The further into. Violations by both sides reports from the capital of the disputed. Region. Before the war with this street used to be bustling with life neighbors would come visit each other mothers would read bedtime stories to their children well now its almost completely abandoned. Meanwhile like yours is Armenian Forces of bombing its territories are the main conflict zone something. We hear from a series who are taking shelter in their basement. With their minions are shelling constantly theyre shelling us now with different. Bombs tanks rocket launchers these are all. One we could go through and this neighbors home was completely destroyed it was impossible to take anything from the building our home was damaged. Even the. Everything is. Exactly 2 minutes past 8 pm here in the russian capital this wednesday october the 14th my names you know neal youre welcome to r. T. International. Our top story a 2nd experimental russian vaccine against corona virus has officially been registered at Beaver Corona has successfully passed phases one and 2 of the Clinical Trials my colleague nikki. Discussed the announcement made today by president Vladimir Putin. The vent to Research Center in the disappears is registered karuna the 2nd russian vaccine against corona virus the epi bot corona vaccine was developed by siberia based state Research Center among the largest in russia it was founded more than 45 years ago back in the soviet times phase one and phase 2 of its Clinical Trials are now behind and we heard it was a success meaning the drug is safe now face 3 is coming and it is a study in whether the vaccine is in fact effective we hear that around 40000. 00 volunteers are expected to take part and for that purpose 60000. 00 doses of the drug will be produced and we hear from russias vice premier that it will happen very very soon interesting to mention is that normally all 3 stages so phases of the human a Clinical Trials should be completed before registration but the world has been living in quite an emergency mode in the last 8 or so months so procedures have been slightly changed slightly adjusted so this is worlds 2nd registered vaccine against called 19 the 1st one was also registered in russia back in august it is known as sputnik all satellite feed it is and then the virus vector viral vaccine and we now hear from its developers that by november russia will be able to produce up to 6000000 doses of vaccine maining aid to may take up to 12 months to vaccinate around 80 percent of the countrys population and as we hear from russias president Vladimir Putin the russian citizens house is among the countrys key priorities but. First we need to make these Vaccines Available on the russian markets they must be supplied to russian pharmacies on as large a scale as possible we continue to cooperate with our foreign partners and we will promote of arcsin abroad as well thinking about the. International cooperation and foreign partners we know that 50 countries are already interested in russias sputnik of the vaccine against coffee to we heard that from the head of russias Investment Fund who just earlier this week came back from the United Arab Emirates where phase 3 of the Clinical Trials of sputnik was approved billeted to sputnik. You know gold piece 3 was made in the issue of participate to is definitely very important we believe you we use the strategic cob for concurring the bios not only of the middle east in the world now marie i know that youve been vaccinated yourself but bigley the 1st russian vaccine can you tell us more about your experience with it is a double blind trial meaning placebo is used and neither doctor is know the participants know who is getting the wharton only 75 percent of the volunteer is actually jabbed with a real short and to the last moment i was hoping that im among them i got 2 injections already on the 1st and 21st day of the trial so i got reactions like fever muscle pain and had a off to both injections actually now i just now received results showing that my body right now has i. G. G. Antibodies meaning my body reacted to. 1000 to corona virus as if i was infected vaccine apparently i got the vaccine. Job so im very happy with that. Russias foreign minister has questioned whether the country can continue to do business with the European Union if the threats. From brussels continue circular for all spoke to Russian Media executives including r ts editor in chief Margarita Simonyan you address the range of issues including the own risk in belarus and turkeys involvement in the car of conflict or. Through the main points. We had a very lengthy and really comprehensive conversation between foreign minister Sergei Lavrov and editors in chief of a number of media organizations that was so much to unpack that such an array of topics but one that was given considerable attention was russias increasingly difficult relationship with the European Union now love prof notes that of course the 2 have mutual interests especially economic ones lets think of course just off the north stream to a gas pipeline but that all of this was made very difficult by what the fire of foreign minister described as a condescending attitude from the blog and this constant to mons being put on moscow this is what he said about the impact of that after 2 years of those new rules the question is not just whether business as usual is possible but with the any business with the European Union is possible a tool the e. U. Behaves arrogantly towards us and looks condescendingly down at russia demanding answers from us for all the crimes it imagines we have committed i think we are under no obligation to respond to that 7. Also add to that a versa phobic minority within the European Union was only father undermining the relationship now of course this all comes against the backdrop of wosm diplomatic ties between moscow and brussels as a result of the alleged poisoning of russian opposition figure ill explain a follow me now one of the significant part of what lavrov said talked about double standards and he said that often the puts much more pressure on moscow than it would on itself and he said especially when it comes to the idea of interference in Foreign Affairs as this is something that people few very subjectively but i wouldnt go to. In 2017 during the election in france marine le pens a legitimate politician came to moscow to meet with president putin then French Foreign minister publicly claimed that this was an attempt at foreign interference in the electoral process in france. Now look at who Macro Holding meetings with smith learned to. No one pays any attention to the fact that this could also be considered as foreign interference in belorussian affairs. Such a lot from laid out his few on what the end goal was from these verbal assaults from on fact competition for calls for sanctions and for causing tellme oil russias borders. In the us the west will always try to hold us back to undermine our political and economic capacities this is all part of the same old game they want to throw russia of violence not just with direct assaults like dirty competition and illegitimate sanctions but also by creating instability on our borders. Now one of the of russias key relationships on the International Stage that was touched upon was of course with washington and quite frankly he said with less than a month to go to the election whoever wins in november whether its trump or biden probably very little would change he reiterated that all moscow has ever wanted was good cooperation but im an equal footing and that sometimes washingtons Foreign Policy made that very difficult other topics such as the protests in batteries or indeed a peaceful resolution to the conflict in the corner karabakh were also discussed quite extensively but sussman the lions share from todays conversation was dedicated to the current status of russias relationship with Key International players and the future of it the message today seemed very uncompromising things cannot continue as they are business cannot go on as usual whether that serves as a trigger for more compromise or want to stand who have to be seeing. Oil being getting reaction to this from a number of guests who told us that the spike the harsh language coming from the e. U. The bloc still needs good relations with moscow. I think it will last for some time and then of course the dialogue will continue to measure the most important measure that germany and europe could take would be to stop the. Pipeline between russia and germany nord stream too but of course the german star want to do that because that would get them and do it up very badly we need russian gas and so they dont put them on the sanction list so the sanctions are not really sanctions its you know wagging the finger its really not up to standard where europe should be as an International Power in talking with russia which is another you know power and the world we have a new wave of russian propaganda as well of anti chinese propaganda coming from the u. S. There is a net group of n. G. O. S both to a politically trained politicians end of the population that is uninformed on russia that its very easy to make such a antirational cocktailing russia is not very smart in using soft power so we dont have enough pro russian n. G. O. S they dont know about. European russian cultural exchange. It would be very hopeful russia could try to be a little bit have a little bit more p. R. That makes it also. And easier for us. To push the other side. The fragile cease fire between armenia and azerbaijan is being repeatedly violated with hostilities escalating once again over the disputed region of Nagorno Karabakh the conflict flared up more than a fortnight ago but has roots going back 3 decades the euro area is mostly inhabited by Ethnic Armenians but is legally part of azerbaijan our correspondent down off reports from its capital. Before the war this street used to be bustling with life neighbors would come visit each other mothers would read bedtime stories to their children well now its almost completely abandoned after in azerbaijan a airstrike basically theres a huge Apartment Building here which is no more there are no windows it has partially collapsed its simply unsafe to live here here people as they ran to safety they abandoned their belongings like childrens bicycles they simply had no time to pack everything and i have to admit that since the truce the city of stop on it the capital of nagornokarabakh has it more or less easy been bodman do still happen but they are move rather than they used to be and they are almost entirely almost completely limited to nighttime its more or less the same in other towns of nagornokarabakh like the towns of martini and shushi in fact thing is similar pictures similar very very similar devastation can also be seen from azerbaijan its 2nd largest city of ganja came under shelling just a couple of days ago. And it would be wrong to say that the fighting has ceased elsewhere too as were filming this theres a faint but a very distinctive sound of shelling coming from over the mountains to the south from here that is where the town of adroit is which is viewed as a gateway into nagornokarabakh so it is a very heavily contested area the fighting is also fierce in the north. Seems both. By john trying to get a firm grip on some key strategic places and heights before real peace negotiations begin as both militaries are fighting for diplomatic leverage. Reporting from the back. Somewhat different aspect of what is going on there a belgian cellist performed a heavily damaged cathedral in nagornokarabakh the musician hers armenian roots and played a piece by an armenian composer the cathedral in the city of shusha was shelled a week ago. On the. Claim that its regions were being shelled by our many and forces both nations than i violating the cease fire these images are from the city of qatar which according to shelf several times in recent days as a result people have taken shelter in their basements heres what some of them have to say. There are many insertion constantly theyre shelling us now with different weapons with missiles bombs tanks rocket launchers they use it all. One week ago a shell struck and abstainers neighbors home was completely destroyed it was impossible to take anything from the building our home was also severely damaged dools windows even the walls everything is ruined. Militant we cannot sleep at night when they stop shelling for an hour or so we can close our eyes now then we get woken up again its the same thing over and over. The director of the World Health Organization has urged countries not to pursue a herd immunity strategy against the krona virus he said deliberately allowing the virus to spread among populations is dangerous and is on her to be immunities i cheat by protecting people from a virus not by exposing them to it never in the history of public will has heard immunity been used as a strategy for responding to an outbreak a little more a pandemic its scientifically and ethically problematic. Some scientists have argued that covert 19 should be allowed to circulate freely to a large populations to build up a natural resistance to the virus the idea again as you may remember some traction early on in the pandemic known as well sweden the fact 2 pursued herd immunity the u. K. Initially considered as an option earlier in a different suit discuss the issue with a panel of experts. Herd immunity is it really such a bad idea i think it is really a bad idea d one of the primary reason is that we dont really know a lot about this why this immunity against 4 lives is not long lasting mexico what we can expect is that we year so this means that we have to go through this process over and probably will be very costly and probably optical that gets the basic idea that we that we hoping to achieve some level of immunity within the population indeed the herd level of immunity is just how do we get there do we get the through a vaccine or do we get the true through natural infection and whats going to be whats going to cause least to us societys overall the w. H. O. It hasnt been perhaps as clear as it could have been particularly this week it also said that locked islands are bad are they contradicting themselves how do you see this this advice a lot of the information thats coming from governments and from World Health Organizations and agencies are are really confusing for most people if a lockdown is happening or not if its a good thing or not and now about issues of herd immunity and so its coming down to who is communicating the right message and what is the role of the individual trying to protect their family do they think that its a good idea if somebody gets chicken pox or they dont have it later in life do they get coated now and thats a really dangerous position to be putting individuals in increasingly people are looking at the example of sweden stuck on hasnt officially adopted a herd immunity strategy but that has been the result essentially in practice another dealing death rail its almost 0 how they got it right through one way or another well it includes people they have been claiming that there is no restrictions or backed level of the lockdown that other countries have adopted but the have had all those control years that oughta quietly minimize the spread of infection on number of people. Rather but there were pictures wear and tear of people in restaurants and cafes when essentially the rest of europe wasnt doing that they where in sweden oh yeah absolutely i think sweden is certainly a very able computer abstain just off the phone and out me think it is not your call to move forward because weve already know whats going to happen tomorrow in the sweetest words fact and so although certainly the swedish perspective is a very good very able to compare between but i think it is too early to nicole that they have a point i got that right approach as the w. H. O. Has pointed out lock downs are incredibly damaging each other ways and we and one governments are struggling with these balancing the damage from lock downs with the with the damage from not look down and they cant win whichever decision they make their price is to be paid and its extremely difficult to know which course of action is the right one and we probably only know in retrospect government account to everything if people i suppose are aware of the risk should they be allowed to go on to expose themselves to potential infection and take their chances and perhaps get that immunity level off well the real issue to this is the inequality lockdowns are showing at the choices that people have to make a not a person who has to put food on the table leg like all of us. May have to leave the house to do that so we have to be concerned about not just Emotional Wellbeing but the economic well being of the educational wellbeing and so those are the risks people are are also balancing out. The 1st case of coded reinfection has been confirmed in the us according to a study published by the Lancet Medical Journal the patients symptoms were far more severe the 2nd time around the 25 year old man from the father who has no recorded immune disorder 1st tested positive in april he later recovered with 2 negative test but in june develop severe symptoms on again tested positive it is the 5th proven case of infection registered worldwide in the netherlands the 1st death after the infection was confirmed on choose they by the National Institute for Public Health mark pun dorie believed or 3rd of the study say people should not assume theyre safe after recovering from coated Scientific Data that we have from this case and other cases would indicate that if somebody has had coated many gene we just dont know whether that person can be reinfected again its possible that they could be reinfected again but its also possible that some people are immune in fact it could be that the vast majority of people are immune and it could be Something Else that could be in our immune system gives us a resistance that makes the 2nd case a lesser but asymptomatic action. The spike the confirmed cases of reinfection some people do assume theyre automatically a median have been caught and recovered from the disease donald trump seemingly among them who battle co but earlier this month u. S. President says hes even ready to get up close and personal with his supporters. Now they say im a mutant i can feel i feel so powerful what it was i walked into iraq to see everyone i was just the guys in the youd have the women and everybody just give you a big fact is. I dont think mark pun dorie would like that he is as we said earlier the lead author of the lancet study who believes populations can only be protected by a vaccine. Are all real hope of achieving the herd immunity. That seems that backs in all of g. And this finding does not speak to that scene mediated of unity people that have been infected cant make the assumption that theyre immune because theyre now been several cases that show that it isnt true because you can be really infected you really have to be treated as if you were never injected and thats not only to protect you but to protect all. Of the prospect of reinfection makes the need for a Coronavirus Vaccine all the origin for Many National governments big pharma they are all vying to get that 1st job to market the Peoples Health appears not to be the sole motivation. Things will never go back to the way they were too many people have died too many people have lost jobs and enterprises livelihoods the damage has been too great but we can still hope for some kind of normality the only way we will get completely back to normal is by having not maybe not the 1st generation vaccines but eventual a vaccine that is super effective that is the best Case Scenario the virus goes away and we all live happily ever after for now though that supply between judge for yourself the 2nd wave is here new universally accepted treatment still no consensus on herd immunity versus social distancing people cant even agree where the mosques work the strategy weld wide seems to be to cross our fingers and hope for the best. The vaccine represents a more important factor than the election result for the path of equities well of course it is promises and cabaye in speeches and fiery rhetoric on killing to save lives or reopen businesses the World Economy its all about the vaccine listen to them in the states the election isnt about making america better its about returning life to what it was under discussed is to earth progress were making to deliver a safe and effective vaccine in record if the doctors tell us that we should take it ill be the 1st in line to take it absolutely but if Donald Trump Tells us i said to him that we should take it im not taking it doesnt that scenes in human trials globally 100 more in the works this isnt so much a race is a good that the science is so complex you cant predict what will work and what wont until you try it and no matter how smart thorough or diligent you are luck might just sink you as a percentage i had pas all of that study is that it as it investigates this one event in the u. K. Johnson and johnsons had to put its crucial late stage testing inhalants on hold due to an unexplained illness in a study participant a johnson and johnson is positive its Coronavirus Vaccine trial over an unexplained illness drug maker astra zeneca is hoping its phase 3 trial of a possible co in 1000. 00 vaccine after one participant came down with an unexplained illness you understand now the stakes year elections go to me its unimaginable fortunes to be made and millions of lives to be saved but how also matters trump doesnt win from a chinese developed vaccine the american or European Pharmaceuticals they dont make billions if its russias vaccine that works better so you do what humanity has done since time immemorial you spike the competition you. Rip them you malign them and you libel them this is much like the cold war space race but its a vaccine race in fact russia is calling this that seen sputnik 5 but be skeptical Clinical Trials were short they were excel aerated the speed of his developments is being questions prove its effectiveness has not been presented a bag seen that has not been trying to a vaccine that has not been tested outside of russia americas top researchers say russia how did corners to develop its corona virus vaccine u. S. Regulators are insistent that we knew coolness cut when it comes to testing and for many t. J. That is the key difference between what america is doing and what the russians have Just Announced will need to be very practical and through trying to each other because he was black its very unhealthy its going to i think go and very unproductive we all remember when the pandemic began you appeared nations snatching supplies mosques and ventilators from each other the u. S. Trying to prove them by out of Vaccine Developers among european allies in desperate times its each to themselves and with the stakes these high no one wants to share the glory or the money more i guess dia of istanbul. A controversial New York Times project which label slavery as the most significant aspect of American History has sparked a raw between the papers own writers while columnists wrote but the 1619 project had failed and he got this response from the papers union of employees. It says a lot about an organization when it breaks its own rules and goes after one of its own the act like the article reeks. Well the tweet has since been taken don the project was developed by New York Times magazine with a series of pieces published last year 1619 was when the 1st slave ship arrived in the colony of virginia and the writers argue that that date should be considered the birth year for the United States rather than 776 the year independence was declared the research gained plenty of published today on the creator want to let surprise but last week in New York Times columnist Bret Stephens wrote an opinion piece questioning this 161000 project he praised the quality of the research but said its not the job of journalists to reframe history. Journalists are most often in the business of writing the 1st rough draft of history not trying to have the last word in it we have best when we try to tell truth with a lowercase t. Following evidence in directions unseen not the capital t truth of a preestablished narrative in which inconvenient facts get discarded as fresh concerns make clear on these points and for all of its virtues buzz spinoffs and the Pulitzer Prize the 161000 project has failed or we spoke to legal and media analysts lying all about the infighting in the New York Times over the project he thinks it demonstrates left wing intolerance of the scenting views. Well it amazes me that somebody who represents or than organization of journalists would basically have a problem with somebody expressing an idea or performing journalism it just goes to show you that this comes down to one very simple fact there are some things that are allowed to be said within lets say the alter left journalist platforms and things that you cant say if you say anything that challenges either the New York Times or particular ideologies a spouted by the time or even that you dare Say Something that goes against the grain youre cut down immediately let me make it even more simple there is no journalism anymore a reminder for up to the minute developments this