this coexistence has existed. in the headlines this lunchtime argentina's president warns a smear campaign and trade war against the sputnik cope with that is hampering global distribution as a country stars delivering brushes but yeah. i remember our colleagues who died because they worked in the health sector and 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 coming up we look at a challenging year for the country worst hit by the. kobe denying russian monk accused of calling on followers including mine is to commit suicide is remanded in custody.

good afternoon from moscow this wednesday the 30th of december just turned one of the afternoon here now my name's kevin owen here for the next 30 minutes the latest from art international's news room and 1st reading to south america then more precisely argentina their health workers have received the 1st doses of russia's sputnik the as the country's mass vaccination campaign gets underway it follows russia and by the roofs in approving the shot argentina's president had dismissed fears of using russia's job warning it's fallen victim he said to a politically driven international smear campaign further he added a trade war has been unleashed against sputnik very which is hampering distribution . in fact 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. sister channel r.t. spanish reports next them from outside one vaccination center in the capital one is errors. they will be remembered in argentina as the start of the biggest vaccination ever carried out in the country marginson 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 to delivery of the vaccines cause for optimism. 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 down by race 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 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 end. in 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 the 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 represents a real triumph as aleutian in the fight against coronavirus the campaign will involve around 7800 vaccinations 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 it's hoped to live a 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 is going to be free for the whole population he says 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 a more contagious british strain of corona virus the variant confirmed in the state of colorado then comes amid fears of a further spike in cases over the christmas holidays we have been talking about potential for spread during christmas struggles to deal with the effects of

the pandemic r.t. correspondent kelly mopin looks next 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 coded when a national emergency was 1st declared in the city back in march many panicked. only. stores soon had empty shelves. the hospital soon had 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 they're told to you wouldn't mind i was only 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 in my life it's been really challenging and i'm burnt down we are 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 we don't have many noted that in circumstances like this we had local officials blaming everyone but themselves we was the whole international health community. we are was the who. of experts the

w.h.o. . the. of agencies we was are very we we were you we was the intelligence community with the brief videos of trucks used as temporary morgue due to 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 coated 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 forget this thing is not going away so 6300 people died in new york nursing homes that is the most in this country really needs to be able to challenge this wish that you would do it you're in a little bit of criticism of your very much nationwide 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.

while 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 can 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 jail up and r.t. new york in the next meet these guys they said the emergency the time of desperate need an image a significant source did russian medical volunteers lie in a room with a covert patient has gone viral it's coming from some petersburg the internes that were cold to help someone reported to be in a state of panic and confusion there were fears indeed she could terror for oxygen mask meaning she had to be under constant supervision but these guys came to the patient the good news is now in stable condition with the end turns praised on social media by the colleagues 2 for their role in her recovery the intern student spoke to us direct on the told us what happened on the day the picture 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 staff 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 at the unit. legs covert denying russian monk has been sentenced to 2 months pretrial detention here in moscow so the gays accused of numerous offenses including encouraging minors to commit suicide is known for radical views such as claiming president putin have 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 well despite being defrocked by church officials he nonetheless continued to run a monastery in central russia artie's mir for national. special operation 100 demonstration. there are even more. now but maybe even more it should be your at

least all not viral seeing you march when russia's unmourned special police forces came to the city of new rise quinn's monastery outside ticketed inboard to detain the man known as father syria who had seized the convent back in june and 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 of violent. oh. oh oh oh. yeah. in may a father said 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 describe the vaccines against kobe 19 and attempts to control the masses and told her a 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 the arctic you are more if you are from a great number of operating. across the borders here from here on most of the. children were in the crowd too and that worried the local ombudsman for children's rights sergei's now charged under 3 articles violation of the 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. this is. what's coming up will this among the stories the german m.p. gets 900 response for wanting to lock extended to fight climate change what's the

reasoning behind that when we speak to a panel of guest worker plan or not. it will be very difficult to forget about it during 2020. elusive many years reflecting on what has been. the focus should be on what may never return.

i was advised to tell you earlier on about a bit of good news in the fight against covert astra zeneca is covert 1000 vaccine has been approved for use over in the u.k. it becomes the 2nd job to get approval in britain health secretary hancock praised the development i think it ends 2020 in a moment of hope and it seems it couldn't come too soon amid

a surge in covert cases there in the country big time with more than 53000 new cases in the last day alone sparked a big rush to get vaccinated with wealthy people reporting offering thousands of pounds for a shot but as things stand there are luck the job can 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 it means then a potentially long wait for everyone else and private clinics say they are getting requests from patients willing to fork out large sums to try and jump the queue we spoke to the owner of one such clinic. kovi it 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 a box ticking now i have been offered large sums to try and circumvent and see

whether we can get the vaccine because dr it as we know goes on in this country but 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 human will 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 from for suggesting that covert restrictions could be the template for fighting climate change car lot about them set out 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 and the pandemic the social democratic party m.p. who stole so an epidemiologist at mit in his idea is unlikely to ever happen but nonetheless his views about the bio storm on social media. to 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 lockdowns 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 let's see what our panel of guests thought about it. i think this idea that we have to have a sure. thing. is one that simply hasn't worked

in the code the presence of the genuine emergency and the will respond and we have the shooting. doing hunger grow it's needs to be tackled with this is much good we do not need to look and the kind we have heard the effect of the term curb reduction during the last one here it has been equivalent to taking $100.00 degree centigrade of the global warming that we expect for 2030 and we need something which is both much will effect but also something which struck in cruising done in the screwed society actually starts a new industry which will. make us better off and allowed us to live large crude but in a much cleaner and nestle poor blocked ounce where where a certain except for 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 right and well freddie and joyce lock in country south lost control of this virus testing trace has been a complete mass a complete waste of money climate change of the center especially much the act government generation because i have a reason for doing it though you ought to happens to be chirpy time it's an economic lever wealthy conscious liberals are for money drain by paying for. the reply to the carried one statement money completely wasted which they could of course ensued environmental projects to help our well country bridger issues are with that with the top junction. the rest of the world is not so much of a problem but this is actually reached why we should get any personal freedoms whatsoever. there's a minute now for 3 more world news stories riot police have clashed with lebanese

students at the top universities what you're seeing here protest is trying to storm the main campus angry that despite a covert link economic crisis situation fees a big double. thanks. tens of thousands of pro-abortion activists are up to didn't she is as argentina's senate voted to legalize abortion a deeply divisive issue in the catholic majority country people celebrated the decision by throwing green smoke bombs the color of the pro-abortion movement it becomes the 1st major latin american state to make the move. rights groups though blasting bangladesh forcibly removing thousands of myanmar rohingya refugees from the capital to what they claim is a dangerous uninhabited island officials insist it will ease chronic overcrowding in dhaka migrant camps they say where more than a 1000000 live. like. as well as being

one of the country's most affected by the pandemic france is also battling a resurgence in extremist activity shall i do next the looks of the government's response in the wake of a number of terrorist attacks. 2020 is the manual might call turned from this into an enemy of large swathes of the muslim world the president claimed to be taking on only the extremists toting warped 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 right to make people laugh the freedom to mock its ridicule to 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 his country who are members of a different faith that frenzy kicked off her hair with the now infamous satirical magazine charlie abdul 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 crackdown is a miss started to gain wide momentum as 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 act 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 the jihadist threat that is only part of radical islam and to jihad is a terrorist attack it is also a big danger because many people are released immigration is not controlled 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. is evident 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 off both 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 draw fit 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 bit like both in this the stable door after the horses has run away in fact it may even reinforce the victimhood narrative of the the persecution complex which is being stoked up 2021 will no doubt see france 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 my calling is essentially republican values 1st of all may alienate them further and not could feel will roll them extinguish the threat from extremists shola jeevan ski auti paris. and half an hour. from international with me kevin season's greetings and have a great day.

hello and welcome and crosstalk are all things are considered on peter lawwell it will be very difficult to get the year that is about it and indeed during 2020 change was the norm and normality elusive many have reflected on what has been lost maybe the focus should be on what may never return.

to discuss this and more i'm joined by my guest barricading to implement he is the energy and founder of 21st century wire and in song share we have john laughlin he is a university lecturer in history and political philosophy originally cross-talk roles in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate it ok let's go to john 1st you know people will obviously think of 2020 as the year of coded. but i tend to think of it already and we're not at the end of the year is the year of overreach in the end of the of the social contract am i wrong about that no i think that's exactly right in in the various knockdowns that have afflicted the whole world and which that's not forget were inspired by communist china because the 1st lot.