who i must say how is the kind of sensitivity to world events and markets rarely seen anywhere except here on time for 4 minutes welcome back. as intensive care units in california during the pandemic clinics are forced to set up makeshift wards outside. 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. how did russian people 60 plus start receiving the sport next week over job after the health ministry says it was safe to do so. across europe as well but people remain divided over the issue. i think we did not

have enough feedback on the spanx and at the moment i think everyone should take it because that's the only way we're going to have enough to get out of probably. very warm welcomes you from all of us here. taking you through today's world you store. has been the deadliest month in the united states since the pandemic began 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 up with hospitals forced to set up temporary wards outside los angeles county even reportedly sent out rationing guidelines for clinics that give less care to those less likely to survive. the guidelines have

been implemented this month one nurse filmed an emotional appeal while battling coronavirus herself. you her through her home you don't need to go r.l. on corporate. her of one or number. of. models here santini that she's now making a good recovery i'm told r.t. both choice in is at the 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 nation's 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 or l.a. officials have issued a safe home or to try and stop the virus gatherings for anything other than emergencies and political or religious purposes or by and 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. most years until he 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 they're 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 pity but there's plenty of younger people that have died from this. meanwhile here in russia 27000 new covered cases were recorded just over the last 24 hours older people all known to be more susceptible with almost half the people catching the virus here in moscow being over 46 however one brave person has proved there is hope no matter what your age. i don't know what the secret of my recovery as but i know that we need to keep calm and preserve our nerves.

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 wanted to. proceed 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. people over 60 and russia are now starting to get the sputnik job over the weekend the health ministry said it was ok to do so off to safety. this morning the elderly were already lauding up a vaccination centers across the city. sent this for 4. 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 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 this is difficult 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 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 the 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 screening to do in the peak of the nation's screening is common practice a person undergoes the same examination before the flu vaccine it's done to exclude risks from acute illness or effects you know the g.'s and to measure temperature as of others 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 a target of inoculating every adult in 2021 contracts have 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 paula. 1000000 that if they make the number of people that want to bet made by the end of. the focus now nursing homes like this one and other people with. vulnerable individuals and emergency workers 1st in line to say the vaccination is the only way to stop. virus the people here in france a 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 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 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 getting enough later and it's not just the end to that they were really good that the vaccination has nothing to stop propping 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 field at present upon bungled this way for the 2nd way to do people here feel that how it has its hand on top of things now overcrowded here so one thing a day another comes to 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 and maybe not let people go so free over christmas i can 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 sleep people as a result we don't have any need. to lose from you tube and cherries i'm on and it's really difficult to coronavirus 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 are hoping that this latest poll out will hear unity and help 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 be virus it needs to act and act fast. are to paris. over use of treatment to cure covert 19 could accelerate the support of so-called superbugs the

world health organization has highlighted a significant rise in gonna rear a sexually transmitted bacteria warning it could become incurable and the microbial resistance may not seem. as a pandemic but it is just as dangerous it threatens to unwind a century of medical progress and live on as a defenseless against infection that today you can be treated easily or one of the article in question is as a through my sin which is used to treat chest and sinus infections as well as going to rear during a pandemic it was administered to treat inflammatory symptoms and prevent the spread of covert but was largely ineffective however it has reportedly allowed other bacteria to build resistance creating simple bugs that could become untreatable we spoke to you as just one professor bob about avoiding the use of antibiotics unless absolutely necessary. a mattress is not stupid. and or

a bacteria is not stupid it gets no it gets used to a certain antibiotic treatment or regimen it's absolutely wrong now to assume that the coded pandemic is not changing everything it is as a matter of fact because of this system dependent extended to the quick transmission in everything i think there is an issue new systems go down we are more basically apt to have infections strong infections and resistance will increase this problem of antibiotic resistance has been around and has been increasing over the years without the pendennis as well and for sure what the pentagon's done is that the patients don't go to the doctor anymore because they're scared of going to the doctor because thinking if you do it if they go to the hospital or if they do go for example to a doctor's office they may get a virus because obviously patients will be sitting there this is a wrong assumption if patients are sick you should still go to the doctor does is very important secondly i think we should still be careful about resistance in

general and this same remedy that we had a year ago or 2 years ago is still true today don't use antibiotic the problem of resistance is through over use of antibiotics for irrelevant or minor infections and this is the problem this is the problem it was 2 years ago and is still a problem today. still to come this hour we'll look at the impact covens had on france over the last 12 months that other stories just to this point. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics or business i'm show business i'll see that.

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stalled but not defeated small stream to completed laying pop lines in german waters off to months of pressure from u.s. sanctions nordstrom to complete its full transfer russian gas the regularly to europe it's now around 93 percent complete with the next phase of construction expected to begin in denmark around mid january the project had been suspended for around a year. to slap sanctions on e.u. businesses fearing europe could become too dependent on russian gas well we're joined now by a member of germany's left party thanks for joining us good to have you with us today. firstly are you surprised. going out and getting so close to the finish line despite the consistent threats of u.s. sanctions. i'm not at all surprised because i know that the potus and this project are very competent have lots of industry experience so to see them accomplish this much in such

a short amount of time against such pressure is not at all honesty to me but of course it is quite interesting to see. all the measures washed try to pull all nations that wreck your interact the touched by this project and they did not hold back washington and try and. again and again and again individual that you get. and all of that nonstop the cost structure. which we will probably see finished next year why do you think this particular state of construction was suspended for so long in germany. well i think the reason germany was not to do with the german authorities even though they try to impose sanctions on. even small villages and small harvests in germany but

it was much to do with the general. ganesh part of the going through denish sea territory and so this has to be thought of it as like one sanction and it is very important to have a timeline. it tastes like a plan and they accomplish with the results that they showed us today how do you think we are the state is going to respond to this news and do you think there's going to be any change in washington's attitude to the construction of this pipeline when your boyfriend takes office next month. i'll answer the last so i think well i'm not scared i don't want to join you scare off a lame duck presidency that is ending just a couple of weeks and whatever sanctions they can pose we can endure and we will endure because this project is why both for generations to come that will ensure

heroes of germany's energy security well into the future and so we can wait for a couple of days and then when the next administration takes over washington i think they have to be concerned about the economic and actually tax policies of donald trump and they have actual i have to add that wants to go back to the paris car that he wants to save the clients and produce it us shale gas shipping that over and over to germany is certainly does not stop global warming this pipeline project try to dust and provide a safe and reliable energy future for germany and all of europe and. denmark is going to face the same sort of level of pressure for from the u.s. for its involvement in the gas pipeline do you think copenhagen is going to cave into that pressure. well there are my is of course much smaller than the germany.

population so they are much more of an easy target and the problem is ration is shown and it likes to be a bully get smaller nations and it's sad that they're not are. quite a lot but what what can they do they cannot stop this project forever they have excuses but the partners in this happen projects have really every trial and they have proven every time and again. this project is tremendous and national parties just have no choice but to groups and interesting stuff. from germany's left party thanks for joining us good to have you on the program today thank you again. in 2020 most of us went through locked als governments often struggled to stay on top of the virus with more on the

situation in france which has had its fair share of issues is shot at the open 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 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 role 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 worked in the stadiums in the sea a terrace 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 the 2nd wave won't fade leaving the 1st filled b.s. parents took action introducing my aspirations as record actions were registered members or to 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 art. did it start to feel like 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 the stop the virus. but i know 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 were able to raise you that's not a problem but it's the other stuff our pay it's absurd a lot of so-called 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 for aunts headed into the winter it still wasn't of the woods. at the nursing staff learn from the 1st way if 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 partial lockdown 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 our confidence in the authorities as the true to an end restaurants bars theaters museums all remain shells of their former selves a fresh curfew was announced in france finds itself facing an uncertain future as the bells ringing for 2021 so let's r.t.

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i don't think we're part of a 1st for. a low in welcome across town where all face are considered i'm peter lavelle 2020 has been a year like no other how has the kobe crisis changed our lives how will that continue to shape our lives meaning forward and what have we lost things and ideas that may never return.

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 a rise 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 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 just 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 cove it isn't authoritarians dream come true.