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'd this is are to me and this is moscow 2021 has finally arrived the news from all of us. 2020 is not going to be a year many people will. i look back on fondly 2021 is going to be

a year of fireworks lighting up the city sky moscow as they usually do. but this time with the large crowd of safety 1st the scale of celebrations has been drastically reduced this year of course because of the pattern that says he still thought receives a lot of us good byes to celebrate new good throughout the city without city time restrictions no gatherings. for. this would be free public transport all night for those few who do venture out but the big public events have being cancelled so gathering in spots like red square that's all for this year usually at this time thousands of people no matter what the temperatures and sometimes it can get down to minus 20 usually crowded into red square to see the fireworks this year though because of the pandemic like you muscovites sharing these fireworks watching them on the t.v.

screen shops the boss the restaurants they too would have to follow quarantine rules they were forced to close at 11 pm but even those russians celebrate the new year with fairly limited restrictions compared to maybe some other countries of course top again even in this time of hope and what 2021 may bring us is a time of hailing from all those scars of the past 12 months russia is still going through a surge in cutting. more than 6000 cases of being confirmed the past they mean while the sputnik the vaccine that's been making its way around the country currently being given to frontline medical workers and the elderly 1st. but one place that stephanie covert free is more than 400 kilometers above us right now on the international space station the crew up there get to see in the new year

16 times as they all but the earth over 28000 kilometers an hour on the cosmonauts a bolt of send this message as we'll bring in the new. at a good style you believe this year has been an anniversary year for our orbital home that's the international space station 20 years ago the 1st international crew came to the station and since then we have celebrated 20 years on the station and we have been fortunate enough to be here to greet the 21st you say we want to wish all the citizens of our multinational country and the rest of the world take care of yourself sunny a lot of ones that will be healthy and courteous to one another and be together that's the most important for them because together we will overcome anything had been your year. thank you gentlemen well fireworks have already been lighting up the skies are many other capitals which soar in 2021 in style but again minus the crowds this time around here's a taste of what's to come for those still in 2020. or

the 1st nations in the a here will start welcoming the new year next hour while those in america will be anxiously awaiting the big moment for at least another 8 but as people around the globe celebrate 2021 arriving many are equally glad to see the back of 2020 is

a quick recap of the last 12 months. it was 2020 recedes in the rearview mirror paris is uncharacteristically 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 playing out across europe shiela do bensky reports. european leaders or do you to make their traditional new year's eve addresses they speeches are expected to focus on the themes of hope and unity 2020 of course is be a difficult process the world as a case of $900.00 pandemic has torn into countries forcing looked at trashing their colonies and of course there are said to be close to choose a 1000000 people dead as a result of the boy u.s.

this new year will be like although with the usual celebrations either completely cancelled or shadow over their former selves well it starts here 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 deployed on the streets to ensure that clandestine parties improvs broken. there will be a particular focus on the violence in the suburbs because it's a bit over ritual here in france that on new year's eve cause another vehicles. last seen more than 1400 vehicles and the curfew will remain in place so they'll be no one so i don't stay here without too good reason and this is due to being 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. be crowds in central paris but i'm afraid clashes elsewhere are inevitable so many unions and the illegal parties will be taking place saying that a lot of equipment has been routed one union this is from the trading hospitality sector so it would be much better had some parties been sanctioned professionals one their views considered one of the not to be forgotten and they want the government to take responsibility for this shutdown people really want to party they want to draw a line in what happened in 2020 now in germany which is currently under lock. on the sale of my works there will also be taught 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 is likely to be the quietest in living memory. there will be $1129.00

families in mourning over the new year these figures prove just how brutally the virus is still pummeling us. look 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 clauses have been scrapped london's iconic fireworks over the thames have also been cancelled while scotland's famous hold on a celebrations have been online many may have been hoping to mark the end of 20 twentieth's say goodbye 1 to it 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 being registered and of course continued restrictions on citizens. from medics have become the unsung heroes of 2020 rising to the occasion and saving lives while

often risking their own in the process we've been hearing some of the stories. 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. into the hospital. for me working throughout that covert is same by to a patient and knowing that come back tomorrow and their bed is now 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 looked classical music i remember she

was 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 and just knowing that 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 you don't look right but this was sort of like feed off hey and then. you find out they're not ok not only they're not ok but. i don't 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. we won't give a shit making decision. maybe we can step up to play a little bit more and maybe we can be and how they make sure that we can make marriage. 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 we're going in a tough ways because people are objecting to vaccination and bring home with their lies and manipulation in the media it's not every day struggles. well through the turmoil of 2020 some people have managed to get richer than ever multibillion bosses well publicly expressing solidarity with all those who are suffering and been raking in the profits to report 2020 the year that won't be missed coronavirus and stephen kearney virus 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 brought a virus in 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 here in 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 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 what it exists 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 just. with people border home imus and harvey blockbuster yeah but according to the richest model 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 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 brutal home that will be caused by the economic fallout across our communities well that might not be a manual but there 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 you don't you just to let you trust 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 even. believe one 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 to 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 them. forcibly imprisoning people in their homes.

but might. break the people's freedoms and where the. people. into america or the country. bridges and bridge 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. this is the way new year new directions people in china rethinking their global priorities according to a new poll with the focus shifting away from washington or on that among the stories after the break.

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. some people would associate optimism with risky behavior because they don't want to and like the trolls they don't want to incite the state they don't want to invite. they don't want to invite all kinds of trouble that comes with optimistic saying throughout history optimists have been punished it could be galileo it could be copernicus be einstein it could be all sorts of big steve jobs and they were punished for their optimism but now there is no punishment for. them.

every year with great pleasure to be answered questions from our viewers and this year is no different as usual your questions focus on future events my panel and. come back to r.t. just turned 20 past midnight this new year's day here in moscow the pandemic could be a sign of things to come by the latest warning from the world health organization with the prospect of more deadly outbreaks around the corner of the w.h.o. emergencies chief as i do all the nations to ramp up their health care. but this dynamic has been very severe it's been it's spread around the world extremely quickly and is the fact that every corner of this planet but this is not necessarily to be what we live in an increasingly complex school society these trends will continue if there's one thing we need to take from this trend and it

could all of the tragedy in loss 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 gear since the w.h.o. declared covert 1000 a global health emergency and since then 80000000 people a known to have contracted the virus and an estimated 1800000 lives have been lost globally microbiologist simon clarke says the outbreak could have been much worse. this this virus although it's very infectious it is not desperately lethal it's mortality rate is not all that high but it causes 70 deaths by dint of the fact that it infects lots of people and we've just seen how it can be involved in to making. making a new strain that is even more interaction us and we are more connected loose you put it when we were 20 or 30 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. we will continue to become more global i think that's human nature and of course the more easily people can travel around the world more easily viruses can as well but more fertility there is a virus to you people the more tuna to go before to me tell you so the possibilities is there that there will be outbreaks in the future that will cause problems and they may be bigger than this one. poll in china has highlighted the shifting perceptions of who the country's key partners are china's global times found that one 3rd of respondents see relations with russia as the top priority and around half of them consider russia the most important among china's neighbors 47 percent believe the united states is the caber lation ship globally but that's a sharp drop from the 82 percent who have you last year politics lecturer packman

one thinks there's been a realignment away from washington govern on for years. it has been growing perception among the chinese people. these these may be the time for china to decouple with the us. and of course we can attribute these to mr trump. true war and he's competing against china in his presidency but i will see if entries a continuation of. administration of the obama period when starting from 2013 i think. the obama people to issue of course he is already trigger the kind of stronger reaction in china and china start to be you artificial islands in the south china sea the decision time russia. actions in the ukraine by and the same in the crimea peninsula and all these us come to the point at the

china realize that china need to have across a strategic and energy ties with the russians and it is a time to chinese has to seriously consider what is the future of the us china will issues. and while the last 12 months won't same be forgotten not least because throughout the pandemic people's results fullness and creativity shown through video agency abruptly has captured some of the most touching highlights of 2020 i'm calling brain moscow happy new year for me in the team here at r.t. we're going to leave it at this hour with some of those sights and sounds of what's been a tough challenging and at times inventive year. i. will be a. little

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a real finn who lives in finland. his name is. both oaths and. tonight told me he's heading for russia to take part in the european ice speedway championship. not many people know about this on the usual sports but motorcycle racing on ice is tommy's true passion. officially the nordic countries are considered the birthplace of ice racing but it quickly caught on in russia. speedway is beautiful expensive and very dangerous on top of that racist take place in extremely low temperatures which

doesn't exactly help with promoting the school. choice races are often compared to . them by often seem to be treading a fine line between life and death when they're on the racetrack. have a horse. and their oldest son on the. track i have a drop i sailed. link with god. now we're going to. be home. before the trip takes his youngest son to ice hockey practice. this really is a popular sport. to kiss off is why.