drug dealer soon is to blame patients doctors manufacturers other governments. government hospitals in crisis the 2nd wave stretches intensive care units across the country to the limits for patients up 40 percent compared to last spring also to come the coronavirus infections and deaths hit record highs me united states and with the stimulus package still not agreed congress is now under fire i was spent the last what. i know big chunk of it goes to the military and paying politician grab a small bit more so but you know productive people are taking your i think their leaders neither side really cares and of course people in the u.k. rose out of its biggest ever vaccination campaign to bring it feed polls to show that nearly half of the population still have that for the safety of the.

good evening you're watching r t international pandemic is tightening its grip on germany where hospital stay warm that they are severely overstretched the number of patients in intensive care is up 40 percent compared with last spring and every single german state is 19 to be officially at risk peter 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 robot 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 and 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 the lockdown 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 person german health care the real strain is interesting as 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 yes of. the 1st wave was a children's party compared to what we have mal we have very high case numbers many people affected and we didn't have 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. am not sure you 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 all. already in place peter all over r t but will it. be more let me just have warned that the 3rd wave of the pandemic could actually be upon us by january but after further lockdowns the way forward later on in the program our panel of experts consider what is necessary and the impact on society. i were in the united states grim records are being set there america has registered the single highest daily

death toll from cave 19 this year with an average of 2000 people dying from the virus every 24 hours almost $1500000.00 were infected in just the past week despite the dire situation though washington still can't agree on an aid package to support those most in need during the pandemic of the proposal includes around $900000000000.00 in funding and aims to help american businesses in particular restaurants hotels and airlines and also support the unemployed but now explains previous aid packages have not always gone to those most in need. the united states is hurting worse than anyone else by hoovered 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 the means we're actually talking see for you all for me couvade 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 dollars 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 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 no web page and only recently started a twitter account is vital to the community systemic racism is a blight on civilization but this is kind of it 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 gives half a $1000000.00 and go with relief funds when will the voters in minnesota do something about her costs the congresswoman denies any wrongdoing as is tradition

what can you do while you can ignore it 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 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 reminding california people they're recording at what they see as another misuse of funds during the pandemic the state's governor allocated 80000000 dollars to build boards carrying educational messages about kovi it although that has angered some who claim that the money would have been better spent supporting local businesses that have struggled during lockdown as americans to wait for congress to agree latest relief package we got reaction from new yorkers about the delay. and i know we're talking about it right now to get a little bit more progress on a 2nd relief or it's still one 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 and probably weigh it strategically to interlock 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 big chunk of it 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 are prepared for any of this be 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 that i was mobbed is 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 lawyers that

are being paid by those communities so that it's filtering to the people who are the loudest and have the most people there reach a kind of arguing for them. now the u.k. has kicked off its mass coronavirus vaccination program with the health secretary dumping it free day however despite the fanfare nearly half the british population has concerns over the safety of the jab that is produced by pfizer and by in tech reporting live from london is the charedi. well of course the united kingdom is one of the countries which is essentially been one of the faster roll out this vaccine program to give approval to the. facts the manner it's not without its concerns but markets have reacted positively the government say that this is something that could get life back to this close to normal as possible the health secretary hancock describing today that they would. not vaccine starts to be rolled out up to

50 so-called vaccine hubs across the country including gods and thomas the hospital here behind me describing this day she said it's the day to day that tomorrow is the day when we roll out the coronavirus vaccine across the whole of the u.k. and it's the beginning of the end of this pandemic but it isn't without some hesitations amongst members of the public that has been appalled by the polling company opinion trying to get people's perspectives on the back seat and it shows that around 35 percent most would have a 3rd of the public say that it's unlikely but they see themselves taking this vaccine almost 50 percent 48 percent worry about the fact she works be safer 47 percent say they worry that it simply won't work now we went onto the streets of london to ask members of the public how they felt about the rollout of this fact

see whether they themselves would be willing to take it. there is nothing if you haven't seen it i trust him i would take it if you can see me and i think it would be sad for him if he simply and i think what it would be all right if it were to change and. i don't trust it to be honest i don't know how hard it can. generate fixie in belfast a lot of pushback against some of the measures in this country to deal with the crisis including protests in the middle of the city. against what those protesters say. dystopian measures with the law. i.

one of the other main concerns that we've been seeing from people here in the united kingdom you could say around the world is the impact on civil liberties of been much touted health passports for people to be given in order to access services to be able to go on flights and so on and also feel has to do with vaccines being made mandatory but the world health organization has actually advised against making vaccines mandatory across the world i don't think that mandates other direction to go in here especially for these vaccines it is a much better position to actually encourage and facilitate the vaccination without those kinds of requirements there are also concerns some of the logistical problems to do with the rollout of the back seat but pfizer the company producing them may not be able to provide enough to you k. as many as 800 and also this particular vaccine has to be stored at minus 70

degrees that it's thought that there are enough facilities there isn't enough to try to store these vaccines stay safely and to transport them so many questions by the government they feel confident that they can successfully rollout the track see that at least to those who want to use this we mentioned a top u.k. officials have dubbed it some of those on the front line they want the government from its mistakes and we heard from a british union for dr alas he has led to avoidable deaths. we think the government kicking the can down the road basically we've already had the 1st wave of coded 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 judge led inquiry according to one report between april and october over 100 staff members including those who are working in the care sector died as a result of their job meanwhile human rights group amnesty international says that over $600.00 health workers have died during the pandemic in the u.k. that is the 3rd highest reported figure in any country globally however westminster's insists that those n.h.s. providers so you have been ordered to it were always able to get what they needed in time dr paul no disagrees. why is it that the national audit office have come out and said there needs there needs to be comprehensive lessons learned there needs to be is proper exercise as to whether p.p. that was promised did actually reach the front line 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 da u.k. we were listening to frontline doctors all of us were working hard and we reporting these issues we have clear 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 the document might decide to have later on it was not the case that p.p.a. was officially gets into line so you know this needs to be taken very seriously and the way the government does that is it commits to a timely just let inquiry a serious 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 is the right decision well as our countries around the world to continue to battle to turn the tide against cavan 19 experts and i warning we could face a tough start to next year. 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 summit by not wasting time in listening to those who speak loudly about these untruths and that another outbreak is impossible while the u.k. france and germany are among those who've been implementing various lock downs and restrictions to fight the 2nd wave however chancellor merkel has warned that current measures may not be enough relying on hope one help us the situation is getting very serious these measures will not be enough to get us through the winter i call you know neil discussed the possible furred wave with experts. 19 actually as far as to why this would not lead to candidates of course most me or. anything any time the others will get the chance to come across me susceptible population

it's one in fact that is me like you have because of the mixing we will be seen getting the christmas december 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 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 but it's also a change in of the virus but because of the vaccine 12 to 21 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 us around the world. so a 3rd way of calming 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 jump 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 they make a good. almost. 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 or smaller

companies going out of business the gap is widening people who are taking. the brunt of luck are the for. their people their kids getting your people who could least afford to have lots of bankruptcies we've got tons of unemployment but. it's going to i would hope that there's good time we might do something close to focus protect the people who work don't but we tell people we're elderly who have been into these things once. they start. to. washington is trying to prevent iran from buying any coronavirus faxing the claims being made by the chief of iran central bank. any remarks by officials in terre. kovi 19 vaccines have to be purchased through the official channels of the world health organization but opium and methods have been blocked by the inhumane embargo of the us government well over 50000 iranians have died during the pandemic and

with over a 1000000 confirmed infections it is the worst hit country in the middle east so let's have a look then at how the sanctions are having an impact well the trumpet ministration has imposed restrictions on iran's financial system its part of its maximum pressure campaign these do target arraign individuals and banks as well as foreign entities working with iran's central bank transactions for medical supplies can be exempted but they do need approval from the us treasury now we have asked the u.s. treasury to comment on allegations that sanctions are preventing iran accessing a covert vaccine although so far they haven't responded political scientists coven the i.r.b. does believe though that the u.s. sanctions will have a significant impact on the iranian health sector. the sanctions are primarily in a financial and trade in need but the basically i think all aspects of the rain and economy have serious people effects on their sake that the u.s.

is doing whatever they can to undermine iran's ability to pool cue the necessary medical devices and in this case the vaccines that are on the horizon and. case in point is prey sharing. government osogbo. and not to unfreeze the billions of dollars of the remaining an asset that iran meets in order to purchase. you know millions of doses of vaccine by causing all of these restrictions if you will so i'm creating the global airport to combine these disease so if u.s. is not it will be caught and has an iota of humanity and constantly iran it will not take such drastic actions that directly affect the well being are millions of iranians and that brings up so that it does have a nice looking safe os

a day here not international will be yet back with more stories and the headlines at the top of the hour. was abundant make no certainly no borders and is blind to nationalities. as americans we don't come with turkey we don't look like seeing the whole world beats to be. judged as coming a crisis like this just in to. we can do better we should be better. everyone is contributing way but we also know that this crisis will not go on forever the challenges create the response has been much so many good people are

helping us. it makes us feel very proud that we are in it together. so small seems wrong but all roles just don't call. me the ultimate get to shape out of this thing comes out ahead and in gains from it because the trail. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. imagine picking up a future textbook on the early years of the 21st century what are the chapters called gun violence school shootings homelessness 1st it was my job it

was my fear with dealing with my savings i have nothing i have nothing that is not . aloof or resources i look for jobs i look for everything i can to make this house . doing this. the road to the american dream paved with did refuse. this very idealized image of. americans look pasta the depths that happen every single day this is a history of the usa and america. to .

fight max keiser this is the part i falling back on our telegram group where there are 24 hours a day just talk to people. and be a forward slash aren't spell. and doing this well you have got about 8000 in there now going to be blindly as party on planet earth so stacey remind me again what's happening in the world writes well the big news in the past week is at the end of last week a video was released of a conversation between the former bank of england had mark carney now interviewing people for the council on foreign relations so a very powerful organization in america and larry fink who is the c.e.o. of blackrock the largest asset management firm in the world they have 7 trillion dollars under management so you know larry fink is like an untouchable right like he's probably more powerful than the president and he said to mark carney this clip we look at it is something is real but it's still untested it's still it's still

has many. we have to go to many markets to see if it's the probably real or if it's going to be a variant of that sometime in the future lastly that we're running out of time i would just say. how do you a digital currency has a real impact on the u.s. dollar because having a digital currency it makes the need for the u.s. dollar to be less relevant to. the u.s. at the end so and i'm not certain i'm not talking about for americans i'm dying but for international holders of dollar based assets the question i would raise and you know maybe there's a market i could talk about it doesn't change the need for dollar reserves as a reserve currency if there was a true digital currency that was there was separated from from dollar base assets and other things like that so many questions need to be answered before i could say zip.