at long last monday morning is full intensive care units force california clinics to set up makeshift wards and beds outdoors while nurse tells us just how bad the situation is getting. worse start now we were running low on oxygen on supplies we have patients in overflow overflow overflow areas in russia some better news to tell you about vaccination with the sputnik v. covert job starts for people over 60 the group most affected by the virus of the health ministry approved the jobs safety and efficacy. coronavirus vaccination rolls out across europe too but citizens are hugely divided on the issue. i think we do not have enough feedback on distraction at the moment and i think

everyone should take it because that's the only way we're going to have enough heard and maybe get out of the problem. by their morning from moscow this 28th of december low for marty's world news h.q. but i was kevin o. in here for the next half hour with the latest for you and 1st. says our 1st port of call los angeles county in the us recording war than 30000 new covert infections in the last 2 days alone leaving hospital struggling to cope this month one nurse filled an emotional appeal while battling coronavirus herself. you her through home you don't need to go our court her. through her love her of our number. across southern california intensive care units are full with overwhelmed hospital

setting up makeshift outdoor wards and beds los angeles county even reportedly sending out rationing guidelines for clinics to give less care to those less likely to survive it is unclear the sorting whether or not those guidelines were implemented a nurse at mercy a son told me he was in the video you just saw previously was the situation is a breaking point we're stuck now we were running low on oxygen on supplies on you know all the respiratory drugs definitely bad definitely staff we don't have enough staff we are beyond stretched we have patients in overflow overflow overflow areas that were never intended to have patients other hospitals are setting out makeshift units outside of the hospital our government they blew it all so they could have released to the defense production act and ramped up the

production of p.p. and all the other supplies that we need and they didn't do that so the whole the whole nations in a big big predicament of how we're going to be able to treat patients safely and give them the care that they need. l.a. officials have issued a safer at home order to try and stop the virus apart from in emergencies gatherings for anything other than political or religious purposes a ban that most non-essential companies are being forced to shut down the city's merge people to think twice about the plans over the festive period. there's no celebrating this year for our health care workers who are facing the toughest times they've ever seen for them we're staying home for them we're skipping holiday parties every sacrifice makes a difference to stopping the covert 1000 surge or back to thoughts of mass his son tony again she blames public recklessness for out of control infections. i can't even imagine what it be like to be

a governor right now the state. especially california california is a powerhouse right it's got the 6th largest economy in the world and. the fact that you know businesses are shutting down you have a lot of very vocal californians and and they were giving him a tremendous amount of pressure to open up and i understand that but you could open up safely and people just weren't big saving why i would drive by bars and people would have their masks off and there'd be it be densely densely crowded and then you hear people like running out homes and having parties where there's 1000 people there so it's the public it's us it's the ignorance of the human being we continue to. defy the recommendations of the c.d.c. we continue to gather and i understand how important holidays are there just as important for me i haven't seen my family in mines it's terribly serious and people

need to understand that you have to be careful and it doesn't matter your age it doesn't matter yes it dies it does it matters your age and your come more biddies but there's plenty of younger people that have died from this. so covert action nation programs rolling out worldwide and here in russia the elderly are starting to get the sport the vein of the weekend the health ministry broadened its priority list for the shop to include those over the age of 60 of the safety and efficacy tests were concluded frontline workers have been 1st in line earlier this month our correspondent in a patrol of the latest this morning from a moscow vaccination center. of course it's finally great to get some good news about kolb it out last vaccination centers in moscow including at the clinic where i am right now are getting more busy because the program is kicking off and the timing couldn't be better because the situation with colbert in russia is still

dramatic with almost 30000 new cases day the and i can tell you that here i've already spoken to the 1st person from that age group 60 plus to get the job and alexei was very happy to get it he's really looking forward to the times when he's saying he could take off his mask and it is called the knowledge that the older you are the more likely it is that you face health issues if you fall under attack of colbert so monday is definitely a milestone here in russia because pretty much anyone from that age group 60 plus at least in the washroom top will could get enrolled and that case most likely forgets about everything that we've become so sick and tired of this year and that explains why moscow mayor is proud and happy and by the way has been

vaccinated to the russian ministry of health has approved the opportunity for the older generation to be vaccinated against coated 19 but the sputnik the jap it's great elderly people of the biggest risk group which is the most severely affected by the disease starting monday we're opening registration for vaccination i can say so myself and really would so the program is kicking off exactly 2 days after the russian ministry of health gave the green light for the vaccination of the elderly people and i can tell you that the clinical trials for this age group have showed that it's safe and pointed to. 90 percent efficacy that is despite earlier criticism from some experts that we're talking about the high likelihood of side effects which include fever muscle pain and headaches and it's been reported that about 15 percent of those who get the job could face the side effects but

again clinical trials at the end of the day are saying that despite the people who go for the job of everything will be ok and that's again definitely a breakthrough like i've been saying before the people that will really have to watch out for the side effects are those with allergies and quantico illnesses so before making the decision on whether to get vaccinated or not you really have to go through a very serious medical checkup and this is exactly what i asked the head of this clinic about a little earlier there and if you could look at some nations screening is common practice in person under gives the same examination before the flu vaccine it's done to exclude risks from acute illness or if it's you know the g.'s and to measure temperature as well as to assess health in terms of chronic disease if people fit the criteria we include them in the vaccination group. so it's obvious though that there are many many people who have still not made up their mind on whether they should get the job or not but definitely an extra confidence boost for

them will be the fact that we heard from a lot of more potent secretary that the russian president will get vaccinated as well and we know that he is part of that age group as well the russian leader is 68 years old. well story next about one person has proven that even if you already do get the virus there is hope no matter your age in central russia the diseases being defeated by one brave lady has reached a very special and mark. i don't know what the secret of my recovery efforts but i know that we need to keep calm and preserve our nerves a. little

so she was hospitalized in a relatively severe condition she was upbeat 10 responded well to the treatment she recovered quickly she felt really precious to us and we monitored her around the clock. to see because. we're grateful to the doctors she's an optimist and radiates positivity that's why she's made us happy for song you believe. my story is that looking great well the news launched a cross border vaccination program as we know with a target of inoculating all adults during 2021 contracts have been secured with suppliers for more than 2000000000 vaccine doses however polls point at the same time the high level still of hesitancy towards getting the shot. is in france where the battle against the pandemic is complicated too by both the lack of vaccines and

what we're talking about the skepticism over it. 1000000 that's the estimate of number of people that fall down to the estimate by the end of. the focus now nursing homes like this one and other facilities with senior citizens and vulnerable individuals and emergency workers 1st in line to say the vaccination is the only way to stop the virus the people here in france are split on the issue just above all similar i'm not really in favor i think we do not have enough feedback on this vaccine at the moment and even if it can save lives maybe it will be good to wait a little least you can know that i am for vaccines normally it takes 10 years of research and testing but in this case as the vaccine has been ready very quickly i have an experience i would do it for me if. i was really the person to do read or if i had to do it to trouble i think everyone should take it because that's the

only way we're going to have enough herd immunity to get out of the problem or i don't see a need to have the vaccination that probably wouldn't have one recent poll suggests that about half the population isn't going to be inoculated and it's not just me and 2 that they were real good that the vaccination has nothing takes to popping in the u.k. and us the number of people who have developed a severe and moujik reaction to the vaccination as has happened in other countries and then on top of that there's a general mistrust to the government something we took the population feel that president upon fumbled his way for the 2nd way to do people here feel that paris has its hand on top of things now all we could hear. so one thing a day another remove the next day so i think it's easy to criticize we're not in their shoes i think we might have a harder lockdown and maybe not let people go so free over christmas i can see they

did a good job or a bad job i think they just did what they could work out schools people and there is a lot of. see people the reason we don't have been. trying to. teach our reason it's really difficult because one of virus is europe's worst public health disaster in over a century as you can see winter in the 3rd wave is already upon us even while hoping that 50 later for gold moved here unity and health but 1000000 vaccinations is only a small fraction of the 17 odd 1000000 adults here in france over the age of 60 if that is the way that paris plans to beat this to before virus it needs to act and act fast. r.t. paris thanks for watching 2020 water year then well coming up the cultural war of

words of the last 12 months has left public figures with unconventional views in the fall and over it we're all up more of the news after the break. is your media a reflection of reality. in a world transformed. what will make you feel safe. isolation community. are you going the right way or are you being led. by. what is true what is faith. in the world corrupted you need to descend. to join us

in the depths. or a maybe in the shallows. 2020 has been a year like you know what now is a coming crisis changed our lives how we will continue to meet. things in a few years that may never return. again morning so from coronavirus to black lives matter 2020 has been a year of historic stories both good lot of the mainly bad boy who takes a look at the response to famous names whose views on those very issues go against conventional wisdom. frontlines of the culture wars in 2020 not everyone gave up on

the practice of insulting everyone and not carrying these red beasts who faced. basically this is it there was something about when i put this handle and maybe through like superman kanye west with strong winds. that. are still a freedom and 1st of all just doing something that everybody tells you not to do london had teacher katherine bubbles saying gives 0. count the box why the vocal races when faced with the idea of putting down statues and de colonizing the curriculum she gave a reply that came straight from your grandad and now we're talking about the colonizing the curriculum it is not about the colonizing curriculum it's about getting good behavior in our schools how can you support a social justice warrior these days well just check.

they spend so much time meeting down against racism that there's hardly any skin left so guess what happened when basketball legend charles barkley said you know greed is a very slippery slope. does it make you. don't need all this led to quite a few of those caring people to get off all stanley's and declare buckley a racist who was only speaking up for his white ghost buddies must know what i want to say get it get on to your knees or they'll come for you. cave said it best when he says and political correctness is guys becoming and happy to make anyone else in the congo i think really bad really good random luck want to cave me well let me explain using the giants of the intellectual dark web.

when maggette point cost. his show over to spotify earlier this year for something like a gazillion dollars people at the company said that they were so upset that he wasn't being censored and that they were alienated by his views did you see that guy actually had to move his car now. pull the video. oh my god oh my god oh my god they demanded we're p.t.a. meetings with management you know this is probably overinflated all that spotify stuff is is just complete fodder they have literally said nothing to me about it it was a similar story. jordan peterson reportedly starts with a company that was publishing his latest book was so obvious that it was being published but they ended up. m.m.a. scrap and actress gina khurana brinkley want to get into a fight with. has been expressing the wrong kind of politics she

doesn't think the election is about she doesn't like a small 6 and now her opponents have started to. fire gina carano. just a bit more of 2020 the year that was probably. political correctness has taken over multinationals as well with some companies making conspicuous donations to high profile causes father more about that if you fancy. world news now. hundreds of ultra-orthodox jews have blocked traffic at israel over the arrest of religious student refused to join the army 13 protesters were detained and one officer injured by rocks thrown by protesters the demonstrators hurled glass bottles at police who used water cannon to disperse the rallies. russia's emergencies minister. looking

a smalling for 17 fishermen missing off the northern coast of trawler sank in the cold cold barren see 2 fishermen have been rescued but there are fears that the rest of the crew may not have made it the search operations been complicated by bad weather which is stopping rescue planes getting to the area officials at that ice accumulation they think led to that vessel sinking we'll keep you posted. thousands of refugees warm they won't survive a freezing winter without shelter after a major camp and down amid a snowstorm in bosnia and herzegovina aid groups that frostbite hypothermia and other severe health problems are already being reported by those stranded at the site. so 2020 most of us went through a lot. of changing events and governments didn't always keep up zoning in the next the smalling on france which struggled through like many other nations but it's also coping with its own other unique problems

a shiela do penske reports from paris. when 2020 or roy was hailed as a double digit c.s. something that was pretty special that only happens every 100 years or so well special it certainly walls. by the end of the month we had an inkling that things were about to get worse or worse. be kind of to is the pandemic. the fashion industry soon was doing was it does best predicting what we would all soon be wearing mosques soon they war hot property arrests for selling contraband mosques became headline news as the government requisition the role for

health authorities. during the 1st wave nurses had to deal with not only the coronavirus epidemic but with the shortage of mosques gloves and overcoat we ended up wearing trash bags at a time when everyone was supposed to be fighting the pandemic we were left without the means of doing so there was a lack of equipment and the french government was responsible for that they should have been strategic stocks of surgical masks and other gear now if things really started to go downhill fronts unknown states 1st looked on the borders were closed like this we work in the stadium see the theater us we ensure security in the event sector and since march everything's been stopped and it's still hasn't resumed all the hotels were closed there were very very few hotels open during the 1st wave the hotels that stayed open did so to accommodate people in difficulties.

but there was an enormous amount of worry and we didn't. have the sense of being heard alone can find spring left to many with pent up energy as restrictions eased up health care workers filled the streets fear is being underpaid and under appreciated. as summer drew to an end the warnings of the 2nd wave won't fade leaving the 1st philby yet parents took action introducing my aspirations as record actions were registered it was over to the closures began a good young girl was palpable. but government promised these measures would be enough they would be no return to

a 2nd lockdown instead a curfew that promise fell like a pack of cards before the month was art. did it start to feel like just a consultation with scientists dialogue with economic political and social players and after exchanges with all of our partners and weighing the pros and cons i've decided that as of friday we need to go back to the lockdown the stop the virus. but i know businesses were really feeling the squeeze a lot. for us 2020 was a horrible year and we have the impression that 2021 is going to be even worse our biggest problem in the catering industry is that there is no recovery date and no restart date. and there's a there are inconsistences and how things were decided it's been said that there are certain sectors started were able to raise you that's not

a problem but it's the other start are paying it's absurd a lot. things are still very bad because we have asked to restart our work but we can't we have to continue paying our expenses except there is no money coming back to us there's nothing in fact as france headed into the winter it still wasn't out of the woods. nursing staff learned from the 1st way if we can now take better care of patients but the government has failed to learn its lessons there is the problem of hospital bed shortages and lack of means to deal with the virus and during the posh time we saw the 35 percent of infection cost is in education institutions but the government did nothing about that there were serious mistakes by the government and it makes us question our confidence in the authorities as the new drew to an end restaurants because the it's museums all remain shells of their former selves a fresh could if it was announced in france finds itself facing an uncertain future

as the bells ringing for 2021. auti paris well are so rough what we're talking about so far this morning do if you get a minute check it out to dot com or any of us social media for the latest breaking news as and if it happens throughout the day for now though kevin always starting off for me in the rest. of the newsroom have a great monday. elwood forward to talking to you all. that technology should work for people. i robot must obey the orders given by human beings except when such orders to conflict with the 1st law. we should be very careful about official charges and the point 0 obviously is to trust our government shia.

areas and with artificial intelligence where some of the. obama must protect its own existence with. max kaiser this is the kaiser report where stacy herbert an special year end gas expires dine. could i must say the kind of sensitivity to world events and markets we're only seeing anywhere except here for 4 minutes welcome back.

time after town see and welcome to going on the ground the team and i will be back with a brand new season starting on my birthday january 13th but until then we will be showing some of your favorite shows from this season. this is part one of a 2 part special looking into what trump so called abraham accord signed between the leaders of the united states israel the united arab emirates and bahrain mean for the future of the middle east the accords normalize relations between israel and the tube arab autocracies the 3rd and 4th arab countries to open diplomatic relations with israel to egypt and jordan they agree with to see by u.s. president trump is the dawn of the new middle east and the beginning of a new era of peace but others see it as the building of a strong front against iran and a potential end to any chance of a future for the palestinian people and wednesday's show i'll be speaking to the palestinian ambassador to the u.k. was a lot and later in this program we'll be hearing from the editor in chief of the jerusalem post of cats but 1st joining me now from tel aviv is the 10th prime minister of

israel ehud barak who also served as defense minister. from 27 to 2030 in the presence of thanks so much for coming on before we talk about anything i suppose we must talk about the lockdown in israel perhaps the 1st 2nd lockdown in the world your prime minister netanyahu saying that your country is on the edge of an abyss what do you make of the situation i mean major critique of of the prime minister's polices on this issue we have went through the 1st 2 a very effectively but then. we gave our self a pose for half a year and nothing had been done to improve the capacity double probably the capacity of those. and to deploy them urgency plan of israel which is there for all for 13 years now emergency plan for a wall and made jaw or a pandemic and instead of implementing these. emergency plan

the prime minister chose to loosen all the all the constraints and now we are paying the price for. the chances of these down to very low. economic oh i see the suffering of millions of people it is devastating it's still not too late to do the right things but that needs political will and the capacity to make decisions namely to concentrate on the place where there are ups and these really hot it may lead to other concentration in their own throat to go concentration and manage it in a way that will minimize the damage to economy and suffering for all people while empowering the health system this is not done so i am very critical and i think that it's a major failure of that and the oh well he.