the headlines in r.t. as intensive care units in california fill up during the pandemic clinics are forced to set up makeshift boards outside one nurse tells us just how bad the situation has become. we're stuck now we were running low on oxygen on supplies we have patients in overflow overflow overflow areas here in russia back to the nation with the sputnik the k.v. jab starts for people over 60 degrees most affected by the virus after the health ministry approved the job safety and efficacy and vaccinations are being rolled out across europe too but people are hugely divided on the issue. i think we do not have enough feedback on the specs and at the moment i think everyone should take it because that's the only way we're going to have enough certainly maybe get out of the problem.

is often welcome just gone 2 o'clock in moscow you watching r.t. international now december has been the most deadly month in the u.s. since the pandemic began and in los angeles county hospitals are struggling to cope after 30000 new coded infections in the last 2 days alone across southern california intensive care units are full with overwhelmed hospital setting up makeshift door wards and beds scanty even reportedly sent rationing guidelines for clinics to give less care to use less likely to survive although it is still unclear whether those guidelines have been implemented this month when the state film an emotional appeal while battling coronavirus herself. you heard this through how. our report her. crew her of her of

more or member. of the well i was nervous must see santini went on to tell us that the situation is now at 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 also they could have released 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 well l.a. officials have issued a safe at home order to try and stop the virus gatherings for anything other than emergencies and political or religious purposes are banned most non-essential companies have been forced to shut the city's mayor has people to think twice about their plans over the festive period there's no celebrating this year for health care workers who are facing the toughest times they've ever seen for them with staying home for them we're skipping holiday parties every sacrifice makes a difference to stopping the covert 1000 so. we'll see santini again displaying public recklessness for the spiraling rates of infections. i can't even imagine what would be like to be a governor right now of a 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 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 minds 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 does it does it matters your age and your come more goodies

but there's plenty of younger people that have died from this. i mean while here in russia 27000 new cavy cases were recorded over the last 24 hours or to people as we heard there on one to be more susceptible with almost half the people catching the virus in moscow over the age of 46 however one person has proven that there is hope no matter what your age is the disease being defeated by one brave lady he's been celebrating a special landmark. i don't know what the secret of my recovery efforts but i know that we need to keep calm and preserve our nerves but a lot of. women

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 foresaw. well kovi vaccination programs are being rolled out worldwide at the moment and in russia the elderly are starting to get the sputnik jab at the weekend the health ministry broadened his priority list for the shots to include those over the age of 60 after safety and efficacy tests were concluded frontline workers had been 1st in line this month our correspondent visited moscow facts and nations that. 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 i can tell you that here i've already spoken to the 1st person from that age group 60 plus to get the job. i'd love to finally take off my most skin future and the thing that i had to see in me let me do that so monday is definitely a milestone here in russia because pretty much anyone from that age group 60 plus at least in the russian capital could get enrolled and that case most likely forget about everything that we've become so sick and tired of this year and that explains why the 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 code 19 but the sputnik the jap it's great elderly people at 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 it really works 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. they are saying that despite the people who go for the job but everything will be ok and again definitely a breakthrough 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 live there in your books and nation screening is common practice a person undergoes the same examination before the flu vaccine is done to exclude risks from acute illness or effects you know the g.'s and to measure temperature as well as to sense 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. trying to fend i mean while the u.s. launched a cross border vaccination program with the target inoculating every adult in 2021 contracts have been secured with supplies for more than 2000000000 vaccine doses however post to show a lot of people are still hesitant about taking the job that is particularly true in france at the moment with more is poor sleep. 1000000 that if they make that number of people that want to vaccinate by the end of. the focus now nursing homes like this one and other facilities when they don't then vulnerable individuals and emergency workers 1st in line to say the vaccination is the only way to stop the.

iris the people here in france are split on the issue just above us and 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 would be good to wait a little to know that i am for vaccines normally it takes 10 years of research and testing but in this case as the vaccine has been readied very quickly i have mixed feelings i would do it for me if. i was really the person to do with 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 is against it to be inoculated and it's not just me and 2 vets newsman there are real fears that the vaccination has nothing to stop popping in the u.k. and us the number of people who have developed a severe allergic reaction to the vaccination as has happened in other countries

and then on top of that there is a general mistrust to the government something we call to the population feel that present a chronic fumbled this way for the sick the way to do people here feel that paris has its hand on top of things now all we could hear was so one thing a day and other things that remind you of the next day so i think it's easy to criticize when you're not in their shoes i think you might have a harder lockdown maybe not that people grow so free over christmas i can see they did a good job or a bad job i think they just did what they could i work out schools people and there is a lot of sick people as a result we don't have any room. in the tubes for future cherries i'm on it's really difficult the corona virus is europe's worst public health disaster in over a century as you can see winter when the 3rd wave is already upon us. even they are

hoping that this latest rollout will hear unity and health but 1000000 vaccinations is only a small fraction of the 17 odd 1000000 adults here in front 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. terrorists. i was in other news this hour hundreds of ultra-orthodox jews have blocked traffic in israel over the arrest of religious students who refused to join the army 13 protesters were detained and one officer injured by a rock thrown by a protester demonstrators were spread through glass bottles at police who used water cannon to disperse the rally it's russia's emergencies ministries looking for 17 fisherman missing off the northern coast after a troll

a sank in the barents sea you have been rescued but there are fears the others may not have survived the rescued men said that one of the crew members had been thrown overboard the search operation is being complicated too by bad weather which is stopping rescue planes getting to the area authorities believe that ice accumulation led to the sinking of the vessel. and thousands of refugees warn that they won't survive a freezing winter without shelter after a major camp burned down amid a snow storm in bosnia and. aid groups say that frostbite hypothermia and of the severe health problems are already being reported by those stranded at the site watching r.t. still had. the impact kobe just had on france in more detail over the last 12 months that's to come among other stories to just stop.

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a common crisis changed our lives how we look continue to shape our lives unique a one of the last things to know that may never return. welcome back now from corona virus to black lives 2020 has been a year of life changing stories both good and bad and it's also been political correctness once again to some famous people been finding act with more his. 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 tunnel 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 local races when faced with the idea of putting down statues and di 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 church. they spend so much time kneeling 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. because. if you don't know you

will this lead to quite a few of those caring people to get out 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 it is the congo i think really bad really good random luck what is neat cave me well let me explain using the giants of the intellectual doc web. when megaupload cost. his show over to spotify earlier this year for something like a. 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 moved

his car. pull the video. oh my god oh my god oh my god they demanded we're p.t.s. meetings with management you know this is probably overinflated all that's part of our stuff is issues complete fodder they have literally said nothing to me about it it was a similar story for. jordan pietists reportedly stall for the company that was publishing his latest book was so disturbed that it was being published that they ended up being. m.m.a. scrap turned actress gina carano wrinkling you would not want to get into a fight with. has been expressing the wrong kind of politics she doesn't think the elections were fair she doesn't whiteface mosques and now her opponents have started. fire gina carano. political correctness has taken

over multinationals as well with some companies making conspicuous nations to fashion. learn about that. 2020 most of us went through the locked arms and life changing events to government student to whites keep up with more now on the situation in france which had its fair share of struggles his shoulder to ski. 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 wools. by the end of the month we had an inkling that things were about to get worse

or worse 19 can be kind of. a pandemic. the fashion industry soon was doing was it does best were dictating what we would all soon be wearing mosques soon they were hot property arrests were selling contraband mosques became headline news as the government requisition the mole for health authorities. appearing 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 france and the states 1st looked on the borders were

closed like this we work in the stadiums in the theater as we ensure security in the event sector and since march everything's been stopped and it's to you 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 rest 2nd wave said leave in the 1st kill

the yes parents took action introducing mass commissions as record actions were registered then as the closures began. anger 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 aren't. considered it is 20 feet off the 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 business is we're 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 i left. people 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 over the woods. nursing staff learned from the 1st way if we can now take better care of patients but the government fell to learn its lessons there was the problem of hospital bed shortages and lack of means to deal with the virus and

during the posh lock 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 a confidence in the authorities as the new drew to an end restaurants balls theatres 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 so let's auti paris. thanks for watching this afternoon that's why things are looking so far today we're back again at the top of the. backscatter this is the kaiser report with stacey herbert special year end guest misfires dine the cook i must say is the kind of

sensitivity to world events of markets we're seeing anywhere except here i can report welcome back. an entire village in alaska. if another country trying to wipe out an american. we do everything in our power to protect the. water they are skipping. climate change . this is the same thread right now alaska has seen some of the fuss just coastal erosion in the world. about 30 feet. 35 feet of ground in just about 3 months while we were measuring. beans the river is $35.00 closers and how. was. i don't think we're part of a 1st for. hello

and welcome to cross talk we're all face or considered i'm peter lavelle 2020 has been a year like no other how has the big crisis changed our lives how will that continue to shape our lives moving forward and what have we lost things and ideas that may never return. to discuss this and more i'm joined by my guest marcus papadopoulos in london he's

a historian analyst and author of the forthcoming book arise rosia the return of russia to world politics in oxford we have mark allman he is director of the prices research institute and in budapest we cross to georgia samueli is an arthur and a you tuber at the gaggle are across the uk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate it let's go to mark here you know mark in preparing for this program he's jotting down some notes about how i reflect upon this year let me just read you a couple of bullet points health dictatorship fear has become central to our lives we go from one crisis to the next crisis it is an authoritarians dream come true. good faith thinking is gone social media using censorship and that science which has been completely discredited there is no such thing as the science the media will tell you otherwise and probably most importantly what is happening

to the social contract now i just read you 123-4567 things take one of the. well i think we could begin really with as you say the science in a sense human experience if we think back to 100 years ago when the great spanish flu epidemic or even 60 years ago and so hong kong flu. the extraordinary thing is the degree to which the current epidemic has led to huge social changes and what social disciplinary changes that those didn't have and in a sense also they didn't really have a legacy did they they were huge events catastrophic events but they cost. us i think the ability interesting thing here and it comes to hope social discipline question if the culture changes is that across the world certainly across the northern hemisphere in which they australasia people are adapting to a whole new set of behavioral rules which have come into force very quickly social distancing how you manage your life the economic activities social activities

cultural activities and seem to accept that in an extraordinary way and it in a sense i don't myself subscribe to the idea that it was pre-planned or thought through but it has revealed as for instance one of our chief expose of advising the government yes said yesterday. the chinese in a sense pioneered a way of showing how easy it was to get people to conform to extraordinary restrictions with very very little resistance and this may be necessary to control a contagious disease what else could it in a sense set off that's the real danger in the future i think you know and you know mark it's not i also as i do i don't believe this is a tensional but obviously for many in power and in the business world and in social media this is an opportunity they just can't let pass go ahead as well if. it's when it's when seen as.