i get you that. from the stories that shape the way here in r.t. russia approves clinical trials of an express version of its coded vaccine lighted aims to meet rising global demand while green will feed from a german crematorium highlights the extent of the resurgent pandemic in europe its berlin is accused of stockpiling vaccines and expense of other e.u. members and the u.s. house of representatives impeaching president trump for a 2nd time while many on the full back of him others do say it's more about an injustice.

so i welcome the latest news and look back at what's been happening to you over the last 7 days you're watching weekly here on r.t. international that russia has started testing a simplified version of its vaccine with national and global demand growing a new short known as sputnik light pretext for a shorter time but only requires one dose instead of to its efficacy is thought to be around 85 percent compared to more than 91 percent for the full version meanwhile russia is original code vaccine keeps gaining traction globally 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 jab 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 believe the other countries and move buys a line 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 a meter that already had 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 easy 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 it's very important palestine the night 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 does this 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 reverse of the cause of the 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 k. with cases with french germany and spain registering some of the highest daily rates this week in fact video has emerged from one of germany's worst affected regions highlighting just how bad the situation has become some 300 bodies piling up here in a queue for a christmas story i'm in saxony the coffin stacked one on top of the other are

often simply labeled with the words coded and infectious risk. well it does come as the european union struggles to maintain unity over vaccine purchases brussels is a member states to keep the bloc centralised distribution skein but not all of them seem to be sticking to the green mint with more here's our europe correspondent peter all of them. the european union's one 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 $30000000.00 doses of the pfizer 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 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 buying to commit 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 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 bowls

and there are a vaccination campaigns and. again no surprise that there is unsaid disaffection we we indeed have a across the across the whole front we have a very poor performance by the european union a year by the central administration of the european union and all they managed was to secure so $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 constraints it is officially said so no wonder that the e.u. population is not very happy with that performance in brussels or despite the problems then of distribution the european commission president is demanding that covert certificates are 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 certificate. passports are being suggested by the states too for example in poland vaccinated people will be sent q.r. codes to use public services without extra testing and airlines are also latching on to this idea a survey for australia's quantas does show that 9 in 10 people would get inoculated if it meant that they could travel again however more than half a year of talks around the world have failed to get across the border deal meanwhile the head of the world travel and tourism council to say to that introducing the passports could actually lead to discrimination. and the dog we were it sure is totally against health passports ok and we believe that as well because that can lead to discrimination all fortunately the magazine 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 that as the only solution mare's vaccination should not be the only consideration currently we have a limited supply and we need to where are those the more liberal groups we don't have to wait for a rock scene to travel while at the same time people going to still travel as long as gee how 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 we will be helpful 2 percent and this is what we have now asking. a test negative for 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 leaving office donald trump became the 1st us president to be impeached for a 2nd time on wednesday the house of representatives voted to indict him claiming that he fermented last week's riots at the capitol building but almost $200.00

congress members actually came out against the vote arguing it's no longer about justice but more about revenge but it's now up to the senate to decide whether or not to convict the president. on charges of inciting in and despite democratic party calls for urgency the trial when it happened before trump plain selfish when state however it could eventually see him banned from ever holding public office again your expert child rose 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 high that the goal 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't be pardoned for it at the federal level 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 you know the defendant what is congress prepared to debate in pain these pictures went viral hundreds of national guard troops sleeping on the floor in the capitol building with many online nights in the same to government not looks more like a military base they are stationed that around the clock at the moment following last week's riots which had prompted the impeachment proceedings the president says that those involved will be punished and promised a peaceful transition there 'd 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 occurs safely and without incident the efforts to said sir cancel and blacklist our fellow citizens are wrong and they are dangerous or trump that also had a rare quiet week online mainly because he was cut off by the major social networks he has been permanently banned by twitter and snap chat with his facebook and instagram accounts did seem to be back online on friday mccarran spoke to legal internet and politics experts about whether or not these 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 even to go as far as they can because drunk with power 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 by

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 it is all the years that they have 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 parts 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 thirty's this should be a form of duration but it needs to be transparent so this state of affairs at the moment they don't know who makes those were the rationed do you think of a 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 giants of being gets exposed fall they actually are this is a mission statement to give everyone the power to create thing 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 do 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 is something that is closer today than i've ever known it my laptop still to come for you on the way 3200 nesting apps like whatsapp i have the concerns i have with privacy but have a look at that emoji time in a couple of minutes. so

what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation let it be an arms race off and spearing 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. the world is driven by dreamers shaped by those.

who dares thinks. we dare to ask. welcome back to the weekly how it is being called the largest digital migration in history millions of users are abandoning what's up at the moment over new terms to share data with parent company facebook for a public backlash the company did say it would delay the move until my but its reputation has already been damaged and even global leaders is switching to previously centric rivals such as telegram looking at the trend his to meet free 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 a 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 but the chancellor considers it problematic that the accounts of the us president 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 of the competitors the clear and the alternatives nothing short of a. a threat to society before stamping them out we have always supported diverse

points of view being represented on the eps 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 capital 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 or turkey's envoy to the czech republic is one of many politicians switching to telegram and he told us that people have become wary of the e.u. to krishna or tech giants i think in the long run facebook what's out there are

controlled by the same corporate this isn't makers have to revise the rules because they have. in a way scared people 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 use and they are actually getting your consent for it and and they have double standards if you are what yours are 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. the rows of empty shelves at supermarkets in northern ireland are exposing what critics call a botched divorce between britain and europe your strictures were slapped on goods shipped from mainland u.k. to northern ireland after britain totally cut the cord with this month northern ireland does remain part of europe single market hence the it just tickle headache and big supermarket chains are now calling on the government to sort out the red tag. we recognize the european commission nice to see increased compliance to support the concessions to grant or through the northern ireland protocol but the current proposals in greece bureaucracy and certification in such a short timescale are unworkable however when questioned in parliament about the supply issues the prime minister played it down. but the moment goods are flowing

effectively and normal volumes between great britain and northern ireland so far no lorries have been turned back. also angry are scottish fishing companies they warn their products are going to waste you to the delivery hold ups bosses are even threatening to to dump their rotting seafood outside parliament if they can't get their produce to market in the coming days for my breakfast party any people etheridge told us that 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 a discussion with the do you want to do trade with us and keep out of our business if the answer was no look let's talk world trade 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 to

the last minute and boris johnson gave ground to the new because it was terrified of go it alone and feels like we're going to get out of it without enough the low use of the rig the very reason we're in this position as i said earlier was that we've been delayed for too long this neatly into apartments this is people who are trying to deny the will of the people who delayed this to the point where this is now happens they are responsible and the government has a responsibility to sort it so they created this mess not the people who voted bread's it the government is responsible the government for sorted it was. ok let's have a quick look then at some other world this weekend a cloud of smoke here over a commune in central chile it is from a forest fire which broke out on friday and is reportedly can change over 3000 hectares some 25000 residents to have been asked to leave their homes suspect that the fire was started deliberately and an investigation is underway. now that

we're not the only one struggling to shift a bit of weight put on over the holidays so too has this african lizard at a russians just let now keep is a trying to sneak in some exercise at feeding time a few laps around his enclosure here to help support the reptile shed more and skid . and finally a refreshing take on what computers serve a good main these high tech in hong kong are programmed to prepare the perfect cup of tea yeah extra benefit meaning it's entirely conflict lists in the socially distancing times no word yet on how much they should get in tips. i think i have to learn how to smile 1st that's how the news is looking so far today we're back again at the top.

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