In france says the countrys controversial build on the filming of Police Officers for partners to russias screen to pipeline called us attempted to reel the project on infringement. And as we heard from germanys energy chief washington to fly from moscow, this is our international my names, you know, neal, im 30 minutes of news and views start. And indeed, we begin with breaking news from argentina, a true superstar in every sense of the word football legend, diego maradona, has passed away at the age of 60. His lawyer confirmed his death of a heart attack in buenos aires this wednesday. Laura donna was considered to be one of the greatest footballers of all time, a world cup winner and i called at home and abroad and was never far from the media spotlight both for his axe on and off the field. Well, im joined now by hearty correspondent peter all over for more on this assad day peter assad day for argentina, a National Hero there, very much so simply a man. It inspired so so many all across the globe sunday for football. For more. d fans wherever they are. Diego maradona was one of the, the real icons of the game part hero, part villain, mostly devil with a touch of angel. Took it in there just where for comfort. He was a phenomenon on the pitch nightmare off the pitch or in some cases, booked a phenomenon on the field. He came here to europe 1st with barcelona, for a world record feat. Signing from argentina reborn a couple of trophies with the catalan giants before moving to napoli, italy where he really cemented himself as the crucial linchpin of that team. These number 10 shirt that he wore for between 84 and 92 in that was retired. After he left, the club took napoli pretty much singlehandedly to 2 city are titles, 2 League Titles, also that italian cup title and the u. A. E. For cup as well. One during his time at the club. But its those 2 League Titles that he was so crucial to, and its not just in italy with natalee, its also at home where hes probably, and i say probably because of the current incumbent of the number 10 shirt for argentina, lionel messi, but hes probably the greatest ever player theyve had. Then 1982 world cup was the 1st one he played in spain. He just moved to barcelona at the time he didnt have the best of times he was. It was marked out as a threat. He was pretty much mogue by italian defenders during that much during the match between argentina honestly, never got a kick of the game pretty much, but it was 86 in mexico. That was mara. Donnas world corp. Really is renowned in my home country of england. Is that as a villain because of his role in the quarter final against england, he scored both goals in a 21 victory over england at the azteca stadium in mexico city. The 1st one, the hand of god goal, he later admitted and everybody else could see it. He was watching it. He put the ball into the back of the net with his hand, but his 2nd goal, thats probably what we should focus on more. His 2nd goal regarded as the goal of the century voted as the goal of the century is. Diego maradona took the ball while he took the ball past 5 english players before leaving the goalkeeper with just a little drop of a shoulder left. Peter shilton flat on his backside book while he was winning things on the field. He was always a controversial figure off the field during his time with napoli in pretty much since the mid 1980 s. Murray dano was struggling with cocaine addiction with different types of drug addictions. He eventually finished his International Career in 1994 after leaving the argentina camp in the United States in disgrace after testing positive for upon doping substance, he always denied that he ever took doping. That it was a mistake with a subset supplement that he was taking. However, recreational drugs were always an issue for him, and he left napoli in 1902 really on direct quote, following a number of incidents some. Well, if you believe some of the room is including involving me, the Italian Mafia as well, but he was still despite these huge failings, the huge airings, if you will, off the, off the pitch loved and admired so strongly by, by. He was absolutely beloved on all over the world. The thing is, people of a certain age make self and yourself. Were on the same age. We grew up, didnt we just looking at his videos, trying to explain. Im trying to talk to my younger nephews, you know, but when they ask me, who do you think the greatest player of all time was . Hes always in the conversation, but you always have to, as youve just been going through, he has a legacy ballys. That is tarnished, but on the pitch itself, like were talking about perhaps the absolute greatest. Here he straddled the old world of football, the modern world of football. He played at a time where he was just so unbelievably gifted, that the opposition essentially set out to try and kick him in the final of the world cup in 1960 only will copy warne west germany who beat 32 in the final. They set about double marking him. They had 2 people on him at all times. Its still called in german football journalism, donna marking to this day. But even though he was being double marked, included by one of the greatest defenders of all time low to mid day as he was still able to get but half a meter and set up the winning goal, of course he set up the winning goal. If you want to go to score it, he would have set it up and its, its that way that he dragged it out argentina sides. And i mentioned earlier on the napoli team as well. They werent the greatest generation of either argentina players. Im going to get myself in trouble saying not all napoli plays, but having maradona on side with them. He erased the game of those that were around him. He was a, if a monolith in his own rights of somebody that a talisman, that one he was on your side, you more than likely had no chance of winning it was he straddled that auld World Football where he was being kicked with the modern, the level of professionalism we see now, and i mean the skills that he showed theres a wonderful video of him warming up phenomenally in a game. Just him keeping the football up while listening to music. And hes doing it to the music of the oh, thats playing over the tannoy system in his day when he was such a talent, he was credited allen as a footballer and will be sadly missed as a character. Brilliant documentary about india. Go morrow to came out a few years ago as well. Well, worth a watch and just before we let you go is stranger these things work, peter 15 years to the day, but george best died. Another person whod be in the conversation for one of the, the greatest ever, but is dead at the age of 60, peter all over going through a thorough check of his great glories over is checkered at life and career. What a career it was. Peter, thanks very much for naught. Now us experts are claiming the astra. Zeneca vaccine is not very effective for older people. The british swedish job has already gone phase 3 trials and earlier its developer said it was up to 90 percent of fact. But a u. S. Government organization believes the figure is more like 60 percent for those aged over 55. 00. Of course, one of the most at risk groups in society that all of told the program more earlier. So essentially, this whole thing is about the discrepancy between what the manufacturer of this vaccine is saying, and the claims made by u. S. Researchers and u. S. Specialists who also had a look at the ceremony. So when on monday astra zeneca published a press release saying that the average earth that on average, this vaccine is 70 percent efficient. And it gave an explanation to this figure as to why. Essentially they said that there were 2 groups of people, 2 groups of people who participated in the clinical trials. One group of people was given 2 full doses of the vaccine, while another group of people got a smaller dosage. And they are saying that in this 2nd group, the vaccine was actually 90 percent efficient. While in another group, it was only in the 1st group, it was only 62 percent efficient. And that already that alone raised some eyebrows because some people asked questions as to how exactly a lower dosage of a vaccine can be more efficient, more effective than a larger dose of a vaccine. How to fall doses are less if fissioned than a hard dose and a full dose. And so basically, basically, but that was the explanation that astra zeneca gave as to why this is the average of the, of this vaccine stands at 70 percent. But now that the americans have had a chance to examine this ceremony as well, theyre saying that it has nothing to do with how much of the vaccine a person gets. And that in fact, it was more efficient for the 2nd group that got a smaller dosage. They were aging, they were aged, excuse me, from 18 years old to 55 years old. While the 2nd group were the vaccine turned out to be less efficient. Had some participants who were over 55 years old and so theyre saying that this is the main reason and not the amount of the sarah that each person gets is how they put it. There are also differences in the age brackets present in the courts in their 1st received those and pull those had a cap on the asia at the age of 55. 00 when theyre older, people included in the city that received to lose and fooled those astra zeneca explained the difference in efficiency of its vaccine with the just, you know, with the, with the dosage with the amount of, with the amount of seram that each group of people was given. But now the u. S. Led investigation, or rather the us, you know, the us probe and upon closer examination, the american specialists are saying that this is not the case. And that in reality, this difference is only because of how old people were. And this is, i have to say, this is how vaccines often work because a younger person tends to have a stronger immune system and therefore stronger immune response develops more antibodies then, and older person on average. So it could be it. But the question is, rather, why would astra zeneca leave out this information about people being differently aged from its initial reports and why we are learning this from a 3rd party astra. Zeneca is looking for approval for the approval of the u. S. Federal drug administration. Because the u. S. Is a huge market for the vaccine with a huge demand for the vaccine. So the american side of the kind of the breach, they are reaching out to astra zeneca because they need the full spectrum of information on this particular sara, on this particular vaccine. And so this is, this is, this is how they got this information and they decided to make it public more. So theyve actually said that this difference in dosage. Yeah. You know how much each group of people was getting. This vaccine apparently was an intentional. According to the u. S. Specialists, its not like astra zeneca decided ok, well give this group of people 2 full doses. And with this group of people, well just see just how little of the cerro can we give to give, can we give to a person and still trigger the response of the immune system . Apparently, according the allegation that the American Team is making, that wasnt the case, and it was just a mistake. So it was, they, it happen by mistake. This was a change in the way the quantity of vaccine the amount of vaccine put in of was tested. And when they, when they realized that there was an error or a change in their approach in technique used, they corrected it. Astra zeneca has been losing value on the market. Its shares have been kind of falling and not doing well following this controversy. Also, but it has to be said that the world really, theres a huge demand in the world for a vaccine. People want to finally get drop the masks. They want to stop wearing gloves. They kind of want to go back to their normal life. And most of them see a vaccine, any vaccine, any successful vaccine is the key to returning to the way of life as we know it. And so the more of these vaccines, their back scenes come out, the better. But really, a lot of people are also skeptical because weve had our scientists have had really little time to study the virus. And so people will be asking questions. What exactly they are suggested to be injected to be injected into, into their bodies. So the more transparency there is, and it doesnt matter who is making a vaccine like astra zeneca. Sputnik really is just, its sort of a message and a lesson to every producer over vaccine that the more transparent they are, the more details they give out right away. So that people know as to this, this is, these are the aspect, this is what they have to know about this vaccine. This is what they have to know about this different brand of a vaccine. The better it will be, because people dont want any more surprises and they want to feel safe when they are injecting it and they want to see a vaccine as a way again to finally put this whole covert 19 thing to the past and make it part of history. Well lets go a little deeper into this story. Im happy to welcome on to the program, a g. P. For the u. K. s National Health service, Markham Kendrick moxon. Good to see you. Considering nations everywhere, essentially are lining up the elderly, the vulnerable 1st for the vaccine. Hope concerning would claims be that a job was not particularly effective for people over the age of 55. Well, i think john extended the new breaker in a way, Healthy People under the arm really are remarkably on a body by the virus itself. So you know, the population who are trying to protect the population you are liable to die are from infection. Are this very group immortality rate in the under 6 soon and then much as you and i understand youre 00. So, you know, realistically its got to work for the elderly otherwise, but have a busted flush. I think this is a u. S. Covert task force saying this astra zeneca. How do you think theyre going to respond to those allegations . Because as you say, its all or nothing really on this one. I think it is the other way to put to work. I went, it really was remarkably small numbers to remember during the, on 100 and i think, 110 people up to the point where they release results. I mean, it would only be incident free clinic, very early stage of testing rather than a major trial. I mean, the seneca trial, not on actually scheduled finish until october 2022 and the pfizer one until april 2022. So these trials are at the end, all of them are in very, very early stages. So i think its very early at the other companies or anybody else to be jumping up and down saying, you know, it doesnt work really early stages. Only thing. Im sure. Vale is the company astra. Zeneca will want to point out as well that the job is more easily distributed, cheaper, its got doubt in its corner compared to the other more expensive from different countries. Right . You know, the other ones are the new type of some people even condition because that seems their messenger r. N. A. Thats really created a section of all right. Natives and jack dont get so into the cell and takes over the cellular record auction system. I mean, when youre dealing with something thats really never been tried before, i think maybe the efficacy issues are not so. So important, but the safety issues like need to be looked at very carefully because really, i dont think we know what these things might end up doing or a clone period of time. So, i mean, thats a cynical and africa issue. You know, theres just the safety issues, you know, rushing stuff like it was that potentially extremely high risk. So i think, and i suppose this is why we have trials patients for a vaccine, isnt it just to go back to the u. S. Covert task force. There is, there is perhaps one way that they could have done this without, you know, casting, aspersions, creating fear even perhaps and diet rather than just share the concerns with astra zeneca 1st and see how that works. This is a global pandemic. Global cooperation should be to the foremost know, well, absolutely. I mean, the whole area, you know, when were talking about governments passing legislation to anyone who has any concerns about vaccines, will be silenced and removed from the media. Perhaps fine. Criminal charges brought to bear. I mean, absolutely there is a need for everybody to be honest and open and share as much as they possibly can. Unfortunately, were still seeing the games being played, where you start thinking, well, you know, well what are they talking about . Where are the real, can i see it come . I absolutely review it and theyre still playing, you know, secret secret games with this stuff, which is really not appropriate. Right now, the road to competent people are being given as much information as possible rather than people playing. You know, games that heres america versus this is not, you know, these are not appropriate things to be going on at the moment. Just one other aspect that looked of interest and i just want your take on it. Dr. Kendrick, astra zeneca uses a different platform for its job to the likes of pfizer, which are now which actually involves a chimpanzee add new virus vector, is that i dont worry or should we not be really that concerned. As the virus itself reportedly mutated from a wet market, an animal market in china. Well, i think as long as the maurice, if you, why is it not being used . Not exactly this one for some time. This is really creating a carrier really for the protein thats by protein. The other 2 are actually, you know, really . So you imagine. So, so were talking about completely different things. But astra zeneca one is more of a variation or an adaptation or it exists. So it is much more like we will have a group so far as the other 2 are, are not as they may be completely, you know, absolutely safe, but we really have to keep very close here. Very interesting, thanks very much for coming on the program, sharing your thoughts with us. Weve been speaking to british National Health service, g. P. Multum, kendrick, thank you. Thank you. Moving the program on 2 fronts, which are seen widespread public on rest after lawmakers passed the 1st stage of a controversial Global Securities bill. This week, the act banning the film of Police Officers for quote, malicious reasons, was described by critics as undermining media freedoms. These protests have been building now for the last few weeks and on tuesday night, as the assembly members, the parliamentarians here in france decided to pass that law, which means its passed its 1st hurdle in becoming an official law. Here in france, more protests were held across the country, a city such as paris, bordeaux, where thousands of people turned out to show their ease with this law. This is the Global Security law. Part of it article 24. 00 is particularly controversial, and thats because it will criminalize the publication, the broadcast of images of the police where they can be identified in certain circumstances where there is an intent to harm them. Now that would be punishable if this becomes an official law in france by a year in prison or 45000 euro fine journalist groups and n. G. O. S have been hugely critical of this draft law saying this essentially gives the green light for police to stop the journalists from doing their jobs, theres also been criticism from the u. N. , which has said this could damage democracy. And the e. U. , which has said it is imperative that news media are able to do their job freely. But the countrys Prime Minister said what he thought the tax, the law was excellent, he himself would be referring this to frances highest court when comes to constitutional matters. But i would like to say here as clearly as possible that there has never been there isnt and will never be the intention of the government to infringe in any shape or form of press freedom. Freedom of expression. Many suggesting that despite the assurances from the Prime Minister from the government, that this law will have an impingement when it comes to freedom of the press. Obviously were very, very angry with the system which favors the police which protects them. This is going to worsen the problem. Were going to be even less free and they will have even more, right, do whatever they want. The match is not over. The bill man has to go through the senate. And we have seen that despite everything, several employees from the majority, hesitating to support the bill in paris, the protest here we had a particular focus and that was on the vents that unfolded on monday evening when police used what was described as brute force and violence to dismantle a migrant camp in the city. Now during that dismantlement, there are images, have been put, cautioning journalists and migrants were attacked by Police Officers. And that is what many people say brings this entire law into question. So lots of questions still remaining about this mall. As we mentioned, its been passed by the national assembly, meaning the 1st hurdle is over, but it will now go to the senate 2021 with course it could be rejected or it could be passed on to become an official law. Here in france, a German Energy official answer q. s the United States very Pressure Campaign on European Companies involved in the north stream to gas pipeline. Last month, the u. S. State department ramped up sanctions on firms to try and halt the project. We spoke to the head of the German Energy committee, who described washingtons behavior as mob like the its good to differ. He could afford to go to the currently u. S. Pressure over north stream to has reached an unprecedented high. And its an attempt by the americans to lobby their economic interests to go behind the backs of their supposed partners. Actually, this behavior reminds me of the matthew, matthew c. Come to the restaurant and say, we must protect you. But if you dont pay for this, we will smash all your places. And its the same thing here. The americans say they protect us from the russians. But in fact, if we dont want this protection, we want to trade with the russians. We want russian gas, and then they say, if you dont let us protect you, we will kill you. In other words, they impose sanctions on companies, threaten them with economic collapse for years. And this is whats actually happening. But we must reject such methods, simply objecting to them is pointless. Only real action will help you need to and other phone finance. But do you agree with union paris statement that this is all about undermining Europes Energy Security and an infringement on its independence . We cannot allow a country to dictate to us what to do with our own energy supply. This is not about our security. This is about the americans who want to sell us their liquefied gas shale gas that harms the environment. Moreover, that type of gas is more expensive, they have problems with sales. They have too much gas and prices a so low that its not profitable. And here they want to impose their gas on us. Of course its way easier if we dont have an alternative. Thats why we avoid this, because otherwise we will be stripped of alternative, sellars, in my opinion, the pipeline will be finished at the same time, i think for now the e. U. s key goal is its own sanctions against the u. S. My suggestion is simple. We introduce sanctions, tariffs on american liquefied gas. They think they have a right to dictate to us where to buy gas. Well show them with a tit for tat move. We can do that then declare, how would that affect transatlantic boss . What do you mean if were talking about sanctions . They might make the americans realize that its unacceptable to treat us as a colony and that theyd better treat us as an independent partner. Maybe theyll be a bit confused, but if they want to carry on trading with us and maintain economic ties and cooperation in different spheres, they will have to accept the fact that we have our own interests and that we follow them. Only this approach will lead us forwards any other to deadlock. Russia has also been critical of the us stance on north stream, slumming it for on. d for practices moscows regard giving up on the project this spying to america imposing fiscal penalties. The gas pipeline project is meant to deliver russian gas directly to germany through the baltic sea and then on to other areas of europe. From the outset of the project, washington has been trying to put europe off the deal with the threat of sanctions and accused moscow of attempts to gain leverage over the e. U. Last year the us introduced sanctions when the project was just miles short of being completed. We spoke to austrias former foreign minister current knesset, who believes whats happening is simply a business battle, despite the project being heavily politicized. Last dream too, is a business project. I have always said you dont build a pipeline and in order to annoy somebody or to please somebody, its all about supply and demand. Unfortunately, this business project has become a political topic. In general, its difficult to, to separate your politics from very Important Oil and Gas Infrastructure is this is a given. We have seen those all over the world. And its regardless whether we speak of Gas Pipelines between and between germany and the Russian Federation of whether we speak about Large Infrastructure Projects which have a company. It does it in the middle east. It always has a political dimension, no doubt about that. But nevertheless, its not up to search parties to get involved to the degree that we have been going with small stream to all of the last 2 or 3 years. We have seen, ever since trying to thwart a decided by us industry to, to have a foot in the door and this has definitely increased with the drug administration. And im pretty sure what you and next Us Administration will stick to this goal. A reminder of our breaking news this hour the most regarded as perhaps the greatest