Democratic candidate for President Joe Biden selects california senator. As his Vice President ial running mate. People gather at the port where a devastating chemical blast occurred a week ago it comes just a day after the countrys government resigned amid huge pressure from protesters. Just gone 5 am here in the russian capital ondine hawkins revealed to me and from thanks for joining us. Russia says its leading the global race against the coronavirus president putin says the country is the 1st to register a vaccine which is now ready for mass testing. So you can use usenet as far as i know this morning the 1st vaccine from corona virus in the world was registered among the countrys Health Minister to further inform us about that but i already know that its working effectively and forming a tough immunity. Well a vaccine was developed at moscows institute initial Clinical Trials are said to have been successful mass production is expected to begin as early as september next month already now medical workers teachers and those considered to be other high risk groups are going to be the 1st to receive it and release the general public is set for the new year developers at 2000 people will be vaccinated shortly as a Research Continues meanwhile more than 1000000000 doses of the russian vaccine have already been requested by more than 20 countries globally nevertheless though there are many who remain skeptical about this vaccine including of course Health Experts in the United States now although welcoming the news members of russias science and Research Community weve spoken to says this still a lot of work to be done he told me 3 of the head of the Russian Sovereign Wealth Fund says that investing in the countrys Research Talk to r. T. About the new vaccine. 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The Us DemocraticParty Candidate for President Joe Biden has picked commodity harris as his Vice President ial running mate in california senator was bidens rival for president ial candidate before dropping out and backing him his caliber weapon with the details. After much anticipation joe biden has finally announced his Vice President ial running mate it will be the california senator kaamelott harris who has a long record in california politics as a prosecutor and an attorney general in the state before rising to the rank of u. S. Senator now whats quite interesting is that she was one of joe bidens opponents for the democratic nomination and on the debate stage among other Democratic Candidates she had some rather harsh words for joe biden she called him out on his record supporting School Segregation and she invoked her own Life Experience to criticize him for it this is what kamel harris said to joe biden you know there was a little girl in california who was part of the fekkai class to integrate her Public Schools and she was bused to School Every Day and that little girl was away now kamel harris is known for playing up the idea that there is some kind of russian conspiracy against her she claims that russian bots were targeting her on the internet that russia was out to get hurt cetera probably the most controversial thing about Camila Harris is her record as a prosecutor in california comma harris locked up the parents of children who were truant from school she also jailed thousands of people for the crime of smoking marijuana and then in a recent interview joked about the fact that she smoked marijuana in her south now Tulsi Gabbert the democratic candidate and u. S. Congresswoman from hawaii called out kamel harris at a debate and significantly hurt her in the polls by highlighting her record as a criminal prosecutor now donald trump has already reacted to the fact that kamel harris was selected as joe bidens running mate heres what he said to his right number one draft pick and well see how she works out she did very very poorly in the. Primaries as you know he was expected to do well. And she. He was. Right around 2 percent. And spent a lot of money he had a lot of things happening and so i was a little surprised that he picked so thats donald trump saying that hes pretty surprised in thinking that its not a very strategic shorts now whats also interesting to point out is the camel harris has quite a record when it comes to issues like Police Brutality and mass incarceration and she is very much not the favorite candidate of the black lives Matter Movement her record as a prosecutor is all over twitter right now being highly scrutinized but regardless she will be the Vice President ial nominee of the democratic party. To russian journalists in europe a thought if and then they still are going cohen now safely back in moscow after being released from detention in minsk the rest triggered by the weekends disputed president ial election in belarus a spill into a 3rd night police cordoned off public squares in the capital minsk with several people allegedly detained amid continuing clashes with Law Enforcement witnesses have also reported explosions. A correspondent to rome of course or if with the latest now on the 3rd consecutive night of demonstrations protests continue for a 3rd day in belarus and also we have a 3rd day all fuss solidarity rallies in various embassies all fly like here in moscow for example people who are so directly with the opus ition and bill russo are here for a 3rd day same thing is happening in St Petersburg the same thing is happening in in kiev meanwhile some of their russian journalists were detained by the Russian Police and later released say that they were beaten up by the authorities and the later published video which appears to be proving their claims lets take a look. Right here you feel. Bad yes you know you. Just will not leave us. Some journalists have reported earlier and shes day that men in black all wearing the same uniform approached them broke their equipment and actually confiscated their memory cards with old footage minsk meanwhile remains under logs and im close talking about the center of the city and police can seem here to detain protesters bill russian president an example that the shanghai says that the response from the Law Enforcement. Has been proport. But on in the city the room 25. 00 Police Officers have been injured legs broken they would deliberately hit so they responded why are you crying the response will be adequate we will not allow you to tell the country apart some footage from belarus actually did show that the protesters were using molotov cocktails against the police so those claims were substantiated i mean while the opposition a candidate for the president of bill roos has reportedly left the country or in the rejoin her family in lithuania and now some social media reports said that shit fled the country some others said that she was forced to buy the bill or russian authorities to leave however she she refuted all of those allegations in this post. I took a very difficult decision i did that by myself my Friends Family colleagues and husband did not influence me many will understand me many will judge many will start tate the European Union is calling on bill russian authorities to begin a dialogue with the opposition in order to prevent any further violence the bill russian authorities are saying that they have irrefutable evidence that can and dale the fact that all of the underlying reasons for the pro disability actually came from abroad and theyre ready to supply that information to any other country that requests it or and its published by an irish knows theres little protest groups can do in the face of a police crackdown. Has been backed into a corner his own people have risen up against him after 26 years in office and he can accept that he is whole regime is built on the myth is the father of the country that hes extremely popular and thats simply not the case the police have been extremely brutal and whats remarkable if you compare this to ukraine or some of the other kind of revolutions that weve had across the region the. Protests have become very violent very quickly at the end of the day theres very little that the protesters can do i mean theyre building barricades that theyre setting down the city every day after 7 pm however that can only go on for so long. And when people have gathered for a protest there on the outskirts of the port just the week after a massive chemical blast there reduced parts of the lebanese capital to ruins the number of those killed more than 200 with hundreds of thousands more left homeless huge demonstrations against the authorities have been held bailey our correspondent paula reports from the city but this is the 4th consecutive night that we 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 they throwing rocks and bits of pavement at the Police Officers and the army on the other side now the army has been responding with tear gas at which point the crowd this side surges that what people here are telling me is that theyre not satisfied with just the basic nation of the lebanese Prime Minister they want to hold harlem and to resign at the same time make one point independent investigation into what happened at the very last they say its not enough for an internal investigation but the government here says that thats what they want. Sovereignty now the mood is quite violent towle it doesnt seem that with the passing of days b. Protesters here are in. Anyway 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 that any moment the situation here and i can i can actually smell to get the situation is becoming increasingly for the danger. Right behind me is the army theres a lot of tear gas in the air theyve managed to push the protesters further away from the Parliament Building and down the streets so weve taken a position just behind the army the straight here is the rocks and stones of the protesters are throwing and there is the least over 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 there has been accused of Excessive Force and theyve admitted that they have used live ammunition and tear gas in the past the explosion has also shaken the lives of survivors in other ways one couple was filming what was meant to be the happiest day of their lives they survived the blast but describes what they and their family 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 the scream and we were looking at each other to now if any of us had been hurt. Or that. 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 the groom and the bride and everyone else were confused thank god they got married but their state of mind was bad. During the explosion and i was sitting here on the sofa and we were eating chickpeas. 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. With covert despite a number of European Countries e. U. Health authorities are calling for certain restrictions to be reintroduced according to the latest Risk Assessment it needs to happen sooner rather than later to stop the spread shot a difference q has the details. European Health Authorities is urged countries to reconsider imposing certain restrictions as is in the uptick in the code of the 19 transmission rates this is the European Center for disease prevention anchored so and it is an aging Member States to take action. In countries. Where theres 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 arabs the case new look down see here in europe it does state that when those lockdowns happened there was a dramatic decrease in the transmission rate over code 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 the particularly the closure of the border is the situation is now volatile with some Member States experiencing falling numbers and some unfortunately 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 the 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 of this upsurge in transmission rates could be 19 and the new restrictions in place for exam