the headlines this hour as intensive care units in california fill up during the pandemic clinics are forced to set up makeshift boards and sighed 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. in modern russia the over 60 start receiving the sputnik 3 coby job after the health ministry said it was safe to do so and vaccinations are being rolled out across europe too but people are divided on the issue. so 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 urgent need to get out the

problem. hello they're just gone 5 pm in moscow you're watching 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 43000 cope with infections in just 3 days over the christmas holidays but across southern california intensive care units are full with overwhelmed hospital setting up makeshift tools and the beds los angeles can't even reportedly rationing guidelines to fit clinics to give less care to those less likely to survive is still unclear whether those guidelines have been implemented this month one nurse filmed an emotional appeal are battling coronavirus herself. has through how. you don't. a girl from cork her. crew her of her of more.

on this marcy a santini there he is now a long way through her recovery we're pleased to say told r.t. the situation is 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 a officials have issued a safe at home order to try and stop the virus from spreading gatherings for anything other than urgencies political or religious purposes a band most non-essential companies have been forced to shut down and the city's mayor has a 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 surge macias and honey again blames public recklessness for the rapid spread of the virus. 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 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 agent your come morbidity but there's plenty of younger people that have died from this. the modern here in russia 27000 u.k. with cases were recorded over the last 24 hours in this be heard older people on them to be more susceptible with almost half the people catching the virus in moscow over 46 however one person has proven that there is hope no matter what your age is. it's 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

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 foresaw. well people over 60 in russia and i were starting to get the sputnik the jap at the weekend the health ministry said it was ok to do so after safety and efficacy tests were concluded front line workers had been among the 1st receive the vaccine early this month our correspondent who. 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 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 in 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 skin future and saying that i had seen may let me do that. as soon as i heard about the

vaccination i wanted to get it this is how condemning can be stopped and 2nd i just left to travel truly. removed 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 per cent 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 free vaccination screening to do and if you look at some nations screening is

common practice a person undergoes the same examination before the flu vaccine it is done to exclude risks from acute illness or a fix you know the 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. thank you there now the you has launched a cross border vaccination program with the target of inoculating every adult in 2021 contracts have been secured with supplies for more than 2000000000 vaccine doses however polls do show that a lot of people are still hesitant about taking the job and that's particularly the

case in france with more from there his poor sleep. 1000000 that if they make the number of people that own plans to decimate by the end of. the focus now nursing homes like this one and other facility 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. 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 bit older than 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 weird 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 burden you need to get out of the problem so i don't see you need to have the vaccination i 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's movement there are real fears that the vaccination has not taste to 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 call to the population field at present upon fumbled his way to fix the way to do people here feel. that parish has its hand on top of things now or we could hear it so one thing a day another one for you here the next day. 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. to use its food food to cherry's a mom 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 a goal our goal 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 16 if that is the way that paris plans to beat this to before virus it needs to act and act fast. r.t. paris. 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 addictions 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 expenditure and also foreign policy objectives in fact the word mask is absent from the document while others like missile aircraft ammunition do crop multiple times where some like donald trump himself have questioned why significant sums are going to foreign governments still while many americans do struggle to make ends meet some of the recipients of that u.s. financial aid doing clude ukraine israel and also cambodia and resources are also

being directed toward seemingly non-essential sectors for instance horseracing political analyst stan podcast to justin robert young told us that this time around trump's art of the deal failed. 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 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 in is part of good deal 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. and other news hundreds of. traffic in israel over the arrest of a religious student refused to join the army the same protesters were detained and want to say. protester. police water cannon the. northern coast 6 people remain missing after a fishing vessel sank in the barents sea one person has been confirmed dead sea were rescued and said that one of the crew members had been thrown overboard still unaccounted for one survived the search operations being complicated by bad weather

preventing rescue planes from getting to the area authorities believe that ice accumulation led to the sinking of the boat and thousands of refugees warned that they were freezing winter without shelter after major camp. bosnia and herzegovina aid groups say that frostbite hypothermia and the severe health problems being reported by the stranded at the site. wolf look back at the impact that covert has had on france over the last 12 months among the stories succumb just off the. same wrong why don't we all just don't all. get

to shape out. educate and indeed from an equal betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. max keiser this is the kaiser report with stacy herbert and special year end guest misfires di the man who i must say is the kind of sensitivity to world events and markets really see anywhere except here on times report minutes welcome back.

with r.t. international now that has been a lot to talk about in 2020 but it's also been a time where you have to be careful what you say with more on the challenges of not being politically correct his party boy. frontlines of the culture wars in 2020 not everyone gave up on the practice of insulting everyone and not carrying these red beans who faced. basically this is it there was something about when i put this handle and maybe through like superman and 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 pulling down statues and colonizing the curriculum she gave a reply that came straight from your granddad 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 score a social justice warrior these days well just check. 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 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 it is a con good naturedly bad really good random luck want to cave me well let me explain using the giants of the intellectual dark web. when megaupload costa joe rogan moved 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 accidently hit his car you know. pull a 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's part of our stuff is just complete fodder they have literally said nothing to me write 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. want to get into a fight with. has been expressing the wrong kind of politics she doesn't think the election is what she doesn't like pay small 6 and now her opponents have started a hash tag. hash tag fire gina carano. political correctness has taken a multinational well with some companies making conspicuous the nation's 2 fashionable causes you can learn more about this. but also this year most of us went through lock downs and governments often

struggle to stay on top of the virus with more on the situation in france which had its fair share of issues his 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's 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 to know is that the pandemic. the fashion industry soon was doing was it does best predicting 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 role 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 because they're selling to us 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 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 rest 2nd wave said leave in the 1st kill bill yet parents took action introducing masturbations record sections with 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 locked down instead a curfew that promise fell like a pack of cards before the month was art. did it start to feel like the 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 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. posted 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 still got people things are still very bad because we have asked to restart our work but we can't we have. 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. or. nursing staff learned from the 1st wave 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 restrooms balls 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 so let's r.t. paris. brings up to date for this hour just coming up to half past 5 here in moscow we'll have more news about how.

the world is driven by. the day or thinks. we dare to ask. 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. wanted me to skipping climate change is the same threat right now alaska seems some of the fastest coastal erosion in the world we lost about 35 feet. 35 feet of

ground in just about 3 months while we were measuring. and that means the river is 35 closers and how. long was your. were a part of america 1st from. a low in welcome across town where all babies are considered i'm peter lavelle 2020

has been a year like no other how has the big crisis changed our lives how will it can. when you 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 and analyst and author of the forthcoming book a rise rossiya 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 crossed to george samueli he's an author and the you tube or at the gaggle our 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 just jogging down some notes about.