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wherever you're catching the program from today welcome to mosque once more to international my names you know. russia has a hot trick to tackle the coronavirus kovi fuck is the new to be approved it was created by moscow's. scientific center the developers say it will also offer protection against new coronavirus variants my colleagues. talk through the news earlier. well called me back is the 3rd vaccine to be registered for distribution here in russia making the country the 1st to reach that benchmark it was developed by moscow to mach of center for immuno biological research and it can be stored between 2 to 8 degrees celsius that makes the vaccine easier to store than others like the pfizer variant for example that needs to be stored at a colder temperature to prevent spoilage now called me that is also currently at the end of phase 2 testing and russia's prime minister is understandably looking to

roll it out to the public soon. i want to start with some very good news a 3rd vaccine has been budgeted today was developed by the trauma called research center the 1st 120000 doses will already be available to the public by the middle of march today russia is the only country that already has 3 vaccines for the corona virus. actually it was developed in the field the new shot uses dead corona virus which was originally taken from a patient at the common market hospital in moscow region one of the 1st hospitals that actually treated kovan patients here in russia the shock of such as general director said his team looked at around $400.00 different samples of the virus a common arca until they found the one suitable for cultivation for a vaccine as for the clinical trials stage 3 is set to begin in march while those that have already been conducted or quite successful we haven't had any reports of any serious reactions to the new vaccine but it will go up to the preliminary results are very encouraging after the 2nd phase will see how the vaccine affects

the immune system we found that 8587 percent of people develop onset bodies by day 28. and it's also important to note just how much experience the true mark of center has in vaccine production in the past it's created a whole line of vaccines for polio yellow fever tick borne diseases and rabies to name just a few and even exports tens of millions of doses of these vaccines to over $100.00 countries around the world that's an exchange for funding that goes into more research projects like involving vaccinations russia's vaccination campaign has been going on for awhile now how's it going well january saw the start of russia's max vet a mass vaccination program and over 2000000 people have already gotten the shots so far i mean that's not too many considering russia's population of nearly 150000000 people but the tempo is definitely picking up russia's prime minister says that 4000 new vaccination points have opened around the country and over 10000000 new doses are currently in production and the good thing is that almost half of those

numbers of vaccinated people are actually people over 60 years old we're talking about one of the high risk demographics back is russia's 3rd vaccine sputnik v an epi vaca rhona are already available in russia so now the goal is just mainly to get the public on board with the idea of getting this shot in the 1st place. meanwhile ever more european nations are in talks to receive sputnik visa plight italian business leaders told us the process could also improve moscow e.u. ties. i believe we can improve the russian e.u. relationship in terms of the back to the supply of alternative taps is limited and has fallen short of both european and global demand it's no secret that it lead germany and france have already turned to the russian government but they have to buy the russian packs in i'm sure vaccines should not be held hostage to jail politics. to be rude give to

russia gave to the world well she could have used it as political leverage but it did not we see that russia has great opportunities for inoculation for foreigners living in russia as well i personally go to not feel grateful we see that russia is open to the distribution of its vaccine abroad not only open to its export just like pfizer and astra zeneca but it also provides the opportunity to manufacture sputnik via broad it's not new concept of cooperation with other nations in terms of economy and health care i think you can subsequently lead to the improvement of relations between russia the e.u. and the world. coming up on the program baghdad bowen thousands more nato troops are set to be deployed in iraq delving into a decades old conflict that shows little sign of cessation we'll bring you more later in the program. deadly storms in the southern u.s. have killed at least 47 in the worst affected states texas millions are struggling to access to clean water while thousands of households have been left with out

power president biden has occurred a major disaster in the area on locking funds for those worst affected during the extreme freeze energy usage has soared power bills for many texans they have skyrocketed some residents have racked up electricity costs of up to 10 $1000.00 artie's killer up and explains how the recent disaster has laid bare infrastructure problems in the country. in texas a snow storm and extreme weather conditions are leading to an avalanche of problems in addition to the power going out the water pipes froze and then cracked open leaving millions without access to running water. not out here don't. hold those who still have water now being told it is not safe

to drink or shower with this is starting to sound like 3rd world conditions and can't be happening in the usa right well actually it can u.s. infrastructure has been in decay for quite some time we've got some older houses some older apartment complexes that were built using p.v.c. 2030 years ago that is kind of a cold slap in the face if you want to call it that this is happening normally. you would go out to a place like this is not a busted pipeline and they would get the water out building run the fans you know to try and dry the place out but again in this case because they have so many calls they're not able to do that this did not start in texas in 2014 you had the flint water crisis when the city in michigan switched from the detroit water system to getting its water supply from the flint river but lead in the aging pipes soon leaked into the water supply causing serious problems for locals it took 5 years for the complaints to be listened to and the locals problems to be addressed

inexplicable. and inexcusable families weren't notified things weren't shut down. that shouldn't happen anywhere president obama took a sip of flints filtered tap water assuring the people there that he cares i've got your back several months ago on the campaign trail we heard joe biden promise that nothing like the flint water crisis would ever happen again we're going to create local jobs to rebuild roads to modernize river structure. sure you could turn on the faucet and clean water comes out and when that happen it will never happen again anywhere in america now biden's only been in office for a few weeks however plenty of presidents in recent u.s. history have been promising to fix up the country's infrastructure only to preside over it getting worse i want to be 1st when it comes to infrastructure around the world because businesses are going to come where there is good infrastructure to move businesses to people who services highways bridges tunnels airports schools

hospitals we're going to rebuild our infrastructure texas is suffering today flint suffered back in 2014 and many can recall how in 2012 manhattan's power station exploded during hurricane sandy causing all kinds of blackouts officials are scrambling to manage the situation in texas biden has declared a state of emergency but the underlying question is when will the promises be kept open r.t. new york. to europe where spain has witnessed a 4th night of riots over the jailing of a catalan rapper problem has cell was arrested for a quote slumbering crawl and glorifying terrorism protesters have rallied across the country to oppose his detention rounding it's a violation of his right to free speech around 80 people have been arrested since the demonstrations began as the unrest turned uglier the country's prime minister denounced the violence and so on the attack on democracy are still the face

journalist. has been reporting from among the crowds in the us with. the bear cat have found their screaming still p.c.t.'s have found it already deferred today on the practice he kept along yeah and marched in on the main feet deep through the problem have now who left imprisoned for 9 mining. shares as. screaming this is their aggression on the freedom of expression and they are demanding the release. of so the protesters have does this strike one of the main manx of catalonia. as you can see behind me. they are getting quite aggressive and they're all the time provoking the police they are demanding the shops as you can see behind me there are rubbish containers put on fire by the protesters they're mostly teenagers playing the music becoming aggressive they're

provoking that the police that's quite bad when it seems like it's going to last for another couple hours probably tomorrow also. ok moving the program on the topic much the u.k. companies are considering a much criticized no job no job policy that would make vaccination mandatory for employees in response trade unions are threatening legal action but i've asked the government to intervene we think the property house to. compete will safe and i say trade unions you know encouraging people to get that see what see front line workers to get back the same time we think given the so many people who have even a job that people should be victimized for having had stations that we think

you know we want to put things in place we can't see that's an asian is just like a. single solve the problem of car we need to make sure it's part of a range of top that. you know we're looking at each workplace about how best we can implement things. well it's certainly getting momentum some british firms have already warned they won't hire staff who refused to have the job done other companies want existing employees to have vaccine passports the government dubbed such moves discriminatory but ministers in the same government previously said the final decision is quote to businesses where more than 16000000 doses have not been delivered in the u.k. but there's been a lower optic among ethnic minority workers in dalton again told us why some people still have questions i think most trading up to this very skeptical and i think

this is what fuels people skepticism about you know whether they should get the vaccine or not so we think it's possible to convince people of all the safety measures that need to be take care well that we've had sort of in the sack the best way to convince people about the vaccine being safe is if it isn't in the hands of the national drug companies but it's in public ownership only democratic control of forgery trade not to be working class people that you know that would reassure people rather than being in the hands. of the government. now those in london who've been missing going down to their local for a drink during a lockdown maybe and look what a former bar manager has given a whole new meaning to the phrase quit and basically started with maybe on furlough and i got to live it all for pite and i thought i really want to make what hospitality is about to people's doors i don't want to receive a flat warm clingfilm pipe so i for how can i get

a fresh bike to them so i came up with the idea pop to door basically a white van appears and you're like what is this a new up in the park and you get your real top and type ask feel with beautiful bear on top. george and his business partner thin obtain the necessary licenses and refitted that pub on wheels now delivers pints of beer glasses of percent and cocktails to those in lockdown or through social media really many instagram. and just my friends were missing the pub and we thought we needed something like this to come into. strictly a delivery scheme and not take away the business requires customers to prepay for alcohol and the minimum order is 20 pounds the scheme is a growing success here in south east london but are you willing to pay 6 pounds for a pint at home. oh it's absolutely fine if you think about the amount of money that we've saved through not commuting in through not being at work about money that i

would've spent daily just buying lunch from tesco on the takeaway do to be able to save that up and spend it on something i really enjoy like having a nice pub with my mates makes a difference the industry has been hard hits during the pandemic of the 40000 pubs are currently closed across the u.k. while 60 percent say they won't be able to reopen if the government seeks to outdoor service only later in the year and for many this might be the closest to a pub they might get for a while it's a bit like the pub why would you go buy a steak for $24.00 when you get one for 3 pounds from aldi the idea is is that we bring a culture to you we create this sense of war we bring everyone down from their bedrooms into the kitchen to have a pint together so like a family going out to the pub the pipe is well it just tastes so delicious but it's on top as well but the prime minister announcing his roadmap to reopening on monday there might be clarity on when pubs themselves will be back in business but to put some worried that the whole culture and community might be gone for good this

venture seems to prove that the public spirit is still hits the spots she has wanted andrews it's u.k. london. still on the way you can fix with us you saw a face muster in the pandemic could undo all the recent progress against plastics we delve into and it is dirty done there for a short break. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guest on the world of politics or business i'm show business i'll see you then.

please. just coming up to 18 minutes into the program welcome back a moscow courts has rejected an appeal by russian opposition figure out lexie

novell nia against his sentence for parole violations earlier this month the kremlin critic was sentenced to a little longer 3 years in jail reporting from outside the court our senior correspondent rough guess the. while the the judge did reject their legs he devised these appeal to have the have the said to dismiss it did shorten the length he sentence from 2 years and 8 months to 2 years and 6 months but elective on these defense made 2 major arguments one of them was that. after his alleged poisoning alexina volley. was recovering he was at a hospital he couldn't possibly have contacted these parole offices. made his whereabouts noon and the the judge neither the judge nor the prosecutors bought this argument they pointed out that over the past several years he has more

than 50 parole violations any one of which was enough to land him with a very real jail time just to recap lex involved in his brother were given 3 sentences for their role and embezzling a company in russia out of millions of rubles hundreds and thousands of dollars. he's brother was given. a jail sentence 3 and a half years alexina on that was given a suspended sentence followed by years of parole 6 years and all of parole and as we found out he had violated the terms of his parole more than 50 times and in this case. the judge and the prosecutor said look after you had been released from hospital in germany. traveling across the country giving interviews taking part in sports and duty once in months did you contact the authorities your parole officer

to make your whereabouts note the other argument that election of ali's defense used was that the european court of human rights had called his sentence this is jailed. has cooled phased immediate release how. russian law the russian constitution says that russian law domestic law and obligations trump international law and obligations just as they do in the united states or even in china for example so the court does. circumstances and new circumstances obligated to release an election of ali this was have the 1st of 2 court appearances by him today before he is said to serve out his jail sentence the 2nd appearance 2nd court session being about a libel case brought against the legs in a volley over his insults and allegations accusations against the

world war 2 veteran him calling the veteran a sellout for example that caused a lot of residents amongst russians but even there alexina van the was defiant refusing to apologize. the must use of disposable face masks made from plastic is being blamed for a significantly worsening the litter problem and this made environmentalists fear the pandemic may have reversed all the gains made in recent years in the fight against plastic waste let's go through it the scale of the waste is pretty jaw 'd dropping if we took the united kingdom as an example more than $100000000.00 masks are discarded each week that's enough to cover a football pitch hundreds of times over it forms a significant part of the u.k.'s plastic litter are being around $1500.00 tonnes every month the bricktown plastic again takes centuries to decompose while the

global consumption of masks it's just as alarming a recent study estimates 6000000000 are being produced daily to satisfy current demand environmentalist alison sees the overreliance and masks poses many risks e.b. in general is very much a concern for us but masks in particular because of the elasticated. and also because the threat to public health that they represent as well as the fact that they are single use plastic items so they're not going to do anything in the natural world other them present a hazard take over 400 years to break down into micro plastics so masks are a particular concern for us and they're everywhere or yet some hospitals complain about the supply of mass not meeting demand that's a spike global production of the face coverings increasing 34229000 and i've been newton again believes the short term benefit of mass will lead to long term

problems. i do think that we were making some real inroads into getting everyone to think about their consumption of single these plastic i think most people were trying to make an effort to reduce that consumption. and then the pandemic came and gave us all something bigger to worry about and people really are are just desperately trying to protect themselves their families and their communities which we completely understand but unfortunately the short term solution of plastic p.-p. has really caused a much longer term problem we need a new strategy because this is going to be part of our lives for quite some time we need to think again and we need to really visit our concerns about plastic and look at reusable masks and make sure whatever happens we don't litter our p.p. . nato has announced it's posting thousands more troops to

iraq insisting move will stop the country becoming a safe haven for terrorists the decision comes in the wake of a deadly rocket attack in the country's north. today we decided to expand nato training mission in iraq to support the iraq your forces us to fight hosen and assure that our assistance not return the size soar mission will increase from 500 personnel to wrong 4000 and turn your duties from now include more iraq to security situations areas beyond blood former u.s. marine corps intelligence officer scott ritter told us who he thinks stands behind nato as ramp up in the middle east. when you're beyond baghdad out in the boonies in remote facilities training iraqi security forces that are in constant contact with with with isis or other extremist enemies there will be losses in nato is not

configured to do this not prepared politically to do this so then the question is who will provide the combat backup and that of course is the united states and once united states employs combat force in support of nato the 2 missions become intertwined and then nato which has made a big point of saying hey we're being invited by the iraqi government which is the opposite that the situation currently exists regarding u.s. forces this is just a horrible situation that underscores 2 realities one that nato is not a politically mature organization capable of making independent decisions and has been pushed into true direction by the united states into the united states is in a dire situation where it can no longer unilaterally impose its will and it increasingly has to rely on partners and his nato to do the heavy lifting for the.

police out of use water counting on tear gas to disperse antigovernment protesters in the chilean capital demonstrators are demanding economic reform stay a resignation of the president and the release of those detained in the rights of countries being rocked by protests for more than a. a german city has paid tribute to the victims of an attack by a far right extremist one year old opened fire near shit bars killing 9 people a procession through the city of hama showed the pictures of those in the us they're not. all serious floods have forced more than a 1000 people across the indonesian capital to flee to shelters and higher ground. rescue operations are underway as flood water levels reached almost 2 meters. let's finish up the news hour with what's being labeled a modern day david and goliath battle a small village in northern france is resisting tech billionaire last plans to

install untender there for his high speed satellite internet project starlink. she's a little murky to feel like shit there are going up a lot of questions for which are already very offensive is. our main preoccupation is tell us the health of our children i've always wanted to live in nature in the countryside so that b.s. far away from networks and everything as possible. we're not going to fuse this project because there was

a lack of information about its impact on human health but also animal house says we're in a very rural area with many farmers around us. well lots are a lot for an hour from the newsroom but some great programs are just about to kick off find out what showing where you are today after the shortest of bricks. the british and american governments have often been accused of destroying lives in their own interests what you see in this these techniques is the state devising methods to him to essentially destroy the personality of an individual. by scientific means this is how one doctor's theories were allegedly used in psychological warfare against prisoners deemed

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