as much about getting rid of 2020 years celebrating the new year around the world fireworks of its scaled down celebrations as the world welcomes 2021 on the hope of a brighter 12 months ahead. this is paris right now as it prepares to usher in 2021 in a couple of hours under the shadow of the packet make silent streets empty squares and deserted boulevards the only souls outside thousands of police deployed to enforce a strict nighttime curfew. looking back over the past year we hear from frontline medics who've become the un certain heroes in a year dominated by coded. we've seen people die in the scene people coming in

a calm we have to be way down what we want. is what we have in new york. and campaigners which the u.k. to tread carefully when seeking a post trade deal with the united states highlighting the health risks of american meat products. there is 1 am here in moscow on new year's day it's now 2021 here in this time zone of russia bringing in midnight right now though of greece finland egypt south africa or nearly 30 other countries to a very happy new year from all of us here at r.t. international 2021 came to the moscow times over an hour ago and just ahead of midnight the russian president used his annual new year address to recognize those able to share a celebration with their families 1. and the university. dear friends.

not everyone is sitting at the festive table right now where a lot of people are still in hospitals and i'm sure they feel the support of their loved ones and friends you know this is all over and there you me with all my heart i wish you a speedy recovery mr and a happy return. unfortunately we haven't managed to completely stop the pandemic yet the fight against it won't stop for a single minutes of yours to doctors and nurses paramedics continue to work hard. many of them are on duty on this festive nights when your stone or civil suit emergency service employees are there also solving the most difficult of tasks we must all our military personnel that were designed in conflict zones abroad while the peacekeepers assure the army and the navy would later it's thanks to all of those who are on duty but he day and night no matter what the russian citizens can

gather today around their family. and are sure the new year in with the hope for the better and plans for the future will make their in a most ticklish. and not just being mark here on earth also 400 kilometers above us right now on the international space station the crap they're going to see in the new year 16 times as they orbit the planet as 28000 kilometers per hour and the cosmonauts on board and send this message as we ring 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 today we want to wish all the citizens of all multinational country and the rest of the world to take care of yourselves sunny allowed ones that will be healthy and courteous to one another and be together that's the most important for them just to be as

a calm and it thing slow had been year year but as you go. of fireworks have already been lighting up the skies and in many other capitals around the world seeing in 2021 in style as best they can minus the crowds of course is it takes a force to come for those still living in 2020.

plus of the 1st to e.u. nations well coming into the new year while those in america will be anxiously awaiting the big moment for at least another 7 alright but as people around the globe celebrates the onset of 2021 minutes equally glad to see the back of 2020 let's take stock of the last 12 months. when i was 2020 recede since the rearview mirror paris right now uncharacteristically quiet this is a very unusual to see the falls an easy like this on christmas day on tuesday is eve i'm sorry that in about an hour midnight will strike and usually it's cheese and fireworks but there's a nightly curfew in place that following

a deadly subject factions that means that all public gatherings are off limits tonight and it's a picture that's playing out across europe to the show to do bensky now reports. european leaders are due 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 year for the world as opposed 19 pandemic has torn into countries forcing lockdowns trashing their colonies and of course there are said to be close to choose a 1000000 people dead as a result of the virus 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 if they see it they won't be around 800000 police officers deploying to the streets to ensure that clandestine parties in prague's

group couldn't but 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 all pay a lot more than 1400 vehicles and the curfew will remain in place so that we know right so i don't date here with that too good reason and this is due to be enforced 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 some unions warned that the illegal parties be taking place saying that a lot of equipment has been routed one union this is from the trade and hospitality sector so 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 want to party they want to draw a line in what happened in 2020 now in germany which is currently under lock. and on the sale of fireworks they will also be taught restrictions on the numbers that can actually gather to celebrate new year's eve this comes as more than $20000.00 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. looked out 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 rory will keep its traditional

fireworks display but the usual concerts in public have been scrapped london's iconic forward so the times have also been cancelled while scotland's famous celebrations have. line many may have been hoping to more 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. could be registered and of course continued restrictions on citizens. from ly medics have become the undisputable heroes of 2020 rising to the occasion saving lives swallow 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 why it made me 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 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 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. somebody

declines 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 do. what we want to. do what we have to be told. i'm proud of all of our family we're going to. fully fund this. we won't have a shit making 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 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 in. 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 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 1st 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 phase 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 rich or that have a multi-billion bosses well publicly expressing solidarity with all those who are suffering have been raking in the profits to report 2020 the years that won't be missed coronavirus we've incurred a virus that covered 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 for 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 will it exist off to 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 hardy blockbuster year but according to the richest model not just who made $75000000000.00 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 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. of the army that was a problem with that you have a belief that you don't you just let 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 make even. a relief on this about protection as well he does what the

body. workers will call a job basis 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'll raked in 123000000000 in 2020 when the cash is flowing you know wanted to stop. all of it. forcibly imprisoning people in their homes. all across your forehead that might. break the people's freedoms and where there are already. people. america the country. the bridge 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 you know without seeing on 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 we'll have more on that for you among our stories after the break. banks guys are fine it will survive until they say money to develop. a plan to use

it this is a central plank support diagram is going to call them right now so they stop to. the world is driven by shaped by. the day or thinks. we dare to ask. every year with great pleasure me answer questions from our viewers and this year is no different as usual your questions focus on future post events my panel in a speech to look at.

the pandemic could be a sign of things to come judging by the latest warning from the world health organization with the prospect of more deadly outbreaks around the corner the w.h.o. emergencies chief is urging all nations to ramp up their health care. but this time limit has been very severe it's been spread around the world extremely quickly and is afraid that every corner of this planet but this is not necessarily the big one we live in an increasingly complex global society the stress 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 than future. it's been almost a year since the w.h.o. declared covert 19 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 clock says the outbreak 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 still causes 70 deaths by dint of the fact that it infects lots of people 'd and we've just seen how it can evolve in to making. making a new strain that is even more in taxes and we are more connected let me put it when we 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's human nature and of course the more easily people can travel around the world what is the viruses can as well but more

fertility there is having your eye virus to infect new people the more power to nitty there will be for it 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. a poll in china has highlighted the shifting perceptions of who the country's key partners are china's global times though 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 key partnership globally and that's a sharp drop from the 82 percent who held the view last year politics lecturer a partner in one thinks there's been a realignment away from washington going 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

trans. tree war and he's competing against china in his presidency but i will see it and trees a continuation of. administration of the obama period when starting from 2013 i think. the obama people to issue of course is already tricked the kind of stronger we're actually in trying and trying to 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 the chinese has to seriously consider what is the future of the u.s. china will issues. britain could see a shake up of its food supply post breck said after the transition period ends in

less than an hour from now the company country will be free to import products that are banned in the european union that could include us make products treated with drugs including hormones and antibiotics but sustainable food campaign is a saying the government should still 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. 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 can cause antibiotic resistance and also undermine treatments various diseases in humans the report also refers to e.u. proposals to ban all preventative use of antibiotics in animals from 2022 and to require exports to do the same now one example of feed additive called wrecked me

which is routinely used by u.s. farmers it's also banned in more than 160 countries including russia and china scientists have linked it to shorter life expectancy among 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 and to bartok 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 that what we have been concerned about is that once they get into a trade negotiations with the u.s. all with australia or with some other countries some of those countries are very keen to export their meat to us and most of those countries are using antibiotics

more excessively and more 'd irresponsibly they're being 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 without such excessive use of antibiotics that we actually then started to allow in meat that was produced for the variants of our things that we found in this country. of the last 12 months won't soon be forgotten not least because throughout the pandemic. people's results fullness and creativity shown through all video agency ruptly has captured some of the most touching highlights of 2020 and before we show you that for me colin brian all teams here and around the world thank you for watching all see through 2020 we hope you'll continue to do so through 2021 happy new year. i.

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stacey 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 auction on scarcity the 1st lightning auction so that's related to optimism that is the bitcoin response to the famous economist headline from 1988 this is from january 9th 1988 get ready for a world currency also some historic stuff like britain keep booming that's what they were asking in 1988 and perestroika is 1st test so you know we're still back into a cold war britain is not boom.