the absence of benefit but actually that it might be causing long term. us enters a 2021 with a grim new record registering its highest ever coated daily death toll. and democrats take a devastating toll on the french hospitality sector we hear from a small business owner who describes the plight some people are in. it was my neighbor who lived right in front of my house restaurant for 2 generations during the 2nd lockdown everyone had to close again but some roadside restaurants were authorized to open and as she was not on the list the next day she hanged herself. several countries consider introducing coded passports while companies develop mobile apps to enforce compliance but there are warnings of significant complications.

in broadcasting live from our studios in moscow this is r t international i'm sean thomas certainly glad to have you with us now the united states has saw the year out with a grim new record by registering more than 3800 deaths in one day one of the worst affected areas new york logged almost 8000 new infections looks at how the pandemic has changed in that city. as the new year rolls around many in new york city are hoping that 2021 will be completely different the incoming administration of joe biden is promising that they will turn things around with coded 19 with very swift measures and a local government is reassuring everyone that soon things will be back to normal. here in new york city all of the country we're getting a shot of hope. we now know that we will ultimately defeat the coronavirus but what

will this new normal be a lot of things won't be like that old pre lockdown world before the masks and temperature checks are one of many small businesses will be gone over 30 different retail and restaurant chains filed for bankruptcy in 2021 and many more downsizing stores and restaurants shutting down during the pandemic big tech is now moving in amazon facebook and google have moved thousands of their employees to the big apple the 3 tech giants now have over 22000 employees in new york city and more are expected these silicon valley giants are buying up iconic office buildings another aspect of new york city life public transportation is also not doing so well the jobs of thousands of transit workers are on the brink as the trains shut down each night in order to be clean and comply with health regulations new york city is going to enter 2021 with a significant loss at this point the city has actually dropped off the list of

america's top 10 zip codes many rich folks have packed up and moved on the cost of rent has decreased by 30 percent so how normal will this new normal be once restrictions are finally lifted it looks like many things have changed in a way that is not easily reversed. r.t. new york. france recorded 26000 new cases of cold it on new year's eve the highest rate since mid november and the government has responded by tightening the night time curfew in several cities. aside from the curb this we don't want to implement a nationwide or local lowdown if we will propose an extension of the curfew which instead of starting at 8 pm will start at 6 pm in all the regions where it's needed is some cities or regions where the incidence rate is above the maximum level these measures will be implemented from generally 2nd 2021. now aside from the curfews

bars and restaurants remain closed over the festive period extends months of restrictions that have taken a devastating toll on the hospitality industry restaurant owner vincent when you described to us the desperate state people are in and how his neighbor was driven to suicide. this is for them so i've been living in la trinité so for 16 years i have 12 hotel rooms sent to restaurants we serve from 40250000 per year we employ 12 people during the winter period and around $22.00 people during the summer period so being suddenly left without work for 5 months is not easy our kommunist besh allies in selling local products seafood we produce a lot of fish there are no more events there are no more buses there is nothing and on top of that we are closed in terms of health i took antidepressants i took center tips i throw up every morning i don't sleep much and i don't sleep well and

i think i'm not the only one in this position among people i know there was my neighbor who lived right in front of my house who had a restaurant for 2 generations she survived the 1st lock down she was 36 years old . she had a roadside restaurant it was an establishment that everyone knew and appreciated during the 2nd lockdown everyone had to close again but some roadside restaurants were authorized to open and as she was not on the list the next day she hanged herself if you want to morbid detail it was her 11 year old son who took her down from the noose is a pole from a french socialist a think tank suggests that 25 percent of artists in traders most of whom have seen their income plummet have considered suicide and out of all those who have lost their jobs the number is even higher at 27 percent. the french economy shrunk by a record 13.8 percent a lot of spring when the 1st lockdown was enforced and businesses deemed

non-essential were the worst hit with the hospitality sector seeing a contraction of around 50 percent in output instant when you again says many business owners see no way out. is for me if you want to close bars and restaurants that don't follow protocol that's fine but on the other hand most of my colleagues have scrupulously respected all the rules that have been imposed on us and today there is no study which proves that restaurants are a source of infection when you see people crowding in the subway i don't understand why there is less danger in supermarkets or in the subway than in a restaurant i didn't take a salary for 6 months so ultimately i paid to work luckily for me and my wife we've put some money aside we've put it aside but it melts like ice cubes in the sun so inevitably it makes us questions we wonder how it's going to be tomorrow if we'll

be able to pay the rent if we'll be able to pay for the car if we'll be able to pay for the kids' school especially when we know that business owners and friends have no direct help at christmas my children told me daddy don't give us presidents will sell all our toys instead to earn money to have food. politicians around the world are insisting that corona virus vaccines will stay voluntary however many countries are already preparing for covert passports and companies are preparing mobile applications so the authorities can check through people's phones whether they have had the shot the common trust network has already developed such an application in collaboration with airlines including virgin atlantic and lufthansa but it leaves people with mixed messages on what exactly will happen as artie's to major power explains. if you're still not sure you want to get a code vaccine. when the choice might now be a little clearer several countries are debating whether or not people who get the

job should have certain privileges for being covert safe not a bad idea on paper but for those in the back of the line or just hesitant to inject a rapidly develop chemical cocktail life might not be the same sure you don't have to get an ocular rated but good luck if you want to travel or go to a bar or pretty much anything anywhere that requires your code pass several governments have already spoken against introducing such a system but have a very clear position on this as important as vaccination is for all of us there must be no special treatment for the vets in these distinguishing between the vaccinated and the not vaccinated would be the same as making it mandatory it would divide society there are no plans to introduce a vaccine buspar to give people access to places such as pubs and restaurants once the coronavirus becomes available but not everyone's so opposed to the idea that

the moment when it's not possible to offer solutions to have ruined such a procedure is the question but the discussion about to be still didn't know and even in countries that have said that they won't be introducing the covert passes some politicians are saying there's nothing they can really do against businesses requiring a proof of vaccination we are looking at the technology and of course a way of people being able to inform their physician that they have been vaccinated but also i think you'll probably find that restaurants and bars and cinemas and other venues sports venues will probably also use that system and companies including i.b.m. have taken matters into their own hands developing apps that would allow businesses to track employees and customers while there is an argument that encouraging more people to get the job will bring about the end of lockdowns but what about personal freedoms. that's the thing though you added more stuff and restricted to you from doing this all bases that that ship with all of the rights your forces somethin

upon someone for them to be able to live their life i mean what you hear in a country if you want freedom of speech and all not all that. is not really much of it is it i think is disgusting because it is a form of tyranny. it takes away our freedoms to travel freely. takes away our privacy completely mean at the end of that people got their ferries about things and they don't want to be pushed into things they don't you know a lot of people think they. tell you what to do having control of. everything's up in the air at the moment some countries have taken the idea of passports in another direction instead of handing out vaccine passes spain has decided to do the opposite and make a naughty list will set up a registry and shared with our european partners of those have been offered vaccination and rejected it spain's health minister didn't specify what exactly

what happens to those who get on this register but when a country starts making lists of people it usually doesn't and very well it's a scary thought and it kind of reminds me a bit. of this is going too far but lists of people that are complying with something almost reminds me. of the yellow star on the sleeves of germany a lot i don't really know what a poor. people get what we should all be leery of when people get put on the list for being a particular type of person that's not doing something or is doing something or is particularly or not to go with it that it's discrimination as we know it is true. i will tend to be against giving people. special rights or something just because the man after all it's also a matter of how lucky are you to get in quickly and how low on the priority list you may have to wait very long and she's sure that because it is definitely would

be i was with. here at r t we have more to 247 throughout the past year to. bring you the news as it has been happening and plenty of you also headed to our web site for updates our he's asking taylor takes a look at the stories which generated the most clicks. bodybuilder. rallies rallies rallies will smith campaign oh hello good timing because i'm reading about you know no tory no hacking not today now i'm reading about your favorite stories on our website this year the one you clicked on the most are be honest i spend most of my time online going through all of the hate comments that trolls heaping on you tube so i've never really got round to check out our com but i'm glad i got the chance now let's see in this one came in.

a concept bodybuilders dream wedding to his girlfriend canceled because of covert on your probably moved by this more to dave's room juliet oh just look at the pair in thailand so sweet. tom. and i see why you like the story his girlfriends of sex don't you know i think that she would say oh well what else what else ok well this one not quite as remounted but still determined 2nd. a huge b.l.m. rally in new york whoa nothing new really have a protest today keeps democracy in play why so many hits then. you know i've got a 1000 gather here and it's ok but restaurants a shot and small businesses are killed to slow the spread of trump's right is of course a dobbs super spreaders it's almost like you i'm not convinced that covert doesn't

attend democrat led romney's visit restaurants before 10 pm shocking well time for the big one then let's see what came out on top. what we have here facebook and it's fact checking all need stories yes you have i remember this now turns out the lead story here is that the independent group is absolutely packed with democrat donors next c.n.n. people on friday they've developed an appetite for branding any news to the right of the left hopes what you that's actually quite surprising because usually big tech just no right wing media content while that's a wrap on this year. here's hoping you keep one place through 2021.

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seem wrong. to shape our. find themselves worlds apart of. common ground. welcome to the kaiser report 1st of the new year's day so we got an excellent day on these christmas lights adorning the sat i mean you know i took the money i save and i bought all right time now to turn to peak or is the editor over a crack and he's also an advisor bit coy that.

the closing weeks of donald trump's presidency have seen him forded by the senate that has joined the other half of congress in overriding his veto of the national defense budget it is the 1st time trump has been defined by the republican led upper house seeing that on this vote the yeas are 81 the news or 132 thirds of the senators voting a quorum being present having voted in the affirmative the bill on reconsideration is passed the objections of the president of the united states to the contrary notwithstanding the national defense authorization act was passed by the congress in december it includes pay raises for the troops but also the strikes presidential power when it comes to withdrawing forces from abroad that was one of trump's main objections he also wanted the bill to address alleged bias by social media platforms here are the president's comments from earlier. we can tide republican

leadership will allow the bad defense bill to pass a disgraceful act of cowardice and total submission by weak people to big tech negotiate the bet the bill of get better leader snout senate should not approve and v.a. until fixed former marine corps intelligence officer scott ritter told us what he thinks is behind the senate's rebuke to the president. well there's many in congress to believe that the president's moving too fast that his decision to withdraw troops was a politically motivated decision taken out you know without due consideration to you know legitimate national concern is security concerns and they also believe that since the president is leaving office these are decisions that should be made by the incoming administration and so congress is seeking to slow down powerful of the president's president's ability to act on his desire to withdraw the troops requiring. detailed reports to be submitted to congress trier to funds being

used to withdraw troops these reports we talk about the consequences of with wrong what the president's doing to mitigate that the hope is that. the time required to research and write and deliver these reports is greater than time left to the president and that the president won't be able to act on his and his desire to withdraw troops. but just as trump is at odds with the legislative branch it turns out a great many ordinary americans like the outgoing president according to a gallup poll the donald is america's most admired man for 2020 at 18 percent he is not barack obama off of the top spot for the 1st time in 12 years and that leaves joe biden the next u.s. president trailing in 3rd ahead of top dr anthony fauci and the pope but however loyal trumps followers may be the media are having none of it. he is the worst

president we have ever seen period it's the greatest failure in the history of the united states a defeated impeached one term president still refusing to admit that he's a loser in the wake of donald trump's recent behavior causing millions of struggling americans to lose their unemployment benefits and as the covert death toll continues to rise if you no longer just one of the worst presidents in american history but the worst legal and media analyst lionel thinks trump stands out as a politician who inspires anything but indifference and believe me i'm i'm a supporter and in my ear of president trump for a lot that he has done i've got some things i differ with but admire is popular yes i know there are pockets of places where he is indeed admired so i'm surprised at that because what this man has done and i've never seen anything like it nobody

reacts like to donald trump no it's either i love him he's the savior or i am the media love to hate him they may stele you they hate them they love him c.n.n. has never ever achieve numbers like this but when he leaves what are they going to do so they hate him but they love to hate him and the media themselves don't necessarily reflect what people do. dozens have been arrested in the u.s. city of minneapolis during protests over a fatal police shooting the local police department has released body camp footage of the incident which happened on wednesday night and a bit of warning you may find in the video disturbing.

the shootout happened outside a gas station when police were trying to arrest a felony suspect according to the suspect opened fire from his car shot back killing the man who has been identified as 23 year old his parents who are small the immigrants have disputed the police account but they say their son was just sitting in his car when he was shot and that police later raided the family home the latest protest in minneapolis happened near the site where george floyd was killed back in may the incident that sparked a summer of unrest. was

. u.s. historian john korn thinks the black lives matter movement is both disorganized and

spontaneous. i would be turning to what happened on april 19th $68.00 in the united states after nobel laureate dr martin to change the skill at that particular moment you had demonstrations we were up to there is another aspect of what's happening today in a sense does. not mean the demonstrations global if you look historically at the struggles of black americans what you'll find is that one of the ways we've made progress in the past is because they've been to national solidarity and so that gives me hope for the future and one of the problems with detroit's soon you're a leader there decentralize don't just spontaneously come to the streets now i'm just saying that and but what it does is it makes it difficult to play it makes it very difficult to channel that energy and politics right that does

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you know i can remember when it would flood one time in the fall and then one time in the spring you know a break up and now i mean already 3 times this year they've had you know when people get nervous about the flooding of their houses and needing to stay in school or even getting out of new top because they're worried about that kind of stuff and just these last 2 storms have taken so much away you know he went measured the last couple storms and they're like knocked off 1020 feet in 11 week yeah and so there's marginals i have to do you know the students were asking the kids right now journals about their worries about the floods i don't think are as catch on fire but fire house let it as the very next thing they all right there out. of our ass flooded we grabbed. some of the box of pictures by the door and. it's like. they've obviously been stressing about it

a lot of. things hard. what are you. a burglar. how. my 1st year here which was 15 years ago. i thought. you see these commercials you know about helping other countries and i'm thinking look at this place. and why isn't there commercial to help the people here like there's not running water in the houses and and there's you know the so they still have this honey look at system they have to haul their water like this is not america anymore you know not the america i grew up in this is like wow. newtok is a very rural. community with their language and their culture and their subsistence it's really strong here still and that's a good thing but worst case scenario my.