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by opening their doors and surfing. around the clock across the world welcome to our international my names you know pleasure of your company. we begin with breaking news a moscow court sentence russian opposition figure out. to 3 years in jail for parole violations the kremlin critic will actually serve 2 years and 8 months after time under house arrest is taken into consideration he was arrested upon his return from germany in late january. i was out the moscow court for us. so the court the whole day to you know go through all the procedures and to deliver the verdict of and finally it happened in the building right behind me election of ali god he's suspended sentence reversed to a real one regards 3 and

a half years in prison and the court has decided to duck the time that he had previously spent under house arrest now we've seen election of ali's a wife julia go that way down the street and his her and her husband election of ali he was taken down this street to well to the place where he will be serving his sentence his defense has already said that they will be appealing this decision it also has been a cool hearing like well no other at least for russia because right now you can in the building behind me there are embassy there are several embassy cars so several embassy cause they took representatives of several countries to witness the hearing for instance representatives of the u.k. of switzerland sweden and many other nations in fact for russia this is quite unprecedented now the supporters of election of ali they have already released a cool out there for all election of all these followers to descend on some troll

more school right outside the kremlin and world to make their voices heard to protest to demand the release of the kremlin critic in fact this whole area as you may see has been completely cold and off and well only those who work in the media and those who have hearings here only those people were allowed inside the premises and outside the perimeter about we have reports of about 2 to 300 people detained those some hardcore never found the fans so we'll have to see how many will show up to central moscow now essentially if the protest happens it will be the 2nd it will be yet another day i should say of protests in moscow we have seen 2 consecutive weekends tens of thing. thousands of people gathered after an election of only himself called them to show up call them to swarm the streets now tens of thousands of people showed up we saw violence on both sides and thousands of people were

detained basically the authorities are saying that this school this call to assemble it was illegal it violated the russian law about about mass protests and the so they deemed those protests while on sanctioned unauthorized hence the large number of those detained but in fact if you could hear probably in the background a policeman with a mouthpiece basically what he was saying and so will be saying he's telling us meet the media to clear out because well that's it for today at least some western governments have condemned the court's ruling on the election of ali and are demanding his release moscow described the reaction as a change of political staging. we reiterate our call for the russian government to immediately and unconditionally release miss them over me as well as the hundreds

of other russian citizens wrongfully detained in recent weeks for exercising their rights including the rights to freedom of expression and of peaceful assembly today's verdict against seen a violent is a bitter blow against fundamental freedoms and the rule of law in russia alexina valley must be released immediately the u.k. calls for the immediate and unconditional release of alexina vali and all of the peaceful protesters and journalists arrested over the last 2 weeks. across live to independent political unless gilbert doctorow always good to see you just on the reaction we've been going through gilbert as they move on the verdict was announced there were there was really an eye crying no other way to describe it from countries such as the u.s. the u.k. all of them seemingly calling for his immediate release what's your what's your take on the reaction. there's an expression what they would say that wouldn't.

many have said various governments will come out to criticize the washington or treatment of war. or acting as we could have predicted just as the crime of his articles of. patients in prison which is. possible to his or. the the west meaning particular the united states. u.k. and to a lesser degree germany are being leaders in a propaganda move to vilify russia and to georgia tension away from the un seemingly political jealousy in the west going back to the storming of the capital which was quite monstrous compared to anything that's happened in russia in the last few. weekends there were demonstrations to free the vulnerable to more severe damage stations but i want to call attention to a commonality and i just think should mean the kind of protests that we see in

russia what is going on in the world at large because russia is not exist is actually last week we saw violent demonstrations in holland against confinement overcovered we saw violent demonstrations over the weekend in france in many cities with thousands of people involved with hundreds of arrests over the new state security law and over continued to find it all over the last week there were biology ministrations about we knew about abortion back the commonality between these events and what's happened in russia in the last week or last 10 days over not always arrests and what will happen in the coming weeks is very simple these are all one way or another demonstrations a population of. just trust one broad swath of the population against elites. in russia that elite happens to be the kremlin but in other

countries they're also it will be by use the word plural because the roguish several each in one of each country there are political elites or business elites or cultural oh it's so the various of the but i think we're talking about political elites in these protests they said this coming our way was also a distinction the. protests we've seen going back 3 weeks in united states in holland in poland in france in belgium we had protests here of confinement and several 100 people were arrested here in brussels this weekend at railway stations or coming out to protest against confinement these are all as i said. the place of opposition what is happening in washington is not popular during simple it is it is for men to live in what was then that is encouraged by play books that are coming from united states from the u.k.

and to a lesser extent from germany which plays along very nicely with the whole saga of the volume each case can i can i perhaps just go ask on the point it's been widely reported killed but that foreign diplomats were present off the court today in the film these are russian nationals in a russian court why were they there. this is a declarative political statement it's trying to place the vallone in a similar scale on a similar pedestal with the fighters for freedom in russia as on the soviet union's test which also received support from the diplomatic missions in the soviet union at that point so it's a reversal we're in a. newly created cold war and behavior of western embassies is reverting in with respect to meddling in russian affairs to what went on in the

area and that statement the united states based on it will coordinate closely what allies to hold russia cunto for failing to uphold the rights of its innocence in your opinion does this translate really to fresh sanctions against moscow. i wouldn't expect. severe practical consequences from the propaganda but rather that washington and joe biden in particular are putting up presently and will continue to put up with these and i think that the the hallmarks of the bite ministration will be intensified language intensified jawboning intensified. propaganda bursts but i don't believe that in any essential matter whose use of trajan the question of what to do about what stream. it what to do about swift all possibilities for punishing russia i don't believe they will be

implemented because washington is interested in atmospheres but not in. going into into a nuclear confrontation or any other military confrontation with russia because they know the score the within the european theater the strength is on the russian side not on the natives so they be entirely foolish to take any unnecessary risks by going beyond. verbal attacks good to have you on the program as always in the pen and political analyst calvert doctorate speaking to our to international i.q. . to moving the program on mexico has become the latest country to sign up to use russia's covert 1000 vaccine with millions of doses set to be delivered in the near future at the same time hungry has received its 1st sponsor of sputnik fee it

was in fact the 1st e.u. nation to earlier approve the job and by millions of doses separately sputnik the house received approval by researchers in the lancet medical journal you have concluded it's over 90 percent effective and well tolerated the study also stated the facts in will help people of all age groups. this interim analysis of the phase 3 trial of 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 vacs an 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 you know how big this this attack was was

developed too quickly too many short cuts were taken corners 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 who were 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 pfizer. and now sputnik we saw the test results what the 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 odd 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 move produce and to transport it requires much much worse less cold temperatures it doesn't require the sort of deep freeze that the fires of for example requires during trial 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 this bootleg seat 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. let's welcome to the program david or in. associate professor of microbiology and immunology at that wake forest school of medicine in the u.s. good to see you the w.h.o. is regional director for europe as well as german chancellor angela merkel welcome

they sputnik the results published in the lancet but just months ago as our correspondent was going through european officials essentially this missed out of the e.u. using sputnik is this a lesson in not politicizing health. i certainly agree with that i feel we need cooperation widespread that is well beyond nationalism and so perhaps that was an unnecessary element of a little science in medicine sputnik appears to be less expensive easier to produce and deploy than the other vaccines that's the pros of it could it be a breakthrough is not hyperbole or is the natural fact almost that it could be a breakthrough in the speed of fighting the pun demick globally if it's widely accepted. you know i do agree with that i think one significant advantage is that it was discussed earlier is that there's a need for a culture that is the staging can be transported more simply and more quickly and

more widely and therefore is of greater use across the world so this is certainly an event that is there for me part of the big puzzle that will solve this worldwide pandemic and a very good part of the puzzle and another part of the puzzle has been the cooperation day of our lock all of it between countries in the fight against covert 19 you're for see more of that happening in 2021 because there wasn't a whole lot of it last year. i genuinely hope the cooperation continues to increase to be honest there's always need for more cooperation that all issues worldwide but this in particular needs it but actually it's a little heart warming for me to see the degree of cooperation that has been while we in fact this is why i'm part of this organ helping and so i see this continuing and if it only continues it will be about greed advantage for the world as well as for future use of bechstein is derived from the stage and that's being used and would be developing nations i would suggest as well might get more of the benefit

from it than other nations absolutely and in fact i believe that the vaccine is currently formulated in the mains that transports liquid in 4 degrees but it also may be freeze dried under those conditions it could be been transported further and more efficient mean that would be great news for the world as well well let's hope it is a significant step david or nels associate professor of microbiology and immunology at the wake forest school of medicine thanks for your time thank you. for watching r.t. coming up the use of law enforcement agency issues a warning about the sale of fake over one thing to certificates of a criminal seeking to profit from the pandemic that story and more in moments. join me everything on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to the world of

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minutes past 10 pm here in moscow welcome back the law enforcement agency europol issued a warning about the illegal production and distribution of fake coal bed 19 test certificates with many countries requiring us i'm sure you know a negative test to enter the agency believes criminal groups are taking advantage of the situation several cases in fact have already been identified across the continent here's our europe correspondent peter oliver. the certificate 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 they call 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 fits changing hands from anywhere between 40 euros and up woods of 300 euros europol themselves say that they expect the criminals to keep out they say as long as the city if it gets a necessary for travel. the detection of feet covered $900.00 tests of the kids confirms the criminal sees profitable of chooses ones theorize 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 testator because 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 put her on the right track as far as she's concerned now there's still recriminations coming out from the spot last week that 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 a self 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 bear 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 closest 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. a number of restaurants in france opened their doors on monday in defiance of the stricter coronavirus

measures that have been in place in the country for 3 months although some restrictions have been lifted since october slumped on cafes and restaurants they're still not able to host diners the report. more to push. play on the laundry see. since october this is been the extent of service available at restaurants and cafes in france takeaway only but as the men served dragged on with no reopening dating site same owners have decided to welcome customers inside in defiance of the couvade 19 regulations. i'm doing this for liberty and for. the frenchman that is no longer respected i'm not able to work so i have no freedom and open he did sue 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 all the restaurants have followed suit since now at the end of january 1 christophe will feel i'm bringing his establishment in nice to around 50 customers yet. christophe wilson's protest was short lived and the doors to poppies were once closed again but his roy 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 2 there have also been raids on so-called destroying restaurants there were reports

of this one behind me lennox 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 there were no 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 just beat it that some were not just straight but support full believe good 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 that 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 risk 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 on more great programs get going in moments here on our to find out what is showing where you are today after the shortest off breaks buy from me for not. well you know things are gone topsy turvy the markets are undergoing a severe and selection point and those on the periphery are now driving the center . it's wacko time but much stated let's get into it.

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