the headlines on our t.v. as intensive care units in california fill up during the pandemic clinics are forced to set up make shift towards outside one nurse tells us just how bad the situation has become. we're stuck now we were running low on oxygen on supplies he have patients in overflow overflow overflow areas. and in russia people 60 plus start receiving the sputnik the cold it shot after the health ministry said it was safe to do so. and vaccinations are rolled out across europe as well but people are divided on the issue. and 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 maybe get out of the problem. a very warm welcome so you all hear from us at r.t. international i'm donald quarter taking you through today's world news stories. the summer has been the deadliest month in the u.s. since the pandemic began and in los angeles county hospitals are struggling to cope after $43000.00 covert infections in just 3 days over the christmas holidays across southern california intensive care units are full with hospitals forced to set up temporary wards outside los angeles county even reportedly sent out rationing guidelines for clinics to give quote less care to those less likely to survive still unclear whether those guidelines have been implemented but this month one nurse filmed an emotional appeal while battling the coronavirus herself. knew her

through home. you don't need to go far from court her. through her of her over one or number. but it was nurse marcy a santini there and she is making a good recovery and told r.t. the situation is at 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 gatherings for anything other than emergencies and political or religious purposes have been banned most non-essential companies have been forced to temporarily shut down and the city's mayor urged 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 with skipping holiday parties every sacrifice makes a difference to stopping the cove in 1000 so. marci a santini 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 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 agent your cum or biddies but there's plenty of younger people that have died from this. and while here in russia 27000 new covert cases were recorded over the last 24 hours older people are known to be more susceptible of course with almost half the people catching the virus in moscow being over 46 however one brave person has proven there is hope no matter what age you are. it 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 i love the.

look she was hospitalized in a relatively severe condition she was upbeat and responded well to the treatment she recovered quickly she felt we'd be precious to us and we wanted 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 so long. while people over 60 and russia are now starting to get the sputnik the shot over the weekend the health ministry said it was ok to do so after safety and efficacy tests were concluded and this morning the elderly were already lining up at the vaccination centers in moscow as go reports. 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 then 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. love to finally take off my most future and saying that i had seen may let me do that. since i heard about the vaccination i wanted to get it 1st this is how condemning 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 the side effect rates however at this point the split 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 for you to decide but at any case all the applicants must go through very serious medical nation screening to do that and if you can do it in the previous nation screening is common practice that person under gives 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 assess 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 he 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 the target of inoculating every adult in 2021 contracts have already been secured with suppliers for more than 2000000000 vaccine doses however polls do show a lot of people are hesitant about taking it and that's particularly the case in france with more on that here's paul asli or. 1000000 that if they make the number of people that want to that's made by the end of. the focus now nursing homes like

this one and the police when they don't then vulnerable individuals and emergency workers 1st in line to say the vaccination is the only way to stop the. i was the people here in france a split on the issue just above all civil i'm not really in favor i think we did 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 to know 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 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 the probably wouldn't have one recent poll suggests that about half the population is against getting inoculated and it's not just me

and 2 vets movement there are real kids 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 field at present a chronic fungal his 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 it was so one thing a day another one for we were 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 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 i work out schools people and there is a lot of see people as a result we don't have any need. to lose from

futurism on 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. do you even know hoping that this latest rollout will fix unity and health but 1000000 vaccinations is only a small fraction of the 17000000 adults here in fronts over the age of 60 if that is the way that paris plans to beat this lethal virus it needs to act and act fast. papists. 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 has previously threatened to veto the bill claiming it should give more aid to americans but he's since 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 evictions provide rental assistance and money for p.p.p. return line workers back to work at substantially more money for vaccine distribution and much more over this huge bill does appear to focus less on the ongoing pandemic and more on military expenditures and foreign policy objectives the word mask is absent from the document while others like missile aircraft and munition crop up multiple times and some like donald trump himself have question why significant sums are still going to foreign governments while many americans struggle to make ends meet some of the recipients of that u.s. financial aid include ukraine israel and cambodia and resources are also being directed toward seemingly non-essential sectors for instance horse racing political analyst and podcast or just in robert young told us that this time around trumps 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 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 art of 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 baz as to why beyond that who knows a yet another element of chaos in the donald trump administration. still to come this hour we look at the impact covert has had on france over the last 12 months

that and other stories just after this short break. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to us from the world of politics or business i'm show business i'll see you then. world is driven by shaped by.

the day. thinks. we dare to ask. 2020 has been a year like you no wonder no it's a comin crisis changed our lives how we look continue to shape our lives make a one of the last things to know that may never return. welcome back to the program now there's been a lot of talk about 20 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 here's polly boyko. 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 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 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 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. cave said it best when he said political correctness is guys the county and happy to make anyone else it is the congo i'd like to make that really good random luck what does need 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 any unwanted by his views did you see that guy accidently hit that moved his car no. he pulled 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 spotify stuff is issues complete fodder they have literally said nothing to me about it it was a similar story. jordan pietistic reportedly start off with a company that was publishing his latest book was so disturbing that it was being published that they ended up being. m.m.a. scrap and actress gina khurana. 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 mom sounds now her

opponents have started a hash tag. hash tag fire gina carano. and political correctness has taken over multinationals as well with software companies making conspicuous donations to fashionable causes you can learn more about that. now in 2020 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 own fair share of issues here shortly. when 2020 or wrong i think 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 for dictating what we would all soon be wearing mosques soon they were hot property arrests for selling contraband mosques became headline news as the government requisition the mole 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 overcoats 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 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. 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 said leave in the 1st film yes parents took action introducing mass commissions as record factions were registered then as the closures began. ungar 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 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 we need to go back to the lockdown that stopped the virus . by no businesses were really feeling the squeeze. rust 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 other start are paying it's absurd. got me about things are still very bad because we have to ask 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 the woods. at the nursing staff learned from the 1st wave we can now take

better care of patients but the government is felt 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 long 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 our confidence in the authorities as the new drew to an end restaurants 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 ot see paris that's the news for this hour for more make sure to check out our website r.t. dot com and follow us on twitter thanks for watching and we hope you have a great day.

was a pandemic no certainly no borders just like to nationalities. as a. judge and as commentary this is listen. we can do better we should. everyone is contributing it's your own way but we also know that this crisis will not go on forever the challenges create the response has been much so many good people are helping us. it makes us feel very proud that we are in it together. americans love.

this was a fundamental part of how our political leadership and our country at large understood the bargain you get a hope and then you know rebel right that's the things you don't revolt if you have a stake in the system. and think about the longer deeper history housings men in the united states not just that question of the american dream but the bigger question of who the dream is for. an entire village in alaska has had to move if another country threaten to wipe out an american. we do everything in our power to protect. wantonness scaping climate change is the same threat right now alaska has seen some of the fastest

coastal erosion in the world. about 30 feet. 35 feet of ground in just about 3 months while we were measuring. in the teens the river is 35 closer to how. was. i don't think we're part of a thirst for. 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 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 crisis research institute and in budapest we cross to georgia samueli is an art there and a you tuber at the gavel 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 is that science which has been completely discredited there's 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 them. well i think we could begin really with 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 it caught social disciplinary changed.