the headlines here on archie international as intensive care units in california during the pandemic clinics are forced to set up makeshift 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 patients in overflow overflow overflow areas. and in russia people 60 and over start receiving the sputnik vicodin vaccine after the health ministry said it was safe to do so. and vaccinations are rolling out across europe as well but people are divided on the issue. and 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 heard and maybe get out of the problem. broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow read and this is our international action thomas certainly glad to have you with us. now december 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 coated infections in just 3 days over the christmas holiday. 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 it is still unclear whether those guidelines have been implemented or not this month one nurse filmed an emotional appeal while battling coronavirus herself knew her to

stay home. you don't need to go far from court her. through her of her over one. nurse marcia santini speaking for us there now she is making a good recovery and told r.t. the situation 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 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 are banned most non-essential companies have been forced to temporarily shut down and the city mayor has urged people to think twice about their plans for 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 we're staying home for them we're skipping holiday parties every sacrifice makes a difference to stopping the covert 1000 surge marcia santini again blames public recklessness for the rapid spread of the virus i can't even imagine what would be like to be a governor right now this day. especially california california is

a powerhouse right it's got the 6 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 satan why i would drive by bars and people would have their masks off and there'd 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 does it does it matters your age and your come more goodies 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 sussed susceptible in moscow almost half of those catching the virus are over 45 however one brave person has proven there is hope no matter what your age. it's that i don't know what the secret of my recovery efforts but i know that we need to keep calm and preserve her nerves but a lot of. women

say she was hospitalized in a relatively survey condition. she was. great . that's why she's. now people over 60 in russia are starting to get the sputnik v. 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 vaccination centers in moscow as. 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 at 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 skin future and this is to forget 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 these side effects rates however at this point 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 up 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 it in 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 well as to assess health in terms of chronic disease if people fit the criteria we include them in the vixen nation 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. with the number of covered cases and related deaths peaking over the past 2 months the swedish government has now put forth a bill introducing strict lock down measures if passed by the country's parliament it would allow the forty's to shut down businesses and find those flouting the rules this marks a break from the earlier more hands off approach which the government has since

admitted was a failure. they may get out of one of very serious situations the government may decide on little far reaching measures to profound crowding that would include the closure of shops public transport shopping centers or other activities covered by the low we also walking 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 starkly contrasted with most other countries the so-called swedish model relied largely on volunteer social distancing and 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 neighbors with some closing their borders in response. marcello. the founder and chairman of swedish professors and doctors for human rights believes the new measures are the only way to save lives. yes there was

from the beginning the economy business and of course. hard industry etc going to be enormous. they will not be prone to close the schools because in that case they're 25 percent of their own labor force will be temporary. forced sort of study aiming to protect you're going to meet there are not to say the most noted to look down and strictly measures the only way to at least try to do. both morbidity and mortality produced by these failures you willing song this is more and more measures you need and i was trying to alter the strategy you need to qualitative change here and not return over. to mean in especially in a basic naming to suit economy but to save lives i mean it should be you know it

has to be a human rights. perspective and the right thing you know it here to do to save lives. meanwhile the e.u. has launched a cross a border vaccination program with the target of an ocular leading 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 is particularly the case in france with more on that here's our. 1000000 that if you make the number of people that fund cancer that's an 8 by the end of. the focus now nursing homes like this one and other facilities whether that is the move from vulnerable individuals and emergency workers 1st in line to say the vaccination is the only way to stop the violence that people here in france was put on that you see just above all similar i'm not really in favor i think we do not have enough feedback on this

vaccine at the moment. 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 hard for me if. i was really the person to do read 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 that probably wouldn't have one recent poll suggests that about half the population is against to be inoculated and it's not just me and 2 backs 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 is 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 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 grow 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 sleep people as a result we don't have any room. to lose from you tube cherries i'm on and it's really difficult because on a 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 the hoping that this late took a goal out to unity and health but $1000000.00 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 to be thought virus it needs to act and act fast. papists. speaking on monday u.s. president elect joe biden said his transition team has faced road blocks from the trumpet ministration as they plan for changes to u.s. defense priorities that was later denied by the current pentagon leadership which says the department has done even more than asked regarding information transfer biden also claimed that president trump had damaged the country's national security and foreign policy with more than his arteries killam up and president elect joe biden took the opportunity to begin his remarks by acknowledging the explosion that rocked downtown nashville tennessee on christmas morning from there he went on to

criticize the trump administration and say that its policies in the area of security were lacking he said that the foreign and internal policy agencies of the united states have suffered enormous damage due to the trumpet ministration of the last 4 years and that they've been hollowed out in person now capacity and in morale he also blamed trump for not getting proper information from the outgoing administration when it came to issues of security this is some of what president elect joe biden had to say about donald trump we have 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 ongoing outgoing from the outgoing administration now biden emphasized that it's very important for his team to have a clear picture of the country's posture worldwide and operations that were due to her enemies of the united states talk about modernizing the defense priorities to

deter aggression and he made a specific point pointing toward russia and china as a potential dangers to the united states and this is joe biden 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 aggression in the future rather than continue rather than to you know over invest in legacy systems designed to address threats of the past now it's important to note that despite the fact that it seems pretty clear that joe biden will be taking the oath of office in january he has not stopped criticizing donald trump and pointing out what he considers to be major flaws of the trumpet ministration meanwhile donald trump continues on twitter and elsewhere to allege that joe

biden's victory is the result of electoral fraud and that joe biden is not legitimate in his victory in the 2020 election so it seems that months after the election took place after it seems pretty clearly settled that joe biden is the winner there is still deep division in the united states of america. there has been a lot to talk about in 2020 but it has also been a time to be careful what you say was more on the challenges of not being politically correct here is are his political. 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 truong with. that bank

or so of freedom and 1st of all just doing something that everybody tells you not to do london had teacher catherine 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 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. cave said it best when he said political correctness is guys becoming unhappy is raging in the world it is the congo i think really bad 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 upset that he wasn't being censored and that they were alienated by his views did you see that guy accidently hit 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 is just complete fodder they have literally said nothing to me about it it was a similar story. jordan pietists the pulitzer stall for the company that was publishing his latest book was so 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 election is about she doesn't like a small 6 and now her opponents have started a hash tag. hash tag fire gina carano. and political correctness has taken over

a multinationals as well with some companies making conspicuous donations to fashionable causes you can learn more. taking a look at 2020 most of us went through lock downs of one sort or another and governments often struggled to stay on top of the virus with more on the situation in france. 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 pundit make.

the fashion industry soon was during war it does best for 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 mole for health authorities. pleasuring 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 businesses selling to us 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 under appreciated. but drew to an end the warnings of rest 2nd wave won't say believe in the 1st

killed yet parents took action introducing mass graves is like or factions who registered voters or to the closures began a good young girl was hopeful. the 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 the world about the partners and weighing the pros and cons i've decided that as of friday i need to go back to the lockdown the stop the virus. but i know businesses were really feeling the squeeze a lot. of things were decided it's been said that there are certain sectors started

were able to raise you know that's not a problem but it's the others that are paying 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 fraunces headed into the winter it's still waltz and. the woods. all. nursing staff learned from the 1st way if 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 posh last 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 true to an arrest strong as well as the its 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. see paris that does it for me this hour i will be back in about 32 and a half minutes with a look at your headlines this hour.

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