10 am here in the headlines this new year's eve in england extends covert restrictions on the number of areas affected as the rate of infections spirals following the discovery of a new highly contagious strain of the virus. the e.u. strikes a milestone trade deal with china removing key barriers to investment that comes after years of talks and despite the incoming administration demanding it be consulted head of the deal. and we speak to 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 breathe so we have to be way down what we want. is what we have been all.

hello very good morning from moscow this 31st of december monday was kevin 0 in here with the update from r.t. international's world news h.q. so 3 quarters of england spain place than in the toughest stay at home tier 4 restrictions i'm sorry to report she was covert cases saw after a new highly infectious strain of the virus was detected health secretary saying 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 on businesses 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 though 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 on 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 the 3rd consecutive day that we have seen the daily cases absolutely at a peak has not really basically means that the 2nd wave of 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 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. a tired 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 gospel. 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 when 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. the national hospital doctors unions want to hold services over world to the point where clinics may soon face horrendous choices over denying some

covert patients lifesaving treatment we got reaction from medical experts the 2 that thought. it is one of those very unfortunate situations in which sure we have there was a look in here and. look at the latest inhibition to be. constraints or any situation in which you have to make a decision between life and. grow to begin there unfortunately and you have to be. because you have to still run and so there's and of the nation 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 weary and 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. of course medical workers have become the unsung heroes of 2020 rising to the occasion and saving lives often at considerable risk to their own health we speak next than 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 piling into the hospital. for me working throughout that covert is same by to a patient and knowing that come back tomorrow and their babies being. made to fresh because they died and we're seeing people die in

a scene people coming in they can't breathe well having to put people out because they can't breathe because of 19 and then you've got people protested why do why are you looking 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 who. she would say that she liked 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 up 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 she could see the happiness usually you see somebody decline. and you can expect she or you want to see peavy or you feel like something's wrong they don't look right but this was sort of like they feed off ok and then all this

started and you find out they're not ok not only they're not ok but. i don't feel like here i mean 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 of our family we're going to. bully. me. we won't give a shit making decision. maybe we can play a little more and maybe we can be and how they make sure that we can make. all of those who were running low on oxygen and supplies on you know other respiratory drugs definitely bad definitely staff this is not over this is far from over that scenes 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. but the star 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 risk the strong communities controlled by opposition parties because they do almost a 100 percent of the opposite of what the health ministry to do their 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

potentially to devastated parts of the population is even worse it's always late and not enough from the 1st wave in spain the maybe even during 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 really has to ask you burn russia for help after failing to get aid in europe in spain when they are not in the 2nd wave but the 3rd remission stage i got the 4 as a vaccine i would have liked to get the sputnik the vaccine but it's unlikely to arrive here in spain with the current. narrative with the virus has been made into a political and ideological issue toffees because people are objecting to vaccination and to bring home with their lies the manipulation in the media is so every day struggles. through the unprecedented turmoil of 2020 there are some who are making a president who profits to multi billionaire bosses or publicly expressing solidarity with all those who are suffering of also pocketed extraordinary things this year covering. 2020 the year that won't be

missed coronavirus. a virus that covered 19 entire health care system is on the very brink of collapse lockdown shut major health crisis hospitals and health care workers are bracing for an onslaught of graw virus patients soaring unemployment numbers so 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 hear 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 will stay 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 help take the video conferencing up didn't even exist before 2020 no one knows will 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 armisen hardy blockbuster a year but according to the richest man or not us who made $75000000000.00 as the global economy just crashed in pa 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 math and it shows that baz also 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 lockdown shifts lack safety protocols and no moscow and firing people who spoke out. for me the problem with the word that you have a veto on you don't you just do it but you trust the virus just like what you think if they want you to get sick you know here you know what happened afterwards is not enough to even. believe on this about protection well he was the 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 could have beat 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 when the cash is flowing you know wanted to stop. all of it. forcibly imprisoning people in their homes. might. break the people's freedoms and where the. people. into 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 affected on no pay what set lethal virus

off to roll 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. want to hear live from russia or if you want to run the world how this season's greetings hope you can stick around after the break the e.u. and china agree a milestone investment deal after years of talks but washington angry it wasn't consulted we'll find more coming up. join me every thursday on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to us of the world of politics or business i'm show business i'll see you then.

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get if you watch the clock exactly 17 past the hour now brussels and beijing of signed a massive landmark trade deal after years of talks it opens up the chinese market to e.u. investment while giving beijing an inroad into strategic european projects in return but as r.t. shouted to bensky explains washington's not happy. place dealers almost being 7 is in the making between the e.u. in 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 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 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 investments 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 deal which 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 likely to rub up the wrong way the new incoming. resident of the united states joe biden just a few weeks ago the e.u. said he wanted to coordinate its interaction its issues with china with the boyden 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 jim's point of view was to drive a wedge in trances 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 and 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 birds and show the power of 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 say so and even the

tray is larger than the trade between the u.s. and the u.s. the 1st 3 quarters so in that sense nothing i think it's a situation china used to have a. investment like many countries we have sections in education nestor security and finance but since china has now $23.00 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 make the climate change over the elevation and grow initiative and so on the u.s. is helping 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.

some other news at least 26 people have been killed and scores injured in a wave of explosions and attacks on the yemeni port city of aden on wednesday the red cross says its for among the dead and wounded. so the 1st attack happened aden airport just after a plane carrying newly appointed yemeni government officials had flown in from saudi arabia to fight a local t.v. channel caught the explosion on camera as people were living near crowds it was followed by gunfire and more blasts local reporters say the airport was also hit by mortar drone strikes the passengers were rushed to the presidential palace where another explosion took place so far no group said they were behind what happened but officials are blaming who think rebels already so the arabia is leading a u.s. backed bombing campaign of yemen against said rebels and the attacks come just a day after washington approved another huge 200 $90000000.00 deal does apply more

bombs to riyadh that contract $1000000000.00 weapons exports from the u.s. to saudi arabia despite repeated warnings on the spiraling civilian death toll from riyadh 5 year long campaign now so the officials play their attacks are stopping a rainy an influence on the region but rights groups warn the outcome is an acceptable. the saudi led coalition and the. 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 trump administration's rushing through other vast arms deals to the region kuwait's about to buy $4000000000.00 worth of attack helicopters and egypt said to get defense and targeting gear worth around $170000000.00 security expert michael maloof told us there's a good reason to why arms deals are being rushed through right now. this is

a tale of trust effort to keep the arabia. well armed and to try and use its influence of iran the biden administration may actually put the cabal charlotte 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 worked and the 30 day period would be our during the new biden administrator should he be smaller and he could provide we could put a hold on a at that point. so new year's eve time to take stock look back one of the a year like no other we'll look at it through the pandemic through people's resourcefulness and creativity that shone through our sister video agency ruptly as captured some of the most touching highlights of 2020 we're going to bring in now

i'm kevin always big season's greetings from me in the team behind me in the newsroom there we thank you for watching us throughout the last 12 months all of you this hour with some of those sights and sounds of the year. just about to go. a. little a symbol of peace a good moment to put aida to us and yet even then that is because i'm old but i do the same of the above made east 6. 6. 66. b.c.

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welcome to the hope for a day alex adventure to where we present the highlights of 23 and see we hope you had a wonderful and commonsense christmas. how many is the scots word for new year's eve i was taken very seriously in scotland normally tonight would see vast clothes and celebrations in the hall more. but this is a very different year and this help many will be responsible i thought sleep distance just like this program i just discovered dominated the year it dominated it right back at the start of the year we conducted the 1st of many interviews with cambridge for all just a naked scientist dr chris wirth he gave us the foster indication of the dramatic shape of things to come what you potentially got is something which while it's less lethal than solves is much more infectious than cells and about as lethal as the 1918 flu pandemic and everyone susceptible to this like they were for the $918.00

spanish flu pandemic so if this were allowed to escape and go to its logical conclusion one possibility one worst case scenario is it could be as bad as $918.00 i demand but this is a time when president trump was joking about the vice. and we just don't seem to have a grip of what we need to do why do you want to set up a private testing laboratory and a private contractor leasing service which will never ever work as efficiently as if you had invested in your local n.h.s. services and systems in both the local authority in the n.h.s. .