1st for. in the headlines this new year's eve england extends covert restrictions on the number of areas affected as the rate of infection spirals following the discovery of that new highly contagious strain of the virus. the e.u. strikes a milestone trade deal with china removing key barriers to investment it comes after years of talks and despite the incoming bided ministration demanding it be consulted ahead of the deal. on this well we speak to some of the medical workers around the world who've become the unsung heroes in the year of the pandemic. and we've seen people die in the scene people coming in they can't brain so we have to do it and now we want to. give what we have been you.

know no one here now good morning from moscow this 31st of december 1 is kevin 0 in here with the update from r.t. international's world news h.q. 1st 3 quarters of england's been placed in the toughest stay at home here for restrictions as covert cases saw after a new highly infectious strain of the virus was detected health secretary matt hancock said he had no choice but to bring in the new measures. the new variant means that 3 quarters of the population are now going to be. 4 and almost all of the country into 3 and you and i know that 3 in 4 measures place a significant burden on people and especially our business is affected but i'm afraid it's absolutely necessary because of the number of cases that we've see more regions entering turf or that includes the north east of england north west the

south east the rules in that area is to stay at home now experts are warning there that to 4 is not even going far enough and many say that what's needed is a full scale national lockdown to try and take control of this virus nothing on that bow from westminster nor was there any talk of a to 5 of course we've heard some rumors circulating over the past few days that potentially there could even be a tear 5 coming out of all of this nothing on that either but this latest set of tight a set of restrictions as much to do with today being the 3rd day of the 3rd consecutive day that we've seen the daily cases absolutely at a peak is not really basically means that the 2nd wave of private 19 is much harsher and much worse than the 1st wave and of course we've just been seeing in the last few weeks these 2 new strands of 191 seemingly even originating here in

the u.k. one apparently every connecting in south africa all of this i was placing a huge amount of pressure on the n.h.s. many say that the n.h.s. of ta it and frustrated but it's also coming being quite apparent in the hospitals within themselves we're seeing a shortage of styles but also a shortage of bed spaces as well gosh we're. going to. control you start having to make it incredibly difficult decision to decide who gets an ambulance and. quite often with huge numbers of people waiting. susan i know you have nobody left to send while working behind the scenes is the medical and science professionals and some good news coming from them because the latest vaccination has just been approved in the united kingdom by the u.k.'s medicines regulator that's the oxford university astra zeneca vaccination being the 2nd one here in the united kingdom following of course the pfizer biotech vaccine

just a few weeks ago so as with the 1st vaccination this one also is going to be abiding by a priority list at the top of the list of courses the over 80 is the elderly but also staff on the frontline as well much like the united kingdom 1st approved the bio on tech vaccination the e.u. said actually the u.k. is really rushing things through and the e.u. will be taking their time with things we need additional data about the quality of the vaccine and after that the company has to formally apply but even with this vaccination it is really difficult to be quite positive here in the united kingdom of course britain has been dubbed plague ireland after the last few weeks it's easy to see why remember just a few months ago boris johnson promised the u.k. that it would be normality by christmas and really we've already done christmas and it couldn't be. as could be a grim journey the national hospital doctors unions want the whole service is overwhelmed to the point where clinics may soon face surrenders choices over

denying some covert patients lifesaving treatment we got reaction from medical experts about the thought. it is one of those very unfortunate situations in which sure we have. here and the. inhibition to be. constraints or any situation in which you have to make a decision between life and death. row to begin there unfortunately and you have to be promoting because you have to still run and so there's no way of the population at large unless we are strict in enforcing this tears it only becomes very symbolic there's a lot of i would call it the wood for the trees stuff here with the variance strain because i would like to say you still need to get infected whether it is the old strain or the new strain it is dropping your guard from infection that causes you to get infected rather than we now have

a new strain and therefore it is the fault of the new strain making all these infections maybe more infectious but still if we exercise infection control you can protect yourself. medical workers have become the unsung heroes of 2020 rising to the occasion and saving lives often a considerable risk to their own health coming up next then we speak to some of those people on the very front lines of the worldwide battle against the corona virus pandemic. that phone was going every 15 minutes every 10 minutes as the nurse put. it would ring again and it became so frightening because the patients or ply him into the hospital. for me working throughout that covert is same buy to a patient and knowing that come back tomorrow and their bed is being. made to fresh because they died and we're seeing people die in the scene people coming in they

can't breathe well having to put people out because they can't breathe because of covert 19 and then you've got people protested why do why you look. so i feel as nurses most health care professionals it's quite difficult it's difficult for us you know i remember having a patient. she would say that she looked classical music i remembered that she liked classical music so why did these during my break i was able to go out and get my photo i put the music on my phone and then i put it into a plastic bag and then i was able to when i went back in i was able to just play music to her and just knowing that she could see the happiness usually you see somebody decline. and you can expect she or you want to see p.d. or you feel like something's wrong they don't look right but this was sort of like they feed off ok and then. you find out they're not ok not only they're not ok but

. i don't feel like. i just feel like a human being who simply cares. wants to help them and make a difference so we have to do. what we want to. do what we have to do. i'm proud of all the words and we're going to. find this. ok we won't have to give politicians making decisions for us sitting maybe we can step up to play a little bit more and maybe we can be on top and make the decision so that we can make very choices. that if all of us were running low on oxygen on supplies on you know all the respiratory drugs definitely bad definitely staff this is not over this is far from over the vaccines are not going to i mean yes they're going

to help but it's going to take a lot of time before we could vaccinate everyone. at the start there wasn't enough equipment we had to come up with impromptu protective gear repurpose it so that we could take patients it's obvious that the whole european continent was not prepared for such a pandemic not only spain turns out there was no centralized organized policy in any of the affected countries including spain even to this day spain has many different communities each with their own understanding of how to deal with the pandemic disagreements of the lock down especially strong communities controlled by opposition parties because they do almost 100 percent the opposite of what the health ministry are asked to do there are mistakes throughout the whole year starting from not closing airports and not implementing controls on everyone entering spain from other countries bodies and demonstrations were allowed for too long many protesters took to the streets without masks obviously that was a huge mistake because we did not manage to stop the virus we should have been ahead of it including no small steps that are still affecting the current situation

financially devastated parts of the population is even worse it's always late and not enough from the 1st wave in spain the maybe even europe in march and april it became clear that the european union's a gigantic structure that's not working where equipment is stolen where it's only has to ask you were in russia for help after failing to get aid in europe in spain when they are not in the 2nd wave but the 3rd remissions stage i got the fires a vaccine i would have liked to get the sputnik vaccine but it's unlikely to arrive here in spain with the current narrative where the virus has been made into a political and ideological issue we're going into tough days because people are objecting to vaccination antibiotics as bring home with their lies and manipulation in the media it's our every day struggle on the very front line of this well through the unprecedented turmoil of 2020 there are some who are making unprecedented profits multi-billionaire bosses while publicly expressing solidarity with all those who are suffering of pocket of extraordinary and it was this year

a sask a tailor reports next. 2020 the years that won't be missed coronavirus coronavirus a covert 19 entire health care system is on the very brink of collapse lockdown major health crisis hospitals and health care workers are bracing for an onslaught of fraud a virus patients storing unemployment in this show many workers are still hurting very badly as the economy starts to tank hunger. and mass unemployment collapsed businesses whole industries brought to their knees stability security and choice just wiped out. we here in the same refrain all around the world families are very worried as they are forced to make impossible decisions do they risk the disease as they go out to earn money to buy food to home and watch their children go hungry but as some plunged into dire financial straits others soared to unimaginable heights how well it turns out that

a pandemic is just the thing to how take the video conferencing up didn't even exist before 2020 no one knows will it exist after 2020 no one knows and given its c.e.o. pocketed 17000000000 dollars this year i doubt he's having sleepless nights also sleeping soundly jeff bezos with people border home imus and harvey blockbuster a year but according to the richest man or not just who made $75000000.00 as the global economy just crashed and bought and apparently it wasn't all fun and games. there is no instruction manual for how to feel at a time like this i know this causes stress for everyone my list of worries right now like yours i'm sure is long for my own children parents friends to the safety of you my colleagues to those who are already very sick and to the brutal home that will be caused by the economic fallout across our communities well that might not

be a manual but that is not on it shows that bezos could give $105000.00 bonus to every single amazon waka and still be as rich as he was at the start of the pandemic but he didn't what did happen was grueling not downshifts lack safety protocols and no moscow and firing people who spoke out. made a problem with that they have a veto on you don't you just to let you trust the virus just like what you think if they want you to get sick they don't hear you know what happened afterwards is not enough to even. believe one is about protection well he was a body that workers will college of business and other c.e.o.'s as pandemic

profiteers who have made billions while putting workers and their families friends and neighbors at risk do you think you couldn't be making 75000000000 a year but you can just ask your own musk he might have been broken 2008 but he will raked in 123000000000 in 2020 and when the cash is flowing you know wanted to stop. all of it. forcibly imprisoning people in their homes. all across to. my. breaking people's freedoms and where the. people. it's america or the country. so instead of forcibly imprisoning people in their homes musk courage people to get back to walk all face starvation and get infected on no pay what's that lethal

virus after all you know you're talking about saving humanity but these are humans that die in the process everybody dies 2020 the a one man could afford to just blow up his rocket while hundreds of millions are left picking up the pieces of that lives. it's quarter past 9 in the morning moscow time this is r t still ahead the e.u. in china a grim milestone investment deal after years of talks to a brokerage but washington is angry that it wasn't consulted we'll tell you more when we're back.

no one else seemed wrong. why don't we all just don't all. get to shape out just because as a kid and in detroit equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground.

again morning brussels in beijing of signed a massive landmark trade deal then after years of talks to try and broker it it opens up the chinese market to e.u. investment while giving beijing an inroad to strategic european projects but a shot at it by the ski reports next washington's not happy. this deal is almost been 7 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 before it had barriers around them such as the financial sector and 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 corporation 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 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 gained access to the documents and it's extremely light and human rights and slavery as i feared the french declinations on putting

an end to forced labor as a condition for a do we just empty words hate from the land the european commission president well just as a brill you should raise recent human rights issues when you talk to see what they steal is also to like lead to rub up the wrong way the new incoming for. hasn't the united states joe biden just a few weeks ago the e.u. said he wanted to coordinate its interaction this issues with china with the poit in a demonstration and 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 genes point of view was to drive a wedge in tranches line to coalitions and brussels appears 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 after us 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 ministration so that's boy the boy but regardless of the geopolitics surrounding this deal what is clear is that angle of 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. professor of the power school of business told me the u.s. still has a cold war mindset and ignores the benefits of the deal. the u. is is china's largest trading partner and the same is true by said so and even the tray is larger than the trade between the us and the 1st 3 quarters

so in that sense 7 years it's nothing i think it's a situation china used to have a great investment like many countries we have sections in education nestor security and finance but since china has now 23 trace amounts in 2014 we have attracted a lot of money in and if you trace so you know from the epidemic we know that there really. is both in the united states in europe and in china in many areas of cooperation depend then make the climate change over the elevation and initiative and so on the u.s. is having still having a cold war minds it so i think we need to have a bigger mindset more open to it to look for gains by the end its beauty. at least 36 people have been killed and scores injured in a wave of explosions in attacks on the yemeni port city of aden on wednesday the

red cross says its staff were among some of the dead and wounded. first attack happened today in airports just after a plane carrying newly appointed yemeni government officials flew in from saudi arabia a local t.v. channel caught the explosion on camera as people were leaving the aircraft it was fired then by gunfire more blasts local reporters say the airport was also hit by mortar and drone strikes passengers were rushed to the presidential palace where another explosion took place so far no groups claim to sponsibility but officials are blaming who 3 rebels so the arabia right now is continuing to lead a u.s. backed bombing campaign of yemen against the rebels and the attacks come just a day after washington approved another huge $290000000.00 deal to supply more bombs to riyadh contract to a $1000000000.00 weapons exports from the u.s.

to saudi arabia despite repeated warnings on the spiraling civilian death toll from a 5 year now campaign so officials claim their attacks stop arabian influence on the region but rights groups warn the outcome is an acceptable. the saudi led coalition and the group fighting since march 25th seen are responsible for laws of war violations in human rights abuses the conflict has killed and injured thousands of civilians. the outgoing trumpet ministrations rushing through other vast arms deals to the region to kuwait to buy $4000000000.00 worth of attack helicopters and egypt set to get defense and targeting gear with around $170000000.00 security expert michael maloof told us there's a good reason why arms deals are being rushed through to. this is part of trump's effort to keep saudi arabia. well armed and to try and use its influence to offset iran the biden administration may actually

quote the combustion biden himself as issues with saudi arabia and in addition the congress does as well and the congress has 30 days in which to disapprove and this is the period in which that would happen so and it would come and the 30 day period would be up during the new biden administration should he be sworn in and he could biden could put a hold on it at that point. more a year 2020 in a year like no other through the pandemic people's resourcefulness and creativity shown through isn't it well our system video agency ruptly has captured some of the most touching highlights in 2020 i'm kevin i mean big season's greetings so when the team behind me here i'll leave you this hour with some of those sights and sounds of the year has gone. i.

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an entire village in alaska has had to move if another country trying to wipe out an american town. we do everything up our productive. wanted one escaping climate change is the same threat right now alaska does seem some of the fuss just coastal erosion in the world we lost about 35 feet. 35 feet of ground in just about 3 months while we were measuring. it is fast and that means the river is 35 closer than how the limit was 4 i don't think we're part of america or earth from or. worse. every year with great pleasure be answer questions from our viewers and this year

is no different as usual your questions focus on future posts and events my panel in a week to look at. greetings and salyut ation says all right welcome everyone to the 1st part of our end of the years special where we will be looking back at some of our most fascinating controversial and thought provoking and even downright you said entertaining interviews from guests all from the year that was 2020 and one a year it has been my friends 2020 brought us everything from pandemics to plan demick from tiger kings to karen queens to unchecked police violence to righteous protests in the streets we got to witness both the best and the worst of humanity

here in the 1st 20 years of the 21st century i mean not only not only did we get a front row seat to the epic despoiled narcissus meltdown of our brand name and cheap one us president donald trump but as an added bonus we bonus of bungle we were also able to witness the epic failure of the united states congress as well after our per wind pocketed leaders like mitch mcconnell nancy pelosi jim jordan and chuck schumer revealed to us not only their deprived loyalty to deep pocketed party donors but also their let them eat cake levels of detachment and ignorance to the actual reality facing the american people during the covert 19 and demick thankfully let them eat cake was only one small cry from up on high that was quickly drowned out by the thousands upon thousands upon thousands this year who took to the streets around the world in the cause of racial justice and equality and while we.