german hospitals in crisis have a 2nd wave stretches intensive care units across the country to the limits with patients 40 percent compared to the spring. when the virus infections on record in the u.s. with the stimulus package still not agreed. you know a big chunk of it goes to the military and paying. people. i think just neither side really cares about poor people and also coming up on the program. biggest there were a vaccination campaign. but. the population still have over the safety of.

one minute past 10 at night in. december the 8th welcome to the news hour i mean and. the pandemic is tightening its grip on germany where hospitals warn they are severely overstretched the number of patients in intensive care is up 40 percent compared with springtime peter all over now takes us through every single german state is deemed to be officially a risk. 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 in those that have it which means many more are requiring intensive care 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 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 pushing german healthcare deral 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 has 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 meshes by covert skeptics conspiracy theorists and those concerned 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 suppose that 3rd wave of the pandemic could be in 3 but are further along the way forward in the program our panel of experts consider

what is necessary. in the united states grim records are being set in america has just registered the single highest daily coronavirus death toll this year on average of 2000 people from the virus there every 24 hours while almost 1500000 were infected in just the past week to spite the dire situation that washington still count agree on an aid package to support those most in need touring the. the proposal includes around $900000000000.00 in funding it aims to help american businesses in particular restaurants hotels underlines also to support the unemployed but. previous aid packages have not always gone to those most in need. 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 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 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 pabst 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. 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 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 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 in 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 truck 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 course the congresswoman denies any wrongdoing as is tradition what can you do while you can ignore it all the incompetence and 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 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 and things stateside in california people are calling out what they see as another misuse of funds during the pandemic the state's governor has allocated $80000000.00 to build boards currying educational messages about covert that's angered many who claim that the money would have been better spent supporting local businesses that have been hit hard during off time. as americans wait for congress to agree to the latest relief package let's hear what new yorkers think about the delay. 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 and probably why it strategically to intel 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 it goes to the military and paying politicians to 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 and those situations they are prepared for any notice baby 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 if you find $5.00 on the ground even go give it to the store that you find out front of i don't i don't think so 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 technologies 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. let's move across the atlantic from there to the u.k. which just kicked off its mass coronavirus vaccination program with the health secretary doubling it the day however despite the funding for nearly half the british population of concerns over the safety of the job produced by pfizer and by on tech reporting from london on that here's a nice lady. 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. fact 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 and up to 50 so-called vaccine hubs across the country including gods and thomas the hospital here behind me describing this day you say 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 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 of world of a 3rd of the public say that it's unlikely but they see themselves taking this

vaccine almost 50 percent 48 percent worry that the back seat 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 vaccine whether they themselves would be willing to take it. not to see if you haven't seen it i trust him i would take it if you can see me and i think maybe 650 separately and i think what it would be all right if it was the 1st state 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. chariot and dystopian measures with the law.

one of the other main concerns that we've been seeing from people here in the united kingdom and 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 of 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 and it's thought that there are enough facilities there isn't enough of the necessary types of freezers and other logistical. put needed to try to store these vaccines they safely and to transport them so many questions by the government that they feel confident that they can successfully rollout this fact see that at least to those who want to. indeed as we mentioned top you care fishel said dubbed the vaccine rollout the day but for some of those on the front line they want the government to learn from its mistakes we heard from the british doctors union who claim a lack of personal protective equipment has led to a void about it. 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 pipe truck judgment inquiry. just to add to that opinion according to one report between april and october over 100 staff members including those working in the care sector lost their lives as a result of doing their job while human rights group amnesty international says over $600.00 health workers have died during the pandemic in the u.k. that is the 3rd highest reported figure ploughboy. the british government though has insisted it was a colossal race against time to make sure the n.h.s.

got what it needed from trusted p p e providers and intel but dr jenny vall again the screed. why is it that the national audit office have come out and said they need there 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 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 dove men might decide to have later on it was not the case that p.p.a. was officially gets into the front 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 stigma sponsible and that's why the doctors

a cut so c.h. and together with the good law. get all projects and our costs are taking the government to court and it is the right decision. still to come on the program scientists are predicting a 3rd wave of the color of a person's posts are all we are anticipating more alerts like the 2nd so-called. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy on sunday shouldn't let it be an arms race. period dramatic developments only really i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk.

the world is driven by a dream shaped by one person. who dares thinks. we are here to ask. your back with arch international as nations around the world bottle to turn the

tide against covert 19 experts are warning we could face a tough beginning to next year as well 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 disposable but it's also preventable so we don't have to wade through it again we must avoid 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 locked ons and 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 should we be gearing up for a tough start to 2021 i discussed this with a panel of experts. actually as far as to why this would not really care that it is

of course most why me or. anything any top of 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 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 2020 want to be different than what we have somebody anybody in 2025 medically because we are seeing a vaccine coming into the into the human and of course it would take a little bit of time before to get into the general public to achieve the herd immunity so it ought to be and it's also a change in of the virus but because of the vaccine 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 a lot of us 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 giving up is going to the. people who. are the. people. who could least afford. lots of bankruptcies we've got tons of unemployment. it's going to i would hope that there's a good time we might do something close to. people who work. but we tell people. who have co-morbidities the thing that we're going. to. washington is actively attempting to prevent iran from buying any coronavirus vaccines that's the claim being made by the chief of iran 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 opium and methods have been blocked by the inhumane embargo of the us government well let's look at the figures here 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 let's also take a look at how those sanctions might be having an impact on the run struggle against the virus the trump administration has imposed restrictions on the country's financial system as part of its maximum pressure campaign they targeted individuals and banks as well as foreign entities working with iran's central bank transactions for medical supplies can be exempted but still needs the approval of the u.s. treasury we heard from an iran based political scientist who say's the sanctions will hit the arena health sector hard obviously the people using it. sanctions are

primarily in a financial and trade in need but the basically i think all aspects of the pain 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 necessity medical devices and in this case the vaccines that are on the horizon and. case in point is pressuring. government osogbo. and not to unfreeze the billions of dollars of the remaining an asset that iran needs in order to purchase. the meanings of those of vaccines by causing all of these restrictions if you will so i'm creating the global war to combine these disease so if u.s. is not it will be caught and has and i you know you money young constantly iran it

will not take such drastic actions that directly affect the wellbeing of meanings of iranians. well if you'd like to delve deeper into balance or any of this our stories our website hers if you covered well worth some of your scoring time today i mean only look for an.

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