u.s. drug regulator approves the vaccine for emergency use and reports of the agency's head being threatened by the white house. today our nation has achieved a medical miracle it will save millions of lives and soon the pandemic once and for all. european union though rejects the use of an emergency authorization saying safety must come 1st. certificates for those who've been inoculated against it prompting fears that people will feel pressured into having the bank see our guests debate the issue. the one thing i would say to the european union is if you stop having so much bureaucracy and let those countries decide for themselves they would have frank

seems by now the blah blah. street of the times the british city of birmingham gives names to 6 new roads and it infuriates the p.c. brigade. either thanks for joining us midday here in the russian capital this is r.t. international. the united states food and drug agency has approved vaccine for emergency use after reports that the white house chief of staff had threatened the f.d.a. chief to approve the vaccine or resign donald trump has praised the development. today our nation has achieved a medical miracle we have delivered a safe and effective vaccine in just 9 months this is one of the greatest

scientific or karpal assurance in history it will save millions of lives and soon end the pandemic once and for all. in the u.k. people with a history of allergic reactions who have been advised against taking pfizer scurvy jab it comes just after the country began its mass rollout of the vaccine and in the united states the f.d.a. revealed 6 volunteers had died during trials involving 44000 people but the regulator insisted there was nothing to worry about saying that for those had received a placebo or the remaining 2 deaths were well within statistical expectation that more americans have now died of covert than last fighting in world war 2 almost 300000 people have lost their lives to the virus elimination has details. we've got 15000000 cases of covert 19 in the united states we've got hospitals

overwhelmed 107000 people are in the hospital at this moment doctors say these numbers are going to keep getting worse on wednesday there were more deaths from covert 19 on one day than there were on september 11th these are pretty big numbers that people are looking on at the situation then and just appalled at how massively coded 1000 has expanded throughout the united states how much the pandemic seems to be completely out of control now joe biden is promising that when he takes office he will tackle this issue for his 1st 100 days in office he's talking about a mask a mandate and i'm absolutely convinced that in 100 days we can change the course of the disease and change life in america for the better i'm going to ask for a mask in place everyone for the 1st 100 days of my administration to where madness it will start with my signing in order on day one to require mass where i cannot be the law there is some concern about how

a mask mandate would be enforced around the country where there are states and localities that have mandated masks be worn we've seen kind of rebellion among sheriffs and local police officers who are refusing to enforce it for example in california this local sheriff referred to a mask of mandate as dictatorial he is expecting us to arrest anyone violating these orders cite them and take their money close their businesses make them stay in their homes and take away their civil liberties or he will punish all of us the riverside county sheriff's department will not be blackmailed bullied or used as muscle against riverside county residents in the enforcement of the governor's orders unemployment numbers in the united states are actually the highest they've been since mid september we had a situation where this we. 853000 people lost their jobs bringing the total number of unemployment to 10700000 according to the us department of labor now

despite this there is a deadlock in congress they're fighting over the stimulus package others not a clear agreement between the 2 major parties about how relief should be provided and of course we've got the 2 major parties blaming each other how many more businesses have to shut or how many more dreams have to be shattered. how many more people have to be laid off. before nancy pelosi and the democrats will act we need more turn them to take more time but we have to have a bill and we cannot go home without it things are pretty out of control the rival parties are blaming each other joe biden is promising that he will turn things around however there's a strong amount of opposition to the measures he's already proposing even before he takes office quite a problematic and serious situation here in the united states people are kind of confused about what exactly to do. to protect themselves you know also when i think

many americans don't like to be told what to do so they've restrictions and they continue to fight the restrictions and by their doc. some of the states are stretched you know beyond capacity following every holiday there's it's a small surge and now it's a pretty big surge after thanksgiving there's still a significant portion of our population that doesn't get what's happening. while the united states is happy to resort to emergency authorization to try and the pandemic as quickly as possible europe is a caution with the head of its medicines agency saying that safety must come 1st as well as rejecting the need for emergency authorization the use calling for vaccination certificates there for people who've been inoculated and also calling for block wide mutual recognition of coronavirus test results now the aim of all this is to encourage eventual vaccine uptake and to help restore cross border travel right now the european union is working full speed to review the

safety of vaccine sent make them available. we have the opportunity to reach an agreement on how to proceed with court with 19 vaccines and establish a common system for the lead ity of tests however ponens vaccinations difficult so concerned that they will end up becoming defacto obligatory because the people could be required to have one before being permitted to do certain things like travel my colleague in a neo put this issue up for debate. i'm nervous about the idea of having these travel as certificates or the certificates that say you've had the coronavirus vaccine because what that means is that actually will then end up being a coronavirus passport so i think the thing is to encourage rather to rather than to make sure people are automatically told they have to have it it should not be compulsory go green with the gentleman there no problem but for air travel. it

should be made compulsory by the airlines to make sure that the people on the plane are sent to blah blah about really dumb eccentric that's exactly what the problems we've got with this. group who are going to be taking you know not getting the full information about and so i think there will be more people who are going to pick who profession coming out to look you eat certain they're very concerned return to rush this flight she has come out there who. are right now this is nothing against putting vets. but this it's really rooting out. for the public not put sir do your duty as a police. car isn't concerned the one thing i would say to the european union is if you stop having so much bureaucracy and let those countries decide for themselves they would have vaccines by now i think that's an incredibly dangerous thing to say this is been in the making for 20 years we've had

a rolling review is this is going on this vaccine is safe the m h r 8 would not license this vaccine if they did not believe it was safe and the problem is when you start to spread those sorts of rumors that's why people won't be vaccinated and the more you tell them you have to have a vaccine and people believe that there is some sort of military thing going on then people will not take up that fax nation and therefore we undo all the good work that's been done to date certain conspiracy theories and go our bordering on factual know looking as if they're going to be happening and this is just going to fuel those more extreme conspiracy theories that one of bill gates trying to use vaccines the plant microchips and people this is simply going to reinforce their fears isn't it yes i somehow i believe absolutely. sorry. you shouldn't believe these people or assume who claims crazy ideas over time in the coming months and years we will know about the long term solidity of the vaccine and after

certification and maybe we'll need to do it again and maybe there will be a 2nd version in all and that will improve the years but we need to save the economy now in germany to the delhi infection rates been steadily climbing since october and it's led to a debate about whether to poll the plug on traditional christmas events in a bid to keep people safe i think peta oliver reports from berlin. usually where i'm talking to you from would be the scene of one of the busiest christmas markets it's not to be this year there's no room at the inn for the christmas market due to the global pandemic but one thing that's a memory of christmas past is the smells of mold wine that still on sale at the restrictions on selling out cold will harm my business we will leave lots of income as things stand we can stay here until the 20th december maybe will be allowed to open up again after the lockdown is over the sale of

a cup of festive cheer is causing a divide in the country though while paws and restaurants of being forced to close on the germany's lock down lights mulled wine in the stalls have become a place to congregate prompting some politicians to warn that they may be leading to the spread of covert 19 across the country. one stands subvert our contact restrictions i don't understand why the city of cologne allows this in the end this will lead to new infections and that's it will be time for that later when we are vaccinated the owners of these stalls disagree though i think we should do everything we can to stop the spread of this virus we wear masks and observe the to meet a distance rule and disinfect our hands even germany's most famous christmas market in nuremberg is closed they have had to make changes to traditions going back to the 16th century with this year's chris kindle christ child opening the advent

season from a local t.v. studio. this year everything is different the coronavirus crisis is preventing us from doing many things in the run up to christmas such as advent celebrations and gathering at the christmas market. lockdown restrictions that were brought in back in november haven't had the desired effect in getting the number of cases of covert 90 down that means that the federal government here in berlin and the leaders of germany 16 states are going to have to thrash out a new set of restrictions even if that means putting christmas spirit on hold is fact. as hard as it is and i know how much care has gone into setting up the mood one and waffles tad's it's not compatible with what we agreed to only take food away and it is home and really sori from the bottom of my heart but if the price we pay is $590.00 deaths a day then that in my view is not acceptable. obviously the public don't want to

cancel christmas but i spoke to people here and asked them what they thought about these mulled wine stalls being open it's not very christmassy like to try to find a balance between not being scarce and. trying to have a good time maybe i think he says not good they do all of them at the same time is a little bit sad because it's christmas and their value won't be together and enjoy this time. it is a bit sad that there's not so much to do at this time but i think we need to be cautious and i suppose those few places with mulled wine should remain open it's clear from onboard merkel's address to the bundestag that the chancellor wants to see things go further sacrificing christmas spirit in the name of safety feature all over r.t. . 6 people were injured after being struck by

a car at a black lives matter protest in new york on friday police have confirmed the injuries appear not to be life threatening the rally was held in solidarity with people jailed by immigration enforcers the driver of the car that plowed into the crowd was arrested the area was cordoned off witnesses told us what they saw. our people got hit our people got hit by a car for us were doing a peaceful protests we had those biker cops behind us the entire day the by cops the bikers they were behind us the entire time they could have prevented it if they did their job much aware peacefully watching i turn around i see a car coming he said we did this. one of my brothers moved me out of the way of staying in the car started just getting. like smacked. the pretty city of birmingham has been branded won't fill for the way it is name 6 new streets the names include diversity growth equality road and humanity close

panel of judges selected the names from suggestions offered by the public and some locals have been quick to trounce the pics. these new street names are completely vacuous was 0 connection to the people history or culture of birmingham another labor initiative the politicize ation of our landscape continues the art a meaningless banality of these new names speaks volumes about the new hollow normal anyway how about trusts close compliance crescent woke wash way i'm calling it now someone's going to put a d at the end of humanity close radio host in column a strong gone says the birmingham should have chosen names that reflect the city's achievements instead this is political correctness gone mad this is snowflakes having a field day how ridiculous to name the streets in these clothes is in this way it's

virtue signaling it i'm sure it's not in shoes with most birmingham people it doesn't reflect what birmingham is what birmingham's becoming burning is a mordent through the sting city but we could talk about the achievements of birmingham and birmingham people there's luck and loads of people are not necessarily people but organization bands groups great achievements they couldn't name this after but no they want to slugger the demo do and they're politically correct it's an absolute joke and i'm sure that brahma jordan every working class birmingham people will be laughing at this as much as everybody else. locals in the far northwest of russia were treated to a dazzling nighttime display in shades of green this was a sight over morons the city is no stranger to the northern lights but this

particular display was larger and brighter than usual thanks to a powerful magnetic storm in the atmosphere. joe biden's latest cabinet pick does nothing to dispel fears the interests of corporate johnson think 1st of all that team obama is on the way back coming up after the break. the world is driven by a dreamer shaped by one person. thinks . we dare to ask.

human history has always seen continuous war opensource but in recent years it seems to have become more intense the platforming is no common practice and public scrutiny of the permanent feature where do we all stand on the battlefield of beliefs. welcome back u.s. president elect joe biden has unveiled his latest round of cabinet picks and they include yet another obama era official namely tom vilsack will be the new

agriculture secretary. for structure value of course right now money tom vilsack an outstanding 2 term governor of iowa the. agriculture i believe this country's ever had he was there when the great recession was probably ruin america over 8 years you oversaw a record breaking investment to bring us back the former iowa governor was agriculture secretary under barack obama his tenure plagued by accusations he favored major industrial giants like monsanto the supported a number of controversial measures including the expansion of genetically modified crops and helped ease industry restrictions by the cabinet so far has been packed with figures linked to big corporations for example former c.n.n. contributor jen psaki she's been chosen as the new white house press secretary lew dustin's nomination as defense secretary has sparked concerns over his ties to the arms supplier raytheon antony blinken suppose it were perceived closeness let's say

with the big and the powerful being questioned over his nomination for secretary of state as a political economy rasmus doesn't believe that the new administration will be too different from the one seen under barack obama. always whiteman's nearly all the now have been no retreads from your mom administration or pro corporate appointees you know it's not only that bill shack was. doing what he need to do to benefit monsanto and g.e.o.s. but he was in a husband in this there i believe the head of the dairy council so are this guy has a long history of corporate agribusiness try and other positions revolving doors of the same thing and it's not mary convincing that they were going to have much of a change sure and if the appointments by biden are any indication of what the policies might be another is whether we're live now nixon's going to be obama

nominates 2.0 and then we better worry and i don't see biden's policies that are going to be very are russian in terms of a stimulus that's needed and if the democrats don't come up with the robust stimulus economic policy my mind thinks office then they are facing our nominee yet none 2022 in congress. you can only try to say that they're coming under increased numbers of attacks from migrants in cali and that spike comes as the breaks a transition period approaches on particularly java filmed this video shows men trying to get into the truck ahead of his own to the man held projectiles at his vehicle we spoke with greg west the tribe and i thought video about the situation in cali. people that are trying to come across as. we call them immigrants they try very many different tactics to actually port the tribal and back american shows

as small an oiled up as much as possible the systems that are fitted within the channel tunnel actually make it much more harder because they can be detected 'd sniffing dogs will. hear and smell people consider themselves inside the truck is an opportunistic and there is a feeling of desperation that these people that live and so. are the main way migrants reach the ukase by both system 80 day record number landed in britain isha over 8000 but the rivals are set to decrease as the you can francis signed an agreement this was in november and in theory it will see more patrols and surveillance u.k. home office also says it's invested millions of pounds in border security greg west again says tougher borders is one of the reasons people voted for briggs it is fairly evident that there are more inclined to want to be. in the u.k. than in the rest of europe if they were genuine political asylum seekers they would

probably claim asylum once they come in to anywhere within the but they don't tend to back up and over load the immigration system and services within the u.k. so they then struggle to keep up i mean there are many reasons but the reason we voted to remove ourselves from europe was because we wanted but the country wanted greater control over immigration is one of the many factors. palestinian shop own is in all jerusalem alleged the israeli authorities are using the pandemic as an excuse to drive their businesses under hundreds of stores have been closed for violating health ministry rules. picks up the story. the pandemic has left businesses around the world reeling but here in the bubble huta neighborhood in the old city of jerusalem that's only hot off the story over $400.00 stores and counting have been forced to close here leaving families who've

worked in the shops for generations desperate normally at this time of year the streets are bustling with tourists and traders we're not far from the al aqsa mosque compound but as you can see many of the shops are closed and atmosphere is one of clue. here somebody who once made 100 shekels now makes 15 or less that's life now it's very difficult is not like before now there's no way to earn money the jobs here are reliant on tourism and there are no tourists it's been like this for a year the coronavirus is of course the main reason but shop owners yes it is also under pressure from israeli authorities to move why well they believe that once they're forced out the area will be filled with jewish israelis. and google business is not function here look at this coffee house it's closed and those that are open there are no customers they're not making ends meet and who is to blame

the government of course there's the crown of ours but they make too much drama out of that there's only so much you can blame on the virus people want to work and they are working but they're not making any money the police say that some motions are flouting the rules by refusing to efface mosques the people here say that something not true instead they say that the police are either preventing them from reaching their businesses under the pretext that they are breaking the coronavirus and quarantine rules or that coming up with other excuses to force them to close the shops. is because we're arabs look at tel aviv no one gets fined there before us because we're arabs we get fined 2000 shekels and reporters fall for everything. i mean surely to tell you the truth it's racism if you go to the jewish parts of jerusalem many people there don't even wear mosques the stores are open people go to work go about their daily lives there for us it's different my wife

had to pay 500 shekels because she hadn't put a mask on correctly the old city of jerusalem is eerily quiet quanah virus has devastated business in the streets now it's hardly the time to be playing politics or perhaps as residents here tell me it's the ideal time policia r.t. jerusalem. ok that wraps it up for this news hour don't get to check out plenty more stories we have uncovered on our web site had to r.t. dot com.

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