The news in an exclusive interview with r. T. Employee cofounder bill john waters explains why the outcome of the us president ial election was always going to be disappointing. If trump had been reelected it would have been worse for everyone in the world but that doesnt make no good candidate. Either thanks so much for joining us this is r. T. International. Has become the 1st russian city to start mass vaccination the countrys sputnik v. Job is being made freely available to citizens everyone will get it at this stage high risk groups including Hospital School staff will be 1st in line priority also being given to those aged between 18 and 60 russias daily infection rate has spiraled in 29000 the numbers have been steadily rising since Early September aunties you have all of a visited one of the places thats producing russia sputnik. We are the Car Companies safety despite its market and surprises thats received by cutting the governments secret shes the 1st registered bigsby coronavirus but see if my production has already started here lets take a sputnik the is a too short adenovirus based effects of x. Seen the difference between sputnik v. And some other International Code 19 vaccines is this vaccine is a human based one not an animal so whats a vaccine its an engineered virus lacking the gene for representation therefore its unable to in fact what it does is said as a vehicle for corona virus proteins over 3 weeks a patient receives 2 different jobs to form antibodies and disease resistance from the vaccine consist of 2 different shots its a quite complex task in terms of production because you have to manufacture 2 vaccines as opposed to one in every way i am a different scene is being fulfilled here that if not this particular line for jay says 6000. 00 souls but our meeting says you 1000 so this is per hour as each bottle containing 5 days says the final few minutes to be boxing day said. Before taking a coronavirus vaccination everyone is examined to make sure theyre healthy but it takes another 15 minutes to store the vaccine sputnik these stored at minus 18 degrees c. And developer say thats an advantage compared to other countries vaccines requiring significantly lower temperatures for storage after the injection doctors monitor you for certain minutes before youre free to go to the bone im a teacher i think the vaccination is a great way to protect myself and most importantly my relatives my parents all over the 65 was also its free actually i was initially examined by a doctor he asked if i had any chronic diseases measured my Blood Pressure looked at my Electronic Medical record that i was allowed to undergo the procedure everything was fast was i received that said. Saying that they can be one of the 1st for the vaccination im so glad and trust the vaccine. Yes i had doubts but ive made my decision and im here today the vaccine is now being supplied to all corners of the country at the same time the military is receiving sputnik v. T. In russia the covert 1000 job is voluntary and free of charge and even though some people still remain skeptical about the safety and efficiency of the vaccine most agree that large scale explanation is probably the only way now to put an end to the pandemic you leadership of oliver are saying. We spoke with a russian scientist who was among the 1st people to get the job here in moscow he told us how the country was able to start bust vaccination so soon. Melissa was successful in developing the platform in the way i understand how it works is that once you have a platform to share with the antigen to. Then changing the tab and egypt is not big deal and this is what a true this explains these high speed of development and actually to meet it as it is a fundamental change is that this is a now just efficient for long Term Investment into fundamental research in life sense but of course. If i had not have this access to the data from people actually participating in 2 in the 3rd phase of trials it would be more difficult to save all that convinced me personally to take the decision to have a shot now again for each individual its their will to risk in war and in my case the risk of having. The current owners disease and completions associated with it is so high that i was looking forward to having this opportunity to sue to get the show. The case also poised to roll out mass vaccination in wales plans have been unveiled to issue special id cards for those getting the job the personal immunization ids will include the maker of the vaccine that received the bats number will be used as a reference a reminder for the 2nd job with guidelines in case there are any side effects however despite officials assuring the public that vaccinations wont be mad to treat the idea plans have made some uneasy and very worried about the system of id cards to be given to those who have had kovacs and wales one step away from mandatory vaccination. If wales doesnt plan to exclude unvaccinated from society why do they need id cards for those who took it im definitely no anti vaccine but something about the idea cards wales plans on using is wrong people have free choice and shouldnt be pressured into doing anything to their bodies they dont want to be efficient overseeing the vaccine in england has admitted that while its not obligatory there could be societal pressure to have it we discuss the issues raised with a panel of guests. The idea to somehow having a cog that youve been vaccinated is going to be proof that either you will not continue not contagious for other people or that indeed you are immune yourself for a specific period is certainly not realistic i cold see any home the moment of having a certificate or a code as explorer age memoirs or to the fact that you go to get your 2nd that salacious i think weve lost our collective minds with d respect to how viruses work we do always return immunity theyre granted sometimes its a natural process and this is how we all get vaccinated by by getting our own t. Cells that immunity space stuff and then we can get back to that city with like the idea that obviously frontline provider should probably be vaccinated 1st the old really the people who are sick but this is survivable illness we keep forgetting that the likelihood of death which is what i really care about as a physician is death is incredibly low to the good largest part is survivability now michael are of course the people who have who really are concerned about at risk groups the more Vulnerable People who have been terrified of going outside obscene they need to be protected i know the idea of the greater good test kind of lost its importance and lost its popularity but there are some who would say you know i want we all need to suck it up so that everyone oh of society can live fully again what do you say to those. Paul well i mean if you look at the history of such uses of such terms as the common good in the greater good its doesnt have a very good history lets face it but for the vulnerable where we already are doing what we need to do to protect them and keep them isolated concentric in a vaccine that we dont know the side effects of and we dont know the the way of even operates other than that it produces proteins that mimic the virus and we dont know what the downsides are of the long term effects that residual concatenation of. A sax that my car occur because of this for a virus that has such a low mortality rate it seems to be quite an extreme measure is the cure worse that it just seems well if were going to lose our Civil Liberties over this what are we really treating and americans and we all of the globe need to always push back sides always questions things this is not being a state thats religion this is science we always question what are we doing and what are the results. Jonathan sad sad making and i take odds what she wasnt very protests is that necessary and do you think that what they want to see a strong public pushback on this. Well d first of all i dont think it is necessary to make it compulsory i think the governments set its face against that already and as youve indicated its not the british way we dont make these things compulsory but of course as was indicated by one of your other guests i mean if there or indeed by our Health Minister it may become almost mandatory if you actually want to do certain activities i mean if if some sort of certificate was or vaccination is required then it does become sublimate man and tree and that is a a great concert. Pink floyd cofounder roger waters is the latest guest on and hes going underground show he shares his views on the chances of joe biden pardoning whistleblower in chief Julian Assange and of undoing tom selfstyled deal of the century you can watch the full interview coming up on r. T. Throughout the day for now is a preview. Dave if trump had been reelected it would have been worse for everyone in the world but that doesnt make biden a good candidate biden is a dyed in the wool were among grading servant of the oligarchy that rules the United States american will continue to be so for however long he remains president of the United States hes not to be trusted on anything do you think joe biden is going to move the American Embassy back to tell the v. A. Are you kidding hes made it quite clear that hes the staunchest zionist friend of. Of israel that could possibly be in office so he i hope that he and kids start a happy sleeping in that caught that theyre going to share for the next few years kiss our. Term of 8 or of them having any power under any circumstances because they are clearly not clear thinkers they clearly dont believe in human rights they clearly have no interest in the law to have no interest in the United Nations they have no interest in the geneva conventions they have no interest in any of the things that in near to my heart and to your heart should have been completely impartial you have campaigned for upholding of Un Security Council revolution resolutions all your life you dont expect biden to reverse the trump position on the Golan Heights the illegal declaration by the United States is going to oppose the Un Security Council resolution making out that it was israeli. No of course not i dont expect him to. Reverse any of that nonsense i expect him to absolutely abide by the deal of the century obviously im pretty happy that skinny piece of. Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman reza carver has accused the us of political aggression after it called for a moratorium on the construction of the north stream to gas pipeline any russian pipeline no matter where when or how it was constructed a what documents legitimized it has provoked a single reaction from the us for decades political aggression and illegal counter work i would like to tell washington you can just break the rules if you want to be a responsible play in the International Economic community you have to abide by the rules you know he said that Condoleezza Rice in the context of russian guess americas own words have quote out with it despite all the u. S. Attempts to stop the project construction of the pipeline re commenced over the weekend permission for work in the german waters of the baltic sea was obtained from the German Federal office for shipping in high drug drug free stream to is close to completion with the pipeline 94 percent ready. It is close to completion theres not much left to do and that is why i think the sanctions are a load of nonsense and i hope that maybe with the election of the new us President Biden i hope it will become better and that we wont have such sanctions for sasnett i think 1st and foremost its an economic enterprise the 2 states russia and germany committed to and the Country Partners should be allowed to act as they have agreed on i think the madness especially by the us is over the top. With us sanctions on north stream to now include asset freezes say ban on transactions and visa restrictions however right before work restarted the us Congress Approved a bill that includes expanded sanctions against the pipeline among them restrictions for companies that provide insurance for firms that work with Welding Equipment to serve an extension of the already existing north stream pipeline which also goes through the baltic sea this will be able to pump 55000000000 cubic meters of natural gas from Russia Germany every year we spoke to journalist Thomas Fassbender about the future of the project under the incoming u. S. Administration. As we see today both sides the germans the russians and also the European Union they are basically committed to finish this project now its 94 Percent Complete it would be simply so silly to. Dump almost 10000000000 euros in the in the baltic sea for nothing of course the u. S. Also already has u. S. Administration. Continues to or pressure approach to pressure the participants pressure the governments own wisdom by any its a very difficult choice the new american president will have to follow if we follow the old policy of office free he says and on the truck going against the project i think very much the opposition to or north stream to is not a pet project of donald trump but it is deeply embedded in the geopolitics of the u. S. Foreign policy establishment on the other side joe biden by really interrupting really boycotting prohibiting that project would load negatively load his relations to europe or not only germany at it at an early stage of his presidency. Has accused the United States of revisionism over new green card lottery rules that describe russians living on the korean lands as being japanese that story after the break. Join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and ill be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business im showbusiness ill see if. The world is driven by a dream shaped by one person. The day or thinks. We dare to ask. Joe biden be inaugurated in january of next year however will he have a legitimate mandate will the next Campaign Start when the next president takes office and the neo liberal order is headed back into town will be marriage and. Welcome bunks the u. S. State department has decided that russians living on the islands are in fact japanese at least if its new green card lottery rules ought to be believed moscow is not amused. Do you need any more proof that the u. S. Business state according to the 1945 decision the crew islands belong to the u. S. S. R. To do it the u. S. State Department Questions the outcome world war 2 inspiring. Russia is furious it says the crew as its territory as it sees the islands back in 1905 or rather the soviet troops but the talk disagrees and it has even prevented the 2 nations from signing a peace deal to formally end the war hostilities so the territorial dispute goes on for 75 years but it seems its all clear for washington they have no questions this is what the official instruction for the green corridor lottery also known as diversity visa says persons born in the home of my islands she could land in the cherie and who are chargeable to japan persons born in Southern Somalia are chargeable to russia thats especially ironic given that most of the japanese citizens were repatriated from these territories after the end of the 2nd world war and today the disease home to around 20000 russians what role if any does america have to play in this well washington has nothing to do with this dispute but it supports japan in this long running problem interesting is that how in the 1st place back in 1945 the soviet union decided to join the operation against japan it signed a deal with the u. S. And the u. K. That in exchange for sending soviet troops there it will get the curls islands so this is the story and heres a short clip for our viewers to better understand the shoe. Ringback the a. Well decades of negotiations are behind and it seems that standoff is still there but there is also hope shortly after taking office in september a newly elected japanese Prime Minister discussed the disputed islands over the phone with russias president Vladimir Putin after that we heard ian repeatedly saying that he hopes to finally find a solution and finally sign a peace deal. Vice president of the Eurasia Center says that the u. S. Is trying to disrupt talks between moscow tokyo. I think what were seeing here is the u. S. Interfering or basically. Injecting itself into Foreign Policy that is going in for discussions that are going on between japan and russia in a way theyre disrupting the ongoing negotiations i mean im sure that if you ask the people that live there what citizen they are from i understand theres a huge percentage of ethnic ukrainians and ethnic russians that live there and im sure they would say russian. Regardless of what the United States says you know i find it difficult that any country can decide what citizenship some other countrys citizens are but that is this seems to be the case that situated right now and i think the greater the greater objective here is to disrupt negotiations that are on underway. Time magazine has taken all the unusual approach to its traditional person of the year cover this year put 2020 on the front claiming it was the worse yet but some of questioned whether its really being that but ati saskia tayla takes a closer look. 2020 not exactly a time travelers topic yes it was challenging yes it was wet and yes it felt and less but according to Time Magazine 2020 blue other rotten years out of the park for time it was the wost ye