in a world corrupted you need to descend. to join us in the depths. for a mate in the shallowness. krosnick span the kind of vaccine program with the goal of immunizing more than half the population by the end of the year. also this hour a 2nd batch of sputnik the arrives in argentina as demand for the russian jobs soars and latin america. and us president elect joe biden packs the state department with obama era veterans some with a track record in noting 3 convention.

you're watching our 2 international coming to you live from the russian capital this and every hour welcome to the program russia is expanding its coben 1000 backs a nation program the aim is to get 60 percent of the country's population inoculated this year. reports from central moscow the vaccination point here is up and running and as you can see people are lining up for the not delay should i think there are at least a few dozen here but before i give you a quick tour around here let me take a moment and just to point out that this is probably the nicest place in moscow right now to take a jap i mean after all this is the russia's iconic most famous department store right in the heart of russia's capital now let's get inside. a right we're in and 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 your 1st doctors need to verify you're in good health you're feeling well and then if you qualify for the you not collation then you should follow to that group over there i'm fine i just have an h. a throat perhaps you just need to drink some water yeah i already have i feel better now. 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 this year 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 great a impact that summation will have and the 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 that you got please they're just going to say they need see i didn't know what show was day yet. you know arise or 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 dough is 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 4 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 over 1000000 people here have been already taken a job healthcare it essential workers for 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. ross is not just trying to meet demand for its next scene at home of global demand

for its make the job has also soared we're looking at was 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 covert jab the previously promised 12 week maximum weight was already criticised as too long can you guarantee that on 5 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 planned 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 and british doctors campaign group has appealed to the health secretary to at least make an exception for the pfizer vaccine which recommends the shortest gap between jabs and the statements the drug firm pointed out that there's no data to say the 1st dose gives protection young 21 days 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 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. meanwhile doctors in the u.k. are reportedly being told to throw away the leftover crown of our sex 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 the doses had been thrown away. and commented on the issue i think there is

a lot of inertia in people rising above tight 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 it should notice and immunize them don't waste any because this is an important valuable medicine to protect people so you can 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. a group of researchers in the u.k. have published some alarming new findings on coronavirus patients according to the report one of 8 people hospitalized in the u.k. with kovan 1000 die of related complications within months after being discharged

a nearly one 3rd of patients who recover from the virus are taken back to the hospital and the study reveals some severe long term effects of coated including heart problems and diabetes. we can now bring it alive one of the authors of that study dr amitava better ga crayolas just at university college london so one in 8 recovered patients die within months of leaving the hospital in the u.k. is that a figure you would expect. thank you very much hermie i do i think given what we've been seeing in both intensive care and non intensive care patients. the these are people who are unwell and it's but it still is still surprising to see this proportion of people dying on medium term follow up after 4 months is there any indication as to why this is happening. this

isn't analysis using. large scale national data we we're continuing our analyses we haven't been able to look at the causes of death and looking at the people's. long term past medical history but it does seem that certain underlying conditions such as hypertension and diabetes the same things that put you at risk of severe illness acutely also put you at risk in the medium to as they were mentioning earlier the report also highlights some severe long term effects of coping 19 like heart problems what more can you tell us about that so you know not only does corner virus. cause death and most people are mission but there are clear signals here of

associations between. middle medium term effects effect in the lungs. affecting the heart affecting the liver and and also the kidneys in the heart there have already been other data that have suggested increased. inflammation was call my kind of interest but we need to look at this in more detail to see if it is more of for example heart failure problems with the pumping of the heart or more or rhythm problems and we need to look at that in more detail but i think the take home is that avoiding the infection and a population level keeping the infection rate down is the key and there's nobody does well with corona virus infection we need to avoid getting this in the plates and we need to get better at. seeing and

stratifying who are the people that we need to act. as you're mentioning there's still a lot of an analysis to be done here but is there any indication of how the u.k. compares to other countries when looking at such data. i don't think we do have those analyses for. long term or medium term effects from other countries there have been smaller analyses that have looked at the. x. rays and different types of imaging such as m.r.i. and findings which show and suggest that there might be impairment across different organs and therefore these findings seem to. corroborate that information and what we see is that ideally we avoid kind of us affection if we have it we need to make sure that we treat underlying conditions and we're monitoring these people to see if they develop and if they do

develop for example diabetes or kidney disease we need to do more research to see how that progresses over time talking about avoiding the disease altogether mass vaccination in the u.k. is in full swing are you hopeful that the down as well and leave eat the cover crisis. i think that it's great news that not only in the u.k. but in other countries dioxin a sion is being rolled out at pace but it has to go hand in hand with controlling the infection population level not only because the vaccination will take time to reach all of the at risk populations and then the wider population and but also the acceleration takes some time to work in the meantime and i'm talking about people having both. doses of the vaccinations so i think it's a while before we can think about abandon these public health measures of infection

rate suppression. we've been speaking with dr amitava banner jia associate professor and clinical data science and honorary consultant cardiologist at university college london thanks for your time and your comments thank you. in america a video of a woman suffering convulsions after receiving a coronavirus vaccine has caused a stir a warning some viewers may find the following images upsetting. coroners 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 taking the shot trying to describe his mother's condition and in exclusive interview with r.t. . she said that the day afterwards she woke up with a headache and she said every day since until today today's the 1st day she has a headache but she started noticing the seizure like movements in the way your left

leg 1st and 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 wall doctors said they think it's. the medals and the vaccine. is causing her to have the neurological reaction pfizer has not confirmed the case but says it is investigating however it's not the 1st time concerns have been raised over the safety of the chap 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 i've 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 a muscle personally of people tell me their stories their daughters or sons their mothers or you know all 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 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 want people wouldn't trust that they want to code vaccine to take away coded 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 and take over jab artie's in the 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 to 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. 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 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 1st thing we have to look a here in the blockade against them a lot in 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 think of the the russian companies via less exposure to u.s. punitive measures essentially in them from u.s. sanctions and increasing the possibility of trading with partners like venezuela countries traditionally closer to the united states such as mexico or costa rica have already opted for western design vaccines brazil is still on the fence while

plans to launch production of sputnik are in place regulatory approval as been delayed though 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 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 played by many sectors personally involved with washington who are politicized their distribution of the fight over

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 cheapest vaccine quickest. they've got their hope and improve the health care system of the country so i think if the thumb extended it was inevitable that the distribution of iraqi 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 trump an illustration 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 old boss especially when it comes to the u.s. state department as artie's mongers say of explains. alex with the old and then with the well even older it seems go ahead and flip 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 cass or feel libya in 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 baum's 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're her 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 you have 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 wolves the endless deaths the endless failures but then again 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're 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 on extended on their has been given 30 days in pretrial detention by a court here and moscow he was arrested for a parole violation after flying in from germany where he underwent treatment for an alleged poisoning are discussed on the reports. it took the judge several hours to deliver the verdict to the kremlin critic who came back to russia just yesterday from berlin there he was receiving treatment for what he and some western labs

called a poisoning by a military grade nerve agent now alexina valmy he was a pretended at the border checkpoint now the thing is back in 2014 he was found guilty of embezzlement and received a suspended sentence with a probation period now while on probation he was supposed to report on his whereabouts to the authorities but when he fell into a coma and was transferred to the german capital for treatment obviously he couldn't do so but at the end of september last year a lexan of ali was released from hospital so the authorities here in russia they expected to hear from him which they didn't this is why they are saying they put him back on the wanted list and this is why they're saying they are demanding that the suspended sentence is swapped for a real one for this opposition figure now this whole detention and this whole process sparked an outcry in the west starting from the secretary the u.s.

secretary of state might bump a 0 to the chief of nato u.n. stoltenberg to france and some other european nations all calling on the kremlin to immediately release alexina volley in fact the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov had to answer a few questions about this whole situation during a media conference he held earlier today so here's how he commented on the situation which is no volleys cases got so much undue international publicity everything that happens to the valley regarding his return and attention is the business of law enforcement agencies we are talking about enforcing russian laws if in some other countries implementation of their own laws is considered to be of secondary importance to achieving some geopolitical goals. this is the problems in our case law enforcement agencies have made their position clear. so for election of ali the next hearing. to take place on the 29th of january and the authorities

the prosecution will be looking and will be demanding a real sentence this time. 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 upsetting 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 at this point a major search operation is underway and rescue teams are urging people nearby to remain silent all 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 the migrants who are mostly from honduras are heading to the u.s. to escape poverty that has been exacerbated by the pandemic they were mad with tear gas and security forces and several people were injured.

as you can see violent protests erupted in the netherlands against a coronavirus a lockdown police used water cannon to disperse the on authorized demonstration and arrested around 100 people in december the government shut down schools and motion in response to a spike in cases last week the lockdown was extended by a further 3 weeks. has been gripped by nationwide riots over the country's deepening economic crisis well then 600 people were arrested on sunday night according to the interior ministry soldiers have been deployed in several cities to contain the at rest. that's our goal in his update for this hour but don't forget you can always have to our website or to dot com for the details on all of those stories and many more.

it seems inevitable there will be new security regulations fast into law in the wake of the events on capitol hill the original day parade that was me long to legitimize the so-called war on terror well the patriot act you claim no focus on domestic terror and how will the u.s. against the e.u. once chosen up.