thinks. we dare to ask. him headlines this is a people photo into the streets of baghdad to mark the one year anniversary of washington's assassination of top general comes amid growing tensions around to avenge his death while the u.s. fly strategic bombers over the region. and in the stories that shaped the way here in r.c. the u.s. suffers a post-holiday coronavirus surge with cities like los angeles already active intensive care beds. that's not the only thing in short supply. we're stuck now we were running low on oxygen on supply on you know all the respiratory drugs. definitely staff. and argentina's president warns

a smear campaign and trade war against the. vaccine is hampering its global distribution as the country starts using russians. i remember our colleagues who died because they worked in the health sector i'm happy because this should be the end and i'm eternally grateful on behalf of all the nurses. and i welcome the latest news now review 2 of the last 7 days you're watching the weekly here on r.t. international now tens of thousands of people have flooded the streets of the iraqi capital baghdad they are marking the one year anniversary since the killing of the iranian military commander. u.s. drone strike in the country angry crowds waving national flags demanding foreign troops leave iraq they have been on the streets since last night. having lit

candles at the site of the attack and also set up a memorial ceremony is murder sparked outrage in the middle aged and also tensions across the globe. i. also. don't see. how god yes i i i i. i i i i i i i really i. feel. like if it's if you love me all night long i .

i. well the anniversary does come after the u.n. security council to stop what it called washington's military adventurism is the pentagon for the bombers over the region and then on friday a top iranian official vowed revenge for solomon his death. either the resistance will make life or the enemy tougher and tougher on one of the forms of harsh 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. or sell them on his daughter told r.t. he's going underground that her father's killing had fueled iranian anger. the turbot night. before 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 my telegram a boat 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 he 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 the off road in

iran 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 one revenge and they are waiting for an answer because they know what general fully money did for them america thought that everything will be stopped because they killed general soleimani departure of the middle east but they are so wrong they didn't see the anger off the ah 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 of general soli money this 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 a person who wants to kill an american people and people 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 us 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. now this week the u.s. registered a grim milestone over the holidays passing 20000000 confirmed cases since the

pandemic began the number of daily deaths also set new records while the state of california is reporting that it's intensive care units and full capacity for centuries county is one of the worst affected regions in fact overwhelmed hospitals there are setting up makeshift wards and beds outside and authorities of even reportedly sent out rationing guidelines for clinics to give less care to those less likely to survive although it's still unclear whether those guidelines have actually been implemented one nurse in l.a. told us just how bad the situation has become so we're start now we were running low on oxygen and 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 have

patience other hospitals are setting up 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 safer at home order to try and stop the virus a gatherings for anything other than emergencies and political or religious purposes a band most non-essential companies have also been forced to shut down the city's mayor 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 they've ever seen for them we're staying home for them we're skipping holiday

parties every sacrifice makes a difference to stopping the covert 1000 surge. santini blames public recklessness for the rapid spread of the virus i can't even imagine what would be like to be a governor right now of 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 there'd 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

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 age and your come more goodies but there's plenty of younger people that have died from this. meanwhile new york state has registered more than a 1000000 cases since the outbreak began in the daily death toll is also near record levels too however new york's mayor is being heavily criticized at the moment after telling residents to stay home and then dance with his wife on times square on new year's eve and looks at how the control of a city has kept an especially tough year for the city. as the new year rolls 'd 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 covert 19 with very swift measures and a local government is reassuring everyone that soon things will be back to normal. in the u.s. job of them over 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 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 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. the american broadcasting veteran larry king has been taken to hospital after being diagnosed with 19 he's the host of barry king now a new politicking here not he's 87 and said to be in a stable condition but remains on the medical watch because of his age and also

a number of health issues during his moti decade career with the media including with 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. still to come on the weekly rushes makes headway internationally is argentina stuff some aspects of nation campaign that the sputnik the vaccine would have the details just off camera. like a back to the kaiser report imax kaiser time. being no of dollar collapse dot com john welcome back to you now john we've known you for many years going back treat good days and well it seems to be the year that driven the dollar to collapse in a way that gold was unable to do.

welcome back now despite the turmoil of the past year

a surprising number of business leaders actually made record profits in fact scores of people in the u.s. became billionaires according to a report by the american based institute for policy studies and that is despite steep rise in unemployment and also layoffs across the country. explains 2020 the year that won't be missed coronavirus current virus a covert 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 coronavirus patients storing unemployment numbers 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'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 on earth 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 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. for me the problem with that they have a veto on you don't you just let you trust the virus it's 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 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 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 the cost to foreign might. break the people's freedoms and where the. people.

and. so instead of forcibly imprisoning people in their homes musk courage people to get back to work all 3 starvation and get evicted 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's. job with health workers among the 1st to receive it the country follows russia and belarus in approving the shot and argentina's health ministry does though that so far is seen only minimal side effects like a headache and fever in one percent of the people who've taken it meanwhile

president alberto fernandez is dismissed fears of using the sputnik the vaccine and believes it has fallen victim to a politically driven international smear campaign. there is a very vicious dispute going on a very cruel dispute and a shameful one 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 is a geopolitical dispute who will be the want to distribute the vaccine will our sister channel r.t. spanish reports now from outside one vaccination center in the capital of buenos aires. 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

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 cause for dismissal. 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 byron 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 against the pandemic. it seems to me today is the beginning of 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 corona virus the campaign will involve around 7800 vaccinations centers as a whole distributing doses brought from russia 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. well latin america analyst francesco domingo has told us that washington is leading the propaganda campaign against sputnik faith in a bid to save face liza's little effort to create a call all animals fear deeply by the united states but also by some of the 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 there is certain a massive egos goofy with the fighting against the gun then it because these computer china russia and a few others actually have demonstrated that if you have a concern if you put people before profits if you actually cared about the population rather than anything you going to result in a you know demonstrably group where if you were to compare the formants all european countries the united kingdom but also the united states where you have something close to prevent that's the reason why there is the future campaign unfortunately she's bored by it with the media and the caterers in all the conservative forces around madly and my prison created a must that we're going to leave the country the quality of the river or the jobs. meanwhile in russia more than 26000 new cavy cases have been recorded in the past

24 hours most of the victims are older people with almost half of those catching the virus here in moscow over 46 years old however one pensioner is proving that there is hope no matter how old you are. i don't know what the secret of my recovery ends but i know that we need to keep calm and preserve our nerves but a lot of. serious she was hospitalized in a relatively severe condition she was upbeat and responded well to the treatment she recovered quickly because she felt really precious to us and we monitored her around the clock. to see because. we're grateful to the doctors she's an optimist

and radiates positivity that's why she's made us happy foresaw you going to be. ok well let's have a quick look then at some world 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 code to gain herd immunity and use guns to defend restaurants that violate their orders a spy in cattle and police are breaking up a 2nd mass the israelis and maybe arresting multi-day illegal party was attended by hundreds in the band and warehouse in barcelona it's organizers now face a 600000 euro fine and some stunning scenes here of europe's largest volcano smoking dozens of earthquakes have hit cicely's mount etna over the new year with

white and black smoke and ash rising from its knowing. so i bring you up to date so you can watch the weekly here on r.t. international thanks for your company this evening don't forget we've also got plenty. stories today at our web site and you can always find that at our. pain has changed many american lives but pharmaceutical companies have a miraculous solution. based drugs it's not the people who are chronic pain is and believe that their opioid prescription is working for them on the remedy be certain to do. price that they pay closer dependence and addiction to opiates to long term use that really isn't scientifically justified and i'll study actually suggested that the long term effects may not just be absence of benefit but actually that

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