Sounds like something straight out of a spy thriller and reveals the outlets predetermine narrative on russia. Youre watching our 2 international for your global news update this hour. Welcome to the program, the race to get a covert vaccine to market is heating up with british pharma giant astra zeneca. Becoming the latest to publish initial data on the effectiveness of the job. Clinical trials established, on average, it works 70 percent of the time. Heres arties down, the hawkins with more well, astra zeneca is the latest company to join the covert 1000000 team from mono race and else in the end of its phase 3 Clinical Trials with a 70 percent average efficacies result. Now those, these preliminary results may sound quite humble compared to other vaccines. The companys c. E. O. Is optimistic. He has said, we highly effective and will have an Immediate Impact with the u. K. Having already preordered 100000000 jobs nationally. The Prime MinisterBoris Johnson certainly does seem pleased with the result. 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 well, so why the relatively low efficacies will develop to say the 70 percent figure is actually an average the result of 2 different dosage regimens, the to hide those is gave an average result of 62 percent with a high dose with one low and one high. The result rises to 90, thus giving an average of 70 percent. Now that figure is still lower than the results published by other companies with their vaccines, namely modena, with the 95 percent pfizer, which initially came out with a result of 90 percent before upgrading their test results with the emergence of other trials results. And of course, the russian sputnik, the vaccine with efficacy of 92 percent of these figures are actually very crucial given the competitive nature of the vaccine market, particularly to do with covert 19. Now it has been a bumpy road overall for astra zeneca. Today, as the results were published, the companys share price actually went down on these less than expected efficacy results. The stocks across europe actually went up, given the good news about another vaccine coming onto the market. Now, astra zeneca is trials actually had to be halted back in september because of some adverse results. In october 1, volunteer in brazil actually died, resulting in an investigation and uncertainty about the vaccines future. Why the advance trial of a promising vaccine was suddenly passed . Astra zeneca has caused its trials after an unexplained illness in a practice in the u. As one Company Makes use try in the vaccine race and other drug giant hits the possible option on its late stage trials volunteering where the most and danced. Corona virus, vaccine trials in the world has died. And despite the news, astra zeneca is testing continues. Now though that those adverse results were investigated and though the Brazilian Health for florida, he and the Company Refused to comment in any detail particular case, the trial was deemed safe to continue. Now though, the in the us, that delay lasted for several weeks on the results weve seen today actually doesnt take into account the trial results from america. Now, despite the low overall average advocacy, the cost effectiveness is one upside to this vaccine. In terms of price is the estimated price of the Pfizer Vaccine is around 19. 00 per treatment. The modena job between 2025 to 37. 00, they require 2 doses. So meaning the total doses could go up to 40 in the 1st case. And as high as 74. 00 for the vaccine, the course of the sport that could be vaccine is currently estimated to be around 26. 00 for the 2 doses though the final costs are due to be confirmed next week. As you can see, the astra zeneca one trumps all of them at 8. 00 for the treatment, while the race is now on to register these vaccines astra zeneca said it would be seeking, emergency use emergency listing from the world health organization. And russia have said theyve already begun the process for destroying their sputnik vaccine several days ago. Despite the good news with multiple vaccines emerging, its still too early to be entirely up to mystic about seeing the back of covert 19. This is not the time for complacency. While we continue to receive encouraging news about 19 vaccines and remain cautiously optimistic about the potential for the new tools to start to arrive in the coming mines. Right now, we are extremely concerned by the surging cases we are seeing in some countries, particularly in europe and the americas held workers and the systems are being pushed to the breaking point. Well, as that statement said, despite the clearly good news of several new vaccines hitting the market in the coming months, there is still a long road ahead. The world is in the grip of the covert, 19 2nd wave. There is still much to be done before we can see some sort of return to a 7th of normality. Arties dental hearkens, bring us that report there. Now lets bring in live lawrence young, a professor of molecular oncology at warwick medical school. As are just hearing on average, 70 percent effective, but 90 percent effective in lower doses. Why not just go with that number and how good of news is this . But i think this is very, very good news. The more vaccines we have, the more likely we are to be able to vaccinate a large proportion of the population across the globe. So its good news. What this shows is that with a lower dose, to start with, and then with the booster dose, this vaccine is 90 percent of the cases against developing covert 900. 00 disease. So theres no reason why not to go with that particular dosing regime. And of course, if you use half the doses the initial vaccination, then its then its harder the cost and the vaccine will go further. So i think this is very, very positive news. So talking about that 70 percent on average, is that just being transparent . I think this group has been extremely transparent. They published only about a week ago, the full data set on the phase 2 analysis of the Clinical Trial demonstrating quite nicely that older individuals thats of each individual above the age of 75 have very little adverse effects. Very heart, hardly any side effects whatsoever, and very good immune responses. And this is a very transparent way of releasing data and being very honest about it. And what ive shown today is that the dosing regime, how much virus you give, how much of the vaccine you gave in the initial inoculation and in the booster inoculation can make a very big difference. Russia has recently asked the w. H. O. To approve its vaccine is the british have far off from that. What the british obviously is going through its its regulator e approval. Now im showing all the data set. Now we know we know that this is going to be fast tracked for approval along with the madonna and the the pfizer bio intake are in a vaccines. And the hope is that very soon, and that will be probably early in the new year in the u. K. Anyway, vaccine vaccination can start, but of calls, you have a real challenge with all these vaccines. One of them, of course, is manufacturing. And the 2nd one is how you put in the infrastructure to make sure that you can cover a large portion of your population with a vaccine. And this is going to be the next set of challenges. But all of this together is very, very good news. And as the World Health Authority has said, organizations said this morning is really encouraging news that makes us all very optimistic was recognizing that we still got to be very careful about this virus. One of the other challenges weve been talking about recently with the other vaccines is how theyre to be stored and then transported as well. Not the u. K. Vaccine doesnt have to be stored at ultra cold temperatures. Could that be a game changer . I think it could not think that what will happen, i suppose, is even with these are in a vaccine that need to be stored, ultra cold temperatures. We know there are new technologies and new approaches that will help with that difficulty. But one of the good things about the ad navarro stark scene and i guess this is also true for the sputnik vaccine, is that you can keep it in the fridge. And that makes distribution much more easy and also gives us an opportunity to think about how we can roll this type of vaccine out in countries that dont have the infrastructure where the freezers except for so a very important part of our responsibility with all of these axes to think about how they could be distributed in the developing world, florence young, professor of molecular oncology at warwick medical school, thank you for finding the time to join us on the program today. The final cost of any vaccine will be a key factor and how widely its rolled out. Creating fears that poor countries will be priced out as discussed by the director of the International Vaccine institute in the latest edition of going underground. 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 codex 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, p. P. Masks and gloves, whether its a vaccine solution, whether its, you know, reaching out to countries to help them understand what the burden of covert is. And once we have the vaccine, its taking that vaccine from where its manufactured, to where it can be wherever its needed, in a way that will reduce the global burden of code. That is the most important thing. And all the world still waits for a job. China has come up with a way to limit the virus that spread of calling for a global firewall in the form of a global system of q. R. Codes that would allow cross border travel to resist. China has proposed a global mechanism for the meat to recognition of health, says if its based on nucleic acid test results in the form of internationally accepted q. R. Codes. We hope more countries will join this mechanism. China has been using q. R. Codes to prove Health Status since february. This is some has been questioned in the west on data privacy grounds. However, although europe has proposed similar schemes including the idea of immunity passports in the u. K. Artist asa taylor discussed the issue with our panel of guests. These tests can be a lot of false negatives. A lot of false positives and youre no 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 today at heathrow airport, used to be one of the busiest. Ive 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 lock downs. I mean, since march 12th, europe has not been able to fly to the u. S. And then 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 are being locked in their nation states right now. The answer is 2 is, liberalism is deliberate, 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 that the virus respond differently in different regions, that there are different conditions and different places on climate and so forth. So no, we dont want a lot of all standards because Global Standards means that global lockdown, in effect, this is just unbelievable. 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 we turn the saw, its very hard to turn off. They will never relinquish. I mean, passports doing road one were supposed to be temporary. And rubra still stuck with a texan suffering from a rare muscle disease has come all the way to russia for treatment. And spencer was told back at home in the u. S. That he never walk again. But since arriving in the russian city of perm in october, hes been up and about. He shared his story with us and an exclusive interview. I had to use this everywhere. I went when i was a boy or when i was in part chicken, what without it i was thinking i was with alan spencer. Could have been dead by now or in a wheelchair or bad band. 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 as a girl with stern, 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 habit. They said theres nothing we can do for its completely untrue dribble. 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 totally respect for the Vice President of Time Warner Cable for west texas as successful man allen had to quit his job in 2017. He simply wasnt able to work anymore. That his ease was eaten away at 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 client that i think might be able to help you. Are you interested in this kind of like, well, not really. I didnt tell him the way to be perfectly honest with you, you know, 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 can be done. Probably nothing can be done. The sentiment email 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 they govern touch with me on wednesday 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 not so well 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 the Magnetic Field on my hear 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. It was a good job, an act of hypocrisy, and just for show, thats how russia describes the americas decision to pull out of the open skies treaty, which permits mutual aerial surveillance flights. Also warns there will be air harsh response of any other signatory country to the agreement exchanges. Data with washington earlier neil harvey discussed the developments with 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 putting 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. And we know the answer from the other side. 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 an