the long term effects may not just be the absence of benefit but actually very very because a lot. of time in the headlines than argentina's president warning a smear campaign and trade war against the sputnik vaccine is hampering global distribution as a country stars delivering russia's jab. i remember our colleagues who died because they worked in the health sector i'm happy because this should be the end and i'm eternally grateful on behalf of all of the nurses. the u.s. confirms its 1st case of a more contagious british strain of corona virus we look at a challenging year for the country worst hit by the pandemic. covert denying russian monk accused of calling on followers including minors to commit suicide is remanded in custody.

from moscow this wednesday the 30th of december is kevin owen here with the latest from r.t. international's newsroom great to have you company then so 1st heading to south america in argentina their health workers have received the 1st doses of russia's sputniks as the country's mass vaccination campaign gets underway it follows russia and belarus in approving the shot argentina's president added a trade wars been unleashed against sputnik the politically driven smear campaign. there is a very vicious dispute going on a very cruel dispute and a shameful one where by some discredit how this and i think the 1st thing to bear in mind is that a trade war has been unleashed also since the whole world is eager for the vaccine there's a geo political dispute who will be there want to distribute the vaccine. our

sister channel r.t. spanish reports next to day from outside one vaccination center in the capital where there's a race. will be remembered in argentina as the start of the biggest vaccination ever carried out in the country has received 300000 doses of v. now the focus is on monitoring the vaccination of medical workers and hospital staff caring for people infected with coded 19 they were the 1st to receive the vaccine across medical centers they worked hard to tackle the virus but it's been difficult not least because some of even seeing colleagues lose their lives the delivery of the vaccines course. this is a ray of hope for us it's like we've crossed the line of fire and are now moving forward against this damned virus we had a very difficult year there was a lot of fear this is a great hope for us and i'm eternally grateful on behalf of all of the nurses. i

am satisfied i am very happy these are the emotions that come to my mind now i remember our colleagues who died because they worked in the health sector and happy because this should and the. province more than 300000 people signed up for voluntary vaccination with the provincial governor who was the 1st to be vaccinated in the region detail the significance of this new step in the fight against that pandemic. it seems to me today is the beginning of a new stage for us largest vaccination campaign in the history of the province of when osiris begin this morning and this is a vaccine that not only prevents disease. but also. presents a real triumph a sense if a group of aleutian in the fight against coronavirus the campaign will involve around $7800.00 vaccinations centers as a whole distributing disease brought from russia everyone vaccinated will be supervised for possible side effects as well as to inform when a 2nd round of vaccines arrives more than 20000000 doses are expected to be

delivered by february if not deliver major positive effect against the virus meanwhile venezuela's also signed a deal with russia for approximately $10000000.00 doses of sputnik the president nicolas maduro said the shot will be free for the whole population he plans to complete the 1st round of vaccines by march but as well it was the 1st country in the western hemisphere to take part in post approval trials of russians jab elsewhere the u.s. has revealed its 1st case of the more contagious british strain of corona virus variant confirmed in the state of colorado comes amid fears of a further spike in cases over the christmas holidays we have been talking about potential for spread during christmas as america's struggles to deal with the effects of the pandemic r.t. correspondent kelly maupin looks at an especially tough year for the city dubbed the epicenter of the crisis new york. they call it the big apple and in

2020 that apple got a giant one minute and that worm is known as cove it when a national emergency was 1st declared in the city back in march many panicked. stores soon had empty shelves. the hospital soon hit capacity and emergency tents were set up in central park. there was a shortage of protective equipment like masks and hand sanitizer health care workers took to the streets to protest their troll you wouldn't ask old old boy.

so if you want to talk about the row. it's part of that i mean if you send over if you send over if you send to us it's really it's been tough it's been one of the hardest moments of my life it's been really challenging and we were burnt out we're we come in every day and are not getting support from our managers cars you know our government is telling us we can wear a simple bandana you don't have many noted that in circumstances like this we had local officials blaming everyone but themselves where was the whole international health community we was the whole national shows of experts the w h o o d n a to see these the then all of that soup of agencies where words are very we were

you were. the intelligence community with the brief. videos of trucks used as temporary morgue studio an overflow of dead bodies became a horrifying emblem of the era. new york city's hard island became a graveyard amid the overflow of dead bodies. one of the ugliest scandals involve nursing homes at the end of march andrew cuomo the new york state governor ordered covert patients to be sent to nursing homes for the elderly now this order was revised on the 11th of may but it was far too late the death toll in new york's nursing homes was approximately 4800 people remember that

the elderly are the most vulnerable such a poorly calculated move is pretty hard to forgive this thing is not going away sir 6300 people died in new york nursing homes that is the most in this country really needs to be able to challenge this wish to leave you would do it you're in a little bit of criticism of your very much like there was a glimmer of hope over the summer but then a 2nd wave came when it got cold the new lock downs have had a devastating effect on the economy restaurant owners and workers have taken to the streets.

the state was crashing and burning with the rising body count andrew cuomo took the opportunity to write a book about his personal achievements. 2021 doesn't look like it's bringing any relief either national health officials are warning us that january could be devastating without substantial mitigation the middle of january could be a really dark time for us some say that the lockdown was imposed too late others are saying that cuts in health care facilities and the closing of hospitals over the past decade have played a role regardless of why there's no question the 2020 will go down as one of the worst years in the history of new york city. r.t. new york so live from russia next they would have exhausted russian medical volunteers law in a room with

a covert patients going viral see this the petersburg in turns were cold in to help someone reported to be in a state of panic and confusion there were fears that she could tear off for oxygen really she had to be under constant supervision and so they stepped up to the the patients now in a stable condition is the good news with the internes praised on social media by colleagues for their role in her recovery the intern students told us what happened on the day that photo was taken. we saw the whatsapp message that help was needed and we 3 decided to go to the red zone long before our shift was supposed to start in order to help out our colleagues we replaced stuff who were looking after the patient so they could do other work at the unit and we stayed with the patient when morning came with a down on the floor to rest at least a little bit because it's really challenging to work nonstop in a civil suit so we watch the patients are till 8 o'clock in the morning when the new shift came on and we set off to do the work of the unit. the curious story next

of a covert denying russian monk who's been sentenced to 2 months pretrial detention in moscow so again he's been accused of numerous offenses including encouraging minors to commit suicide he's known for radical views such as claiming president putin had been replaced by the anti christ in a rubber mask the monks also drawn criticism from the orthodox church for encouraging people to flout covert restrictions and attend mass despite being defrocked by church officials who continued to run a monastery in central russia artie's refreshen as got more. special operation 100 demonstration was good oh yeah bro you all are. now but. your at least all know viral seeing you march when russia has a more special police crosses came to the city of new risk women as monastery outside decrypted inboard to detain the men known as father seriously who had

seized the convent back in june and they knew they'd face resistance and on supporters of demand a former policeman himself who served his sentence for murder and robbery helping him take control over the monastery when many battle hardened veterans and former officers he tended a while and. that's . it was the. oh. in maine father sarah he was banned from conducting religious services due to his radical views on the coronavirus pandemic he called to ignore the lockdown denounced electronic passes as a way to stem the outbreak as satins electronic camp and described the vaccines against kobe 19 an attempt to control the masses in tobermory state investigators launched a criminal investigation into child abuse at the monastery but the reason for the

night raid was another issue a video posted on you tube where a spiritual leader asked the church members whether they're ready to die for russia became the last straw move from parts of you or more if you're from a great number of operating. across the borders here from here coming over the. children who are in the crowd too and that worried the local ombudsman for children's rights sergei's now charged under 3 articles violation of their right to freedom of conscious and religion call for suicide and abuse of power so again denies any guilt according to his lawyer he was taken to moscow for interrogation and a hearing and sent to be due from detention he spoke about it as almost a holy mission. you know. it would be everything is fine with me you don't have to do anything just live by the commandments of god whatever happens

everyone has their own cross to bear jesus said take your cross and follow me i'm following christ. investigative committee and be searched the compound and form a priest cell while outside dozens of father said again supporters made a kind of human shield in an attempt to protect what they see as their spiritual for trey's and express their solidarity with the priest but chances are they are not going to see their leader any time soon. about international broadcasting live from moscow around the world lovely to have you watching today thank you for me in the team this is ahead the german m.p. gets no response for wanting the law extended to fight climate change what's the thinking behind that we speak to a panel of guests about the divisive proposal in 90 seconds or so.

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common ground. the german lawmakers got a furious reaction for suggesting covert restrictions could be the template for fighting climate change carlota back then said that his views in an opinion piece for a newspaper there will never be a vaccine against c o 2 so we need measures for tackling climate change there are similar to the restrictions of personal freedom in the pandemic the social democratic party m.p. is also an epidemiologist admitted his ideas unlikely to ever happen but his views firestorm on social media. to this and pretty much everything that is t not climate friendly could be banned the struggle for freedom will never end

a lot about it is already proposing look down like measures to combat climate change let's enjoy the festive season and gather strength for the demonstrations and resistance against state violence in 2021 at about the same time the coded log downs and the lockdown for climate change begins since we have been so willing to give up our freedoms lockdowns will now be routine. let's see what our panel of guests thought about it. do we have the. money. it's one that simply hasn't worked in the code it presents it in genuine emergency and the will respond and we're the through to. doing program grows needs to be tackled with this is much good we do not need to look and look at the kind of the effect of the in terms of current reduction during the long run

here it is the equivalent to taking 100 degree centigrade over the global warming that we expect for 2030 and we need something good she's very much will effect but also something which fork in cruising done in this through the senate yet he starts a new test which will. make it better off and the longest lived large but in a much cleaner and nestle poor blocked ounce where where a certain except for the 1st time around the right role. but now we've gotten such a mass that i think this is the reason why we're getting so many problems or people of anger votes out i don't think anyone and well freddie and joyce looking country south we've lost control of this virus testing trace has been a complete mass a complete waste of money climate change would be similar especially much the uk government generation because rather recently during the you know outer islands to be chirpy time it's an economically the wealthy conscious of the wealth effect

their money drain by paying for. the reply to the carried 19 money completely wasted which they could of course ensued environmental projects to help our well country bridger issues are with that at the top juncture. for the rest of the world is not so much of a problem but this is i reached my reach to get any personal freedoms whatsoever. health officials in the u.k. have expressing strain concern over surgeon covert cases with daily records of more than. 3 thousands for 2 days in a row and there's no rush to get hold of vaccines than with wealthy people reportedly offering thousands of pounds for a shot but as things stand there are lucky if they want to the job can only be received through the national health service for free the pfizer drug was approved in the u.k. this month there's news on the 2nd one coming up shortly but let's get back to this all available doses are going to people in hospitals over the age of 80 from lyme

medics and care home staff it means a potentially long wait for everyone else a private clinic say they're getting requests from patients willing to fork out large sums to jump the queue we spoke with the owner of one such clinic the code that has not really differentiated between the rich or i have a clinic in wilmslow which is an affluent area and some of the people asking their parents have died or a parent is dark and they're wondering how can i get the backs to the now i have been offered large sums to try and circumvent and see whether we can get the vaccine because private as we know goes on in this country it's the government has bought the vaccine and there is no way to circumvent it but you know i think everyone you know would like to have the vaccine and even as agent and she comes with it people want to be safe that people are scared. i think they would never want to take it away from the most vulnerable and there will always be the small few that may try and take advantage but i have to believe in the human connection

human will that good will prevail and i think in general most drugs virus have a good moral and want to help out when the n.h.s. would say can you help us now. as well as being one of the countries most affected by the pandemic france is also battling a resurgence in extremis tag to vittie challenged next they're looking at the government's response in the wake of a number of terrorist attacks. 2020 is the manual might call turned from into an enemy of large swathes of the muslim world the president claimed to be taking on only the extremist. ideology of islam isn't that many in the global muslim community felt that they were being targeted it was to be french means to defend the rights to make people laugh the freedom to mock ridicule is a caricature which voltaire claimed was the source of the rest to be french means always to be on the side of the freedom fighters.

needs mental health treatment what else can be said to a head of state who does not understand freedom of belief and who behaves in this way to millions of people living in his country who are members of a different faith that frenzy kicked off for here with the now infamous satirical magazine charlie eb there used to have its offices instead of marking 5 years since the massacre here france was also about to bury new victims as the trial of those suspected of aiding the terrorists who killed in cold blood tape began sharlee abdo published what it described as a tribute to the dead it was like a red rag to a bull.

then came the attack on vienna and that khan's initiative to crack down ism is started to gain wide momentum was the case that the attack was clearly an islamist terrorist attack it was an attack out of hatred hatred of our basic values. we know what vienna and austria have been through the pain the fear the victims and i don't think that this attack is an innocent that it reveals the will of our enemy to attack what europe is a land of culture of freedoms and values military deployment has been more than

doubled in france other countries have heightened measures to so how real is the threat the threat is absolutely enormous in terms of fighting political islam because 80 percent of the most are controlled by radical islamists what i call the ideological threat but secondly jihadist threat that is only part of radical islam and to jihad isn't a terrorist attack it is also a big danger because many people are released. not control over another issue then raised its head polls showed younger muslims are more conservative than previous generations and they put the laws of their faith above that of frauds confirms previous polls going back over the past few years and it also.

deserve a dent in the reaction of school high school students. to the minute's silence and commemoration of the beheaded schoolteacher where there was quite a lot of disruption around the country during a minute's silence. so i think it's very worrying that the younger generation is. as much if not more radicalized than their parents or grandparents it's not too late but we last 2 or one or 2 generation we have to take the control back of the world's most and in schools the 2 ways they are brainwashed in order to respond to this new bill to promote the values of the french republic has been trough did it will target online hate speech drastically reduce home schooling bring in jail terms for doctors who perform genetic tests and to make it more difficult for mosques to receive foreign financing so is it enough to stop the rot

it's difficult to say how we can stop it at this stage 'd. i think there's been a certain tolerance over the years and decades which is allow the situation to develop. and it's a little bit bit like both in this the stable door after the horses has run away in fact it may even reinforce the victimhood narrative the prosecution complex which is being stoked up 2021 will no doubt see from pushing on with this effort to eradicate is them isn't but going by 2020 that attempt could backfire muslims say they already feel stigmatized in singled out and that calls essentially republican values 1st of all may alienate them further and not could feel rather than extinguish the threat from extremists shola jeevan ski r.t. paris finally i'm delighted to bring us

a good news no bullets in for. some great news in from the u.k. astra zeneca covert 19 vaccine has been approved for use in the country it becomes the 2nd job to get approval in britain health secretary praised the development i think it ends 2020 in a moment i hope the u.k. is going to water it seems a 100000000 of these doses you need to use that will be enough for 50000000 the benefit of this one the saying is that it doesn't need to be kept in sort of a deep freeze at minus 70 and all the problems like yours with logistics you can keep it in a fridge so it's really good news it's hard to sign off just like the russians did 1st in the line though but the more these the world gets the better no one can argue with that so for now live with that but the good news kevin i was starting off this wednesday morning the 30th of december have a great. americans

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