we ask. the store is one of the world's largest virus collections some of them so deadly they make over the scene look like an allergy he's given exclusive access to the high security siberian look for a tree where rushes back over vaccine is made just developers tell the job is 100 percent effective at producing antibodies against all strains of the virus. vacation and businessmen flights to moscow to get this but. he does want to wait months to be inoculated. the full song. from a friend come in with one of those for. the next time we give you some food

and. the shocking report on the u.k. government reveals that more than 4000000 children were living in poverty even before the pandemic hits now experts fear the situation could be even worse. and the republicans person you law imposing sweeping restrictions on voters in georgia which could leave many by supporters at a disadvantage. by the very good morning to you thanks for joining us here on r.t. international. in the war on the pandemic russia has some impressive weapons among them its corona vaccine the jobs the developers say that it's safe 100 percent effective at producing antibodies and can fight off mutant strains r.t. was invited to visit the high security of the burra tree in the heart of siberia

where it's made. this sign is probably worth a 1000 words because we are in one of the few places in the world where it has been plastered against the door not for cool looks not for show but as an actual warning behind this door is one of the world's 2 largest virus collections some of them so deadly they make over 19 look like an allergy and this door has been put in case of an emergency evacuation and luckily it has never been used for its purpose we are at the vector research institute met here with armed guards barbed wire and the no fly zone above us inviting journalists is worlds apart from common practice here but they're eager to show and talk about how their jab corona is made so this machine is where the work on the vaccine begins basically an inactivated virus from the red zone from the dirty zone is brought here and this machine it separates the

r.n.a. from the rest of the virus it isolates it and from here at the r.n.a. is being passed on for further study and work russia boasts 3 different covert 1000 vaccines sputnik v. is already a brand eclipsing p.r. wise even its international competitors vectors a.p. vaca rona has remained in its elder brother's shadow even in russia few people know how it works i want to emphasize 3 major advantages of the vaccine it's because it's made from synthetic peptides 2nd it's not sensitive to virus mutations it's resistant to all known coded strains including the british south african brazilian and others and 3rd you can get vaccinated unlimited times one with the yearly flu vaccinations. both in the for the vaccine develops a 3 line to fans like to enter a room you need to open

a door the vaccine forms until. the prevent that if the fast line of defense is broken then another pool of antibodies goes into battle that stops the virus from connecting to the cell and getting inside but if this line is crossed is while the new response destroys the infected cell so this is the preferred vinyl stage of producing a vaccine basically here they are preparing a foundation for it it's protein based so the substance in this boiler is literally called all world war it contains all the nutrients that will make this protein grow and as soon as it is ready it will be taken to a different lab also here where active components of the vaccine will be attached to this protein the foundation by active i mean those that will be recognized by our immune system as well in krueger's and therefore we will develop antibodies for covert 19 it's hard to find a volunteer in russia who'd want to be very covert jab partly because so little is

known about it partly because the 1st batches have just been released to the public and partly because its efficacy has been challenged by skeptics and even those who took part in the clinical trials the had developed of the vaccine says though this is a smear campaign against the institute. i think is purely an information war against this vaccine in particular it's very frustrating i feel sorry for my country and the vaccine officials are telling me they won't be dragged into bickering and will verify their reputation via publications in science journals several high profile russian officials have already chosen r.p. iraq as their covert job and there were rumors of russia's former president dmitry medvedev did so as well but the dick head of the vector institute says vaccination shouldn't be a free for all fights between different produces

a producer people get through jobs they don't ask how this fight. major how they walk but all of them meet certain requirements it should be the same with corona virus vaccines a passenger gets a job and that's it the message from russian vaccine developers which ever jab you choose you are getting the best shot at him unity. reporting from the heart of siberia. an italian business mistaken a vaccination vacation the us under rubble jali took a 6000 kilometer round trip to moscow to get sputnik vague because he wasn't willing to wait months to get a jump back home. only people of my age are scared 'd to be needed after the sun at a store or a fire i decided to make. guys think this is absolutely. even if sport to me because not only could have been a boon for europeans and see. quite

clearly that. it's very very good. and many countries are using their own as didn't receive any call. for more than 2 weeks in which a diverse nation would advise to be versatile in russia most of the balls thrown their face book which is from a friend. with one of those for me. and some friends asked me. next time we give you something. because you know this is must be between them the amount of i think between 5 or so and if you suffer those that. well the italian engineer there was able to get a russian visa thanks to his russian wife who made the trip because the coronavirus wave sweeps across europe and the blood continues to experience vaccine shortages.

and new delhi coronavirus cases in italy of resource 24000 the country has the 2nd highest death toll in europe with more than 107000 deaths registered since the outbreak asunder ravioli believes politics shouldn't play a role when it comes to saving lives. more than when you're a warrior outsider you can see all the people who would do you know full of people which you would enjoy your one view of the. situation i see that all bars all bars. during the evening food and all bars are close it is like a desert. and some flowers. and i think the only problem of this that is made in russia the only one if pulled in you would have been made that i don't know in california. it would be

a really neat deli goodie use without any problem the policy should be accepted the opposite let's buy and. be seen on the market where we can find it because we have to go into a round quickly to personate all our population and because of that a wise with us initial we will never see the end of the tunnel policy should they care about people this should be the priority and not sound geopolitical. i don't know what human relationship. which is now conditioning you know such important thing call shall matter for the of our country. the center ravioli will fly back to moscow at the beginning of april to get a 2nd we will be following his journey and will keep you updated on his progress.

a jury chancellor threatens to resort to federal powers of local regions to do more to come back cove it doesn't meet dar warnings a 3rd wave of the pandemic worse than the previous 2 is on its way. the given container ship which has been blocking the suez canal for the past we. partially refloated later this hour we'll look at the implications for international supply chains. for all that's republican lawmakers in the u.s. have approved sweeping new restrictions on voting in georgia which include more stringent idea requirements for absentee balloting and limits on drop boxes president joe biden has called over an atrocity and an attack on the constitution. asks what if anything biden can do to protect the people that voted for him in the u.s. election. if you thought donald trump's rants about what he called. the

democrats have this election rigged right from the beginning and it was i don't i don't even like it was a rigged election would be forgotten after he gave up trying to hold onto his oval office chair i'll tell you what you really underestimated the consequences just a reminder pretty much trumps biggest issue was with mail in ballots it was thanks to them he thought the dems on lawfully stole his victory so the republicans have done their homework and are now launching a crackdown on that pesky vote by mail system and other voting methods and almost every state last year joe biden became the 1st democrat in years to come out on top in the state of georgia largely thanks to overwhelming support from the black community right now in georgia the governor has already signed the new republican sponsored restrictions into law we quickly began working with the house and senate

on further reforms to make it easy to in hard to cheat the bill last sunday into law does just that and giving the state legislature controlled by the g.o.p. the powers to appoint a majority of the state election board the new rules banned providing food or water to people standing in line to vote activists from the new georgia project and black voters matter movements were quick to react with a federal lawsuit the concern is that the reform will take its toll on the minority groups 1st of all. the provisions represent a hodgepodge of unnecessary restrictions that target almost every aspect of the voting process but serve no legitimate purpose or compelling state interest other than to make absentee early and election day voting more difficult especially for minority voters opponents called the new bill a 2nd jim crow and the 19th and 20th centuries jim crow state and local laws

enforced racial segregation and wound back advantages that black people had gained and southern parts of the u.s. back to today and critics voices are growing louder a georgia state representative was arrested after trying to enter the office where the governor was signing the new controversial act. it. was the guy. who broke the. law the governor though is trying to fight off accusations of giving the green light to a race's bill and is blaming the left for running a smear campaign georges will no doubt be soon overwhelmed with fancy t.v. ads mailers in radio attacking this commonsense election reform measure. in fact left wing groups funded by the state billionaires are already doing that

now they're using outrageous false rigor to scare you well speaking of powerful critics the president has lashed out at the changes and georgia joining those who drew parallels 1 to the racist jim crow laws. you know the the the hell. no this is nothing but you. guys people vote or perhaps not so powerful in this case mr biden went on to say it was unclear wot if anything the white house could do to address the issue we don't work. for. you also continue to encourage and engage with outside leaders and activists and steps they can take some of that is going to be more appropriate from outside of the white house hoops what a disappointment not only for those who helped biden win and draw but also for the

largely native american communities in arizona where he won too and that state the proposed reforms could essentially make voting impossible for those living in traditional reservations joe biden lost in florida but that doesn't mean republicans there aren't energized enough to tighten the screws on voting regulations too and florida communities of color are sounding the alarm over what they're calling racist voting suppression it looks like the story will be repeating itself pretty much all across america but the president has already conceded that it's not really up to the white house to sort out this crunch issue for his support base among the minorities. shameful and heartbreaking source some have called a recent government report showing that even before the pandemic child poverty is hit record figures government figures show that by 2024 point 3000000 children in

britain lived in poverty nearly 2000000 went hungry because the family struggled to buy food despite being employed the emergence from the turn to as charity says that the pandemic is only exacerbated the crisis. the government produced statistics saying $4300000.00 children are in poverty in the u.k. we actually believe that number to be higher we believe it's about $4500000.00 and that's about 33 percent of children in the u.k. so you know it's about a 3rd of a classroom. the fact that these numbers are before the pandemic is a is a huge concern you know this is child poverty before the pandemic was a 12 year high and you know it was high before the pandemic it's going to be even higher now and it's going to be irrevocably higher in the future one thing that you see now that you would not have seen 10 years ago is the huge amount of food banks in 43 percent of people on universal credit that main benefit system in the u.k.

of food insecurity we now have more food banks in the u.k. than we have branches of mcdonald's so you can really see the poverty in the u.k. at the moment it's visceral it's everywhere certainly creating more well paid jobs is crucial to cutting down poverty and especially the effects hasn't child poverty however we've had a the best part of a decade of of a government agenda of austerity you know we've had cuts to our benefit system freezes to our social security so it's good i mean we're going to need more than just well paid jobs and we need a thoughtful housing we need you know we need cuts to the rising cost of living you know a basket for the goods is increasingly more expensive year on year so we really need the government to have a beverage moment. you know a real holistic look at the causes of poverty and to tackle the long term symptoms . well government figures show the number of children in relatively low income families is basically the same as that in the late ninety's the child poverty

action group is calling for an increase in child benefits. today's power to figures show what was clear all along that low income families with children and to depend on me financially are vulnerable and with child poverty haven't risen by 700 southern since 2012 when benefits cause began this dismal data shows child poverty levels are now devastatingly high children and their families will pay the price and less government act urgently low income families can currently receive just over $20.00 pounds a week for the 1st child or nearly 14 pounds for every other child does slightly more than the cost of 2 average breakfasts in a cafe you get reaction of from the past skins of save the children about the situation. government increased only person credit should remain the social security benefit but instruments we must be real and apply only let's beat them.

valuable at the moment the government is saying that that's going to take you away at the end of september and that's something which we know that will cause a lot of hardship to transmissions children who are ready when it's not tomorrow so we need to get with many of those who are saying it's very importantly government continues provide that extra kind of support that's a very immediate step because we got constrained we're also very worried that it might be actually that as we are restrictions ease on the pandemic that's when you might see some of the damage because rising unemployment on and job losses and that's where it's important for the government to move away from thinking about temporary measures during demick to also building on your actions we take are well really great in saying that but it's been a good stumbler all children that is put into things like. that could be you know be possible we don't need an around the world where government is really good there are a lot of things to do to do

a lot which is good and we need to get that same energy. and. speech. chancellor angela merkel has expressed dismay at the way german states are handling the pandemic insisting regions on doing enough she so unhappy in fact she's threatened to resort to federal powers comes as europe struggles to get its vaccine program going amid a looming 3rd wave of infections let's go live now to berlin are going to pay for all of us but base there more in peter how bad then is the kobe situation in germany at the moment. well we heard from angela merkel the german chancellor on sunday evening she was giving an interview to a major german t.v. station she looked sick and tired and certainly sounded like that when it came to the constant bumping of heads she's had with the state leaders the leaders of the 16 states that make up germany she described some of them as not being free from allusions that they could negotiate with the pandemic with the covert 19 virus in

fact she also hinted they could be potentially more measures put in place from a state level overriding anything at a local level we are here we are set for more covert measures here in berlin michael miller the mayor of the city of berkeley and said on saturday that we would be seeing more restrictions when it comes to where you have to wear masks that those masks have to be the f.f.t. to style of mask also that testing would be stepped up across and you would need to test to do things like go for a haircut for example this all comes as intensive care doctors have said that a 2 week strict lockdown would be needed would be beneficial for germany and that's a move that's being backed up by angela merkel's health minister again spawn. limited size in the in if we look at the numbers we need another 10 to 14 days at least of properly driving down context as movement

a look though if you want to call about. it or you've seen the number of cases in germany around the 20000 a day mark what the warnings are is that in this 3rd wave that's currently getting its hands on europe could rise to as much as $100000.00 cases per day now the robert cork institute which is germany's public health body give out some stark warnings just ahead of the weekend they were very concerned about this 3rd wave sitting alongside the health ministry and spawn their director did. not paint a pretty picture of the way things are going. the indications clearly point to this wave potentially being even worse than the 1st 2 waves we must be all prepared for a steep rise in the number of cases little more people to once again become seriously ill as close hospitals will be all the more people die again and us all

get them straight if this continues on chinked we run the risk that our health care system will reach its breaking point in april. on sunday evening angular merkel reiterated that the plan for vaccinations in germany is to offer all adults a job by the end of september that looks big shifts at the moment and we've heard from local leaders here in germany wanting to see rush's sputnik v. vaccine brought on lying across europe given approval by the european medicines agency imported into the fight. the approval of sputnik we must be decided as soon as possible i'm fighting for sputnik v. not just because it's been produced in russia i believe that we should buy all vaccines which are available it has nothing to do with party politics or a proximity to moscow i find west german ideological sensitivities on this question silly i'll supply issues as well as criticism over the

urgency of the e.u. vaccination program has seen some harsh criticism some stiff criticism leveled at it t.n.t. by tar who's the e.u. commissioner in charge of the vaccine program has said though that russia sputnik the job isn't a magic bullet that will sort out the facts problems. if the vaccine is certified within weeks or months and the way is found to produce it in europe it would take at least 10 to 14 months before the 1st but she's manufactured but it would not be a response to our problems today. there are concerns across europe though with this 3rd wave of the virus is potentially going to cause more and more issues on saturday in france the number of admissions to intensive care units in the country hit their highest levels for 2021 over the weekend in spain the number of people that have died from 19 past the 75000 mark with authorities there saying that

they're going to be looking at closing indoor dining as the situation regarding covert 19 looks particularly bad in the country so it's all about the situation there in europe our correspondent in berlin peter oliver thank you. as bad as jury terrorist attacks that's how french doctors describe the current situation in the capital's hospitals which the pandemic has pushed to breaking point in an open letter they warn that they may soon have to choose between which patients to save and they slam the president president micron's decision not to introduce a nother full lockdown. we have never experienced such a situation even during the worst attacks in recent years in this medical crisis where there is a glaring mismatch between needs and available resources we will be forced to trios patients in order to save as many lives as possible if you. limit surgery the article is addressed to future patients of the population because in the ill de

france region in particular the incidence is growing rapidly there is significant growth and we are afraid we won't be able to cope with the influx of cases there is a gap between the needs of patients and the amount of resources at our disposal this is particularly the case for intensive care beds and this situation has developed against the background of an increase in the number of hospitalized patients we will certainly provide assistance to all patients but we fear that at some point we will run out of resources very this word sorting is awful and we do not want to have to choose which patients to offer the most optimal treatment conditions and which to give less optimal that's never happened and we do not want it to happen and so we are raising the alarm last week fran said today 3rd wave of infections there are now more than 27000 patients in hospitals across the country that's the highest figure this month the number of intensive care is approaching

5000 which is a record for the year the doctor we just heard from says it's essential not to forget about covert patients. so it's a metaphor that you're still don't you feel so the sooner the government makes its decisions the better out even you cannot afford to just wait and see what the result of these measures to curb the increase in infections will be we are already observing a significant increase in the number of cases in addition we don't just have to take care of patients with coronavirus but also patients with more common diseases of the cardiovascular system or with neurological or on collage equal diseases in other words it is necessary to treat both patients with coronavirus and those who do not have covertly we will eventually run out of beds. a huge container ship the spin webs to cross the serious canal since tuesday has finally been partially refloated to according to reports the stricken vessels goes a traffic jam of hundreds of cargo ships along the waterway but still unclear when

the canal will reopen in the regions president stepped in ordering that preparations be made to lighten the vessel about 12 percent of all global trade passes through the suez canal which is the shortest sealing to asia in europe but was growing concern over international supply chains due to the blockage economist richard wolfe believes it was only a matter of time before something like this happened. this is not the 1st time the canal has been blocked not at all it's very vulnerable this canal particularly in the area where this ship is jammed very narrow part of the canal i think you could do a good bit on the suez canal you'd have to spend the money to widen and deepen and to take steps to have fallback plans for moving cargo even relatively small distances if you could back ships down to the stranded ship there are all kinds of mechanisms that you could have the in place if you were taking seriously the

vulnerability it's a little bit like in agriculture you can make more acreage produce more goods if you only grow one plant but then. and if something happens to that one plant you don't have the diversity which we used to add which is a kind of protection against something happening to a model culture you have to think like that if you don't if you're only focused on your short term profit then you run into these problems. ok that wraps it up for this news out thanks so much for your company this morning i will be back with the top stories hope see in 30 minutes. the world is driven by shaped by the person of.

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