For their moscow correspondent. Sounds like something straight out of a spy thriller and reveals the outlets predetermine narrative. Watching our 2 international for your global news update this hour. Welcome to the program, the race to get a vaccine to market is heating up with british pharma giant astra zeneca. Becoming the latest to publish initial data on the effectiveness of its job developed with Oxford UniversityClinical Trials established up on average. It works 70 percent of the time. Heres arties dental hawkins with the details. Astra zeneca are the latest company to join the front runners in the covert. 19 vaccine race, analysing an efficacy over 70 percent after concluding their phase 3 trials. You know, these preliminary results may sound humble compared to other vaccines. The companys c. E. O. Is optimistic, saying that job will be highly effective and will have an immediate impact. And with the u. K. Having already preordered 100000000 jobs, Boris Johnson is more than happy with the result. Incredibly exciting news. The oxford vaccine has proved so effective in trials. There are still further the 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. So why the relatively low efficacy of Developers Say that 70 percent figure is an average of 2 doses rose humans, too. High doses gave a result of 62 percent with a high dose following a low one raising efficacy to 90 percent. Now this 70 percent average figure is therefore lower than trial results announced earlier by madonna at 95 percent also provides a 95 percent though that company to raise their efficacy from an initial 90 percent result with the russian sputnik vivax Team Standing at 92. Now these figures are crucial, given the highly competitive nature of the market, and its been a bumpy road for astra zeneca. Today, as these results were published, the companys shares actually fell on the back of the lower than expected average efficacy, even as european stocks rose on the good news of another vaccine entering the market. Now the vaccine trials had to be halted in september because of a serious suspected adverse reaction in a participant. And in october 1 of the volunteers in brazil died, causing uncertainty about its future. Why the advance trial of a promising vaccine was suddenly passed . Astra zeneca has caused its trials after an unexplained illness in a participant 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 Volunteer and where the most at vance to corona virus vaccine trials in the world has died. And despite the news, astra zeneca is testing continues. Well, those adverse effects were investigated. Though the company and the Brazilian Health authority refused to comment in detail on the case. The trial was deemed safe to continue, though in the United States, the delay lasted several weeks. And todays results dont include data from american trials, despite the lower efficacy. The upside of this vaccine is cost effectiveness. While the estimated price of the Pfizer Vaccine is around 19. 00, the modern a job between 25. 00 to 37. 00, those prices go up to over 40. 00. And as high as 74. 00, respectively for the total treatment of the cost of the sport, mcvie vaccine is estimated at 26. 00 per treatment. The final costs are yet to be announced. Yes, true senecas job would not only be easier to manufacture and store, but the cost for both doses could be as low as 8. 00 for the race is now on the register of these vaccines. Astra zeneca states that it would seek emergency use listing from the World Health Organization with russia saying theyve already begun the sputnik registration process. Despite the good news, its too early to say. Weve seen the back of the pandemic, even with these promising trial results, doos is not the time for complacency. While we continue to receive encouraging news about 19 vaccines and remain cautiously optimistic about the potential for a new tools to start to arrive in the coming months. Right now, we are extremely concerned by the surging cases we are seeing in some countries, particularly in europe and the americas hold workers. And the systems are being pushed to the breaking point. Even with several vaccines hitting the market in coming months with the world in the grip of the 2nd covert, 19 wave, there is still a very long and difficult road ahead until we see a return to at least some semblance of normality. 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 at the sky by the director of the International Vaccine institute in the latest edition of arties 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 kovacs. 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 2000000000 dose 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, 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 while they were all the way through a coded jab, china has come up with a way to limit the viruses spread is calling for a quote, global firewall in the form of a global system of q. R. Codes that would allow cross border travel to resent china has proposed a global mechanism for the me 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 feb. The system has been questioned in the west on data privacy grounds. Although europe has proposed similar schemes including the, idea of immunity passports in the u. K. , saskia teller, discussed the issue with a panel of guests. These tests can be a lot of false negatives. A lot of false positives and youre no better track and trace me 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, 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 twelves, 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 to is, liberalism is to liberate, 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 you lay shouldnt based on climate and so forth. So no, we dont want a lot of your 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 really bristol stopped 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 that hed 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 going to, when i was in the park chicken, what without it are no walk with alan spencer could have been dead by now or in a wheelchair or bad bound. Thats what doctors back home in america told him 5 years ago. I used to use this all the time, but 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. So that 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 have it. They said theres nothing we can do for its completely untreatable. What do you feel when you read that . Will i wasnt as disappointing 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 told to spare for the Vice President of Time Warner Cable for west taxes as successful man allen had to quit his job in 2017. He simply wasnt able to work anymore. The disease was eaten away, 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 clinic that i think by would be able to help you. Are you interested . You know, its kind of like, well not really. I didnt tell him that the way to be perfectly honest with you. Yeah, i want, i think is an american youre, you probably have a stereotype of what the russian hospital looks like. If mayo says that nothing could be done. Probably nothing can be got sent to me mail gave my email interest the next day i got a, an email back from the director. The c. E. O. Actually of the clinic in the government touches me all winter 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 damage 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, or 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 this 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 within d. And others to get people here from america. Its a wonderful thing. I mean its, it shouldnt be a secret. Here you go. Wow, good job. Still ahead, if youve ever dreamt about being a correspondent in moscow, get ready to deal with hit squads, cyber agents and shadowy military figures at least one major news outlets. Latest job ad is to be believed. That story after this short break. Join me every thursday on the alex salmond show. And ill be speaking to guest of the world of politics, sports business, im showbusiness. Ill see you then. The world is driven by shaped by one person with those words thinks we dare to ask. Nothing really settled, some of trumps enemies want, the president and his supporters to be a price for the past 4 years and against in rumors of a strong tries to bring troops home. Some say, instead of the start of the war. Welcome back. Russia has condemned the u. S. Decision to pull out of the open skies treaty calling it an act of hypocrisy. The pact has been in place since the early ninetys, allowing the 34 Member States to observe each others militaries through unarmed surveillance flights and share data. Washington has accused russia of breaking the terms of the agreement a claim. Russia denies. My colleague, neil harvey discussed a story with our to 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. 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 anything that was again for the public designed to mislead foreign governments and the public of european states that were urging washington to come to its senses. Its very important to point out that moscow believes the u. S. Government wants to seek some kind of ban by European Countries of russian flights over u. S. Military sites in europe. But at the same time, moscow believes that the u. S. Wants to continue receiving the information from European Countries from its flights in the russian air space. Moscow says that it will continue putting pressure on the other signatories to the open skies treaty to make sure that they remain committed to the terms and abide by it. But in a case, the message from moscow is that this decision, by why the americans heavily damages International Security and transparency, you mentioned European Countries involved there. And there will be European Countries among the, the many dozens of other signatories to the treaty. How do they feel about the u. S. Pulling . There are 33 more signatories to would that include some very important european, players, like the u. K. , germany, france, etc. And theyve been critical of the decision by the Us Administration as well. We deeply regret the United States has decided to take this step and is now implementing its our own position on the treaty remains unchanged. We consider rich to be an important part of the arms control architecture that contributes to Building Mutual trust in the us to greater security in the Northern Hemisphere from the tivo stoke to vancouver. We have heard voices of concern across the atlantic as well. The administrations decision to withdraw from the open skies treaty is reckless. I strongly believe that president trumps decision to withdraw from the treaty is a violation of domestic law. President trump brazenly ignored the law and is unilaterally imposing a politically charged withdrawal even after losing a president ial election. The open skies treaty was initially proposed by washington that happened back in 1955. Though then the room, it only came into force in 2002, but still it was out there. And because of donald trump, because of his strategy that weve actually gotten used to, we remember that he left many Important International treaties and different fields in the field of security. For example, most notably that was the intermediate range Nuclear Forces treaty. Perhaps this is a step from him that we could have expected and has been doing what has been up to pretty much in the past 4 years. A New York Times job ad for a moscow correspondent has been accused of being rooster phobic. Successful candidates are expected to deal with hit squads, cyber agents, and shadowy mili