a 2nd wave of the coronavirus pushes german hospital for the brink with the number of patients more than a. spring. factions and death rates hit record highs in the u.s. and with the stimulus package still not agreed congress is on the fire for how it's spent the last one. you know a big chunk of it goes to the military and. small business myself. i think just neither side really cares about poor people. u.s. president elect makes his choice for the country's defense secretary nominating the retired general responsible for a $1000000000.00 training program in syria which was deemed a complete failure. here

in moscow you what's your team's national with me daniel hawkins were you ought to night's welcome to the program. i was covered cases in germany seeing hospitals in the country stretched to the limit the number of patients in intensive care is up 40 percent compared to the spring for you to all of us has the details. 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 person german health care the real strain is interesting as we can see that the health authorities are increasingly exhausted for example they are no longer able to determine from where

people have contracted the virus we see more and more outbreaks in older people's homes and nursing homes is becoming increasingly difficult to keep the virus out of these institutions and to protect the people there local government officials here in the german capital fear the restrictions in place of not being enough to combat the spread. of i can start the 1st wave was a children's poncy compared to what we have mal we have a very high case numbers of 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 in bringing the numbers down. while politicians from the local right through to the federal level here in germany a cold so that the current covert measures aren't enough to stop the spread of the virus we're also seeing protests against those very same measures by covert skeptics conspiracy theorists and those concerned that anti coronavirus measures

will see them lose their jobs. i. am not even 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. already in place peter all 'd over r t early in the united states groom records of being sets america's just registered the single highest daily coronavirus death toll globally this year an average of 2000 people now died from the virus there every 24 hours or almost one and a half 1000000 were infected just in the past week or despite the dire situation though washington still can't 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 businesses in particular restaurants hotels and airlines and also to support the unemployed meanwhile house and senate negotiators have reached an agreement on a final version of the national defense authorization act according to which the pentagon is to receive more than $700000000000.00 in 2021 and use is likely to further fuel anger over the lack of agreement on the cobra relief bill or does the earth has more details. 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 the means 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 shrugging 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 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 would 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 no web page and only recently started a twitter account is vital to the community systemic racism is a blight on civilization but this is kind of it relief money right see this is something the pentagon doesn't get either this is money for the desperate for losing pain because of the virus lot money for jet engine parts or stirring up riots and these problem goes right to the top where a company that belongs to

a congresswoman's husband the company which had a great year raking in millions and consulting fees can then claim half a $1000000.00 in extra pandemic relief money it's amazing how well socialism works for the few don't you feel powerless when you read stories like this one i sure do along with angry. now that's keeping it in the family while omar's husband's firm get half of all her campaign spending they also got a chunk of taxpayer provided relief people have jobs and homes in the morris husband gives half a 1000000 dollars and go with relief funds when will the voters in minnesota do something about her 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 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 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 in california people are crying foul over the governor's choice to spend $80000000.00 on billboards carrying messages about covert fertik say the money would have been better spent supporting local

businesses. now as americans wait for congress to agree the new relief packets we've got reaction on the streets of new york. and i know we'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 and probably why it strategically take info on 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 a 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 and in those situations they are prepared for any of this they might have more a. they might help them out more to give money to.

the military than to help the people that are essentially for this is america. i mean if there's a there's people that there's a way to take advantage and if you find $5.00 on the ground even go give it to the store the final front of i don't 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. 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 tax dollars that are being paid by those communities so that it. will drain to the people who are the loudest and has the most people out there reach a kind of arguing for them. u.s. president elect joe biden has chosen over time general as his defense secretary if approved by the senate the 67 year old lloyd austin would become the 1st

african-american to lead the pentagon. 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 the terrorist threats in iraq and syria president obama and i tend to austin who then lead us central command he designed and executed the campaign did ultimately beat back isis lloyd austin the under the obama administration leading the u.s. central command it was the main military architect of the u.s. led offensive against the islamic state in syria and iraq it was also the wanted kylie admitted the failure of a $500000000.00 training program in syria back in $215.00 it was shut down after producing around 5 trained fighters instead of the several 1000 which had been planned can you tell us what the total number of trained fighters remained it's a small number and. the ones that are in the fight is is

is we're talking $44.00 or 5 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 going we want to reach the goal that we had initially established for swells but what about the the overall goal is to make sure that we have enough mass to be able to get work done on the ground well meanwhile a potential stumbling block for austin lawyers candidacies the fact you were tied 4 years ago u.s. law states an officer must have left the service at least 7 years becoming secretary of defense and senior research fellow at the global policy in the shoots george somewhere he thinks exceptions will be made to the rules. general mattis. trumps the defense secretary also had to overcome this horrible and he overcame it without too much difficulty because that was senators of the time which said that this is just one all we're not going to do this again and we you know we really

mean it this time but we don't have to take this very seriously so having said all that about as i don't like it that on a round. i'm a difficult these all all stand but take it as you know will be honest about it i mean he is old so the would be the black man who would be head of the pentagon so i don't think anyone's going to want any hook. still to come as the war against coronavirus and there's a new chapter in the u.k. with a mass vaccination program now on the way home will suggest some money are still worried about the job safety mornings after the break.

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welcome back to the program it's been dubbed the day heralding the start of the u.k.'s mask over vaccination program the latest polls the suggest many brits still have safety concerns over the new job. has more details from love them. 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 active 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 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 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 him i would take it becomes a secret to me and i think the misapprehension the point he simply played and i think what it would be all right if it was that christine and send it to i don't trust it to be honest i don't know how hard it can. generate fixing that fast a lot of pushback some of the measures in this country to deal with the crisis including protests in the middle of the city. against what those protesters say oh . terry and 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 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 so this is 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 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 communicate as many as they did post 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 acquit needed to try to store these vaccines stay safely and to transport them so a many questions need to be answered by the government that they feel confident that they can successfully roll out the track see that at least to those who wanted . a wall or effect of vaccines points the brights a few photos on the front line want to make sure lessons a lot from the mistakes of the past we had from a british doctor's union which claims a lack of protective equipment led to avoidable deaths. we think the government kicking the can down the road basically we already had the 1st wave of cave age 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 judge led inquiry according to one report between april and october more than 100 staff including those working in the care sector lost their lives simply doing their jobs out of the international claims over 600 health workers died during the pandemic in the u.k. that's the 3rd highest reported figure globally the british government said to faith intense competition to make sure the health service got what it needed but dr jenny born-again disagrees. why is it that the national audit office have come out and said there needs 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 you know much of da u.k. we were listening to frontline doctors all of us were working hard and we were

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 judgment might decide to have later on it was not the case that p.p.a. was officially gets in line so you know this needs to be taken very seriously and the way the government does is it commits to a timely judgment inquiry a serious possible and that's why the doctors the cat sociate and together with the good lord. goodwill projects and our class are taking the government to court and it is the right decision washington is actively attempting to prevent iran from buying any coronavirus vaccines that's according at least to the chief of iran's central bank over 1000 vaccines have to be purchased through the official channels of the world health organization but all payment methods have been blocked by the inhumane embargos of the u.s.

government more than 50000 the rain ians of died during the pandemic with more than a 1000000 confirmed infections it's the worst hit country in the middle east the trumpet of instruction is impose restrictions on the country's financial system as part of its maximum pressure campaign the target iranian individuals and banks as well as for entities working with iran's central bank transactions for medical supplies can be exempt but they do need approval of the u.s. treasury we heard from iran based political scientist who says the sanctions will hit the iranian people hard. 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 effects on their sake the u.s. is doing whatever they can to undermine iran's ability to pool cue the necessity medical devices and in this case vaccines that on the horizon and.

case in point is prey sharing. government osogbo. and not to unfreeze billions of dollars of the ring and acid that iran means in order to purchase. you know millions of doses of vaccine 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 humanity and constantly iran it will not take such drastic actions that directly affect the wellbeing of meanings of iranians cross-talk explores what's in store for domestic u.s. politics come january and spot in his inauguration it's a one off i can offer now with the latest headlines we'll see about that.

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hello and welcome to cross talk or all things are considered i'm peter lavelle what is the fate of the progressive movement can it continue to co-exist with the mainstream establishment left is its current trajectory electoral did it and can progressive's be part of a greater political realignment. to discuss this and more i'm joined by my guests jamie right in los angeles she is the founder of the right ball firm and political and also in los angeles we have is about she is an independent journalist and co-host of the congo couch and in new york we have john burnett he is co-chair of public affairs and public policy for new york republican state committee rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i was appreciate it maybe it's going to be an.