in the day's headlines as the u.k. comes to terms with life outside the e.u. it also faces a resurgent independence movement in scotland where many people are furious over brags that. the u.k. has given the will. and got very little in return the biggest impact to meet it's just going to be not troubling and really not feeling like i am a european anymore and. also this hour a french restaurant owner describes the appalling plight of people in this sector as the economy suffers from new curfews and lockdown. it was my neighbor who lived right in front of my house had a 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. and protests break out in minneapolis after another fatal shooting by police at the same city where officers killed at george floyd his death in may is still sparking rallies nationwide. watching r t international bring your live news update from our studio here in moscow welcome to the program. britain finalize its exit from the e.u. just a day ago but it's already hitting road blocks sometimes quite literally trucks bound for europe are being turned back with the wrong paperwork and many remainders are even refusing to accept the country's out of the block no artist taylor has more.

and so began the dancing new age of an independent britain and my goodness was it tasty starting 2021 with a lovely brick sit breakfast after 14 years of wed to bliss the u.k. is out on its own we saw the fast ferry leave britain's shores cross the channel and dock in kalai while the 1st of lorry to enter the euro tunnel after midnight might have been given a friendly go ahead for others trying to cross from wales and to ireland it wasn't such a pleasant the new wealth has been quiet and wholly had so far today the port authority indicates that 6 freight loads bound for our land have had to be turned away due to not have the correct references but being nearly bogged down in red tape isn't the only thing dampening the spirit regret and bits and the support to keep me strong in scotland with a majority feeling that they'd be better off if i could brussels. scotland will be

back soon europe give the light on some would say this is the 1st stage of grief denial but with support for scottish independence rising by the day and hitting 58 percent in recent weeks that is now saying that the break in with brussels might well cost the u.k. its 300 year union with scotland so bracks it is might be revelling triumphantly in the new found independence now but there won't be any victory laps when they're left with a do find it kinda no wonder then the people who are nervous about the road ahead i would say as a young person my focus is mainly being on money travelling europe and education and opportunity might be taken away from my very very fit the u.k. has given the will. and got very little in return it's just going to make life a lot were complicated the biggest impact for me is just going to be travelling and

really not feeling like i am here anymore i feel like that's been kind of ripped away with everything while some a novice others just can't and that the pasta go in fact they want to rewrite the campaign for britain's rejoined europe starts at midnight. in the meantime hundreds of thousands are hoping the e.u. will forgive them and hand on over a pity possible what while others have gone to extremes doing a deep dive into family archives praying that they can find some long lost friend job an italian it really doesn't matter a great great aunt 3 times america may have never met but who might well be that lifeline to visa free travel if i understand it correctly i am french my mother was born in france her mother was totally french as was her grandfather so for me it is about reclaiming what i already have and that makes me very happy i will always be a european that's for sure nothing like. the jumping ship to instill confidence in

these uncertain times but boris isn't too bold that in fact he's wrong but pleased with himself this is an amazing moment for this country we have freedom in our hands and he's up to us to make the most of it while it might be a freedom fountain of boris's hands but as restlessness disillusionment and division and britannia grow there's a sense that the only thing britons are left holding the empty promises. to mention in her report scottish leaders are using drugs at to push for an independent scotland joining the e.u. but local journalist and writer david jimson says people don't know what they're getting into. the idea of independent scottish membership of the european union on nobody knows what nobody knows what basis and it's a totally untested proposition before the scottish public we know that 62 percent

voted for the for the u.k. has membership of the european union in store but that would be wildly different for all scotland's membership let's remind ourselves as well that the european union is a very different organization for its major states its largest states late france germany and formally u.k. it's a very different proposition for its much smaller states and i think if there isn't debate on a future independent scotland's membership of the european union then those issues will come sharply into focus and we should expect it the stores will be more critical of the idea than they were in the 2016 referendum when of course they were voting for a much larger state to stay in the european union there are many more dangers facing scotland joining the european union as

a new smaller state. france recorded 26000 new cases of covered on new year's eve the highest daily rate since november the governments responded by tightening curfews. this is the don't want to implement a nationwide or local lowdown or if we will propose an extension of the curfew which instead of starting at 8 pm it will still to 6 pm in all the regions where it's needed is some cities or regions where the incidence rate is above the maximum alert level these measures will be implemented from generally 2nd 2021 bills aside from the curfew is bars and restaurants remain close over the festive period and extends months of restrictions that have taken a devastating toll on the hospitality industry restaurant owner been supplying it describe to us the desperate state people are in and how his neighbor was even driven to take her own life. 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 people during the summer period so being suddenly left without work for 5 months is not easy our commune is specialized 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 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. a poll from a french socialist think tank suggest a quarter of all artists and traders usually after seeing their income plunge have considered suicide and for those who lost their jobs the number is even higher the french economy had already suffered double digit falls by the spring when the 1st lock down came meant that business is deemed essential or hit much harder still with the hospitality sector contracting 50 percent and the problems remain despite present micron's government pledging support for companies in trouble when you again breaks down the terrible fact of the crisis on workers and their families. it's 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 presence we'll sell all our toys instead to earn money to have food. and from the french hospitality trade 2 french wine makers who also have other pressures they

are furious about a huge spat between us and the plane makers that's left grape growers paying the vast new tariffs well explain why later in the program. just months after the police killing of. floyd in minneapolis sparked bass protests nationwide the city is on edge again over another fatal shooting by officers on wednesday night at the readies have released body cam footage of the incident and we can show that you know about a warning you may find the following video upsetting. how the. incident took place outside a gas station one police were trying to arrest a suspect the victim's been identified as 23 year old the wall and his parents who are somali immigrants said their son was just sitting in his car and the police later raided the family home however according to officers the suspect opened fire

1st from his vehicle. my view of the video in the pool area information that also mention that a witness saw the individual fire 1st at the officers my officers were reacting to that deadly threat should the officers not react in a deadly force situation and knowing that community members lives were at stake as well the officers are trained to protect the community members lives and their own . the latest protest took place near where george floyd was killed in may here's a recap of how anti police brutality demonstrations have developed in the last year .

artie's kill mob and looks at how the massive rallies that are still happening across america sparked by floyd's death are being seen as a turning point in the country's history. for just a minute we'll roll back to 2017 in charlottesville.

news flashes of a battle between leftists and white supremacists heather higher killed when a right winger over rammed his car into a crowd of left wing activists a police helicopter crashing and killing state troopers street clashes and violence that shocked the world. the year is 2020 and there is nothing more common than the sight of angry crowds and burning cars it's almost routine you've got right wing groups like the proud boys or the patriot prayer who clash in the streets with masked communists or anarchists under the label of and it's far from peaceful people get stabbed people

get shot this summer many were horrified by the brutal killing of george floyd at the hands of the police. let's say. for. the battleground a message changed black lives matter protests rocked the country the national guard was called up it was chaos in the streets. how many people died from clashes between protesters and police during 2020 the u.s. media has not really focused on giving a specific body count in detroit wisconsin and tennessee protestors were shot and killed on june 12th yahoo news lifted the name of 12 officers from low. well and federal agencies who were killed during the protests as the year went on more

incidents came and more deaths were counted in july donald trump made a point of sending federal officers to portland oregon to crack down on the protesters who were sending to law enforcement. portland was totally out of control the democrats and liberal democrats run into players and no idea what they were doing they made a point of abducting protesters covering their faces and i sing to engage local officials opposed drums move and on july 30th they struck a deal for the feds to back down november and a contested us presidential election from supporters poured out into the streets of washington d.c. and other cities leftists came out to confront them. the young.

there was a time when average americans viewed protesters as fringe and crazy in 168 richard nixon won the presidential election saying he stood for a silent majority that opposed peace marchers and civil rights activists and was disgusted by a growing unrest but that america is long gone protests which often turn violent seem pretty normal these days so whether the issue is white supremacy police brutality contested election results or declaring autonomous zones americans now seem far more willing to engage in politics and in violence or both 2020 may be looked back on as a turning point in u.s. history ala mufon r.t. new york. historian gerald horne says international attention on black victims in the u.s. does have an effect. i would concur to what happened in april $968.00 in the united states after nobel laureate dr markham to king jr was killed at that particular

moment you had demonstrations and what doing 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 the one of the ways we've made progress in the past is because the international solidarity and so that gives me hope for the future one of the problems with assume you're the leader there decentralized and that is a direct result of the plan for black people to follow a centralized political one of those asians such as the black panther party in the 1960 s. the government comes out their leaders and puts them into show you know and kills them and so therefore in the end they are used to have not only the you know people just spontaneously come to the streets now i understand that and but what good does

is it makes it difficult to plan it makes it very difficult to channel that energy into politics. still i have areas where orchestras arabic melodies are music to take care of those who want to and the regions violence among our stars to the sharp right. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy on sunday shouldn't let it be an arms race is on spearing dramatic development the only really i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time time to sit down and talk.

welcome back the u.s. has slapped a major tariffs on your products and i ted for tat move explaining the decision the

trumpet ministration accused of overreacting to the previous round of washington's penalties the you may deny the jurors that info increase the amount of road to waste in the you need to take some measure to compensate for this infamous. the latest u.s. target aircraft parts and alcohol they come after brussels protects us on $4000000000.00 worth of imports from america and those in turn were a response to u.s. charges on $7500000000.00 of goods at the core of the dispute is washington's long running claim that europe is unfairly subsidizing aircraft maker air bus having an edge over u.s. rival boeing responding to the latest salvo from the white house press was accused of undermining current efforts to solve their dispute. the u.s. action unilaterally disrupts the ongoing negotiation between the commission and u.s.t.r. to find a settlement to the long lasting aircraft disputes you can take the position that all this terrorist strike policy is sort of

a personal vendetta by donald trump against the europeans i personally do not share that view my reading is that this is a sign of an overall return of protectionist policies they days of the free international free trade and the mother deliberate formants are over and i see this less bound to or a president in the us then to this general trend tariffs are always damaging for producers and customers both so i see this the overall significance of the decision i see less in damage being in the wish to demonstrate somebody but give a clear sign by the us that the future will be not as the possibles and the word were by mr drum america 1st survive his presidency french officials warn the sanctions could cost its wine industry at more

than a $1000000000.00 euro. out of the country's independent wine producers federation urges brussels to end the playmakers dispute orning it's spreading to other sectors . for the last few years the revenue of independent us wine producers which takes 1st place in the value of x. or its of our product has dropped by nearly 200000000 euros today we are suffering because of the mistakes of the 2 aircraft manufacturers american and european this of course is totally unjust because people working in our industry didn't do anything wrong with our industry didn't deserve such a punishment nevertheless our sector is paying the highest price i think france is about to lose from 502700 1000000 euros net return on this market it's very important to get out of this taxation system and urgently adopt a resolution that will abolish all of those taxes imposed by the e.u.

and us that way we can avoid the constantly rising tension and economic instability connected with geopolitical interests. now for some world news in brief party goers have torch a police car and throw stones and bottles at officers who tried to break up a huge multi date french illegal raid attended by thousands from across the continent the participants and medic ignoring social distancing despite the country suffering its worst covered outbreak in months interior minister said a criminal probes been opened in numerous infringements including the use of drugs . new yorkers have seen in the new year with a death increasing water dozens race into the ocean in the annual events known as the polar bear plunge despite it being officially cancelled due to the pandemic. from one stretch of water to another more than a 100000 swans have taken to the caspian sea in kazakhstan the beautiful site takes

place as the birds pass through every winter. and the world's oldest person has not stopped another problem milestone after celebrating her 100 and 18th birthday to friends come in to nocca had already held the title of the planet's longest living individual since 2018 but is showing no sign szell stops matching records and is due to take part in the olympic torch relay for the tokyo games. and israeli orchestra playing arabic music has struck a chord with those who hope to finally bring peace to the region. don't we all share the passion for the classical arabic music or middle eastern music and we believe that it's we are part of the middle east and this is our

culture our vision was to bring this music to the mainstream of israeli culture. i. never bought it was the school arabs and jews both ashkenazi and safadi for them this is different to use a culture of from what they used to they met the dump little political politics don't matter here people come together to create art this is one of the few places in the israeli cultural world weather is code creation with the entire mosaic of the state of israel at play with different systematists anyone what's important here is harmony up with 00. 00000. 000. 00. we want to collaborate

also with our neighbors culturally and that's why i avoid this is not only. towards israel we are in a population but it's also internationally of course naturally to the to our neighbors and our countries to the rest of the world. that's a breakdown of today's top headlines for now but if you're looking for more you can always had to our website r.t. dot com entertaining and. is your media a reflection of reality. in a world transformed. what will make you feel safe from.

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