in the headlines this new year's eve the british government ramps up code restrictions across most of england as infections spiral following the discovery of a new highly contagious strain. also this hour we hear from frontline medics who have become the unsung heroes of the year. and we see people dying in the scene people come in and they call so we have to do a shallow one in 5. years what we have to do. and the milestone trade deal with china removing key barriers to investment comes after years of talks and despite objections from washington.

good evening and welcome to the program this is our 2 international coming to you live from the russian capital bring you your live news update. an extra 20000000 people across england have been placed under the case toughest kobita restrictions known as tear for case numbers have been soaring since a hardly new infectious strain of the virus was detected and the health secretary says tougher curbs were unavoidable. 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 of all of this nothing on that either but this latest set of tide to 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 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 every connecting 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 it's. going to. 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 a new letter 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 it is really difficult to be quite positive here in the united kingdom of course britain has been dubbed plaguy 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. you care hospital doctors union has said the health service is overwhelmed by the latest influx of covert patients at one of that medics may soon have to make horrendous choices in denying a life saving treatment to some people who got reaction from medical experts it is

one of those very unfortunate situations in which we have heard it was a look at here and. look at the latest inhibition to be we're going constraints or any situation in which you have to make a decision between life and death but. grow to begin there unfortunately and you have to be promoting because you have to still run and so this. 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 it may be more infectious but still if you exercise infection control

you can protect yourself. front line medics had become the unsung heroes of 20 twentieth's rising to the occasion and saving lives while often risking their own in the process we heard from some of them. 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 why it made me into the hospital. for me working throughout that covert is same by to a patient and knowing that i 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 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 looked classical music i remember her telling me that she likes 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 declines 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 the feed off ok and then all the sudden 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 had to do.

i'm proud of all the words and we're going to. you know hopefully one day. well we won't have politicians making decisions. maybe we can step up to play a little bit more and maybe we can be on how they make the decision so that we can make very. good at impact 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 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 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 antibiotics is bring home with their lies the manipulation in the media is every day struggles. through the turmoil in 2020 some people have managed to get richer than ever multi-billionaire bosses will publicly expressing solidarity with all those who are suffering have been raking in the profits saskia taylor has the details 2020 the years that won't be messed coronavirus coronavirus a covert 19 entire health care system is on the very brink of collapse lock down shut down major health crisis hospitals and health care workers are bracing for an

onslaught of growth of virus patients storing unemployment 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 or not 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 and 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 real 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 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 lockdown shifts lack safety

protocols and no moscow and firing people who spoke out. made a problem with this or that they have a veto on that you don't you. that you trust the virus it's like what you think it's they want you to get sick you know here you know what happened afterwards is not enough to even. believe when this about protection did well he wasn't regarding 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 beat 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 fall on my. breaking people's freedoms and whereas other. people. it's america the country. right. 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 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 strike a breakthrough investment deal after years of talks but washington saying it should have been consulted details on that story and more after this break. every year with great pleasure to be answered questions from our viewers and this year is no joke but as usual your questions focus on future postponed events my panel and. to look at. is your media a reflection of reality. in the world transformed. what will make you feel safe. isolation community. are you going the right way or are you being

led. by. what is true what is faith. in the world corrupted you need to descend. to join us in the death. or a made in the shallowness. welcome back this year's pandemic could be a sign of things to come judging by the latest warning from the world health organization but the prospect of more deadly outbreak so around the corner the w.h.o. emergencies chief is urging all nations to ramp up their health care but this time

they make has been very severe is it spread around the world extremely quickly and is afraid to get requirements but this is not necessarily the big one and we live in an increasingly complex global society these trysts will continue if there's one thing we need to take from this trend and it could all of the tragedy in los is that we need to get our act together we need to get ready for something that may even be more severe in future it's been almost a year since the w.h.o. declared in 1000 a global health emergency and since then 80000000 people are known to have contracted the virus and an estimated 1800000 lives have been lost globally microbiologist simon clarke says this year's operate could have been much worse. this this virus although it's very infectious it is not desperately lethal its mortality rate is not all that high but it causes 70 deaths by dint of the fact that it infects lots of people 'd and we've just seen

how it can be involved in to making. making a new strain that is even more infectious and we are more connected globalise you put it with me were 2030 years ago and i don't see that changing anytime soon we will eventually get back to where we were say this time last year and we will continue to become more global i think that shima nature and of course the more easily people can travel around the world more easily viruses can as well but more fertility they raise your eye virus to infect new people the more protein it's you know will be foreign to me tell you so the possibilities thing is there that there will be outbreaks in the future that will cause problems and they may be bigger than this one. china and the european union have signed a landmark trade deal after years of negotiations that opens up ages biggest

economy to investment and giving beijing an inroad to some strategic projects that as artists are devinsky explains washington's not happy. this deal is 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 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 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 declinations on putting an end to forced labor as a condition for a deal we just empty words hey from the land the european commission president. of brazil you should raise recent human rights issues when you talk to see how they

steal is also to likely to rub up the wrong way the new incoming for. hasn't the united states joe biden just a few weeks ago that you said he wanted to coordinate its interaction its 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 trances line to coalitions and cross also piers 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 geo politics 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 is your studies professor benjamin child told us china is a clip saying the us as europe's main economic partner. 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 us and they use the 1st 3 quarters so in that sense 7 years is nothing i think it's a situation china used to have. investment like many countries we have sections in education national security and finance but scenes china has now $23.00

trees so it's in 2014 we have a lot attracting a lot of money in and a lot of the free trade still you know from the epidemic we know that really. read news both in the united states in europe and in china in many areas of collaboration depend make the crime of 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 is viewed. the last 12 months won't soon be forgotten not least because throughout the pandemic people's resourcefulness and creativity shone through our video agency ruptly has captured some of the most touching highlights of 2020 and we'll leave you this hour with some of the sights and sounds of the year the world's already begun to say goodbye to you as always thanks for tuning in.

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for. the boom bust the one business show you can't afford to miss their montana in washington coming out after years of negotiation the european union and china reach a long awaited investment deal which would be an option to say to the incoming fire than ministration we have a panel coming up on us teacher nancy pelosi bland senate majority leader mitch mcconnell for blocking of the $2000.00 stimulus check in kenya. they are in denial. of the hardship that the american people are period thing. u.k.

prime minister boris johnson signed the e.u. u.k. brotherhood deal the e.u. parliament is still expected to hold a vote next month and we have a lot to get to that started at. the european union. in china have concluded a business investment deal in a video conference chinese president xi jinping met with european commission president really in german chancellor angela merkel and french president emmanuel necron to finalize the agreement the deal known as the comprehensive agreement on investment or i will grant substantial market access to e.u. investors the deal creates a better balance in the e.u. china trade relations the official news agency reported president xi said the deal will offer bigger markets and a better business environment for both china and the e.u. after 7 years of these difficult negotiations chancellor merkel pushed a fellow europeans to reach

a deal before the year and deadline but the agreement could harm the new biden ministrations relationship with brussels during the co-host and swan and host of economic of day author of the sickness is assistant professor richard wolfe professor wafa let's begin with you what does this investment deal mean for european companies and what does it mean for china. well basically what it does is it shoots out the relationship between the european union on the one hand and china making it easier for trade for capital flows for investment for a cold. development between the 2 countries it encourages investment in both directions it is a very important change there have been a lot of obstacles i think 2 things made a map. the fact that you are up is that now minus the british compared to what it was before and the other thing was mr trump's nationalism and us delivery to china

that meant that both europe and china are worth faced with problems that they're now going to be in are by a closer relationship with one another and that is a way in which people can see a new world economic order emerging well the united states is concerned the new incoming by the administration they they are worried because they are trying to get european allies to go harder on china and with this new deal they're trying to obviously negotiate and implement these these are these new economic you know deals that will help the relationship between the 2 countries about i do want to ask you as a there's a new number new number a report that show that china is going to overtake the u.s. within this decade as the number one economy in the world we've talked about this before.