on the question of the american dream. if you dream this war. headlining this argentina's president was a smear campaign and trade war against the sputnik v covert vaccine is hampering global distribution as a country stars delivering rushes. 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 internally 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's worst weather pandemic the. covert denying russian monk cues to calling on followers including miners to commit suicide is remanded in custody.

morning from moscow this wednesday 30th of december it's kevin owen here with the latest for you from art international's news room great to have you company there and so 1st as mentioned wearing to south america in argentina health workers have received the 1st doses of russia's sputnik. as the country's mass vaccination campaign gets underway it follows russia in approving the shot argentina's president has dismissed fears of using russia's job warning it's fallen victim he says to a politically driven international smear campaign he added a trade war has been unleashed against sputnik v. which is hampering distribution. 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 the want to distribute the vaccine. so next morning our sister channel r.t. spanish reporting from outside one vaccination center in the capital what is art. will be remembered in argentina as the start of the biggest vaccination ever carried out in the country has received 300000 doses of the focus is on monitoring the vaccination of medical workers and hospital staff of 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 cause for this mission. 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 byron 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. 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. it seems to me to do 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 represents a real triumph as sensitive group aleutian in the fight against current of the campaign will involve around $7800.00 vaccination centers as a whole distributing doses 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 meantime 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 further he said he plans to complete the 1st round of vaccines by march venezuela was the 1st country in the western hemisphere to take part in post approval trials of russia's jab the u.s. has revealed its 1st case of the more contagious british strain of corona virus variant confirmed in the state of colorado confirms fears that of a further spike in cases over the christmas holidays we have been talking about potential for spread during christmas. as america struggles to deal with the effects of the pandemic our correspondent kellam open next looks in

a specially 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 ovid 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 are you know our government is telling us we can wear a simple bandana because. many noted that in circumstances like this we had local officials blaming everyone but themselves we was the whole international health community we was the whole national shows of experts the w.h.o.

d.n.i. the c.d.c. you going to move the big soup of agencies we wasn't very what we were you were. the intelligence community with the brief. videos of trucks used as a 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 if 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 of. 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 next here meet these guys they are the emergency the time a desperate need check the image coming up of exhausted medical volunteers logging in a room with a coated patient has gone viral to simply just begin to call to help someone reported to be in a state of panic and confusion there were fears indeed she could tear off or oxygen mask waiting she had to be under constant supervision but they did it the patients now in a stable condition turned out ok the internes praised on social media and by colleagues for their role in her recovery those in turn students told us in a bit more detail what happened on the day that photo was taken. but you know what 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 now of covert denying russian monk who's been sentenced to 2 months pretrial detention here in moscow so goes 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 drawing criticism from the orthodox church for encouraging people to flout covert instructions and the 10 mers despite being defrocked by church officials he continued the last to run a monastery in central russia refreshers got more. special operation 100 demonstration. now but he more should be your at least all know viral seeing you march when russia is

a more special police forces came to the city of new rise queens monastery outside ticketed inboard to detain the man known as father seriously who had seized the convent back in june they knew they'd face resistance and on supporters of the monk a former policeman himself who served his sentence for murder and robbery helping him take control over the monastery where many battle hardened veterans and former officers he tended a violent. 0 7. that's . oh. in maine a father said he was banned from conducting religious services due to his radical views on the corona virus 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 and attempts to control the masses and tovarich 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 your borders here from here coming over from the profession children who are in the crowd too and that worried the local ombudsman for children's rights said gays 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 into a geisha and and a hearing and sent to be due from detention he spoke about it as almost

a holy mission. you reduce 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. the investigative committee and f.s.b. searched the compound and form a priest cell while outside dozens of father cities supporters made a kind of human shield in an attempt to protect what they see as their spiritual fortress and express their solidarity with the priest but chances are they are not going to see their leader any time soon. coming up here not international german i'm paid get snuggery response for wanting the locked own extended to fight climate change what's that about always speak to a public guess about the divisive proposal see what they think about it.

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thinks. we dare to ask. hello again delighted to talk about really good news in the fight against covert next in the last few hours it turned out astra zeneca is covert 19 vaccine has been approved for use in the u.k. it becomes therefore the 2nd to get approval in britain health secretary hancock praised the developments out of good ends 2020 in a moment of hope and can come soon enough there it's happening amid a surge in covert in the country with more than 53000 new cases in the last day alone sparking a rush to get vaccinated with wealthy people reportedly offering thousands of

pounds for a shot missed things turn out the going to be on the luck the job could only be received through the national health service for free the pfizer drug was approved in the u.k. this month and all available doses are going to people in hospitals over the age of 80 frontline medics and care home staff at the moment that means potentially long wait for everybody else a private clinic say they are getting requests from patients willing to fork out large sums to try to jump the queue we spoke with the owner of one such clinic. that has not really differentiated between the rich and the poor i have a clinic in wilmslow which is an affluent area and some of the people asking their parents have died or a parent has died and they're wondering how can i get the box ticking 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 hurts 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 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 hume well that good will prevail and i think in general most drug fires have a good moral compass and want to help out when the n.h.s. would say can you help us now. a german lawmakers got a furious reaction for suggesting covert restrictions could be the template for fighting climate change carlota back then set out his views in an opinion piece for a paper 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. who is also an epidemiologist admitted his ideas are unlikely to ever happen but if

you sparked a firestorm on social media this and pretty much everything that is team 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 covert log downs and the lock down for climate change begins since we have been so willing to give up our freedoms lockdowns will now be routine so good plan or not let's see what our panel of guests thought about it i think do we have a sure. thing. is one that simply hasn't worked in the code it presents it in genuine emergency and the will respond and we have the shooting. doing kroger across needs to be tackled with this is not sure that we

do not need to look and the kind we have heard the effect of in terms of curb reduction during the long period has been equivalent to taking $100.00 degree centigrade over the global warming that we expect for 2030 and we need something which is much more effect but also something which struck in cruising down in the strewn society actually starts a new route which will. make us better off and allowed us to live large but in a much cleaner and nestle poor blocked ounce where where it's certainly accepted the 1st time around right. now we've got in 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 in the world ready and enjoys locking countries down 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 mass the act government generation because i have a reason for doing it the law to happens to be chirpy to mention economically the wealthy conscious liberal defer their money drain by paying for. the reply to the code 19 money completely wasted which they could of course ensue environmental projects to help our world country bridge issues are with that with the top junction. for the rest of the world is not so much of a problem but there's a degree why we should get any personal freedoms whatsoever. as well as being one of the country's most affected by the pandemic france is also battling resurgence in extremist activity shall advance connects the looks of the government's response to it 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 extremists touting warped ideology of islam isn't but many in the global muslim community felt that they were being targeted it was to be french means to defend the right 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 a 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 this country who are members of a different faith that frenzy kicked all 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 warns initiative to crack down ism is

started to gain wide momentum is 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 islamist what i call the ideological threat but secondly the jihadist threat that is only part of radical islam i do jihad is 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 to 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 in commemoration of the 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 brainwash 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 more scs to receive foreign financing so is it enough to stop the rockets it's difficult to say how we can stop it at this stage. 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 like both in this the stable door after the horses has run away in fact it may even reinforce the victimhood narrative and the complex which is being stoked up 2021 will no doubt see from pushing on with this effort

to eradicate islam islam but going by 2020 that attempt could backfire muslims say they already feel stigmatized in singled out and not call is essentially republican values 1st still may alienate them further and not could feel rather than extinguish the threat from extremists shoulder. paris who is more of 2020 the year that was was if another thanks for watching this update from with me kevin owen wednesday morning the 30th of december to 27 a half minutes past 11 moscow time whatever time of day it is where you are watching around the world we thank you for it for me in the same season's greetings and have a super day. to

be very difficult to get the. money changed. if reflected on what is. this. that's not a money spinner but it is expensive. and it's dangerous . this is. little. breaks. up the problems of the world.

this is boom bust the one business show you can't afford to miss i'm sorry month in washington coming up a german news agency announced the completion of the controversial nord stream to pipeline in german waters their meeting pipeline is expected to start in mid january but the u.s. might be threatening more sanctions. approved mall drones that could fly over people and that night here in the united states a big step for commercial drone delivery we'll talk to boom bust and want to have a lot to get to so let's get started. the controversial north stream with 2 pipeline has completed its pipe lay in german waters the country's process agency d.p.a. said it completed the 2.6 kilometer long portion of the pipeline on monday just

months ago the u.s. stalled construction of the $11000000000.00 pipeline that runs from russia to germany through the baltic sea where u.s. senior administration officials continue to urge their european allies to halt work while preparing to issue wider sanctions in the coming weeks denmark already approved the remaining pipeline to work with the political backing of the german government the project is more than 90 percent complete but the completion of the pipeline is contingent on the u.s. think sions the russian fortune auto vessel is expected to continue construction of that pipeline in mid january.