politics or business i'm show business i'll see you then. victory or a defeat while you case leadership celebrates a historic. cross the english channel the european union's chief negotiator describes it as a loss for both sides. are not so merry christmas countries in europe seek overdoses and deaths just people are placed on the strict measures during the festive period. what a waste of money the u.s. senator claims the government must throw away before the 50000000000 dollars this year projects including jordan machines for lizards.

live from moscow thanks for joining us tonight here on r.t. international holdings welcome to the program. after more than 4 years of wrangling the e.u. and u.k. have finally reached the brics a trade deal it was agreed just days before the new year deadline however the mood in brussels in london was very different following. this is i believe a good deal for the whole of europe. for us for our friends and partners as well yeah but. there is no winner and brax it's a lose lose situation to separate us especially in the world as it is today england the united kingdom has chosen to be solitary rather than stand together those who govern the nations that make up the british isles are divided on the outcome scottish 1st minister nicola sturgeon says britain's lost more than its gained from stressing that scotland must now decide on its future as an independent european nation were at the views of scots and other britons on the deal. the fatigue

because it's been going on so long it's happening now the balls rolling i think we should just finish it i think it makes a few of these because it was last couple weeks so should be just so much hype and misinformation and media i hate breaks and i think it's a completely retrograde step i think that the feeling of being part of a multinational international. i word looking community i think has been thompson fantastic i didn't support bret so i didn't pull the frank said i am really guy to not be part of you know play anymore and it does make me nervous to think how am i going to get to visit the european cities and you know friends i have to live in spain and in france and other parts of europe it would have been a disaster if there had been no deal so very pleased that there is a deal this is i suppose some people a big christmas present it's just i think if i was really seated in this year the idea of a deal is a good one. but i think the idea that it has to go through 49 different

parliaments in europe is a bit crazy i think it's really we've finally got one of these years but it sort of begs the question as to whether this arrangement is going to be better than the regime we haven't before we left the european union we're looking at how the u.k. and the you will cooperate from generally 1st they'll be no tariffs on each other's goods and no limit on trading new border checks have also been agreed on while the u.k. has pulled out of the long running arrest most student exchange scheme which we know of us these politicians will return to westminster to vote on the deal on december 30th so boris johnson may have ended the year on a much needed high for the past 12 months a bit overshadowed by covert closed borders and economic woes saskatoon has been taking a look back at 2020 in britain. it was almost as if he wanted to become a me we have so much to look forward to in 2020 it's hard to pin down which one of

2020 stretches he meant the end as bret said negotiations food shortages coronavirus close borders economic collapse felt like. sending it. sending a president who home printer on christmas. yet i feel like christmas has been known and history you might be like remember it is the prime minister. best so was about a man who wanted to be remembered as the one who got brecht's it done 4 years of preparation for a course he believed in thompson was set up for trial and he even promised back in january that it was often ready all but on we had ended a debate has run for 3 and a half years some would say 47 years i would even mention the name of the control the sea. except to say that it begins with billions receding the past behind us well be rose from the past and

a haunted chorus for 11 months that's how long it took to negotiate a deal a deal that has followed praxedis claimed could be resolved over a cup of tea 11 months the brink of no deal a nation of disappointed impatient angry people but boris still gave himself a pat on the back we've taken back control of our laws and our destiny we've taken back control of every jot and tittle of regulation in a way that is complete and unfettered who's going to tell him then that this celebration might be a party for one. it sounds like the british team have dropped the ball before the line no wonder they want a christmas eve announcement to hide the fisheries sell out today amidst all the debates and details of the trade deal one fundamental truth remains that at the time of global insecurity we're no longer part of one of history's greatest and most noble projects being nations together to build peace out of the ruins of war.

this is a disastrous bragg's it outcome for scottish farmer it's and like all other aspects of bracks it poised to cortlandt against our will it wasn't just brussels that proved to be bogus on doing fresh from a caribbean holiday and still on a post-election high in the new year boris johnson didn't seem too concerned about a never heard of before virus his message was clear don't exaggerate when barry is a going up. and when there is a risk that new diseases such as corona virus will trigger a panic while it was a pretty quick descent from facts to this. but it's hard not to panic when the person who's supposed to be meeting you flip

flops and utahns his way through a crisis to the point his own ministers don't know the rules so make it absolutely clear. distinction. let me i will absolutely get back to christmas would be cancelled actually christmas is off schools are reopening actually you know they're not we're lifting the knocked out actually stay at home little wonder then the confusion on exhaust peroration grew a bit confused because you don't like things agree creek and we don't get that much information about what's going on and suddenly boom the new school down we don't know what to do so nobody can use and they say to you cannot who's devoted 48 hours so it's so confusing i don't even know my parents live. close to where we keep going so i am allowed to go to you tube but i don't know if i'm really about to be

going through. you know what he did to you was it a case of bad timing. was 2020 year you just couldn't shine no matter what or was it the man himself who failed to meet one thing's for sure for boris johnson it's been not a hell of a year but rather a year from how. germany remains one of the country's worst affected by the pandemic and the state of saxony is one of the region's hardest hit with the crematorium struggling to cope and his footage from of video agency ruptly.

germany as a whole was badly affected this year with many locked down restrictions put in place these automatic success through how it's impacted the festive season in the country. across year of christmas festivities are subdued this year because of the coronavirus pandemic here and this gentleman marked it's usually the scene over one of the german capitals local bustling busy christmas markets not this year though like carnival in the spring time the markets of being counseled being a loosening of covert restrictions to allow people to gather with loved ones over christmas itself friedrich merits the man who will be gunning for chancellor angela

merkel's job next year wasn't 'd happy with covert restrictions having an impact on a family christmas personally i would see it's none of the government's business how i celebrate christmas with my family he's not alone germany has seen at times launched demonstrations against covert 1000 restrictions. while christmas is very different this year new year's may be totally on recognizable in germany being mocked without its traditional. green party politicians of launched a campaign against fireworks this year while thousands upon thousands usually throw in the approach to the brandenburg gate for the annual new year's eve bash this

year that is a victim of corona of the policy will be held with elder revel as shown on television there will be no giant posses a family reunions otherwise we could be threatened by another wave of infection in february there will be no party in berlin at the brandenburg gate either it will disappoint sold to be sure to virgin sea and medical so. this is going to be among knows the lamenting the lack of fireworks after new year's eve we evaluate only how many people come to us who are brought to the rescue center during the night how old they are and why they need to be treated it clearly shows the dangers of fireworks it's a festive period with a difference but at least italian prime minister just epic commentary has some reassurances for people concerned about one particular elderly man traveling at christmas father christmas assured me he's already got an international travel

certificate so he can travel everywhere and distribute gifts to all the world's children. quite the relief i'm sure you'll agree peter all over r.t. . over the christmas celebrations around the world despite various restrictions in france the while before christmas eve concert the 1st event of its kind since the cathedral was ravaged by last year's blaze hard outside overalls replace the traditional with reconstruction of the building still on the way. going to germany where one priest organize they drive in christmas mass and the car park of a hardware store it's because a traditional church services have been suspended across the country to slow the spread of coronavirus. for the christmas to keep him from seeing his young fans in spain instead of setting up the usual grottos in shopping malls because of social distancing a special santa team in

a loser set about visiting the children individually instead complete with elves and helpers to chat to the youngsters and drop off those all important presents. so the machines for lizards just one of the strange projects the u.s. government has spent money on this year that's according to a report that states over $50000000000.00 went the way of such initiatives to power experion during the. 2020 has been a year to forget for many reasons but it's that time of year so let's reflect imagine you just blown $54000000000.00 in 12 months it is more important than ever for congress to find its fiscal backbone our debt puts at risk the long term solvency of major programs such as social security and why to pay for test use for covert tests that turn out to be soda bottles to see if hot tubbing a few times a week eases stress yeah those don't seem like good investments but u.s.

senator rand paul has published a whole list of all the things you can blow your hard earned money on and what washington apparently did spend it on like $1500000.00 to give a couple of reptiles some cardio researches spent a 1000000 and a half taxpayer dollars to get 6 lizards walk them on a treadmill what taking x. rays with 3 d. imaging technology and then figure out how their joints moved sure it's fascinating stuff maybe for some but come on $1500000.00 place your bets on how much it costs to spray drunk rats with bobcat you're just a tidy sum of $4500000.00 in all seriousness here's exactly what the researchers did in layman's terms they spent 5 weeks giving rats intermittent access to alcohol to get them hooked then they put the rats in a cage and literally sprayed them with both cat urine and predators odor to

simulate trauma then they tested where the males and females responded differently why that's probably something you're wondering right now the answer research into p.t.s.d. and alcoholism among war veterans of barely someone has concluded that surviving a gruesome war is comparable to being sprayed with europe so we've gone from paying people to sit in hearts of trying to get adults to watch less t.v. and box all of this money wasted. and none of that was initially washington's this is $54000000000.00 of taxpayer money but look on the bright side at least we can sleep well now we know that a coke bottle is not a good substitute for a test tube. the way that the united states government has managed its finances throughout this entire thing it's absolutely overall completely abysmal it's been nothing short of criminal what the united states government has done throughout this entire pandemic there were

a few ok things but overall the bad outweighed the good by a whole lot and it's really made the united states government out for exactly what it is which it is a corporate coup no one ever asked the question are you going to pay for it when it comes to giving money to the pentagon or giving money to weapons contractors or given money to the oil and gas industry no $1.00 ever asks how you going to pay for it but they ask how are you going to pay for it when it comes to giving direct relief to people then all the sudden they're worried about their pocketbook. still ahead on all the it's about the culture wars trudi moved up a gear this year a society's battle over gender identity some of us will raise the right. chemistry has also given us fulfillment in many ways by guaranteeing an abundant

food supply if we look at our world today there are still famines but there are political famines are caused by political problems are not caused by an inability to grow food and if we look at infectious diseases if you were in the middle of a pandemic now with a pandemic is killing less than one percent of the people it infects in past times pandemics could kill 30 to 70 percent of the people that were infected so chemistry has given us much improvement. we've life in many ways and then we have to ask well with these are intended consequences that are causing species go extinct that are causing environmental injustices how can we make things better because certainly we can handle those things better than we have. boxing day special. boxing day is a holiday celebrated the day after christmas with us being the 2nd day of curse

miss top. of the program united states top infectious disease x. but i'm pretty much the guiding light for americans here in the pandemic assad himself in of awkward spot of trying to be felt she has admitted to the new york times that he purposely manipulated numbers regarding herd immunity to both the public support for covert vaccines the estimate is that you'll need about 70 percent maybe 75 percent of the people in the country vaccinating to get that umbrella of herd immunity let's say we get 75 percent 80 percent of the population that we may actually arab or not heard in unity protecting our society and you can make an extrapolation from other infections i see between 75 and 8085 percent

of the population. we knew a survey said 60 percent or more would take it i thought i can nudge this up a bit so i went to 8085 we really don't know what the real number is i think the real range is somewhere between 70 to 90 percent but i'm not going to say 90 percent 80 year old dr folds he is the longtime director of the national institute of allergy and infectious diseases throughout the summer he was permanent fixture at the white house code a virus briefings and is a leading figure in the fight against the virus earlier this week felt you became one of the 1st high profile figures to receive the moderna covert vaccine though his core advice has had a tendency to switch around occasionally during the year right now people should not be what there's no reason to be walking around with a mask the fundamentals are not rocket science it's universal wearing of masks new issue in there is to make sure you do whatever you can to safeguard the safety and

the health of the children as well as the teachers close the bars and keep the schools open the founding editor of the online news site this can't be happening says the best thing to do is to simply be straight with people. well that's not the way to deal with that with a. pandemic and none of them have been it done a good job of that you've got to trust people telling the truth say you know this is a crisis we're not sure how to handle it but this is what we think is the best way to do it that would be the honest way to do it and then people would have more confidence in you. you know when you tell him to do stuff i'm not sure i would go with lying i would go with that you know he made a bad he made a bad decision to not level with people with what they knew for me the best thing to do would be to tell people what you know and be straightforward with them and then change it if you find out something different later. science has been before front of our attention this year in the battle against the virus but it does have

its fun a lot of side as well if you want another has been speaking to the founder of the nobel prize which was some of the year's wackiest findings you can watch the show any time on r.t. dot com here's a preview you get something like 10000 new nominations every year and about 10 or 20 percent of those are people who nominate themselves the ones who nominate themselves almost always lose if you're trying to these prizes are strange. ignore it nobel prize are not for the best something they're also not for the worst something they're there only for things that make people laugh and then think if that's what you're trying to do you're trying to win an ignoble prize you're trying to think of something that will make everybody laugh and then think you're going to fail well all this uncertainty and stress this year i'm having an impression that i face in science is becoming a little bit more shaky among the general public do you feel that. yeah i think

that's true for a few reasons part of it is that it around the world there are now some people who are. just automatically reacting to everything that happens by saying that's wrong don't trust it. another thing though that's happening is that for the 1st time in a long long time everybody is paying attention to scientists so now people are looking at what scientists actually do rather than what the movie version of scientists do in the movie version the scientists all they understand everything before they even begin to look at it that's not what really happens what really happens is most of the time scientists are very confused about most things and they're not sure and they spend most of their time trying to be less confused trying to become a little more sure they never no scientist ever reaches the point where they

completely understand everything but if you just grow up and you watch the movies and all your picture is the scientists do understand everything so i think what's happening right now is everybody now every day you read the news and you think about scientists for at least a minute which you normally don't do and you see that what they're doing well they're not sure yet they think they have a vaccine that works but they're not quite sure well why aren't they sure you know the scientists are always sure about that well no that's not it that's never what this and scientists did so what's really happened i think is scientists are now becoming real rather than fictional characters for people and real characters have some confusion and.

3 people have been injured in a huge vehicle explosion on christmas morning in the u.s. city of nashville the immediate area has been shut down with multiple agencies investigating including the f.b.i. there are unconfirmed reports of human remains being found in the close vicinity of the blast site the explosion occurred cause widespread communications outages that took down police emergency systems on grounded holiday travel at the city's airport police believe the explosion was intentional and has a response team was already on their way to the seemed to follow up on reports of a suspicious vehicle which they're not blew up it happened in a downtown area at around 6 30 in the morning nearby buildings have been badly damaged and debris scattered across the road. 2020 saw gender identity generates a huge wave of discussion from liberation to celebration and confusion. looks at how the year has left more than a few people in a personal pronoun predicament i don't know. that culture was

really. a teen there won't care. for their base. yeah i didn't know what base men either just dismissed the work arrows as why they need to eat is reveling in victimization no they're here to save people from things that they didn't even know they needed saving from like words of gender through all the facts whether you're own or you are a massive racist right yet all the based look just all right trump apologists looking for a fight no these are brave souls trying to express opinions that 5 years ago you and rand would have. been t.

but now could get and you lived was canceled. so let's delve in and see who was on the front line of the culture wars in 2020 this is like being in the battle of the sexes is no longer finery and no one represents the crazy state of affairs better than the j.k. rowling nor is it wicked that the inflicted harry potter only for the walled 7 is now little if by suggesting that they're all women on their own then. get out and yes that was cool to be counselled to saying that there is such a thing as. the trans rights people when not. well the ballin film festival was in no mood to be rolling and so it just dumped

its gendered awards for best actor or and best actor a dozen not just mean less prizes for everyone why not bring in more prizes for more gender is a man like $32.00 of them the national charge of iceland went another way and depicted jesus with boobs in a dress to quote reflect society as it is today by which i assume they mean confusing. tripling down all the confusion with. the current director of the matrix series. she said that the matrix trilogy wasn't about looting karate different colored pills being plugged into play station you know apparently the whole thing was an allegory for the struggles of the transgender community i'm going to come out and i don't. you know that was the original intention and the world wasn't quite ready yet.

and on a serious note i would just like to take this opportunity to congratulate the actor elliot a. i mean. thousands of people use this test subjects for the development of weapons all the documentary brings the history of japan's secret unit 731 factory next that's what i worked on and off with the latest headlines join us together. americans love. this was a fundamental part of how our political leadership and our country

a large understood the bargain you get a home and then you know rebel right as the things you don't revolt if you have a stake in the system. be really interesting to dial it back and think about the longer deeper history housings man in the united states not just. a question of the american dream but the bigger question of who the dream is for. is your media a reflection of reality. in a world transformed. what will make you feel safe from. the isolation or community. are you going the right way or are you being led. away. what is true what is faith.

in a world corrupted you need to descend. to join us in the depths. or remain in the shallows. an entire village in alaska has had to move if another country trying to wipe out an american town. we do everything in our power to protect the. water they are scaping climate change is the same threat right now alaska does seem some of the fastest coastal erosion in the world lost about 30 feet. 35 feet of ground in just about 3 months while we were measuring. is bad.