russian opposition figure head. is sentenced to 3 years in jail for parole conditions. disconnected from reality russia's foreign ministry brother did calls from the west. and movie it really. opened up over the vaccine gets this seal of approval in one of the world's foremost independent medical journals. with researchers stating that there's over 90 percent effective and well tolerated.

just a few moments into a brand new day here in moscow where the 3rd of february welcome to the are to news are my names you know. our top story a moscow court sentenced a russian opposition figure lexeme avali to 3 and a half years in jail for parole violations the kremlin critic will actually serve 2 years and 8 months after a time under harsh arrest is called into consideration his team called on supporters to rally in moscow is just some pictures from the russian capital right now a sizable police presence just some meters away from the red square well let's cross live now to the center of the couple. is there a following developments for us from describe the situation what's happening where

you are. i'm looking at the bolshoi theatre and fun in the right now the kremlin is right behind me you can see quite a lot of traffic going by a lot of people honking out who are they honking for it's difficult to say because all i can see out here is the police presence and very few people as well just pedestrians walking around i haven't seen any protests at this point in particular but according to reports and videos from various places near here few people have been saying to this i'm sanctioned rally but see here near the kremlin everything is being quiet the police cordoned off this area very quickly so once again i can hear honking because of traffic people wanting to go

home however detentions it did happen a little bit earlier and once again is due to the unsanctioned rally cold by the followers. seen them on the deceased to protest the decision the court which happened earlier today which was. put him behind bars for for at least 2 and a half years after that few people decided to come out here on the streets of moscow. hundreds some detentions did take place however here near the kremlin near the bolshoi theater everything is quiet so calm besides the honking of course. thanks rob remind give us a sense of what's happening in one part of central moscow. lexeme vali was originally handed his 3 year sentence back in 2014 although it was suspended

but no corresponding went through a judge has said that about sentence should stand up the moscow city court for us all throughout the day. and he filed this report. it took 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 got his suspended sentence reversed to a real one he got 3 and a half years in prison or the court has decided to deduct the time that he had previously spent under house arrest and now we've seen election of only 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 sun travel 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 has been completely cold and 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 hard khulna valmy fans so we'll have to see how many will show up to central moscow

we have seen 2 consecutive weekends tens of thousands of people are gathered after an election of only himself called them to show up call them to swarm the. crete's 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 the school it was the school to to assemble it was illegal it violated the russian law about well about mass protests and the so they deemed those protests while un 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 he still 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 alexina valley are

demanding his release moscow described the reaction as a chain of political staging. we reiterate our call for the russian government to immediately and unconditionally release mr no vani 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 volley and all of the peaceful protesters and journalists arrested over the last 2 weeks or independent political analyst go over doctorow told me that the reaction of western nations he failed as a convenient way to draw attention away from their own problems at home. with

various governments will come out to criticize the ground war and the russian treatment at war they are acting as we could have predicted just as the kremlin has acted as. a patient in a prison which is done everything possible to deserve the the west meaning in particular the united states. and to a lesser degree germany are being leaders in a propaganda move if there were fire russia and to draw attention away from the un and seemingly political developments in the west going back to the storming of the capital which was quite monsters compared to anything that's happened in russia in the last. the weekend there were demonstrations 23 maybe more sort of demonstrations but i want to quote tension to a commonality you just think should train the kind of protests that we see in russia and what is going on in the world at large. to more world

news today 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 has received its 1st batch of sputnik me it was the 1st the e.u. nation to earlier approve the job done by millions of doses separately sputnik vias over 90 percent effective well tolerated according to results published in the lancet medical journal the study also stated the vaccine will help people of all the age group. 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 faxing 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 efficacy 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 so 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 19 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 move 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 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 his pended agreement to produce more than 100000000 doses of the sputnik that exceeds the czech republic for example now which would consultations with hungry hungry was the 1st european nation the green light the vaccine so again a striking striking difference in attitudes towards me 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. quarter of an hour into the program

still ahead dollar trance. political future in the balance with his impeachment trial drew in a week of the debate what lies ahead for the former u.s. president out there this sure. seems wrong. when old rules just don't hold. me. to shape out just they become advocates and engagement equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. the world is driven by a dream shaped by. the

jerry thinks. we dare to ask. with donald trump of the oval office some comedians are struggling to find new material for their sketches and while many saw the former president as for again it

appears the new administration in washington is pretty much off limits artes to me treat poke as more. how do you make fun of a sitting presidents well in 2021 if you're sick comedian or a circle sketch show that is known for making fun of everything and everyone well then the answer is simple very carefully or maybe not at all when we had the orange man trashing in 247 was practically a necessity it was speaking truth to power and blah blah blah blah blah but now that joe biden is in office things are very different saturday night live is looking for a fresh face to do their weekly per trade deals of the presidents they had jim carrey doing it throughout the election but now that joe biden has ascended to sainthood well they need to tone it down a notch i want to release man. i'm never felt so alive which is ironic because i'm not down to lie. i mean they can just mock him sure that's what they did with

trump for the past 4 years but that was different from head small hands he was orange he tweeted a lot said mean things could be moved thank you thank you for coming to watch my victory speech to emerge. as anyone who does have way through tuesday knows i was reelected president of the united states. with joe joe's a good guy joe here is very mean chris wallace is mean to the economy is me be keep using job which is me jimmy. the china virus has been very mean to be by being a hoax and come on it's just not polite to make fun of how people look how they talk and joe doesn't even tweet the guy is a saint so no no mocking of joe biden everything he says and does is gospel and besides people today are already having a hard time telling the difference between reality and satire so making fun of st

joe would only send mixed signals to an already confused audience. meanwhile donald trump's political future is on the line now his impeachment trial loons some predict his career is over for good but others are adamant that comeback is just a matter of time for more insight into this we're joined live now on the program by the host of the pseudo intellectual podcast lauren chin doesn't make albums from the ron paul institute dr michael rect unwalled a retired liberal studies professor at new york university and author of thought criminal you're all very welcome michael can we kick off with you does donald trump have a future in u.s. politics i would say that it depends on whether he is able to turn the tables on the capitol hill riots and whether this is ascribed strictly to his followers or whether there are some things that are actually the case come out that probably the riots were not in instigated by his followers at all and in fact where

probably it was probably gated by some of his detractors and in fact this is coming to the surface but i think he has to be exonerated from the capital riot in order to be able to clear his name to make any place for him. or he has a following he still has the support of many millions of americans but with the media and social media and every other basic institution the united states aligned against him it would be why i log yeah a lot of pick some of what you're saying through the course of the conversation lauren with donald trump facing impeachment again where does that leave him and indeed the republican party they're already out of the white house they're the minority in congress. well i think it's important to understand exactly why democrats are still going through with this impeachment a lot of people might see that the president trump is no longer in office and think

that it's pointless but i think they're being very calculated here don't forget that if democrats successfully impeach donald trump he will be ineligible to run in 2024 and i think that's what this is all about so people might be talking about donald trump being over in politics but the democrats i think clearly do not think that and we also need to remember that a majority of republicans still think that the election results in 2020 were fraudulent you know donald trump being on the ticket in elections has made a huge difference for difference for republicans and we just look and see what happened in the georgia runoff when trump was not on the tickets and republicans by and large stayed home so i think if anyone is trying to count out donald trump whether they be on the right or the left that's a mistake. done you know if donald trump is not impeached and tries to get reelected again in 2024 will the republican party support him could he be kingmaker . when you have to look at it 2 ways through the reason why trump is hated so much within his own party is he treated by the part of the party that's within the

washington beltway hated by the elites of the party because the elites of the party are terrified populism they're terrified of a populist leader because they themselves are actually not liking the fact that trump is very well liked by millions of americans terrifies them that's one of the reasons why you see people like kevin mccarthy now flocking back to talk to trump they're fraid of him the same thing they did with the ron paul movement which is similarly popular but not philosophically of course the same so could he come back he will not be impeached the votes are not there we already know that procedural vote that senator paul called for last week when only 5 republicans peeled away and the republicans are starting to feel the heat from americans for turning on from so the votes are not there ironically as has happened throughout the least the last 5 years or so every con the democrats attempt to do something to destroy it actually only make them stronger and i think this impeachment the ask the sham will have the

same effect for trump it will actually make him stronger in the end michael let's pick up some of the and also he's getting president there's no precedence for what's currently unfolding but in any case he was saying he's got the followers in the heartland but does he need high profile supporters well and is he just to talk sick for that will he get donors eccentric. well well we have seen the removal of several people that were supporters or seemingly his supporters like mitch mcconnell they have defected from the trump camp and i think kevin is right they're trying to put this populism out of the republican party bloodstream and they really want to get rid of it for them has caused a tremendous disruption because trump represents something that they don't have any interest in they don't have an interest in him in populism or the. basic.

premise principles that trump supports which is america 1st this is not really america 1st is not really in theater in their interests they have a completely different agenda they really only put up with trump because they had to because of his past. support so i think that it's going to be boy it's going to have quite an impact going to take effect inside of the party if you should try to run again but lauren the g.o.p. the machine could argue look he lost the election we need somebody who might win an election we need to go more mainstream well i think if any g.o.p. operative believes that they need to look at their track record i mean we saw what happened when they tried to choose mitt romney flip flop mitt who is very very milk toast he did not win and actually even in 2016 we we can't forget that the republican party was not united behind donald trump in terms of the insiders donald trump was a pick that was purely by the people and republican establishment can keep trying

to float people like get mitt romney in our faces or even someone like lisa collins or macao ski but that is just by and large not where the party is headed right now throughout his presidency trump has maintained or had maintained an approval rating in the ninety's which i mean is just crazy to think of and i would i only shudder to think what it might have been without the constant negative press coverage so i mean ultimately we'll. primaries in 2024 it's not going to be up to the establishments to choose who the next candidate will be and i hope that people turn out in droves to vote for who they think is the strongest candidate not who they think people like mitch mcconnell and kevin mccarthy want to charge done through a crazy idea to it's 2021 so hey could a new trump party see the pictured part i know they distance themselves from it somewhat but a new party could they lure perhaps non-mainstream parties and their supporters

such as one you know well the libertarian party to come together under one umbrella and propel them into some where they haven't been the front line of u.s. politics creating a 3rd viable 3rd force a true force i don't see that happening and the reason is the republican and democratic parties they both collude to keep out you know we have probably one of the most corrupt political systems on earth in many ways it's not because they're divided now it's not because they're divided they're united not in keeping a 3rd party out in fact it's going to paul would say we need a 2nd party because when it comes to the big things war overseas well here at home both parties completely agree i'm not very optimistic that a co called patriot party would be good on any of the things that libertarians care about probably would have a very robust war like one policy and you probably have a lot of a lot of spending inside so i don't see that as a viable option i don't think president ex-president trump sees that as a viable option either i think he sees the republican party as the vehicle to

continue the movement that he started in in 2016 michael can we just go back to something you said at the start of this donald trump is bombing from most major social media platforms they were his main political tools he cut out the middlemen the media he went straight to the people will not prevent him getting his message out in future. well if he starts another platform you may have a chance and there's talk of that of course but indeed it is quite difficult now that he's been boxed out all of the major social media platforms and really the media in general and they're the filter for the media so you know with all of these forces aligned against him it's going to be quite difficult to really emerge or reemerge i should say as a viable option i think he has the support but we've seen with the last election even though he had a tremendous backing of actual voters that he was still shut out of office because

of various. electoral and other issues that probably had a lot to do with his being unsuccessful in this last run so he's running against the entire political establishment the entire media stablish meant the social media that was meant to be running against basically all the powers that be and i just don't know that he has that kind of force to overcome such obstacles lauren right now there's a toxicity out there isn't there is there a level where either major u.s. party will drop below for the sake of political points is it a lasting stain on america's legacy both at home and around the world what's happening right now you punch low we'll go lower it seems to be the way it is. well i mean if we just look at what representative alexandria ocasio cortez recently said in an instagram lie trying to link ted cruz to a past sexual abuser of hers insinuating that republicans shared the same tactics

as abusive boyfriends and actually accusing republican representatives of trying to get her killed it does not seem like the new biden ministration will be ushering any elevated civility in our political discourse which is really to disappointing for a long time the left has pointed fingers at president trump saying that he is the reason for all of this nastiness that we're seeing in washington but now that he's no longer president and the nastiness seems here to stay i think we see that that is simply not true and i mean to continue on that i would actually say that republicans by and large have kept their hands relatively clean for better or worse what i would actually like to see is some offensive coming from people like ted cruz who have now been accused of again attempted murder by representative ocasio cortez it just seems like no matter how low democrats go republicans are trying to play the high road for some reason or another down the old the last 20 seconds to you is at the end of trump or not no it's not the end of trump and the reason why

it's not you can kill by this impeachment they're not interested in getting him out of office because he's out of office they're interested in finding a way to prevent him from running what are they afraid of why are they so afraid of him he can't have social media can't be on the media their freedom allowing him to speak they're afraid of allowing him to appeal that means there is a huge appeal that trump retains to this day he still very dangerous to his enemies both within the democratic and the republican party he will be a force to be reckoned with in the future if you desire to be host of the pseudo intellectual podcast laurentian retired liberal studies professor at new york university dr michael reckoned walt mccallum's from the ron paul institute thank you all very much thank you. this is our to international more great program going right now. for you monday night as you know the truth could be the answer to senior citizens you're going to be as an economist.