the headlines at r.t. international intensive care units in california fill up during the pandemic clinics afford to set up makeshift wards outside 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. and russia people 60 plus start receiving the sport because we cope with job after the health ministry said it was safe to do so. vaccinations are also being rolled out across europe as well people though remain divided on the issue. i think we do 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 for the needy the problem. here in moscow thanks for joining us tonight on all the international hawkins welcome to the program. december has been the deadliest month in the united states since the pandemic began and in los angeles county hospitals are struggling to cope after $43000.00 coated 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 less care to those less likely to survive is unclear though whether the lines have been implemented this month one nurse filled an emotional appeal while battling coronavirus herself. you her through her home

you don't need to go to our home court her. through her of her of more our number. maria son see me there she is making a good recovery and 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 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 while at a officials have issued a safe home order to try to curb the spread of the virus gatherings for anything other than emergencies and political or religious purposes of buy and most non-essential companies have been for the temporarily shut down and the city's mayor has a 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 covert 1900. 40 s. and training 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 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 pity but there's plenty of younger people that have died from this. meanwhile here in russia 27000 new covered cases were recorded over the last 24 hours older people are known to be more susceptible with almost half the people catching the virus in moscow being over 461 braver one however has proven 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.

so she was hospitalized in a relatively severe condition she was upbeat and responded well to the treatment she recovered quickly she felt really precious to us and we wanted to. see because . we're grateful to the doctors she's an optimist and positivity that's why she's happy for so. people aged over 60 in russia are now starting to get the sport shot over the weekend the health ministry said it was ok to do so of the safety. concluded this morning the elderly were already lining up at vaccination centers across the city. center this report. 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 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. that i love to finally take off my most can future saying that i had seen 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. for most 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 effects rates however at this point the sport 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 screening to do and if you can do some nation screening is common practice

a 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 as 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 its own cross border vaccination program but the target of a not getting every adult in 2021 contracts have been secured with surprise for more than 2000000 vaccine doses of the polls do show a lot of people are hesitant about taking it and that's particular the case in france with more on that. 1000000 that if they make that number of

people back to back to made by the end of. the pople now nursing homes like this one and other people with. vulnerable individuals and emergency workers in line to say the vaccination is the only way to stop the violence. 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 she told him 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 to be inoculated and it's not just me and 2 vets movement there are real kids that the vaccination has nothing takes to 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 2nd way to do people here feel that paris has its hand on top of things now overcrowded here. so one thing a day and other things that 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 maybe not that 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 sick people as

a result we don't have any need. to lose this from you tube which i resume on and it's really difficult the corona virus is europe's worst public health disaster in over a century as you can see winter when the 3rd wave is already upon us. even 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 fronts 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. with the number of covert cases and related deaths peaking over the past few months the swedish government has now put forth a bill introducing strict measures if passed by the country's parliament it would allow authorities to shut down businesses and fire on those flouting the rules this

marks a break from the earlier more hands off approach which the government has since admitted was a failure to make very serious situations for the government may decide on far reaching measures to profound crowding that would include the closure of shops public transport shopping centers or are they to it is covered by the law we are talking about certain types of trading places with the risk of spreading the disease is assessed as high and where there is a lot of crowding. when the coronavirus pandemic hit europe in february and march sweden's approach to the crisis starker contrast that with most other countries the so-called swedish model of allied laws only on a voluntary social distancing on the development of herd immunity among the population while avoiding sweeping lockdowns public life remained largely unaffected even at the height of the pandemic drawing criticism from sweden's they was somewhat closing the borders in response. but a shell of the founder and chairman of swedish professors and doctors for human

rights believes the new measures are the only way to save lives. it will indeed there was truly beginning to protect the economy business and of course me being a slave hard industry etc going to be enough of a sunday maybe. they will not be prone to too close to schools because in that case they're 25 percent of the all the labor force will be temporary last forced sort of study aiming to protect their economy there are not to say los no tear down and stricter measures is the only way to at least try doing content to both their morbidity and mortality produced by these fighters you will solve this situation with more and more measures you need to and i was trying to alter the strategy and you need to qualitative change here and not into an obvious trying to be rude to me and in a stance in

a basin not name it is that economy but to say lives i mean it should be or you know it has to be a human rights. perspective and there are things you know it we're here to do to save lives. all morning is office short break you're watching r t international. news . is your media a reflection of reality. in a world transformed. what will make you feel safe. high salacious community. are you going the right way or are you being led to. direct. what is true what is faith.

in the world corrupted you need to descend. to join us in the depths. or a maybe in the shallows. 2020 has been a year like you no wonder now is a coming crisis changed our lives how we look continue to shape our lives meet for one of many long things in a few years that may never return. speaking on monday u.s. president elect joe biden said his transition team has faced roadblocks from a trumpet ministration as they plan for changes to u.s. the fence priorities he also claim the president trying to damage the country's

national security and foreign policy with more on this we're joined now by a correspondent in new york thanks for 1st thing across this story one of the main things we can take away from biden's remarks. when biden spoke he began by acknowledging the explosion that rocked downtown nashville tennessee on christmas day from there i he started talking about donald trump and his policies and he pointed out that in the 4 years of the trumpet ministration he argues the foreign and internal policy agencies of the united states have suffered enormous damage and been hollowed out of personnel capacity and in morale now he blamed trump and his outgoing administration saying that it was essentially failing in security areas this is what we heard from biden. we've encountered roadblocks in

the political leadership at the department of defense and the office of management and budget. right now we just aren't getting all the information that we need for the on going out going from not going to do strip. now biden also spoke about how he argues that his team needs to have a clear picture of the country's force posture talk about world wide operations to deter enemies and modernizing defense priorities now in his remarks he pointed specifically to russia and china this is joe biden from campaign broad broad dozens and dozens we talked about the different strategic challenges are going to face from both russia and china and reforms we must make to put ourselves in the strongest possible position to meet those challenges that includes modernizing our defense for years to better deter to the future rather than continue rather than

continue over invest in legacy systems designed to address threats of the past now despite the fact that it seems very clear the joe biden will be taking the oath of office in january and becoming the next president donald trump continues to contest the u.s. election results and claim that biden's victory is the result of fraud furthermore despite the fact that the election is over as we just heard biden is continuing to criticize donald trump for his policies and so it seems that even though the election is long over there is still deep division in the united states kind of over there live from new york thanks for that update. now there has been a lot of talk about of course in 20 twentieth's salissa but at a time where you really have to be careful what you say with more of the challenges of not being believe that it corrects his holy book. 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 town or maybe through like superman kanye west with with. that bank or so of freedom and 1st of all just doing something that everybody tells you not to do london had teacher katherine bubbles saying it 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 church here and.

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 in the county and happy to make anyone else it is the congo i think really bad really 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 . the people at the company said that they were upset that he wasn't being censored and that they were alienated by his views did you see that guy accidently hit that moved his car no. 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 spotify stuff is issues complete fodder they have literally said nothing to me about it it was a similar story for. jordan pietists reportedly stall for the company that was publishing his latest book. that it was being published but they ended up. 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 whiteface mall 6 and now her opponents have started a. fire gina carano. political correctness has taken over multinationals as well with some companies making conspicuous fashionable causes more. than 2020 most of us went through. governments often struggle to stay on top of the virus with more on the situation in front. of issues. 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 was.

by the end of the month we had an inkling that things were about to get worse or worse 19 can be kind of. the pandemic. the fashion industry soon was during war it does best predicting what we would all soon be wearing mosques soon they wore hot property arrests for selling contraband mosques became headline news as the government requisition the mole for health authorities. are pulling 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 in 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 businesses selling to us we worked 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 under appreciated. drew to an end to warnings of rest 2nd wave won't fade leaving the 1st killed yet parents took action introducing my aspirations as record actions 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 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 the stop the virus. by no business is we're really feeling the squeeze i don't see that plus 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 other start our page it's absurd i left. 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 that's wrong headed into the wind it still wasn't out of the

woods. nursing stuff 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 past 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 torah sees as the new drew to an end restaurants bars the edges 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 what do you want to ski auti paris. flower laying ceremony in memory of the victims of a russian to you 154 plane crash has been held in new jersey the flight crashed

into the black sea on its way to syria killing everyone on board that included the entire alexander choir of the russian armed forces as well as a prominent russian charity worker elizabeth. a tragedy happened on christmas day in 26 the memorials been organized annually by the u.s. branch of the sugar institute a local fire department and russia's permanent mission to the united nations. now coming next on this episode of going on the ground former israeli prime minister you speaks with afshin rattansi that's it from me tonight i'm leaving in the hands though offshores almost all god you through the night's global headlines in half hour's time join us again.

time after town c. and welcome to going on the ground 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.