as much about getting rid of 2020 as celebrating the new year fireworks amid scaled down celebrations as the world welcomes 2021 and the hope of a brighter 12 months ahead. paris enters 2021 under a shadow of the pandemic with thousands of police deployed to enforce a strict curfew. and we hear from medics on the front line who have become the unsung heroes in the year dominated by cobra. and we've seen people die in the scene people come in and make this we have to be the way. we want. it is what we have to do. and campaigners are urging view kade to tread carefully when seeking

the post of bragg's a trade deal with the us highlighting the health risks of american meat products. are broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow this is our international i'm sean thomas certainly glad to have you with us and happy new year now all russia's 11 time zones have now inaugurated the new year and just ahead of midnight the russian president used his annual new year's address it to recognize those unable to share the celebrations with their families. and the universe dear friends . not everyone is sitting at the festive table right now a lot of people are still in hospitals and i'm sure they feel the support of their loved ones and friends. with all my heart and i wish you a speedy recovery 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. emergency service employees that are also solving the most difficult of tasks now military personal conflict zones abroad as peacekeepers assured the army and the navy it's thanks to all of those who are on duty but you day and night no matter what the russian citizens can gather today around their family. and are sure the new year in with a hope for the better and plans for the future make their innermost wish. and it is not just this planet celebrating 400 kilometers above us because space is cool at the international space station the crew up there while they get to see the new

year ring in 16 times as they orbit the earth at over 20000 kilometers per hour pretty cool and they cause mounts on board had this message for everyone down below . 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 our multinational country and the rest of the world you take care of yourselves and your loved ones that will be healthy and. it is to one another and to be together that's the most important for them because to be has a calm and it thing so happy new year. fireworks have already a lit up the skies in many other capitals which saw all in 2021 in style but minus the crowds here's a taste of what is to come for those still living in 2020. covert

skeptics in london have decided to celebrate new year by gathering on the streets despite tier 4 lockdown restrictions here you can see live pictures of the illegal

gathering under the current restrictions at gatherings of more than 2 people from different households are banned in london. now europe has also begun marking a new year on the calendar 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 let's take stock of the last 12 months. the clock 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 artie's 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 the different the cross the world as a covert 900 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 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 the streets to ensure that clandestine parties improv group. there will be a particular focus. to 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 forced 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 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 said it would be much better had some parties been sanctioned professional swung their views considered one of them not to be forgotten and they want the government to take responsibility for this shutdown people really. party they want

to draw a line in what happened in 2020 now in germany which is currently under lock their has been a ban on the sale of fireworks 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. 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 their normal 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 causes 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 say goodbye 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. staying with friends new year is supposed to be a time for optimism and changing things for the better group of volunteers are looking to a future without mcdonalds and loving it. this

restaurant is about solidarity in the quality messages come to the space there's a mcdonald's out slogan come as you are and we want to put human beings 1st. 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. frontline medics have become the unsung heroes of 2020 rising to the cajun 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 one down it would ring again and it became so frightening because the patients or 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 as 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 she was 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 decline. and you can make 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 . 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 give you. some proud of all of us. we're going to. find this. when 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 to make sure that we can make very good. and 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 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. because people are objecting to vaccination and 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 ask you tell it 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 brought a 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 stability security and choice

just wiped out. we hear in 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 brutal home that will be caused by the economic fallout across our communities well that might not be a manual but there is lots 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 the 1st that you have a veto on that you don't you. that 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 even. leave one this about protection does 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 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. all across to. my. breaking people's freedoms and

ordering. people. it's america or the country. 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 this is arching international on the way new year new directions people in china are rethinking their global priorities according to a new poll with the focus shifting away from washington more on that among our stories after we get back from a short break stay with us. the

world is driven by a dream shaped by one person. who dares thinks. we dare to ask. some people what associates optimism with risky behavior because they don't want to live like the trolls they don't want to incite the state they don't want to invite this mob they don't want to live by all kinds of trouble that comes with optimistic

saying throughout history optimists have been punished it could be galileo it could be copernicus it could be einstein it could be all sorts of be steve jobs and they were punished for their optimism but now there is no punishment for relentless optimism. welcome back this is our chief international not the pandemic could be a sign of things to come judging by the latest warning from the world health organization with of the prospect of more deadly outbreaks round the corner the w.h.o. emergencies chief is urging all nations to ramp up their health care. that is pandemic has been very severe it's been it's 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 and 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 cold 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 microbiology just assignment clark says the outbreak could have been much much worse. this this virus although it's very infectious it is not desperately lethal it's the rate is not a whole lot ha ha but it's called the 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 or making a new strain that is even more infectious and we are more connected globalise 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's human nature and of course the more easily people can travel around the world more easily viruses can as well but more fertility rates for i virus to infect new people the more protein 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 of the countries that key partners are china's global times have found that one 3rd of responders 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 that is

a sharp drop from the 82 percent who held that view last year politics lecturer no one thinks there's been a realignment away from washington going on for years. growing perception among the chinese people. he sees may be the time for china to decouple with the u.s. . and of course we can attribute these to mr trump. true will and he's competing against china doing his presidency but i will see it and trees a continuation of. ministration of the obama period when starting from 2013 i think. the obama people to issue of course is already true the kind of stronger reaction in china and in china start to be you out if you are losing this all trying to see the decision time these. 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 it's the ties with the russians and it is a time to chinese has to seriously consider what was the future of the u.s. china will issues. it is 25 minutes into the new year in the u.k. which means that the country has officially left the e.u.'s 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 that includes 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 and to microbial resistance it would be completely irresponsible of the government were to allow the import of beef pork or poultry produced with

antibiotics for growth promotion which have been banned here. and report from the sustainable food trust singled out a drug used on pigs which leaves carcinogenic residues even after cooking and it mentioned various types of antibiotics used to promote growth on 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 exports to do the same and example of feed additive called rock top amin is routinely used by u.s. farmers and it is banned in over 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 irresponsibly 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 which 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 us or with australia or with some other countries some of those countries are very keen to export them each of 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 and keeping them healthy without such excessive use of antibiotics that we actually then started to allow in meat that

was produced for the variance of arctics that we 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 ruptly has captured some of the most touching highlights of 2020 but before we show you that from me and our team here in moscow in the gallery de mar director thank you for watching our teeth route 2020 we hope you will continue to do so in 2021 happy new year. i. will be take it on with us and that is. because it will put us in one of the.

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and of us all scholars on the way i mean it's a lot about a lot of those are the number the call but you know it was an old. thank you. should. i am. 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 possible events my panel and i am happy to oblige.