as much about getting rid of 2020 as celebrating the new year fireworks amid scaled down celebrations as the world welcomes 2021 and in the hope of a brighter 12 months ahead. paris enters 2021 under the shadow of the pandemic you're looking at live pictures from paris right now with thousands of police deployed to enforce a strict nighttime curfew. and we hear from frontline medics who have become the unsung heroes in a year dominated by covert. and we've seen people die in seeing people come in and they call green as we have been doing shall we one in 5. is what we have to do.

and campaigners urge the u.k. to tread carefully when seeking opposed to bragg's that trade deal with the u.s. highlighting the health risks of american meat products. are broadcasting live direct from our studios here in moscow this is our 2 international i'm sean thomas happy new year glad to have you with us an hour ago all of russia actually that's not true 2 hours ago all of russia finished ringing in 2021 and just ahead of the midnight the russian president used his annual new year's address to recognize those unable to share. in the celebrations with their families. the universe here dear friends. not everyone is sitting at the festive table right now where lots of people are still in hospitals and i'm sure

they feel the support of their loved ones and friends. with all my heart i wish you a speedy recovery and misty 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 minute fewest doctors and nurses paramedics continue to work hard. many of them are on duty on this festive nights when it was done a civil suit emergency service employees that are also solving the most difficult of tasks our military personnel as it were destroyed in conflict zones abroad as peacekeepers assured the army and the navy is 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 make there in the most ticklish unusual and and it's not just

this planet celebrating 400 kilometers above us right now on the international space station the crew up there is if they get to see the new year 16 times they orbit the earth at over 28000 kilometers per hour and the cars minutes on board have sent this message as we ring in the new year. that's not good though 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 our multinational country and the rest of the world take care of yourselves. will be healthy and courteous to one another and be together that's the most important for them because together. and thing had been new year. fireworks have already it lit up the skies in many other capitals which saw in 2021 in style

but minus the crowds here's a taste of what's to come for those still living in 2020.

and europe has also begun marking a new year on the calendar to have live pictures of berlin right here as you can see there are fireworks all over the place lighting up the sky as people are really happy to get rid of 2020 while those in america will be anxiously awaiting the big moment for several more hours but as people around the globe celebrate 2021 many are equally glad to see 2020 done and gone as i just mentioned let's take a stock of the last 12 months. the clock has struck 12 in the city of lights but paris is uncharacteristically quiet a nightly curfew is still in place following a deadly surge in covert infections so all public gatherings are off limits and it is a picture playing out across europe as artist i would have been ski reports. european

leaders are due to make their traditional new year's eve dresses speeches are expected to focus on the themes of hope and unity 2020 of course is be a different. process the world as a covert $900.00 pandemic has torn into countries forcing looked at trashing of colonies 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 completely cancelled or a shadow of their former selves well 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 deployed on the streets to ensure that parties in france broke. there will be a particular focus on buoyancy in the suburbs because it's a bit of

a ritual here in france that on new year's eve cause in other vehicles. last year more than 1400 vehicles with the curfew will remain in place so that we know what so i don't date here with good reason and this is due to be enforced strictly. 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 have warned that the illegal parties will be taking place saying that a lot of equipment has been routed one union this is from the trade and hospitality sector said it would be much better had some parties been sanctioned professional swung their views considered not to be forgotten and they want the government to take responsibility for this shutdown people really. the 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. look down in the netherlands will also see muted celebrations. 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 holcombe a celebrations have been online many may have been hoping to mark the end of 20 twentieth's so you could point 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 could be registered and of course continued restrictions on citizens. from line medics have become the unsung heroes of 2020 rising to the occasion and saving lives while often risking their own in the process we have 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. 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 and 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 played music to her and just knowing she could see the happiness usually you see somebody decline. and. she or you want to p.d. or you feel like something's wrong. but this was sort of like. a 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 do. some proud of all of us. we're going to. find this. we won't give a shit making decision. maybe we can step up to the plate a little more and maybe we can be and how they make their patients so that we can make marriage. and 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 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 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. because people are objecting to vaccination and to bring home with the lies the manipulation in the media is so every day struggles . 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 reports 2020 the years that won't be missed coronavirus could a virus to cope with 19 entire health care system is on the very brink of collapse lock down 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 stupid it's insecurity 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 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 it or that you have a belief that you don't you just do but you trust the virus just like what you think it's that they want you to get sick you know here and you know what happened afterwards is not enough to make even. a relief when it's about protection 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 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 when the cash is flowing you know wanted to stop. all of it. forcibly imprisoning people in their homes. or close to foreign might. break the people's freedoms and where is the water going. to america or the country. to 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 it's not the pieces of that lives 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 to make has been very severe it's spread around the world extremely quickly and is afraid to get requirements but this is not necessarily be what we live in an increasingly complex cruel 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 loss is that we need to go right to go we need to get ready for something that may even be more severe in future it's been almost a year since of the w.h.o.

declared over 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 clark says the outbreak could have been much worse. this this virus although it's very infectious it is not desperately lethal it's the rate is normal law ha eat but it's called the 70 deaths by dint of the fact that it infects lots of people and we've just seen how it can be evolved in to making. making a new strain that is even more in texas 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 and we will continue

to become more global i think that she him in nature and of course the more easily people can travel around the world will easily viruses can as well but more for 2 to 3 their rates for i virus to you people the more preaching it's you know will be for 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 have found that one 3rd of respondents see relations with russia as the top priority and half of them consider russia the most important among china's neighbors 47 percent believe the u.s. is the key relationship globally a sharp drop from the 82 percent who held that view last year politics election or pocket no longer thinks there has been a realignment away from washington going on for years. there has been

a 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 the administration of the obama period when starting from 2013 i think. the obama people to issue of course he has already tripped the kind off stronger action in trying and trying to start to be you artificial islands in the south china sea the decision time. actions in the ukraine by and the same in the crimea peninsula and all these us come to the point that they're trying to 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 as soon as the clock strikes at midnight the u.k. will officially leave the e.u. common market and britain could see a shake up of its food supply post brags that the country will be free to import products that are banned in the e.u. that includes u.s. meat products treated with drugs including hormones and antibiotics but sustainable food campaigners are saying that 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. that report from the sustainable food trust singled out a drug used on pigs which leaves it carcinogenic residues even after cooking and it

mentioned various types of antibiotics used to promote growth on the u.s. factory farms which can cause antibiotic resistance and undermine treatments of various diseases in humans now the report refers to e.u. proposals to ban all preventative use of antibiotics in animals from 2022 and to require it to do the same. now an example feed additive called. palming is routinely used by u.s. farmers and it is banned in over 116 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 she 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 negotiations with the us all with australia or with some other countries some of those countries a very keen to export 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 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've found in this country. the last 12 months will not soon be forgotten not least because throughout the pandemic people's

resourcefulness and creativity shown through our video agency probably has captured some of the most touching highlights of 2020 before we show you value for me and our team here in the gallery and in moscow in the newsroom thank you for watching our teeth around 2020 we hope that you will continue to do so in the next year 2021 happy new year. i. was a little symbol the signalman to put aida us in your name and then that is it because i'm old but i miss him on the album aged 60. 6.

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every year with great pleasure me answer questions from our viewers and this year is no joke but as usual your questions focus on future possibly a bit my panel in the future looking. as. welcome to the hope renee alex savin show where we

present the highlights of 23 c we hope you had a wonderful and commonsense christmas. when is the scots word for new year's eve i was taken very seriously in scotland normally tonight would see vast clothes and celebrations in the whole month. but this is a very different year and this help many will be responsible i thought sleep distance just like this program i just discovered dominated the year it dominated it right back at the start of the year we conducted the 1st of many interviews with cambridge for all just a naked scientist dr chris worth he gave us the foster indication of the dramatic shape of things to come what you potentially got is something which while it's less lethal than solves is much more infectious than cells and about as lethal as the 1918 flu pandemic and everyone susceptible to this like they were for the $918.00 spanish flu pandemic so if this were allowed to escape and go to its logical

conclusion one possibility one worst case scenario is it could be as bad as $918.00 i demand but this is a time when president trump was joking about the vice prime minister johnson of us not even turning up at the covert corporate meetings here's a selection of what experts had to see about the virus as the year progressed and about the public health challenge as presented by could we need to make haste being a routine thing that you do and we just don't seem to have a group of what we need to do why do you want to set up a private testing laboratory and a private contractor leasing service which will never ever work as efficiently as if you had invested in your local n.h.s. services and systems in both the local authority in the n.h.s. and in public health england if we.