In from the countrys european independence. We hear from the head of germanys Energy Committee broadcasting live from the russian capital, every hour of this international. My names, you know, and youre welcome to the program. We start with breaking news from argentina, true superstar in every sense of the word football legend passed away. At the age of 60, his lawyer confirmed his death from a heart attack in buenos aires, this weapon stay for a donor was considered one of the great his footballers of all time, a world cup winner and a nikon at home and abroad, but was never far from the media spotlight either both for his actions on off the field. Well, im joined by our europe correspondent peter all over. And peter, it is indeed in europe where the argentinian maestro became a true global icon. But its a sad day for, for football lovers everywhere in the for football fans around the globe. He is one of the if not the greatest icon in argentinian football, but it was in barcelona 1st. And then napoli that he burst on to the scene in europe in 1982 he signed for barcelona for then world record fever around 7 and a half 1000000. 00. He would have 2 trophies with the catalan giants left under a cloud after fights on the pitch sounds like a lot of fights off the pitch as well. Numerous run ins with with Coaching Staff on the management, the directors of, of barcelona. He made a 10000000. 00 move in 1842. 00 to naples to napoli, and it was there this he spent 8 years winning to stay deckers to city league titles, as well as the tally and cope on the u. A. E. For cope as well as the 1st and only league titles. The not really won really, the 19878687 league title, it was mara donna that dragged that team, almost singlehandedly to the league title. He was a talismanic figure, may keep players that perhaps werent the the greatest players in not a tally league at the time. They looked, knowing he, when he was on the pitch, he seemed to increase the performance of everybody said he would, the Italian League singlehandedly. There are some that would say he will in the world cup for argentina singlehandedly in 1986. He is perhaps more famous for it than anything else in my home country of england for the 100 god goal against england in the quarter final where he well put the ball into the back of the net with his hand past Peter Shilton, england, goalkeeper. But those were pretty forgettable and exactly how it is unclear as well. Peter, i did not watch that 2nd goal, the greatest goal of the 20th century in which Diego Maradona picks the ball up around the halfway line, takes it past peeta beardsley past steve. Then past peter rhee past, terry butcher, terry fenech before leaving england, goalkeeper Peter Shilton on his backside and sliding it into the back of the net. Truly one of the greatest goals of not be great to skull thats ever been scored. Certainly at that level, when he got to the final of that world, kopi was playing west germany. And in fact, the way he was marketed not game, it was, he was deemed on stoppable. He was 2 people were on him at every moment in the match. And still known as shortened here in germany in german football journalism is mara, donna marking. But even then with one of the greats of World Football did, marking him low to mid therese. He was still able to get our for me to and create an opportunity for the winning goal as argentina will not will cope in mexico city at the as take a stadium over 802115000, people in the crowd that day they want 32. He did have his problems off the field from the eightys right through till very late in his life, he struggled with drug addiction, particularly with cocaine. It was also issues with alcohol and some serious brushes with the law. He left napoli in 9092 under a bit of a cloud following quite a bit of time in and out of the team, due to personal problems off the field. Now police still revere him with an almost, well, its almost religious the way hes revealed. The south of italy, his number 10 shirt was retired. And if you go around the city, youll still see bureau of go around the city of naples. He retired from International Football after the world cup in 1000. 00, in 94. 00, in the United States under a cloud again, he tested positive for a ban substance. He insists that this was a mistake. After taking a supplement, he maintained that up until it his dying days that it was a supplement that hed taken, that contained something in the u. S. Brand that it didnt contain in the brand that hed been used to. But he went on to be such of a managed the argentinean side between 20082010. Im sure that was an interesting dressing room to be in. He was a blogger, the life figure, despite his 5 foot 4 star, he was very heavily involved in left wing politics. He was a good friend of fidel castro, the former cuban leader. And he met with nicolas maduro, the president of venezuela, on a very public occasions as well. He was renowned for having a tattoo on his upper right arm of shaker of our, of the cuban revolutionary. But there is one perhaps very small, and if i may get it across my own personal bit of diego, maradona news, i didnt know until today in 1977 a 17 year old Diego Maradona wanted and almost signed for my Hometown Club sunderland. It was revealed in a documentary, a very good documentary about the life times of diego. Maradona sunderland came in for a bid for him to move into england in the late seventys. What a difference not could have made. It was ultimately not allowed to move by the argentinian dictatorship, the military dictatorship that was in place at the time. But he had said, if i dont go to sunderland, im going to retire thankfully, well, unfortunately, i never went to son, but thankfully, he didnt retire. He went on to have one of the greatest careers ever, arguably the greatest of all time you have to remember, he straddled a big change in football. At the time he started, the way to deal with him was to basically kick him and stop him from from playing, he was able to get round that and still win. He then moved into last time in the ninetys, where real professionalism came into World Football and the game start. The change was how would he stand up against a messy orrorin, aldo in todays game, i still think Diego Maradona would have had the ways to beat them. In the end up, but it is sure going to go on for some time period. Thanks so much. Take notes through all of the indeed life and times of Diego Maradona who died today at the age of 60. Peter oliver. Well, lets cross live to local journalist, sebastian salgado, who is currently in the argentinian city of la plata. Sebastian Diego Maradona, as far as im aware, was appointed coach of the local team where you are last year. So there is a connection there, but even wider afield. Whats, whats the mood was one of shock was one of a sense that this might happen after the heart attack. Whats the sense there in the country while the whole country is live in their own special . The only one is really, really sad. You have to understand that some of my own are needs like the argentinean here are no mana, which sport blue you are from my all now represents the argentinean suckers and even goes beyond that. I was just here in the conversation with your glorious band and im going to buy the next week or so get a world cup in 1086. Thats great god against england. And something important related to that these lads are in that moment and you know was not just playing a soccer match. That game was 4 years after i joined denia, lose their war for the might be now scorer, plan islands like the british god. And so are for the whole, an argentinean people to beat, at least in a soccer boom, relief after loosing a war. What something that no argentinian will ever forget. So our since that moment on my lawn, or who is someone coming in from a poor neighborhood, like many other soccer players in argentina where i was just going to save sebastian, he came from the shanty towns, didnt any of your capital city to become this national hero, with that in mind, theres a lot of competition, but would use it more a dollar is the most beloved argentinian of all time. Well, you know, we have some of their people, you know, other people still feel represented by them. But i would say indeed theres no one like the a woman alone, or he represents the argentinean in every sense. Some people are saying that god had died because some people believe in man of honor like like something else. Because many people in argentina, you know, are, especially in these times where its a lot of people are suffering if they, they find in milan or someone, you know that the gives hope as you just say, undocking from the city of love blather year we are in the garbage out of one aside, his brother is actually my lawn. I was until today the god of the steam not last year. Right now. He was the god and for the people of the people of the book i do notice which im sure you know is a really big subject. This subject love with he star, which is out in the nashua new us very small. So people have everybody feels the same and they found in my heart, i mean are someone to give hope, not only in this sport, but also in their way. He represents argentinian. What he did, god point of view in many ways. One, something important to say also you are in the way you want to be with the, our correspondent. You say madonna has the 2 of in their own sort of or a gigolo is that a human revolutionary joke about his and he was and indian revolutionary. And its something important because when madonna was in brother and with his head of the right words the husband does in argentina, they dont want him to go inside because no one wanted the mine owner to die in those planes so far in that moment. Feel cast on over him. If you were a system for them to go there, are you now . Ok better just now its just on his death. Its just, were really i 10 but just on his death just theres not a lot of clora t. As to what exactly occurred. How have the media as far as you know, in argentina linked his battle, his death to the battle with drugs and other recent Health Issues . Were not sure of that. It was obvious. In the day he was turning 60 years or it was only a couple of weeks ago, maybe 3 weeks ago. He, nancy, i was playing, you know, the affairs of the league of this system. And for the 1st time, we saw a man on hold in the arms of some one of you screw the coaches because he couldnt even walk after he good god or any other march. And he was hospitalized. He went out of hospital and i today in one of the one aside from its. So are the real thing is that it was very weak for sure. Is drawn from a long period of time youre in his live was one of the reasons of why he died at the early age of 60. Thank you very much for giving us an inside from the area of just how its been a story is the capital of that. When a story is province, where do you go for a dollar as local journalist, sebastian, so i gather were saying was manager up until yesterday, or the spike being ill for the last number of weeks. Sebastian, thank you. Just before we move on to other stories, im going to show you on the program. Some live pictures from when a story is from just outside the heist of Diego Maradona, where of course there is a sizable media, a lot of other people as well and police just outside there as well. Is where the perhaps the greatest player of all time. Do you go . Mara dallaire died earlier. This whedons the at the age of 60. Ok, moving the program on the u. S. Experts are claiming the astra zeneca code vaccine is not very effective for older people. The british swedish judge has undergone phase 3 trials, and earlier its developer said it was up to 90 percent effective. But a u. S. Government organization believes the figure can be applied to all age groups of explain. So essentially, this whole thing is about the discrepancy between what the manufacturer of this vaccine is saying, and the claims made by us researches in us specialists who also had a look at the ceremony. So when on monday astra zeneca published a press release saying that the average year 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 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 the 1st group, it was only 62 percent efficient. Some people asked questions as to how exactly a lower dosage of a vaccine can be more effective than a larger dose of but now 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. It was more efficient, the 2nd group that got a smaller dosage. They were aged 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, and that each person gets is how they put it. There are also differences in the age brackets present in the courts in the 1st received those and pull those had a cap on the asia at the age of 55 when theyre older, people included in the city did receive to lose and to lose 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 all the 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 report and why you, were learning this from a 3rd party astra. Zeneca is looking for f. D. A. Approval because the u. S. Is a huge market for the vaccine with a huge demand for the vaccine. So the american side of this difference in dosage here in how much each group of people was getting of this vaccine apparently was an intentional. According to the u. S. Specialists, it was just a mistake. This was a change in the way the quantity of vaccine the amount of was tested and when they, when they realized that there was an error or a change in their approach technique used, they corrected it. Astra zeneca has been losing value on the markets. A lot of people are 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 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, the better it will be. Because people dont want any more surprises and they want to feel safe. Seeing widespread public unrest after lawmakers passed the 1st stage of a controversial Global Security bill. They are battling the film of Police Officers for quote, malicious reasons was described by critics as undermining media freedoms. It 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 as city searches, paris, city on the border 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. 00 euro fine journalists, 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 to do whatever they want. The match is not over. The bill now has to go through the senate. And we have seen that despite everything, several m. P. s from the majority, hesitating to support the bill in paris, the protest here we had a particular focus and that was on events 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 of being pulled, 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 more 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, returning to another headline, stories that are out of books in particular, the astra zeneca one which was developed by a swedish british firm an Oxford University as well. Some of the early results look very promising, but as of today, our u. S. Covert task force airports some cold water on it, saying that it wasnt as effective for older people. And particularly those over the age of 55. Some of the other jobs which are hopefully coming to market soon. Now a u. S. Government Organization Says the figure cannot be applied to all age groups without in mind. Lets cross to a guest. Im very happy to welcome onto the Program Professor of preventative medicine at the u. S. Department of health policy. Mr. William schaffner, welcome to the program. Yes, indeed, considering nations everywhere, essentially are lining up the elderly and vulnerable 1st for this vaccine. How concerning would planes be that the job was not particularly effective for people over the age of 55. 00 . Well, of course that would slow things down considerably. Thats a bit of a surprise. And lead force is the notion that these Companies Must present all of their data very clearly out front. We had to subpoena that with all the different vaccines. Well, some may work better in some populations than others. And at least the early reports suggest that this may be true of the astra zeneca that actually it could be used if everything is as is now reported. It could be used better in younger persons, rather than Older Persons. And the Older Persons get either the Pfizer Vaccine or the actually at least here in the United States, is not going to war still with us. True, isnt it . Because as you say, its one of the most at risk groups, the elderly, the obese as well. So if its only going to be for people younger than not, that seems like a very limited market. How do you expect astra zeneca to respond to the allegations from the u. S. . Well, the only response can be the data. Lets see the information. Lets have it evaluated. By the x. Turtle committee that evaluates everything for the food and drug administration. And then lets put all the data on the table and make the best decisions. Mind you, we have a huge proportion of the United States population thats under 65 years of age, or under 50. That would still be an enormous contribution of this vaccine that could add to the total. Thats a nation effort. What are your thoughts on the way the the reactions have been coming, and indeed coming through the media, perhaps not from organization to organization. Does it seem that perhaps each nation is, is in some ways attempting to dont play vaccines from other countries a little bit to try and relied its job 1st. The or is not something that maybe where were seeing more in the media and its not really happening in reality. Well, its certainly not the way vaccines are usually present. There is not a usual time though, is it . Well, thats not the usual time. Of course. I was about to say that and thats why and so these companies are also full of pride. This is been an enormous accomplishment. And so they would like to add that recognized. All of that said, you have to be completely transparent when you present the data. Otherwise, youll build in skepticism, right from the beginning, and thats the last thing you want. You dont want to undermine confidence and that actually, just now, you know, here in the United States, its a good thing that the election is behind us because there was a poll little overtone to these vaccine issues thats falling away now because the election is passed. Now once again, we can concentrate on science and public health, and that should be in the front completely open, completely transparent. Do you think it was correct the way the u. S. Code forced forth when to run doing this . That perhaps there was some fear and diapered in the minds that, that as you say, maybe communication further communication i. D per transparency would have led to a more relaxed than now less of, of the after zeneca job here, instead of perhaps being blighted with without hesitancy, maybe to go to market. Let me just say its not a process that i would have chosen for all of those reasons. Interesting. Well, thank you very much for coming on the program and sharing your thoughts with us. Very interest need to hear what you think weve been speaking to professor of preventative medicine at the u. S. Department of health policy. William schaffner, thank you. Lets get a reminder of our breaking news this hour. The man regarded as perhaps the greatest footballer of all time Diego Maradona has passed away at the age of 60, his lawyer confirming that the argentinian world cup winner died of a heart attack in buenos aires this whedons thing mara done inspired a generation becoming an icon at home and abroad, he was never, far from the media spotlight, both for his actions on and off the field. And earlier this month, he was released from hospital after brain surgery on a blood clot. And of course, will be remembered, not just in his home country, but around the world as one of the all time sporting greats financial survival. Stacey south fill out. Lets say im not so i have to fight. Thank you for the story. Thats right. 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