i would expect to go back but i decided not to take you just like. you did. in the day's headlines russia expands its covert vaccine program with the goal of immunizing more than half the country's population by the year. plus a 2nd batch of spotting arrives in argentina answer man for the russian job source 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 a military intervention. a

very warm welcome to the program on this monday evening at 6 pm here in the russian capital let's get started with your live news update. russia is expanding its coben $1000.00 vaccination program the aim is to get 60 percent of the population inoculated this year are just constant general reports from central moscow. the vaccination point here is up and running and as you can see people are lining up for the knocking lation i think there are at least a few dozen here and before i give you a quick tour around here let me take a moment and just point to point out that this is probably the nicest place in moscow right now to take a jap i mean after all this is a russia's iconic most famous department store right in the heart of russia's capital now let's get inside. all right we're in it so this is the reception desk morning and this is where you need to show your passport and that's about all you need to do to get

a vaccine here the entire procedure should take around 45 minutes so 1st doctors need to verify you're in good health you're feeling well and then if you're on qualify for the an occupation then you should follow to that room over there i'm fine i just haven't each a throat perhaps you just need to drink some water yeah i'll read you have i feel better now. or have you already thought about how your life will change once you develop antibodies. i hope it will change because i work in a museum we have lots of visitors so i hope my life will get better. i thought it was hurts more after the injection because this vaccine is supposed to be more serious than a flu job but i feel no difference it's just like every of the scheldt history i decided to get the job a while ago i was just waiting for the opportunity honestly i should have been inoculated in the local clinic but i just wanted to speed up the process because i

want to be immune as quickly as possible. you know 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 greater impact that situation will have in the air and this is where they are getting the vaccines to the people and the lady over here and she's just getting ready to receive a vaccine countries they're just going to say they need see i didn't know what show was day yet which you know they are either she's about to get the vaccine but she is. if you see asked about that by the way this metal box over here at this is where all the doses are being kept the temperature is minus 35 degrees celsius and that's what you need for a spot nicky by the way there are 2 vaccines that are available in russia right now 1st one called sputnik b. then there is another one called epi corona both are developed by russian scientists according to russia's health care officials the main goal right now is

to develop herd immunity before the next fall because the jewish 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 the uk you late it in just the 1st year is a big achievement mass vaccination started in russia last december and according to those in charge are rolling. the jobs there are over 1000000 people here have been already taken a job healthcare and essential workers are the 1st to receive the vaccine and now they're trying to expand the list to get more and more people involved we don't rush to russia's health care ministers that the country is planning to run public scene distribution in other regions by another 2000000 doses of spotted me. russia is not just trying to meet demand for its vaccine at home

a global demand for its public new job has also sort of look at his 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 coated job the previously promised 12 week maximum wage was already criticized as too long can you guarantee that on father for example you will be able to get a 2nd more 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 see risky willing to concede the gambling with the nation's health by playing fast and loose with 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. different vaccines have been tested with different times between the

1st and 2nd doses ranging from 3 weeks to up to 3 months the government originally implant to stick to the shorter timeframe but now says it's ok to delay it 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 a british doctor's 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 a statement to the drug firm pointed out that there is no data to say the 1st dose gives protection on 21 days british communicable diseases expert dr bharat 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 hope 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. meanwhile doctors in the u.k. are reportedly being told to throw away left over crowded iris facts scenes similar incidents have been reported across the atlantic as well 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 doses had been thrown away. again

commented on the issue i think there is a lot of inertia in people rising above tight regulations some problems 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 crown a virus has caused a stir a warning some viewers may find the following images upsetting. as

a mother received the pfizer vaccine in louisiana at the beginning of january and according to her son she had experienced any health issues before getting the shot runners described his mother's condition in 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 a headache 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 and she was trying to all 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 shot norway is

currently investigating the deaths of dozens of elderly people who had recently received the vaccine runner again 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 i had 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 of member members of their family have had reactions share their vaccines our plot of some of them you know had a lot of messages that are negative saying 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 are trying to entertain too much i don't know want people wouldn't trust they want to code back seem to take away codes things and get back to normal.

argentina has received a 2nd batch of the sputnik the vaccine it comes as more countries across latin america have been opting for the russian anti cope and shot artist and 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 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 so it 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 a more like an american country than 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 think of the the russian companies are less think. the us unit of measure. in them from the us. an increase in the possibility to trade in with partners like bennett wayne or countries traditionally closer to the united states such as mexico or costa rica 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 to 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 the people which comes 1st. naturally these issues are being politicized by many sectors firstly in washington who are politicized their distribution of the plight of our into that are laid countries very here in latin america but this is of course counterproductive to the interests of the people who are essentially looking to get the cheapest vaccine quickest to 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

tribe in ministration leaving the white house very soon 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 or boss especially when it comes to the u.s. state department as artist margaret explains. alex 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've slipped into a parallel above the presidency they're back well almost all of back from the people who brought you look at cash for feeding libya the bungled war in syria got stuck into the coup in ukraine and brought relations with russia to what they are now 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 her 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 widely she gives in with with cookies and smiles and gets you to trust her says

you're her friend and then says this behind your back. dawood 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 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 they would 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 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. russian opposition activists i mix in of on there has been given 30 days and pretrial detention by a court here and moscow he was arrested for parole violation after flying in from germany very underwent treatment for an alleged poisoning he got on the for parts. the hearing lasted for about for several hours and at the end of it the judge gave the verdict $3030.00 day sentence a 30 day arrest now this hearing was it seemed like it was almost a surprise one for instance the lawyer of the kremlin critic she said she was officially informed about the hearing only one minutes before it actually started so it was it was quite a surprise thing and not a lot of people expected alexina valley to get this rest sentence so quickly now

lexan of ali he as you've said he returned back to russia from berlin just yesterday where he was in berlin obviously he was treated for what he and some western labs of called a poisoning by a military grade nerve agent so he has come back to russia and he was arrested at border a he boarded checkpoint now white thing is back in 2014 alexina valley got a suspended sentence he was found guilty of embezzle meant and he was out essentially he was out on parole so he was supposed to report on his whereabouts to the authorities regularly but when he fell into a coma and was transported to berlin for treatment obviously he couldn't do so but the authorities they well the closed the close their eyes on it and they didn't just didn't bother him with that but he was he was released from hospital at the

end of september and for several months the russian authorities were unaware about his whereabouts so this is the reasoning behind what the authorities are doing here this is essentially the official position of russia's law enforcement that he that he. paroled terms and that's why they are now demanding that the suspended sentence should be. swapped it for a real one now the this this whole thing this election oh the election of ali's ordeal starting with the world with treatment in berlin and we his return back home it has. caused some severe well it has drawn some reaction from western nations like from the u.s. from france from other european nations nato is chief we installed in berg also here as well he has called on the russian authorities to release a lexan of army to not arrest him in this sort of echoed the general the general

outcry international outcry should say so but also this return of a lexan of army had also gone ated not dominated but rather it has it has being has drawn the spotlight during a media conference of the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov which happened earlier today here's what the russian foreign minister had to say about all the attention this case is getting which is no volleys cases got so much international publicity everything that happens to navellier regarding his return in detention is the business of law enforcement agencies we are talking about enforcing russian laws if in some of the countries the implementation of their own laws is considered to be of secondary importance to achieving some geo political goals this is their problem in our case law enforcement agencies have made their position clear because some human rights groups have already designated election of ali as

a prisoner of conscience as a prisoner as a political prisoner as well the next court hearing is sure to take place on the 29th of january so we will be looking out to how this will play out for the famous kremlin critic. lastly we turn to some world news in brief a snow avalanche has buried part of a ski resort in southern russia warning you may find the following images disturbing a skier captured this video showing the moment disaster struck in the caucasus mountains one person has been confirmed dead and 12 others are missing a major search operation is underway and rescue teams are urging people nearby to remain silent while they listen for the voices of potential survivors under the snow so far 6 people have been rescued. a caravan of around 7000 migrants has been stopped in guatemala migrants who are mostly from honduras

are heading to the u.s. to escape poverty that's been exacerbated by the pandemic there were met with tear gas and security forces and several people were injured in the clashes the old. oh ok. violent protests erupted in the netherlands against a coronavirus lockdown police used water cannon to 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 and last week the lockdown was extended by further 3 weeks. has been gripped by nationwide riots over the country's deepening economic crisis or than 600 people were arrested on sunday night according to the interior ministry soldiers have been deployed in several cities to contain the rest.

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