is it more the idea of a traditional just appearing to bark or she's a power line with the people demonstrates that struggle is very real a. struggle. russia expands its covert vaccine program with the goal of immunizing more than half of the country's population by the end of the year. plus a 2nd batch of sputnik arrives in argentina as demand for the russian jobs soars in latin america. and u.s. president elect joe biden packs his state department with obama era veterans some with a track record of promoting military intervention. and watching our 2 international coming to you live from the russian capital where it's

just turned 4 pm welcome to the program. russia is expanding its kovan $1000.00 vaccination program the aim is to get 60 percent of the population an ocular did this year is constant reports from central moscow. the vaccination out here has to do and as you can see there are people lining up to get inoculated i think there are the 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 if you're like me just with me 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 but it is hard to get through here and decoration for. this. 7. or 7 guest that's where you show your id this is actually all you need to get not here and that goes for every russian citizen. get enough to read it and follow

that. right no. one can see how you're doing a i'm fine i just haven't each a throat perhaps you just need to drink some water yeah i already have a feeling that you know you know us are you have you already thought about how your life will change and soon develop antibodies at the i hope it will change because i work in a museum we have lots of trees of tears so i hope my life will get better some do you know i thought it was hurts more after the injection because this vaccine is supposed to be more serious than a flu jab before the switch i feel no difference it's just like every of the shot this year i decided to get the job but while ago i was just waiting for the opportunity honestly i should have been inoculated in a local clinic but i just wanted to speed up the process because i want to be immune as quickly as possible that this doesn't mean yes yes my husband and my friends took the job i have no reservations so i want to get it as soon as possible

i think the more people that get it the great the impact that summation will have in the end. 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 into sure certainly it would love to have everyone get the shot and thus have no problem so far we have not been able to be 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 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 that summation i would pose is really popular in trendy places mostly inside shopping malls but also in an exhibition

center and even in the theater there are seats that are now available in the country 1st one spot and then there was another one or both developed by russian scientists mass vaccinations started in russia last december and according to those in charge of rolling out the jobs there are over 80000000 people here who has been ready to vaccinated. health care workers at essential workers were the 1st vaccinated. russia's healthcare minister is that the countries wanted to run poppy vaccine distributing in other regions why now there are $2000000.00 doses of spot by the end of the month. now russia is not just trying to meet demand for its vaccine at home a global demand for its job has also soared looking at this ordering later 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 jab the previously promised 12 week maximum wage was already criticized as too long. some people won't be a bit concerned saying you know you want to be able to deliver and getting a 2nd dose with in tow weeks can you guarantee that on 5 for example you will be able to get a 2nd dose we absolutely are aiming for that we should be able to deliver it and i think we can be quietly confident does the governments know something they w.h.o. f.d.a. and pfizer don't. you willing to concede they're 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 this is a rare and a promising rather than a real risk a different vaccines have been tested with different times between the 1st and 2nd doses ranging from 3 weeks 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 was met with widespread criticism and concern from both the public and medical professionals british doctors a campaign group has appealed to the health secretary to at least make an exception for the pfizer vaccine which recommends the shortest gap between jobs and the statement the drug firm pointed out that there is no day that to say the 1st dose gives protection beyond 21 day is british communicable diseases expert dr kamiya 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 rouble 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 immunities 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 doctors in the u.k. are reportedly being told to throw away a leftover corona virus vaccines similar incidents have been reported across the atlantic as well but to shoppers and the united states were fortunate enough to receive a coven $1000.00 shot on the spot they were offered the vaccine by an in-store pharmacists who is looking for any takers after 2 health care workers missed their appointments but not everyone is so lucky one health specialist shared 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 the doses had been tossed. again commented on the issue. i think there is a lot of inertia in people rising above tight regulations some problems with regulations that are written out need to be challenged it is a shame to waste 2 x. eans if you have got them spray 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 tab has caused a stir a warning some viewers may find the following images upsetting and growing as a 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 the shot trying to describe his mother's condition and an exclusive interview with r.t. . she said that 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 has had a headache but she started noticing a seizure like movements in a way or less like 1st. it was 3 days afterwards and she was admitted to the hospital by 4 days with she had no control over her legs when she was trying to walk the doctors said they think it's. the metals and the vaccine. is causing her to have the neurological reaction. pfizer has not confirmed the case but says it's investigating however it's not the 1st time concerns have been raised over the

safety of the jab norway is currently investigating the deaths of dozens of elderly people who had recently received the vaccine runner says the response he received to his video suggests his mother's case isn't the only one 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've written hundreds of muscle personally that people tell me their stories their daughters or sons their mothers or you know all members members of their family have had reactions share other vaccines our plot of someone you know had a lot of misuse or negative so you and this is your mom or you know you're lying or whatever negative comment you know it's it's not really something that are trying to entertain too much i don't know i want people wouldn't trust they want to code back seem to take away coded things and get back to normal. still ahead

this hour russian opposition figure had an exam the only husband detained after returning to moscow from germany details on that story and more after this. next cancer survivor. takes us to start said that this is. a show that you don't get a bad. back to. know. this is a repatriation team would get arrested 7 years. ago with a separate kaiser report. thank

you welcome back argentina has received a 2nd batch of these sputnik the vaccine it comes as more countries across latin america have been opting for the russian anti cope and shot artist daniel 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 more countries in the region will also approve it soon and are ready to create new partnerships to pool their foods in the fight against the pandemic. 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 ves easy to transport

and store it's also competitively priced but could there be another factor let's face it as far as 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 the malaccan american country in a case of benefit or york and a very limited i can we back in economically in the u.k. back in the american made back in there out of read you can be levied by working in that country. we can theme that of the the russian companies are far less exposure to u.s.

punitive measures essentially in them from the us. and increasing the possibility to trade in with partners like venezuela countries traditionally closer to the united states such as mexico or course the reka have already opted for western design 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 it's protecting the people which comes 1st naturally the few that are being played by many sectors. or with washington who are politicized their distribution of a fighter back into that country the 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 to safeguard their health and improve the health care system of the country so i think if the thumb extended it was inevitable that the distribution of the right thing was going to be a political bite that the but i get this in order the detriment of the people living here in the continent. with the trumpet ministration 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 hark back to the days of his old boss especially when it

comes to the u.s. state department as artie's modesty explains. 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 have friends and then says this behind your back. doubt would be great i think to help glue this thing and to have do you when help glue it and you know you 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 wolves the endless deaths the endless failures but then again then 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 pick 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're about to see some serious neo-con 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 their 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. credit comics and the mom is back on russian soil and was immediately arrested by police on arrival for violating his probation

and only had been in germany receiving medical treatment after an incident last summer and which he fell seriously ill during a flight. washington was quick to react to his arrest with russia's foreign ministry telling 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 did not encroach on the national legislation of sovereign states and you 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 he wants their voices heard with more on his arrival here is our to use us to tailor. but here i am a pause 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 lynn however at the last minute we got word that all incoming flights were being diverted to other at ports and the found his

flight was set to shut her mouth 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 aid for a shut case that goes back to 2014 not the tums 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 a 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 and wine of ani's of a ton to russia has gone to so much attention. all. not just on not last point about requests from german authorities it became clear

that berlin had said something to moscow but most of. the material that was said and substance that really it couldn't be considered anything useful was the of anything of cooperation never the last we seen the e.u. sanction senior russian officials. which looks like it might still be continuing. we now turn to some world news in brief starting with southern russia up to 12 people are missing after a snow avalanche buried part of a ski resort in the caucasus mountains these images were taken just after it happened several buildings are now under deep snow and 6 people have reportedly been rescued a major search operation is ongoing. a caravan of around 7000 migrants has been stopped and want to the migrants who are mostly from honduras are heading to the u.s. to escape poverty that's been exacerbated by the pandemic they were met with tear

gas and security forces several people were injured in the clashes. and as you can see violent protests erupted in the netherlands against a coronavirus lockdown people use water cannon to disturb disperse the un authorized demonstration and arrested around 100 people in december the government shut down schools and most shops in response to a spike in cases last week the lockdown was extended by a further 3 weeks. like many countries cyprus has been hit hard economically by the pandemic forcing ex-pats to leave the island and seek their fortunes elsewhere but many of them didn't seem to have enough room to take their feline friends with.

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i'm action or times and welcome to going underground less than 48 hours before the 46th president of the united states is inaugurated in washington d.c. joining me now is someone who campaigned for a democrat nominee that was narrowly beaten by joe biden bernie sanders his name is ben cohen he's founder of the famous ice cream company ben and jerrys and he's an activist as well as a businessman ben welcome from burlington vermont i got to start with even before trump and by going to start talking about covert because here in britain it's worse by capita than the united states but nevertheless how have you got a quarter of the world's cases with only 4 percent of the world's population how bad is cove it as far as you can see. you know

it's getting worse. there's a surge. you know here mont i mean an entire month we have very few cases but you know it's it's you know tripled probably since. the last month or so you know in a sense this does relate to a question being asked by those on the bernie sanders end of the democrats which is why instead of pursuing impeachment in the house which presumably stands no particular prism in a political then why do that instead of a talking about medicare for all and trying to get that hammett end to the brains of the new biden administration when they take office you know. i think that you know maybe lady will end up talking about medicare for all 'd a little later.