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 a 2021 under the shadow of the pandemic with thousands of police deployed to enforce a strict nighttime curfew. we hear from frontline medics who have become the unsung heroes in a year dominated by cove it. only seen people die and seen people come in and they call as we have been doing what we want in 5. years what we have to do.

and campaigners urged the u.k. to tread carefully when seeking a post to break that trade deal with the us highlighting the health risks of american meat products. broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow this is r t international i'm sean thomas glad to have you with us and of course happy new year now all of 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 to recognize those unable to share the celebrations with their families. friends and you know to everyone is sitting at the festive table right now lots of people are still in hospitals and i'm sure they feel the support of their loved ones and friends that i do you mean. with all my heart i wish you a speedy recovery and

a happy return. although 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. on a civil suit emergency service employees that are also solving the most difficult of tasks now military personnel that were destroyed in conflict zones abroad as peacekeepers assured the army and the navy 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 innermost wish. and it's not just this planet celebrating 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 orbit the earth at over 20000 kilometers per hour and the cosmos onboard 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 take care of yourself sunny a law that will be healthy and courteous to one another and be together that's the most important for them because together we will so become and it thing so had been you year ago fireworks have already lit up the skies in many other capitals which sol in 2021 in style but minus the crowds of course here is

a taste of what is to come for those still living in 2020. in the british capital however the fireworks were cancelled this year but that did

not stop people from coming to the river thames and london police showed up to enforce restrictions on gatherings and disperse the crowd on to the courage to tear for measures meetings of more than 2 people from different households are actually banned. now all of europe has now marked out 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 a stock of the last 12 months. paris is uncharacteristically quiet this new year's night 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 well as our dubinsky reports. european leaders are due to make their traditional new year's eve addresses speeches are expected to focus on the themes of hope and unity 2020 of course is the difficult for the world as it is 19 pandemic has torn into countries forcing looked at trashing of color 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 ringback paris france where the usual firework display on the show just behind me has been scrapped this year there will be around 100000 police officers deploying to the streets to ensure that clandestine parties and. 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 causing other vehicles. to more than 200 vehicles with the curfew will remain in place so that we know what so i don't do 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 will be legal 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. i 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 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 new year's eve 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 there warm or countdown to the end of this year will be held inside a football stadium and there will be no spectators roy will keep its traditional firework display but the usual concerts in public causes have been scrapped

london's iconic the thames have also been cancelled while scotland's famous hold on a celebration 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. supposed to be a time for optimism and changing things for the better so group of volunteers are looking to a future without mcdonalds and they're loving it. this

restaurant is. all messages come to the. mcdonald's. and we want to. first. super bowl after we can go back to how 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. going through difficult times. frontline 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 from

some of. that phone was going every 15 minutes every 10 minutes as a nurse puts one down it would ring again and it became so frightening because the patients or into the hospital by fitness may work in throughout that covert is same by to a patient and knowing that come back tomorrow in their bed is they have been. 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 looked classical music i remember 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 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 pedia or you feel like something's wrong they don't look right but this was sort of. feed off ok and then . you find out they're not. only they're not ok but. i don't feel like here i mean i just feel like a human. we simply care for others to help them and make a difference if we have to do. what we want and. here's what we have to do all in. one proud of all of us in one thing we're going to live. here now going to find

this all over maybe we won't have just politicians making decisions. maybe we can step up to play a little more and maybe we can be on how they make the decision so that we can make very choices. and impact all of us were running low on oxygen on 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 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 do 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 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 those 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 you are. in march and april it became clear that the european union's a gigantic structure that's not working very quickly in a stall and really has to ask you burn russia up a hill of failing to get aid in europe in spain when they are not in the 2nd wave but the remissions got the 4 is a vaccine i would have liked to get 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 lies the manipulation in the media it's not every day struggle . through the turmoil of 2020 some people have managed to get richer than ever billionaire bosses while publicly expressing solidarity with all those who are suffering have been raking in the profits saskia taylor reports 2020 the years that won't be missed coronavirus current 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 broader virus patients soaring unemployment so many workers are still hurting very badly as the economy starts to tank hunger. mass unemployment collapsed businesses whole

industries brought to their knees stability and security in 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 or not us 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 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 border problem with birds 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 even. believe on 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 making 75000000000 a year but you can just ask your own musk 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.

all across to. my. breaking people's freedoms and where the. people. america or the country. bridge bridge 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 once at 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 our team on the way new year new directions people in china are rethinking their global priorities according to a new poll with a focus shifting away from washington on that among our stories after the break

stay with us. the world is driven by a dream shaped by one person. who dares thinks. we dare to ask. 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

the mob they don't want to live by all kinds of trouble that comes with optimistic think 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. 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 pandemic 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 school 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 now it's been almost a year since the w.h.o. declared kovan 1000 a global health emergency and since then 80000000 people are known to have contract of the virus and an estimated 1800000 lives have been lost to 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 its will tell if the rate is normal law hajji but it calls the 70 deaths by dint of the fact that it infects lots of people 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 20 or 30 years ago 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 i'm in nature and of course the more easily people can travel around the world what is the viruses can as well but more fertility variants every year or have virus to infect new people the more power to knit see 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. it poll in china has highlighted the shifting perceptions of who the country's key partners are china's the 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 lecturer noam wong thinks there has been a realignment away from washington going on for years. it has been a growing perception among the chinese people. and 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 has already tripped the kind of stronger reaction in trying and trying to start to be you

artificial islands in the south china sea the decision time russia these. 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 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 with the start of a 2021 of the u.k. has officially left at 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 e.u. that includes u.s. meat products treated with drugs including a 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. that report from the sustainable food trust singled out a drug used in 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 exporters to do the same an example of feed additive called top of mean is it routinely used by u.s. farmers and it is banned in more than 160 countries including russia and china scientists have linked it to shorter life expectancy amongst consumers and here's what one of the authors of the sustainable food trust told us. we really shouldn't be using any antibiotics to promote growth and she brought 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. there residues of them could be contributing to that what we have been concerned about is that once they get into a trade big o'shea sions 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 statement if after all the sacrifices and hard work of british farmers to find ways of keeping animals and keeping them healthy with such excessive use of antibiotics that we actually then started to allow in meat that

was produced for the very antibiotics that we found in this country. the last 12 months will not soon be forgotten not least because of 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 the gallery as well as our editor for tonight thanks for watching r.t. throughout 2020 we hope you will continue to do so in 2021 happiness. i.

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