justice. in the week's top stories from no chance to giving it a shot western countries change their tune on russia sputnik the vaccine after a leading medical journal publishes a study about its high efficacy we hear from the c.e.o. of the fund that backs the job. when you come by see if the price of logistics really what i believe is the best of a cure that the world and scientists comes up all the greek. plus the restaurant resistance french business owners to find the government's ongoing covert restrictions by opening their doors and serving diners. and u.k. food banks are inundated with pleas for help as a growing poverty crisis is the most vulnerable having to choose between heating

and eating we hear the story of one disabled man who says he could have died. sometimes we really private you storms somebody who lives alone has been found dead in several dogs. trying to fight could have happened maybe somebody would have checked up home. you're watching the weekly here on our 2 international recap of the biggest stories from the past 7 days thanks for joining us. we start our weekly round up with russia sputnik the coronavirus vaccine a new study in the lancet medical journal a 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 job in all in europe hungry which was the 1st e.u. country to brew sputnik 3 has received its 1st batch of the shot as part of

a 2000000 doses deal the 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 regulator to approve the job 1st which the block's 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 these vaccine could be useful szell into the p.n. union state who will be good news because as you know we are facing a shortage of vaccine and anyone who applies to the european medical agency for approval is one can 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 proved. russian scientists have long been saying that sputnik 3 was

both safe and effective but that was enough to convince skeptics in the west are there now appears to be a change of heart as more and asked if explains barely a few months ago the cure was sold to us was worse than the disease they mocked sputnik really they derived 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 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 laws 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 easier to produce and to transport side effects don't include. added thought make allergic sieges what the trials showed this 91.6 percent episodes of exceeding 91.8 percent efficacy where 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 distort a plus 2 plus 8 versus minus 70 degrees celsius required by the us big scenes and of course half a one 3rd of the us would seem so when you combine safety advocacy price and logistics you really have what i believe is a best of

a cure the world and many 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 know the 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 to now that pfizer vaccines are experiencing shortages and disruptions sputnik isn't so bad ah through 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 has already i suspect being used in hungary and i have no objection. 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 the region 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 sputnik we shot sputnik v. was waiting for me and 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 dimmick 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 a 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 to be able to meet 3 of who we just heard from in moron's report also stressed the need for equitable vaccine access. we have lots of countries in latin america in middle east and africa who

will be using sport and you can be back see it's very important of the only reach countries get hold 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 really have much more even and much more equal distribution or fiction the rounds the world and would need to be is committed those of us we can already delivered what seemed all g. or real already delivered what seemed too good in the air so we had delivered what seemed like in america at the places a really now on there are served by civic scene the producers already knew these registered in 16 countries by the end of next week i think it will be registered and trying to find 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 or so is a big scene and countries of the approach and right now we can all the supplies as we've seen in may or june so basically we will not be the only folks in the world

of course with the info on those a best of but countries need to have a portfolio of different but seems and reward was out of excellence as well for example what disasters and to increase advocacy of their big scene and we believe the spirit of partnership and looks in cooperation with some board. 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 charlatan's kaye has more. more to push a pair on and we'll see. since october this is been the extent of service available at restaurants and cafes in france takeaway only but as the men have tried to talk on them with a 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 conversation follows 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 christoph wilcke from his establishment is nice to around 50 customers yet. christophe 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 michel. 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 too there have also been raids on so-called destroying restaurants now 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 we know being fined 135 year. but as you can see it's still in print now there were no wouldn't give an interview with told me off camera during his had only eaten on the cover as it was raining and he also disputed that some were not just straight but supports full believe businesses has been growing on social media now many of the 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 and those of us 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 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 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 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 that 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 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 for a burial mind 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 reeses 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 $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 pen demick illicitly 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 on electricity and believes it's the most vulnerable 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 cheap it's on the car floor of people with long time conditions in their own home rather than putting them into care but we don't get in support to the small we actually need so that 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 lights on do i have a me who don't have the heating on for a country believe we're somewhere around the 5th 6th richest country in the world

is now ready just i'm sorry i think our government should be ashamed of themselves . for the collapse of a glacier and northern india has caused severe flooding in the region with up to 150 people missing and feared dead and one of ice and water swept away hydroelectric dam that was under construction at all levels have risen by over one metre forcing they'll just downstream to be evacuated indian military has been deployed to assist in the search and rescue operation. the weekly continues after this short break. join me every 1st day on the alec simon show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm showbusiness i'll see that.

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welcome back in other news this week russia has expelled 3 european diplomats from the country at us 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 authorized demonstrations began 2 weeks ago following the detention of opposition activists i mix in of all meet for parole violations so small around these also took place and 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 alex in a volley 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 dates back to 2014 when the ball 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. you know. one person at the press office and i hear you. speak at all right. following the verdict numerous western countries called front of all these immediate release but russia's foreign minister hit back accusing the west of using the protests as a diversion 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 jealousy in 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 the novelli by focusing on protests in russia are numerous requests to provide us with the results of 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 than about a case but a number of political analysts we spoke to believe they should focus on putting their 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 but to russia when we see the way for example do you best movement was treated in france $3000.00 political opponents during these demonstrations were condemned in france $1000.00 political opponents were imprisoned and the mineral management states say is that the developers be released why did he start himself by releasing french political prisoners and his political opponents not only should those countries those western countries respect the independence of the russian federation but they should also respect the independence of the russian judicial system and so this 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 traditional mattress with various governments that have come out to

criticize the kremlin and washington to content more war than they are acting as we could have predicted just as the kremlin was that it was a group who took. their place and in the present which is done everything possible to deserve the west meaning particular states. and to a lesser degree germany or ringleaders you know propaganda movie if there were fire russia and to draw attention away the one scene with political developments in the west going back to the storming of the capital which was quite monsters compared to anything that's happened in russia in the last few weeks. the world's richest man the founder of amazon jeff bezos on tuesday and else 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 here is to make sure public. 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 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 parts are false promises with the words that they haven't released or did he tell you it's too late but you trust the bible is not enough to give you. a relief or it is about protections as well pete wasn't providing back 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. there's been shock and outrage in new york on monday after footage was released of police pepper spraying a 9 year old girl while she was handcuffed and officers had been called to respond to a domestic incident warning you may find the following images upsetting. dear. god or i got a letter. the incident took place on the 29th

of january with lisa responding to reports of a family disturbance the girls report we threatening to harm herself and be seen resisting the police as they tried to put her into a patrol car could also be heard screaming for her father several times before being sprayed by an officer incident has sparked widespread outrage in the local community. meet. on monday dozens of people marched on the streets of rochester and chanted outside the city's police station one officer has been suspended and 2 more put on administrative leave pending an investigation the girl's mother plans to sue the city for damages the mayor of rochester has also called on law enforcement to undergo deescalation training unannounced rough reforms banning the use of handcuffs on children under the age of 12 however social activist a baking says there isn't much hope of real 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 ns and 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 that 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 of marriage and as long as that status follows working so well it seems to be a hazard in rochester new york or where i live there seems to be a hesitance to do anything to change. that's what our breakdown and just some of the biggest headlines from the past week from on the stories and the latest news head to our website our to dot com.

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