brushes sputnik the vaccine against the seal of approval in the medical journal for research. well tolerated. coming up in the program europe issues a warning the sale of fake. test certificates criminals seek to profit from troubled restrictions. the restaurant resistance french business owners governments cope with. making their doors and serving diners also ahead. body count from new york shows officers pepper spraying

a 9 year old girl. in the u.s. firmly. just in the evening here in moscow this 2nd a fake names you know male welcome to our internet. mexico has become the latest country to sign up to use russia's covert 19 vaccine with millions of doses set to be delivered in the near future at the same time hungry house received its 1st batch of sputnik. it was the 1st you nation to earlier approve the job and by millions of doses separately sputnik received approval by researchers in the medical journal who have concluded it's over 90 percent effective and well tolerate

it the study also stated the facts and will help people of all age groups. this interim analysis of the phase 3 trial of sputnik showed 91.6 percent advocacy against the 19 and it was well tolerated in a large cohort our results show that there are 2 components vaccine was able to induce a virus neutralizing hue moral response in participants older than 60 years furthermore vaccine advocacy in this group of participants did not differ significantly from the africa so of the 18 to 60 years group. there's been a u. turn in attitudes towards this vaccine and this is somewhat surprising given how sustained and you know how big this this attack was on sputnik it was developed too quickly too many short cuts were taken quarters cut you know there was not enough proof that it was safe we heard it over and over everywhere

seemingly in the media from from various experts and people who dubbed themselves experts and now suddenly now that we have concrete data it turns out the russians were right it's safe it's safe and it's only one of 3 vaccines in the world with an efficacy of above 90 percent that is madonna and now sputnik the. test results what they shoot is that there are new severe allergic reactions they haven't been observed such as the ones that have that have battered the publicity regarding the pfizer vaccine people with you know a history of severe logic reactions being told to stay away and to weigh the walk. it's also as if he should be new young people those under 60 as it isn't over sixty's which is very important because over sixty's they have a weaker immune systems the ravages of time. so that is very good news for those

over 60 who are perhaps afraid of getting more concerned with side effects for from getting another vaccine. and it is cheaper it is much cheaper than alternatives to 3 times depending on the vaccine those there was even a journalist who took the vaccine from the new yorker and he route a big article about how it is changed you know it is changed he's sort of view on the panda. mc there's the fears god in late january i took a test for covert 1000 antibodies the results according to an interpretive scale provided by the clinic indicated that my antibody levels were probably sufficient to prevent illness the odds struck me as high but my own personal pandemic was nearing its end and this is you know what we're hearing from more and more

journalists and publications than those saying experts that want to stay away now saying well wait a 2nd this is this is a good alternative why it could be you know any number of reasons but the science the science of sound sputnik the a safe this is clearly good news as these your formulation vaccine is comparatively easy to manufacture and to deploy i mean they anticipated global shortage of vaccines and logistical problems in vaccination rollout. presently the world needs all the good vaccines that you can get against covered 19 and these are impressive results spawning v. is the 1st edina virus vector vaccine to achieve the 90 percent efficacy seen with the 2 m r n e vaccines so this could be a major contributing factor to them. turning on their attitudes towards the vaccine that is shortages mass shortages of other vaccines such as pfizer there's all

sorts of trouble problems and challenges in the supply chain in the production part and sputnik we is relatively simple to prove produce and to transport it requires much much less cold temperatures it doesn't require the sort of deep freeze that the fires of x.e. for example requires during transportation which makes it much more available in developing nations and in poorer nations as well so far dozens of countries have expressed an interest in more than 50 countries have preordered the vaccine already india loon in his pen did agreement to produce more than 100000000 doses of the sputnik that exceeds the czech republic for example now which is consultations with hungry hungry was the 1st european nation to greenlight the

vaccine so again a striking striking difference in attitudes towards food from what we saw back in september in november where. seemingly you know scrutiny was part of this this confrontation that is currently taking place between russia and various western countries and if it wasn't spared in the middle of the pandemic it wasn't spared you know being targeted seemingly politically. and very happy to welcome on to the program. dr david livermore professor of medical microbiology at the university of east anglia in the u.k. thanks very much for your time today the world health organization's regional director for europe has welcomed the results on sputnik as we were going through there published in the lancet do you think it's a step towards the vaccine being used further across europe. well that would be a question for the european bank you're late but what's clear from the lead insert

cation is that this is an effective vaccine it's achieved 91 percent protection when she's as good as the 2 messenger r.n.a. vaccines and it's well tolerated there's no clear no significant toxicity so those sorts of dates who all the things that the european regulates will look. has now been submitted to to the european regulates women in the sense of of assessing the dates and the story that our correspondent was just going through before we spoke to david just the prop to pick up on one of those points that there's been skepticism towards the sputnik vaccine its efficacy for quite a while now but the e.u. is going through problems regarding its supplies pfizer enough for zeneca sputniks being rolled out to many other countries and brussels has its eyes now firmly on

the russian job are there questions over politicizing medicine at the moment i think the whole covert story has been terribly politicized. virgie has levels of not being clear which with respect to both lockdowns and with regard to vaccines and it's tragic because it is the stalwart good scientific debate on each has led to allegations against vaccines which are not scientifically substantiated to the dates of published in the lancet show that sputnik is a good and effective vaccine and likewise i mean last week we saw really wild allegations from some senior european union politicians making be sot assertions about the. oxford vaccine which they could not substantiate it. oh yeah. 7

a big debate as you know at the moment between countries perhaps hoarding more vaccines than they need the developing part of the world not getting anywhere need what they need for perhaps the more vulnerable people in society do you think david that sputnik it's less expensive compared to some it's easier to produce in terms of storage and deploy in terms of fighting the pandemic globally it could this be a step now getting there lance that not of approval etc and getting it out there to the world certainly the world needs all the good vaccines that we can get it's no new sputnik efficacious but also critically it's a relatively easy vaccine to transport and croyde it can be stored at normal switch temperature wise the messenger r.n.a. vaccines which the only other ones that have the same death of the 5. need very cold storage and so one more difficult to cloy just the overall scope just to get

your thoughts on the cooperation between countries in the fight against covert 1900 there been enough. i think it's been very mixed have been good examples of altruism and endearment to killers shipping vaccines internationally presents at the same time one's heard the most most shocking spots including what appeared last week to be threats from the european union to disrupt the supplies of vaccines that the united kingdom it already bought how do you see that one playing and about the way the words between the e.u. in your london how do you think that's going to play out. well hopefully it is gradually good to be smoothed over was the worldwide supply of vaccines more good vaccines poor results yet. light comes on

stream hopefully that situation is going to through it's been a pleasure having you on the program thanks very much for your time and thoughts dr dave at livermore professor of medical microbiology at the university of east anglia in the u.k. . well we've been discussing the situation with krill dimitri of who is director of the russia direct investment fund this sovereign wealth fund back to the sputnik the vaccine he ses one of the main goals is guaranteeing equal distribution across the globe. this is really very important to call bush meant and we are thankful to the lands of that showed it's not driven by politics but it's driven by science it's driven by desire to really do good science and find a solution because there are always 3 big scenes now in the world was at the cost of more than 90 percent sputnik us one of them it's also a 100 percent efficient again severe disease we have very much focused on says

being but seen cause and current so because it's affordable and that doesn't require minus 70 degrees we have lots of countries in latin america in middle east and africa who will be using sport and it could be a vaccine and i think it's very important of most only reach countries get told those over it seems this is really not equitable as a world i think politicians overreach countries will try to do so but this will be a mechanism storyless have much more even and much more equal distribution or function the rounds the world and sputnik the is committed those of us we have already delivered what seemed bolger real ready delivered what seemed too good in the air so we had delivered what seemed to lights in america places a very elite moul on their served by the big scene of producers already would make these registered in 16 countries by the end of next week i think it will be reduced to than 25 countries we do have some production constraints so this year we can

probably supply only around 700000000 people dose us so that means one $101400000000.00 of those us was a big scene and countries of the approach and right now we can roll a supply this big scene inmate would june so basically we will not be the only flexing of the world of course with up until one of the best but countries need to have a portfolio of different but seems and reward with us of excellence as well for example what was authentic out to increase africa so they have a keen and we believe the spirit of partnership and works in cooperation with some porton. to another issue that's got a lot of pain. bull talking today the e.u. law enforcement agency europol has issued a warning about the illegal production and distribution of fake covert 19 test certificates with many countries requiring as you know a negative test to enter the agency believes criminal groups are taking advantage of the situation several cases already been identified across the continent keeping

an eye on what's happening there europe correspondent peter oliver the significance are used in order for people to show that they've had a negative test before they get on an airplane or travel anywhere around the european union now what europol the european union's law enforcement agency is saying is that criminals a looking to exploit that and producing these fake negative test results these fake cove it's a terrific it's they've just posted a forgery ring operating near to show that all airports in france there's also being the forgery rings broken open the united kingdom similar operations in spain in the netherlands as well the city if it gets changing hands from anywhere between 40 euros and woods of $300.00 euros europol themselves say that they expect the criminals to keep out they say as long as the city if it gets the necessary for travel. the detection of feet covered $900.00 tests of the kids

confirms the criminal sees profitable of chooses once theorized as long as travel restrictions remain in place due to the covered $1000.00 situation it's highly likely that production and sales of the test a typical will prevail or vaccines are also a big topic of discussion here in europe right now and angela merkel the german chancellor hosted a virtual vaccine summit from here in berlin on monday evening the message coming out from that meeting is that things will take time but they're on the right track as far as she's concerned now there's still recriminations coming out from the spot last week that's really continued into this week between the european union and vaccine manufacturer astra zeneca and the united kingdom basically the e.u. upset that it's not going to get the amount of vaccines or masters anika that it thought it was going to get and it's going to take longer for them to get those in the whole discussion angle of merkel is pretty much set itself up as the good cop

saying things will take time we're on the right track bad cop in this case has been a minute on the french president he's not happy that the united kingdom has continued to receive the supplies of the vaccine while in countries like france like portugal and like spain vaccine programs have had to be suspended because there aren't enough jobs and money one micron saying london needs to pick its friends imagine the british finish their vaccine campaign successfully what will they do stop european lorries from entering when there is a total dependence on the continent good luck half pregnant is not a concept what policy does great britain wish to choose it cannot be the close us ally of the us the closest ally of the e.u. and the new singapore it has to choose a model of the plan when it comes to vaccinating the e.u. isn't going to be short work it would seem following that summit on monday night also set to come this month is the european medicines agencies view on whether the russian sputnik v. vaccine can be used inside the european union the german health minister yen spahn

has said that he'd be willing to use that as part of germany's vaccination program once it gets that rubber stamp at some point in february. now a number of restaurants in france opened their doors on monday in defiance of coronavirus measures that have been in place in the country since october although 'd some restrictions have since been lifted cafes and restaurants are still not able to host diners surely the reports. push a pair on and we'll see. since october this is been the extent of service available at restaurants and cafes in france takeaway only but as the memphis have tried get on with the new reopening dating site same owners have decided to welcome customers inside defiance of the couvade 19 regulations. i'm doing this for liberty and for. the frenchman that is no longer respected i am

not able to work so i have no freedom and open he did. talk when it came to the crunch he settled on a compromise. so we will serve food to people it says restaurant today i won't be able to reopen food if i did i would lose my composition follow says over and see my restaurant closed or go to prison his cool has spread across the country and other restaurants have followed suit since now at the end of january 1 christoph wilcke. his establishment in nice to around 50 customers yet. christoph wilson's protest was sure lived on the doors to poppies were once closed again but his lawyer is now taking his petition directly to president michel. i wrote an

open email to say stop to self isolation rooms are cessation received over 100000 messages in 48 hours french people can no longer do this mr president here in paris true there have also been raids on so-called destroying restaurants now there were reports of this one behind me lenox over the weekend was uncovered with many others now amongst the clientele were allegedly french magistrates with no being fined 135 year. yes but as you can see it's still in print now the i don't know wouldn't give an interview but told me off camera that diners had only eaten on the cover as it was raining and he also disputed that some were not just straight but support full believe business is has been growing on social media now many of the restaurants and said that they too would be opening service for customers at the start of february however with very little support from unions and a warning from the government if you did and where does joe public fall in all of

this do they want their favorite eateries to reopen or do they think it's better to keep the shutters down and those of us i don't find it normal that stories are open and restaurants are not so many if we maintain social distancing and respect the rules the reste for restaurants will do the same as for a stool suddenly we don't have a choice i would like very much for them to open but i think for the safety of everyone we need to make some sacrifices to stop the virus and live normally. moscow court is expected to announce its verdict shortly following a request from russian prosecutors to jail opposition figure alexina felony for up to 3 years over alleged parole violations you're watching live pictures from moscow city court where mr novelli his legal team and supporters have entered the

courtroom after a short absence they are now awaiting the verdict now at all follows 2 weekends of protests across the country in support of the kremlin critic reporting earlier from outside the court of. so election of ali he is in the building right behind me where the judge will be delivering the verdict and deciding whether or not he will have his suspended sentence swapped for a real one now the russian opposition figure he seems to be in a good mood his making a lot of jokes like for instance he asked his wife julia as to what's going on on twitter saying that he has withdrawal symptoms from not being able to go online and basically it's only journalists and police here in the direct vicinity of the court because this whole area has been cordoned off there's a few dozen people just outside the court it's difficult to tell whether or not they're just you know passes by and though just do you know busybodies or genuinely protesters and supporters of alexina vali so essentially this is what we're waiting

for for a verdict and this whole case well it's it goes all the way back to 2014 back then the kremlin critic was found guilty of embezzle meant so he received a 3 and a half year suspended sentence and a 5 year probation period basically the prosecution right now is saying that in those 5 years election of ali violated the conditions of this was this probation period about 60 times now the defense in turn is saying that the case is politically motivated now there has been a lot of hype about the detention of alexina vali when he received his 1st like 30 day detention sentence. to his supporters to rally in the streets and so a lot of people they listened and they took to the streets basically none of those protests across russia were authorized by the authorities so there were we have seen some scuffles and violence from both the protesters and the police and

thousands of people have been detained but we'll have to see which side will the judge takes a day. meanwhile germany and france have locked horns over par assess call to scrap the north stream to the gas pipeline project citing than of only kings it was going to go deep as we have always said we have the greatest concerns about the project. you've been is the big one the federal government said in the last few days that it has not changed its position on this project. the french government's demand to halt construction of nordstrom to is unreasonable and wrong stopping the already approved project would burden german gas customers and taxpayers due to higher gas prices and compensation payments for investments that have already been made or the construction of the russian german gas pipeline was recently resumed after being on hold for almost a year due to american sanctions more than 90 percent of the project is completed

we got the thoughts from political commentator thomas fassbender french member of the european parliament to remarry early on the latest developments in fortunately i think europe won't be. the best suited. 'd for america and. even if french company is involved in this project i see it's not a problem for marco and you know it so it's. european union said every single most people read every single message be more or. go to chic in fact 'd if we stop this project it will be shared guess we sprung from america less independence less security chic it is just me i think europe is muslim schist deny that sort of this isn't i'm convinced that there is

a larger political maneuver or intrigue behind this we have a french energy corporation which is owned by the french state to 25 percent of which is owned by the french state as part of the north stream to project so rather here france works against their own economic interests so i would say there is a clear political background no economic background here and nothing that well i would say that is related to the competition between different energy electricity generation forms live from moscow this is r.t. international not a quite extraordinary life lived a century ago but one that resonates very much when today's comment centric times stay tuned for our documentary virus whisperer beginning moments.

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