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in the headlines this hour we have live pictures from iraq as people flood on through the streets to mark the one year anniversary of washington's assassination of terrans top general it comes amid growing tensions as iran's vowing to avenge his killing while the u.s. flies for t.g. bombers over the region and in the story to shape the week r.t.d. u.s. suffers a post-holiday coronavirus surge with cities like los angeles already intensive care beds tells us it's not just the wards themselves in short supply. we're stuck now we were running low on oxygen on supply on you know all the respiratory drugs definitely bad definitely staff. meanwhile argentina's president
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warns a smear campaign and trade war against the sputnik vaccine is global distribution as the country starts delivering. i remember our colleagues who died because they worked in the health sex i'm happy because this should be the end and i'm eternally grateful on behalf of all the nurses. hello welcome the latest news now a review of the last 7 days to you watch the weekly here on r.t. international and we'll start with those live pictures from iraq where people have flooded on to the streets there to mark exactly a year since iranian military commander question still a money was killed by a u.s. drone strike in the country in iraq where the assassination to place angry crowds waving national flags demanded foreign troops leave the country people had been on
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the streets since last night having lit candles at the site of the attack and set up a memorial to the man whose murder sparked outrage in the middle east and the show . down across the globe i. also. took your to see that. i. was cut. out. early i. think it was a video game if you love me all night long well i .
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i. i well the anniversary does come after taran asked the u.n. security council to stop what it called washington's military adventurism as the pentagon for strategic bombers over the region and on friday a top iranian official also a factor of 5 revenge for so the money step. to the resistance will make life for the enemy tougher and tougher one of the forms of harsher vengeance for more to sell him on his blood will be the definite expulsion of americans from the region another message of harsh vengeance will be punishing the perpetrators of this crime and those who ordered it. daughter told r.t. is going underground that her father's killing had actually fueled a reining in anger. the turbot night. before
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a few hours that this happened for my father i hear and i spoke with him on the phone and i knew it that the situation in iraq was so dangerous so i added a child for the new is in iraq and might tell a girl about one am i see every deal is sharing on that china telegram about explosion in airport i had a phone call after that i hear from one of our friend who was asking for my father at various he is he ok or no because i hear any news that there is explosion in airport. and your father was in the car and they hit it i got so shocked and full of stress like my heart was going from my chest when i turned on the t.v. and i saw his picture. i understand what happened and from that they tell not i'm still shocked a lot of what happened it's so hard to believe how is the death of your road iran
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together what happened in iran and iraq was something something so special in the history you see how people come to the streets and they are crying and they are sad and they are angry and they wonder bench and they are waiting for an answer because they know. what generals really money did for them america thought that everything will be stopped because they killed general soleimani to power of the middle east but they are so wrong they didn't see the anger in the eyes of iranian people they didn't see their tears they didn't see their sadness and i have to say that generously money has a military from people. that they will take revenge from trump and they are so wrong they are thinking this war will be end the end often are also the money this
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is the beginning our people are united and they will stand in front of such a they interest powers why would donald trump say that your father was a monster he is the monster not my father my father did his job so well and make them so angry you are seeing every plan they are making them and the list is destroyed everywhere they are trying to enter and hurt iran they are failed why of course for them my father is a big monster but my father is a savior he saves people not just his own country he did this for all countries he did this for people not just middle east he this troy i says because he don't want people people innocent in europe got killed by such a dangerous virus how my father can be
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a person who wants to kill an american people and people ringback in europe how he was saving them from the ices he was saving them so don't let anyone to hurt them he was fighting for them how he can be a terrorist to kill people do you think it means anything that joe biden will be in the white house there is no difference between biden trump they are the same guy and they are following the same policy there is no difference between them trump or dare killing my father but biden support death so there is no different the problem we have with our it is with their policy this will not change they are the same people the same mind the same way. and it's one of them is worse than the other one. but also this
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week the u.s. registered a grim milestone over the holidays passing 20000000 confirmed cases since the pandemic began a number of dating deaths or save set new records while the state of california his reporting that it's intensive care units and now at full capacity in fact los angeles county is one of the worst affected regions i well and hospitals are setting up makeshift towards and beds there are sanjay's can't even reportedly send rationing guidelines for clinics to give less k. to those less likely to survive although it is unclear whether those guidelines have been implemented one nurse in l.a. told us just how bad the situation has become. we're stuck now we were running low on oxygen on supplies on you know all the respiratory drugs definitely bad definitely staff we don't have enough staff we are beyond stretched we have patients in overflow overflow overflow areas that were never intended to
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have patients other hospitals are setting out makeshift units outside of the hospital our government they blew it also they could have released the. defense production act and ramped up the production of p.p. and all the other supplies that we need and they didn't do that so the whole the whole nations in a big big predicament of how we're going to be able to treat patients safely and give them the care that they need. well a officials have issued a safeword home order to try and stop the virus gatherings for anything other than emergencies political or religious purposes a band emotional essential companies have been forced to shut the city's mayor is urging people to think twice about their plans over the festive period there's no celebrating this year for health care workers who are facing the toughest times
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they've ever seen for them with staying home for them with skipping holiday parties every sacrifice makes a difference to stopping the kovac $900.00 so. macias santini again does plain public recklessness for the rapid spread of the virus i can't even imagine what it be like to be a governor right now a state. especially california california is a powerhouse right it's got the 6th largest economy in the world and. the fact that you know businesses are shutting down you have a lot of very vocal californians and and they were giving him a tremendous amount of pressure to open up and i understand that but you could open up safely and people just weren't big saving why i would drive by bars and people would have their masks off and they would be if be densely densely crowded and then you hear people like running out homes and having parties where there's 1000 people there so it's the public it's us it's the ignorance of the human being we
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continue to. defy the recommendations of the c.d.c. we continue to gather and i understand how important holidays are there just as important for me i haven't seen my family in mines it's terribly serious and people need to understand that you have to be careful and it doesn't matter your age it doesn't matter yes it does it does it matters your agent your come morbidity but there's plenty of younger people that have died from this. new york state has registered more than a 1000000 cases since the outbreak began and the daily death toll is also a record level yet new york's mayor though is being heavily criticized after telling residents to stay home and then dance with his wife on times square on new year's see him up in looks at how they control the city has kept an especially tough year for the city. as the new year rolls 'd around many in new york city are
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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 'd 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
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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 the significant loss at this point this 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. now the american broadcasting veteran larry king has been taken to hospital after being diagnosed with 19 he's the host of larry king and also politicking here not see he's 87 and said to be in
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a stable condition but does remain on the medical watch because of his age and also a number of health issues during his most decade career with the media including c.n.n. he has interviewed many of the world's leading figures and of course we wish him all the best and a very speedy recovery. so comfy when the weekly rushes coronavirus job makes headway internationally as argentina starts a mass vaccination campaign but the sputnik vaccine will have the details on that in a couple of years. the world is driven by dreamers shaped by one person with those words.
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in a day or thinks. we dare to ask. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy foundation let it be an arms race is often spearing dramatic development only closely i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk.
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again now despite the turmoil of the past year a remarkable number of business leaders actually made record profits in fact some in fact scores of people in the us became billionaires according to a report by the american based institute for policy studies and that is despite steep rises in unemployment and also layoffs across the country. explains why. 2020 the years that won't be missed coronavirus current virus a covert 19 entire health care system is on the very brink of collapse lockdown short major health crisis hospitals and health care workers are bracing for an onslaught of patients storing unemployment numbers show 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
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choice just wiped out we here in the same refrain all around the world family is a 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 to 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 how 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 imus and harvey blockbuster a year but according to the richest man or not just who made 75000000 dollars as the global economy just crashed and bought and apparently it wasn't all fun and
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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 math and 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 this or that you have
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a veto on 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. 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 couldn't be 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 europe or might. break the people's freedoms and where the.
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people. bridges and. so instead of forcibly imprisoning people in their homes musk courage people to get back to work all face starvation and get evicted or no pay what's that lethal virus after all you know you're talking about saving humanity but these are humans that die in the process everybody goes 2020 the year one man could afford to just blow up his rocket while hundreds of millions are left picking up the pieces of their lives. to tailor their now argentina has started a mask over vaccination program with russia jab with health workers among the 1st to receive it and the country follows rush around better roofs in approving the shot and argentina's health ministry says so far it's seen only minimal side
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effects like a headache in one percent of people who've taken it while president but if a man days has dismissed fears of using the sputnik vaccine and believes it's falling victim to a politically driven international smear campaign. there is a very vicious dispute going on a very cruel dispute and a shameful one where by some discredit others and i think the 1st thing to bear in mind is that a trade war has been unleashed also since the whole world is eager for the vaccine there's a geo political dispute who will be the want to distribute the vaccine well our sister channel r.t. spanish reports now from outside one vaccination center in the capital when he says . they will be remembered in argentina as the start of the biggest vaccination ever carried out in the country has received 300000 doses of v. now the focus is on monitoring the vaccination of medical workers and hospital staff caring for people infected with coded 19 they were the 1st to receive the
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vaccine across medical centers they worked hard to tackle the virus but it's been difficult not least because some of even seeing colleagues lose their lives the delivery of the vaccines course for. this is a ray of hope for us it's like we've crossed the line of fire and are now moving forward against this damned virus we had a very difficult year there was a lot of fear this is a great hope for us and i'm eternally grateful on behalf of all of the nurses. i am satisfied i am very happy these are the emotions that come to my mind now i remember our colleagues who died because they worked in the health sector and happy because this should end. in the province more than 300000 people signed up for voluntary vaccination with the provincial governor who was the 1st to be vaccinated in the region detail the significance of this new step in the fight it gives the pandemic a basic it seems to me today is the beginning of
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a new stage for us the largest vaccination campaign in the history of the province of when a serious begin this morning and this is a vaccine that not only prevents disease. but also represents a real triumph of aleutian in the fight against coronavirus the campaign will involve around 7800 vaccinations centers as a whole distributing doses brought from russia everyone vaccinated will be supervised for possible side effects as well as to inform when a 2nd round of vaccines arrives more than 20000000 doses are expected to be delivered by february of a major positive effect against the virus. latin america analyst francesco domingo has told us that washington is leading the propaganda campaign against sputnik thing in a bid to say face liza's little effort to create a call all animals fear deeply by the united states but also by some of the
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european car. and this is day 8 the deeply in russia and china but the reason needs and they have to come to the conclusion that there is certain a massive baby goes with the fighting against the gun then because these countries china russia and a few others actually have demonstrated that if you have. if you pull people before profit if you actually cared about the population rather than anything humans going to result in you know demonstrably good whereas if you were to compare the formants all european countries the united kingdom but also the united states where you have something to close look at us to prevent that's the reason why there is a huge campaign unfortunately it is all the buying it was the media and the occasional riots in tinos all the conservative forces around madly and my prison created a must that we're going to make you the country controllers here there were 3 jobs . a man in russia more than 26000 new cavy cases have been recorded in the
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past 24 hours most of the victims are older paper with almost half of those catching the virus in moscow over 46 years old however one pensioner this week did prove that there is hope no matter how old he was. it's i don't know what the secret of my recovery efforts but i know that we need to keep calm and preserve our nerves but a lot of the. minute she was hospitalized in a relatively severe condition she was upbeat 10 responded well to the treatment she recovered quickly she felt really precious to us and we monitored her around the
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clock. the physical book doesn't we're grateful to the doctors she's an optimist and radiates positivity that's why she's made us happy foresaw it is. ok let's have a look at some news in brief this sunday there have been multiple arrests as hundreds of anti lockdown protesters marched to the governor's mansion and capitol building in the u.s. state of oregon demonstrators called to deliberately spread to gain herd immunity and use guns to defend restaurants that violate shut down ordinance. in spain catalan police a broken up a 2nd mass new year's rave and made arrests the multi-day illegal party was attended by hundreds in an abandoned warehouse in barcelona it's organizers now face a 600000 euros fine and stunning things here of europe's largest volcano smoking
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dozens of earthquakes if it says these mount etna over the new year with white and black smoke and ash rising from it snow we pay tax. incredible pictures that that's how the weekly is looking at so far today thankfully company we're back again at the top of the. pain has changed many american lives and pharmaceutical companies have a miraculous solution. based drugs the people who are chronic pain patients and believe that their opioid prescription is working for them on the remedy be certain to do no price at the. grocery dependency and addiction to opiates to long term use that really isn't scientifically justified and our study actually suggested
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