Running mate. In beirut people gather at the port where a devastating chemical blast occurred a week ago it comes a day after the countrys government quit amid huge pressure from protesters. Here in moscow thanks for joining us on our team to national im Daniel Hawkins welcome to the program. Russia says its 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. You know who can use usenet as far as i know this morning the 1st vaccine for 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. Ok lets take a closer look now the vaccine itself was developed at moscows again institute initial Clinical Trials are said to have been successful a mass production is expected to begin as early as september in fact next month already now medical workers teachers and those considered to be in other high risk groups will be the 1st to receive it now a release of the general public is set for the new year the developers added 2000 people will be vaccinated shortly as Research Continues in the meantime more than 1000000000 doses of the russian vaccine have already been requested by more than 20 countries around the world nevertheless there are many who remain skeptical about the vaccine including Health Experts in the United States theyre welcoming the news members of russias scientific and Research Community weve spoken to say this still a lot of work to be done now he told me 3 of the head of the Russian Sovereign Wealth Fund thats investing in the countrys research spoke to r. T. About the new vaccine. What the russians are people of the wall the very little the wire was very tired of the restrictions of very tired of the refused. It was. One of the countries. In which it was very very active. All sorts of. People now. Theres a vixen. 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 story. Has developed very successful in all of our 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 loza lead was a fight theyre not hiring its beneficial 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 forest where is the level of immunity. It will produce a stronger immune response Going Forward but we believe we are still only ones who counsels do it friend of the not virus vectors as it was used miller was a vaccine 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 the horse was a suspect. Will be needed to really understand the duration of the vaccination. And ever since people are starting to receive permission about how were seeing it more and more interest but frank a lot of western Media Outlets a lot 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 because theres all outside to learn about the exchange and more countries become interested even today with the age of onset and by israel serbia elude us though brazil who are interested who or the russian mix you know work with us on. A dr peter smith a professor of tropical epidemiologist at the London School of hygiene and tropical medicine told us the code crisis has meant vaccine trials have been accelerated much more than normal. Only significant in the sense that there are about 150 different back scenes that are being developed not to my knowledge has yet been licensed so in that sense its in Court Announced that its just the 1st 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 who have so far received a spike scene in which case its very typical i would say almost impossible to assess whether the back scene is actually efficacious or dont have sound reservations about knowing that the safety of the vaccine generally new vaccines are not the least until theyve been in trials for a year or 2 years possibly even 5 years because of the exceptional situation with the specter of co that 19 and damage. Trials are being accelerated. The Us DemocraticParty Candidate for President Joe Biden has picked kemal a harris as his Vice President ial running mate california senator was bidens rival for a president ial candidate before dropping out on endorsing him his kind of more pain 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 answered 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 the 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 kaamelott harris is her record as a prosecutor in california kaamelott 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 heiress 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 too is why 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 was headed up but right around 2 percent. Spent a lot of money he had a lot of things happening and so i was a little surprised that he picked her so thats donald trump saying that hes pretty surprised and thinking that its not a very strategic choice now whats also interesting to point out is that kamel harris has quite a record when it comes to issues like Police Brutality and mass incarceration. 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 regardless she will be the Vice President ial nominee of the democratic party. 2 russian journalists and then again cohen now safely back in moscow off to being released from detention in minsk the unrest triggered by the weekends disputed president ial election in butter of such spilled into a 3rd night police have cordoned off public squares in the capital with several people reportedly detained amid continuing clashes with Law Enforcement witnesses have also reported hearing explosions. I. Ran across one of them on course has the latest 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 around days in various embassies all fall like here in moscow for example people who are so directly with the opposition 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. Here i have. Yet to tell you if. You will not leave us. Some journalists have reported earlier and shes day that men in black all wearing the same uniform approached them brought their equipment and actually confiscated their memory cards with all this footage minsk meanwhile remains under logs and im close talking about the center of the city and police can seen you to detain protesters bill russian president i think that over the shango says that the response from the Law Enforcement. Has been proportionate but on the edge at the local of 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 opposed to some footage shot from belarus actually it did show that they 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 ruse has reportedly left the country in order. He joined 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. Editor and publisher of those theres little the protesters can do in the face of a growing police crackdown. Stanko 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 hes the father of the country that hes extremely popular and thats simply not the case the police have been extremely brutal up to now 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 protesters can do i mean theyre building barricades last night theyre shutting down the city every day after 7 pm however that can only go on for so long. In beirut people have gathered for a protest there on the outskirts of the port a week after a massive chemical blast there reduced parts of the lebanese capital to ruins a number of those killed more than 200 with hundreds of thousands more left homeless huge demonstrations against the authorities have been held daily our correspondent paula is in the thick of it. 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 they 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 investigation into what happened at the very last they say its not enough for an internal they have a nice 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 the 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 the danger. Right behind me is the army has of tear gas in the air theyve managed to push the protesters so the away from the Parliament Building and down the streets. Weve taken a position just behind the army the 3 a. T. O. 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 what explosion has also shaken the lives of survivors in other ways one couple were filming what was meant to be the happiest days of their life they survived the blast with the squad to 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 know if any of us had been hurt. Or dead one of them 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 the groom in 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 this self 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. Stayed with me for 12 hours and called the hospital and they replied that they were unable to receive anyone. My eyes and head were all affected by the explosion with time i feel better. With covert spiking and a number of european countries. Are calling for certain restrictions to be reintroduced and according to the latest Risk Assessment it needs to happen sooner rather than later to stop the spread. Has the details. European Health Authorities is urge countries to reconsider imposing certain restrictions as this in the uptick in the coded 19 transmission rates this is the European Center for disease prevention and can so and it is a 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 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 iraq uncoordinated mannah this comes as Member States and the new k are imposing 14 only 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 upsurge 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 with 10000 people are said to gather in the legal. The rage so while authorities are urging more and more caution it seems that there are more and more people willing to flout those rules. 6 gulf powers including saudi arabia have backed plans to extend an arms embargo on iran and a letter to the u. N. And u. S. Resolution to put to a vote later this week its widely expected to be vetoed though at the Security Council meantime a veteran diplomat with a colorful past the started working as Washington Special envoy for iran bottled water as the story. I mean 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 him 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 from the girl can really have a role to play in the building of a democratic venezuela. But venezuela wasnt elliots only latin american adventure back in the 1980 s. He played an enterable part in trying to overthrow the governments of el salvador and nicaragua and gautam allah for Ronald Reagans administration. It appears to be an incident which is at least being significantly missed used at the very best by the guerrillas. 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 Bryan hook 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 pompei odonnell 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 given another 4 years and maybe itll 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. Artificial intelligence may be the future but its still far from perfect at least according to a u. K. Universe the study which claims that technology can suffer from racial bias. Their presentations of Intelligent Machines and our future with them are back to the white racial their whiteness a proxy for how we perceive they see this passionate. 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To join us in the depths. For a mate in the shallowness. Join me every thursday on the alec simon show and ill be speaking to us from the world of politics sports business im show business ill see you then. Hello and welcome the crosstalk were all things are considered im Peter Lavelle what is the difference between embarrassing gaffes and elder abuse joe biden certainly excels at the former and maybe is the big them of the latter we are told mention of Mental Health is off limits to what degree does the public have the right to know. Cross talking joe biden im joined by my guest jan kearns in new york she is a g. O. P. Strategist contributor to the daily caller as well as founder of women for a Great America in washington we have Jason Nichols hes a Democratic Political strategist also in washington we cross to walter small logic he is a answer Coalition Organizer rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate jan let me go to you 1st i mean i said in my introduction here i mean you know you have you have a lot of gaffes coming from joe biden and