in the day's headlines argentina's present warns a smear campaign and trade war against the sputnik we cope with vaccine is tempering global distribution asked the country starts delivering russia's jam. i remember our colleagues who died because the work to be held 6 times i'm happy because this should be the end and i'm eternally grateful on behalf of all of the nurse. also this hour as the u.s. confirms its 1st case of a more contagious strain of corona virus 1st found in the u.k. we look at a challenging year for the country worst hit and. and the e.u. strikes a milestone deal with china removing barriers to investment and it comes after years of talks and in spite of resistance from the u.s.

. a very warm welcome to the program from all of us here at r t h q in moscow thanks for joining us this hour. first we turn to south america and argentina health workers have received the 1st doses of russia sputnik the job of the country's mass vaccination campaign gets underway it follows russia and belarus and approving the shot argentina's president has dismissed fears of using russia's job warning it's fallen victim to a politically driven international smear campaign now that a trade wars have been unleashed against but not be which is hampering distribution . there is a very vicious dispute going on a very cruel dispute and a shameful one where by some discredit others 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 are to spanish reports from outside a vaccination center in the capital. 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 cause for. 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. 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 gives that pandemic a basic it seems to me today is the beginning of a new stage for us the 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 of aleutian in the fight against the virus the campaign will involve around $7800.00 vaccinations centers as a whole of distributing doses brought from russia 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 of a major positive effect against the virus. earlier we heard from latin america analyst francisco domingo's he thinks some countries are waging an information campaign against the russian black sea. but he's a subtle effort to create a call war other north korea deeply by the united states but also by some of the european car. d.c. take a particular russia and china but the reason needs that they have to come to the conclusion there is certain a massive because of the fighting against the gun then because these computer china russia and a few others actually have demonstrated that if you have a sense if you put people before profit if you actually cared about the population rather than anything you know the results and you know demonstrably good where if you were to compare formants or european countries the united kingdom but also the

united states where you have something close to a catastrophe the reason why there is a huge campaign unfortunately she supported by it was the media and the occasion 1980 supported by conservative forces around mockery and my prison created a must the question we're going to make you the country controllers here there were 3 jobs. the u.s. has revealed its 1st case of a highly contagious new strain of coded 1st found in the u.k. has now been detected in colorado and this comes as the state of new york braces for a new surge in cases we have been talking about potential for spread during christmas. as america struggles to deal with the effects of the pandemic r.t. correspondent been look sudden especially tough year for the city dubbed the epicenter of the crisis. 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 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 ask 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 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 we don't have many noted that in circumstances like this we had local officials blaming everyone but themselves when you was the whole international health community we was the whole national shows of experts the w.h.o. d.n.i. to see these the then all of that soup of agencies we were reasonably when we were do you are. 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 involved 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 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 a rising body count andrew cuomo took the opportunity to write

a book about his personal achievements. in. 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 that 2020 will go down as one of the worst years in the history of new york city jail up and r.t. new york. and china have struck a landmark deal after must 70 years of talks it opens up the chinese market to european investment while giving beijing an inroad to some strategic european

projects are to charlotte devinsky has the details. they steal has almost been several is in the making between the e.u. and china and they've really pushed the boat out to get it done before the end of 2020 essentially it means that there is the opportunity for the e.u. for investment in certain industries this is companies within the e.u. to be able to invest in areas of china that before it had barriers around them such as the financial sector the health sector for china it means that there is this possibility of investing in renewable energy so this is something on the table for each side in this and this deal has been described by many as being the most ambitious deal that china has ever struck with a nation country tomorrow's post covered world needs a strong e.u. china relationship to build forward better but this requires cooperation

reciprocity and trust especially in our trade and investment relationship but this deal comes with a huge amount of criticism many have said that the e.u. is far too soft on china on issues such as labor rights and human rights in fact some e.u. countries said they were unhappy with the fact that the e.u. hasn't done enough to secure those issues these countries will countries such as the netherlands and belgium and the was also criticism from some e.u. parliament ariens who said you know essentially this didn't tackle issues such as hong kong and that of the weaker muslims in china e.u. china investment agreements we came to access to the documents and it's extremely light and human rights and slavery as i feared the french declarations on putting an end to forced labor as a condition for a deal which just empty words hate from the land the european commission president well just as a bro you should raise recent human rights issues when you talk to see what they

steal is also too likely to rub up the wrong way the new incoming. hasn't the united states joe boyd in just a few weeks ago that you said he wanted to coordinate its interaction it's issues with china with the poison a demonstration in yet just weeks before he takes office it's decided to push ahead with this deal some of those who have suggested that china was going soft on the e.u. in a way of perhaps ramping up those tensions the main deliverable from the jeans point of view was to drive a wedge in trying to coalitions and brossel superiors to have complied it's just mind boggling that the you would even consider rushing to a green investment pact with beijing weeks before biden takes office after claiming for several years that they wanted transatlantic cooperation on china while the e.u. has rejected that criticism saying that washington has done its own deals over trade and investment with china under the trumpet of ministration so that's boy the boy

but regardless of the geopolitics surrounding this deal what is clear is that anglo merkel wanted to get it done before the e.u. presidency transfers to another country next year and it seems for her because she believes that this gives the e.u. a more level playing field the gates china that trumps everything else. the astra zeneca vaccine against 1000 has been approved for use in the u.k. it's the 2nd job to get the green light in britain health secretary matt hancock praised the development calling it a moment of hope and the year on. the u.k. is seeing europe's fastest growth and covert cases with more than $50000.00 new infections registered each day and it sparked a rush to get vaccinated with wealthy people reportedly offering a thousands of pounds for a shot but as things stand they're out of luck the job can only be received through

the national health service for free the pfizer biotech drug was approved in the u.k. this month as well and all of billable doses. going to people in hospitals over the age of 80 frontline medics and care home staff i mean their potential long wait for everyone else and private clinics say they're getting requests from patients welling to fork out large sums to try and jump the line we spoke with the owner of one such clinic. that has not really differentiated between the rich and the paul 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 a ship when 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 fighters have a good moral compass and want to help out when the n.h.s. would say can you help us now. a german lawmaker has suggested that covert restrictions could provide a template for fighting climate change a lot of 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 in the pandemic the social democratic party m.p. who is also an epidemiologist admitted his ideas are unlikely to ever happen but his views sparked a firestorm on social media nonetheless. 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 lock 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 who will now be routine we asked our gas for their views on the suggestion are you. sure. 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. program grows needs to be tackled with this is much good we do not need to look into the kind of the

effect of the term of current reduction you're looking on here it is the equivalent to taking 130 degrees centigrade over the global warming we expect for 2030 and we need something good she's much effect but also certainly we're trucking cruising done in this through the senate yet she starts a new route which will. make us better off and the longest lived most cruel but in a much cleaner i don't nestle poor but downs were where a certain except for the 1st time round or a troll. but now we got into 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 has any 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 much the uk government generation because i have

a reason for doing it do you know how to happens to be chirpy time it should be on a regular wealthy conscious of the wealth of her money drained by paying for. the days prior to the carried 19 money completely wasted which they could of course ensued environmental projects to help her well the country bridger issues are with that with the top junction yes well the rest of the world is not so much of a problem but there's another it's why we should get any personal freedoms whatsoever. some russian medical students are stepping in to provide frontline care and in emmet of exhausted. trainee's lying in a room with a covert patient has gone viral and volunteered to help someone reported to be in a state of panic and confusion the patient was tearing off her oxygen mask meaning she had to be under constant supervision she was also pulling out i.v.'s delivering medicine the patients now in a stable condition with the internes praised on social media and by colleagues for

their role in her recovery intern students told us what happened on the day the photo was taken. i. thought 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 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 watched the patients at 28 o'clock in the morning when a new shift came on and we set off to do the work at the unit. a russian monk has been sentenced to 2 months pretrial detention in moscow father sergei is accused of numerous offenses including encouraging his followers to commit suicide is known for radical views such as claiming president clinton had been replaced by the anti-christ in a rubber mask a monk has also drawn criticism from the orthodox church itself for encouraging

people to flout code restrictions and go to church piping defrocked by the church he continued to run in monastery arches where if national has more. special operation 100 demonstration would you say yeah probably more. now but maybe even more it should be your least all novato seeing you. when russia's a moon special police forces came to the city of new rise quinn's monastery outside ticketed and bowed to detain the men 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 a violent. 0 7 00000000

. 00. 0 in may. the 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 and attempts to control the masses and tobar 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 parts of you or more if you are from a great number of the pretty. present your daughters usually from here coming over from the passage 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 their right to freedom of conscience 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 the tension he spoke about it was almost a holy mission you reduce the. 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 f.s.b. searched the compound and form a priest cell while outside dozens of father ciggies supporters made a kind of human shield in an attempt to protect what they see as their spiritual food trays and express their solidarity with the priest but chances are they are

not going to see the leader any time soon. lastly we bring you some world news in brief powerful explosions and gunfire have ripped through 18 airport in yemen at least 20 people have been killed and over 60 injured according to local reports it happened just after a plane landed from saudi arabia carrying members of yemen's newly appointed a cover meant as officials were taken to the yemeni presidential palace where another explosion reportedly took place so far no group has claimed responsibility for the series of attacks but officials are blaming the rubbles. riot police have clashed with lebanese students at the top university protesters trying to storm the main campus angry that despite a covert link i can mimic crisis fees are being doubled. and tens of thousands of pro-choice activists erupted into cheers as argentina's

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a lowing welcome across doctor all things are considered on peter lawwell it will be very difficult to forget the year it 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 reach us. to discuss this and more i'm joined by my guest patrick kane's that implement he is the energy and founder of 21st century wire and. we have john laughlin he is

a university lecturer in history and political philosophy originally crossed up 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 kofi. but i tend to think of it already in a lot of the end of the year is the year of overreach in the end of the 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 lockdown was obviously in ruin it sells all sorts of basic rights have been. summerlee abrogates and including by government decree in other words not. a duly voted law in the respective national register just this was the.