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so the. people. of my 100. feet. from moscow to the world welcome to r.t. international my names you know of your company. mexico are among the latest countries to register for us the russian vaccine it comes out on the heels of a new study in the lancet medical journal which fall in sputnik veach to be more than 90 percent effective in all in europe hungary which was the 1st country to approve sputnik the house already received its 1st batch of the shots part of a $2000000.00 deal other key states in the blocking to france and germany are

waiting for the e.u. regulator to approve the job 1st. you know 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 once 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 the we saw today data indicating a very strong efficiency of the sputnik vaccine but we can't distribute it in front and so the russian producers submit a request to our authorities it's normal it's a matter of health care responsibility or even before the latest lancet article was published russian scientists are insisting sputnik we were safe and it is 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 out of explaining. 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 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 this 91.6 percent episodes of exceeding 91.8 percent efficacy flex really people older than 60 years old and also in ma the important part of the vaccine is it's affordable and it's easy to distribute around the world because humankind exceeds because it can be stored at plus 2 plus heat versus minus 70 degrees celsius required by the u.s. but scenes and of course a one 3rd of the u.s. we've seen so when you combine safety efficacy 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 scrutiny and their good side effects if any doesn't require a deep freeze 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 dual 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 too 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 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 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 and 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 it's nice to see that at last good sense and reason are starting to prevail over propaganda and politics meanwhile the rug between britain and the european union over vaccines is continuing the u.k. cabinet office minister michael gove has now said the block's recent actions of undermining trust between the 2 sides because issues move has provoked and 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. or comes after the european union threatened to restraint exports of vaccines the countries outside the bloc including northern ireland due to a shortage but the e.u. subsequently. in the meantime european commission chief von der leyen defended the bloc slow roll art saying it would not compromise on safety but even her predecessor john claude younker has done. 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 making authorization procedures the commission in member states agreed not to compromise with the c. 50 in advocacy 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 find and astra zeneca vaccines in record time the prime minister's spokes person in london has said that at no point was safety compromised in all of the corrective measures were followed. new coolness were cooked and new students were left unturned and the

commendation 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 roll 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 kong is described the vaccine is quasi ineffective against the corona virus in those age 65 and above well that those claims of being rubbish by scientists questioning 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. meanwhile world leaders including the french president and the european commission head her publish their joint article calling for a coordinated approach in fighting the pandemic and making sure a global recovery reaches everybody in need the pandemic calls for a strong coordinated international response that rapidly expands access to tests treatments and vaccines recognizing extensive immunization as a global public good that must be available and affordable for all yes fast becoming into the big topic of the day and my colleague under former discuss that with independent journalist luke reveal he say's that before talking about international solidarity e.u. leaders should 1st learn how to handle the situation inside their block the thing is that one use you hear my point is that i am on french channels or

a vandal i am saying and speaking about it i mean this is ridiculous they are not the ones to talk they should get to work in facts an 8 1st their own population then they can talk about the other internationally but yes i mean this is incredibly bad management on the side of the e.u. i think even the subsidised press you know the good press is salient now about mr micawber tom de lay and others it was very badly managed simply. signed a contract write a contract did you not pick they were completely wrong in every count now about 2 percent of the european population as being fascinated with the 1st those so it's it's not functionally the sort of the defense that we're hearing because look safety 1st we want to make sure that these vaccines are safe before we approve them including sputnik. no it was contracts 1st they wanted to get

a rebid and that's what they said in the press that said you know are we great argument will stand together we could obtain a better price the problem is that the loss incurred every day lost is so high that it was best to do like the straightest to pay the high price 40 percent more to get it in time and to vaccinate as they do is they did 55 percent of the population yet . came moving the program on the new start nuclear arms reduction treaty between russia and the u.s. has been officially extended for 5 more years moscow praised the deal as a step in the right direction towards international stability it is the only major arms control the court left between the 2 nuclear powers for more details let's cross live now to a cost rev reminded one stage we were just a fortnight away from the pact expiring completely how significant is this

extension. well the importance of this extension is the paramount of the already received phrase both in moscow and in washington now the treaty is considered to be the only remaining arms control agreement between the world's sue greatest nuclear powers now the agreement itself was implemented back in 11 and it's called the new strategic arms reduction treaty or the new start if you want to keep it short now the agreement itself it limits the number of nuclear warheads and their delivery methods as well that's both the u.s. and russia are allowed to have now the extension went into effect this wednesday and it will last for 5 years until february 5th 2026 not russian foreign ministry according to them the treaty was signed without any amendments and cold is a cornerstone of international security. with

a new storage extension this core mechanism for maintaining strategic stability is preserved on a strictly reciprocal basis limiting the 2 country's nuclear arsenals considering the special responsibilities the trosch and the u.s. carry as the world's largest nuclear nations the decision guarantees a necessary level of predictability and transparency in this area while strictly maintaining a balance of interests who live near putin signed a bill extending the agreement just last week following talks with his united states counterparts joe biden now the new start treaty was indeed at risk of expiring after former u.s. president donald trump refused to extended without making amendments that were unacceptable to moscow now u.s. state secretary anthony blinken the describe this signing as the 1st step toward restoring u.s. leadership on arms control and nonproliferation and he also said that the treaty

will make the u.s. its allies and the whole world safer. in the books until 2026 ron thanks very much for bringing us right up to date. a british man giving out free soup in a local park as fundament in hot water after being arrested by police partly on the grounds that he was violating the restrictions. how. you love the. place that. next myth being serving soup to vulnerable people at a makeshift kitchen he'd set up in his local skate park but the sussex police force stepped in saying that he was encouraging 2 or more people to gather breaking current coronavirus measures mr smith though claims people doing charity or

volunteer work are exempt from that rule the police however back to different offices in both the parties involved explained the restrictions in relation to the look and encourage compliance with the government guidelines. furred from there who wrote the book in fact food bank britain believes in this case that you k. police they are acting leslie. 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. the kremlin has hit back at western governments criticism of the moscow courts this decision to jail of russian opposition activists alexina valley accusing them of foreign interference he was sentenced this week to just under 3 years for parole violations with more on the story here's our teens english without love. well it certainly gain some traction internationally it 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 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 guy was a whole motorcade from all over europe. but. the person. i hear

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 harvard 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 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 so hard to 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 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 russia the release their own statistics showcasing that election 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 if they 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 of 4 years and the government the government they treated it was a kind of you know you got away with a slap on the wrist while not this time and world the judge decided to side with the prosecution. following the verdict in a volley of 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 was all it worth arised lawyers insist the opposition figure had always met the terms of his parole and said they will appeal against the ruling of some countries including the u.s.

have already suggested imposing sanctions on russia over the novelli cas we've got reaction to that from a number of 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 do you best the movement was treated in france 3000 political opponents during these demonstrations were condemned in france 1000 political opponents were imprisoned and the mineral management state saying is that the developers be released why did he start himself by releasing french 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 so this fora t. 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 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 as the term was that it was a group who took to. the question in the present which is everything possible to preserve the west meaning particularly the states. and to a lesser degree germany or ring leaders in the propaganda mood. to draw attention to. the worst going to be. monsters compared to. the russian. a team from the world health organization has visited. 3 in the chinese city of

which has been at the forefront of speculation about the origins of covert 19 cars carving the team members were escorted by chinese security forces as they made their way to the research center w.h.o. mission to the city where the 1st cluster of the krona virus emerged is even to identify what led to the pandemic the experts have already examined all their facilities including a wet food market linked to the corona virus outbreak. these are pictures from the streets of istanbul where police have clashed with students in greece and respond by a decision by president her to want to appoint a new director a top university a move that students say is democratic a lot of heated exchange going on as you can see protesters breathing officers scuffles subsequently breaking out some arrests were made as well tear gas also reportedly used by this. dramatic footage here captures the moment

a space x. prototype gets into trouble above texas and eventually comes back down to earth makes those into a ball of flames musk's company hopes the vehicle will one day take people to mars still a little way off dream it is the 2nd time in as many attempts not the rocket has feel to touched on the a space x. commentator said it was still a great test unquote they just need to work on that landing a little bit. and finally if you're thinking of putting up bets on america's biggest sporting events the super bowl this weekend look no further than this nick the bottlenose dolphin is about to give you his winning to when faced with 2 footballs with the name of each finalist on them he plumped for the kansas city chiefs they take on the tampa bay buccaneers on sunday he's got form as well correctly predicted the last 6 super bowl.

well with some western countries having stockpiled enough vaccines to inoculate every citizens 3 or 4 times over where does that leave some of the world's poorest nations watching the hawks examines out let's next. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to us from the world of politics or business i'm show business i'll see that. one almost seems wrong. just don't. let me. get to seem. to stay active. and engaged equals betrayal.

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