New york times vacancy, a moscow correspondent reads like something straight out of a spine. Predetermined narrative. Just after 9 in the evening here in moscow this monday, november the 23rd. Welcome to our 2 international my names, you know, only to our top story. The transition process for the u. S. Presidency is still in limbo with donald trump refusing to concede defeat. But joe biden is already lining up candidates for his administration. And there are some familiar faces from the obama era. For all the details we can cross to us correspondent, good to see you. The biden team name one of their top positions comes to be of course, the next secretary of state. Tell us more indeed. Well, there have been 6 individuals who have been named to bidens cabinet. And at this point, one of those individuals who has been named as biden secretary of state is Anthony Blinken. Now Anthony Blinken is certainly no newcomer to the u. S. Foreign policy establishment. He actually served as Deputy Assistant to president obama, as well as National Security advisor to joe biden. And it appears that under a secretary of state state Department Leadership by Anthony Blinken, that trumps america 1st Foreign Policy will be a thing of the past. Whether we like it or not, the world simply doesnt organize itself and until the trumpet, ministration of the United States, it played a lead role in doing a lot of good organizing and helping to write the rules. And joe biden starts with the proposition that we need to reassert american engagement in american leadership. Now, when it comes to his record, Antony Blinken appears to be a strong advocate of u. S. Military interventionism. He was an advisor to joe biden. At the time, joe biden voted in 2002 to support the u. S. Unilateral invasion of iraq. Furthermore, blinken argues that the situation in syria is the result of the United States failing to intervene quickly enough. This is what he has said about syria. We failed to prevent a horrific loss of life. We failed to prevent massive displacement of people internally in syria, and of course, externally is refugees. And its something that i will take with me for the rest of my days. Now it appears when it came to the situation in libya, in 2011, or the United States toppled the government of Moammar Gadhafi in libya. Blinken was more in favor of intervention then joe biden was actually disagreed with biden being a stronger advocate of u. S. Military intervention in libya, which had pretty disastrous results. Now, when it comes to russia, blink blink and has repeated the allegation that weve heard about the allegation being that that were paid for the deaths of u. S. Soldiers in afghanistan by russia. This is what lincoln has said on that topic. When President Trump stands with peace and on the world stage and takes his wood about russias attacks on our elections over thats for intelligence agencies that exacerbates the problem. When we have a president who is told that russia may be putting bounties on the heads of our troops in afghanistan and does nothing. In fact, worse than the thing by his own knowledge meant speaking to president putin at least 6 times. That reports and not raising it, not confirming him and even inviting president putin to washington and russia back into the g. 7. We have a real fundamental problem. Now, u. S. Intelligence itself has repeatedly admitted there is no concrete evidence to back up this claim that russia is paying bounties to kill u. S. Troops in afghanistan, there is simply no concrete evidence to back it up. That didnt stop mr. Blinken from repeating it. So it appears that under the leadership and presidency of joe biden, that the Foreign Policy of the obama administration, which seemed much more in favor of regime change and interventionism, will be returning many are looking at the selection of Anthony Blinken as secretary of state is indicating that the United States will once again, be working hard to topple governments that they dont approve of bringing us right up to date on the story for us correspondent kill up and now the race for a working vaccine is heating up. No, the british, swedish seneca has published interim test results for its job develop with oxford university. But as arties w. Hawkins reports, the findings so far are underwhelming astra zeneca all the latest company to join the front runners in the covert. 19 vaccine race announcing an efficacy of 70 percent off to concluding that phase 3 trials. Know these preliminary results may sound humble compared to other vaccines. The companys c. E. O. Is optimistic, same as you will be highly effective and will have an Immediate Impact with the u. K. Having already preordered 100000000 jobs. But was johnson is more than happy with the results. Incredibly exciting news. The oxford vaccine has proved so effective in trials. There are still further safety checks ahead, but these are fantastic results. Well done to our brilliant scientists at the university of oxford and astra zeneca and all who volunteered in the trials. So why the relatively low efficacy of Developers Say that 70 percent figure is an average of 2 dosage. Regimens to high doses gave a result of 62 percent with a high dose following a low one raising efficacy to 90 percent. Now this 70 percent average figure is therefore lower than trial results announced earlier by madonna at 95 percent also provides a 95 percent though that company to raise their efficacy from an initial 90 percent result with the russian sputnik v vaccine standing at 92. Now these figures are crucial, given the highly competitive nature of the market, and its been a bumpy road for astra zeneca. Today, as these results were published, the companys shares actually fell on the back of the lower than expected average efficacy, even as european stocks rose on the good news of another vaccine entering the market. Now the vaccine trials had to be halted in september because of a serious suspected adverse reaction in a participant. And in october 1 of the volunteers in brazil died causing uncertainty about its future. Why the advance trial of a promising vaccine was suddenly passed . Astra zeneca has caused its trials out to an unexplained illness in a participant in the u. As one Company Makes huge strides in the vaccine race and other drug giant hits the possible often on its late stage Trials Volunteer and where the most ed vance to corona virus vaccine trials in the world has died. And despite the news, astra zeneca is testing continues. Well, those adverse effects were investigated. Though the company and the Brazilian Health authority refused to comment in detail on the case. The trial was deemed safe to continue, though in the United States, the delay lasted several weeks. And todays results dont include data from american trials, or despite the lower efficacy, the upside to this vaccine is cost effectiveness. While the estimated price of the Pfizer Vaccine is around 19. 00, the modernity job between 25. 00 to 37. 00, those prices go up to over 40. 00. And as high as 74. 00, respectively for the total treatment of the cost of the sport, mcvie vaccine is estimated at 26. 00 per treatment. The final costs are yet to be announced. The astra zeneca job would not only be easier to manufacture and store, but the cost for both doses could be as low as 8. 00 for the race is now on to register these vaccines Astra Zeneca States that it would seek emergency use listing from the World Health Organization with russia saying theyve already begun the sputnik registration process despite the good news, its too early to say. Weve seen the back of the pandemic, even with these promising trial results, doos is not the time for complacency. While we continue to receiving, going to doing news about 19 vaccines and remain cautiously optimistic about the potential for a new tools to start to arrive in the coming months. Right now, we are extremely concerned by the surging cases we are seeing in some countries, particularly in europe and the americas. Cold workers in a system side being pushed to the breaking point. Even with several vaccines hitting the market in coming months with the world in the grip of the 2nd covert, 19 wave, there is still a very long and difficult road ahead until we see a return to at least some semblance of normality. Well, just staying with this story, the final cost of any vaccine will be a key factor in how widely is for all diet. Creating fears per countries will be priced out of this chaos than the latest edition of going underground with the director of the International Vaccine institute. The Gates Foundation, their Research Suggests that global cova debts will double of high Income Countries by up to the 1st 2000000 doses of any successful vaccine. Do you agree with . Thats a great study and weve been using it to advocate for something called kovacs. Kodaks intends to purchase 2000000000. 00 doses, and those doses will be provided to everyone and what cannot, is paper the Gates Foundation paper you quoted says, is that if the 1st 2000000 doses are taken without any consideration of equity, then there will be a doubling of go global covert deaths, hence the reason why go back needs to be successful, needs to be fully funded, needs to be funded beyond the 1st year into the 2nd year. I think the one thing that covert teaches us is that this virus, like all viruses, will find those weak points in our defense. And we really need and should be working together in this Global Pandemic to help each other. Whether its, you know, masks and gloves, whether its a vaccine solution, whether its, you know, reaching out to countries to help them understand what the burden of code is. And once we have the vaccine, its taking that vaccine from wherever its manufactured, to wherever it can be, wherever its needed, in a way that will reduce the global burden of coat. That is the most important thing. While many around the world, a way to cope a job, china has come up with a way to limit the spread of the virus. Its calling for a global fire wall in the form of a system of q. R. Codes on a smartphone that would allow across the border travel to reserve and china has proposed a global mechanism for the meat to recognition of health thats of the kits based on nucleic acid test results in the form of internationally accepted q. R. Codes. We hope more countries will join this mechanism. Well, china has been using q. R. Codes to prove Health Status since february. Now to generate them, users have to install a smart phone up, which stores medical data on trucks, their movement. Now the system has been questioned in the west on data privacy grunts. Europe though, has proposed similar schemes, including the idea of a munity pos ports in the u. K. Taylor discussed the issue with a number of guest. These tests can be a lot of false negatives, a lot of false positives, and youre now better track and trace. We werent going in terms of this town or that this incredibly dangerous. It is not only for my safety and youre seeing in the United States as well as across the globe. The people are starting to rise up saying enough stop, protecting me. I wouldnt live my life the way id choose. We not only i was reading heathrow airport, used to be one of the busiest i had seen. 82 percent fall and passengers. Whats the way that to get wheels out into, if not a set, a similar system to this reason that travels collapse is not the pandemic because the lockdowns, i mean, since march 12th, europe has not been able to fly to the u. S. And europe retaliated, and we cant fly there and now were living under the situation where yeah, we once believed in the right to travel, but thats been denied to us. So many people have been locked in their nation states right now. The answer is to, is, liberalism is to liberate travel and liberate and recognize human rights. Again, do you think that we do need a cohesive Global Policy in order to try and move on somehow to try make 2021 better than 2020 . There have been studies that show the virus respond differently in different regions. That there are different conditions and different places. On climate and so forth. So you know, we dont want a lot of all standards because Global Standards means a lot on a fact thats, thats just leave of what i really dont care about cases. I care about the death rate and the death rate is very slow. And again, we have to be very cautious with technology because once you turn the saw, its very hard to turn off. They will never relinquish. I mean, passports were supposed to be temporary, and there bristol stuck with them. A texas suffering from a rare muscle disease has come all the way to russia for treatment. Alan spencer, was told back at home in the u. S. , but hed never walk again. But since arriving in the russian city of perm in october, hes been op and hes been a pilot. He shared a story with us exclusively. I had to use this everywhere. I went when i was going to, when there was a new partner sequin. What without the right to go walk with alan spencer could have been dead by now or in a wheelchair or bad bound. Thats what doctors back home in america told him 5 years ago. I used to use this all the time. It was absolutely necessary. Im going to go now into scary people walking in an incredibly allen has escaped all those outcomes. When i started to notice a Little Something with my hands, they were going to go on like this. So that not some sort of right, but i didnt have any problem with strength. So i didnt think i heard anything wrong. 2012 came, i had a fall and i was like, whoa, that was unusual. 2014 i came again and i had a really bad fall. It was like, ok, theres something wrong, something wrong happened to be a rare inflammatory muscle disorder known as inclusion, body myositis between 5. 70 people per 1000000 have it. They said theres nothing we can do for its completely untrue. What did you feel when you were in that will i wasnt as disappointed as you would think. My father had died of a form of a. O. S. And so i thought, well thats as a doctor said, good news and bad news. The good news is youre not going to die. The bad news is youre going to be told to respect me for the Vice President of Time Warner Cable for west taxes. As successful man allen had to quit his job in 2017. He simply wasnt able to work anymore. That is easy, was eaten away, his muscles stealing his abilities and his life. But then he heard from a friend about a clinic in perm russia that could potentially treat him at 1st. He didnt take it seriously. My friend andy had said in, in february theres going to be a wedding are about this clinic that i think by would be able to help you. Are you interested . You know, its kind of like, well not really. I didnt tell him that the way to be perfectly honest with you. Yeah, i dont, i think is an american youre, you probably have a stereotype of what the russian hospital looks like if mayo says that nothing could be done. Probably nothing can be got sent to me mail gave my email interest the next day i got a, an email back from the director. The c. E. O. Actually of the clinic and the government touches me all winter and said if you come, we think we can help you. We are not sure to what degree, but we do believe that we can actually help you a glimmer of hope was born. But coming to russia in the middle of the college, 19th and jamming with borders shot and planes grounded, it seemed like mission impossible. Back in may one of the gals from marty called dandy and said, hey, hows your medical tourism . But Building Business doing, he said, or that started the process. It took 17 months to finally come to russia and it was worth every single day of trying. He says, so they started me on this treatment of injections and infusions. And the neurologist put this Magnetic Field on my here, pulsing through. And what it does is it wakes up the neurons in the head. So they started to move in the wake of the muscles. My eye could actually swallow better, and i could talk a little easier if i would, you know, world, this is starting to actually work. What turned out was we were getting this world class held help in this clinic in perm russia. If we can get travel to open up, i really intend to work with india and others to get people here from america. Its a wonderful thing. I mean, its, it shouldnt be a secret. Here you go. Wow, good job. Moscow has condemned the u. S. Decision to pull out of the open skies treaty calling it an act of hypocrisy. The pact turns been in place since the early ninetys, allowing the 34 Member States to observe each others militaries through all armed surveillance flights to share data. Washington has accused russia of breaking the terms of the agreement a claim moscow denies. My colleague, neil harvey discussed the story with our go. Moscow is disappointed to say the least about the decision by the Us Administration to kick the legs from under the treaty for which as the russian side is posting it. The us has no legitimate reasons whatsoever. Moscow maintains that claims of violations on the part of russia, of the treaty that has been in force for 18 years, have all been made up, plus no one seen any proof of that. Moscow has blamed washington for violations to the other side has denied it, but the question is whether that is a good enough reason to get rid of the agreement. The answer from moscow is no. Among other things, the russian officials believe that the u. S. Government was lying when it said that it was considering the option to stay a part of the deal under certain circumstances. The assumption here in the russian capital is that the u. S. Is destroying the greyman deliberately, and that was all part of an earlier plan. In recent months, washington has hypocritically stated that in the keys of a change in the russian position, it could reconsider its decision. In fact, no one there had planned to reconsider anything that was again for the public designed to mislead foreign governments and the public of european states that were urging washington to come to its senses. Its very important to point out that moscow believes the u. S. Government wants to seek some kind of ban by European Countries of russian flights over u. S. Military sites in europe. But at the same time, moscow believes that the u. S. Wants to continue receiving the information from European Countries from its flights in the russian air space. Moscow says that it will continue putting pressure on the other signatories to the open skies treaty to make sure that they remain committed to the terms and abide by it. But in a case, the message from moscow is that this decision, why the americans heavily damages interNational Security and transparency. You mentioned, European Countries involved there. And there will be European Countries among the, the many dozens of other signatories to the treaty. How do they feel about the u. S. Pulling in there are 33 more signatories to would that include some very important, european players like the u. K. , germany, france, etc. And theyve been critical of the decision by the Us Administration as well. We deeply regret the United States has decided to take this step and is now implementing its iran position of the treaty remains unchanged. We consider rich to be an important part of the arms control architecture that contributes to Building Mutual trust in the us to greater security in the Northern Hemisphere from the tivo stoke to vancouver. We have heard voices of concern across the atlantic as well. The administrations decision to withdraw from the open skies treaty is reckless. I strongly believe that President Trumps decision to withdraw from the treaty is a violation of domestic law. President trump brazenly ignored the law and is unilaterally imposing a politically charged withdrawal even after losing a president ial election. The open skies treaty was initially proposed by washington that happened back in 1955. Though then the room, it only came into force in 2002, but still it was out there. And because of donald trump, because of his strategy that weve actually gotten used to, we remember that he left many Important International treaties in different fields in the field of security. For example, most notably that was the intermediate range Nuclear Forces treaty. Perhaps this is a step from him that we could have expected and has been doing what has been up to pretty much in the past 4 years. Well, for some more insight in this, we cross live now to former u. S. Marine corps Intelligence Officer and current political analyst, scott ritter. Scott, good to see. You put this in some sort of context for us in practice. What impact could washingtons exit from the open skies treaty have and Global Security . Well 1st, we need to understand that the open skies treaty. Its great strength from comes from a process of coordination and cooperation between the signatory parties. But from an intelligence standpoint, it doesnt provide very much, theres better sensors operating elsewhere that can collect information in a, in a much more secretive, transparent, less transparent fashion. If thats what the treaty was for, the treaty is a confidence Building Measure thats, thats the important, the most important aspect of it. When you have nations sitting down, cooperating on, you know, a multilateral arrangement to overfly, you know, the respective parties territories. This is a good thing. This is a process where military members talk to military members, were governments coordinate with governments into remove this at this point time, especially at this point in time. Guts. The concept, you know, thats at the heart of the old arms control saying the Ronald Reagan understood during the i know treaty trust, but verify. There can be no trust without verification. And the open 6 guys tree was an interval part of a process of confidence building verification between the signatory the various nations. Its back in may when donald trump and once the yanks had joe biden criticized them of saying the us benefits from the agreement. Would you expect biden to bring the us back into the open skies free if and when he takes office logic says yes. I mean one of the, you know, the by a potential binded ministration has made it clear that it plans on being tough with russia. Tough with russian president vladimir putin, but it has indicated that if used arms control, as the one area in which it can, you know, have some sort of cooperation. One of their goals is to extend the new start treaty and hopefully negotiate a new arms control treaty getting out of the open skies treaty undermines the confidence the russia can have that United States is a before, not as negotiating partner. So i think try and you know, getting back into the treaty is important. But having gotten out, you know, were going to mel, i have to read, you know, reenter the ratification process. And with the Republican Controlled Senate or the potential for public. And it is not going to be an automatic you know, it just creates problems. It creates friction. And again, it demonstrates to the rest of the world that United States is not a reliable partner when it comes to these very important arms control agreements. One contentious aspects of this is that the treaty allows open skies Member States to share data gathered from surveillance planes to one another. Russias now is saying skull thought that europe should stop sharing such data with the u. S. Know that washington has quit the treaty. And the chances of that happening, what do you think the europeans are signatories to the treaty in the treaty does not allow for sharing of information to nontreated partners. So, the United States, you know, shouted so from the foot here that russia and any nation that objects to the United States insisting on gaining access to imagery. You know, from the participants, you know, theyre out there on sound footing. The United States has no right to this imagery and the United States trying pressure these other nations into doing this. One would hope that these nations understand that if they try to share this information, even in secret, it will be discovered and you know their status as a reliable negotiating partner goes out the window, your only, your reputation is only as good as the actions you take in if you sign a treaty, you have to abide by the treaty. The United States is not a member of the treaty. It has no right to bear arms as imagery derived from speaking live in the program, former United Nations weapons inspector, scott ritter. Scott, thanks for your time. Thank you. New york times has been accused of russia phobia, with its latest job for a moscow correspondent. Successful candidates are expected to deal with hit squads, cyber agents, shuttling military thinkers that the scription of russia might sign more like the plot of a spying movie. But if explains fact, and fiction can often get mixed up. What youre about to hear. Sounds like its being ripped straight from the blog buster screenwriters playbook. Vladimir putins russia remains one of the biggest stories in the world. It sends out hit squads on with nerve agents against its enemies. Most recently, the Opposition Leader alex ng, of only it has its cyber agents, so chaos and disharmony in the west to tarnish its democratic systems while promoting its phone version of democracy. It is a ploy, private military contractors around the globe to secretly spread its influence at home. Its hospitals are filling up fast with coated patients as its present hides out in his villa. I mean, add some dramatic music. Do a call video, add it pepper the whole thing with a few explosions here and there, and youve cooked up a trailer for the next head limited series on netflix. But no, its not that not by a long shot. Its actually the opening of a job advert for a russian reporter with the New York Times. Page searches for unbiased to impartial or balance. Come a blank, no results found in the text. Not that its much of a secret though, that the New York Times isnt that interested in covering a happy russia. But some readers werent that impressed with the sudden spasm of honesty from the paper did the see any right. New york times new russia crisp on in job at these job for a New York Times correspondent in moscow is telling and not in a good way screenwriters wanted for a new james bond film. Imagine yourself working undercover in moscow. The capital of love to me, putins evil empire. If you think you have the creative writing skills to turn the monday into juicy narratives of horror and suspense, contact the New York Times, weve been in touch with the New York Times for comment. You know, both sides of the story and all that, but weve yet to hear anything back from them. Cynically speaking, it makes perfect sense. Positive stories from russia dont tickle the fancy of pulitzer prize. Judges allegations lacking evidence though, do just believe in the bogeyman. Well if youre