in my name. in the weekly from no chance to giving it a shot western countries change their tune on russia sputnik be a vaccine for a leading medical journal publishes a study about its efficacy we hear from the c.e.o. of the fund that backs the job. when you combine saved you know the price of logistics you really know what i believe is the best picture of the world's. scientists going to the wall to agree. also this hour the restaurant resistance french business owners to find the government's ongoing coverage restrictions by opening their doors and serving diners. and u.k. food banks are inundated with pleas for help as a growing poverty crisis sees the most vulnerable having to choose between eating

t.v. we hear from the story of one disabled man who says he could have died. sometimes we feel ready by the new storms somebody who lives alone has been found dead in the assembled audience trench me type of pop. another body would have checked up for me . this is the weekly here on r.t. welcome to our round up of the day's news along with the headlines that shape the week. we start our weekly round up with russia spot thinks the coronavirus vaccine a new study in the lancet medical journal has shown that the job is over 90 percent effective after phase 3 trials 21 countries have registered the vaccine so far with me and mark being the latest to approve the jab meanwhile in europe hungary which was the 1st you country to approve sputnik has received its 1st batch of the shot

as part of a $2000000.00 dose deal a czech republic is also considering breaking ranks with the block and using the vaccine other key states including france and germany are waiting for the e.u. regulator to approve the job 1st which the box top diplomat hoped would happen soon . and now i am hoping that you do a b. and. medical agency will be able to certify the efficiency of this vaccine you know that could be your social into the pm union stage he will be. nailed because as you know we are facing a shortage of vaccine and that 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 russian scientists have long been saying that sputnik 3 was both safe and effective but that wasn't enough to convince skeptics in the west

however there are now appears to be a change of heart as more gust of explains. barely a few months ago the cure was sold to us as was the new 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 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 ma the important part of the vaccine it's affordable and it's easy to distribute around the world to call it human kind of big scene because it can be stored at plus 2 plus 8 versus minus 70 degree celsius required by the u.s. but scenes and of course half a one 3rd of the u.s. would seem so when you combine safety ethic is the price and logistics you really have what i believe is a best of acute in the world and many scientists in the world agree the lancet

medical journal has published preliminary results for things 3. trials of 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 know the sagely in agreement this is clearly good news as these jewel 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 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 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 for 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 the director of the investment fund behind the russian job killed dimitri of who we just heard from in that 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 sports 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 jeter real ready delivered what seemed too good in the air so we had delivered what seemed to lights in america places a diary really now on 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 great just that than 25 countries we do have some production constraints so this year we can probably supply only around 700000000 people doses so that means 101400000000 of those us was a big scene and countries of the approach and right now we can oliseh plight as we've seen in may would june so basically we will not be the only folks in the

world of course with their own taiwan those of best but countries need to have a portfolio of different but seems and the board was of excellence as well for example what disasters and the up to increase advocacy of their big scene and we believe the spirit of partnership and works in cooperation with some boredom a number of french restaurants opened their doors on monday in defiance of coronavirus measures that have been in place since october although some restrictions have been lifted since then cafes and restaurants are still not able to host diners. reports. those who push a pair 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 ments have thrived 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 outside the restaurant today i won't be able to reopen food if i did i would lose my compensation follow says over and see my restaurant closed or go to prison his cool has spread across the country in other restaurants have followed suit since now at the end of january 1 christoph wilcke. his establishment in nice to around 50 customers yet. christoph wilson's protest was sure 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 destroying restaurants there were reports of this one behind me lennox over the weekend was uncovered with many others now amongst the clientele were allegedly french magistrates with no being fined 135 year. but as you can see it's still in print now they are you know wouldn't give an interview with told me off camera that diners had only eaten on the cover as it was raining and he also disputed that some were magistrates' but supports full believe business is 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 stool 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 vulnerable groups spy not giving them enough financial assistance during the pandemic benefits for many disabled people in the u.k. have not increased in line with payments for other types of welfare david allen who suffers from multiple sclerosis is one such person who's been left out of pocket he says he felt abandoned when he was left bedridden 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 come in and how they would be allowed to unless it was formally recognize a social care as a result of the make of the lockdown but really we've had to rely on giving our food shopping delivered to us my shopping will 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 hole and bury a mind of no increase in my income i have to find it from someone so i have to give something else up in order to get my food to the the reality is for

decades people living with long term conditions the only link racism benefits i should. have not kept pace with the rise in the cost of living. and that was even before the pandemic his sins and has been compounded even more now we have a 2 tier system so the $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've spent more than usual on shopping and utility bills during the pandemic really 70 percent have gone without essentials and almost half are falling behind on their financial commitments david told us he's even sat in the dark to save electricity and believes it's the most of all rebel groups who've been hit the hardest i've left feeling abandoned and forgotten about. 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 in 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 i'm a who do i 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

the way they continue as here on our to international after the short break. my. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy people on sunday shouldn't let it be an arms race. spanning dramatic development only personally i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time time to sit down and talk. i don't think there's any perception united states that russia has nuclear superiority over the united states and i think you see there's a fairly balanced relationship. in the nuclear streeter and i think. what you mean

by 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 bilateral relationship a more general. welcome back and other news this week russia has expelled 3 european diplomats from the country as authorities released footage purporting to show diplomats from poland sweden and germany at a protest in moscow 2 weeks ago the 3 european embassy workers have said that they were just observing the event the on authorized demonstrations began 2 weeks ago following the detention of opposition activists unexplainable need for parole

violations similar smaller ellie's also took place in various cities across the country clashes broke out between protesters and riot police with hundreds being detained the protests are thought to have been fueled by a massive social media campaign run by opposition activists. on tuesday i would say of all me was found guilty of violating the terms of his parole and he was sentenced to just under 3 years in jail after time served under house arrest the case states back to 2014 when of all he 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 speaking to the press. so let's. look for some of the press off here you. were not. at all

right sector. following the verdict numerous western countries called for an of all these immediate release but russia's foreign minister hit back accusing the west of using the protest 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 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 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 it's aleksei novelli by focusing on protests in russia on 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 us have already suggested imposing sanctions on russia over than about the case but a number of political analysts we spoke to believe that they should focus on putting their own houses in order. it's just that 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 and the mineral management state saying is that the developers be released why did he start himself by releasing cringe 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 that russian courts have the freedom to decide in judicial mattress with various governments or come out to criticize the kremlin and washington to conduct more war we are acting as we could have predicted just as the kremlin has acted as a group to. their place in the prison which is done everything possible to deserve the west meaning particular states. and to a lesser degree germany or ring leaders you know up again and move if there were

fire russia into georgia tension or war. on scene 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 truly. the world's richest man and founder of amazon jeff bezos on tuesday and now its 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 ignored the plight of his own workers during the pandemic with his take care sweet republic. 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 they're 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.

will you be. able to be the principals probably sit with the 1st that they have agreed to or did he tell you it's just to let you trust a virus is not enough to give you. a relief or it is about protections as well pete just wasn't regarding that yeah ok maybe not all amazon workers but come on 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. the collapse of a glacier in northern india has caused severe flooding in the region with up to 150 people missing feared dead the wall of ice and water swept away hydroelectric dam that was under construction and water levels have risen by over one metre forcing villages downstream to be iraqi weight and the indian military has been deployed to assist in the search and rescue operation. that's a recap of just some of the stories that help shape the world these last 7 days all the latest on up to the minute reports follow us on twitter facebook. l. look forward to talking to you all that technology should work for people. i robot must obey the orders given to by human beings except where such orders to conflict

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be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. a lot of welcome to worlds apart in late night in 45 ga horrible prophesies that atomic bombs inside. out of blowing the world pieces are more likely to put in than to large scale wars at the cost of prolonging peace there is no peace this new strategic stability has survived the cold war and just god a new lease on life as russia and the united states renewed the strategic arms

reduction treaty barely week before its expiration but the debate on whether the nukes are the main threat for the main provider of peace is still less timely as ever to discuss some of it and now i'm joined by miles pumper a senior fellow at the middlebury institute of international studies at monterey mr pumper it's great to talk to you thank you very much for your time. my pleasure now let's start with the now doubly new start treaty which while being considered one of the last remaining bad drugs of arms control was extended essentially over the phone in a conversation between presidents putin and biden is that a sign of how crucial that treaty is or how on the country in consequence where there's no i think it's a sign of how. essential it is really is the bedrock of strategic stability.