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for. the situation could be. just in time for this hour's top stories. making use of all available tools and. is one of 3 domestically produced vaccines now in circulation develop. 100 percent effective at producing. strains well we were invited to visit the high security in 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 with 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 eppy vaca role now has remained in its elder brother's shadow even in russia few people know how it works you know what we do but 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 covert strains including british south african brazilian and others and 3rd you can get vaccinated unlimited times one with the yearly flu vaccinations. but the vaccine develops a 3 line defense like to enter a room you need to open a door the vaccine forms antibodies that prevent that if the fos 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 pre final 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 soup or world war 3 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 including this 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. vacas their covert job and there were rumors of russia's former president dmitry medvedev did so as well but the dickey head of the vector institute says vaccinate . it shouldn't be a free for all fights between different producers people get through jobs they don't ask how those vaccines are made or how they walk but all of them meet certain requirements it should be the same with coronavirus fact scenes a person just 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 done of reporting from the heart of siberia. and staying with the theme of russian vaccines one italian businessman has made a 6000 kilometer round trip to receive one i was on the road of ali ali he flew right here to moscow to get sputnik view because he said apparently he wasn't willing to wait months to get the shot back at home. only people of my age are scared to be seen needed after the summer so very far i decided to make. school think is absolutely. even if sputnik has not been approved for europeans and see. quite clear that. it's very very good to be seen and many countries are using that

one as. we see many call. it so no more than 2 weeks. of assignation my advise to be versatile in russian most of the balls on the face book for my friend pleased with one of those for me. and some friends ask me next time we give you some free. because you know this is must be between them the amount of i think between 5 and the sending off of is that italian engineer was able to get to travel thanks to his russian wife and says his main motive for getting an ocular it was simply to protect his elderly parents. made his trip as a 3rd coronavirus wave sweeps across europe on the block continues to experience widespread vaccine shortage and. new coronavirus cases in italy have reached almost

24000 the country has the 2nd highest death toll in europe with more than 107000 fatalities registered now since the start of the outbreak. believes that politics should never play a role when it comes to saving lives more than one side or. pool of people which. no one now view of the. situation. see that out of all bars all bars. were during the evening you didn't have food and all bars are closer it's like a desert. from flowers. i think the only problem of this that put to me is maybe a russian the only one if pulled in you would have been made i don't know in california. it would be already need to early to use without any problem policy should be accepted the opposite let's buy and this. would 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 of that a wise with us initial we will never see the end of the. policy should they care about of people the should be the priority and not sound geopolitical. i don't know even a relationship. which is now conditioning you know such important and crucial matter for the of our country almost the only will fly back to moscow at the beginning of april now to get his 2nd dose you're not so you were following his journey will keep you posted as we always do. in the meantime a group of scammers who sold fake medical certificates to foreigners has been detained in the russian city of novosibirsk the federal security service seized

over 1400 documents with a black market value of roughly around 40000 bucks now entry to russia is currently heavily restricted for foreign nationals where people can get in during the pandemic with a valid medical reason f.s.b. officers also found a list of people intending to purchase the forged documents we understand right now a criminal case is getting under way. here in the russian capital as bad as during terror attacks that's how french doctors describe the current situation in the capital's hospitals which the pandemic is ultimately pushed to breaking point in an open letter they warned they may soon have to choose between which patients to save mean time they say president 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. the article is addressed to future patients or 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 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 for a 3rd wave of infections we understand there are now more than 27000 patients in

hospitals all across the country that has the highest figure this month mean the number in intensive care is approaching 5000 so far a record for the year the doctor we just heard from who was one of the signatories of the open letter says it's essential not to forget about non covert patients. 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 collage equal diseases in other words it is necessary to treat both patients with coronavirus and those who do not have copd that we will eventually run out of beds. still to come here

germany's chancellor threatens to resort to federal powers if local regions don't do more to combat covert had some a dire warning the 3rd wave of a pandemic will be the worst yet to come we'll cover that story for you in just a few minutes. but for now are 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 had hit record because the government numbers show that by 2024 point 3000000 children in britain lived in poverty nearly 2000000 went hungry because their families struggle to buy food liam evans from the turn to us says the pandemic has 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 3rd of

a classroom. the fact that these numbers of before the pandemic 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 high 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 it has on child poverty however we've had the best part of a decade of the government agenda of austerity you know we've had cuts to our benefits system freezes too are also sure security so it could mean we're going to need more than just well paid jobs and 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 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 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 1990 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 southern since 2012 when benefits cause began this dismal data shows child poverty levels and now devastatingly high children and their families will pay the price and those government x. urgently or low income families can currently receive just over $20.00 pounds

a week for the 1st child and nearly 14 pounds for every other child that is slightly more than the cost of or roughly $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 and we got reaction of dan paskin this from save the children about the situation at the moment the government is saying no that's going to take you right at the end of september and that's something which we know that a lot of hardship. sham nations children who are ready when it's not tomorrow and so we need to get with many of those with changes very importantly government continues provide that extra crimes of course that's a very immediate step we've got constrained we're also very worried that it might be actually that as the restrictions ease 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 just about temporary

measures during demick to. building on your actions we take are really great in saying you've been a good strong children has put into things like. you know. in the world where government really got them a lot of things to do to do a lot which is good and we need to get that same energy. and. speech. well let's bring you some live pictures right now as a murder trial is just now getting underway in the u.s. state of minnesota at this over the death of george floyd last may and incident one by 2 pretty much everybody that sparked a wave of civil unrest hearings are being streamed online for the 1st time in minnesota's history again live pictures now showing opening statements being given to a jury of 9 women and 6 men the names of the jurors of course are being kept confidential and they will not be filmed in court we are former police officer derek chauvin

faces 2 counts of murder and one count of manslaughter of the hearings are expected to run for at least a month artie's going on the ground spoke with the co-founder of black lives matter in greater new york he seems to trial as a litmus test for the u.s. traditional system you can watch this full interview at your own leisure online at r.t. dot com. well this is where the rubber meets the more rope everyone across the world saw the george floyd chili i guess right now is the true test of the american justice system we know that it's been biased we know that it's based on racism and now is the time to show if we progress or not that's progress being made willfully saucers go to jail it's it's it's it's it's great to corporations say we love lay people it's good that politicians say we're going to stand by black people but if the area showing it is it can be murder in the proceedings there will i mean

everything remains the same nothing is cheering all or all of the riots all the tears all the pain nothing is shades the america is still the same race displaced it's always been this is a true test. chancellor angela merkel has forced her frustration over the way germany's local authorities are handling the pandemic she's not threatening to resort to federal powers are all of a filed this report by the. 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 or 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 combs as intensive care doctors in germany is saying the country actually needs a nationwide tough 2 week lockdown and that's something that's being backed up by anger merkel's health minister yen spahn ltd sign him off if we look at the numbers we need another 10 to 14 days at least a properly driving down context and movements a look down if you want to call about what germany's currently hold it 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 but hospitals will be overburdened and more people will die again. if this continues on chicks 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 bishops right now when you take into account that not all of the over eighty's in germany have had one job yet when it comes to vaccinate. local leaders are saying they want russia's sputnik very vaccine to get approval so that can be used in the fight against covert the approval of put it we must be decided as soon as possible i'm fighting for sputnik be 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 on line 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 but she's manufactured but it would not be response to our problems today or with the 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. so the appearance of deep craters in the permafrost of russia's far north as puzzled scientists for years in artie's latest documentary researchers try to get to the bottom of the

phenomenon you can watch the black holes of your mouth throughout the day on our channel or to your own time at r.t. talk. humanity has never seen such strange natural phenomena before giant coming to this appearing in the. aboitiz to be here. is your eternity to keep the indian army and the. national tour so there is. no snow in the should it be aware of the study that you've got the police does not oppose to move to new york or to by choice to stay missed the boat in the hope that for. them to discover to kill him is that scientists have sold the mystery of creatures appearing in the mouth and instead it has to do with the unique tonics of the cross beneath on the cranks that the. they

build in full scale 3 d. most of the black hole goes deb you can you could in the e.u. let me take you to the serious news you need a car michelin you pull shades. never know to put up a good use of your security you're probably going to make that you want. 2021 russian scientists came quite close to working out what's going on. let's go through for you. good to have you with us today facebook poem that will be shut down the page of iran international television network which had millions of followers press t.v. says it received no warning and accused the us social media giant of attacking free speach. without any prior warning facebook informed prissie view on friday that

it's account had been shut down to what it claimed to be the iranian news channel's failure to follow our community standards this is yet another attack by the us based social media giant only rhenium media outlets and while facebook accused the channel of violating its standards it has yet what i should say not yet clarified which rules were actually then of the day even broken facebook along with twitter and instagram previously suspended press t.v. on a number of occasions though reinstating it on those cases though on appeal we spoke with a sigh of mohammad marandi a professor at tehran university who says the tech giant is trying to silence alternative viewpoints. but it does is that it basically prevents. alternative voices from being heard at all because those that use facebook can be seen and what they say and what they write. can be seen across the world but on the other hand what they do is they limit what alternative out that outlets can say so

they either room move those outlets such as what they've done with press t.v. with its millions of followers and therefore it can it can no longer be seen across the world or in iran but will what it also does is that it creates fear among others it creates a general sense of censorship or a general feeling that you have to sow center yourself otherwise you'll lose the platform that you had which you worked so hard to build but the problem that this creates for themselves is that when they go too far they create an incentive among non-western countries to build their own capabilities that can rival facebook or twitter or instagram and i think as the world is changing very fast as we speak. it's not a very distant future where we where we will be seeing these alternative. forms platforms for us to be able to more easily access alternative information.

a 400 meter container ship that's been blocking the suez canal for the past week has finally been freed though after a massive refloating operation traffic has partially resumed along one of the world's busiest waterways the ever given run aground during the high winds on march 23rd leaving hundreds of ships stranded on either side salvage teams used tug boats have now managed to wrench the skyscraper size ship from the canal sandy bank and the blockage that was held up an estimated $9000000000.00 worth of goods per day wreaking havoc on global supply chains and with an estimated $370.00 vessels waiting to pass through it's likely to take several days for navigation to return to normal we spoke with economist richard wolfe who says it's a disaster that could have easily been avoided. this is not the 1st time the canal has been blocked not at all it's

a 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 it in place if you were taking seriously the vulnerability to 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 add which is a kind of protection against something happening to a monoculture 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 are some of my stories to

highlight the terror an international we are back with more. germany's foreign minister has signaled that he would like to see it in nato russian relations but the to the ball is in russia's court really also as tensions over taiwan priest who is pushing for military showdown. i'm actually returns in you're watching another lockdown edition of going underground as opening arguments start today in the george floyd trial in

minneapolis almost a year after a killing that catalyzed violent uprisings or around the world some argue they have been even more significant than those in the 1960 s. when civil rights marches led to assassinations of icons like martin luther king jr and malcolm x. in part 2 will be speaking to avengers endgame hollywood actor frank grillo about his post covert 19 politics in cinema but 1st joining me now from new york is the co-founder of the black lives matter greater new york chapter who knew some work thanks so much for coming on to these opening arguments today why is the case so important given and centuries you have articulated of pain for people of color in the americas. well this is where the rubber meets the road everyone cross the world saw that george for chile everybody experienced everybody the size which is black.