headlines this hour as intensive care units in california fail are showing the pandemic clinics are forced to set up a 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 supply patients in overflow overflow overflow areas. here in russia vaccination with the sputnik the jap starts for people over 60 the group most affected by the virus but after the health ministry approved the job safety and efficacy and the vaccinations are being rolled out course europe people are hugely divided on the issue. i think we do not have enough feedback on this vaccine at the moment i think everyone should take it because that's the only way we're going to have enough

certainly to get out of problem. fellow they're just gone 4 o'clock in moscow you're watching r t international that december has been the most deadly month in the u.s. since the pandemic begun and in los angeles county hospitals are struggling to cope after 40 $3000.00 covert infections in just 3 days over the christmas holidays well across southern california intensive care units are full with overwhelmed hospitals setting up make shift towards beds los angeles county even reportedly sent rationing guidelines for clinics to give less care to those less likely to survive although it is still unclear whether those guidelines have been implemented this month one nurse did film an emotional appeal while battling coronaviruses cell. i

mean her who through home who don't need to go are on court her. who hurt her of war or murder or. wellness macias and taney day who is now a long way through her recovery told r.t. the situation is that 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 up makeshift units outside of the hospital our government they blew it all so 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 a officials have issued a safer at home order to try and stop the virus gatherings for anything other than emergencies and political or religious purposes the band most non-essential companies have been forced to shut and the city's mayor is urging 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 cove in 1000 so. santini again does blame public recklessness for the rapid spread of the virus. 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 they would be if 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 does it does it matters your agent your cum or biddies but there's plenty of younger people that have died from this. meanwhile here in russia 27000 u.k. bit cases were recorded over the last 24 hours a lot of people as we heard in one to be more susceptible with almost half the people catching the virus in moscow over 46 however one person that has proven that there is hope no matter what your age is the disease has been defeated by one brave lady who has been celebrating a very special landmark. i don't know what the secret of my recovery as 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. the person who could look. we're grateful to the doctors she's an optimist and radiates positivity that's why she's made us happy for so long. while people over 60 in russia and starting to get the sputnik the japanese the weekend the health ministry said it was ok to do so after safety and efficacy tests were concluded frontline workers had been among the 1st receive the vaccine early this month a correspondent visited a moscow vaccination set. so monday is definitely

a milestone because if you're in that most vulnerable age group 60 plus you can now get enrolled and most likely finally forget about everything we've gotten sick and tired of in 2020 that explains why moscow's mayor is so proud and happy and by the way he's already been vaccinated to the russian ministry of health has approved the opportunity for the older generation to be vaccinated against coated 19 with 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 it really works the vaccination program kicked off only 2 days after the announcement from the russian health ministry so i managed to speak to the people who are so desperate to get the job they did it in the morning right on the 1st day. i love to finally take off my most future.

saying that i had seen may let me do that. since i heard about the vaccination i wanted to get it. this is how condemning can be stopped and 2nd i just love to travel truly useful to remove you need to get a job a new way the disease a serious challenge to the elderly and youngsters to some discover they've been infected without symptoms but i'd rather not gamble. clinical trials showed 90 percent efficacy and an impressive safety record although only a few months ago the critics were skeptical about the vaccines numbers for the side effect rates however at this point the sputnik the team says that about 15 percent of the patients get the side effects which include muscle pain fever and headache whether that number is good enough to silence the critics well that's up for you to decide but at any case all the applicants must go. through very serious medical

screening live there and if you could look at some previous anation screening is common practice it person undergoes the same examination before the flu vaccine it's done to exclude risks from acute illness or if it's you know a g.'s and to measure temperature as of august recess health in terms of chronic disease if people fit the criteria we include them in the vaccination group for those who have not yet made up their mind on whether to go forward or not there is something that will probably serve as a confidence boost vladimir putin's decision to get the jab here as part of that age group that's just gotten the green light to the russian president is 68 years old. you has launched a cross border vaccination program with a target of inoculating every adult and 2021 contracts have been secured with supplies for more than 2000000000 vaccine doses however polls do show a lot of people are still hesitant about taking the job and that is particularly

the case in france with more from there is poor slave just 1000000 that if they make the number of people that own cancer decimated 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 doctors say the vaccination is the only way to stop the virus 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 even if it can save lives maybe it would be good to wait a little she pointed out 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 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 i don't see a need to have the vaccination i probably wouldn't have one recent poll suggests that about half the population is again getting inoculated and it's not just me and 2 vets movement there are real fears that the vaccination has not taste of popping in the u.k. and us there are a 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 all took the population field at present upon from both his ways to fix the way to keep people here feel that our health care and on top of the. now all we could hear was so one thing and other things that we hear 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 also read over christmas i can say they did

a good job or a bad job i think they just did what they could work out schools people there is a lot of sick people as a result we don't have any need and they need to use the future to move into cherries among them it's really difficult to come out 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 hoping that this latest poll out will hear unity and health but 1000000 vaccinations is only a small fraction of the 17 odd 1000000 adults here in france over the age of 16 if that is the way that paris plans to beat this to before virus it needs to act and act fast. r.t. terrorists. donald trump has finally signed off on a coronavirus relief and government funding bill to the tune of some $2.00 trillion

dollars the president had previously threatened to veto the bill claiming it should give more aid to americans but he's now agreed to the deal which will see almost every american receive a one off $600.00 i am signing this bill to restore unemployment benefits stop actions provide rental assistance add money for p.p.p. return our airline workers back to work at substantially more money for vaccine distribution and much more. however the huge bill does appear to focus less on the ongoing pandemic and more on military expenditures and also foreign policy objectives the word mask for example is absent from the document while others like missile aircraft and mean ition do crop up multiple times some like don't trump himself have questioned why significant sums going are going to foreign governments still while many americans struggle to make ends meet now some of the recipients of

that u.s. financial aid doing clete ukraine israel and also cambodia and resources are also being directed towards seemingly non essential sectors for instance horse racing or political analyst and podcast just in robert young told us the politicians are trying to keep the focus away from what's really in the. what trump did effectively was take his eye off the ball he's been very very focused on his challenge of the election and he allowed steve minucci his treasury secretary to be his point person only for at the 11th hour him to say that he didn't like the deal that was negotiated in part because the republicans said that day he had their man on their side in the white house that would sign the deal this quite possibly could be the last consequential act for donald trump as president and whether or not this is something that he believes is art of video mind that the only time you really have

any kind of momentum or sway is that 1159 on the clock but ultimately it was it was just too little too late bad as as to why beyond that who knows yet another element of chaos in the donald trump administration. because other news from orthodox jews have brought traffic in israel over the arrest of a religious student who refused to join the army 13 protesters were detained and one officer injured by a rock thrown by a protester demonstrators also 3 glass bottles that police can and the around it's . 16 people remain missing after a fishing vessel sank in the barents sea one person has been confirmed dead 2 were rescued and said one of the train members had been thrown overboard it's feed those still unaccounted for won't survive the search operation is being complicated by bad weather preventing rescue planes getting to the area authorities believe that

ice accumulation led to the sinking of the boat and thousands of refugees warn that they won't survive a freezing winter without shelter after a major camp. amid a snow storm when both he and his. aid group say that frostbite hypothermia and other severe health problems are already being reported by those stranded at the side. it's so we'll look at the impact it has had on france over the last 12 months among the stories to come just off the.

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from corona virus to black lives matter 2020 has been a year of life changing stories both good and bad and it's also been if the political correctness once again this some famous people have been finding act is. 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 local races when faced with the idea of putting down statues and colonizing the curriculum she gave a reply that came straight from your grandad and now we're talking about the colonizing the particular 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. because. if you don't know you will this lead to quite a few of those caring people to get off all steadies 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. nick cave said it best when he said political correctness is guys they come here and happy to make anyone else in 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 accidently hit 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. 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 and actress gina carano. 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 like a small 6 and now her opponents have started a hash tag. hash tag fire gina carano. political correctness has also taken over multinationals as well with some companies making conspicuous their nations to fashionable. more.

time in 2023 lock downs and governments often struggle to stay on top of the virus with more on the situation in france which had his fair share of issues he shot at the big. 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. worse 19 can be kind of. the pundit make. the fashion industry soon was during war it does best for dictating 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 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 not the gear now if things really started to go downhill fronts in the states 1st looked on the borders were closed like this we work in the stadiums in the theater us we ensure security in the event sector and since march everything's been stopped and it 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. summer drew to an end the warnings of arrests 2nd wave they believe in the 1st pill but yet parents took action introducing mass commissions as record actions were registered voters or to the closures began. anger was palpable.

but government promised these measures would be enough they would be no return to a 2nd look down instead a curfew that promise fell like a pack of cards before the month was art. considered it is 20 feet after 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 others that are paying it's absurd a lot of. got me about 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 partial lockdown we saw the 35 percent of infection cost is in education institutions but the government is 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 balls theaters 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 ring in for 2021 solar auti paris and that's how things are looking so far today here in r.t. international good to have you company this afternoon as usual and we're back again in about it. join me every 1st week on the alex salmond's show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics or business i'm sure business i'll see you there. 2020 has been a year like you know what now is a coming crisis changed our lives how we will continue to. work.

things. that may never return. time after town c. and welcome to going underground 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 the agreement is seen by u.s.

president trump as 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 stronger front against iran and a potential end to any chance of a future for the palestinian people on 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 yaakov caps but 1st joining me now from tel aviv is the 10th prime minister of israel ehud barak who also served as defense minister for 27 to 2013 former presidents effects 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 every major critical of the. prime ministers politicians 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 therefore for 13 years now emergency plan for a war may jaw else quake 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 it the chances of these locked down to very low and. economic oh i see the suffering of millions of people is devastating it's still not too late to do the right things but they need political will and the capacity to make decisions namely to concentrate on the place where their option is really what it mainly other concentration.