all of the. party without all the while there. no chance to giving it a shot western countries change their tune on russia's sputnik. after a leading medical journal published. efficacy. despite a wave of criticism the president of the european commission refuses to apologize for the blocks. also ahead russia and the u.s. so fish. major nuclear arms reduction treaty for another 5. states it's a positive step towards international stability that's all coming up on the program

. coming live from the russian capital every hour of every day this is r.t. you know normally you hello and welcome. and mexico are among the latest countries to authorize the russian covert vaccine it comes hot on the heels of a new study in the lancet medical journal which v. to be more than 90 percent effective meanwhile in europe hungry which was the 1st e.u. country to approve sputnik the already received its 1st batch of the shots as parts of a $2000000.00 to other key states in the block including france and germany are waiting for the e.u. regulator to approve the job. 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 the teams there 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 our authorities it's normal it's a matter of health care responsibility. a folding expensive trials russian scientists repeatedly said results showed that sputnik v. was safe and it was 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 as steve explains. barely a few months ago the cure was sold to us as was then 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 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 it's cheaper it's easier to produce

and to transport and side effects don't include catatonic allergic seizures once the trials showed this 91.6 percent episodes of exceeding might you want or 8 percent efficacy for actually people older than 60 years old and also in the mob the important part of the vaccine it's affordable and it's easy to distribute around the world because humankind big scenes 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. for example when you combine the f.a.q. see price and logistics you really have what i believe is the best of a cure 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 gnawed 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 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 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 coffee 1080 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. kicking us through that no while a row over vaccines are going on there are britain and the european union it is continuing as well in fact the u.k. cabinet office minister michael gove has now said that blocks recent actions have trust between the 2 sides let's go through it because 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 it comes after the european union threatened to restrict

exports of vaccines the countryside side the block due to a shortage including northern ireland but subsequently backed down in the meantime european commission chief ursula von der leyen has the fended the block slow rollout saying it would not compromise on safety but even her predecessor juncker 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 marketing authorization procedures the commission in member states agreed not to compromise with the safety and efficacy 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 will cook and new students were left unturned and the come in 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 emmanuel might call in as described the astra zeneca vaccine is quasi in affective against the corona virus 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 or talking on the french president he and other world leaders the european commission head as well published

a joint article calling for a coordinated approach in fighting the pandemic and making sure the global recovery reaches everybody in need the pandemic calls for a strong cool 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 my colleague andrew farmer discussed the statement with independent journalist lucrative a he say's that before talking about international solidarity e.u. leaders should 1st learn how to handle the situation inside the block. the thing is that one news you hear my point is that i am on french channels or a vandal i am saying and speaking about it i mean the suspect in this town not the ones to talk they should get to work and facts innate 1st their own population then they can talk about the other internationally this is incredibly bad management on

the side of the e.u. i think even the subsidised press you know the good press is saying it now about mr micawber way in an office that it was very badly managed simply they didn't signed a contract right contracts they you know pick they were completely wrong in every count now the about 2 percent of the european population as being vaccinated with 1st those so it's it's not functionally 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 they know it was contracts 1st they wanted to get a rebid and that's what they said in the press that said all week the great argument was that together we could obtain a better price the problem is that the loss incurred every day lost is is so high that it was best to do like the straightest 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. a new strain of corona virus than it was 1st detected in the u.k. has already sparked fears or run the world and it's now giving scientists yet more grounds for concern be think a further mutation could potentially make dean resistant to vaccines scientists have identified a new strain in both the british african variance the u.k. corona virus mutation is believed to be far more infectious than the original one that started the pandemic it's led to tighter lockdown restrictions on a travel ban from many countries on britain. to julian turn julian is professor and clinical volage is that leicester university in the u.k. are by this chilling good to see you how serious is the development of what is

expected and not entirely expected but not also entirely unexpected you can vary it has been spreading through the population very quickly and we know that with viruses if you increase if you allow the virus replicates in this manner there's a higher probability of acquiring mutations. that marise through that host population and this for a full came nutrition that's the reason and the really existing fiber one why you treat marion's. really is moving the u.k. variant to was a south african variant and 2 was a resilient very that we've already seen elsewhere and have now been identified in the u.k. as well so it looks like these trying of mutations the fiber one for it for in the for 17 rashly be a kind of host i got to be mute response i've about the virus too actually. transmit more efficiently through the new host which is the human population and

that many what we see in kind of convergent evolution of the u.k. variant was those brazilian and south african variants we know that they're already does that translate then into perhaps undermining the effectiveness of corona virus vaccinations are already being supplied now oh. yes and to some extent we see this every year with flu so we know that when the vaccines are manufactured and distributed there's always a chance that the virus will mutate was that process ongoing and if she does what we've seen now with the u.k. variants the factions are not completely useless they will still have some effect on the virus. while type usually very versus the for it for a variant to some extent although we know that if rates were came in actually reduced if exceed by maybe 40 to 50 percent but it's still better than nothing so i was still people to get the vaccine as it's rolled out and then if you have an immune response as well your own individual immune response to your naturally

response that will actually adapt to the virus whereas a vaccine induced immunity cannot so the combination of the 2 the vaccination plus your own national host mean response will actually probably have a greater effect on the virus than just from looking back the facts and data i know the jobs are different they've got different elements but by tweaking them in general it is a possible do you know to make vaccines more resistant to these new mutations. you know we do flu every season and we do actually monitor the virus 3 to 4 months before the very thing is designed and he designed a vaccine based on the most recent data you have any new measure variants like this nuclear variant for it for k. and create the vaccine and manufacture and distribute it with that in mind of course we're used to doing that the virus mutates again so we're always chasing the virus and hopefully it's well managed to get the vaccine out to some extent before the virus changes again that from the way it was frightful can you tell eventually

people's immune systems just in a general point you lean do you think because of i suppose the endless breaking news stories are by variance and covert worry thora he should be changing tack somewhat and urging those not in immediate danger to keep strengthening their immune system naturally better diet hazing give property to over the last few months. yes some extent so there was some thought you were bitten indeed how to use the system but in 2 studies and how they were to show that nationally munity is actually very effective in reducing weed faction braids and don't forget that the nationally known system produces antibodies to all the different virus proteins not just the u.s. protein that most vaccines target so that overall immune response will actually defend you very well against the virus but having the vaccine as well which is that response accelerate a little more and give you time to develop your only response to house to perhaps reduce severe disease and hospitalization so the combination is good but i think the vaccines are getting a lot of the limelight and moments where in fact your own individual munis bonds is

actually very good as well jim thanks very much for your time and sharing your thoughts on the professor and clinical for all of just that lester university in the u.k. julian time. coming up the u.s. strategic commander chief claims america better get ready for a nuclear assault from russia and china will have expert opinion on the matter after the show. is your media a reflection of reality. in a world transformed. what will make you feel safe. isolation community. are you going the right way or are you being

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u.s. has been officially extended for 5 more years moscow praised the deal is a step in the right direction towards international stability with more here's our trip. the treaty is considered to be the only remaining arms control agreement between the world's sue greatest nuclear powers and importance of this extension is the paramount of the already received phrase both in moscow and in washington that the agreement itself was implemented back in one c. 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

or according to them the treaty was signed without any amendments and cold as 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 trash 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 to 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 described this signing as the 1st step toward restoring u.s. leadership on arms control and nonproliferation and a he also said that the treaty will make the u.s. its allies and the whole world safer. the u.s. is on the brink of a nuclear war with russia and china that's the stark warning from 4 star admiral charles richard the u.s. strategic comanches the u.s. military must shift its principle assumption from nuclear employments is not possible to nuclear employment is a very real possibility and act to meet and deter that reality. we heard from former u.n. weapons inspector scott ritter who thinks the calls are dangerous. if the united states dare uses nuclear weapons against russian forces or on russian soil the russians will have no choice but to respond this is what makes the admiral's

statements about preparing for nuclear war so dangerous because there is no way of containing it if there is a nuclear war between the united states and russia it will be a general nuclear war which means not only will both nations be annihilated but the world will also be destroyed as we currently know it the united states identified russia and china as clear adversaries requiring the buildup of conventional military power to adequately contain the threat they pose both in europe in terms of the russians and in the pacific in terms of the chinese as things currently stand the united states does not have the conventional military force necessary to successfully engage with the guarantee of 'd conventional big 3 either russia or 'd china which means that should there be a conflict nuclear weapons would probably have to be employed on the part of the united states it will take some time but you know we have ventured to get through

the cold war and i'm hopeful we will eventually get through this. the kremlin has hit by a kind of western governments criticism of a moscow court's decision to jailed russian opposition activists alexina following accusing them of foreign interference he was sentenced this week to just under 3 year is for parole violations artie's he works at olive spoke to saskatoon or about the verdict and subsequent reaction. 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 was a whole motorcade from all over europe. but. the rest of the 1st half and i hear you. right now with the speaker 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 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 disappearance of 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 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 and 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 it was the 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. project now to see what programs are coming up over the next few days all r.t. and then in moments we go straight to wall of the staging to find out what's showing in your part of the world. i'm action or chance you're welcome to another lockdown edition of going

underground is the usa you in britain continue to arm israel in violation of countless un resolutions even as it mounts a reported land invasion of gaza complete with aerial warplane bombardment all amidst a global coronavirus pandemic after allegations of a breach of article for the geneva convention israel has now begun making $5000.00 covert vaccines available to palestinian medics some believe the move is to ingratiate itself with joe biden in washington joining me now from ramallah as someone who's worked for peace in the heart of the middle east all her life she is the 1st woman to hold the seat in the highest executive body in palestine but the one on a strongly thanks so much vera coming back on the show i'm going to 1st ask about your own code red what's it like having coronavirus given that israel has been accused of denying medical help to palestinians. well thank you for it and that the man seems to be would be like again. said gently.