts did get up and running again by friday in the week nicaea and spoke to legal internet and politics experts about whether or not these platforms themselves become just a bit too powerful. 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 of 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 now 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 eighty's over the years that they are now controlling pretty much the entire communications system all over the wall but it will be a matter of time before since she pulled the move on to other part of the mcready bardi companies like twitter facebook anonymous and can do this to their own president and they do it anywhere in the well 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 this it means that we have to rewrite the 1st amendment in this country because this is a quote private company that 99 percent 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 now the question who should be more the rating perhaps the summary of this should be a form of duration but it needs to be transparent so the state of affairs at the moment they don't know who makes those were the rationed do you think the creative intended to end like this with a massive bans and censorship. of course absolutely look there was so much involvement in not only private equity but in government sponsored this was never intended to be good those dean going to the giants of being gets exposed fall they

actually are this is a mission statement to give everyone the power to create and share ideas and the information age the glee without barriers now people used to believe this does anyone believe that anymore i don't think so 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 they're only hosted on servers that either are liberal or conservative or possibly even more extreme versions of that that to me is a vision that i think is something that is closer today than i've ever known it my laptop. thanks for watching our channel this sunday hope you can stick around while we're talking about big tech and i would all fits into our everyday lives huge numbers were reported to be ditching

a top messaging upbeat news in the wake of an anti previously moves are on to that after this break. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics or business i'm show business i'll see you then.

hello there from moscow now it's been called the largest digital migration in history millions of users are abandoning whatsapp over new terms to share data with parent company facebook for public backlash the platform did delay the move till may but it's already tarnished what saps reputation and even global leaders a switching to previously centric rivals such as telegram look at that big story

than to me to poke. moving to greener pastures has been one of the key drivers of humanity's survival but if in the past people fled from war dictators and natural disasters today we're witnessing a very 21st century style of mass migration the already massive influx of new users to telegram has only accelerated we may be witnessing the largest digital migration in human history millions have recently chosen to ditch the old new media as messengers and move to even newer ones like telegram or signal and there are 2 big bug bears behind the exodus privacy is the big one triggers to recent purge of donald trump and his supporters has laid bare the capacity of the internet's gatekeepers to silence anyone they deem to be dangerous that's got other world leaders spooked a suspect the chancellor considers it problematic as the accounts of the us president have now been permanently blocked i don't like anybody being sense that

it's taking away the right to post a message on twitter facebook i don't agree with that i don't accept that 10 world leaders including the presidents of turkey and brazil have already made the switch to telegram much to the appreciation of the firm's founder we are honored that political leaders as well as numerous public organizations rely on telegram to combat misinformation and spread awareness about important issues in their societies unlike other networks telegram doesn't use opaque algorithms to decide whether a subscriber will see content they subscribe to or not as a result telegram channels are the only direct way for opinion leaders to reliably connect with their audiences the internet has represented freedom since its inception it's supposed to be a place where you can read what you want say what you want but arbitrary censorship and the big platforms we know what you want better than you do approach is the last straw for many not that tech titans are prepared to lose business of the

competitors the clear and the alternative is nothing short of a. a threat to society before stamping them out we have always supported diverse points of view being represented on the apps too but there is no place in our platform for threats of violence and illegal activity we cannot provide services to a customer that is unable to effectively identify and remove content that encourages our incites violence against others parlor one of the biggest alternative social networks was wiped off line in a matter of days following the capitol riots and now even telegram is facing accusations of being a haven for conspiracy theorists and far right extremists and that's despite the fact that the company recently removed dozens of groups containing calls to violence but while big to take out competitors might occasionally yield success it doesn't change the fact that social media space is evolving and fast and for many free speech will be the deciding factor in choosing a platform seems to increase envoy to the czech republic who is one of those

switching to one of many politicians moving over to messaging up telegraph he told his people in his view had become wary of the traditional joy. i think in the long run facebook what's up so that are controlled by the same corporate decision makers have to revise their rules because they have in a way to scare people we know that there are already a lot of the. cases against them for misusing information and there are a lot of court cases but now they're making it public so in no way the secret is now coming out that the information is in use and they are actually getting your consent for it and and they have double standards if you are a what's yours are in germany you have a different conditions but if you are in russia or if you're in turkey if you're an azerbaijan if your income is that you are entitled to different rules this is not

fair we now live in a global village and these kind of forms connect all of us so technology should not be discriminative technology and communication should be embracing everyone and i think these policies are going to make people feel that they have been isolated and they have been discriminated against. this made the cupboards rows of empty shelves at supermarkets in northern ireland exposing more critics called it a botched divorce between britain and europe neurosurgeon's were slapped on goods shipped from mainland u.k. to northern ireland after britain totally cut the cord with the e this month problem is northern ireland remains part of brussels single market hence the logistics headache still then head to the big supermarket chains are calling on the government to sort out the red tape. we recognise the european commission needs to see increased compliance to support the concessions granted

through the northern ireland protocol but the current proposals increased bureaucracy and certification in such a short timescale are unworkable however maybe no big surprise to hear that the prime minister was questioned in parliament over the supply issues but rather chose to play down the problems but the moment goods are flowing if the normal volumes between our great britain and northern ireland so crime move lorries have been tone . which probably won't pacify those scottish fishing companies who are furious as well their warning their products are going to waste because of e.u. delivery hold ups bosses or even threaten to dump their rotting seafood outside parliament later this week if they can't get their produce to market in the next few days for breaks at party m.e.p. bill etheridge told us in his view britain's government should be ashamed of itself . this should never have got to this point it's absolutely irresponsible and ridiculous that the british government led to this point years ago we should have had the discussion with the do you want to do trade with us and keep out of our

business if the answer was no we should've left or will try to organization terms with a transition period which was built into what had been agreed that could've made all of this absolutely not no chance of happening instead of that they drove it for the last minute and boris johnson gave grabs the because he was terrified of go it alone and he has let the country there a bit without enough delays the rig the very reason we're in this position as i said earlier was that would be delayed for too long this neatly into problems this is people who are trying to deny the will of the people is delayed this to the point where this is now happening they are responsible and the government has a responsibility to sort itself out they created this mess not the people who voted bret's it the government is responsible to deliver the soul today. i'll leave you without thought for now that's the way as some of the big stories in the shake up over the last 7 days as reported by r.t. international here in moscow to you thanks for watching this program my name's

kevin owen for me and the rest of the team here enjoy the rest of the weekend.

nuclear become a battleground in the us in vermont. yankee is right now my focus because it's a very dangerous oh no claire power plant the owner is attempting to run the reactor beyond its operational limit this just sort of puts a magnifying glass where's the power in this country where's it going is it moving more towards corporate interests or is it more in the idea of a traditional the just a. power lie with the people this case demonstrates that struggle in the very real ways our struggle. the war in syria has lost in longer than world war 2 what is happening in this country i think that syria fall victim to horrific experiment when the discontent

of some people and religious tensions in the country were exploited by external players these outside forces try to overthrow their regime and use the international terrorism phenomenon in to advance their agenda human rights of syrian people were sacrificed for the sake of someone's ambitions. for an contraries involved in the syrian war exerted influence and pursued their conflicting goals seeking their own political economic or military interests. but who has been suffering the most in this almost a decade long conflict regular syrian people. they are the ones paying the highest price in this endless war the prize is their lives and the lives of their loved ones. their country is destroyed and bleeding. i'm a journalist from kazakhstan i have been following the tragic events in syria from

the very beginning. i have also been covering just on a process an international initiative aimed at settling the syrian crisis to toxic place in my country's capital. a while ago i got a facebook message from the land out. lives in aleppo. she invited me to visit their city so i could see everything with my own eyes and hear the stories of its residents. one group in particular russian wives of syrian man. us. school or. us. who. are. learning. us.

all. the. long ready. long. i got in a plane as soon as i could.