i would affect a good day but i decided not to take this one. i gave you this. in the headlines this hour russia expands its vaccination program with the ambitious goal of vaccinating over half the country's population by the end of the year. a 2nd batch of spotting the arrives in argentina that as demand for the russian vaccine against kobe soars across latin america. also this hour hawks circle over the white house as president like joe biden cracks his state department with obama care about her. watching arts international coming to you live from the russian capital this and

every hour welcome to the program. russia is expanding its massive vaccination program the aim is to get 60 percent of the population inoculated this year arches constantine reports from a central moscow vaccination center. the vaccination out here has been and as you can see there are young people are lining up to get inoculated i think there are at least 50 dozens of people who are waiting in the line right now and we're going to go inside and i'm going to give you what they were but before it let me just quickly know this is probably the nicest place in moscow right now to get inoculated and you know after all this is russia's iconic and most famous department store with a gorgeous architecture and decoration for this. reception for. the reception desk that's where you show your id this is essentially all you need to get not get in here and that goes for every russian citizen he signs to get

enough credit for that he should follow that. right there. on the top secret how are you doing a now the vaccination is free of charge and that goes for every russian citizen who have decided to take a job all you need is to show your id and name your field of war according to russia's top health care officials the main goal right now is to achieve herd immunity before the next fall certainly it would love to have everyone get the shot and thus have no problem so far we have not been able to me nice people on such a scale from any type of infection but the fact that we will be able to get 60 percent of the overall population in ocular in just the 1st year is a big achievement. so in addition to over $800.00 hospitals in moscow where you can get a job in a more traditional setting there are now vaccination outposts at really popular and trendy places mostly inside shopping malls but also in an exhibition center and

even in the theater there are 2 that seats that are now available in the country 1st one spot and then there was another one at the vaccarella now both developed by russian scientists mass vaccinations started in russia last december and accord. to those in charge of rolling out the job stair or over 80000000 people here who has been ready to vaccinated. health care workers at essential workers for the 1st got vaccinated because russia's health care minister is that other countries wanted to run poppy vaccine distributing in other regions why now there are $2000000.00 doses of spotnitz be by the end of the month. now russia is not just trying to meet demand for its vaccine at home global demand for its public the job has soared look at who's ordering plater in the program. in the

u.k. a senior minister has sparked outrage by hinting that brits may have to wait longer than 3 months for their 2nd coated job the previously promised 12 week maximum weight as already criticized as too long some people want be a bit concerned saying you know you ought to be. getting the 2nd weeks can you guarantee that on 5 years for example you will be able to get a 2nd well we absolutely are in fact we should be able to deliver it and i think we can be considered does the government's know something that w.h.o. f.d.a. and pfizer don't see risler willing to concede to gambling with the nation's health by playing fast and loose with covert vaccines this is dangerous 2nd shot as critical and 12 weeks already stretching it not sure what to make of this let's hope this is a red under promising rather than a real risk. the different vaccines have been tested with different times were 2 in the 1st and 2nd doses ranging from 3 to up to 3 months the government originally

planned to stick to the shorter timeframe but now says it's ok to delay for the full 12 weeks in order to get a 1st dose to more people and that decision it was met with widespread criticism and from the public and from medical professionals as well a british doctor's campaign group has appealed to the health secretary to at least make exceptions for the pfizer vaccine which recommends the shortest gap between jobs and the statements the drug firm pointed out that there is no data to say the 1st dose gives protection beyond 21 day is british communicable diseases expert dr kenya says the 2nd job can't be held up indefinitely the 2nd dose is crucial in boosting the immune levels so if you are so optimally immunized and then you never get that boost that immunity will eventually start to frayed and you become one rable to infection we have to immunize as many as possible as fast as possible and i accept giving the one vaccine prevents severe illness in more people by

using up the 2 doses to give to double the number of people accept that but if we then fail to boost their immunity is in a given time span then we may be losing the protective effect of the 1st vaccine that we gave if that is the case it's very unfortunate therefore the 2nd vaccine ought to be given within a good time frame not an indefinite time interval. and then a shocking revelation doctors in the u.k. are reportedly being told to throw away leftover coronavirus vaccines similar incidents have been reported across the atlantic as well to shoppers in the united states were fortunate enough to receive a coven 1000 shot on the spot they were offered the vaccine by an in-store pharmacists who was looking for any takers after 2 health care workers missed their appointments but not everyone is so lucky one health specialist share the story of a doctor who could not give left over doses to patients or technicians due to

hospital policy by the time he received approval that if this had been thrown away . again commented on the issue i think there is a lot of inertia in people rising above regulations sometimes regulations that are written out need to be challenged it is a shame to waste 2 axioms if you have got them spread out you should develop what you would call forward planning and have a register of people that you can call at short notice and immunize them don't waste any because this is an important valuable medicine to protect people so you if you do forward planning and you find the people who can be on a reserve list and they can be called very quickly and they can attend as soon as possible within a couple of hours and you must do that planning to immunize the people with the spare vaccine. in america a video of a woman suffering convulsions after receiving

a coronavirus vaccine has fanned the safety fears and warning us some viewers may find the following images upsetting our brand graner's mother received the pfizer vaccine in louisiana at the beginning of january and according to her son she hadn't experienced any health issues before getting in the shot trying to describe his mother's condition and an exclusive interview with our team she said the day afterwards she woke up with a headache and she's had a headache every day since until today today's the 1st day she hasn't had a date but she started noticing. seizure like movements in early your left leg 1st it was 3 days afterwards and she was admitted to the hospital before days with she had no control over her legs when she was trying to walk the doctors said they think it's. the medals and the vaccine. is causing her to have the neurological

reaction has or has not confirmed the case and said it was investigating however it's not the 1st time concerns have been raised over the safety of the shot norway is currently investigating the deaths of dozens of elderly people who had recently received the vaccine or onerous as the response he received to his video suggests his mom's case isn't a one off i've heard of other cases since i shared a video on facebook. thousands and thousands of people message me comment and average myself personally i haven't read all the messages but i read hundreds of them myself personally if people tell me their stories their daughters or sons their mothers or you know all member members their family have had breakfast other vaccines our plot of some of them you know had a lot of messages that are negative say and this is your mom or you know you're lying or whatever negative comments you know it's it's not really something that i'm trying to entertain too much i don't know why people wouldn't trust that they

want to code vaccine to take away codes things and get back to normal. still had on the program that russian opposition figure had an extent of ali has been detained after returning to moscow falling on the supply lines and germany had been recovering from the alleged poisoning attack i'll bring you that story and more after this break. world is driven by a dream shaped by one person with those great. dares

thinks. we dare to ask. it seems inevitable the new security regulations fast into law in the wake of the events on capitol hill the original day parade was made to legitimize the so-called war on terror with the patriot act to play no focus on domestic terror and how will the u.s. and change the e.u. once chosen. welcome back argentina has received a 2nd batch of these sputnik the vaccine comes as more countries across latin america have been opting for the russian anti coded jab artist and

a hawkins has more. whatever the science behind the covert vaccines other factors are at play politics being a key one it's no surprise that vaccine approval and distribution has been like a parliament divided along party lines countries are mostly sticking to their own before selling all of their neighbors north america and europe have made their own pitch while competing vaccines have been subjected to increased the skepticism scrutiny and smears so it may come for some was a surprise that much of latin america is leaning towards the russian option being the latest to sign up reduced ration of sputnik vaccine in paraguay proved the increasing interest of latin american countries in a safe and effective russian vaccine against corona virus we expect the more countries in the region will also approve it soon and ready to create new partnerships to pool their foods in the fight against the pandemic paraguay joins argentina bolivia and venezuela in placing orders and cuba are in talks to start

local production with mexico peru and brazil also potential customers yes sputnik viz easy to transport and store it's also competitively priced but could there be another factor let's face it as far as the neighbors go do it politically north and south america are pretty much like chalk and cheese take venezuela and bolivia pushed into pariah state status over the years or cuba really designated a state sponsor of terror it was a matter of when lot if south american nations would start looking for friendlier countries to hang out with the 1st thing we have to look a here is the blockade against them a lot in american countries in the case of benefit or york and a very limited i can weed back in economically in the u.k. based on the american made back in there out of read you can be levied by working

in that country. we can think of the the russian companies via less exposure to us punitive measures. in them from us. and increasing the possibility to trade in with partners like venezuela countries traditionally closer to the united states such as mexico or costa rica have already opted for western designed vaccines brazil is there on the fence while plans to launch production of sputnik v. are in place regulatory approval as been delayed moscow says it's just a temporary issue in connection with unreliable information that appeared in a number of media outlets about the refusal of an emergency registration for the sport make the vaccine in brazil we clarify that the national health surveillance agency has requested additional information regarding the sputnik the vaccine which will be provided shortly russia plans to expand sputnik the corporation in the

region for many countries on the continent it seems like the best choice practically and financially and whatever the global politics at play in the upper echelons of power latin american nations agree and a pandemic like none of us have ever witnessed is protecting their people which comes 1st. naturally these issues are being politicized by many sectors firstly of always watching them who are politicized their distribution of the plight of our into that our late countries pressure here in latin america but this is of course counterproductive to the interests of the people who are essentially looking to get the cheap vaccine quickest. safeguard their health and improve the health care system of the country so as i think it is to some extent it was inevitable that the distribution of the rocky was going to be politicized by some sectors but i get this in order the detriment of the people living here in the continent. with the trump administration leaving the white house shortly you might think there's

a brand new team of faces poised to come in and replace them but many of joe biden's key cabinet picks are back to the days of his old boss especially when it comes to the u.s. state department as art is my god to fix points. out with the old and then with the well even older it seems go ahead and flick through do biden state department nominations you'd be forgiven for thinking you'd slipped into a parallel above the presidency there back well almost all of back from the people who brought you look at cash if in libya the bungled war in syria got stuck into the coup in ukraine and brought relations with russia to what they are now or as the chief in waiting puts it this team behind me they embody my core beliefs that america's strongest when it works with the sellers it's a team that reflects the fact that america is back judging by the team's track record now is

a good time for innocent civilians and potential collateral casualties around the world to start quaking in their boots because this cabal of liberal bruises seems to have much less compunction about dropping bombs than trump ever did such as mr blinken who believes that the us failed in syria because it didn't destroy it enough in syria we made the opposite error of doing too little without bringing appropriate power to bear no peace could be negotiated much less imposed or how about victoria nuland was a tool it's prefer jets and armies and bombs to take out anything that doesn't fit their picture perfect idea of democracy newlands more wily she gives in with with cookies and smiles and gets you to trust says you'll have a friend and then says this behind your back. that would be great i think to

help glue this thing and to have do you when help glue it and you know. america is strongest when it works with its allies biden said. nuland does that to make sure that america doesn't become too strong and keep those allies guessing about who she's trash talking this stuff or take samantha power now slated to take over america's aid agency machine she's good at anything it's making sure that the u.s. doesn't work with other countries to get things done to the assad regime russia and iran 3 member states behind the conquest of and carnage in aleppo you bear responsibility for these atrocities these are the people who helped bring trump to power they are they are part of what voters grew disenchanted with the and

lost wool is the endless deaths the endless failures but then again they don't expect too much from a biden state department in the words of a famous defense secretary if it's foreign policy chances are biden will get it wrong. i think he's been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past 4 decades looks like it's going to be a continuation of a increasingly aggressive us foreign policy that makes sense because that has been the the trajectory that republican and democrat administrations have done over the past several decades and his most recent picks seem to be a continuation of that this is an ongoing thing and that coupled with his his defense department picks a 3rd of whom have major ties to the defense industry all signals are that we are about to see some serious neocon foreign policy problem is that you have this inertia within us foreign policy and there's 2 parts to the inertia one is just the

fact that all of the think tanks all of the contractors everyone that is part of the military industrial complex is supporting and promoting these types of these types of aggressive war hawks to the state department and the department of defense but there's also something more sinister at play here is the fact that there's an underlying jingoism that is built into us foreign policy and has been for several decades in this jingoism tells us that the u.s. government the u.s. military can go wherever it wants whenever it wants and kill whomever they wish including civilian casualties and that there can be no negative blowback or consequences for if anyone so much as tries to defend themselves there are mediately a terrorist and when that is the over the underlying thought process and bedrock founding principle of u.s. military and foreign policy it's going to lead to this type of aggressive posture around the world and it has to end. kremlin critic alex and then on the is back on

russian soil and was immediately arrested by police on arrival for violating his probation on there had been in germany receiving medical treatment after an incident last summer and which he fell seriously ill during a domestic flight washington was quick to react to his arrest with russia's foreign ministry asking us to focus on internal issues. in response to mr sullivan as well as many other foreign figures who publish pre-prepared comments respect international law do not encroach on the national legislation of sovereign states and who would problems in your own country the kremlin's attacks on mr novell me are not just a violation of human rights but an affront to the russian people who wants their voices heard with more on the story here is our taste ask a tailor. the hero. pool is just to the southwest of mosco and around 7 30 pm local time russian opposition forgot it was

a cue to land on that flight from by lead however at the last minute we got word that all incoming flights were being diverted to other at ports and a felony flight was set to shut me up of us the other side of the capital now we know he has been detained why well at the end of december he sobbed out a suspended sentence on charges of embezzlement not that related to the so-called eve for a shut case that goes back to 2014 not the thomas of that's a suspended sentence to mont it that to he regularly report to an office but russia's presence serves to say that he failed to do so on at least 6 occasions over the past here that was before he fell sick on that plane from siberia to moscow and they said they gave him fat warning about the potential consequences of consistent evaluating his probation now this is not the only us legal challenge ahead for need the kremlin critic is also facing fresh allegations of fraud

investigators say the key misappropriated a waste of $5000000.00 worth of donations that were given in good faith to his non profit organization and that could see a penalty of up to 10 years behind bars blessed us remind ourselves of what's led up to this moment unwind of these are tough to russia has gone to so much attention . and. hold. the oars.

not just on not last point about requests from german authorities it became clear that palin had said something to moscow but most of. the material that was said was so latino and substance that really it couldn't be considered anything useful or what the of anything of cooperation nevertheless we see in the e.u. sanctions senior russian officials over the new fall nice saga which looks like it might still be continuing. like many countries cyprus has been hit hard economically by the pandemic forcing ex-pats to leave the island and seek their fortune elsewhere but many of them didn't seem to have enough room to take their feline friends with them.

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hello and welcome to cross talk where all things are considered i'm peter lavelle it seems inevitable there will be new security regulations passed into law in the wake of the events on capitol hill the original patriot act was made law to legitimize the so-called war on terror will the patriot act 2.0 focus on domestic care and how will the u.s. and gauge the e.u. once joe's enough us. to discuss these issues and more i'm joined by my guest george samueli in budapest he is an author and a you tuber at the gaggle and we have plenty isn't in oslo he is an associate professor at the university of south eastern norway as well as author of the new book russian conservatism originally crosstown prose in fact that means you can

jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate it ok let's go to church in budapest 1st like i said in my introduction george i think we have to a kind of a parallel structure here and we have the so-called war on terror after 911 which was an utter failure ok we can talk about that on the sidelines here but it seems to me that the this is a template they do you know the war on terror is now the war on domestic terrorism but the difference is that the war on terror was. there was assessment of the risks ok. and i said as i said there was another failure they these assessments warning correct but it seems to me if you're going to have a war on domestic. chair then you're bringing in an ideological element because what is terrorism what is domestic and who decides that go ahead yes that's a very good question. and this patriot act $2.00 that seems to be

in the wood is really not so much a response to what happened on january the 6th but a response to the election i mean it's an election that will be disputed in the coming year as much as the 2016 election was disputed pretty much throughout the trunk is so i think this is a preemptive attack all the dispute that is going to take place during the next 4 years i think i think the the biden people have real questions of legitimacy hanging over them i think we have a presidency that no one really wanted a year ago that nobody in his right mind would have believed that by this really week to correct it sort of fake at all popular with his and with his own party will become the president of the united states so i think it's a response.