german hospitals in crisis the 2nd wave stretches intensive care units across the country limits with cold with patients up 40 percent compared to the spring. deaths had record. it's been the last one. i know the big chunk of it goes to the military and. i think just neither side really cares about poor people. from the u.k. its biggest ever vaccination campaign. day but polls show. the

population still have a safety. from the russian capital every hour of the day this is our to international hello and welcome to the program. the pandemic is tightening its grip on germany where hospitals warn they are severely stretched the number of patients in intensive care is up 40 percent compared with springtime and us peter all over no it takes us through every single german state is deemed to be officially. 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 pushing german health care during real strain. 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 and with the reasons homes and nursing homes it is becoming increasingly difficult to keep the virus out of these institutions all you can to protect them people their 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 policy compared to what we have man we have a very high case numbers of many people affected and we didn't have time 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 meshes by covert skeptics conspiracy theorists and those concerned it's anti coronavirus measures will see them lose their jobs. i. am. pretty late in the night and i'm sure you know we've all got to move. 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. in let's bring you to the united states where grim records are being set america has just registered the single high as dealey coronavirus death globally this year and the average of 2000 people die from the virus there every 24 hours

while almost 1500000 were infected in just the past week the spite the dire situation the washington still count agree on an aid package to support those most in need cheering the pandemic of the proposal includes around $900000000000.00 in funding its aims to help american businesses in particular restaurants hotels or lines and also to support the old employed but as moroccans the breakstone previous aid packages have 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 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 couvade relief might mean money for food but 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 crude of ours so what of the pentagon do the buy mosques buy 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 $100.00 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 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 chuck of taxpayer provided relief people have lost jobs and homes in the morris husband gets 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 over everything 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 purpose but that is the way the society works and it includes doing that with relief efforts by the government. just to talk about california

briefly people are calling it what they see is another misuse of funds during the pandemic the state's governor has allocated $80000000.00 to billboards carrying educational messages about covert and that's a good many who claim the money should have been really better spent supporting local businesses that have been hit hard during lockdown. as americans wait for congress to agree the latest relief package let's hear what new yorkers think by the delay. and 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 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

a big chunk of it goes to the military and paying politicians the systems are already set up i kind of i mean for a little bit use here for probably money and approvals to go through in that and those situations they are prepared for any of this be might have more. it might help them out more to give money to. the military than to help people that are essentially pork this is america. i mean if there's a there's people that if there's a way to take advantage of we're going to get if you firefighters on the ground and go give it to the store that you find out front of i don't i don't think so but i was small business myself actually i know for a fact that people are taking advantage of it individuals as well as businesses that don't actually need. large corporations even though there's been a lot of people giving money back which is good i got to 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 their communities are supported by the tax dollars that are being paid by those communities and sort of it filtering to the people who are the loudest and

have the most people out there return kind of arguing for them. us president elect joe biden has chosen a retired general as his defense secretary if approved by the senate 67 year old lloyd austin would become the 1st black person to head the. i chose lloyd austin as my nominee for secretary of defense because he will do whatever it takes to defend the american people when the islamic state emerged as a terrorist threat in iraq and syria president obama and i tend to alston who then led us central command he designed and executed the campaign did ultimately beat back isis. lloyd austin served under the obama administration leading the u.s. central command he was the main military architect of the u.s. led offensive against the islamic state in syria and iraq he was also the one who come to billy admitted the failure of

a 500000000 dollars training program in syria back in 2015 it was shut done after producing some 5 trained fighters instead of the several thought isn't which been blown. can you tell us what the total number of trained fighters remains it's a small number and. the ones that are in the fight. is we're talking 445 so is that still the goal to have about $12000.00 of them there is that still the goal what's the expectation then for them at the pace we're gone we won't reach the goal that we had initially starbucks for ourselves but but the the overall goal is to make sure that we have enough mass to be able to get work done on the ground. let's discuss the appointment or at least proposed appointment with george to merely towards the senior research fellow at the global policy institute always good to see you george we just saw there is pretty famous

footage by now general austin admitting to having field with a huff a 1000000000 dollar project to train syrian rebels to fight i ended up literally with a full well this put a big question mark over his appointment. not really. i think the united states did in syria what the administration wanted all along it wasn't a serious program supplies isis it was a way of funneling money and risk so as to fight in syria that eventually ended up. weapons that ended up in the hands of isis and actually. made the still who war problem was than it was the goal along with never really to fight isis the goal all along was to topple shariah law

and that i think will still be. the policy of the incoming biden and inspirational as we get it's not exactly a done deal is it that defense secretary must be out of uniform at least 7 years before taking office but often only retired in 2016 at all times goes past the senate how big of a hurdle do you think might be. no good look thought. because general masses became drawn to the defense secretary also had to overcome this hurdle and he overcame it without too much difficulty and of course that was senators of the time was said that this is just a one off we're not going to do this again you know we really mean it this time but we don't have to take this very seriously particularly as many senators and many in the media policymaking so i called made a huge thank you shot of matches as if he was the grown up in the room as opposed

to the terrible impulsive an amateur rachana trump so having said all that about matters i don't like it's on the around and. make difficulties for austin particularly as it will be on who is the head of the pentagon so i don't think anyone's going to want with any hurdles in the way it just on the block suspect joe biden's put himself under a bit of pressure he pledged his administration would be the most adverse ever saying you know it sounds laudable but does it leave him open to claims that perhaps diversity is being promoted ahead of other issues ability to name but was. one of those it does but that's been the theme of the biden that it's all going to be about diversity it's all going to be about. making the cabinet look like america whatever that means. it has to be the number of women has with the

number of hispanics as the number of blacks. we haven't had any one with the sexual orientation issue having come off the transgender issue as we've come up but no doubt that will also some point be an issue of how many transgendered people has he appointed to the cabinet and just another aspect to touch. paul and general austin he sits on the board of race feel and one of the country's key weapon suppliers it's been a point of contention for a little while what message does this now i said at the most powerful one of the most powerful people in the captain never mind the defense ministry well the message is that the military industrial complex is going strong and will be even stronger in the future i mean we're now completely used to this idea of generals retiring getting nice recta ships. defense contractors and

then waltzing back into government in which capacity and they will be signing lucrative contracts with the same defense contractors so we know exactly what we're getting with often it will be all about boosting military spending and you know make making sure that the revolving door picking the military and the defense contractors keeps moving smoothly towards appreciate your time today thanks for coming on georgia merely a senior research fellow at the global policy institute. the news ahead for us the war against speaker ruled out by resembles a new chapter in the u.k. with a must but it's a nation program know underway polls suggest many are still worried about the job safety we get into that for you besides.

what is the fate of the progressive movement can it continue to co-exist with the mainstream establishment left is this current trajectory intellectual dead end and temperance recipe part of a greater political field. which is a planet with 5 moods an atmosphere highly active geology and evidence for a little quarter of the ocean since your need to. be of those 4 by all that is just far beyond our wildest imagination. seemed wrong why don't we all just don't call. me to be yet to shape out just they become agitated and engagement equals betrayal.

when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. i. welcome back to the show the u.k. has kicked off its mass coronavirus vaccination program with the health secretary dumping it v. day and whatever despite the fund for nearly half the british population of concerns over the safety of the produced by pfizer bio tech reporting from london. 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 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's 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 good 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 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 you haven't seen it i trust and i would take it if it comes to speak to me and i think the misapprehension point 3 separate plate and i think what it would be all right if it wasn't that interesting and. i don't trust it to be honest i don't know how hard it can. generate. 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.

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 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 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 appointment needed to try to store these vaccines stay safely and to transport them so many questions by the government that they feel confident that they can successfully roll out the least to those who want to. well as nations around the world battle to turn the tide against covert 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 that 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 to get him 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 well the u.k. france germany they're all 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. 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 i discussed this with a puddle of experts earlier. quoted 19 actually as far as to why this would not really care that it is of course most why me or the either or anything any taller than the others will get the chance to come across my susceptible population it's when in fact that is going to 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 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 had somebody anybody in 2025 medically because we are seeing the vaccine coming into the into the human arms 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 he can be made explicit in june of the virus but because of the vaccine 2021 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. you know people 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 jump in the spirits but just how important is it for businesses to get. some of their seasonal trade in because you hear many stories of businesses having a tough year on the mic the naked bike 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. trying to lock there are the single mom there are people there are kids getting your people who could

least afford. 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 protect people work. but we tell people we're elderly who have co-morbidities i think once. they start your. love is it from me for another done is here though at the top of the hour with all your latest updates on in the meantime don't go too far more great programs get going in moments of the season. join me every thursday on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics or business i'm show business i'll see that.

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