i. think. countries around the world to change their tune on russia's export make the vaccine after a leading medical journal published a study about its effectiveness. by the weight of criticism the president of the european commission refuses to apologize for the blocks slow vaccine rollout. and russia the united states officially extend a major nuclear arms reduction treaty for another 5 years with moscow saying it's a step towards international stability. live from moscow your ching are the international just going to put in the russian capital ondine hawkins welcome to the program. the mexico nicaragua are among the

latest countries to approve russia's covert vaccine this comes as a new study in the lawsuit medical journal found sputnik agreed to be over 90 percent effective meanwhile in europe hungary which was the 1st the u. country to approve support that v. has received its 1st batch of a shots as part of a 2000000 doses deal and other key other key states in the block including france and germany are waiting for the e.u. regulator to approve the job 1st. 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 there 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 or following extensive trials russian scientists said results showed sport degree was safe and effective didn't stop much caution in the west however there now appears to be a change of heart as more guys if explained. barely a few months ago the cure was sold to us is was then the disease they mocked sputnik we they do ride that they tried to turn it into a joke but with out of these 3 mass trial completed it sounds like the process hasn't run its course here america's top researchers say russia cutting corners to develop its coronavirus vaccine they're still trying to figure out safety and there they've approved it the irony is of course that these same people the same people who accused russia of spreading vaccine conspiracies and 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 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 for actually people older than 60 years old and also in the lab the important part of the vaccine it's affordable and it's easy to distribute around the world we call it human kind of big scene because it can distort the last 2 plus 8 versus minus 70

degrees celsius required by the u.s. big scenes and of course half a one 3rd of the u.s. which seems 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 scooter 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 jewel formulation vaccine is comparatively easy to manufacture and to deploy i mean the anticipated global shortage of vaccines and logistical problems in vaccination rollout it's interesting timing to now that maternal vaccines are

experiencing shortages and disruptions sputnik isn't so bad after all it never was but politics is politics and a vaccine isn't immune to political trash talk as sad as that is around 50 nations have already preordered sputnik jabs and europe hungry was the 1st european nation to greenlight it and now the czech republic is looking to follow and its footsteps i know that sputnik is already i suspect being used in hungary and i have no objection to this vaccine being used in our country if the experts so decide he's still better than people dying here just because of a lack of vaccines so after months of denial and derision the pundits too are coming around it was easy to mock russian scientists it's harder to mock international studies hard science and that was enough of

a jolt to convince even pundits to give scrutiny we shot. sputnik v. was waiting for me at my neighborhood clinic the job was quick and almost painless 3 weeks later i had my 2nd injection in late january i took a test for covering 1990 bodies the results according to interpretive scale provided by the clinic indicated that my antibody levels were probably sufficient to prevent illness struck me as high that's my own personal pun demick was nearing its end if you are the average person before this pandemic how they thought the world would react to this this huge global health crisis they would probably have said by united we now know that that would have been the wrong answer 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 row over vaccines between britain and the e.u.

continues the u.k. cabinet office minister michael gove's says the block's recent actions have undermined trust 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 e.u. threatened to restrict exports of vaccines to countries outside the block to a shortage or a quickie back down meanwhile the european commission chief of sort of on the land has the friend of the blocks sluggish rollout saying brussels would not compromise on safety but even our predecessors on flawed euchre 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 making authorization procedures the commission in member states agreed not to compromise with the c 51 advocacy requirement linked to the authorization of the vaccine well that comment is being seen as a bit of a dig at the united kingdom which approved 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 deed in 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 of come out of france where the french president emanuel much as described the vaccine is quazi in affective against the coronavirus 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 meanwhile world leaders including the french president and the european commission head have published a joint article calling for a coordinated approach in fighting the pandemic 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. on the whole gantry pharma discussed that article with independent journalist. he believes e.u. leaders need to sort out their own house before talk to humans talking up international solidarity. the thing is that one use you hear my point is that i am on french channels or of on the i am saying and speaking about it i mean the

suspect list are 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 in the subsidized press you know all the good press is salient now about mr micawber formulae and others 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 be 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 they said you know 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 british man giving out free soup at a local park out himself under arrest for apparently breaking code restrictions but even if you see these a man it's an abuse of power and i might front of him might have seemed to have a had actually already knew the spiriting of this engine is it not for him i think sterling's next mayor had been serving soup to vulnerable people at a makeshift kitchen he had set up in his local skate park police soon stepped in we discussed the situation with mr smith himself i don't know the whys and wherefores

of that kind of for me actually that's kind of it in an hour shows a bunch of us or i serve up food some people home lists some people becoming rich i know there are many laws and you know there's an awful lot of constraints and restrictions on us in society at the moment but there's just so many businesses that have gone down and this is just such an easy way to feed people in our i hope people take it up all over the place for a lot of people are going touch and said how would i do that in my town in this town and now those towns in north of england that we've been absolutely stuffed since before this began there's going to be a wake of of need and i believe we're in we need to learn new ways to interact with each other we need to learn new ways to support each other and i'm not really up for talking that much i don't remember i like to just go do things and this was something i thought i could just do i'm not satisfied with very much that's going on are all it's that they seem to be an awful lot of efforts but it doesn't seem to

have an outright do with the hunger and it seems more to do with like keeping people shut away the police claim he violated locked on a structure ends by encouraging 2 or more people together but the author of food bank in britain ray woolford believes offices 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 catchin kitchen is acceptable as long as they get their soup and then they move on this was in an open environment safe environment it was within the guidelines of cove aid for 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 1 aware of 'd what's happening in other areas so they're all misunderstanding the regulations and yet new more contagious strain of covert furthur tech that in the u.k. is now giving scientists yet more grounds for concern they fear any further mutations could make it resistant to the current vaccine scientists have identified a new strain in both the british and south african variants and u.k. mutations believed to be far more infectious than the original one start of the pandemic instead the ties are locked on instructions and many countries banning travel to britain however clinical villages julian tanks still believes the vaccines will offer some protection against the new strains. the fact that this

tribe of mutations therefore it for the full 175 or one has risen in brazil and south africa and now seems to be arising in the u.k. suggest that those present mutations may be an adult and that did respond by the virus to the human population and if this for us very well be seen elsewhere this afternoon stations but as you know there's a lot sequencing of it's positive sample same effect to pick them up earlier so we know that when the vaccines. are manufactured and distributed there's always a chance that the virus will mutate was that process is ongoing and if she does what we've seen now with this week a variance the factions are not completely useless they will still have some effect on the virus. while tight usually very and this is the free for katie variant to some extent although we know that if rachel came you actually choose to fix it by maybe 40 to 50 percent but it's still better than nothing i was still people to get

the vaccine as it's rolled out. ahead of the u.s. strategic command claims america should prepare for a nuclear war with russia and china will have more on that brain. join me every thursday on the alex i'm unsure and i'll be speaking to us from the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. new york times says the wall street was one of the last bastions of power to be hopeful run by the populist movement because of the high barriers to entry yes and that's right those barriers to entry have been eliminated because of free online trading because of all the stimulus tax that made a lot of people lots of free cash to have available to do something like this

there's something apparently $65000000000.00 in the war cast of the biggest health plan in the world now which is right and wall street so they've got a lot of clout and energy and expertise to go after targets out there that they perceived to have stolen their money in 2008. welcome back to the program the new start nuclear arms reduction treaty between russia and the united states has been officially extended for 5 more years moscow praised the deal is a step in the right direction wrong course the president tells. 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 a paramount of the already received phrase both in moscow and in washington and 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 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 trosch and the us carry as the world's largest nuclear nations the decision guarantees and necessary level of predictability and transparency in this area while strictly maintaining a balance of interests 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. well the u.s.

is on the brink of a nuclear war with russia and china that's the stark warning at least from forethought charles richards america's strategic command. the u.s. military must shift its principle assumption from nuclear employment is not possible to nuclear employment is a very real possibility and act to meet and deter that reality former u.n. weapons inspector scott ritter believes the admiral's warnings are a dangerous move. 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 the annihilation of the world will also be destroyed as we currently know it the united states

identified russia and china as clear adversaries requiring the build up 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 victory either russia or 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 eventually get through the cold war and i'm hopeful we will eventually get through this. moscow has had back of criticism by the west off of course decision to jail kremlin critic alexei navalny dismissing it as foreign interference and while he was sentenced this week to just under 3 years of writing parole he was not of spoke to saskatoon or about

the reaction to the verdict. 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 go in 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.

you must. remember that one person at the press office and i hear you. right now you have the speaker here and of this. 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 a 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 we get this is planted 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 guy he got away with a slap on the wrist while not this time and world the judge decided to side with the prosecution. team from the world health organization has finally visited of all religious lab in this chinese city of what harm which has been at the forefront of speculation about the origins of covert 19 because carrying the team members were escorted by chinese security forces as they made their way to the research center

the w.h.o. mission to the city where the 1st cluster of the corona virus emerged is aiming to identify what exactly led to the pandemic. that resemble now where police have clashed with students angry scenes was sparked by the president's decision to appoint a new rector at a top university a move students say is undemocratic tear gas was reportedly used by police with numerous arrests made the president has vowed to crackdown on protests. and robotic footage is captured the moment a space x. prototype gets into trouble above texas eventually comes back down to earth before exploding fuel masks company hopes the vehicle will one day take people to mars it's the 2nd time in as many attempts that the rocket has failed to touch down. and funny holos dolphin called nick has been giving tips ahead of this weekend's super bowl when faced with 2 american footballs with the name of each finalist for

the kansas city chiefs they take on the tampa bay buccaneers on sunday knicks former these correctly predicted the last 6 super bowl winners. i gave of kidnap and torture to documentary follows the story of swiss parliamentarian dick monti and his investigation of c o u uses under tarpaulins with the e.u. coming up next the team backing off now with the latest join us again that. i might. show somebody an accident where a car goes through a meal sign at the intersection. suggest to the witness said they saw a stop sign stand of the yield sign. in these experiments many will adopt the suggestion we call it misinformation. claiming it as their

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