paris prepares to usher in 2021 under the shadow of the pandemic with thousands of police deployed to enforce a strict nighttime curfew. will back over 2020 we hear from frontline medics who have become the unsung heroes in the gear dominated by covert. and we see people dying in the scene people coming in a car we are doing now we one in 5. is what we have to do. and campaigners urge the u.k. to tread carefully when seeking opposed trade deal with the united states highlighting the health risks of american made products.

there is just turned 11 pm here in moscow on new year's eve it is just midnight in georgia the u.a.e. and here in russia to give you a happy new year from all of us here at r.t. international there being fireworks lighting up the skies over several capitals over the past few hours this is due by right now the barge khalifa building lit up as it usually is at this time of year although not drawing the crowds as it normally would have 2021 arriving in spectacular style in dubai right now. we are going here is certainly been one to remember with life turned upside down not just by the pandemic but also by conflicts revolutions so whether it's been

a fond farewell or a good riddance to 2020 it's certainly been different. it was 2020 recedes in the rearview mirror paris is one characteristic lee quiet right now a nightly curfew still in place following a deadly surge in covert infections so all public gatherings are off limits it's a picture that's playing out across europe to ensure the do bensky reports. european leaders are due to make their traditional new year's eve dresses their speeches are expected to focus on the themes of hope and unity 2020 of course is the difficult to the for the world as a case of $900.00 pandemic has torn into countries forcing looked at trashing economies and of course there are said to be close to choose

a 1000000 people dead as a result of the boy this new year will be like although with the usual celebrations either could be cancelled or shadow over there so let's start in paris france where the usual firework display on the show just behind me has been scrapped this year there will be around 800000 police officers deploying to streets to ensure that clandestine parties that. there will be a particular focus. point to the suburbs because it's a bit of a ritual here in france that on new year's eve causing other vehicles. to move on to the 100 vehicles with the curfew will remain in place so they'll be no art so i don't take it without a good reason that this is due to be forced strictly you know last year on new year's eve we had 100000 police officers and john d'armes on the street there's

a similar number this year but the difference is that in addition to countering potential violence we also have to enforce the curfew so officers will have plenty of work on their hands there won't be crowds in central paris but i'm afraid clashes elsewhere are inevitable so many unions warned that the illegal parties be taking place saying that a lot of equipment has been rented one union this is from the trade and hospitality sector said it would be much better had some parties been sanctioned professionals one their views considered one of them not to be forgotten and they want the government to take responsibility for this shutdown people really. to party they want to draw a line in what happened in 2020 now in germany which is currently under lock has been a ban on the sale of fireworks there will also be tight restrictions on the numbers that can actually gather to celebrate new year's eve this comes as more than 20000 new infections were registered in the german health minister said that this new year's eve is likely to be the quietest in living memory. of

$129.00 families in over the new year these figures prove just how brutally the virus is still pummeling us looked down in the netherlands will also see muted celebrations the. countdown to the end of this year will be held inside a football stadium and there will be no spectators royal will keep its traditional fireworks display but the usual concerts in public courses have been scrapped london's iconic fireworks over the thames have also been cancelled while scotland's famous when they celebrations have been online many may have been hoping to mark the end of 20 twentieth's a good boy but the celebrations will still be muted for the moment it does look as if 2021 will continue on the same trajectory with more cases of could be registered and of course continued restrictions on citizens. staying with france new year's

supposed to be a time for optimism and changing things for the better so a tireless group of volunteers looking to a future without mcdonald's i'm loving it. this dog of this restaurant is about solidarity in the quality all messages come to the spice there's a mcdonald's ad slogan come as you are and we want to put human beings 1st. super bowl after ample means we can go back to health things work this place has

been shared by all of us it's a restaurant but also a common space where we can build solidarity and help people in the neighborhood who are going through difficult times. and from the medics have become the indisputable heroes of 2020 rising to the occasion and saving lives while often risking their own in the process we've been hearing some of their stories. 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 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 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 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 and just knowing that she could see the happiness usually. 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 seemed 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 we have to do. what we want to. do what we had to do. i'm proud of all the words. we're going to. do now hopefully one day. well we won't have a shit making decision. maybe we can step up to play a little bit more and maybe we can be and how they make the decision so that we can make their age. and impact all of us 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 scene's 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 recession 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 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 tough because people are objecting to vaccination and bring home with the lies the manipulation in the media is that every day struggles. britain could see a shakeup of its food supply post breaks it after the transition period ends in a few hours time the country will be free to import products that are banned in the european union that could include u.s. meat products treated with drugs including hormones and antibiotics but sustainable

food campaigners are saying the government should say no. given the growing world problem of anti microbial resistance it would be completely irresponsible if the government were to allow the import of beef pork or poultry produced with antibiotics for growth promotion which have been banned here. or that report from the sustainable food trust singled out a drug used on pigs which leaves carcinogenic residue use even after cooking and also mention various types of antibiotics used to promote growth on u.s. factory farms which could cause antibiotic resistance and also undermine treatments of various diseases with in humans the report also refers to e.u. proposals to ban all preventative use of antibiotics in animals from 2022 and to require exporters to do the same one example for you a feed attitude of cord wrapped me which is used by u.s. farmers it's also banned in over 160 countries including russia and china

scientists have linked it to shorter life expectancy amongst consumers here's what one of the authors of the sustainable food trust report told us. we really shouldn't be using any antibiotics to promote growth bartik so critically important so all of us to humans and to farm animals to treat disease when it occurs but we've been using them responsibly and we've still got very high levels of heart disease despite the fact that we've people have changed diets and things like that there are there is evidence out there that these drugs are being used. the residues of them could be contributing to the what we have been concerned about is that once they get into a trade big oshea sions with the us all with australia or with some other countries some of those countries are very keen to export meat to us and most of those countries are using antibiotics more excessively and more 'd irresponsibly will be used in the u.k.

and so for us it would be a very regrettable step if after all the sacrifices and hard work of british farmers to find ways of keeping animals keeping them healthy with such excessive use of antibiotics that we actually then started to allow in meat that was produced for the very uncivil things that we found in this country. where through the turmoil of 2020 some people have managed to get richer than ever multi-billionaire bosses while publicly expressing solidarity with all those who are suffering have been raking in the profits and saskia taylor now reports 2023 years that won't be missed coronavirus coded 19 occur in a virus that covered 19 entire health care system is on the very brink of collapse lockdown shut down major health crisis hospitals and health care workers are bracing for an onslaught of coronavirus 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're hearing the same refrain all around the world family is a very worried as they are forced to make impossible decisions do they risk the disease as they go out and 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 armisen 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 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 lockdown shifts lack safety protocols and no moscow and firing people who spoke out.

of the army the problem with that you have a belief that you don't you just let you track the virus it's like what you think it's that they want you to get sick you know here you know what happened afterwards is not enough to even. believe when this about protection does well he does whatever body. 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 mosque 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. or were close to foreign might. break the people's freedoms and where the.

people. so instead of forcibly imprisoning people in their homes musk courage people to get back to walk all face starvation and get evicted 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. or about 41 minutes away from 2021 here in moscow and ahead of the stroke of midnight we're going to bring you the annual address from the russian president before the last 12 months won't soon be forgotten not least because throughout the pandemic people's resourcefulness and

creativity shown through video agency ruptly has captured some of the most touching highlights of 2021 called embrace a happy new year from all of us here at r.t. we're going to leave you this hour there was some of those sights and sounds of what's been a tough challenging and at times inventive year. it's a little a symbol isa good moment to put aida us in the end in mind and that is. because of what i miss him on the album aged just 66.

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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 in our power to protect. wanted one escaping climate change poses the same threat right now alaska seems 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 $35.00 closer than how. was your or i think we're part of america or earth for or. not i am asked geyser and these are the new year's eve festivities where. stacy right next the theme of our new year's eve special. relentless optimism relentless relentless relentless optimism this is

a work of art here by the way from chief monkey and mosaic rocks their team that sold this via our action on scarcity and the 1st lightning auction so that's really loved this optimism that is the bitcoin response to the famous economist headline from 1988 this is from january 9th 1988 get ready for a waltz currency also some historic stuff like britain keep booming that's what they were asking in 1988 and perestroika is 1st test says you know we're still back into a cold war britain is not booming and in fact is sinking under mire it's mired in debt like most other countries in the world but we have relentless optimism max for 2021 oh yeah yeah relentless optimism wasn't me was it me was it

me well you know in the past optimism has been. met with the forces of pessimism in the forces of can't do is. of course there's america can is a star called america can't it's called america. but that's run its course because of the special interest groups and the sea out money play we have a new jerusalem a new frontier a new optimism and it's a relentless optimism in its indefatigable optimism without constraint because there's nothing that can stop it we've never have here on planet earth us human something like this like requiring that cannot be stopped it's on a vector the vector is pointing toward a mystery which we'll get to at some point maybe and nothing can stop it. right in a supporting to know that we're exiting 2020 with the biggest cantillon

errors in the world coming around to what you alone from the kaiser report knew for the past 10 years we've been warning them we've been telling it i mean people to say ok our warning is being pessimistic but we're just telling you what's coming and we told you that what was coming was a relentless optimism now remember the cable news does thrives on hate the fia money system thrives on pessimism all of this is over we're into a new relentless optimistic aides who because of it point and even the life the larry fink the likes of paul tudor jones like to stand druckenmiller faith you know right when that economist headline came out that was 20 years after just a few years after then talk to miller had helped take down the british pound right so they're all accepting that they cannot fight between any longer and this is

heading into 2021 i think we're really going to see what that looks like ok they've conceded defeat now if they throw in over their king they've resigned right. now we're going to see what that looks like right now one. big coin are the 4 p's the 4 p's i might add i'm wearing my special this year new year's eve special shoes yeah if they don't blind the camera. coin is the 4 peas right so it's perfect money perfect price discovery perfect. and perfect outcomes so when you have the quadrangle of perfection that is because you are on the vector for relentless optimism and you have no risk of being optimistic anymore some people would associate optimism with risky behavior because they don't want to invite the trolls they don't want to invite the state they don't want to invite the mob they don't want to invite all kinds of trouble that comes with optimistic

thinking 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 is no punishment for relentless optimism stacy right and it's important to know as well that we're heading into 2021 and what is 2021 is the 50th birthday of the all system so you know this is a good time to die as well for if it's over right 50 years is long enough it was an experiment that was the experiment big question is not the experiment because bitcoin is hard money the fiat's global standard was a fabulous fiction let's admit like the fabulousness of. created outfits like this. but the fact is that you know we're going to go over some of the details of

why that's coming to an end and why should celebrate it if there are some moments that might not seem pretty good you know but relentless optimism is on the other side right. 2121 1000000 points 21000000 point is right there in full faith. 2121 right 2021 is the it all comes together and ok so if the dollar falls apart it has been it goes as ernest hemingway one of the greatest american writers of all time he said you know one goes bankrupt slowly and then suddenly so this could be the suddenly part of it because we've already covered them we're going to cover again in the 2nd half here the you know the great reset in the new britain was in this this these signals that have been sent by fed speak because member fed you know central bankers don't speak directly to ordinary plaids they speak by a fed speak they speak around it we're going have

a great reset we're going to have a new brand was back then they had said get ready for a world currency so one thing to celebrate if the global fiat's standard does and is the end of time theft and we're going to show you times that right here in a chart out just in the past few weeks as we head into 2021 just to put things into perspective on the rise in wealth inequality in one chart. the average us more worker must now work 141 hours to buy one share of the s. and p. $500.00 that's of course a fresh record in the 1980 s. it took less than 20 hours so here's the chart of the of the number of hours needed to buy one share of the s. and p. 500971 you can see back here it only costs like that that was down near like 10 hours to buy that so $971.00 that was the birth of the u.s.

global fiat's standard and now you have to work that's how many hours it takes for you and time can never be replaced there's no amount of money asked form buffett he said that recently there is no amount of money that can replace time. right well this is a case that one can make for an american sovereign wealth fund you know let me explain a little bit about that so that rise in the stock market we as we've covered recently it's 50 percent due to money printing and stock buybacks and manipulation and accounting fraud. which is the way that the wealth is transferred from 320000000 americans in aggregate to a few wealthy has fund managers and high net worth individuals and it's patently unconstitutional and un-american if the goal was to create the wealth of a nation as adam smith might say then a sovereign wealth fund should have been already created going back.