think for justice on. the headlines this after no chance to giving it a shot western countries changed their tune on russia sputnik the vaccine after a leading medical journal publishes a study about its high efficacy we hear from the c. of the fund that's back in nature. when you combine see the prize logistics you really what i believe is the best picture of the world scientists on the wall to greet me while despite a wave of criticism european commission president underly and refuses to apologize for the block slow vaccine rollout and in the u.k. police arrest the man dishing out precinct to the vulnerable to violating lockdown rules. is usually. it's an abuse of power to mark my front might. actually. lose its beauty of this

engine that was used recently feeling. that good afternoon just gone 2 o'clock in moscow you watching r.t. international mexico has become the latest country to officially approved the russian vaccine with millions of doses set to be delivered in the coming months on the heels of a new study in the lancet medical journal which found sputnik 3 to be more than 90 percent effective meanwhile over in europe hungary which was the 1st e.u. country to approve sputnik has already received its 1st batch of the shot as part of a $2000000.00 deal of the key states in the block including france and germany are waiting for a decision by the regulator. and that anyone who applies to the european

medical agency for approval is welcome i talked with the russian president exactly about this we noted the good data today about the russian vaccine any vaccine is welcome in the european union but only ones that give the necessary data to the european medicines agency will be approved. several weeks ago i sent a scientific mission to russia in order to exchange data with it seems that we saw today data indicating a very strong efficiency of the sputnik vaccine but we can't distribute it in france until the russian producers submit a request to of dorothy's it's normal it's a matter of health care responsibility well even the for the lancet article russian scientists had been insisting this but make they were safe and effective but that didn't stop a wave of criticism from the west however some of the skeptics are now having a change of heart has made it ghastly ever expects. barely a few months ago the cure was sold to us as was the new disease they mocked sputnik we they don't ride did it they tried to turn it into

a joke but with out of these 3 mass trial completed it sounds like the process hasn't run its course here america's top researchers say russia cutting corners to develop its coronavirus vaccine they're still trying to figure out safety and there they've approved it the irony is of course that these same people the same people who accused russia of spreading vaccine conspiracies and discouraging people to get the job the irony is often lost on these sorts this is c.n.n. in a tube so you know that they're trying to trash talk it when they start by calling it putin's vaccine which was apparently dangerous and unreliable reading between the lines this is c.n.n. now and somehow sputnik has become safe and potent one of only 3 vaccines with an efficacy of over 90 percent that's cheaper it's easier to produce

and to transport and side effects don't include catatonic allergic sieges what the trials showed us 91.6 percent episodes of exceeding mind you want or 8 percent efficacy for actually people older than 60 years old and also in law the important part of the vaccine it's affordable and it's easy to distribute around the world because humankind big scene because it can distort the last 2 plus 8 versus minus 70 degrees celsius required by the u.s. big scenes and of course half a one 3rd of the u.s. big scene so when you combine safety ethic is the price and logistics you really have what i believe is a best of acute in the world and many scientists in the world agree the lancet medical journal has published preliminary results for things 3. trials of sputum and their good side effects if any doesn't require a deep freeze so more widely available to poorer nations when russian scientists

said all of this it was met with our roles and mockery but when other scientists say the same thing they all gnawed sagely in agreement this is clearly good news as these jewel formulation vaccine is comparatively easy to manufacture and to deploy i mean they anticipated global shortage of vaccines and logistical problems in vaccination rollout it's interesting timing to now that maternal vaccines are experiencing shortages and disruptions sputnik isn't so bad after all it never was but politics is politics and a vaccine isn't immune to political trash talk as sad as that is around 50 nations have already preordered sputnik jabs and europe hungry was the 1st european nation to greenlight it and now the czech republic is looking to follow and its footsteps i know that sputnik is already i suspect being used in hungary and i have no

objection to this vaccine being used in our country if the experts so decide he's still better than people dying here just because of a lack of vaccines so after months of denial and derision the pundits too are coming around it was easy to mock russian scientists it's harder to mock international studies hard science and that was enough of a jolt to convince even pundits to give scrutiny we shot. sputnik v. was waiting for me at my neighborhood clinic the job was quick and almost painless 3 weeks later i had my 2nd injection in late january i took a test for covering 1990 bodies the results according to interpretive scale provided by the clinic indicated that my antibody levels were probably sufficient to prevent illness don't strike me as high that's my own personal pun demick was nearing its end if you are the average person before this pandemic how they thought

the world would react to this this huge global health crisis they would probably have said by united we now know that that would have been the wrong answer though for anything the past year was a chaotic free for all rat race where everyone is for themselves it's nice to see that at last good sense and reason are starting to prevail over propaganda and politics in iraq as the affair with the director of the investment fund behind the russian jab or so told as to that all vaccines need to be distributed fairly. we have lots of countries in latin america in middle east and africa who will be using sport and you can be a backseat it's very important of only reach countries get told those over it seems this is really not equitable as a world i think politicians overage countries will try to do so but there should be a mechanism story only have a much more even and much more equal distribution or function the rounds the world

and sputnik the is committed those of us weighed and 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 now there are served by the big scene of producers already these registered in 16 countries by the end of next week i think it will be registered 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 101400000000 of those or so is a big scene and countries of the approach and right now we can oliseh plight as a big scene inmate would join them so basically we will not be the only folks in the world of course with the on those of best but countries need to have a portfolio of different but seems and reward was as of excellence as well for example work disasters and to increase advocacy of their big scene and we believe the spirit of partnership and works in cooperation with some boredom meanwhile

right between britain and europe a night vaccines continue minister michael gove's night saying the bronx recent actions have undermined trust between the 2 sides. the commission's move has provoked and and concern across all parties and throughout civil society in northern ireland as well as international condemnation trust has been eroded damage has been done and urged action is therefore needed it comes after the you have threatened to restrict exports of vaccines to countries outside the blocking to a shortage in the meantime european commission chief live on the line has defended the block's relative slow rollout saying it would not compromise on safety however even a point sessler giong called younker as his dance. i believe it all went too slow it hasn't all been done with the maximum transparency even though that would have been a difficult task the e.u. vaccination program is widely perceived to have moved at

a glacial pace we heard john claude younker there saying that he thinks it could have gone faster the person it seems that doesn't think it's moved far too slow is the current incumbent of the job of e.u. commission president on the line she says that it's being purposeful that it's moving in the right direction she certainly doesn't think that it's being slowed that any delays have been because the e.u. didn't want to compromise on safety some country stary to vaccinate a little before europe it is true but they resorted to emergency 24 hour marketing authorization procedures the commission in member states agreed not to compromise with the c.v.t. in advocacy of requirements linked to the authorization of the vaccine well that comment is being seen as a bit of a dig at the united kingdom which proved with the urgency measures both pfizer and astra zeneca vaccines in record time the prime minister's spokes person in london

has said that at no point were more safety compromised in all of the corrective measures were followed. new coolness were cooked in new students were left unturned and come and be sure it was based on an extremely thorough evaluation of all the data from the clinical trials the european medicines agency the a.m.a. greenlit the astra zeneca vaccine for use for everyone over the age of 18 in the e.u. just last friday however some member states of raised questions over it being given to those age 65 and over that's based on the data all the the lack of data for that demographic that was provided to the e m a germany was the 1st to suggest that they didn't want to give it to that age group poland have now followed and perhaps the most shocking comments have come out of france where the french president emanuel much as described the astra zeneca vaccine is quazi in affective against the coronavirus in those age 65 and

above well that those claims of being rubbished by scientists question where mr micron is getting that from and suggesting that the french president may be engaging in a bit of demand management with those type of statements. now the kremlin has hit back at western governments critical of a course decision to jail the russian opposition activists alexina family and told them to mind their own business he was sentenced to just under 3 years for parole violations in moscow yesterday with more on the story his r.t.g. goes you don. well it certainly gain some traction internationally has been covered in russia for sure but the amount of attention it's getting from international sources it is almost like they the russian media within minutes after the ruling we started to receive statements from all over the world from the u.k. from the u.s. from germany france the council of europe really you name it all of them almost

following the same the very same time template all of them calling putting alexina value on a pedestal and calling for his release 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 gelatine 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 when it comes to international support really this hearing it has been like no what no other one in russia has been unprecedented not because only because of its magnitude but also

because the international community they got to witness the hearing itself right before it started we saw a motorcade of embassy cars taking foreign diplomats to the to to witness the hearing just imagine for instance a russian embassy car going to witness a julian assange hearing in london so that would that would raise quite a number of eyebrows in the west but this it was not one embassy guy was a whole motorcade from all over europe. it was. one person at the press office and i hear you. right now you've heard of the speaker here and i'll read. it. when it comes to the reaction from the russian foreign ministry well it was it

was quite expected i should say the spokeswoman marie is a horrible she called the essentially foreign meddling in russia's internal affairs it was in the process of mischa this is no longer just interference in the internal affairs of the 7 state it is the south exposure of the west in its attempts to contain russia in an unappealing and illegal way for russia its internal matters a russian citizen being world being sued under russian law in russia and for the international community it's almost like a like a lever to be pulled against russia and like to be used against russia and to get some political gain on the diplomatic arena however say this is an internal issue so why is it that western nations have come out and it been so quick to condemn the verdict of 4 sovereign country well it was quite expected because for them alexina vollies a hero the they are hailing him as the opposition leader if you are

a supporter then of course you will view it as unjust yeah you will you will hear his arguments and you will disagree with the court but the court sided with the prosecution completely and here's an important detail the court didn't really give a new sentence or just reverse the previous ones the federal prison service in russia the release their own statistics showcasing their collection of ali it's not he's not getting special treatment here of course he stands out of the crowd of other thousands of people who have their suspended sentences reversed because he strives to be a politician he. he is an outspoken critic of the kremlin so there's also that there's always that but at the same time again thousands of people yearly we get their suspended sentences reversed for various violations it's important to stress that we're not talking about just the period of time when he was receiving treatment in berlin and upon his return to russia up until his return to russia it

goes way before that apparently he was violating his parole conditions for 4 years and the government the government they treated the kind of got away with a slap on the wrist while not this time and world the judge decided to side with the prosecution because you've done of their will following the verdict around supporters took to the streets of central moscow to protest the ruling the area was quickly cordoned off by riot police near red square many of the protesters were detained as the demonstration had not been approved by the authorities about his lawyers insist that the opposition figure had always met the terms of his parole and said that they would appeal against the ruling. now some countries including the u.s. have already suggested imposing sanctions on russia over the no boundary case earlier we got the views of political analysts. it's just that the hypocrisy of the west as we know it and this is it at its finest how can the west give lessons but

to russia when we see the way for example do you best the movement was treated in france 3000 political opponents during these demonstrations were condemned in france 1000 political opponents were imprisoned in a mineral management state saying is that the valley must be released why did he start himself by releasing cringe for the prisoners and his political opponents not only should those countries those western countries respect the independence of the russian federation but they should also respect the independence of the russian judicial system and so this authority of the russian courts must be respected not all of the by the russian government but also by governments around the world and they cannot ask for a government intervention and at the same time that russia courts have the freedom to decide in judicial mattress with various governments or come out to criticize the kremlin and washington to content more war than they are acting as we could

have predicted just as the kremlin is that it was a group who took to. the equation in the present which is done everything possible to deserve the west meaning particularly the states. and to a lesser degree germany or ring leaders you know up again and move if there were fire russia and to draw attention toward the one seen with political developments in the west going back to the storming of the capital which was quite monstrous compared to the other thing that's happened in russia in the last few weeks. washing out he still had the sad british man giving out free saying to the vulnerable is left with a bit of taste in his match after police arrest a man for a parent play violating the law down rules we'll have more on the story purcel the stakes just after the break.

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come back a british man giving out free soup and has found himself in hot water after being arrested by police apparently on the grounds that he was violating. restrictions. but it would. mean it's an abuse of power my funds to make a few people actually want to use its beauty a lot isn't that lovely here she was recently experienced makes me a 3rd been serving soup to vulnerable people at a makeshift kitchen he set up at his local skate park but the 6 police force then

stepped in saying that he was encouraging 2 or more people to gather breaking current coronavirus restrictions smith claims that people doing charity or volunteer work are exempt from that rule the police though do beg to differ officers and go to both the parties involved explain the restrictions in relation to the lockdown and encourage compliance with the government guidelines well that ray woolford author of food bank britain does believe that in this case the u.k. police were being overzealous. there is a clear guidance in the restrictions and that means the voluntary sector those of us that involved with feeding people in a crisis are exempt from the regulations that the most of the public are have to adhere to people arriving for soup catching kitchen is acceptable as long as they get the soup and then they move on this was in an open environment

a safe environment it was within the guidelines of full the voluntary sector and frontline services i work with another organization called street kitchen and street kitchen operates across 7 different districts in london on the streets feeding people in crisis in exactly the same way that this man was helping his neighbors in his local community what's really happening here is that the police in different areas do not seem to be aware of 'd what's happening in other areas so they're all misunderstanding the regulations now america's top infectious disease expert from 5 chain has backtracked on his own double maschine recommend ancient he's now saying that data does not show that it will increase protection against corona virus that's despite than previously calling it commonsense. do you have

a physical covering with one layer you put another layer on it just makes common sense that it likely would be more effective there is no data that indicates that is going to make a difference well this isn't the 1st time the fact she has been caught flip flopping on his medical advice months after the 1st cases of covert were detected in the united states infectious disease expert was still saying the use of masks were not necessary only to change his mind later she's also regular to get the trumpet ministration for giving conflicting guidance on masks despite being part of the coronavirus task force himself. but right now people should not be what does no reason to be walking around with a mask the fundamentals are not rocket science it's universal wearing of masks an issue in that is to make sure you do whatever you can to save the safety and the health of the children as well as the teachers close the bars and keep the schools open well earlier we did hear from the executive vice president of the eurasia

center and he believes the fact she's medical advice might not always be based on science i don't know if the science is really there i think it's just the opinion from a natural perspective and and yeah if you're going to change opinion back and forth absolutely what i think you're going to say now actually what do you want in there may be political product or what and so i don't know the other c.d.c. has come out and basically said no there's no some sort of support for wearing localness but i can understand why where you may be waffling back and forth because it isn't and in kind of a very questionable area one mass made stop 95 percent certain maybe maybe a cotton mask will stop 40 or 50 percent so maybe dual mass would stop you know 5 or 10 percent more made. now before we go quick look at some other world news happening at the moment these are pictures from the streets of the stamboul where

police have clashed with students angry things you can see sparked my decision by president to appoint a new rector at a top university a move though the students say is undemocratic a lot of heated exchanges did take place with protesters but rating officers scuffles also broke out and the word arrest to gas was reportedly you just. now dramatic footage here capturing the moment a space x. prototype gets into trouble above texas it eventually comes back down to earth and explodes into a ball of flames company despite the vehicle will one day take people to mars but that's still a little way off from happening it is the 2nd time to you in this many attempts that the rocket has failed to touch down with over space x. commentated it say it was still a great test and quote they just need to work on that landing a little bit and finally if you are thinking of putting

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