Today a cyber spying scandal is known. By the thanks for joining us this international. Unrest on saturday over a controversial security bill 142 people were detained clashes with the Police Officers used Water Cannons and tear gas as a situation spiraled out of control theres been huge anger there of a plans to protect Police Officers by handing them extra powers and boosting surveillance. Was at the rally for us. Where we have seen a number of what i would describe this action grabs by the Police Members of the Security Forces going to the crowds and dropping out individuals that they think. Causing trouble the followed tensions were apostles except a whooping for the Police Officers who were so i had seen gas already deployed to add to gases being used directing from air assault sprays axe the protests. There are thousands and thousands i try to get a camera to see to look up the street which is completely fact and then if its possible to channel a camera around youll see how many people are still coming. Through that there were other demonstrations across the country as well all against the Global Security lowered our people were unhappy with article 24 specifically this would have criminalized individuals who published images of the police if there was intent to harm that provokes huge theory here in front as a result parliamentarians are going to rewrite their specific rules but people are angry again dont just about that but also a new law that was approved by the french captain it here in the week and this also contains an article which is very very similar to the controversial article 24. 00 that is that it would become a criminal act to post images of somebody online if you compared them to fight and if there was intent to home so take out the word police and its essentially the same act and the police are also unhappy about some of the comments made by president mccollum in the last week he said in an interview that the police are controlling more people who are known white than white people are expected to go to. Emanuel mccrone ends up telling the media that the police are racist i can guarantee my colleagues are not racist days no racial control or even the police will give me time to clean up the problem is that the police lock resources and personnel they lock many things and when they ask for help no one is listening on the other side with and criticize the police which i think is like a step in the back of things i think you would have thought this was i was the last to this right here is a protest that they are on. The rise. For people have been stabbed some washington d. C. Has clashes between pro trumpets and rivals turned vicious the victims are in Critical Condition backers of the outgoing president rallied to denounce the Election Results but were met by counter protesters and violence broke out. Similar scenes played out on the west coast in Washington State where one person was shot as rival protestors faced off its unclear what the victims dition if police or suspect has been detained theyve tried to keep the sons of parties and tear gas and stun grenades. Right there that. Russian and british scientists are set to combine forces and vaccines as well in the latest bid to tackle the Global Pandemic this is after astra zeneca said that it was ready to work with the developers of Russia Sputnik the job today we announced a Clinical Trial program to assess safety and immunogenicity of combination of as a d 1222 developed by astra zeneca and Oxford University and sputnik v. Developed by Russian Research institute. Well Vaccine Developers hope that by combining their vaccines they could end up with a better immune response to the virus the Clinical Trials will be held in russia and involved volunteers aged 18 and over his job is shown variable results depending on the dose used with an average efficacy of 70 percent compared to these above 90 percent. They have a problem very vaccines efficacy isnt high enough this should be improved we have 2 different added new viruses they will take one of them and use it as a booster. Killer on College ProfessorLawrence Young says that cross border corp will be vital in ending the Health Crisis i think is a fine task to opportunity to Work Together in developing a more effective vaccine and theres lots of evidence that when you mix and match different vaccine platforms you get stronger and longer lasting immune responses to our competition so this is fantastic news and i think it will. Raise confidence both in terms of the astra zeneca vaccine and also the sputnik vaccine it demonstrates that the power of scientists working collaboratively were all very keen scientists around the world to Work Together and work in collaboration and i think this will provide an excellent opportunity for the very best people working in the u. K. In the very best people working in russia to actually Work Together and i hope that one of the consequences of Something Like this is the longer term collaboration in other areas of science and medicine so i think its a very very important important day for us actually its very exciting. Talking of jobs moscows become the 1st russian city to begin a Mass Vaccination Program this but it is being made available free of charge for line workers including hospital and school staff will be at the front of the queue although for now its not being given to anybody aged over 60. Or says deadly infection rate has reached around 28000. 00 cases the numbers have been steadily rising since september and earlier in the wake of oliver visited a company that is ramping up production of the vaccine. We are the by car company its a fetus but it is a very high in a different scene is being told here that if. This particular line cases think 1000 times but our expert think the is a too short adenovirus based effects of x. Seen the difference between sputnik v. And some other international coded 19 vaccines is this vaccine is a human based one not an animal so whats a vaccine its an engineered virus lacking the gene for production therefore its unable to in fact what it does is serve as a vehicle for coronavirus proteins over 3 weeks a patient receives 2 different jobs to form antibodies and disease resistance before taking a coronavirus vaccination everyone is examined to make sure theyre healthy that it takes another 15 minutes to store the vaccine sputnik these stored at minus 18 degrees c. And Developers Say thats an advantage compared to other countries that scenes requiring significantly lower temperatures for storage after the injection doctors monitor you for 30 minutes before youre free to go. Im a teacher i think the vaccination is a great way to protect myself and most importantly my relatives my parents are all right the 65 blots also its free actually i was initially examined by a doctor he asked if i had any chronic diseases measured my Blood Pressure looked at my Electronic Medical record and then i was allowed to undergo the procedure everything was fast i received that saying that i can be one of the 1st for the vaccination im so glad and i trust the vaccine is not only yours yes i had doubts but ive made my decision and im here today the vaccine is now being supplied to all corners of the country at the same time the military is receiving sputnik v. T. In russia the covert 1000. 00 job is voluntary and free of charge and even though some people still remain skeptical about the safety and efficiency of the vaccine most agree that large scale works a nation is probably the only way now to put an end to the pandemic. You leadership of oliver are seen. This week the United States appeared to shift its gaze away from russia stead setting its sights on china of to u. S. Intelligence chiefs identified beijing as washingtons biggest threat this comes after a member of the u. S. Intelligence committee was targeted by suspected chinese spy rogue as the of digs deeper. So trumps out and the russia gate thing is slamming shut behind him because theres a new scare story in town china you know it doesnt take long to dig up dirt in a town Like Washington q us democrat representative Eric Swalwell until now moves through well this crist so far the evidence is one contradicted that the president used taxpayer dollars to ask the ukrainians to help them choose an election this time around its his links to a suspected chinese spy who is in the stink not least because and this is awkward he sits on the House Intelligence Committee not the whole nation to be removed from the intel he should be removed from congress as well yes House Minority leader Kevin Mccarthy there spotted an opportunity to claim his 1st victim so the background in a nutshell swalwell had a Chinese National called thang fag in his early political career and this person quickly started raising suspicions within the Intel Community he got rid of her but has recently refused to answer whether he slept with her which probably means yes but before we burn mr swalwell at the stake at sea were out might have to join him once this chinese witch hunt really Gains Momentum youve got a feel for Mitch Mcconnell he survived the title most good image but can he now survive the fact that is wife secretary of transportation elaine chao is from one of chinas most prominent political families that would be one hell of a honey trap and you and jean shall have served on the board of the Holding Company for chinas teach to build in a state owned enterprise that makes chips for the chinese military. Is also on the board at the bank of china and top lender to the ship builder remember also the former speaker of the house john boehner aka the original orange man is there is the high. Republicans actually give john boehner a harder time than they give me. Which means orange really is the new black. These days the former speaker of the house just happens to be a lot b. S. For a certain peoples republic of china is this guy aggie purdie chief Security Officer who are way the u. S. Is really china on a number of issues and they want to hurt one way to hurt china the very afraid of the competition between china and the u. S. So theyre focusing on hurting while way before getting professionally agri for you our way for a living and the purdy was a member of the white house starved team that helped draft the u. S. National strategy to secure cyberspace this is just the tip of the iceberg therefore the head of u. S. Intelligence has declared open season on beijing calling it threat number one if i could communicate one thing to the American People it is that the peoples republic of china poses the greatest threat to America Today and the greatest threat to democracy and Freedom Worldwide since world war 2 what they might find is that there arent many politicians left who dont have links to this new enemy because they used to be friends really is getting hard to keep up. Pink floyd cofounder roger waters has been putting the world to rights on the latest edition of going underground among his targets the recent us election you can watch the full interview on our website artie dot com heres a preview. Dave if trump had been reelected it would have been worse for everyone in the world but that doesnt make biden a good candidate it biden is a dyed in the wool were among grading servant of the oligarchy that rules the United States american will continue to be so for however long he remains president of the United States hes not to be trusted on anything do you think joe biden is going to move the American Embassy back to tell of a are you kidding hes made it quite clear that hes the staunchest zionist friend of. Of israel that could possibly be in office so i hope that he and kids start a happy sleeping in that caught that theyre going to share for the next few years kiss our. Term of 8 or of them having any power under any circumstances because they are clearly not clear thinkers they clearly dont believe in human rights they clearly have no interest in the law to have no interest in the United Nations they have no interest in the geneva conventions they have no interest in any of the things that in near to my heart and to your heart should have been completely impartial you have campaigned for upholding of Un Security Council resolution resolutions all your life you dont expect biden to reverse the trump position on the Golan Heights the illegal declaration by the United States is going to oppose the Un Security Council resolution making out that it was israeli now of course not i dont expect him to. Reverse any of that nonsense i expect him to absolute they abide by the deal of the century obviously im pretty happy that skinny piece of. No. Longer in the white house pretending to film Foreign Policy for the middle east. So the come every american would get 3000. 00 of us billionaires shed the profits they made during the pandemic story after the break. Join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and ill be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business im show business ill see you then. More americans have now died of covert them were lost fighting in the 2nd world war the death toll is approaching 300000 that certain number of cases exceed 16000000 and maybe the countrys worst crisis in recent history but it hasnt stopped the rich from getting richer the net worth of u. S. Billionaires is sauds by a trillion dollars since march according to a new report as tens of millions of americans suffer from the health and economic river just of these pandemic a few 100 billionaires add to their massive fortunes their pandemic profits are so immense that americas billionaires could pay for a Major Corporate relieve bill and still not lose a dime of their proviron reaches the Campaign Group americans for tax fairness found that the extra wealth accumulated by billionaires during the pandemic would actually be enough to dish out 3000. 00 to every single american that total is roughly equal to the amount spent by the federal government on Health Care Last Year and only 4 times more than stimulus payments made earlier in the year to 159000000. 00 americans now the reports included 651000000000 as too many to get through so its pick out the ones you probably know the best the wealthiest jeff bezos is now worth more than 180000000000. 00 that is more than the g. D. P. Of iraq musks wealth grew almost 6 fold during the pandemic on the circuit berg almost doubled his both musk and circa berg are worth now more than 100000000000. 00 our guests debated the issue of profiting from a pandemic. Always love these kinds of analyses is it the government has a day or 6 not going at it drops from the government theres nothing naive here the government isnt doing something then as a result the government is itself the result of the way this is cya the works which puts enormous wealth and therefore political power in the hands of a very small number of people who will turn out to have a government policy that makes them richer this burst of new wealth is just as surely a product of government policy was unnecessary you know the unintended consequences of lock downs and such and in this case they call them nonpharmaceutical interventions but theres also capacity limits on businesses are going to be almost the opposite of what we hope for the draconian policies theyve increased the gap. Between the rich and poor that created new controversies of wealth is tremendous consolidation going on right now let me be clear here we could have been prepared for this virus the way other countries where we could have handled it better the way other countries that we left a lot of the private preparation for disease into the hands of private enterprise and markets and they fail as they have failed us so often in the past its a pathetic say heads glory of a system spinning out of control so that its unjust inequality keeps getting worse the governments inability to get anything right theyre going to do Everything Everything everything wrong in a crisis including decreasing employment crushing firms crushing the engine of employment. All those sorts of things never once even considering maybe thaksin should be lower i mean i agree from hiatus from certain regulations on that sort of thing we have a monopoly in this country have had it for a century we have 2 parties we dont allow 2 businesses that dominate most of our industries but we allow these 2 parties to dominate our politics thats very convenient for the computer they the class of Corporate Directors who donate the bulk of. The money to both of them to pull the strings for both of. The Us Federal Trade Commission is pushing to break up facebook accusing it of Holding Illegal monopoly over the social media market its found a lawsuit thats backed by 48. 00 states targeting facebooks acquisitions of the instagram and whatsapp platforms and one has to boom bust on r. T. Told us more facebook is really coming under fire now that it is facing an antitrust lawsuit from the states attorneys general of 48. 00 different states across the United States the allegation thats been made in this lawsuit essentially states that facebook has violated the law and violated competitive behavior during its acquisition in the early 2013 f. T. C. Filed their own lawsuit against facebook today as well. And we look forward to collaborating with them in the litigation process the states attorneys general are calling for an actual divestment of instagram and whatsapp what does that mean it means that if these states attorneys general when their lawsuit they would force facebook to actually sell off the assets of whatsapp and instagram a very big deal in the tech world. Several senior democrats a voice their opposition to joe biden selection for defense secretary the president elect announced that he chose retired general lloyd austin on wednesday austin would need a waiver from congress in order to take up that role on his party boy who explains why. Not even his own coffee is happy with joe bidens choice as secretary of defense lloyd austin hes black. And that is great. Well done right you very much at all since i retired 4 star general and that has raised a lot of lefty eyebrows. Dozens ignore the longstanding tradition of having a civilian at the helm of the most well unclipped fighting force in the world america its a great country were drinking it is a group so austin actually needs a special waiver from cloned grass to take the job because the army retired in 2016 he hasnt been out of active service for the required 7 years no one seems to care that you spent the last 4 years on the board of a massive defense contractor called great. Continental but the most interesting thing about biden picking austin is that alston is a. Well known she implored to the world with. Pres picking a man to be secretary of defense is a little bit during by which i mean its not progressive everyone expected find until point michelle through and i as secretary of defense because shes actually experienced shes a civilian she tells the 3rd base civilians drawn into pentagon under obama she was head of defense policy shes an expert on china next year or is going to be china and china china china china and yes shes a she but trauma is a full show shes linked to defense contractors and shes presided over a very hot mess in the middle east so biden picked a guy. Was shared hes linked to defense contractor as he presided over a hot mess in the middle east if youre wondering how much of a hot mess he is admitting that the u. S. Paid 500000000. 00 to train a force of syrian fighters numbering 4 people. Its a small number. The ones that are in the fight. Is. Were talking 445 but before you talk about how corrupt the democrats are if youre looking for someone to blame for this story stating the facts blame the orange one i think it would have been a good general thats right donald trump started the trend of an ex general and then actually just heading up his own ministry when he appointed james mattis who had been on the board of another major defense contractor general dynamics. By the time we got to byron success. The head of the military had a major Weapons Company redundant being the same joke ill still be able. Now rob so this news out of europe today dont get you can check out plenty more news stories we have covered for you though by heading to our web site because we want to. 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