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to have your company this hour my names you know. international our top story. russia. vaccines to tackle the coronavirus. to be approved it was created by moscow's scientific center but job developer say it will also offer protection against new coronavirus my colleagues. quarter talked us 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 mock 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 coming back 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. much it's i want to start with some very good news a 3rd vaccine has been budgeted today it was developed by the truckload of research sense in the 1st 120000 doses will already be available to the public by the middle of today russia is the only country that already has the scenes for the coronavirus . actually it was developed in the field the new shot use is 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 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 would have moved up to the

preliminary results are very encouraging after the 2nd phase will see how the vaccine the fed's emu system we found that 8587 percent of people develop 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 take borne diseases and rabies to name just a few 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 over 2000000 people have already gotten the shot 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 plays italian business leaders told us the process could old so improve. i believe we can improve the russia e.u. relationship in terms of the baths and rollout the supply of alternative taps is limited and it's fallen short of meeting both european and global demand it's no secret that italy germany and france have already turned to the russian government but they have to buy the russian vaccine i'm sure vaccines should not be held hostage to jail politics. is need.

to be rude give to russia gave to the world or she could use it as political leverage but it did not in fact we see that russia has great opportunities for inoculation for foreigners living in russia as well i personally go to not and feel grateful we see that russia is open to the distribution of its vaccine abroad not only is open to its export just like pfizer and astra zeneca but it also provides the opportunity to manufacture sputnik via abroad it's not lee 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. 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 and i've asked the government to intervene. we think the primary house the key compete will say things and i say trade unions you know encouraging people to get back to what priority for

work is to get back citizens but the same time we think given this so many people who have even a job that people should be victimized for having had that we think you know we want to see. things in place we can't see that situation is just like. not solve the problem of we need to make sure it's part of a range of thought that dani's you know we look in each workplace about how best we can implement things. well some british firms have really war and they want to hire staff who refused to have the job and other companies want to employees to have vaccine passports the government dubs such moves discriminatory but senior ministers are previously said the final decision is quote opt to businesses let's have a quick look here in our other news wall how the vaccination process is currently

developing in the u.k. more than 16000000 doses have not been delivered nationwide but there's been a lower uptick among people from ethnic minority groups including those in the workforce from deprived areas in dalton again told us why some still questions. i think most trading out today it's a very skeptical and i think this is what fuels people skepticism about you know whether they should get about 30 or not so we think if it's possible to convince people of all the safety measures that need to be take a while back we've had some of the stock the best way to convince people about the vaccine being safe is if it isn't in the hands of the national group who made it seem public ownership only democratic control of audrey trade you know to the working class people that you know that would reassure people rather than being in the house. you know dominance to the government. that's

bringing to the u.s. . scythe of the country where deadly storms have no killed 47 people at least the worst affected state texas millions are struggling to access clean water thousands of households left without power president joe biden has now declared a major disaster in the area on locking funds for those most adversely affected now during the extreme freeze energy usage has soared power bills for many texans have skyrocketed so residents have racked up electricity costs of over 10000 dollars artie's kill up in reports and the disaster has again 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. pose 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 it 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 in explicable. 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 rivers trucks. sure you could turn on the faucet and clean water comes out and when that happened in flint will never happen again anywhere in america now biden's only been in office for a few weeks however plenty of presidents in recent us 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 move 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 you know we have the richest country in the world we just sent. you know another space ship up to mars. we could tackle any problem that the government had the will to tackle the problem is they don't have the will to fix

civilian infrastructure they don't care about the 99 percent of people who depend on that infrastructure all the money's being siphoned off to the one percent who don't need roads pseudo you know they don't need a road say fly in their helicopters or private planes soon there or they will have their flying cars. you know it's a bring you back across the atlantic to london those who being missing going down the local during locked on there's been a few out there maybe and look one former bar monitor has given a whole new meaning to the phrase a quick buck. basically it started with me and i got to live it awful point and i thought i really want to make what hospital is a file to people's doors i don't want to receive a flat warm clingfilm pipe so i pour 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 in europe in the park and you get your real tub and type ask deal 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 a percent and cocktails to those in lockdown all through social media really many instagram and just my friends 160 missing apparently 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 and 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 off 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 yeah 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 lb from aldi the idea is is that we bring a culture to you we create this sense of wall 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 that 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't go anywhere these days

but not a mass canberra may have on down here is a long grass as i can see by the way the story coming up after the break. if.

there's anything in the last 4 years it was the fact that we had this transformational president with really grand aspirations that were broadly supported by the american people in the most populous present in this country's recent history were matched by the appointments that were made in the administration but i think maybe with his background in business he might have underestimated the importance of personnel but having worked in the white house in the executive branch of government so much rests on personnel .

joining me every day on the all excitement and i'll be speaking to us of the world of politics all this i'm sure i'll see if. you're back with r t international let's start in barcelona where a 5th consecutive day of protest against the tension of a spanish rapper has led to protests what we're witnessing right now is in barcelona a man getting arrested by police lying beside a. flag just 17 minutes past 10 pm there are people have been streaming onto the streets all evening we also know over the last couple of days

madrid valencia roner seeing people since pablo has to sell a rapper who was arrested back on shoes that he's being jailed are he's begun serving a 9 month prison sentence for. tweets condemning the spanish monarchy and also in support of a separatist group also the backdrop to this in barcelona what we're seeing these people was the elections last weekend where. true independence groups for the very 1st time got more than 50 percent in those. as well as not of course coronavirus to be thrown in as well people have been locked up there's a lot of frustration that's our correspondent journalists have been telling us throughout the weekend with the weekend coming in. will continue from what our

experts are saying that seems to be the case so what you're witnessing right now sizable crowd of people are being met with police presence as well a number of arrests being made and just to give you the other side the prime minister prime minister to not seeing the violence as an attack on democracy so we'll be keeping a very close eye on developments here throughout the evening in catalonia and indeed across spain for more on these events as they are happening. ok. america where there have been similar scenes in chile police using water cannon tear gas to disperse government protesters in the. demonstrators demanding economic reforms there the resignation of the president as well as top of the agenda the release of those detained in or near rallies the country's been rocked

by protests from. let's take you to europe where german city has paid tribute to the victims of an attack by a far right extremist one year on he opened fire near bars killing 9 people people who. died the pictures comments in support of their families they've been held aloft during a procession through the city on the. world our weather watch today monsoon floods have forced more than 1000 people across the indonesians caliph of the fleet as shelters and find some high gras and rescue operations are underway in jakarta as flood water levels reached close to 2 meters. moscow court rejected an appeal by russian opposition figure out against his sentence for parole violations earlier this month the kremlin critic was sentenced

to a little under 3 years in jail reporting from outside the court our senior correspondent goes to you. 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 if 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 lexan of other than his brother were given 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 van 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 ollie's defense used was that the european court of human rights had called his sentence this is

jailed. and has called phased immediate release how. russian law the russian constitution says that russian law domestic law and obligations trump international obligations just as they do in the united states or even in china for example so the court does. circumstances under no circumstances obligated to release an election of on that this was. the 1st of 2 court appearances by him today before he's said to serve out his jail sentence the 2nd appearance 2nd called session being about a libel case brought against the lakes in the valley over his insults and allegations accusations against the world war 2 veteran veteran a sellout for example the who's the lot of resident amongst russians but even their

election of on the was far refusing to apologize. for the must use of disposable face must made from plastic is being blamed for a significantly worsening the litter problem this made environmentalists fear the pandemic may have reversed all the gains made in recent years in the fight against plastic waste the scale of that waste this diagram in the u.k. for instance more than $100000000.00 masks are discarded each week and off to cover a football pitch hundreds of times over and it forms a significant part of the u.k.'s plastic litter $1500.00 tonnes a month while the breakdown of such plastic takes centuries the global consumption of must just as alarming a recent study estimates $6000000000.00 are being produced every day to sell us 5 current demand environmentalist allison newton says the over reliance on masks poses many risks. p.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 yet some hospitals are still complaining that the supply of masks is not meeting demand and that's the spite global production of face coverings increasing dramatically at the end of $29000.00 and writing since then steadily our thin are denuded 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 use plastic i think most people were trying to make an effort to reduce that consumption and then the pandemic came in 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 re visit our concerns about plastic and look at reusable masks and make sure whatever happens we don't litter our p.p. . i want to bring you know what's being labeled a modern day david and goliath but for a small village in northern front is resisting tech billionaire ilan musk's plans to install the tenor there for his high speed satellite internet project starlink.

she's aware trauma the matter of free lunch that there were not a lot of questions for you which are already very offensive it's. our main preoccupation is health the health of our children i've always wanted to live in nature in the countryside so they'd be asked far away from networks and everything as possible. because we don't want to feel this project because there was a lack of information about its impact on human health but also animal house and since we're in a very rural area with many farmers around ass. a showcase of martial arts skills has been on display in the moscow region it's all part of an international event designed to build bridges between russia and japan

the nicholas cup the competitors are sparring for is named after the russian priest who introduced the eastern orthodox church to japan and unlike the century the tournament is held the newly brings together thousands of competitors since 2016 fighters with disabilities have also been taking part of one of their distinguished guests said the spikes pitting one side against the other the competitions all about bringing people together. just to be close look take part in this year's unveiling ceremony of the cup i'd like to stress that this cup was always served as a bridge between the russians and japanese not only does this cup help you keep in good shape it also allows them to get to know japanese culture and philosophy i'm happy that there was a chance to get this event started despite the pandemic yes some big hits going in there and we're all set to crack on with some more programs on moments here not see this cover what's showing where you are today after the shortest of bricks goodbye

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