you see. the. german hospitals in crisis the 2nd wave 'd stretches intensive care units across the country to the limits with patients up 40 percent compared to the spring. infections un-dead stage a record in the united states with a stimulus package still. congress is now under fire for its spend the last. you know a big chunk of it goes to the military and paying context and. i think they are they just neither side really cares about poor people. in the program the u.k. and its biggest ever

a vaccination campaign. but polls show close to half the population still have the safety of the. coming from moscow welcome to our to international my names you know me 30 minutes of news and views start now on. 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 of her takes us through 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 called 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 push in german health care to 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 it 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 i can start for the 1st wave was a children's policy compared to what we have a man we have a very high case numbers for many people affected and we didn't have time to start we had the pandemic in well under control and now we have significant difficulties in bringing the numbers down safely while politicians from the local right through

to the federal level here in germany we're also seeing protests against those very same meshes by covert skeptics conspiracy theorists and those concerned that anti coronavirus measures will see them lose their jobs i. did not. know. despite those protests it seems more likely that the federal government would introduce tougher coronavirus measures across the whole country than there being any type of festive reprieve to the measures already in place peter all over r.t. . you know peter giving. the sense of things in germany in the united states a grim records are being set to america just registered the single highest corona virus death toll globally this year an average of 2000 people now die from the

virus there every 24 hours while almost 1500000 were infected in just the past week despite the dire situation the washington still can't agree on an aid package to support those most in need to independent the proposal includes around $900000000000.00 in funding it aims to help american businesses in particular restaurants hotels or lines and also to support the employed but there's the bricks than previous aid packages are not always gone to those most in. the united states is hurting 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 called for 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 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 or then don't whether to finally give a shrug 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 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. protest a group that supports and enables the rights of writers that have shaken america qualified for $145000.00 in covert relief parity the group which has new web page and only recently started a twitter account is vital to the community systemic racism is a blight on civilization but this is conveyed relief money right see this is something the pentagon doesn't get either this is money for the desperate for

losing pain because of the virus lot money for jet engine parts or stirring up riots and these problem goes right to the top where a company that belongs to a congresswoman's husband the company which had a great year raking in millions and consulting fees can then claim half a $1000000.00 in extra pandemic relief money it's amazing how well socialism works for the few don't you feel powerless when you read stories like this one i sure do along with angry. now that's keeping it in the family while omar's husband's firm get half of all her campaign spending they also got a chunk of taxpayer provided relief people have lost jobs and homes in the morris husband gives half a $1000000.00 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 if north all the incompetence in the corruption hoop that a few 100 bucks trickle down your way to pay off the angry landlord to keep your throat while you search for a new job that might still exist you and millions more just don't expect too much help from above they're busy doing what they always do arguing with each other with all the challenges america has right now we think covert reading should be on the floor but instead the democrats put cats and cannabis this week they'll say such pretty things i have tears in their eyes as they profess to care about your situation and then off all the fear radical help in the world billions trillions in relief that many americans will never see but hey pentagon just scored the sweetest new dress uniforms why can't you just be happy for them it is

a kind of naive to expect that even in an extreme situation that we are in now with a combination of the cold did a crisis the health crisis and the crash of our capitalist economic system the dominance of large corporations and the dominance of the wealthy is not going to be operating in the relief program and that is what is happening in the paycheck protection program $523000000000.00 a lot of money was supposed to go to medium and small businesses. it now appears from a report of the small business administration in washington that the richest one percent of companies over 25 percent of all that money that was not the engine was not the purpose but that is the way this society works and it includes doing that

with relief efforts by the gov. well it's just a state sign because in california people are calling it what they see is another misuse of funds during the pandemic the state's governor has allocated $18000000.00 to build boards carrying educational messages a budget covert dot's many who claim that the money would have been better spent supporting local businesses that have been hit hard during lockdown. well as americans wait for congress to agree the latest relief package let's hear what new yorkers think about the way. i know they're talking about it right now and get a little bit more progress on a 2nd relief but it's still a long time coming i think it's going to get stalled no matter what i think both sides don't really actually care it's really politically charged that's probably why it's strategically taking time off 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 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 notice they 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 if there's a way to take advantage we're going to get $55.00 on the ground even go give it to the store the final phone 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 that 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 train to the people who have allowed it and have the most people there reach a kind of arguing for them. well let's bring you back across the atlantic where the u.k. has kicked off its mass coronavirus vaccination program with the health secretary dubbing it the day however despite the funding for nearly half the british population of concerns over the safety of the job produced by pfizer by on tech reporting from london all not easily. 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 have to prove all 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 close to normal as possible the health secretary hancock describing today that they will. not vaccine starts to be rolled out and up to 50

so-called vaccine hubs across the country including gods and thomas's 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 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's opinion trying to get people's perspectives on the back seat and it shows that around 35 percent most would have a good deal 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 not to see if you haven't seen it i trust and i would take it if it comes to preach to me and i think the misapprehension point 3 separate plate and i think what it would be all right if it off to the state and send it to 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 would lock down the law.

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 of some of the just tickle 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 rollout this fact see that at least to those who want to. you know as he said was going through top you care fishel dubbed the vaccine are allowed but for some of those on the front line they want they government to learn from its mistakes we heard from a british doctor's union claim a lock of personal protective equipment has led to a voidable. 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 well 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 pun demick in the u.k. that's the 3rd highest reported figure globally. the british government though has insisted it was a colossal race against time to make sure the n.h.s. gold what it needed from across the p.p.a. providers and entirely but dr jenny ball again disagree. 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 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 cleared 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 judgment might decide to have later on it was not the case that p.p.a. was officially getting to the front line so you know this needs to be taken very seriously and the way the government does is it commits to a timely judgment inquiry a stigma sponsible and not supply the doctors a concise ation together with the good of all. goodwill projects and outlast the government to go and it's the right decision. 20 minutes in the program still to

come and scientists are awarding a 3rd way of the coronavirus could be the new year's gift over a lot of sympathy on the right door and out after the short break.

what is the fate of the progressive movement can it continue to co-exist with the mainstream establishment left is this current trajectory in a literal and temperate recipe part of a greater political field. hello again nations around the world to turn the tide against covert 19 experts are warning we could be facing a tough start next year or 2. 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 to speak loudly about these untruths that another outbreak is impossible the u.k. france and germany are among those who have been implementing various laws dawns on restrictions to fight this 2nd wave however chancellor merkel warns that current measures may not be. 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 rough beginning to 2021 and i discussed this with a puddle of experts earlier. quoted 19 actually sauce to why this would not really care that it is of course most why me or the either or anything any taller and the others will get the chance to come across my susceptible population it's when in

fact that is me likely happen because of the mixing we will be seen during the christmas time this september january time was when we 1st started really to discover what the virus was all of the pen demick intensified into the summer a knob again are we facing the same scenario in 2021 do you think this is going to be a pattern i think 20 or 21 of them certainly be different than what we have had some but again we in 2025 medically because we are seeing the vaccine coming into the into the human eye and of course it would take a little bit of time before to get into the general public to achieve the herd immunity so that we can believe it's also a change in of the virus but because of the vaccine will decline to one 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 muscle around the world added. you know people who die so a 3rd wave coming is obviously absolutely frightening and i do think it's wearing on us as humans as individuals but on the other hand we've got to let the experts really drive this and see this to an end so that we can really get obviously as we know it peter talk of a 3rd wave might dump in the spirits but just how important is it for businesses to get at least some of their. seasonal trade in because you hear many stories of businesses having a tough year on the mc the naked bike almost on a good christmas a good new year if that's not here there's businesses that are going to close and they don't care too much about a 3rd wave or talk of it we have bigger companies getting bigger or smaller companies going out of business the gap is widening people who. are the core are

single moms their people their kids your people who could least afford them we have lots of bankruptcies we've got tons of unemployment so i mean. it's going to i would hope that this 3rd time we might do something close to protect people work but we tell people we're going we have co-morbidities they want. your. washington is actively attempting to prevent iran from buying any coronavirus fact scenes that is 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 u.s. government. let's give you

a sense of the figures here over 50 fellows in their remains have died during the pandemic with over a 1000000 confirmed infections it is the worst hit country in the middle east let's take a look at how those sanctions we've been speaking about might be having an impact on iran the struggle against the virus the trump administration has imposed restrictions on the country's financial system as part of its maximum pressure campaign now of a target to remain individuals and banks as well as foreign entities working with iran's central bank transactions for medical supplies they can be exempted but still need the approval of the u.s. treasury well we heard from an iran based political scientists who say yes the sanctions will hit the iranian health sector hard the people using it to the sanctions are primarily in a financial and trade in need but the basically i think all aspects of the the man economy have serious people. say the u.s.

is doing what it really can to undermine. the pool cue the necessity medical devices and in this case vaccines on the horizon and. chase employees rationing. government osogbo. and not to unfreeze billions of dollars of the acid that it on me. to purchase. know millions of doses of vaccine by causing all of these restrictions. and i'm creating that will want to combine this disease so you u.s. is not it will be declining and has and i. am constantly iran it will not take such drastic actions that directly in the well being of millions of iranians. a lot is how they global news headlines are shaping up for more great programs get their

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