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no chance to giving it a shot western countries change their shoes on russia splitting the vaccine after a leading medical journal publishes a study about his high advocacy meanwhile despite a wave of criticism president of the european commission refuses to apologize for the brock slow vaccine rollout and in the u.k. police arrest and dishing out free soup to the vulnerable violating knock down roots. of it with the fiercely. it's an abuse of. my funds to me. because actually he is experiencing the students at large but he treats me like you.
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could even just gone 7 o'clock here in moscow you watching our international nicaragua and mexico are among the latest countries to register the russian covert vaccine comes hot on the heels of a new study in the lancet medical journal which found that sputnik v was more than 90 percent effective meanwhile over in europe hungary which was the 1st e.u. country to approve sputnik very has already received its 1st batch of the shot as part of a 2000000 day steal the key states in the block including france and germany are waiting for the regulator to approve the jap 1st. anyone who applies to the european medical agency for approval is welcome i talked with the russian president exactly about this when they'll did 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
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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 of dorothy's it's normal it's a matter of health care responsibility well even before the lancet article russian scientists had been insisting that sputnik the was safe and effective but it 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 f. out space. 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 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
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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 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 might you want 48 percent efficacy for actually people older than 60 years old and also in the the important
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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 feet versus minus 70 degrees celsius required by the u.s. but scenes and of course half a one 3rd of the u.s. would seem 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 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 dual formulation vaccine is comparatively easy to manufacture and to
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deploy i mean the anticipated global shortage of vaccines and logistical problems in vaccination rollout it's interesting timing too 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 too better than people dying here just because of a lack of vaccines so after months of denial and derision the pundits too are
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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 struck me as high that's my own personal pun dimmick was nearing its end if you are asked 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 over anything the past year was a chaotic free for all rat race where everyone is for themselves it's nice to see
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that at last good sense and reason are starting to prevail over propaganda and politics meanwhile the route between britain and the european union over vaccines continues with the u.k. minister michael gove's now saying that the blocks recent actions have undermined trust between the 2 sides because issues 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 urge is there for needed but it does come after the european union threatened to restrict exports of vaccines to countries outside the bloc including northern ireland due to a shortage but he subsequently backed down on the northern ireland measure 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 sean called younker as his dance. i believe it all went too slow it
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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 safety and advocacy of requirements linked to the authorization of the
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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 and new students relieved and turned 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
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poland have now followed and perhaps the most shocking comments have come out of france where the french president emmanuel might call in as described the vaccine is quasi in affective against the corona virus in those age 65 and above well that those claims of being rubbished by scientists questioning 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 pays for all of their will out meanwhile world leaders including the french president and the european commission's head have published a joint article calling for a coordinated approach in fighting the pandemic and making sure a global recovery reaches everybody the pandemic calls for a strong coordinated international response that rapidly expands access to tests treatments and vaccines recognizing extensive immunization as
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a global public good that must be available and affordable for all. or i will ask the views now of independent journalist luke rivera he joins us this evening hello to their league world leaders we were just saying they're calling for a coordinated international response to make sure everybody gets access to a vaccine it sounds like a nice idea but i mean in practice it just seems like a free for all. well yes i mean this is incredibly bad management on the side of the e.u. i think even in the subsidized press you know all the good press is say now about mr micawber from the way in an office that it was very badly managed simply they didn't signed a contract right contracts they you know picked they were completely wrong in every count now the about 2 percent of the urban population as being vaccinated with 1st
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those and britain as you said a minute ago in britain it's 15 percent of the population which is vaccinated with the 1st dose and already some with a 2nd dose so incredible do you k. what's supposed if you listen to the your accounts to be in a terrible situation with bricks it no down much more flexible there are actual that much faster like is around for example so small is beautiful in this case and beautiful is really showing that it doesn't function it's only last friday that you asked about seneca facts seem which is comparable in the way it was created to that too to the russian vaccine to sputnik. has only been agreed it's only been accepted by europe friday last week as a percentage as well and i mean unit accepted the email the european medicines agency accepted it for the 65 plus but then some countries don't accept it one
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main as looked at it and agreed almost all friday then only the french stopped to look at it and belgians and the germans i mean it cannot work like that if there is an ok at european level that is an ok so it's it's not functional sort of the defense that we're hearing because look safety 1st we want to make sure that these vaccines are sight before we approve them including sputnik they. no it was contracts 1st they wanted to get a rebid and that's what they said in the press that said you know all week the great argument was that together we could obtain a better price maybe europe could obtain a better price maybe not even sure because the belgian seems to have added a better price than europe but even so the problem is that the cost of the pandemic is so high every day countries like france or germany lose billions
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every day so paying 5 euro more per dogs on the 15 euro those it's not that then you can pay for it that's what boris johnson said oh you know it was so urgent and the the the loss incurred every day lost is is so high that it was best to do like these trailers debate the high price 40 percent more to get it in time and to vaccinate as they do as they did 55 percent of their population yet i just lost in a lake in light of this coal by world leaders for everybody now to work together if you expect that to happen or is what we've seen over the last couple of weeks just a taste of what we can look forward to well it will happen in the end for sure but the thing is that one who's you hear my point is that i am on french channels or vanderlei i'm saying and speaking about it i mean the suspect in this town not to wants to talk they should get to work and vaccinate 1st their own population then
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they can talk about the other internationally some. will even they're not a totally tonight and i was not read the independent in the speaking to us there from brussels thank you considering. another nice tonight new star u.k. arms reduction treaty between russia and the us has been officially extended for 5 more years so moscow praised the deal as a step in the right direction towards international stability and it's the only major arms control accord left now between the 2 nuclear powers let's get more on this now with someone close to that joins us from and just run through then why this state is so significant absolutely well indeed 1st of all the extension of nuclear arms reduction agreement which in russia and the united states went into effect this wednesday and it will last until february 5th 2026 the agreement itself was implemented back in 2011 it's called the
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new strategic arms reduction treaty also known as the new starts it limits the number of nuclear warheads and of course their delivery vehicles and also the u.s. and russia are allowed to have now the treaty is considered to be the only remaining arms control agreement between the world's 2 largest nuclear powers now according to the russian foreign ministry the treaty was signed without any amendments and they called it a cornerstone for international security. with a new storage extension this quarter mechanism for maintaining strategic stability is preserved on a strictly reciprocal basis limited to 2 countries nuclear arsenals considering the special responsibilities that draws the us carry as the world's largest nuclear
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nations the decision guarantees and necessary level of predictability and transparency in this area while strictly maintaining a balance of interests that of living near putin signed a bill extending the agreement after talks with his u.s. counterpart joe biden that took place last week now the new start treaty was at risk of expiring. after former u.s. president donald trump refused to extend it without making amendments that were unacceptable to moscow u.s. secretary of state anthony blinken described the signing as the 1st step forward towards restoring u.s. leadership on arms control and mold proliferation ok thanks for the update there a man that was artie's the cost that. the kremlin has hit back at western
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governments critical of a court's decision to jail the russian opposition activist alexina founding 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 because 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 are 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 it 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
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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
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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. but. the person. you. know. that 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 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
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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 so hard to say this is an internal issue so why is it that western nations have come out in it been so quick to condemn the verdict of our 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
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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 well following the verdict of family supporters to take to the
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streets of central moscow to protest against the ruling the area was quickly cornball thorough by riot police near red square many of the protesters were detained to as a demonstration had not been approved by the authorities when one of our needs lawyers do insist that the opposition figure had always met the terms of his parole and said that they will appeal against the ruling. now some countries including the united states have already suggested to impose sanctions on russia over the in the valley case we got reaction from political analysts. is 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 yield best movement was treated in france 3000 political opponents during these demonstrations were condemned in france 1000 political opponents were imprisoned in a manner american state saying is that the valley must be released why did he start himself by releasing french political prisoners and his political opponents not
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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 off for a t.v. of the russian courts must be respected not all 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 demand that russia courts have the freedom to decide in traditional mattress with various governments that have come out to criticize the kremlin and washington to conduct more war than they are acting as we could have predicted just firstly from what was that that was recruited by the question in the present which is done everything possible to preserve the west meaning particularly the states. and to a lesser degree germany or ring leaders in the propaganda move if there were fire
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russia and to draw attention away of one scene with political developments in the west going back to the storming of the capital which was quite monsters compared to the other thing that's happened there russia in the last few weeks. british man giving out free sitting in a local park has found himself in help water after being arrested by police apparently on the grounds that he was violating 19 restrictions. but it was. it's an abuse of power my from him. that was actually. it's beautiful isn't that lovely he was recently feeling mixed myth here had been serving soup to vulnerable people in a makeshift kitchen he'd set up in his local skate park but the sussex police force than sorry then stepped in saying that he was encouraging 2 or more people together
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breaking current coronavirus tree measures smith claims people doing charity or volunteer work are actually exempt from that rule although the police sting beg to differ offices with the parties involved explain the restrictions in relation to the lock down and encourage compliance with the government guidelines they will for wrote the book food bank britain 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
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kitchen and street kitchen operates across 7 different districts in nandan 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 misunderstanding the regulations washing out internationally tonight with the saving the company will have movie at the top of the.
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