one of the world's largest collections some of them so deadly. he's given exclusive access to the high security side. developers. 100 percent effective of producing antibodies against all strains of corona virus. vaccination vacation and fly to get the sputnik doesn't want to wait months to be inoculated. the.

government reveals more than 4000000 children were living in poverty before the pandemic hit. the situation even worse. republicans passed a new law imposing stricter idea requirements for. outrage among democrats politicians being arrested she protested against the. wife of the governor's. wife. thanks so much for joining us here watching tonight. in the war on the pandemic russia has a number of weapons among them its. jobs developers say that it's safe 100 percent

effective at producing antibodies and can fight off mutant strains he was invited to visit the high security laboratory 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 covert 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. 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 $1000.00 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 and russia few people know how it works i want to emphasize 3 major advantages of the vaccine it's safe because it's made from synthetic peptides 2nd it's not sensitive to virus mutations it's resistant to all known covert strains including british south african brazilian and others and 3rd you can get vaccinated unlimited times one

with the yearly flu vaccinations. that the vaccine develops a 3 line to fatten it's like to enter a room you need to open a door the vaccine forms until. what is the present that if the fast line of defense is broken then another pool of antibodies goes into battle that stops a 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 pre final stage of producing a vaccine basically here they are preparing a foundation for it it's proving in base so the substance in this boiler is literally called all world war 3 it contains all the nutrients that will make this protein grow and as soon as it is ready will be taken to a different lab also here where active components of the vaccine will be attached to this protein in the foundation by active i mean those that will be recognized by

our immune system as well included and therefore we will develop antibodies for covert 19 it's hard to find a volunteer in russia who would want an epi vaca over 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. back as their covert job and there were rumors of russia's former president dmitry

medvedev did so as well but the deputy head of the vector institute says vaccination shouldn't be a free for all fights between different producers people get through jobs they don't ask how this fight. a major one 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 immunity and we've done of reporting from the heart of siberia r.t. an italian business mistaken a vaccination vacation and sandra lee took a 6000 kilometer round trip to moscow to get sputnik very well because he wasn't willing to wait months to get a job back home. only people of my age are scared to be versus needed after the sun medicine or the fire i decided to make us initially in school.

even if sport and it was not that there could be could have been a bit all the wrong europeans and see. quite clear that it's a very very good reason and many countries are using that honestly didn't receive any call. or more than 2 weeks which they did have a solution would advise to be versatile in russia most of the balls on their facebook which is from a friend. with one of those for me. network and some friends ask me next time we give you some free. because you know this is must be between them that amount of i think between 5 percent is soft and

those that. the telling engineer there was able to get a russian visa thanks to his russian wife he made the trip as a 3rd coronavirus wave sweeps across europe and the bloc continues to experience vaccine shortages. a new daily coronavirus cases in italy have reached almost 24000 the country has the 2nd highest death toll in europe with more than 107000 deaths registered since the outbreak of the central rival your early leaves politics shouldn't play a role when it comes to saving lives more than one year a warrior outsider you can see all people would do you know full of people who would do. your one now view of the. situation and see that out of all bars all bars. were during the evening you didn't have food and all bars are close and it's like there's. some flour.

i think the only problem or splitting the piece that is put to me is maybe a russian the only one if put in you would have been made that i don't know in california. it would be or really need only to use the without any problem policy should be accepted the opposite let's buy and less. be seen on the market where we can find it because we have to go into a round quickly to worsen it all our population and because all that are wise with other words initial we will never see the end of the tunnel policy sure they care about of people the should be the priority and not sound geopolitical. i don't know or even a relationship. which is now conditioning you know such important and crucial matter for their of our country. under sundra rival your leader will

fly back to moscow at the beginning of april to get his 2nd dose we will be following his journey and keep you updated on his progress. so the film germany's chancellor threatens to resort to federal powers if local regions don't do more to combat. warning to the 3rd wave of the pandemic will be the worst yet that's coming up later this hour. republican lawmakers in the united states of approve sweeping new restrictions on voting in georgia which include more stringent id requirements for absentee ballots joe biden's called the law an atrocity and an attack on the constitution but aren't easily betrayed or asks if the us president might be more worried about the state turning red again. 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 long to crack down 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 asan 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 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 you don't know very. well. but 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 that's the overwhelming reaction to a recent u.k. government report showing that even before the pandemic child poverty in the country it it called figures the government figures show that by 2024 point 3000000 children in britain lived in poverty nearly 2000000 went hungry because their

family struggled to buy food imogen's from the turn to us charity says 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 a 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 it has on child poverty however we've had a the best part of a decade of the government agenda of austerity you know we've had cuts to our benefits system freezes to our social security so it's good we're going to need more than just well paid jobs you know we need affordable 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 a long term sentence the government figures show that the number of children in relatively low income families is basically the same as it was 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 vulnerable and with child poverty haven't risen by 700 soudan since 2012 when benefits cars began this dismal data shows child poverty levels are now devastatingly high children and their families will pay the price and those government x. urgently low income families can currently receive just above $20.00 pounds a week for their 1st child and nearly 14 pounds for every other child but slightly more than the cost of $2.00 average breakfasts in a cafe last year the government also temporarily introduced a 20 pound weekly welfare increase for families hit by the pandemic we got reaction from done past skins of save the children at the moment the government is saying that that's going to take you right at the end of september and that's something which we know that a lot of hardship to try missions children who already are and it's not tomorrow so

we need to get with many others who are saying it's very important we've got them continues provide that extra principle. that's a very immediate step we've got constrained we're also very worried that it might be actually there as we are restrictions raise on the pandemic that's when you might see some of the damage in terms of rights movement and job losses and that's where it's important for the government to move away from thinking about temporary measures during demick to. building on your actions we take are what really get in sync but in a good strong children that is put into things like. you know we don't immediately run a world where governments really get them a lot of things to do or to do a lot which is good and we need to get that same energy through and you've got to get more to the speech. french doctors warn the situation in the capital's hospitals is worse than it was during terrorist attacks as the pandemic

pushes them to the breaking point story in full after this break. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation let it be an arms race. spearing dramatic development the only really i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. the world is driven by shaped by.

the day or thinks. we dare to ask. welcome back chancellor angela merkel has expressed dismay at the way german states are handling the pandemic insisting regions doing enough you see so unhappy in fact that she's threatened to resort to federal powers comes as europe struggles to get his vaccine program going amid a 3rd wave of infections auntie's peter oliver reports from berlin. well during this interview that the chancellor gave on sunday evening she took particular sick

and tired of bumping heads with local leaders she described some of the leaders of germany states is being not free from allusions that they could actually negotiate with the covert 19 virus we are set to see some local restrictions put in place here in berlin this week on wednesday off from wednesday f f p 2 masks will be required there more heavy duty masks in shops and on public transport are also going to any more testing put in place particularly for things like getting a haircut but this all comes as intensive care doctors in germany is saying the country actually needs a nationwide tough 2 week lockdown not something that's being backed up by anger merkel's health minister again spawn you know if we look at the numbers we need another 10 to 14 days at least of properly driving down context and movement

a look down if you want to call about what germany is currently hovering at around the $20000.00 new cases of covert 19 a day mark the warning that's coming out is that that could rise during this 3rd wave that's going to towns on europe to as much as $100000.00 per day the indications clearly point to this was potentially being even worse than the 1st 2 waves we must be prepared for a steep rise in the number of cases for more people to once again become seriously ill that hospitals will be overburdened and that more people will die again. if this continues on chix we run the risk that our health care system will reach its breaking point in april when it comes to vaccinations the plan remains that all adults will be offered a job by the end of september that's a plan that looks particularly bishes right now when you take into account that not all 'd of the over eighty's in germany of had one job yet when it comes to vaccinate. ation though local leaders are saying they want russia sputnik v vaccine

to get approval so that can be used in the fight against covert 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 supply issues as well as investigations into the safety of vaccines of seeing the vaccination program in europe be delayed thoroughly slow t.n.t. backed on the e.u. commissioner in charge of the vaccine program has said that getting russian sputnik the vaccine online wouldn't be a magic bullet that would fix all of europe's problems if the vaccine is certified within weeks or months and the way is found to produce it in europe it will take at least 10 to 14 months before the 1st bunch is manufactured but it will not be

response to our problems today or with vaccination levels not being as high as they are in other parts of the world europe is staring down the barrel of more lockdowns more restrictions on its citizens. as bad as juror in terrorist attacks that's how french doctors describe the current situation in the capital 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 president micron's decision not to introduce another full lockdown. we have never experienced such a situation even during the worst terrorist attacks in recent years in this medical crisis where there is a glaring mismatch between needs and available resources we will be forced to treat patients in order to save as many lives as possible if you. limit surgery the article is addressed to future patients 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 this word sorting is awful 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're raising the alarm. last week friends and today 3rd wave of infections there are now more than 27000 patients in hospitals across the country the heist figure this month the number of intensive care is approaching 5000

a record for the year the doctor we just heard from says it's essential not to forget about known covert patients. so you're mentally that you're still don't you feel so the sooner the government makes its decisions the better we 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 calendrical diseases in other words it is necessary to treat both patients with coronavirus and those who do not have kovac or that we will eventually run out of beds. a huge container ship that has been wedged across the suez canal since tuesday has finally been partially refloated according to reports the stricken vessel has caused hundreds of cargo ships to back up along the motorway along the waterway however it's still unclear when the canal will reopen about 12 percent of all

global trade passes through the suez canal which is the shortest scenic teenager in europe there's growing concern over international supply chains because of the blockage economist richard both believes that 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 then to deep in then 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 that 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 if something happens to that one plant you don't have the diversity which we used to have which is a kind of protection against something happening to a monolith culture you have to think like that if you don't if you're only focused on your short term profits then you run into these problems. that's joining us this morning watching our international updates coming for you on our top stories in 30 minutes. so small seems wrong but all roads just don't call. me the world yet to stamp out just being active. and engaged because the trail. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground.

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