Of mass unrest on a disputed president ial election. And in beirut people gather at the port where the devastating chemical blast occurred a week ago it comes a day after the countrys government collapsed when the cabinet quit on massive i mean huge pressure from the protesters. Who are watching R T International coming to you live from the russian capital where its just turned midnight welcome to the program. Russias claiming to be leading the global race against the coronavirus president putin says the countrys the 1st to register a vaccine which is now ready for mass testing. Yes we can use using the sea would you as far as i know this morning the 1st vaccine from corona virus in the world was registered on the countrys Health Minister to further inform us about that but i already know that its working effectively and forming a tough immunity is the one. That ive seen was developed at a Moscow Institute its 1st Clinical Trials were said to have been successful and mass production is expected to begin in september medical workers teachers and those considered to be in other high risk groups will be the 1st to receive it its plan released to the general public is set for the new year the Developers Say 2000 more people will be vaccinated shortly as Research Continues meanwhile more than 1000000000 doses of the russian vaccine have been requested by more than 20 countries nevertheless there are many who remain skeptical about the vaccine including Health Experts in the us although welcoming the news members of russias science and Research Community say that there is still much to be done to be able to be true if the head of the Russian Sovereign Wealth Fund thats investing in the countrys research talked about the new vaccine. What the russians people all as a world of very tired calls a virus a very tired of the restrictions a very tired as they refused the moniker to those of fags that one of the countries. In which we believe is very safe very active. As if. All your people now have a better hope to raise your normal life as a vaccination. Well im confident enough that the injected legacy myself my wife my of and your 4 year old parents and i think its very important that we understand the Science Behind civics though russia great historic knowledge of x. You got my interest you it has developed very successful in all of it seeing and mercy and then basically current virus just proved to be very similar the merce so weve had great science and will likely that there is a good have been done really applied where 8 blows a lead goes a fight theyre not hiring you tend to chill for russian because. Everything will be fobbed almost ive seen to date i knows a 100 percent always a line cheers elop very strong immune response or significant side effects of 100 percent protection of animals for issue where is the level of immunity. It will produce a stronger immune response Going Forward we believe because only once who have those 2 different than the virus back there is that the lid was a big scene and that means that our vixen response will last longer hopefully it will be in more than a year while scientists believe that years but of course for this effect. Will be needed to really understand the duration of the vaccination. And ever since people were starting to receive permission about a week to hear more and more interest but frank a lot of western Media Outlets blocked access to our information so i think now we have break ins through this information bear is it exists and the more people understand what we can do they go to us because of our fight to learn about the election in more countries become interested even today we had a major announcement by israel serbia militants or brazil core our interest who scores the russian machine and work with us on. Dr peter smith professor of topical epidemiology at the London School of hygiene and tropical medicine told us the cover crisis has met back seen trials of an accelerated at much more than normal and a significant in the sense that there are about 150 different back scenes that are being developed none of them to my knowledge has yet been nice and so in that sense it sets in Court Announced that its a sickness that says license vaccine unfortunately what we dont know at the moment is what the data were that actually was the basis for the license sure but it sounds as though relatively small numbers of people have so far received a speck seems in which case its very typical i would say almost impossible to assess whether the bank scene is actually efficacious or which have sound reservations about knowing that the safety of the vaccine generally new vaccines are not the least until they been in trials a year or 2 years possibly even 5 years because of the exceptional situation with the suspect because theyre 19 and damage. Actually. The unrest triggered by the weekends disputed president ial election and belarus has spilled into a 3rd night police have cordoned off public squares in the capital minsk and several people have reportedly been detained amid continuing clashes with Law Enforcement but is this have also been reporting a lot of explosions. Can all cross live to our correspondent ramon courser of who is outside of the Belorussian Embassy in moscow bring us up to speed on the latest. Well indeed 1st of all we all are a of the below Russian Embassy here in the russian capital where solidarity rallies are a continuing and let me just show you a picture all follow whats going on here right now earlier there were about 300. 00 people here outside of the Russian Embassy which was probably the largest search now its in the last few days they started gathering here right after the end of Business Hours and of course right now there are fewer people dont than there were here initially at the beginning similar rallies are taking place in other cities as well in russia that St Petersburg and ukraine that sick and a few days ago we had around me in israel as well now back to the news some of the journalists who are covering the protests in in a ruse have been detained at the very beginning and those detentions included that are Russian Media representatives as well well right now most of them have been released according to the Russian Embassy in billu send some of those journalists have already made it across they brush up bill a ruse of border now some of those journalists claim that theyve been beaten up by the police and they have actually published a video that appears to support their claim this take a look at that right now. There are 5 i think i have to look at one. Of. Those only a few days didnt. Leave us. Will protest in belarus continue for at 3rd day in a role and Law Enforcement are using all kinds all fuck rod control in quitman that includes here gas rubber bullets sends us grenades as well. And the witnesses in minsk are saying that they hear in various explosions as well minsk a city center is currently closed off to the public subway station stations in the center of the capital are closed off as well so people cannot make it to central minsk Police Continue to detain protesters on his feet send the reports say that there is even entering residential buildings away from the capital of minsk in order to detain protesters who are hiding there from a Law Enforcement now to some Figures Health ministry a bill or. Are saying thats hundreds of people have been injured and are currently being tended to in hospitals across the country mostly in minsk of course and over the last 3 days one person is said to have been killed in the protests though the belorussian Investigative Committee and now. Have now launched an inquiry into the circumstances of what had actually happened were waiting for a confirmation on the vats meanwhile bill russian president Alexander Lukashenko says that the response of the Law Enforcement to process the protest has been well proportioned at this have a listen to what he said. But on the one typical of the city people around 25. 00 Police Officers have been injured legs broken they would deliberately heres it so they responded why are you crying and the response will be adequate so we will not allow you to tell the country. What you will some footage from belarus show that the protesters were indeed throwing molotov cocktails into a Law Enforcement meanwhile the president ial candidate from. The opposition says that. Guy has left the country in order to join her family in lithuania and now some social media out there claimed that she had fled bellerose meanwhile authors are saying that she was forced out of the country by the bella russian authorities that monitored and also herself has refuted all allegations in this post lets have a listen. To pinochet. I too can very difficult decision i did that by myself my Friends Family colleagues and husbanded know entranced me many will understand me many will judge many will start to hate. European union is calling on the bell russian authorities to begin a dialogue with the opposition in order to prevent any further violence now in their statement they also said that they are ready to make to take action against those responsible for violence against unlawful arrest and of course against those who rigged the election minsk official minutes gotta say that they have irrefutable evidence that can unveil that all of the underlying reasons behind the protests in the bill are russian capsule and across the country as well and that they have thorazine and belarus are saying that theyre ready to present this evidence to other countries as well. As are among coaster of thank you for bringing us that report. For further analysis were not going to cross live to our tour associate professor of the department of political silence. Of Moscow State University youre very welcome to the program how do you see this playing out how is this unrest going to end. Well its very hard to predict future developments and predict in the future forecasting the future think with job i think with the enterprise but i think that the future events will depend mostly on 2 factors on how opposition will be organized or the leadership they will have and now i dont see any Single Center that coordinates of additional activities or i dont see a clear leadership of the opposition and as far as we can see many opposition leaders just left the country so they fled led run away youre going to if you have different expressions and the seconds a factor is the role of Law Enforcement institutions now Law Enforcement used to fusions are doing their job they are loyal to the government they are loyal to their own its all the the support which supports fully decosta view to support political regimes and pull the orders of the legal government so the outcome will depend them on the you know the balance of power well position and also the government Law Enforcement institutions and if the fact that some of our opposition activists. Inspiring are violent and that its very counterproductive so d i think thats the bad the best scenario will be this scenario of dialogue between the opposition leaders and d the government. So to speak the separate the people from the problem so the problem is not about a system that is it is that policy reforms this maybe busy government should. Should do and maybe. Finds of find some Common Ground source agree involves nonviolent means of resolving these conflicts and secondly. Maybe to develop the joints dreaded you dont do your Job Development because. We already have for a 3rd night in a row reports of flash bang stun the grit grenades being used rubber bullets being used by police and on the other side of fireworks and rocks being thrown at the police by the protesters are you surprised at all by the reaction from both sides. Im not surprised but i think that the bands we now see in belo rules they follow in a way that similar lordship that the events in the course of your conference we have seen march about events in georgia in the in the get in in your grave in the several years the goal and not only in those countries some of the congress socalled collar driven loose strongholds we call legal scholars arab spring france and some others so the logic was british similar after a general election a president ial election a position challenges the officially announced results of the americans and the road that went wrong just becomes more and more intense and more involved more and more violent and in the kind of region any provocative action by any any activists of opposition on any maybe any. Overreaction on all. Night night to friday night clashes and nights are. Very very very bad bad things and violence violence remains week so i am not surprised that the police is doing their job and are very harsh evolvers addressing your goal of the solution. As they hear the riot and governmental and station they undermining political stability in the country by the opposition. Does not see any legal means of changing this if you nation so its apparent to all of us so you have countries in the lead also legal means of getting what they want or need legal means of getting access to power a position saw you think you legal or illegal which is influencing the government. And of course. Well move forward while your reaction will be going. So its like a vicious circle weve been speaking with artur dem associate professor at the department of Political Science at lemmon also of Moscow State University thank you for finding the time to join us on the program this evening thank you for marking. And be rude people are gathering for a protest around the outskirts of the port exactly a week after the massive chemical blasts which reduced much of the city to ruins a number of those killed now tops more than 200 with hundreds of thousands left homeless huge demonstrations against the authorities have been held daily our correspondent archies polis they are reports from the city. But this is the 4th consecutive night that weve witnessed protests here in front of the Parliament Building the situation remains as tense as it has been for the last few days as you can see behind me the protesters have started a fire and theyre throwing rocks and bits of paper and at the Police Officers and the army on the other side now the army has been responding with tear gas which claimed the crowd this side surges that what people here are telling me is that theyre not satisfied with just the way as a nation of the lebanese Prime Minister they want to hold hanumant to preside at the same time make one point into came to an investigation into what happened at the very last they say its not enough for an internal they have an easy investigation but the government here says if thats what they want to show what are issue of sovereignty now the mood is quite volatile it doesnt seem that with the passing of days be protesters here are in any way becoming satisfied if you just look around you can see that they still a lot of anger they still relatively large numbers showing out on the streets essentially the situation in beirut continues to remain extremely tense and this comes as the numbers of missing stanley turns into. Some meat and sun 20 people dead were not hearing sounds of tear gas so the crowd is starting to move backwards the fear is at any moment the situation here and i can i can actually smell to get the situation is becoming increasingly for all the danger. Right behind me is the army has a lot of tear gas in the air theyve managed to push the protesters so theyre away from the Parliament Building and down the streets. Weve taken a position just behind the army v 380. 00 is the rocks and stones at the protesters are throwing and theres the left overs smell of tear gas in the air as you can see the riot police and the army are in full gear theyre taking this seriously they have been accused of Excessive Force and theyve admitted that they have used live ammunition and tear gas in the past but the explosion in beirut took a devastating toll on families there one couple were about to show you were filming what was meant to be the happiest day of their lives thankfully they survived along with their families described what they went through. I was screaming because i was afraid that i might find some of my family missing were injured or something bad happened to them. The most terrible moment was when we heard the loud explosion. And when we heard scream and we were looking at each other to now if any of us had been hurt. Or dead and then the wedding took place in a miserable state of mind because we knew that there were wounded and dead and there was chaos and missing people you agree even the bride and everyone else were confused thank god they got married but their state of mind was bad. During the explosion i was sitting here on the sofa and we were eating chick peas. Look at the blood on the window. On the day this calamity happened there was no hospital to receive the patient a sister stayed with me for 12 hours and called the hospital and they replied that they were unable to receive anyone but. My eyes and head were all affected by the explosion with time i feel better. Global news update continues after the short break. Join me every thursday on the alex im im sure and ill be speaking to guests of the world of politics or business im show business ill see you then. Welcome back with covert cases spiking and the number of European CountriesHealth Authorities are calling for certain restrictions to be reintroduced our to charlotte reports. European Health Authorities is urge countries to reconsider imposing certain restrictions as this in the uptick in the coded 19 transmissions rates this is the European Center of the disease prevention and control and it is an aging Member States to take action now in countries where there is evidence that is suggestive of increasing transmission the risk of further escalation is high for those countries the risk is very high if they do not implement or reinforce multiple measures including physical distancing and Contact Tracing now the report talks about reinstating control measures while it doesnt specifically absa cape new york down see here in europe it does state that when those lockdowns happened there was a dramatic decrease in the transmission rate over could be 19 this comes as the European Commission is also urging Member States to take action together to avoid a 2nd wave of uncooled action this is a particularly the closure of the border is the situation is now volatile with some Member States experiencing falling numbers and some unfortunately he experiencing a rising number of cases we noted that in view of these developments some Member States decided to maintain will reintroduce certain restrictions to Cross Border Movement sometimes in a rather uncoordinated manner this comes as Member States and in u. K. Are imposing quarantine on individuals coming from certain countries now the European Commission is at pains to state that the freedom of movement within european borders is in poor to have despite the warnings all this surge in transmission rates over could be 19 and the new restrictions in place for example here france which means now in certain areas at tools you must wear a face mask there are many people who are still flouting the rules particularly down in the south of france over the weekend where 10000 people are set to gather in the legal. Great so while authorities are urging more and more caution it seems that there are more and more people willing to flout those rules. So if 6 gulf powers including saudi arabia backed plans to extend an arms embargo on iran and i letter to the u. N. A u. S. Resolution will be put to vote later this week but its widely expected to be vetoed meanwhile a veteran diplomat with a colorful past has started working as Washington Special envoy for around a quarter has a story made washingtons friendly new envoy to iran mr Elliott Abrams who once had this to say a military strike at Irans Nuclear facilities should be viewed as a realistic option hes anything but the new kid on the block though in fact hes got a very long record of being not exactly diplomatic. You might have heard about his most recent exploits in venezuela where he was appointed on boy just weeks before the failed coup against president Nicolas Maduro no dictatorship lasts for ever on the sanctions there are plans to reinforce the effort the purpose of the effort is to diminish the Resources Available to the regime its very hard i would say for me to see. A dictator such as the girl can really have a role to play in the building of a democratic venezuela. But venezuela wasnt really its only latin american adventure back in the 1980 s. He played an interpol part in trying to overthrow the governments of el salvador and nicaragua im glad im all up for Ronald Reagans administration. It appears to be an incident which is at least being significantly missed used at the very best by the guerillas. Last but definitely not least a twist the iran contra affair when the Us Government facilitated the sale of weapons to iran and hoped to use the profits to fund drug smuggling concert rebels fighting the socialist government in nicaragua although the Reagan Administration was able to skirt the borders of legality abrams admittedly guilty to lying to congress about it and was given a free pass by president george h. W. Bush i fail to understand why members of this committee or the American People should find any testimony that you give today to be truthful washington says abrams is its new envoy but for turan its anything but new no difference between john bolton and brian who call Elliott Abrams when it comes to the u. S. Iran policy american officials have bitten off more than they could chew same applies to my pump aoe donald trump and successes in addition to promising to suffocate iran with maximum pressure sanctions trump still hasnt provided a Better Nuclear Deal than the one he took the us out of 2 years ago but who knows give him another 4 years and maybe it will get done if and when we will. We will make deals with the rand very quickly washingtons been flopping sanctions and embargoes on iran for decades and you know what the countrys still kicking but dont worry throwing another war hawk at iran will work this time washington promises. 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