the day or thinks. we dare to ask. as much about getting rid of 20 twentieth's celebrating the new year fireworks amid a scaled down celebration as the world welcomes 2021 and the hope of a brighter 12 months ahead. we hear from the front line medics who have become the unsung heroes in a year dominated by covert. and we see people die i had seen people come in and they call as we have to do it now what we want to emphasize. is what we have to do and campaigners are urging the u.k. to tread carefully when seeking a post of bragg's a trade deal with the u.s. highlighting the health risks of american meat products.

in broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow this is our 2 international i'm sean thomas certainly 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 celebration with their families. and the universe dear friends and you 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. 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 used 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 our military personnel that were designed in conflict zones abroad as peacekeepers assured the army and the navy well 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 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 and over 20000 kilometers per hour and the cosmos 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 new 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 take care of yourselves sunny a law that will be healthy and courteous to one another and be together that's most important because together we will come and it thing happy new year. fireworks have already lit up the skies in many other capitals which saw in 2021 in style but minus the crowds here's 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 in london police showed up to enforce restrictions on gatherings and disperse the crowd under the current tear for measures meetings of more than 2 people from different households. all of europe

has it now marked out a new year on the calendar while those in america poor guys will be anxiously awaiting the big moment for several more hours but as the people around the globe celebrate 20021 many are equally just glad to see 2020 dunning gone let's take a stock of the last 12 months. 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 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 i come back tomorrow and their bed is being. made to fresh because they died and we're seeing people die in the 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. she would say that she looked classical music i remember she like 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 expect she 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 the feed off pay 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 had to do so. i'm proud of all the words. we're going to. do now. 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 point. 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 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 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 is 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 their lies the manipulation in the media is so everyday struggles.

through the turmoil of 2020 some people have managed to get richer than ever multi-billionaire bosses while publicly expressing solidarity with all of those who are suffering have been raking in the profits reports. 2020 the years that won't be missed coronavirus coronavirus a covert 19 entire health care system is on the very brink of collapse lock down shut down the major health crisis hospitals and health care workers are bracing for an onslaught of virus patients soaring 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 was to home and watch their children go hungry but as some plunged into dire financial straits others sought 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 boarded home armisen 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 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 nothing 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 mosques own firing people who spoke out. of the army the problem with this or that you have a belief that you don't you just do but you trust the virus just like what you think if they want you to get sick they don't hear you know what the word is not

enough to even. believe this about protection well he was a party 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 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 and when the cash is flowing you know wanted to stop. all it. forcibly imprisoning people in their homes. to foreign might. break the people's freedoms and where the. people. america.

bridge over it so instead of full simply 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 paris is uncharacteristically quiet this new year's night a nightly curfew is still in place following a deadly surge in covert infections the new year though is traditionally a time for optimism and resolving to make positive changes in our lives that is why a tireless group of volunteers are looking to a future without mcdonalds and they're loving it.

it is because of this restaurant is about solidarity in the quality messages come to the spice there's a mcdonald's at slogan come as you are and we want to put human beings 1st. super bowl after ample means 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 who are going through difficult times.

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 who the excuse me emergencies chief is urging all nations to ramp up their health care . but this time it has been very severe it's been spread around the world extremely quickly and is a trait 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 has 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 contracted the virus and an estimated $1800000.00 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 its mortality rate is normal law ha eat but it still 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 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 the more easily viruses can as well but more fertility there is for i virus to infect new people the more protein it's you

know will be foreign 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 global times 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 pocket known wong thinks that there has been a realignment away from washington going on for years now. there 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 truong. true will 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 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 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 try and ease has to seriously consider what was the future of the u.s. china will issues with the start of 2021 the u.k.

has officially left to 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 us 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 . now the 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 that report refers to e.u.

proposals to ban all preventative use of antibiotic biopics in animals from 2022 and to require exporters to do the same an example a feed additive called rock top i mean is routinely used by u.s. farmers and it is banned in 160 countries more than in fact including russia and china scientists have linked it to shorter life expectancy among consumers here is what one of the authors of the sustainable food trust report told us. we really shouldn't be using any antibiotics to promote growth. 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 about what we have been concerned about is that once they get into a trade because shay sions with the us all with australia or with some other countries some of those countries a very keen to export me 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 i offer 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 very antibiotics that we found in this country. in the last 12 months will not soon be forgotten not least because the pandemic people 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 for me our team in the gallery our editor sasha our output editor ricky we're all here for you

and we're so glad that you watched us throughout 2020 we hope you'll continue to do so in 2021 happy new year glad to have you with us. i. it's a little symbol gets a good moment to put aida and that is good because the whole but i must say more the album aged. 6. should. be.

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invite the trolls they don't want to invite the state they don't want to invite they see out 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. is your media a reflection of reality. in a world transformed. what will make you feel safe. isolation community. are you going the right way or are you being led. by the way. what is true what is faith.

in the world corrupted you need to descend. to join us in the depths. or remain in the shallows. americans love. this was a fundamental part of how our political leadership and our country at large understood the bargain you get a hope and then you know rebel right as the things you don't revolt if you have a stake in the system. and think about the longer deeper history housings men in the united states not just that

question of the american dream but the bigger question of who the dream is for. greetings of the salyut. welcome one and all to the 2nd part of our year end special where really look back at some of our most intriguing thought provoking and inspiring interviews from the last $365.00 days of the year for all of us here watching the hawks 2020 was without a doubt one of the most difficult years of our lives from the financial hardships of the pandemic lockdowns to the cultural hardship for of losing some of our most

beloved icons folks like kobe bryant chadwick boseman alex for back and of course supreme court justice ruth bader ginsburg but despite the tragic losses of 2020 there there were also an equal number of victories in the face of a daunting adversity and today we will feature 2 interviews that highlight the bravery willpower and hope that at least to this political commentator has actually come to symbolize 2020 more than all of all the news we heard over and over again of tragedy and destruction from the bravery of the george floyd and black lives matter protesters were standing up night after night week after week to the rubber bullets and chemical weapon attacks perpetrated by law enforcement the u.s. government upon them to the will power of the nurses doctors and health care workers both here in the u.s. and around the world who have been on the front lines of this pandemic caring for

and treating the millions upon millions.