it will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. in the headlines this hour thousands of people flooded into the streets of baghdad to mark the one year anniversary of washington's assassination of top general it comes amid growing tensions around. while the u.s. flies from bombers over the region and in the stories that shape the way you can r.t. the us office of post-holiday coronavirus so cities like los angeles already intensive care beds one from l.a. tells us that's not the only thing in short supply we're stuck now we were running low on oxygen and supplies on you know all the rest which were drugs definitely bad definitely staff and argentina's president warns a smear campaign and trade war against the sputnik v.k.

with vaccines hampering its global distribution as the country starts using brushes . 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 internally grateful on behalf of all the nurse. hello there welcome the latest developments and a look back at the last 7 days to you watch the weekly here on r.t. international tens of thousands of people have flooded onto the streets of the iraqi capital baghdad they are marking the one year anniversary since the killing of the iranian military commander a mandate by a u.s. drone strike in the country and the 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 so the man whose murder sparked outrage in the middle east and also tensions across the globe. i. sat. out. early. because if. i lift so. i.

think. well the anniversary does come after the u.n. security council to stop what it calls washington's military adventures and missed the pen to conflating strategic bombers over the region and then on friday a top iranian official vowed revenge the. resistance will make life for the enemy tougher and tougher 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. still to told r.t. he's going underground that have this killing hadfield 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 news in iraq and my telegram a boat one am i see every deal is sharing on that china telegram about the explosion in the 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 your road 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 wonder bench and they are waiting for an answer because they know. what general silly 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 just 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 saved people not just his own country he did this for all countries he did this for people not just middle east he destroyed 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 death so there is no different the problem we have with our earth 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 a number of dating deaths also set new records while the state of california is

reporting that its intensive care units are now at full capacity los angeles county is one of the worst affected regions overwhelmed hospitals they're assessing up makeshift boards and beds outside and authorities have even reportedly sent out rationing guidelines for clinics to give less care to those less likely to survive although it is still 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 have patients 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 i officially have issued a safe at home order to try and stop the virus coverings 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 has a people to 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 900 surge. as 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 the 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 safe in my 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 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 dies 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 raj had more than a 1000000 caved cases since the outbreak began and the daily death toll is also at near record levels however new york's mayor has been 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 i have often said how to 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 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. the less 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 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. american broadcasting veterinary king has been taken to hospital after being diagnosed with 19 he's the host of larry king and taking here are not saying he's a he 7 and said to be in a stable condition but does remain under medical watch because of his age and also a number of health issues during his multi decade korea with the media including c.n.n.

he has interviewed many of the leading thinkers and of course we do wish him all the best in a very speedy recovery still ahead on the weekly rushes coronavirus makes headway internationally. starts a mass vaccination campaign with the sputnik the vaccine will have more details just. the world is driven by dreams shaped by one person. thinks. we dare to ask.

like a back to the kaiser report imax guys are time to go to be you know of dollar collapse dot com john welcome back to you now john we've known you for many years going back calling day. 20 seems to be the year that driven the dollar to collapse in a way that gold was unable to. spot the turmoil of the past year a surprising number of businesses actually made record profits in fact schools have paid in the u.s. . that's according to a report by the american based institute for policy studies but it's also against

a backdrop of rising unemployment and mass layoffs across the country. explains. 2020 the years that won't be missed coronavirus coronavirus a covert 19 entire health care system is on the very brink of collapse lockdown short major health crisis hospitals and health care workers bracing for an onslaught of virus 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 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 $75000000.00 as the global economy just crashed and bought 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 lots on it shows that bats also 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 a grueling lockdown shifts like safety protocols and no moscow and firing people who spoke out. made a problem with the words that you have a veto on that you don't you just let you track 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. believe when this about protection well he does whatever body.

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 could have beat making 75000000 in a year but you can just ask you know 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 of it. forcibly imprisoning people in their homes. all across europe for. breaking people's freedoms and ordering. people. 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 set lethal virus after all you know you're talking about saving humanity but these are humans that die in the process everybody dies 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. now argentina has started a mask a vaccination program with russia. with health workers they're among the 1st to receive it the country follows russia better ration approving the show argentina's health ministry also says that so far it's they know only minimal side effects like a headache and fever in one percent of the people who've taken it meanwhile president alberta fernandez has dismissed fears of using this but the vaccine believes it's fallen victim to a politically driven international smear campaign. from there's 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 says the whole world is eager for the vaccine there is a geopolitical dispute who will be there want to distribute the vaccine well our sister channel r.t. spanish reports now from outside one vaccination center in the capital of buenos aires. 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 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 against that 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 osiris 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 $7800.00 vaccination 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 11th major positive effect against the virus in america commentator francisco domingo has told us that washington is leading the propaganda campaign against me in a bid to save face. these are sort of effort to create a call all animals fear deeply by the united states but also by some of the european car. and disease they ate the typically in russia and china and i think the reason needs and they have to come to the conclusion that there is certain a massive a because with the fighting against the gun then it because these countries china russia and a few others actually have demonstrated that if you have a. if you pulled people before profit if you actually cared about the population

rather than any others then the results of you know demonstrably good whereas if you were to compare formants or european countries really the united kingdom but also the united states where you have something we closed look at us to prevent that's the reason why there is a huge campaign unfortunately she's bored by it with the media and the caterers into you know supported by conservative forces around madly and mad prison who created a mass the greatest we're going to meet lee of the country controllers here there were 3 jobs. i mean one in russia more than 26000 cases have been recorded in the past 24 hours most of the victims are older paypal almost half of those catching the virus here in moscow over 46 years old however one pensioner is proving that there is no matter how old he was.

it's that 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 but she recovered quickly that she felt really precious to us and we monitored her around the clock on. the physical book tell them we're grateful to the doctors she's an optimist and radiates positivity that's why she's made us happy foresaw you getting.

some world news in brief this sunday there have been multiple arrests as hundreds of anti lockdown protesters marched to the governor's mansion in the capitol building in the u.s. state of oregon straits is called to deliberately spread cold feet to gain herd immunity and use guns to defend restaurants that violate shut down orders elsewhere in spain catherine police have broken up a 2nd mass new year's rave and made arrests the multi-day illegal party was attended by hundreds in abandoned warehouse in barcelona is organizers now face 860-0000 you are a fine. chance nice images and only the stunning scenes of europe's largest volcano smoking dozens of earthquakes have actually hit cicely's. over the new year with white and black smoke and ash rising from it's snow it's. and she's coming up to 7 in the evening is sunday here in moscow thanks me company we're back again at the top of.

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officially the nordic countries are considered the birthplace of ice racing but it quickly caught on in russia. speedway is beautiful expensive and very dangerous on top of that racist take place in extremely low temperatures which doesn't exactly help with promoting the school. choice races are often compared to gletty ages and i often seem to be treading a fine line between life and death when they're on the race track. i have a horse. and their oldest son. me try my drawing i have a draw i sailed. link with god. now.