at all the question of the american dream the bigger question of who the dream is and for. the headlines this hour as intensive care units in california fill up during the pandemic clinics are forced to set up a makeshift boards outside one nurse tells this just tired bad the situation has become. worse start now we were running low on oxygen on supplies we have patients in overflow overflow overflow areas meanwhile him russia 60 start receiving the sputnik jab after the health ministry said it was safe to do so and that vaccinations are being rolled out for europe too but people are divided on the issue. i think we did 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 urgent need to get out of the problem. they get even just gone 6 o'clock here in moscow you with 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 43000 infections in just 3 days over the christmas holidays across southern california intensive care units are full with overwhelmed hospital setting up make shift towards beds assigned to these can't even reportedly sent out rationing guidelines for clinics to give less care to those less likely to survive although it is unclear whether those guidelines have been implemented this month one nurse did film an emotional appeal while battling coronavirus herself. you her his

true home we don't need to go our court her. through her of her of war or murder her. smarty santini he's now. a long way to recovery we're pleased to say and she told us that 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 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 while a officials have issued a safe at home order to try and stop the virus gatherings for anything other than emergencies and political religious purposes are banned most non-essential companies have been forced to shut and the city's mayor is a paper 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 with skipping holiday parties every sacrifice makes a difference to stopping the covert 1000 surge. santini again does blame the 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 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 dies 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 cases were recorded over the last 24 hours i want to papers we had there on the need to be more susceptible with almost half the people catching the virus in moscow over 46 however one brave person has proven that there is hope no matter what your h's. 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 have to forestall. what people over 60 in russia are now starting to get the sputnik the jab at 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 well earlier today i caught up with members of the public who decided to take the job. 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 covert 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 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 the vaccine may let me do that. as soon as i heard about the vaccination i wanted to get it 1st this is how condemn it can be stopped and 2nd i just left to travel truly. 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 these side effect rates however at this point the sputnik b. 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 free vaccination screening to do and if you can do

some nation screening is common practice that person undergoes the same examination before the flu vaccine it's done to exclude risks from acute illness or affix you know the g.'s and to measure temperature as well as to 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 is part of that age group that's just gotten the green light to the russian president is 68 years old. meanwhile the e.u. has launched a cross border vaccination program with a target inoculating every adult in 2021 contracts have been secured with supplies for more than 2000000000 vaccine doses however polls to show a lot of people are hesitant about taking the job the night is particularly the case in france with more from there is poor sleep. 1000000 that's the

estimate of number of people that own plans to decimate 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 but 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 she told him that i am for a vaccine normally it takes 10 years of research and testing but in this case as the vaccine has been readied very quickly i have an experience i would do it's hard 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 herd immunity to get out of the problem or i don't see a need to have the vaccination the 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 movement 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's a general mistrust to the government something we call to the population feel that present a chronic fumbled his way for the fix the way to do people here feel that how it has its hand on top of things now all we could hear was so one thing a day another one for you the next day so i think it's easy to criticize we're not in their shoes i think you might have a harder lockdown maybe not that people go so free over christmas i can't say they did a good job or a bad job i think they just did what they could i worked out schools people and

there is a lot of. see people the reason we don't have that in. an end to this is from you tube futurism all it's really difficult to come on a 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 the hoping that this latest to roll out both here unity and help 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 money for p.p.p. return or airline workers back to work at substantially more money for vaccine distribution and much more however this huge bill does appear to focus less on the ongoing pandemic a more on military expenditures and also foreign policy objectives the word mask for example is absent from the document while others like miss our aircraft ammunition do crop up multiple times and some like donald trump himself have questioned why significant sums are still going to foreign governments while many americans do struggle to make ends meet well some of the recipients of that u.s. financial aid include ukraine israel and also cambodia and resources are also being

directed toward seemingly non-essential sexes to for instance horseracing political analyst import caster justin robert young told us this time around 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 stephen nugent 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 a yet another element of chaos in the donald trump administration. was at. in other news this hour hundreds of ultra-orthodox jews have blocked 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 threw glass bottles at police who used water cannon to disperse the rallies of russia's northern coast 16 people remain missing after a fishing vessel sank in the barents sea one person has been confirmed dead 2 were rescued and said that one of the crew members being thrown overboard is fear you still unaccounted for won't survive the search operation is 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 warn that they won't survive a freezing winter without shelter after a major camp burned down amid a snow storm in bosnia and herzegovina a dream say that frostbite hypothermia and other severe health problems are already being reported by those stranded at the sites you're watching r.t. still had a look at the impact it has had on france over the last 12 months us among the stories to come just after this break.

max keiser this is the kaiser report with stacy herbert and special year end guest misfires. i must say the kind of sensitivity to world events and markets we're seeing anywhere except here on. welcome back.

again 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. 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 and kanye west with strong winds. that they 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 de colonizing the

curriculum she gave a reply that came straight from your grandad and now we're talking about people and i was in 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 their needs. 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 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 becoming and happy to make anyone else

in the congo i think really bad religion random luck what is neat cave me well let me explain using the giants of the intellectual dark web. when maggette point cost. to 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 you know. 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 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 elections were fair she doesn't whiteface mall sex and now her opponents have started a hash tag. hash tag fire gina carano. your school correctness has also taken over multinationals as well with some companies making conspicuous donations to fashionable causes you can learn about that. 2020 most of us went through locked arms 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 has shown it 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'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. 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 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 not the 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. drew to an end to warnings of rest 2nd wave won't say believe in the 1st pill be yet parents took action introducing mask races as a marker sections were registered it was 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 a destructive feat 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 that stopped the virus . by no businesses were really feeling the squeeze. 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'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 i lost. the other 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 fraunces headed into the winter it's still wasn't out of the woods. or at the nursing staff learn from the 1st way if we can now take better care of patients but the government says fell 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 lock time 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 a confidence in the authorities as the new drew to an end dressed rolls balls theatres museums all remain shells of their former selves a fresh curfew was announced in france finds itself facing an uncertain future as

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