thinks. we are here to ask. congress to amend the relief package negotiated for months because this is the amount of cash expected to be handed to americans in. more. congress found plenty of money from foreign countries lobbyists and special that. the bare minimum to the american people. french government backs a bill to introduce so-called green passports under which movement restrictions will be placed on people not vaccinated against coronavirus. this rose coalition government falls after the knesset fails to secure

a new budget in time the country's headed for a general election and yes. good morning to you thanks for joining us here on r.t. international. congress to make changes to the much over $900000000000.00 relief bill he called it a disgrace for not putting the american people's interests 1st and for including more than a few pandemic related provisions us president wants individual payments increased from $600.00 to $2000.00. congress found plenty of money for far john trees lobbyists and special ijaz while sending the bare minimum to the american people who need it it wasn't their fault i am asking congress to amend this bill and

increase the ridiculous lelo 600 dollars to 2000 dollars or 4000 dollars for a couple house speaker nancy pelosi was quick to react blaming republicans for not providing information on what the president expected to be written in the package she said democrats already to discuss the matter as soon as lawmakers gather again this week there are other things in the bill the troops unhappy the about they have nothing to do with the pandemic for example new holes for a sing brawls and even a section on the dalai lama's succession going president decided not to sign it's if amendments are made auntie's to be japan takes a closer look ha louis the warring sides in congress have finally set aside some of their differences and agreed to dish out $900000000000.00 in covert 19 relief for families and businesses but the $600.00 stimulus checks which are half of what people got back in april have left many underwhelms one time team in

$600.00. this is a joke and jobless no health insurance this isn't going to cut it congress listening some senators even took offense that people questioning their life saving bill always she will help. it's a trillion dollars for god's sakes what is that $1000000.00 and. there is no money fairy we don't have this money we don't have 5 percent of it sandra we had to borrow it is real help will it be enough i think it will be but we're just going to have to wait and see what the code relief package didn't come alone the absence of the money fairy didn't stop congress from slapping on a $1.00 trillion dollar spending bill which combined with the covert bill made the overall document over 5 and a half 1000 pages long the behemoths took so long to upload to the internet that congressmen only received it on the day of the vote and it's kind of hard to

believe they managed to read the whole thing before passing it. for congressional leaders refused to put any legislation on the floor to be considered and scrutinized and amended now with the release of $5593.00 page bill with no opportunity to read it let alone amend it no responsible legislators should vote for such a thing if this is going to goes over 3 hours just to prove that it is. impossible you need one now to be open for you to read between now and the time we will if you take a closer look at the bill you can see there's a lot more than covert relief in there military spending for example was more of a talking point than the pandemic and words like missile aircrafts and munition appeared far more times than anything related to health care masks weren't even mentioned once in the document foreign aid also proved to be a high priority billions of dollars are said to be poured into countries like ukraine israel and cambodia funds that could have been spent on domestic needs and

then there's a whole bunch of other issues that were deemed very crucial like ensuring the integrity and fairness of the election sorry horse racing how could that sport survive without money from the government also investing in general programs is something the u.s. just can't do without be it programs in pakistan or commissions on determining gender equality in statues and even the dialogue reincarnation gets mentioned in the bill because in case you forgot he can't get reincarnated without u.s. taxpayer dollars this jumbled mess of spending proposals caused even some senators to trash the bill. tonight i voted no against the suppose it covert relief bill because it sells out billions of dollars to foreign governments the sudan gypsum military and not more important than american citizens and while trump is expected to sign the document later this week many are already calling on him to veto the

bill don't trump you must veto of this farce relieve bill this isn't a stimulus package this is a message for and. every american left and right should be calling for a veto on the stimulus deal which provides more funding to foreign governments and term merican arts centers than to their merican people covert relief might be badly needed but while 600 bucks why do some good for americans in a tough spot senators are obviously willing to put a lot more money behind their own agendas if you look where the expenditures went look we know what this is this is nothing but a con it's a ruse it's a chance to to provide special interest and special issues the money that normally wouldn't be able to be earmarked this is guaranteed to provide monies that would normally not be able to be available but now they are which is a christmas tree the idea is that you take something you slap on benefits and

expenditures and bills but america needs something so we hold the american public hostage in the meantime they get a pittance of what it would normally gotten before but maybe rather than giving all this money for covert relief why don't we just remove the lockdowns wonder we remove the dish shackles because businesses are under these more draconian measures why don't you do that instead of just give money here's your 600 bucks maybe 1200 bucks now leave me alone be happy and shut up. u.s. lawmakers been offered early access to the covert vaccine money though torn between having it to instill public confidence in the job and putting frontline workers 1st and the split doesn't seem to follow party lines.

thank god for analysis you help people in need and know how to use a needle thank god for they should produce these vaccines if enough of us take kids will get back to normal want some help is on the way. ready he. can. take credit for it yes me. if we don't give all politicians the facts and 1st they won't be able to watch his

diet and it's that only source of joy i know that politicians getting the vaccine is supposed to instill confidence in it but right now what i need most is confidence it will be available to the rest of us hold on how did i only just find out politicians in the us got frank seems the full from divine booker's. we need to distinguish 2 different things and a handful of leaders are prime minister or president leading members of the senate of the senate you know the public the little political figures and celebrities get that vaccine to show the public that it's safe and that is necessary that's one thing it's another thing to say that in general politicians just simply be prioritised because they have political power being politicians these are 2 separate matters they can't be conflated any human. in principle for who gets the vaccine 1st should be those who are most vulnerable and that especially is frontline workers essential workers the elderly and the infirm so it's true that

probably some some politicians might be in for some politicians might be front line workers but they're not there's no reason why publishers politicians should be pushed to the top of the list simply because their overseas. french government has banked a bill that would impose a movement restrictions on people who have not been vaccinated or com prove that covert frank auntie's polis later explains france is preparing to end its health emergency by april the 1st so says the french prime minister john kass takes he's presented a vote in the national assembly and establishing a so-called long term health emergency management regime simply to it is vaccination and those opposed to it might just find themselves in trouble even if they just planning a trip around the city. the prime minister may under the plan measures make the movement of people and their access to transport subject to presenting test results

showing that the person is not infected following vaccination or remedial treatment to some politicians the measure will leave and vaccinated people feeling as though they 2nd class citizens if this bill has really been tabled it must be forged by all elected officials and citizens committed to democracy and freedom in the face of this senseless deviation it is up to us to bring the government back to a semblance of reason this is the bill establishing a long term health emergency management regime which has just been introduced by cast x read the following in this law the prime minister can make you a 2nd class citizen if you refuse the vaccine we must wake up it flies in the face of a promise made by french president emmanuel quantities government they should fix their feet and covered vaccination which begins on sunday would be purely voluntary service and i want to be clear i will not make the vaccination mandatory. but

the idea of a striptease so to freedoms for vaccinated people has been mentioned several times in public debate since this presidential announcement for example a member of the union of democrats and independent party valerie 6 has proposed the issuing of green possibles to people who have been immunized with the public we could take the example of israel which grants each vaccinated person a green passport allowing them to go to places of culture and to restaurants and to get back to normal living the french inoculation program will target the most vulnerable members of society 1st such as the elderly and only after and medical examination and come since has given it's a great start but it's what comes next that has people here worried policia r t paris. well earlier we spoke to a member of the french national front to believe that the government has taken this a step too far. you know emanuel micron the prime minister the health

minister livy abel ranted promised 1st there would be no compulsory vaccination they would leave the freedom to choose to the french in fact thanks in particular to look we see that the draft law speaks of a measure that leaves aimed at limiting subjecting the french people in their public lives thereby deciding for them whether they will be vaccinated or not i think that it is shameful in fact it is a restriction of freedom which moreover contradicts the constitution this is a manifestation of dictatorship it seems to me that the government does not understand that today the patience of the french has run out they agreed to strict discipline for many months they said yes to the introduction of quarantine said yes to the imposition of a curfew said yes to the imposition of sanitary rules they agreed to everything that was imposed on them the next day the government came up with nothing better than to further could tail their personal freedom this is called segregation if the

government wants the french to get vaccinated they must restore an atmosphere of trust that's the voice of wisdom. elsewhere in europe voluntary mass vaccination against kobe 19 begins in spain on sunday spanish health ministry has said that a record will begin debate on refusing to be vaccinated it is considered important to record cases of rejection of the vaccination in the vaccination registry in order to understand the possible reasons for a locked in sin different population groups going to the latest polls just over 40 percent of spaniards are ready to have the coronavirus vaccine 60 percent said that they would be willing to get inoculated if it's proved to be effective almost one 3rd will refuse to get the job all together. you know where i'm going to bed i'm not going to get vaccinated i don't supporting that for you i don't want to be registered anywhere neither the government the city council or anyone else has to

know what i do. look i believe it violates our privacy and they should not interfere at the moment no i'm not going to vaccinate. it doesn't seem right or wrong to me i think people should get vaccinated but without forcing anyone everyone should do as they choose or mean i was going to one of the countries i'm going to be vaccinated it seems wrong to me i don't want any government to have to tell me whether or not i must be vaccinated because it's my decision. so it's gone that you can france have reached an agreement on reopening but what is football is so much to the relief of the stranded drivers that story for you after the break. join me every 1st week on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to us of the

world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. the world is driven by a dream shaped by. the dares thinks. we fear to ask. a lot of questions what does it mean to be a conservative is coming from the conservatives and the change with means to be conservative what about the issue in mind. for conservatives to please.

welcome back france and britain will start to re-open the borders to lorry drivers this wednesday providing they can of course test negative for covert testing sites will be set up to clear a backlog of almost $3000.00 lorries that are trying to get into the continent the move comes as a relief to truckers many food have been stuck for days. with christmas coming up we really want to travel back to our children our family still we're stuck we don't have any information like when our water will run out food will also run out at some point it's not an easy situation for us i've been here for 2 days and don't know what's happening on no what call it catch the train so here i am. i.

in some areas lower drivers will honking their horns to vent their frustration the u.k. transport secretary says despite progress in. fighting enough tests for tribes at the border the backlog might take 2 or 3 days to clear. it all doom and gloom however play down fears of food shortages over christmas because of this disruption earlier on we got reaction from guests in the u.k. you also think christmas dinner will still be on the menu. well some fresh produce does come from the u.k. i mean i gather there's no shortage of carrots you know perhaps a dollar stuff or maybe in regular supply i don't think we'll see empty shelves i'm maybe proven wrong but i think that the supermarkets are planning well ahead of this. and i think we might see some trends if you might not be able to get your lemons and your incentives before your broccoli but you will be able to get most of

the routes but it's not exactly as whatever so we might see some going around but i don't seek shelter going i mean it's a kind of reflective time of year where you know this time. many people are going to be reflecting in a solitary state and that won't help them to sort of you know look on the bright side of things so well as perhaps normally they would so again you know the sort of threat to the. sexes and wellbeing it's really quite a concern if we want to reverse it and imagine what the french are now but. it may go to a variation of the worse and more transmissible we might make a similar action possibly not so robust but we know i'm sure the government would cite something that actually. the israeli government has collapsed after months of parliamentary wrangling failed to secure a new budget the knesset was dissolved the midnight on tuesday that means the

country will now go to the polls for the 4th time in less than 2 years then i discussed the implications with r.t. correspondent don quarter. really seems like tuesday's budget roadblock was the last straw for israel's 7 month long ruling government coalition now benjamin netanyahu party and benny gantz is blue and white party or both blaming one another for the impasse and with these new elections scheduled for march i think we could possibly be seeing the end to 11 years of the premiership of benjamin netanyahu but netanyahu doesn't seem very worried and. when i'm not afraid of elections we are prepared for that we will win the public and israel knows who's bringing in millions of vaccines for peace agreement who's blocking iran who is bringing security and who will restore the economy great in because well his ratings are actually at an all time low but he still projected to do better than dance in these

new snap elections but he polls are actually saying these not projected to win a majority like in these previous instances i mean after all his political career has been followed by a corruption case which he's denied any wrongdoing in and and also people aren't very happy in israel about the government's handling of the coronavirus pandemic we've seen protests gripped the country for the past 6 months and they're not really showing any sign of letting up. israeli politics have been deadlocked for a long time now a lot of people are saying that another election isn't going to fix the situation it's just going to lead to a 5th election down the road but a lot can happen in the in several months of course we'll bring our viewers the

latest details as they become available. u.s. president elect joe biden is vowing to respond to the recent signed by attack on u.s. government agencies which he strongly suggesting was carried out by russia and he says was due to lack the leadership by donald trump. initial indications including from secretary pompei oh secretary of state attorney general william barr suggest that russia russia is responsible for this breach this assault happened on donald trump's watch when he wasn't watching it still his responsibility as president to to defend american interests for the next 4 weeks. rest assured that even if he does not take it seriously i will joe biden used his speech for the holidays to americans as president elect to blame donald trump for much of what is wrong in the country and not surprisingly once again russia seems to be the

scapegoat as the united states transitions from one presidential administration to another now joe biden essentially argued that russia was responsible for an alleged hack in which a number of federal agencies in the united states as well as u.s. companies had their data compromised and he said that donald trump had been responsible for weakening u.s. cyber security and that he would reverse those policies and he also promised there would be a response to russia's activity we don't sit here and say we're going to strike you with a nuclear weapon. so let us to term with the extent of the damage use and i promise you nobody responds now joe biden seems to be taking some speculations as fact no proof has ever been presented that russia is responsible for this and we've already heard from prime one spokesman dmitri pascoe who said that russia was not involved and that the country is not involved in any such

attacks generally now furthermore it's interesting to note donald trump said that it could be china who was responsible for the attack and that blame always seems to be the priority in response to instances like this the cyber attack is far greater in the fake news media than in the actuality i have been fully briefed and everything is well under control russia russia russia is the priority chance when anything happens because lame she media is for mostly financial reasons petrified of discussing the possibility that it may be shina it may earlier biden's pick for secretary of energy said that biden's team really has no idea who is behind the attack we don't know fully. what happened the extent of it and frankly we don't know fully for sure who did it but it seems these other voices are not being heard as members of both the democratic and republican camps in the united states are rushing to blame russia once again as the united states faces

a transition of power from wanted ministration in the white house to another fears of russia are being asked a latent. leading us libertarian party campaign that was benedict believes that joe budden needs to readjust his rhetoric to me that sounds like he's still in campaign mode he needs to be in presidential mode i can imagine donald trump is hard to work with but we need an adult in the room and we need for president elect biden to prepare to lead our country and to work towards peace with other nations not trying to score more political points at the expense of poor foreign relations a lot of us here in america and russia we grew up thinking you nuclear war was inevitable we thought not only would it happen but both sides would lose and probably the whole world would suffer and many people would die we should be thanking god every day that there never was a nuclear war worldwide and instead of trying to rekindle the cold war and

create animosity between sides we should be trying to work together so i don't know for sure what president elect biden has in mind he could be stuck in the cold war mentality and needs to be pulled out of that that's what i hope some of his newer advisors will do if he has any such. i get a bunch of other today thanks for staying with ati i'll return with more on the top stories in half an hour. some demonstrators right now proper due to the machine. its own sure i should.

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greetings and sal you tell us you know while most of us have been distracted by a presidential election temper tantrums covert vaccinations and senators mark warner isn't mitch mcconnell's rather tepid efforts at pretending to actually do something to help the american people through the people stimulus package the slow creep of their surveillance state has not relented and has been steadily rising across the country over the last year you see it appears law enforcement agencies have been busy buying up and implementing surveillance state goodies that allow them to see you when you're sleeping know when you're awake and know if you've been battered good like some sick kind of orwellian santa clause take jackson mississippi for instance where and b c news is reporting that city leaders here are expanding police surveillance powers to allow residents and business owners to send live feeds for many types of security cameras including popular doorbell cameras directly to the city's real

time command center. so it's sort of like batman and lucius fox's use of cell phones to catch the joker at the end of the dark night except they use your ringer home security cameras instead when describing the city's new surveillance tech jackson mayor talk while the mumba told local media that quote what we'll be able to do is get a location draw a circle around it and pull up every camera within a certain radius of someone who's running out of a building we can follow and trace them of someone says i want my ring door camera to be used well we'll be able to use it i mean c'mon lady jonah what could possibly go wrong with that idea i mean the police would never ever ever misuse surveillance technology. we all know that it would just as the good people of baltimore recently discovered that the police outright lied to them about their use of a spy plane that flew over the city for 6 straight months.