from no chance to giving it a shot so western countries change their tune on russia sputnik the vaccine after leading medical journal publishes a study about its high as you can see we hear from this c.e.o. of the sons that backs the job doubt. when you combine the details of price with just 6 you really know what i believe is the best but you and me scientists because of all the greek. restaurant resistance french business owners defy the government's ongoing covert restrictions by opening their doors and serving diners . u.k. food banks and they did with pleas for help as a growing poverty crisis these the most vulnerable having to choose between eating

or heating we had the story of one disabled man who states he could have died. sometime we hear really bad news stories where somebody who lives alone has been found dead in the will die. trying to find the part jimmy. would have just toppled and. a warm welcome you're watching the weekly here on r.t. international bringing to you all the latest along with a recap of the stories that shape the week it's great to have you with us and we start our weekly round up with sputnik russia's sputnik v. corona virus vaccine a new study in the long sought medical journal has shown that the job is over 90 percent effective off the phase 3 trials 21 countries have registered the vaccine so far with me being the latest to approve the job on me while in europe hungary

which was the 1st country to approve sputnik v. has received his 1st batch of the shots as part of a 2000000 doses deal the czech republic is also considering breaking ranks with the block and using the vaccine the key states including france and germany are waiting for the e.u. regulator to approve the job 1st which the blocks top diplomat hoped would happen soon. and now i am hoping that it will be and medical agency will be able to certify the efficiency of these vaccine you know that could be yours also into the p. and union state who will be. new because as you know we are facing a shortage of vaccine and 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 russian scientists side long been saying the sputnik v. was birth safe and effective but that wasn't enough to convince skeptics in the west however that now appears to be a change of heart as margo c. of explains. barely a few months ago the cure was sold to us is worse than the disease they mocked sputnik we they don't ride did it they tried to turn it into a joke and with out of these 3 mass trial completed it sounds like the process hasn't run its course here america's top researchers say russia cutting corners to develop its corona virus vaccine they're still trying to figure out safety and there they've approved it the irony is of course that these same people the same people who accused russia of spreading vaccine conspiracies and 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 us 91.6 percent episodes of exceeding 91.8 percent effort is required truly 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 big scene 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 africa's sea price and logistics you really

have what i believe is a best of acute in the world and me scientists in the world agree the lancet medical journal has published preliminary results for things 3. trials of sputnik and their good side effects if any doesn't require a deep freeze 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 pfizer 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 don't strike 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 over anything the past year was a chaotic free for all rat race where everyone is for themselves and starts to see that at last good sense and reason are starting to prevail over propaganda and politics but director of the investment fund behind the russian job dimitri of who we just heard from in a previous piece also stressed the need for equitable vaccine access. we have lots

of countries and let's and america in middle east and africa who will be using sport you can be back see it's very important only reach countries get told those over it seems this is really not equitable as a world i think politicians overreach countries will try to do so but there should be a mechanism story and have much more even and much more equal distribution or function the rounds the world and would make the is committed those of us weighed it already delivered what seemed all g. or real already delivered seemed to get in the air so we had delivered what seemed to lights in america 2 places a really now there are served by as a big scene of producers already make these registered in 16 countries by the end of next week i think it will be registered and trying to 5 countries we do have some production constraints so this year we can probably supply only around $700000000.00 people those us so that means $101400000000.00 of those are so

observant seeing and countries of the approach and right now we can all the supplies as we've seen in may would join so basically we will not be the only folks in the world of course with the phone taiwan those a best of but countries need to have a portfolio of different but seems and reward was as of excellence as well for example work disasters and to increase advocacy of their big scene and we believe the spirit of partnership and works in cooperation with some board and then by a french restaurants opens the doors on monday and defiance of coronavirus measures that have been in place in folk targa although some restrictions have been lifted since then cafes and restaurants are still not able to host dinah's so it depends the reports. those who pushed. play on the north sea. since october this is been the extent of service available at restaurants and cafes in france takeaway only but as the men sort of try get on with the new reopening dating site same owners have decided to welcome customers inside in

defiance of the couvade 19 regulations. i'm doing this for liberty and for. the frenchman that is no longer respected i'm not able to work so i have no freedom and open he did sue. when it came to the crunch he settled on a compromise. so we will serve food to people it says restaurant today i won't be able to reopen fully if i did i would lose my compensation for loss is over and see my restaurant closed or go to prison his cool has spread across the country and all the restaurants have followed suit since now at the end of january 1 christophe will feel i'm bringing his establishment in nice to around 50 customers yet. christoph wilson's protests

wish lived on the doors to poppies were once closed again but his lawyer is now taking his petition directly to president michael. i wrote an open email to say stop to self isolation rooms are cessation received over 100000 messages in 48 hours french people can no longer do this mr president here in paris 2 there have also been raids on so-called deaths during the restaurant there were reports of this one behind me lenox over the weekend was uncovered with many others now amongst the clientele were allegedly french magistrates with no being fined 135 euros been. as you can see it's still in print now the owner wouldn't give an interview with told me off camera that diners had only eaten under cover as it was raining and he also disputed that some were magistrates but support for believe businesses has been growing on social media and many other restaurants and said

that they would be opening service for customers at the start of february however with very little support from unions and a warning from the government if you did and where does joe public fall in all of this do they want their favorite eateries to reopen or do they think it's better to keep the shutters down. i don't find it normal that stories are open and restaurants are not so many if we maintain social distancing and respect the rules the risk for restaurants will do the same as for a store suddenly we don't have a choice i would like very much for them to open but i think for the safety of everyone we need to make some sacrifices to stop the virus and live normally the u.k. government has been accused of neglecting the vulnerable groups by not giving them enough financial assistance during the pandemic but if it's for many disabled people in the u.k. have not increased in line with payments for other types of wealthier david allen

who suffers who are most opposed closes is one such person who's been left out of pocket he says he felt abandoned when he was left bed ridden by coronavirus. sometimes we hear really bad news stories where somebody who lives alone has been found dead in the home for several days potentially but it could have happened to me and nobody would have checked up on even if i did have a carer who would cut we could coming and how they would be allowed to unless it was formally recognize a social care as a result of the pandemic of the lockdown that we were in we've had to rely on of giving our food shopping delivered to us my shopping bill normally comes to between $25.35 pounds per week but if you're shopping mordor is less than 40 pounds you get whacked with the somehow delivery charge so i go to certain pounds i've not budgeted for and during mind i had no increase in my income i have to find

it from somewhere so i have to give something else up in order to get my food to live and the reality is for decades people living with long term conditions the amul increases benefits i should. have not kept pace with the rise in the cost of living. and that was even before the pandemic his friends and has been compounded even more now we have a 2 tier system so $100.00 people who get the universal credit be given the additional support but those of us on legacy benefits have been given nothing. the majority of disabled people in the u.k. say they spent more than usual on shopping and utility bills during the pandemic at least 70 percent have gone without essential and almost half of falling behind on their financial commitments david told us is even sat in the dark to save

electricity and believes it's the most vulnerable groups who've been hit hardest. i'm left feeling abandoned and forgotten and down and it seems quite convenient for the government to forget people like us and what i find really hard to understand is the mixed messages that we get from government that have been statements about it's cheaper to look after of people with long term conditions in their own home rather than putting them into care but we don't get support to the small we actually need to remain around homes there are those people that really struggle he has been documented people have taken their own lives as a result of this too many people have been left behind and there's too many people really really struggling to make him a hard decision nor do you have the how are the lights on do i have a mayor who don't have the heating on for

a country believe we're somewhere around the 5th 6th richest country in the world it's outrageous i'm sorry i think our government should be ashamed of themselves after the break outrage in new york after handcuffed 9 year old girl is pepper sprayed by police while being detained that story and more coming up. guys are financial survival. when customers go buy yourself. well reduce and lower. that's undercutting but what's good for market is that good for the global economy. i don't think there's any perception united states and russia has been clear superiority over the united

states and i think you see there's a fairly balanced relationship. in the nuclear streeter and i think. the the ministration wants to have negotiations for what we've talked about strategic stability they want predictability they want they want to secure situation in europe in asia and with russia and they want to be able to focus on other issues to a certain extent the ball the bilateral relationship a more general. welcome back now in other news this week russia has expelled 3 european diplomats from the

country that has authorize he's released footage purporting to show diplomats from poland to sweden and germany as a protest in moscow 2 weeks ago for 3 european embassy workers have said that they were just observing the events the un authorized demonstrations began 2 weeks ago following the detention of opposition activist alexei novelli for parole violations some of those smaller rallies also took place in various cities across the country scuffles broke out between protesters and riot police with hundreds being detained as a result the protests are thought to have been feel. a massive social media campaign run by opposition activists. on cheers day alexina found he was found guilty of violating the terms of his parole and he was sentenced to just 3 years in jail just under 3 years in jail a lot of time served under house arrest the case dates back to 2014 when a family was given a suspended sentence for money laundering

a number of western diplomats were present during the court hearing but did not seem too keen on talking to the press. but was. one person with a profit motive you. were not going to be me at all right like the. following the verdicts numerous western countries called one of our nice immediate release of russia's foreign minister hit back accusing the west of using the protests as a diversion. we reiterate out 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 telling scene of vile me 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 volley and all of the peaceful protesters and journalists arrested over the last 2 weeks because no we're stuck on the same topic the west is trying to dodge the issue of finding the real truth of what happened when and where they say novelli by focusing on protests in russia are numerous requests to provide us with the results of his tests remain unanswered by germany france sweden and even the pope at the o.p.c. w. they say you already know everything well this is impolite at the very least and such are against on behalf of enlightened europe is absolutely inappropriate and unacceptable some countries including the u.s. have already suggested imposing sanctions on russia over the novelli case but a number of political analysts we spoke to believe that they should focus on

putting that own house in order. it's 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 young the 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 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 authority 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 demand that russia courts have the

freedom to decide in traditional mattress various governments that have come out to criticize the kremlin and washington to quantum of all they are acting as we could have predicted just as the kremlin has acted as a group to. question in the present which is done everything possible to deserve the west meaning particularly the states. and to a lesser degree germany or ring leaders you know propaganda move if there were fire russia to draw attention toward the one seen with political developments in the west going back to the storming of the capital which was quite monsters compared to everything that's happened in russia in the last group which. the world's richest man and founder of amazon jeff bezos on tuesday announced plans to step down as c.e.o. to dedicate more time to charity work among other things but his departure also

comes amid accusations he ignores the plight of his own workers during the pandemic with his take care dimitri polk. everyone likes convenience but in this weird time where the pandemic the stores are all closed and nothing is as convenient as amazon we all use it but let's face it it's becoming harder and harder to ignore the teensy fact that there are really a giant soulless monopoly and who better to represent that monopoly and everything that is wrong with having too much money and power then amazon c.e.o. jeff bezos well apparently he has seen the error of his ways and decided to change basis is officially stepping down as amazon c.e.o. so focuses attention on nobler causes like philanthropy spaceflight journalism and given his track record these ventures are bound to be a huge success i mean the guy is full of life and optimism a firm

a work meaningful and fun i get to work with the smartest most talented most ingenious teammates when times have been good you've been humble when times have been tough you've been strong and supportive and we've made each of the left. it is a joy to work on this team and look how happy amazon workers are. amazon me the parts are false promises it is birds that you have a release or did you don't you just do it but you trust the virus is not enough to give you. a relief for him it's about protections as well pete wasn't regarding that yeah ok maybe not all amazon workers but c'mon it's understandable why a basis is stepping down i mean just imagine how tired he must be from all these

workers strikes protests congressional grillings and throughout the years there's been a lot of very ungrateful amazon workers give us p p stop treating us like robots give us bathroom breaks shut up and work right either way basis should be stepping away from all this negativity it's bad for business and morale and i'm sure his dedication to full length should be another virtuous ventures will produce a much better monopoly next time. well staying in the us there's been a shock and outrage in new york on monday off the footage was released of police pappas spraying a 9 year old girl while she was handcuffed and the office is it being cool to respond to a domestic incident you may find the following images disturbing. here.

the incident took place on the 29th of january when police were responding to reports of a family disturbance the girl was reportedly threatening to harm herself and can be seen resisting the police as they tried to put her into a patrol car she could also be heard screaming for her father several times before being pepper sprayed by an officer the incident has sparked widespread outrage in the local community. on monday dozens of people marched on the streets of rochus dunn chanted outside the city's police station one officer has been suspended and 2 more put on administrative leave pending investigation the girl's mother plans to sue the city for damages. the mare of rochester has also called on law enforcement to undergo deescalation training and announce draft reforms banning the use of handcuffs on

children under the age of 12 however social activist days breakings those there isn't much hope of change. it seems as though these are not just the stakes but this is a culture that the way of the police to act within the police departments. they're still getting what we call the warrior training the idea that you need to basically attack should as and and that the citizens need to comply with the police in every way noncompliance should not by itself be a huge for excessive force like this but they are apparently used to being implied in this and get enraged i mean these these police officers were just angry at this 9 year old for not doing exactly what she was told and then it goes very deep the terms of the function of the police to maintain order and

parole rather than shooting people speaks for there's a very deep culture involved with that but on the part of the government there is very little effort to to go against that culture to make changes to the status quo in this country is working very very well for a lot of people that's particularly working well for the business as a marriage and as long as that status quo is working so well it seems to be hesitant to rochester new york or where i live there seems to be a hesitance to do anything to change. wanted it is now your thoughts on this story and everything else by following us on social media and even your comment that thanks for joining us aaron on t.n.t. national that's all for me for today but jacqueline vick i will be with you at the top of the hour.

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