A giant colors allegedly belonging to president putin that triggered more claims and counterclaims and violent protests across the country so on to the points we ask in a valley against putin who will win the russian showdown. Thanks very much indeed for joining us here on to the point with me in the studio is stari asuka a freelance reporter and presenter born in russia and based in berlin darrius says novelle these investigations and the attack on him have for the 1st time politicised many young people in russia also with us is alexander our expert on russia an advisor to the energy giant gazprom he argues that Russian Society can live with corruption but if the Younger Generation feel theyre losing out. That could change quickly and a very warm welcome to steven pifer academic on a list and former u. S. Ambassador with a focus on Europe Russia and much else besides he says the west should push back against the worst of russian misbehavior but it should also leave the door open for d
Kashmir accuse soldiers of reprisal attacks against civilians. And a bitter winter puts tens of thousands of syrians without shelter at risk of death and hunger. Bought into the program more than one and a half 1000000 people have died of coronavirus worldwide and the 3rd of them in just the last 2 months several countries have been reporting record numbers of deaths among them are italy where nearly a 1000 people died on wednesday the highest since the beginning of the pandemic now new lock down measures are being imposed to curb the outbreak. The inclusion bit is sage in that from the 21st of december to the 6th of january all movements from one region to another are prohibited even to reach a 2nd homes attention on christmas boxing day in january 1st also prohibited travel from one place to another on the whole National Territory there is still a ban on moving from teen pm to 5 am for new years eve however this pressure bush and will be extended from teen pm the night before to 7 am
Isnt enough dots on how effective it is on bowes who are older european regulators is said to issue their decision on the vaccine on friday. Brazils president jaya both said auto has vowed to quickly vaccinate everybody in the country as his popularity falls amid a new wave of Coronavirus Infections there is anger of the governments slow vaccine rollout 220000 people in brazil have died after being infected bulls and auto has been widely criticized for his handling of the pandemic hes even said he wont take the vaccine himself zeros that monica you knock it has more from rio de janeiro. On the one side hes saying that hes going to vaccinate brazilians fast on the other side hes he and hes changed his tune with china as well he has been attacking china and china is working with brazil to produce the corona vaccine here and as well as supplying the material for astra zeneca to produce vaccines in brazil and the president had been attacking china all this time this is change because time
Different views on that he has tolerated an incredible amount of corruption in russia and i guess that was probably the Biggest Surprise when i was still in the u. S. Government back in the 2000 when putin came to power i think the one thing that we really expected was he will type of things i mean i think there was a sense in russia that things had become too loose in the 1990 s. Too much chaos so he would restore a degree of order but theres also a sense that this is somebody who actually you know crack down on corruption and i dont think weve seen that crime somebody have said its going to be some some somebody who would who would be he was viewed as an honest lida a man who stood by his word that was the that was always the message around putin there was hope i mean i dont remember. That hed stop or. But there was hope that something will change that russia will become the western country that so many people hoped for it would in the ninetys and im the mass. Be cleaned up and we wo
Vaccine for use by all adults in the 27 country block the u. Has also agreed to control exports of that scenes from the blog arguing it needed to do so to ensure its own supply lines follows a growing dispute between the e. U. And the company about a supply shortage its a real pleasure to be here and to announce the carriage positive opinion for the authorize ation of the astra zeneca covert 19 vaccine this expand the range of Vaccines Available to you and a Member States which will all help to bring the pandemic under control and protect the citizens of the e. U. We now have 3 vaccines that have been developed and recommended for purple approval against a disease that we did not know one year ago. Drug from johnson and johnson is expected to apply for merges use authorization for its vaccine in the United States next week it says its single dose japp appears to be at least 66 percent effective in preventing cave 19 the dutch court of appeals has ruled that Oil Giant Shell must pay com