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government and by opening their doors and serving diners. from the world this is pleasure to have your company my names you know neil alone welcome. a most school court sentenced russian opposition figure alexina valmy 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 house arrest is taken into consideration the felonies team called on his supporters to immediately rally in moscow as a result hundreds of people took to the streets to protest against the sentence a large police force was the ploy in the city and it's reported more than $100.00 arrests were made authorities say police have since cleared all the demonstrators from the center. of the russian capital. were actually in

a mali was originally handed his 3 and a half year sentence back in 2014 although it was suspended. of wasn't the moscow court as the ruling was handed down on choose the. 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 on 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 sunday 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 vonnie 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. greets 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 or 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

for some western governments have condemned the court's ruling alexina velie are demanding his release moscow described the reaction as a change of political state and. 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. let's cross live to nicol america vetch political analyst speaking to us today in

france good to have you on the program only supporters western nations there crying foul claiming the trail in terms of the case was a farce is that in the way surprising to you. well of course it's well actually no it's not surprising it's just the hypocrisy of the west as we know it and this is it at its finest how can the west give lessons that to russia when we see the way for example the yellow vest the movement was treated in france $3000.00 political opponents during these demonstrations were condemned in france $1000.00 political opponents were imprisoned and emanuel management tonight saying is that novelli must be released or why didn't he start himself by releasing french political prisoners and his political opponents the same thing for the u.k. how can the u.k. be offended when you know that one of the most famous political prisoners in the world today julian asuncion is really literally rotting in a prison where he doesn't have proper kerry doesn't have blankets now in the winter

season to protect him what wrong as he then he's just a political pawn and he's in a prison and the u.k. is talking about an avanti what else can we say what about saudi arabia look at saudi arabia jamal khashoggi prominent political appointee he was he was dismembered with a bone star in the consulate of saudi arabia and turkey did we see the west say anything against saudi arabia did we see sanctions did we see any condemnations we saw nothing so this is typical western hypocrisy and they want to use this case against the valley for political motives that's that's a certainty the russian foreign ministry has said western nations should essentially keep their noses out of the country's internal affairs that's not going to happen as it. no it's not definite i mean there is the look at the coincidence yesterday a couple days now actually was yesterday france said that because it involved the affair germany and russia should stop the north stream to pipeline what a coincidence of 24 hours later saying then of only must be released they're using

this for political motives definitely we see that in the us the political situation has changed with the arrival of biden and they wanted they want to start some upheaval and russia and they're going to use this nirvana case against russia they don't like russia getting closer to the to the europe to europe they don't like russia giving and not getting better distribution gas which of the western europe they don't like what russia is doing and the middle east so they're using this to try to set the russians out of the tried to use this as a sort of political operation actually so that the west has a bad image of russia and that different big. i would say partnership that russia is going undergoing with western nations collapse that's the real narrative behind this is just a political operation from the west on the western side and you even mentioned france it had been somewhat nuance before but now that language as you say in the last 48 hours or so very direct against against moscow do you think more sanctions

are inevitable now is about the next their peer where can a used to it but it's going to happen again do you think. france's position has definitely changed and this is what the arrival of the biden it's an administration there's no doubt about that during trump of france was they had a more i would say moderate posture with with russia and that that seems to be changing can there be more sanctions maybe however we know that. as of prominent economists have proven that this is what they call friendly fire is that these sanctions are hurting a bit russia but they're not hurting russia as much as they're critiquing european nations because european nations are the ones who are losing on that from an economic per perspective they're the ones who are not so. there are there products to russia and russia on the other hand it well it's building its own industry is building its own culture it's not depending on the on foreign countries anywhere anymore so the west is losing can the u.s. convince can buy this new administration convinced europe to impose new sanctions

this could be the question because at the end of the day the europeans are going to be sanctioned not the russians just to sum up until they vent their last few weekends we've seen large scale protests in russia over novell least attention many cities now he's been jailed for more than 2 years how do you think this is going to play out we have about 20 seconds michael. i think that for me i think the u.s. is going to use be using these images they're going to try to protect the russia as a as a state which does not respect democracy there's a lot of hypocrisy behind all of this i think definitely we're going to find some sort of or other image for russia. from the russian state in any case they have to get to this cameras are no value this is going to be a big issue for russia in the west i think they're going to continue this until they can her they're going to be put in and russia because that's the end game of this new american bride and ministration that's for sure as always thank you very much for your time and your thoughts nicole america's political analyst live from

paris 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 v. in fact the hungry was the 1st e.u. nation to earlier approve the job and by millions of doses separately sputnik thing is over 90 percent effective and well tolerated according to results published in the month said medical journal the study also stated the vaccine 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

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 the 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 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 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. now sputnik 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. 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 and 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 same experts that want us to stay away now saying well wait a 2nd this is this is a good alternative why could be you know any number of reasons but the science the science of sound scrutiny the a safe this is clearly good news as these your formulation vaccine is comparatively easy to manufacture and to deploy i mean the 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 booth 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 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 in his pen did agreement to produce more than 100000000 doses of the sputnik that exceed the czech republic for example now in which a good consultations with hungry hungry was the 1st european nation to greenlight the scrutiny of 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. a number of medical experts we spoke to think that international relations has had a major influence on how the pandemic has been fought largely in a negative way so far. the are on a vaccine which are so highly efficacious are very difficult to start that to be kept that you know is a minus 20 on mine is a decrease which makes it close to impossible to distribute them in less developed countries they also like spencer. so there is a kid then his 1st book neatly which is said this is not quite as a few cases change in us was that it government seems it's going to start in the fridge for several months which makes it so much easier to distribute and that's really crucial right now yes facing globally distribution is there supply is use unfortunately missed every vaccine right now and what i'm hoping is that we can all just for politics aside and that logic seen many effect as which at present find

some point in ya. get involved and start making moves scenes that have shown efficacy i think the whole covert story has been terribly politicized. various levels and not being clear which with respect to both lockdowns and with regard to vaccines and it's tragic because it has destroyed good scientific debate on its has alleged to allegations against vaccines which are not scientifically substantiate did 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 the solid assertions about the us through seneca. oxford's vaccine which they could not substantiate.

but we also spoke to cruel dimitrios director of the russian direct investment fund which is backing a sputnik the vaccine he said is one of the main goals is going to 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 seeing flows of mankind 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 only reach countries get told those of it seems this is really not equitable as

a world i think politicians overreach countries will try to do so but there should 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 great just that than 25 countries we do have some production constraints so this year we can probably supply only around 700000000 people those us so that means 101 point $4000000000.00 of those us observing seeing and countries approach and right now we can melissa plight is a big scene inmate would june so basically we will not be the only flexing of the world of course with the one of the best but countries need to have

a portfolio of different but seems and woodward was of excellence as well for example award his office and the up to increase africa so they have a theme and we believe the spirit of partnership and works in cooperation with some porton. still ahead be he use law enforcement agency issues are. warning about the sale of fake. certificates with criminals seeking to profit from the pandemic we. were in a moment. wow you know things are gone topsy turvy the markets are undergoing a severe inspection point and those on the periphery are now driving this center. it's whacko time but much heated let's get into it. a reflection of reality.

in a world transformed. what will make you feel safe. high salacious community. are you going the right way or are you being. what is true what is. in the world corrupted you need to descend. to join us in the depths. or inmate in the shallows. welcome back the law enforcement agency you're a pole has issued a warning about the illegal production and distribution of fake kobe had 19 test

certificates with many countries requiring a negative test to enter the agency believes criminal groups are taking advantage of the situation several cases in fact have really 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 shall they call apple it 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 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 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'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 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 money 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 emanuel micron saying london needs to pick its friends imagine the british finish their vaccine campaign successfully and what will they do stop european lorries from entering when there is a total dependence on the continent good luck hofburg and is not a concept what policy does great britain wish to choose it cannot be the closest ally of the u.s. 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. the health policy l.o.'s roy lilly explain to us how the situation could damage efforts to fight the pandemic i just think it's a stupid crazy thing to do and i think the people that are printing these documents criminals crooks and we should throw them in jail the issue for me is the damage that it might do if someone who knows that they have and they don't get either a test to negative all they can they know it's too late for a vaccine if they're going to use the force document to travel knowing the they are all covert positive then these are the people that could do damage if they turn

up in the united kingdom somewhere from the united kingdom drugs from germany or anywhere across across europe then they could bring the infection with them and cools all kinds of drugs. 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 some 3 months although some restrictions have been lifted since october slumped on cafes and restaurants are still not able to host diners charlotte dubinsky reports. those who push. play on the laundry now see. since october this is been the extent of service available at restaurants and cafes in france takeaway only but as the months have tried to turn with no reopening dating sites same owners have decided to welcome customers inside

defiance of the couvade 19 regulations. i'm doing this for liberty equality and fraternity the french motto that is no longer respected today i'm not able to work so i have no freedom and open he did so talk when it came to the crunch he settled on a compromise. so we will serve food to people it says a restaurant today i won't be able to reopen fully if i did i would lose my compensation for loss is over and see my restaurant closed or go to prison his cool has spread across the country in other restaurants have followed suit since now at the end of january 1 christoph wilson i'm bringing his establishment in nice to around 50 customers yet. christoph wilson's protest was short lived and the doors to poppies were once closed again but his lawyer is now taking his petition directly to president

michael. i wrote an open email to say stop to self isolation rooms are cessation we see says 810-0000 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. but as you can see it's still open now there are 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 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 that favorite eateries to reopen or do they think it's better to keep the shutters down. i don't find it normal that stories are open and restaurants are not assume that if we maintain social distancing and respect the rules the risk for restaurants will do the same as for 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 a reminder for up to the minute news and views give our twitter page a follow on why not leave a comment or 2 as well you know no. more great programs begin in.