the. german hospitals in crisis. stretches intensive care unit country to the limits with patients 40 percent to the spring. infections and. with the stimulus package still. no big chunk of it goes to the military and. i think we just need to really cares about poor people. in the u.k. it's biggest ever a vaccination campaign. but polls show close to half the population.

over the safety. broadcasting live from the russian capital every hour of the day this is r t international hello and welcome to the program the pandemic is tightening its grip on germany who are hospitals warned they are severely overstretched the number of patients in intensive care is up 40 percent compared with springtime and every single german state is now deemed to be officially risk. german hopes for a loosening of coded restrictions over the christmas period look in doubt as cases of the virus remain high across the country on sunday the states. 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 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 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. of 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 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. place. meanwhile epidemiologists at 3rd way. are further. the way forward in the program our panel of experts consider what's

necessary the impact on society. well let's take you to the united states where grim records there are being set america has just registered the single highest daily death toll from covert 19 this year and the average of 2000 people die from the virus every 24 hours almost 1500000 were infected in just the past week despite the dire situation that washington still count agree on an aid package to support those most in need during the pandemic the proposal includes a run $900000000000.00 in funding to help american businesses in particular those struggling restaurants hotels or lines and also to support the all employed but. previous aid packages always go 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 that means we're actually talking c. for you or 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 that 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 $100.00 burn it down resources for the revolution snack block than a parent group that helped organize b.l.m. protests 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 jobs and homes in the morris husband

gives half a 1000000 dollars 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 $100.00 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 focus but that is the way the society works and it includes doing that with relief efforts by the government in all over in the u.s. west coast people are calling on what they see as another misuse of funds during the pandemic the california state governor elect hated $80000000.00 to build boards carrying educational messages about covert but that's unheard some who claim that the money would have been better spent supporting the local business been hit hard during long time well as americans wait for congress to agree about the latest relief package we get reaction from new yorkers by the delay. and i know we'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 start no matter what i think both

sides don't really actually care it's really politically charged and probably why it strategically to interrupt i deprecate it's very unfortunate that 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 that systems are already set up and 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 they might have more a. they 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 we're going to get $55.00 on the ground even go give it to the store that you find out front of i don't i don't think so that 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 don't

actually need. larger corporations even though 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 kind of stories that are being paid by those communities so that it. will drain to the people who have allowed it to have the most people out there reach a kind of arguing for them. in the u.k. has kicked off its mass coronavirus vaccination program with the health 2nd dream doubling it v.-day however despite the fun for nearly half the british population has concerns over the safety of the job produced by pfizer and by on take reporting from london here's a sally. well of course the united kingdom is one of the countries which is essentially been one of the fust to roll out this vaccine program to give approval to the. fact see that 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. fire when that vaccine starts to be rolled out and up to 50 so-called vaccine hubs across the country including gods and thomas' hospital here behind me describing this day to say it's the day today and 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 good job the public say that it's unlikely but they see themselves taking this

vaccine almost 50 percent 48 percent worry about the fact she won't be safe and 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 not to see if they haven't seen it i trust him i would take it if you can see to me and i think maybe some for him to put the supreme plate and i think what it would be all right if it was to change and. i don't trust it to be honest i don't know how hard it can. generate fixing that fast a lot of pushback 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. 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 it is 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 aren't enough facilities there isn't enough of the necessary types of freezers and other logistical put needed 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 roll out the track see that at least to those who want to. mention top you can the vaccine. britain but for some of those on the front line they want the government to learn from its mistakes we heard from the u.k. doctors union who claim a lack of p.p. has led to avoidable did. 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 mosques 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 pipe truck judgement inquiry look ording to one report between april october over 100 staff members including those working in the keris sector lost their lives as a result of doing their job we're all human rights group amnesty international say over $600.00 health workers have died during the pond in the u.k. that's the 3rd highest reported figure for any country globally. of the british government insisted it won

a colossal race against time to make sure they and the chest got what it needed from across the p.p. providers in time but dr vollmer gan disagrees. 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 whether p.p. that was promised it actually reads 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 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 the document 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 judgment inquiry a serious and that's why the doctors a cut so c.h. and together with the good law. good law project and our class are taking the government to court and makes the right decision. as nations around the world battle to turn the tide against coburg 19 experts are 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 3rd wave responsible but it's also preventable so we don't have to weave through together we mustn't ward the mistakes of the summit 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 are among those who've been implementing various lockdowns on restrictions to fight the 2nd wave however chancellor merkel warns 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 so what's ahead in 2021 or the very start of it the least i discussed earlier a possible 3rd wave with a number of guest. 19 actually as far as to why this would not really care that it is of course most why me or the know anything anytime the us 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 was 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 also around the world. 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 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. 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 single mom their people their kids getting your people who could least afford out we have lots of bankruptcies we've got tons of unemployment but i mean. it's going to i would hope that this 3rd time we might do something close to focus protection people work. but we tell people we're elderly who have

co-morbidities if they want. washington is actively attempting to prevent a run from buying any coronavirus fuck scenes that's the claim being made by the chief of a run central bank echoing earlier remarks by officials in tehran. 1000 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 over 50000 died during the demick and with over a 1000000 confirmed infections it is the worst hit country in the middle east so let's have a look at how sanctions are having an impact the trump administration is imposed restrictions on our runs financial system as part of its maximum pressure campaign they target arena and individuals on banks as well as foreign entities working with

a run central bank transactions for medical supplies can be exempted but need approval from the u.s. treasury well we asked the treasury department to comment on the allegations thoughts and actions are preventing iran from accessing a covert vaccine. they've refused to comment political scientists calvey off the selby believes that the u.s. sanctions will have a significant impact on the iranian health sector. sanctions are primarily you know financial and trade in each it but the basically i think all aspects of the main an economy have serious people if they explore and there how the u.s. is doing what it really can't do and then mind you aren't really at the 2 pool cue the necessity medical devices and in this case vaccines that on the horizon and. chase employees play shooting. government osogbo. and not to

unfreeze billions of dollars of the acid that iran meets in order to purchase. you know meanings of those of vaccines by causing all of these restrictions. and i'm creating the global war to combine these disease so you u.s. is not it will be caught in the highs and i hear money and constantly iran it will not take such drastic actions that directly make their well being i mean the ones of iranians. with most of the gold you're rhenium diamond reserves what makes one of the globe's wealthiest countries often set rock bottom in the global writings when we ask why next in congo my precious they called. thank.

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