makes americans look pasta the deaths that happen every single day this is a history of the usa america. a grim picture in germany where hospitals warn they're on the brink of collapse with the number of patients being admitted into intensive care 40 percent on the spring. america 2 struggling to cope with a record number of infections and deaths but congress has so far failed to agree under the stimulus package questions are being raised about whether money from previous saved deals has gone. i know a big chunk of it goes through military and college then there are small business over. there people are taking advantage of it i think there's really just meters that really care about poor people. around grapples with the worst crisis in the

middle east around lashes out awarded bronze in you made the u.s. sanctions that it says are discovering its efforts to access a vaccine. hi there i know lots of places you could be right now so glad you've joined us here on r.t. . the pandemic script is tightening on germany where hospitals are warning they are severely overstretched the number of patients in intensive care is up 40 percent compared with the spring well every single german state is now deemed to be officially at risk it's all of reports. german hopes for a loosening of code restrictions over the christmas period look in doubt as cases of the virus remain high across the country on sunday the state. became the final

region to be categorized as an at risk area meaning the whole country is now in the highest risk level according to the scale used by germany's public health authority the robert cock institute in the south the state of bavaria declared a continuation of a state of emergency is blocked by the fact remains that the numbers is simply too high the figures must come down to the health system because it's already a threat it's not just the number of people who have coronavirus which is causing problems it's also the intensity of the illness in those that have it which means many more are requiring intensive treatment those ending up in i.c.u. of risen 40 percent from the spring during the 1st wave of the virus. in states like saxony the number of patients in intensive care is 5 times higher than it was in april hospitals either reaching their capacity limits or have already exceeded.

the lockdown light measures that were brought in at the start of november haven't worked in lowering the number of infections to where authorities would have wanted them coupled with problems with contact tracing this putting german health care of the real strain. we can see that the health authorities are increasingly exhausted for example they are no longer able to determine from where people have contracted the virus we see more and more outbreaks in older people's homes and nursing homes is becoming increasingly difficult to keep the virus out of these institutions and to protect the people there local government officials here in the german capital fear the restrictions in place have not been enough to combat the spread. of our can stop the 1st wave was a children's party compared to what we have now we have very high case numbers many people affected and we didn't have that at the start we had the pandemic well under control and now we have significant difficulties bringing the numbers down. while

politicians from the local right through to the federal level here in germany a concern that the current covert measures aren't enough to stop the spread of the virus we're also seeing protests against those very same measures by covert skeptics conspiracy theorists and those concerned that anti coronavirus measures will see them lose their jobs. i. know. despite those protests it seems more likely that the federal government would introduce tougher coronavirus measures across the whole country than there being any type of festive reprieve to the measures already in place peter all over r.t. early. while epidemiologists a warning of a possible 3rd wave of the pandemic hitting in early 2021 our panel of experts

debate the necessity of lockdowns and their effect on society that's coming up later in the bulletin. meanwhile america's covert crisis is also getting grimmer the average daily infection rate over the last week tops 200000 with some 2000 people dying every day despite the dire situation congress has so far failed to agree on a new stimulus package to help those most in need you in the pandemic the bipartisan proposal includes around $900000000000.00 worth of funding aimed at helping american businesses in particular restaurants hotels and airlines and also americans without jobs but as artie's might guess the of explains previous stimulus packages appear not to have actually helped those they were supposed to. the united states is hurting worse than anyone else by coover it it's been a disaster by any metric lost lives lost jobs lost opportunity now is

the time to help the american people at least hypothetically quote from mcconnell yesterday he said we're both interested in getting an outcome now that seems like bland talk but in washington speak with that means we're actually talking see for you all for me who would relief might mean money for food to pay rent for medicine a few $100.00 might make all the difference so how would you feel knowing that those same politicians that card agree for months on end whether to finally give the shrugging family a few $100.00 wall less that those same people gave the pentagon a 1000000000 in kuwait relief money to quote prepare for and respond to the crew of ours so what are the pentagon do it by mosques by gloves babson anti sceptic. pentagon used tanks spend money meant for mosques and swabs to make jet

engine parts and body armor and people are wondering where the heck the trillions of dollars it could relieve just for a 2nd that's 12 zeroes where that covert money has gone ok so if issues are now calling for the pentagon to be investigated for such brazen misuse of money desperately needed elsewhere what about the rest turns out there's a 1000000 other dubious ways to spend covert relief money are you tired of white supremacy. welcome to the club called $1800.00 burn it down resources for the revolution snack block and a parent group that helped organize b.l.m. protest a group that supports and enables the rights of writers that have shaken america qualified for $145000.00 in covert relief parity the group which has new web page and only recently started

a twitter account is vital to the community systemic racism is a blight on civilization but this is conveyed relief money right see this is something the pentagon doesn't get either this is money for the desperate for losing pain because of the virus lot money for jet engine parts or stirring up riots and these problem goes right to the top where a company that belongs to a congresswoman's husband the company which had a great year raking in millions and consulting fees can then claim half a $1000000.00 in extra pandemic relief money it's amazing how well socialism works for the few don't you feel powerless when you read stories like this one i sure do along with angry. now that's keeping it in the family while omar's husband's firm get half of all her campaign spending they also got a chunk of taxpayer provided relief people have lost jobs and homes in the morris

husband gets half a $1000000.00 in co it's relief funds when will the voters in minnesota do something about her of course the congresswoman denies any wrongdoing as is tradition what can you do while you can if north all the incompetence in the corruption hoop that a few 100 bucks trickle down your way to pay off the angry landlord to keep your throat while you search for a new job that might still exist you and millions more just don't expect too much help from above they're busy doing what they always do arguing with each other with all the challenges america has right now we think covert reading should be on the floor but instead the democrats put cats and cannabis this week they'll say such pretty things i have tears in their eyes as they profess to care about your situation and then off all the fear radical help in the world billions trillions in

relief that many americans will never see but hey pentagon just scored the sweetest new dress uniforms why can't you just be happy for them it is a kind of naive to expect that even in an extreme situation that we are in now with a combination of the cold did a crisis the health crisis and the crash of our capitalist economic system the dominance of large corporations and the dominance of the wealthy is not going to be operating in the relief program and that is what is happening in the paycheck protection program $523000000000.00 a lot of money was supposed to go to medium and small businesses. it now appears from a report of the small business administration in washington that the richest one percent of companies got over 25 percent of all that money that was not the engine

that was not the purpose but that is the way the society works and it includes doing that with relief efforts by the government we asked new yorkers how they feel about how stimulus package is a being delivered. and i know they're talking about it right now and get a little bit more progress on a 2nd relief but it's still a long time coming i think it's going to get stalled no matter what i think both sides don't really actually care it's really politically charged that's probably why it's strategically to intel and i deprecate it's very unfortunate but the same time i realize there's kind of hurdles that you have to overcome in order to actually get it passed. i know that chunk of that goes to the military and paying politicians to systems are already set up i kind of i mean for

a little bit easier for probably money and approvals to go through in that in those situations they weren't prepared for any of this debate might have more a. it might help them out more to give money to. the military than to help the people that are essentially for this is america. i mean if there's a there's people that there's a way to take advantage and if you find $5.00 on the ground even go give it to the store that you find out front of i don't think so i'm a small biz myself actually i know for a fact that people are taking advantage of it individuals as well as this is that don't actually need. large corporations even there's been a lot of people giving money back which is good i guess it's a step in the right direction but i guess you call it fraud right i think it would be nice to be able to feel that the communities are supported by the stories that are being paid by those communities so that it's filtering to the people who have allowed it and have the most people there reach a kind of arguing for them. a union representing

britain's health care workers is calling for a public inquiry into whether p.p.a. shortages led to avoidable deaths not to jenny boards and doctors association u.k. says that this would enable the government to learn from its mistakes. we think the government kicking the can down the road basically we already had the 1st wave of caveats there is no doubt about the fact that there was a problem with securing and ensuring that p.p. got the frontline we know because the doctors association were right at the front line of actually listening to frontline doctors who were telling us that i had daily reports of doctors telling me that they were having to go to screwfix to get thing basic things like masks we worry that the government is conveniently forgetting course lots of this what we need is to learn those lessons and the only way you can actually learn those lessons is by proper judgment inquiry according to one report between april and october more than 100 staff members including those

who are working in the care sector died as a result of the job meanwhile human rights group amnesty international says that all the $600.00 health workers have died during the pandemic in the u.k. which is the 3rd highest reported figure for any country globally. however the u.k. government insists those n.h.s. providers who have been ordered to it were always able to get what they needed in time for dr jenny born-again challenges that plane. why is it that the national audit office have come out and said there needs to needs to be comprehensive lessons learned there needs to be is proper exercise as to where that p.p. that was promised did actually reach the frontline they've had a long careful look at this and they produced a report and i can tell you that i was giving a lot of interviews and as was you know much of v.a. u.k. we were listening to frontline doctors all of us were working hard and we reporting these issues we have clearly data to support that it wasn't getting to the front

line so this is again something that really worries me about the kind of memory problems that judgment might decide to have later on it was not the case that p.p.a. was officially getting to the front line so you know this needs to be taken very seriously and the way the government does is it commits to a timely just like inquiry a soon as possible and that's why the doctors occurred so c.-h. and together with the good law. good law project and our class are taking the government to court and it's the right decision as nations around the world battle to turn the tide of the coven 102nd wave experts are warning we're in for a tough start to 2020 want to we could still see a very severe peak particularly i think probably in january is when i predict there would be most likely if we take our foot off the pedal on this the 3rd wave responsible but it's also preventable so we don't have to weave through to go on we mustn't board the mistakes of the summer by not wasting time in listening to those

who speak loudly about these untruths that another outbreak is impossible the u.k. france and germany have all been implementing various lock downs and restrictions to fight the 2nd wave with german officials discussing the necessity of stricter measures chancellor angela merkel says that they may not be sufficient relying on hope one help us the situation is getting very serious these measures will not be enough to get us through the winter. my colleague you know neil discuss the possible 3rd way with our guests. quote 19 actually sauce 2 why this would not really care that it is of course most why me or the know anything any taller and the others will get the chance to come across my susceptible population it's when in fact that is me likely happen because of the mixing we will be seen getting the christmas time this september january time was when we 1st started really

to discover what the virus is all of the pandemic intensified into the summer a knob again are we facing the same scenario in 2021 do you think this is going to be a pattern i think 20 or 21 of them certainly be different than what we have had somebody anybody in 2025 medically because we are seeing the vaccine coming into the into the human eye and of course it would take a little bit of time before to get into the general public to achieve the herd immunity so that we can believe it's also a change in of the virus but because of the vaccine $12.00 to $21.00 it will be different we've barely reached a plateau in this 2nd wave should the focus not be more impacting the disease not trying to break it instead of the what ifs of a 3rd way it's always a brand new novel situation that we're all having to deal with 1st and foremost we've got to do what's best in terms of the public health issue i have a virus myself earlier and several months ago i think i'll lot of muscle around the

world. die so a 3rd wave coming is obviously absolutely frightening and i do think it's wearing on us as humans as individuals but on the other hand we've got to let the experts really drive this and see this to an end so that we can really get obviously as we know it peter talk of a 3rd wave might dump in the spirits but just how important is it for businesses to get at least some of their seasonal trade in because you hear many stories of businesses having a tough year on the mic the naked. almost on a good christmas a good new year if that's not here there's businesses that are going to close and they don't care too much about a 3rd wave or talk of it we have bigger companies getting bigger market is going out of business the gap is widening people who are taking. the brunt of luck are the poor are single moms they're people their kids are going to get your people who

can least afford. lots of bankruptcies we've got tons of unemployment but i mean. it's going to be i would hope that this 3rd time we might do something close to focus protection people work. but we tell people who are elderly who have co-morbidities i think once we. start if you're. coming up we'll be speaking to the grieving parents of a teenager shot dead by an israeli soldier during a west bank protest and stuff to the break. is you know media a reflection of reality. in

a world transformed. what will make you feel safe. isolation community. are you going the right way or are you being so. direct. what is true. is faith. in a world corrupted you need to descend. to join us in the death. or inmate in the shallowness. important question u.s. dollar as the world reserve currency are we on the threshold of an era where it is no longer or the world reserve currency after basically a 100 year run. come

back washington's actively attempting to prevent iran from buying any coronavirus frank says that's a claim being made by the chief of around central bank echoing earlier remarks by the country's foreign minister. vaccines have to be purchased through the official channels of the world health organization but all payment methods have been blocked by the inhumane embargo of the us government well the 50000 are a means of died in the pandemic with over a 1000000 confirmed infections is the worst country in the middle east so let's take a look at how sanctions might be affecting the situation the top of ministration restrictions on rounds financial system part of its maximum pressure campaign they target to rein in individuals banks as well as foreign entities working with iran central bank transactions for medical supplies can be exempted but need the u.s. treasuries approval. we've asked the u.s.

treasury to comment on iranian allegations u.s. sanctions preventing access to a covert vaccine meanwhile cover for c.r.b. political scientist and author of the iranian origin shared his thoughts on the situation. sanctions are primarily in a financial and trade in need but the basically i think all aspects of the rein in economy have serious people effects on the how sake they are the u.s. is doing what it really can't do and then mine iran's ability to pool cue the necessary medical devices and in this case vaccines on the horizon. a case in point is pressuring government are sought. not to unfreeze billions of dollars of the acid that iran needs in order to purchase. you know millions of doses of vaccine by causing all

these restrictions. and i'm creating the global war to come by these disease so you us is not it will be the quantum has and now your money and consent or you know and it will not take such drastic actions that directly of the well being are millions of iranians. a. palestinian man has been shot and injured after he refused to comply with police order sort of checkpoint in the west bank we can show you medics rushing him to an ambulance the man was said to be unarmed walking towards the checkpoint when guards approached him ordering to stop the officers then shot him in the leg twice police say they're looking into what happened the checkpoint has seen several similar incidents in the recent is including in august when officers opened fire on a man with hearing problems the latest incident comes after israeli forces fatally shot a palestinian child this was during

a protest in the west bank the palestinian president branded it a crime demonstrating the ugliness of the occupation adding it was only the latest such crime perpetrated by the israelis against palestinians. this crime shows the ugliness of the occupation against the defenseless palestinian people it is the latest in a daily serious of killings that cannot be tolerated. a day just like any other full 15 year old enough so a bill but 24 hours later and hundreds of heading off to pay their final respects to the teenager being buried. he died on his birthday he spoke to his mother that morning to tell her to get ready for his party just oblivious to what might happen later it was funny day and ali and his friends joined a weekly protest against the israeli settlements near the palestinian city of ramallah it's not clear whether they were involved in throwing stones but these many soldiers insist they came under a barrage of rocks and been entirely is palestinian minors some of very young ages

of participated in violent riots that have involved white threatening to voters including burning tires throwing stones and throwing molotov cocktails an explosive at the idea of troops idea of troops respond with the added would means in the cordons with the operational assessment and the standard operational procedures following the censored and military investigation has been launched the findings will be examined by the military advocate general the military insists it did not fire line phones but while the rubber bullets at the palestinian health ministry has reported the teenager's death as a result of being hit by life and mission in his empty. the occupying forces are unjust and brutal they don't care if it's a child or an adult what kind of harm could a child do so that my son ali a 15 year old this is an occupation and we should be prepared for anything we must a patient. the intentional targeting of children is

a message to the parents that staying here is very costly that they will burn our hearts by taking those who are most precious to us our children in the past 2 weeks 4 other palestinian children have been shot and severely injured in the west bank injuries to the chest head and i are still in intensive care according to the united nations since january to september of this year alone there were more than 200 incidents involving palestinian children being injured some of whom have sustained long term damage human rights groups often condemn the response. from these many forces but it seems to have little or no effect so israel is turning its back on international law not caring about legitimate resolutions or decisions especially the un s c and un general assembly which are talking about civilians and palestinian occupied territories the israeli occupation forces killed recklessly

they also were covered on a political level with support from the military command level that's why they are acting violently without any kind of responsibility you need the israeli authorities to fully respect protect and fulfill the whites of all children and refrain from using violence against them in accordance with international law it also called on the palestinian authorities to prevent children from being exposed to the risk of violence we still don't know whether the i.d.f. will investigate the incident but there are growing course from families here when child advocacy groups that this is more than just a pattern it's a bloody stay on the fundamental rights of children paula r.t. israel. and mystery illness struck down u.s. diplomats in cuba and china favored speculation in the media suggested a new weapon was being wielded in the world will now washington's release the report into what's been dubbed of the on this indra.

2 some cia analysts who are russian experts diplomats and scientists contend that evidence points to moscow which has a long history of experimenting with the technology a source directly familiar with the matter told n.b.c. news the cia had determined that some russian intelligence agents who'd worked on a mock royal weapons programs were present in the same cities at the same time that cia offices suffered mysterious symptoms.

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