developing only loosely and going to exist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down. in the stories that shape the week here in r.t. rusher approves clinical trials of the next breast version of its covert vaccine sputnik lighted aims to make storing global. slow to come footage from a german claim that highlights the extent of resurgent and then europe civilian 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 but while many on the floor can't quite see the back of him others do say it's more about revenge than just.

follow the latest developments in a look back at what's been happening over the last 7 days to you watching the weekly here on r.t. international now russia has become testing a simplified version of the. vaccine with national and global demand growing the new shot up sputnik light pretext for a shorter time but only requires one dose instead of 2 its efficacy is thought to be around 85 percent compared to more than 91 percent for the full version meanwhile russia's original code vaccine keeps gaining traction worldwide mexico is now looking to buy tens of millions of doses and the president of guinea has become the 1st african leader to get the job but it has more. 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 bolivia 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 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 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 where excess of all is is very important palestine the nih the vaccine by israel has become the 1st in the middle east to greenlight sputnik the main thrust of the uniqueness of the worse in that it's using a genius. it's a lot the sim and universe has been used in both those as it is different in order to reduce the immune response to the other the. because of that they believe because it is a good chance to know that 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 well ready deals have been signed to produce 300000000 deuces 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. meanwhile europe is suffering a new surge in cobi cases with france germany and spain registering some of the highest daily rates this week in fact footage emerge from one of germany's worst affected regions highlighting just how bad the situation has become some 300 bodies piling up here in a key for a predatory in in saxony coffin stacked one on top of the other are often simply

labeled with the words and infectious risk it does come as the european union struggles to maintain unity over vaccine purchases brussels is a member states to keep the bloc centralised distributions but not all of them seem to be sticking to the agreement with more now here's our europe correspondent peter oliver. the european union's warning for all and all for one vaccine plan as corp against the problem of members self interest when it comes to obtaining the jobs germany has snapped up an extra $30000000.00 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

won't be sent out until the vaccine is being dispatched across the rest of the european union germany says the real problem lies with problems when it comes to production. 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 north 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 of biotech and madonna 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 and we are negotiating together we are procuring and together we are bringing forward this vaccination process the 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 the 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 there are a vaccination campaigns and. again no surprise that there is unsaid disaffection we indeed have of 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 the $100000000.00 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 constrains that it is or fishley said so no wonder the e.u. population is not very happy with that performance 'd in brussels. well despite the problems of distribution the european commission president is demanding that to think it's an eye given to everybody who receives the jap it is absolutely

necessary if you have been vaccinated to 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 fit. well coded passports are being suggested by other states to do in poland for example vaccinated people will be sent queue are coached to use public services without extra testing and airlines are also latching on to the idea a survey for australia's quantas to show that 9 in 10 people would get inoculated if it meant they could travel again however more than half your tools around the world have failed to get across borders deal with the head of the world travel and tourism council says introducing hate passports could lead to discrimination. and they don't we are it sure is totally against health passports ok and we believe that as well because that can lead to discrimination all fortunately the vaccine is

not available everywhere learn a lot of the violence in countries that they still don't have access to the vaccine i don't see the us as the only solution mare's vaccination should not be the only consideration currently we have a limited supply and we need to where it buys them all the world we don't have to wait for a vaccine to travel while at the same time people kind of still travel as long as you have for instance if you're coming from on this to nation with high cases of quality to ernest's nation with lower cases of course it will be helpful 2 percent and this is what we have been nasty in. a test made up before call the survey you're allowed to board a plane with a test in massive testing implemented before boarding or before flying. now just days before he leaves office strong trump became the 1st us president to be impeached for a 2nd time on wednesday that has representatives voted to indict him claiming he

fermented last week's riots at the capitol building but almost $200.00 congress congress members came out against the vote arguing it's no longer about justice but more about revenge well it's now up to this. senate to decide whether or not sit convict trump on charges of inciting insurrection and despite democratic party calls for urgency the trial won't happen before the president leaves office so when's that however it could eventually see trump banned from ever taking office again. nor experts explains 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 it would be successful if the larger hurdle is 1st accomplished of an actual convergence in the state

prosecutions if they make it to trial there's absolutely no gore he can be pardoned for it at the federal level and if the state of new york for a search were to decide that they were going to proceed forward with indictment in trial he would get his day in court just like you know the defendant was congress prepared to debate and paint these pictures went viral hard to understand national guard troops sleeping on the floor in the capitol building with many online 1000 the same to government more like a military base they were stationed there around the clock following last week's riots which had prompted the impeachment proceedings the president says those involved will be punished and promised a peaceful transition. 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 the 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. trump also had a rare quiet week online mainly because he was cut off by the major social media networks he has been permanently banned by twitter and snap chat well though his facebook and instagram account seemed to be back online on friday we care and spoke to legal internet and politics experts about whether or not the platforms themselves have become 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 censorship pull be move on to other part of our problem that will credit 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 to 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 saudis 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 they created the 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 to those deemed in a giants of being exposed for all the actually are this is

a mission statement to give everyone the power to create and share ideas and information into 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 dystopian vision that i think is something that is closer today than i've ever known it my laptop well still to come on the way through each numbers on 9 to surfacing messaging apps like whatsapp i have a new concerns i have the previous 8 but have

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led. what is true what is. in the world corrupted you need to descend. to join us in the depths. for a made in the shallows. welcome back to the weekly now it is being called the largest digital migration in history millions of users are abandoning whatsapp over new terms to share data with parent company facebook although after a public backlash the power form said it would delay the move until may but it's already damaged whatsapp reputation and even global leaders are switching to privacy centric rivals such as telegram looking at the trend is to make cheap power . 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. the chancellor considers it problematic that the accounts of the us presidents have now been permanently blocked i don't like anybody being censored 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 circ 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 to 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 to 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 texts and 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. turkey's envoy to the czech republic is one of many politicians currently switching to the telegram he told us that people have become wary of the

traditional tech giants i think in the long run facebook what's out there. by the same corporate this isn't makers have to revise the rules because they have . in a way to scare people we know that there are already a lot of the nation cases against them for misusing information and there were a lot of court cases but now they're making it public so in a way the secret is now coming out that the information is in you and they are actually getting your consent for it and and they have double standards if you are a what's yours or in germany you have a different conditions but if you are in russia or if you're in turkey if you're in azerbaijan if you are incorrect 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. now rows of empty shelves at supermarkets in northern ireland are exposing what critics call a botched divorce between britain and europe the restrictions were slapped on good ship from mainland u.k. to northern ireland after britain totally cut the cord with e. this month or the night in remains part of europe single market day and the logistical headache example markets and i'm calling on the government to sort out the red tape. we recognize 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 when questioned in parliament about the supply issues the prime minister played it dan. but the moment goods are flowing. normally volumes between great britain and northern ireland surprise move lorries have been turned back. but also angry at the moment a scottish fishing company's they warn that their products to go into waste you tube delivery holder some bosses are even threatening to dump their rotting seafood outside parliament if they can't get their produce to market in the coming days former breaks it 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 let's get to this point years ago we should have had the discussion with the do you want to do try it with us and keep out of our business if the answer was no we should've left or we'll 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 ground to the because he was terrified of golo and he has let the country down a bit without enough to lease the rig the very reason we're in this position as i said earlier was that would be delayed 6 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 happens they are responsible and the government has a responsibility to sort itself out they created this mess not the people who voted bragg's it the government is responsible the government was sore today has. been watching weekly here not international thank you company to sunday afternoon we're back again at the top of the at.

so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confront cation let it be an arms race is on offense very dramatic development only and going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time time to sit down and talk. nuclear power plants or become a battleground in the us government people are demanding. from my yankee is right now my focus because it's a very dangerous oh no clare power plant the owner is attempting to run the reactor beyond its operational limits this case just sort of puts a magnifying glass on 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 participatory democracy is your power lie with the people this demonstrates that struggle in the very real way. off. and on welcome to the part of the some stables implore us to be cattle what the

fish for less that come up to 4 years of the insufferable. democrats in the united states triumphantly returning to power and not only to the presidency but also to your congressman is that a reason for celebration of all pressure apps and let's discuss that i'm now joined by. an international professor at the state university of new york and author all content revolution will rise of the far right professor bell it's good to talk to you thank you very much for your time and thank you for inviting me i'm not your joining us from the philippines but i'm pretty sure you know what you defense and the. united states quite closely it's a very very complicated picture and we'll try to adapt some of that for starters let me ask you about your main filling your predominant attitude as you look to where the inauguration off joe biden and if you days is it's one of hope.

well actually if i may just. give you my sense. a realistic sense of what's going to happen. i think by then it's going to be facing a very difficult for years. and. i think the united states is entering an era that will be full of social conflict in which you will not only have elections but you might have many of those elections by disputes under street as i said in an article that i just did and was widely circulated in the united states the u.s. is entering what i think will be the era in other words an era very much similar to the weimar republic in germany in the 19th twenties who are

you had conflicts electoral conflicts mixed with. street battles from the sermon who come out on top absolutely and professor people discuss that article in a great i detail i recommend hour of yours to check it out it's a very thought provoking read but bringing you a little bit back to your own political persuasions i am pretty sure that you are not a supporter of donald trump i think it's it comes out pretty clear in your interviews but would it be fair to say that the democrats brand of politics is a little bit closer to your heart despite their recognition and i think you're articulate if very clearly in your book that it was the alliance of the democratic party the neo liberal globalist corporate forces that ultimately created the conditions on the ground conditions for the rise of trump and trump that is.