in the headlines this new year's eve to england extends code restrictions on the number of areas affected as the rate of infection spirals falling the discovery of a new highly contagious strain of the virus. also this hour the e.u. strikes a milestone trade deal with china removing barriers to investment comes after years of talks and despite the incoming biden ministration demanding it become salted out of the deal. and as we speak to some of the medical workers around the world will become the unsung heroes of the pandemic. and we've seen people die and seeing people come in and they call we have to do a shallow one in 5. years what we have to do.

this is our 2 international coming to you live from the russian capital where it's just turned 3 pm welcome to the program. 3 quarters of an england has been placed in the toughest stay at home tear for restrictions as covert cases so war after a new highly infectious strain of the virus was detected 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 2 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 in 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 mutant strands of $191.00 seemingly even originating here in the u.k. one apparently have written a thing in south africa all of this so is placing

a huge amount of pressure on the n.h.s. many say that the n.h.s. the 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 last. question students how do you. control you start having to make it incredibly difficult decision to decide who gets an ambulance and. quite often with she's 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 whether 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 is really difficult to be quite positive here in the united kingdom of course britain has been dubbed play by the end 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 warn that the health service is overwhelmed to the point where clinics may soon face horrendous choices or denying some code patients lifesaving treatment we've got reaction from medical

experts. it is one of those very unfortunate situations in which sure we have been there that was a look at here and. look at the latest inhibition to be. constraints or any situation in which you have to make a decision between life and death but. it's grow to begin there unfortunately and you have to be promoting because you have to still run a service and 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 wary 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. that a coworker has had become the unsung heroes of 2020 rising to the occasion and saving lives often at considerable risk to their own health we speak now to some of those people on the front lines of the worldwide battle against the coronavirus. that phone was going every 15 minutes every 10 minutes as the nurse put one down it would ring again and it became so frightening because the patients or pioline 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 brave because of covert 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. 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 fired 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 just knowing that she could see the happiness usually you see somebody decline *. and you kind of 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 hey and then. 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. show what we want to. do what we have to be told. i'm proud of all of us. we're going to. be. well we won't have you. making this decision. maybe we can play a little more and maybe we can be and how they make the decision so that we can make marriage. and impact all of us we're 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 respectfully 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 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 antibiotics as 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 unprecedented profits multi-billionaire bosses while publicly expressing solidarity with all of those who are suffering pocketed extraordinary earnings this year saskia taylor reports 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 shut major health crisis hospitals and health care workers are bracing for an onslaught of growth of virus patients storing unemployment and 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're hearing 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 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 amazon had a blockbuster year but according to the richest man on earth 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 there is lots 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 this or that they have a release for you don't you just to let you track the virus it's like what you think if they want you to get sick you know here you know what happened afterwards is not enough to make even. a relief on this about protection well he wasn't providing 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'll 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 ordering. people. it's america 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. still had the e.u. and china agree on a milestone investment deal after years of talks but washington's angry it wasn't consulted details on that story and more after this.

no one else seemed wrong. just don't. let me. get to shape out the attic. and in detroit because betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. welcome back brussels and beijing have signed a massive landmark trade deal after years of negotiations that opens up the chinese market to e.u.

investment while giving beijing an inroad to strategic european projects but as are 2 charlatans he explains washington d.c. is not happy. dealers almost being 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 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 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 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 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 likely to rub up the wrong way the new incoming for. hasn't the united states joe boyd in just a few weeks ago the e.u. said he wanted to coordinate its interaction its 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 genes 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 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 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 bender in charge of the paris school of business told us the us 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 vice a versa so and even the tray is larger than the trade between the us and the 1st 3 quarters so in that sense 7 years is nothing i think it's a situation china used to have. the messman like many countries we have even sections in education nestor security and finance but since china has now

$23.00 trace since in 2014 we have a lot attract 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 collaboration depend make the climate change over the elevation and 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. 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 staff are among the dead and wounded as well.

what you're seeing here is the 1st attack that happened at a airport just after a plane carrying a 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 followed by gunfire and one last local reporters say the airport was also hit by a mortar and grown strikes the passengers were rushed to the presidential palace where another explosion took place so far no group has claimed responsibility but officials are blaming who the rebels. saudi arabia is leading a u.s. backed bombing campaign against the rebels and the attacks come just a day after washington approved another huge $200.00 and milk $90000000.00 deal to supply more bombs to riyadh the contract adds $2000000000.00 weapons exports from the u.s. to saudi arabia and that's despite repeated warnings on the spiraling civilian death toll from riyadh spy vs the saudi officials claim their attacks stop

influence in the region but rights groups warn the outcomes and acceptable. the saudi led coalition and the. fighting since march 25th seen are responsible for laws of war violations in human rights abuses the conflicts killed and injured thousands of civilians. going chomp administration's pushing through other vast arms deals to the region about to buy $4000000000.00 worth of attack helicopters and egypt to get defense and targeting gear worth around $170000000.00 security expert michael maloof thinks there's a good reason why arms deals are being rushed through. this is part of trump's effort to keep saudi arabia. well armed and to try and they 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 and the 30 day period would be up during the new biden administration should he be small and he could biden could put a hold on it at that point. the last 12 months won't soon be forgotten not least because throughout the pandemic people's resourcefulness and creativity shown through are pretty agency ruptly has captured some of the most touching highlights of 20 twentieth's and we'll leave you this hour with some of the sights and sounds of the year the world already begun to say goodbye to you as always thanks for tuning in.

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some people would associate optimism with risky behavior because they don't want to and like the trolls they don't want to live by the state they don't want to invite this mob they don't want to live by all kinds of trouble that comes with optimistic think throughout history optimists have been punished it could be galileo it could be copernicus it could be einstein it could be all sorts of people steve jobs and they were punished for their optimism but now there's no punishment for relentless optimism. americans love buying homes. this was a fundamental part of how our political leadership and our country a large understood the bargain you get a home and then you know rebel right that's the things you don't revolt if you have

a stake in the system. and be really interesting down back and think about the longer deeper history l.a. housings men in the united states not just that old question of the american dream the bigger question if you dream is for. every year with great pleasure to answer questions from our viewers and this is. as usual your questions. 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 uncheck 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 spoiled narcissus meltdown of our brand name and cheap one u.s. president donald trump but as an added bonus we. have bungled 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 cold with 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 still have yet to see the real institutional changes we so desperately need we were able to show that the spirit of revolutionary change for the better is still just as powerful it was today as it has been throughout human history not even the globe trotting pandemic could stand in the way of that now let's start watching the hawks .