this is headline stories in german hospitals in crisis this 2nd wave stretches intensive care units across the country to the limit with patients 40 percent compared to the spread. infections and record highs in the u.s. with a stimulus package still not agreed congress is now under fire for how it's spent the last. you know a big chunk of it goes to the military and paying politicians. back to people are taking i think they're they just neither side really cares about poor people. in the u.k. rules on its biggest ever vaccination campaign. but polls showed close to half the population. for the safety of the.

of the world this is r t international pleasure to have your company this hour my names you know me. make 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 spring time peter all of arctics us through every single german state is now deemed to be officially 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 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 busy industries 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 that and to 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. think 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. early. leicester attention to the united states were grim records are being set just registered the single highest the only coronavirus death toll globally this year and average of 2000 people die from the virus there every 24 hours while

almost 1500000 were infected in just the past week the spike the dire situation the washington still count agree on an aid package to support those most in need during the pandemic the proposal includes around $900000000000.00 in funding it aims to help american businesses in particular restaurants hotels on ur lines and also to support the old employed but. breakstone previous aid packages have not always gone to those most in. the united states sees hurt it worse than anyone else by qubit 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 as we're actually talking see for you

all for me who would relief might mean money for food 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 or then don't know whether to finally give a shrug 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 by mosques by gloves pabst anti sceptic. pentagon use taxpayer 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 in relief 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 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 to lose it 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 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 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 kovac really 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 focus but that is the way the society works and it includes doing that with relief efforts by the government and staying stateside in california people

are calling aren't 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 cope with. many their claim that the money would have been better spent supporting local businesses that have been hit hard during the time. well as americans wait for congress to agree that latest relief package let's hear what new yorkers think about that the way. i know they're talking about it right now and getting 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 if it's really politically charged that's probably why it's strategically to intel 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 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 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 have 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 a 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 top stories that are being paid by those communities so that it. will train to the people who

have allowed it and have the most people there reach a kind of arguing for them. the u.k.'s kicked off its mass cruel virus back to nation program with the help to 2nd tree they're doubling it the day however despite the fund for nearly half the british population health concerns over the safety of the japanese by pfizer and scientific reporting from london on the circe alley. 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 see that there are it's not without its concerns but markets have reacted positively the government say that this is something like could get life back to this close to normal as possible the health secretary hancock describing today that they would. win that 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 just say it's the day the day that tomorrow is the day when we roll out the coronavirus vaccine across the whole of the u.k. and 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 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 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. there is nothing if you haven't seen it i trust him i would take it if it comes to me and i think maybe some things would be 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 had actually advised against making vaccines mandatory across the world i don't think that mandates a 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 that 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. yeah i was going through. the vaccine rollout but for some of those on the front line they want the government to learn from its mistakes we heard from the british doctors you claim a lock of personal protective equipment has led to avoidable deaths. 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 think 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 judgment inquiry according to one report between april and october over 100 staff members including those working in the care center lost their lives as a result of doing their job of human rights group amnesty international ses over 600 health workers a during the pundit make in the u.k. that's the 3rd highest reported figure though by the british government though doesn't says that it was a colossal race against time to make sure the n.h.s. got what it needed from trusted p.p. providers and in time but dr jan involved again disagreed. 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 front line they've had a long cancel look at this and they produced a report and i can tell you that i was giving a lot of interviews and as was in and much of da u.k. we were listening to frontline talk to all of us we're working hard and we reporting these issues we have clete day 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 adjustment 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 is it commits to a timely judgment inquiry a signature and that's why the doc has a concise ation together with the good of all. goodwill projects and outlast the government to go and makes the right decision still to come this hour scientists are warning a 3rd wave of the crawler virus could be the new year is difficult no one wants

this jugglery or the children.

so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy one from day shouldn't let it be an arms race in this scary dramatic development is only going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. 21 minutes past the hour welcome 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 disposable

but it's also preventable so we don't have to wade through it's 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 just some examples the u.k. france germany here in europe are among those being implementing various lock downs and restrictions to fly the 2nd wave or 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 curing up for a tough beginning to 2021 and i discussed this with a panel of experts. 19 actually as far as to why this would not be clear that it is of course most why me or the know anything anytime that 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 during 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 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 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 the naked. 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 'd or talk of it we have bigger companies giving up is going to. people

. are the. kids. out. of bankruptcy we've got tons of unemployment. it's going to i would hope that this time we might do something close to. people. but we were. going to. washington is actively attempting to prevent a run from buying any coronavirus vaccines that's the claim being made by the chief of a run central bank echoing earlier remarks by officials in tehran. $1000.00 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 this is the situation as

a stand over 50000 to radians have died during the pandemic with over a 1000000 confirmed infections it's the worst hit country in the middle east well let's take a look at how those sanctions might be having an impact on a run struggle against the virus the trouble ministration impose sanctions on the country's financial system as part of its maximum pressure campaign they targeted we need 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 political scientists who say that the sanctions will have theory me and health sector hard on the people using it. sanctions are primarily in a financial and trade in need but the basically i think all aspects of the main an economy have serious people effects on their hot sake the u.s. is doing whatever they can to undermine yarns ability to pool cue the necessity

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 ring and acid that iran mean it's in order to purchase. the meanings of those of vaccines by causing all of these restrictions. and i'm creating the global war to combine these disease so if u.s. is not it will be caught and has an iota of humanity and constant weight on it will not take such drastic actions that directly affect the wellbeing of meanings of iranians. lobbies are up for now but if you'd like to put donna in writing what you're thinking out there why not leave a comment or 2 on our team's facebook page lots of content always being out there

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