no focus on the domestic. program with the goal of immunizing more than half the country's population. this year. arrives in argentina for the russian. and latin america. california. which comprise a 10th of the u.s. state of reaction on the. american president elect joe biden

state department. veterans some with a track record of. intervention. 247 news live from the russian capital this is our to international mines you know neil. russia is expanding its. program the aim is to get 60 percent of the population inoculated this year with more on the must rule out constantine rushkoff. the vaccination point here is up and running and as you can see people are lining up for the naki lation 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 quickly 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 qualify for the you not collation then you should follow to that room over there i'm fine i just have a nature 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 short 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 great day in fact that situation will have in the end 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 show a good day yet. you know our eyes are she's about to get the vaccine but she is.

i think is he asked about that by the way this metal box over here at this is where all the dough was are being kept the temperature is minus 35 degrees celsius and that's what you need for a spot mickey 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 there 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 health care at 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 russia's health care minister said that the country is planning to run public seem distribution in other regions by another 2000000 doses of spot meat. production of the russian vaccine is being run to meet global demands we look up to who is ordering a little later in the program. health officials in california are warning providers against using a bunch of covert vaccines from the farm a giant motor in a bounce after a series of allergic reactions in america's most populous state as cross live to our u.s. correspondent kill up not been a killer but we are talking about a huge shipment here containing a run 330000 doses can you tell us what the concerns are here

indeed well vaccinations are in full swing in the state of california but from what we understand at this point the medina vaccine injections they are being halted and this is due to higher than usual adverse effects take a listen to what's going on in california. fewer than 10 individuals required medical attention over the span of 24 hours we are recommending that provide its use of that and they will build accident density and pause the administration of vaccines until the investigation by the centers for disease control and prevention food and drug administration but they're not and the state is complete. now all the incidents are said to have happened at the same community clinic and they are reportedly this clinic was closed for several hours after adverse reactions to the vaccine now what we're hearing from the state epidemiologist of california he's saying that less data exists on adverse reactions to the munder in

a vaccine and that modern a is now reviewing the incident but it is rare for vaccines to trigger serious side effects now there was also an incident not in california but in boston we had an incident where within minutes of taking the vaccine there was a physician who started having a severe allergic reaction so when it comes to the state of california the numbers are worth looking at we've got 2900000 cases of coded 193-3392 deaths so far daily deaths are in the hundreds from coded 19 this is how hospitals are dealing with it. there 21 years that i've seen more people passed away last week. and the past couple weeks really than i almost had a combined in all of my career as a nurse you just see them die they just die and they they fight dying and it's so

sad. yes i'm angry yes i'm upset but the only thing that we can do is give them the reality of the situation which is this there is no room inside the hospital that we are making tens outside the hospital. now millions of americans are quite anxious for this pandemic to reach its conclusion so the vaccine is bleve to be very key in that so basically any news

about adverse effects or allergic reactions to the vaccine is something people take very seriously but at the moment vaccinations are in progress not just in california but around the country many hoping that things in the united states can start to move toward some notion of normality. or us correspondent caleb not been bringing us right up to date thank you caleb let's speak more home this not with william schefter williams a professor of infectious diseases at vanderbilt university and nashville tennessee always good to see on the program this is as far as we know one isolated botch but what could it mean for the global rollout of them would earn a drug do you think well we really have to investigate this very carefully because it's very unusual unit to have one batch of a drug. at adverse reactions associated with it in the history of vaccines that as an app and in years and years and years so this really needs to be looked at we

know that these m. or in a bag scenes are associated with more alert chick reactions the less number i saw from the c.d.c. was 11 such reactions for every 1000000 doses so still rather rare but a grouping in one clinic that deserves further investigation did something unusual happened in that clinic or wasn't deed it that vaccines needs to be investigated and that leads on i suppose to the issue of public trust will such incidents discourage people from getting an ocular to do things well of course and he reported adverse reactions gives pause to some people but i think by and large the vaccines have been shown to be safe and are wonderfully effective so across the country at the present time we have more demand than we have vaccines and so our

program is rolling out and becoming more efficient we're trying to vaccinate more people more quickly. just on the point you made earlier the rates of allergic reactions we're seeing from pfizer from would turn to drugs is that typical of i know it's a very strange unique year but is that typical of perhaps what you would expect from from any vaccine or it's a given you pause for concern a little bit more than normal. note this is a little bit more than normal union this is a rate that is higher than normal still rare as i say 11 per 1000000 but much more than you would get with flu vaccines for example and so we have recognized that anybody who's had an allergic reaction tells us that up front if they've had a history of it and they're watched for 30 minutes to my knowledge everyone who's had an an allergic reaction has done very well they've recovered quickly but we

have to take that into contention as we schedule or clinics and watch people after they've had the vaccine so that's a situation in california nationwide joe biden is aiming to get 100000000 americans vaccinated during his 1st 100 days in office do you think that's a realistic target is it even advisable to move that fast. well if we could move that fast that would be wonderful it is as we say aspirational it's very optimistic whether we can do that we shall see but clearly there has been a much bigger push to really move vaccinations expand clinics much more rapidly now and of course after the holidays all these clinics have had their trial run and they're beginning to work more rapidly and more efficiently in order

to do that of course we need vaccines and that vaccine distribution the shipping out of the vaccines as to be predictable. always good to have you on the program thanks for breaking that down for us william schaffner professor of infectious diseases at vanderbilt university in nashville tennessee. a collision. in a related story and video of a woman suffering convulsions allegedly after receiving a krone virus job in the us has caused widespread shock and warning some viewers may find the following images the stir being brunt reiner a resident of louisiana filmed his mother after she departed to receive the fater job in early january he claims she hadn't suffered from any serious health issues before taking the shot mr greiner spoke to r.t. . she said the day afterwards she woke up with a headache and she said every day since until today today's the 1st day she has had

a. she started noticing the seizure like movements in a way your left leg 1st and it was 3 days afterwards and she was in mid to the hospital before days with she had no control of 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 of pfizer's not commenting on what happened but said it is investigating it's not the 1st time concerns have been raised over the drug safety norway is currently investigating the deaths of dozens of elderly people who had received the shot brunt griner against the response he received to his video suggests his mother's case is not unique i've heard of other cases since i shared the video on facebook. thousands and thousands of people message me comment an

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 of their family have had reactions share their vaccines our plot of some of your 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 they're not trying to entertain too much i don't know want people wouldn't trust they want to code vaccine to take away coded things and get back to normal. let's bring you to the u.k. were a group of researchers have published some alarming new findings on krona virus patients according to the reports one in 8 people hospitalized in the u.k. with cove in 1000 die of related complications within months after being discharged well nearly one 3rd of patients to recover from the virus are taken by the hospital the study also revealed some severe long term effects of coated including heart

problems and diabetes we spoke with one of the scientists behind the study. not only does current a virus. cause death and most people emission but there are clear signals here of associations between medium. effect in the lungs affecting the heart affecting the liver and also the kidneys and we need to get better at seeing and stratifying who are the people that we need to act ideally we need 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. argentina has received the 2nd batch of the sputnik v. vaccine it comes as more countries across latin america opt for the russian corbett

job artie's done in hawkins picks up the story. 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 paraguayan 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 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 store is 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 their out of read you can be levied by working to that country. we can think of the the russian companies are far less exposure to us punitive measures. 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 costa rica have already opted for western designed vaccines brazil is still on the fence while plans to launch production of sputnik 3 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 their people which comes 1st naturally these issues are being played by many sectors firstly i'm always watching them who are political fight their distribution of a 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 cheap vaccine quick if. they've got their health and improve the health care system of the country through i think if the thumb extended it was inevitable that the distribution of the right thing was going to be polluted by that the but i get this in order the detriment of the people living here in the continent. not

with the trumpet ministration leaving the white house 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 your senior correspondent right because the. out with the old and then with the well even older it seems there had been 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 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 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 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 wily she gives in with with cookies and smiles and gets you to trust says you

have 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 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 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 activist alexei navalny is to spend 30 days in pre trial the tension here in moscow he was arrested for parole violation after flying in from germany where he underwent treatment for an alleged poisoning and gore said 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 valley he was a pre handed 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 election 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 against stoltenberg to france and some other european nations all calling on the kremlin to immediately release alexina volume 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. room no values cases got so much undue international publicity everything that happens to the valley regarding his return in detention 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 there are problems in our case law enforcement agencies have made their position clear. so for alexina vali 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. charles buried part of a ski resort in southern russia a warning you may find the following him in just somewhat disturbing a skier captured this video showing the moment there's struck in the caucasus

mountains one person has been confirmed dead 12 others are missing a major search operation is underway reese teams are urging people nearby to remain silent while a lesson for the voices of potential survivors under the snow so far 6 people being rescued. are a fall of around 7000 migrants all of this been stopped in guatemala the migrants who are mostly from honduras are heading to the u.s. to escape poverty but it's been exacerbated by the pandemic they were met with truncheons and tear gas by security forces several people were injured also. i. violent protests erupted in the netherlands over the weekend against a virus locked on police used water cannon to disperse the oil or theorize

demonstration under restaurant 100 people in december the government shut down schools and most shops in response to a spike in cases last week the locked on was extended by a further we. finally has been gripped by nationwide riots over the country's deepening economic crisis more than 600 people. on sunday night according to the interior ministry soldiers have been deployed in several cities to contain the arrests. across all of the day's big developments are websites as always just a click away in 30 with all of monday's latest news on views to this is international.