the headlines this hour from no chance to giving it a shot western countries change their chu know russia sputnik the vaccine after a leading medical journal publishes a study about its high ethical sea we hear from the sea of the fund backing that. when you come by c.g.i. now the price of logistics you really go out what i believe is the best over to the world and scientists because that was a great claim all despite a wave of criticism european commission president burst of on the lion refuses to apologize for blogs slow vaccine road act and in the u.k. police arrested a man that dishing out free sink to the vulnerable to violating lockdown rules. but

it was the seriously. this is an abuse of power the marmite fun thing in my own backyard actually. is experiencing listening to the people here people who is really feeling. hello there good afternoon you're watching r.t. international is just gone 3 o'clock in the sky. nicaragua and mexico are among the latest countries to register the russian vaccine comes hot 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 hungry which was the 1st e.u. country to approve the has already received its 1st batch of the shot as part of a $2000000.00 doses deal of the key states in the block including france and germany are waiting for the e.u. regulator to approve the job 1st. anyone who tries 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 the teams that we saw today data indicating a very strong efficiency of the sputnik vaccine but we can't distribute it in front until the russian producers submit a request to our thora to use its normal it's a matter of health care responsibility well even before the lancet article russian scientists had been insisting that sputnik be was 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 is more against the it explains. barely a few months ago the cure was sold to us is worse than the disease they mocked

sputnik we they don't ride did it they tried to turn it into a joke and 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 corona virus 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 of 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 it'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 91.8 percent effort is required surely people older than 60 years old and also in ma 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 be stored at plus 2 plus heat 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 africa's sea price and logistics you really have what i believe is a best of acute in the world and me scientists in the world agree the lancet medical journal has published preliminary results for things 3. trials of sputnik 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 nod sagely in agreement this is clearly good news as these geo 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. the 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 it's footsteps

i know that sputnik has 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 sputnik we a 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 auntie body levels were probably sufficient to prevent illness just struck me as high that's my own personal pun

dimmick 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 for anything the past year was a chaotic free for all rat race where everyone is for themselves and starts to see that at last good sense and reason are starting to prevail over propaganda and politics more and get as they are there with the director of the investment fund behind the russian job or so told us 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 only reach countries get told those over it seems this is real it's 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 all jeter 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 there are served by the big scene of producers we do have some production constraints so this year we can probably supply only around 700000000 people doses so that means 101400000000 of those us observing seeing and countries approaching right now we can elicit light as a big scene inmate would join so basically we will not be the only folks in the world of course with up on taiwan of the 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 the cuff to increase efficacy of their big scene and we believe the spirit of partnership and vaccine cooperation is important meanwhile

the rye between britain and the european union neither vaccines continue can minister michael gave 9 saying that the brocks recent actions have undermined trust between the 2 sides. the commission's move has provoked anger and concern across all parties and throughout civil society in northern ireland as well as international condemnation trust has been rooted damage has been done and urged action is therefore needed it comes after the you had threatened to restrict exports of vaccines to countries outside the block due to a shortage in the meantime european commission chief sort of on the line has defended the block's relatively slow rollout saying it would not compromise on safety but even her predecessor john claude youngcare has his doubts 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 authorisation 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 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 and new students were left unturned and the coming 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 quasi 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 not from and suggesting that the french president may be engaging in a bit of demand management with those type of statements. it's all over there now the kremlin has hit back at western governments critical of the court's decision to jail russian opposition activists alexina valmy and accused them of foreign interference he was sentenced to just under 3 years for parole violations in moscow yesterday with more on the story his cause 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 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 was a whole motorcade from all over europe. but. the 1st of the 1st off you. know the speaker and i read that. 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 as she called it a 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 severn 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 valedictory for sovereign country well it was a 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 and berlin and upon his return to russia up until his return to russia it

goes way before that apparently you 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 while the judge decided to side with the prosecution or following the verdict supporters to take to the streets of central moscow to protest against the ruling the area was quickly cordoned off though by riot police near red square many of the protesters were detained as the demonstration had not been approved by the authorities his lawyers do insist that the opposition figure out always met the terms of his parole and said that they will appeal against the ruling. or some countries including the united states have already suggested imposing sanctions on russia over the only 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 that to russia

when we see the way for example the youngest 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 or why did he start himself by releasing cringe political 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 saw this t.v. 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 russian courts have the freedom to decide and traditional mattress various governments will come out to criticize the kremlin the russian treatment of war. or as we could have

predicted just as the kremlin has acted as a. quick question in the present which is everything possible to deserve the west meaning particularly states. certainly germany or ring leaders you know propaganda who if there were fire russia and to draw attention toward. one seemingly political developments in the west going back to the storming of the capitol which was quite monsters compared to the other thing that's happened in russia in the last group which was not a celeb british man giving out free save to the vulnerable is left with a bit of taste in his night after police arrest him for apparently violating lockdown rules we'll have a look at this in more detail just after the break. the world is driven by dreamers shaped by one person with those words.

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although again now a british man giving out free soup in a local park has found himself in hot water after being arrested by police apparently on the grounds that he was violating 90 restrictions. but it would. be it's an abuse of power my country in my. view because i'm actually on the news it's beautiful of the sometimes i'd love to hear from you sally field. makes smith had been serving soup to vulnerable people at a makeshift kitchen he'd set up in his local skate park but the sussex police force then stepped in saying that he was encouraging 2 or more people together and

therefore breaking current coronavirus measures smith claims that people doing charity work or volunteer work are actually exempt from that rule or the police beg to differ offices with the parties involved explain the restrictions in relation to the lockdown and encourage compliance with the government guidelines are a while for it is the author of food bank britain and he believes that in this case the u.k. police were 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 dr anthony fact she has backtracked on his own double masking recommendation he's now saying that data does not actually show that it will increase protection against coronavirus why that is despite previous and poignant commonsense. 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's no data indicates that is going to make a difference and this is not the 1st time fact she has been caught flip flopping on his medical advice months after the 1st cases of cave in were detected in the us infectious disease expert was still saying that the use of mask was not necessary only to change his mind later had also railed against the trumpet ministration for giving conflicting guidance on masks despite being part of the coronavirus task force himself right now people should not be what there's no reason to be walking around with a mask the fundamentals are not rocket science it's universal wearing of masks an issue in there is to make sure you do whatever you can to safeguard the safety and the health of the children as well as the teachers close the bars and keep the schools open well earlier we heard from the executive vice president of the eurasia send your age your center he believes the fact she's medical advice might not

always be based on science. i don't know if the signs are really there i think it's just the opinion from a natural perspective and. you're going to change opinion back and forth absolutely what i think is going to now actually what we want there may be political product while the other c.d.c. has come out and basically said no there's no some sort of support for wearing local there but i can understand why we're you may be waffling back and forth because it isn't in kind of a very questionable area 1 may ask me to stop 95 percent certain maybe maybe a clot mask will stop 40 or 50 percent so maybe dual mass would stop you know 5 or 10 percent more made. some world news in britain and these are pictures from the streets of the stamboul where police clashed with students angry scenes sparked

by decision by president urged land to appoint a new rector at a top university a move those students do say is undemocratic you can see a lot of heated exchanges did take place with protesters berating officers scuffles also broke out and there were arrests to take gas is reportedly being stopped. this is that dramatic footage that captures 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 in must company just hope that the vehicle will one day actually take people to mars that will though it still looks like a dream but this is the 2nd time this many attend the rockies failed to touchdown never space x. commentator did say it was still a great test and quote they just need to work a little bit on that landing. and finally if you are thinking of putting a bet on the super bowl this weekend because nick. dolphin is

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system being exposed again one thing is for sure there is a strong demand to democratize the financial world the little guy demands to also participate with big finance and government among. that now when i look at how i don't know that man i am not out of the budget that i'm not out of the i'm not of the money the day when i got out of germany. this was a good time to. try to move there i'm. not up that wasn't good enough why not. why exxon and the old people we believe this of the o.b.s. . lot of i can say they're not the muppets so john what are you at the moment to

tell them about how do a lot of kids or is it a little i'm a little like a mad dog will not pull out the pimp i don't want to put out a of the most cutting and i don't know the mother bludgeoning. greetings in cell you taser him while all of the keyboard warriors in the twitter verse proves. don't need character to waste characters and the talking heads keep wasting all of our oxygen in the game show of political punditry the real world problems that affect you and i wealth inequality pandemic infections and environmental collapse well my friends they are continuing to multiply multiply

like the digits and they jeff bezos offshore bank account and boy to my friends to those digits multiplied thanks to our real world problems this week as the world economic oligarchs kicked off the world economic forum in davos the green greed addicks version of coachella the global charity organization oxfam international crunched the last year's numbers and reports that quote the world's 10 richest men have seen their combined wealth increase by half a trillion dollars since the pandemic began that is more than enough to pay for a covert $19.00 vaccination for everyone and to ensure no one is pushed into poverty by the pandemic i want to make sure that you understand that let that sink in 10 people just 10 people out of the 7000000000 who inhabit this small blue planet could solve a world full of economic pandemic problems using only the wealth that they are earned and.