in the headlines this hour thousands turn out in baghdad to market since the u.s. assassinated iran's top general and the growing tension in this seeing to run again vowed to avenge his death all american strategic bombers are flown over the gulf. plus among the source of the shape the week the u.s. suffers a post holiday coronavirus with cities like los angeles already out of intensive care. tells us that the only thing in short supply. we're stuck now we were running low on oxygen on supplies on all the rest. definitely. definitely. also the argentine president a smear campaign and trade war against the sputnik vico vaccine is hampering its

global distribution as the country starts using the russian jap. i remember our colleagues who died because they worked in the health i'm happy because this should be the end and i'm eternally grateful on behalf of all the nurses. and that means we're going to take you through some of the biggest stories we've been covering here over the holiday week 1st though we've got some up to date developments to tell you about tens of thousands turned out in the iraqi capital this weekend marking exactly a year since a rainy and military commander was killed by a u.s. drone strike at baghdad airport. to demand foreign troops leave iraq they've been on the streets since saturday night having the candles at the site of the attack and also set up. not only ignited feeling across the middle east it also escalated tensions around.

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security council to stop what it called washington's military adventurism as the pentagon flew strategic bombers over the region then on friday a top arabian official vowed revenge for saddam on his death. other. the resistance would make life for the enemy tougher and tougher on one of the forms of harsh vengeance for more to sell him on his blood will be different to expulsion of americans from the region another message of harsh vengeance will be punishing the perpetrators of this crime and those who ordered it so the money's daughter recently told r.t. he's going underground at her father's killing hadfield running in anger. 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. 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 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 unsold stress life 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 one revenge and they are

waiting for an answer because they know what generally 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 of the od 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 saves people not just his own country he did this for all countries he did this for people not just middle east he destroy isis 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 i says 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 a war stand the other one. on to some of the stories from the past week now in the u.s. registered a grim milestone over the holidays passing 20000000 confirmed covert cases since the pandemic began the number of daily deaths also set new records more the state of california which are reporting that it intensive care units are now at full capacity los angeles county is one of the worst affected regions overwhelmed

hospitals there are setting up makeshift wards and beds outside and the authorities of 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 been implemented one nurse an hour late 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 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. officials issued a safer at home order to try and curb the spread of the virus gatherings for anything other than emergencies and political or religious purposes abound right now most non-essential companies have been forced to shut and 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 of a massive santini into public recklessness that's to blame for the rapid spread of the virus i can't even imagine what it 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 being saved in my 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. well over on the east coast new york state has now registered more than a 1000000 coated cases since the outbreak began and the daily number of deaths is also at near record levels despite that the best being heavily criticized after telling residents to stay home but then being seen dunson with his wife on times square on new year's eve. looks at how the controversy has kept in especially tough year for the 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 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 the 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. butter an american broadcaster larry king is being treated in hospital right now off to being diagnosed with copd 90 he's the host of larry king now and politicking international he's $87.00 and said to be in a stable condition but remains under medical watch because of his age and also because of a number of other health issues during a news career spending 6 decades including at c.n.n. he's interviewed many of the world's leading figures and. wish him all the best and a speedy recovery. still to come here on the weekly brushes coronavirus jab makes headway internationally as argentina starts a mass vaccination campaign with the sputnik vaccine more on that after the break.

welcome back to the kaiser report i maximize or 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 3 days and well 2020 seems to be the year that driven the dollar to collapse in a way that gold was unable to. welcome back to the weekend by the turmoil of the past year a surprising number of businesses 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 but it's also against a backdrop of rising unemployment and layoffs nationwide saskia taylor reports 2020 the years that won't be missed coronavirus current virus

a covert $1000.00 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 so many workers are still hurting very badly as the economy starts to tank hunger. and mass unemployment collapsed businesses whole industries brought to that 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 or not 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 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 real 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 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 grueling lockdown shifts lack safety protocols and no moscow and firing people who spoke out. made a problem with it or that they have a veto on you don't you it's too much you trust the virus it's like what you think it's they want you to get sick you know here you know what happened afterwards is not enough to take even. over the 4 and it's about protection 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'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 to. my. breaking people's freedoms and whereas other. people. america. bridges. so instead of forcibly imprisoning people in their homes musk courage people to get back to work all face starvation and get evicted on 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 dies 2020 the

a one man could afford to just blow up his rocket while hundreds of millions are left picking up the pieces of that lives. argentina has started a mask over vaccination program with russia's sputnik with health workers among the 1st to receive it the country follows russia and belarus in approving the shot that argentina's health ministry says so far has seen only minimal side effects like a headache and fever one percent of people have taken it meanwhile president alberto fernandez has dismissed fears of using the sputnik the vaccine and believes it's falling victim to a politically driven international smear campaign. there is a very vicious dispute going on very cruel dispute and it's shameful one where by some discredit how this 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 our sister channel r.t.

spanish reports from outside one vaccination center in the capital one us areas. 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 some reason. 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 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 it's hoped to live a major positive effect against the virus. latin america commentator francisco

domingo's told us it's washington that's leading the propaganda campaign against sputnik 3 in an effort to save face and ease a sort of. 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 i think the reason needs and they have to come to the conclusion there is certain a massive baby goes with the fighting against it and then it because these countries china russia and a few others actually have demonstrated that if you have a. if you poll people before profit if you actually cared about the population rather than anything you know the results and you know you want to be good whereas if you were to compare we formants all european countries daily the united kingdom but also the united states where you don't have something closed look at us to

pretend that the reason why there is a huge campaign unfortunately she's bored by it with the media and legal rights in all of the very conservative forces around madly and mad prison who created the mass the 1st we're going to meet lee of the country controllers here there were jobs. meanwhile in russia more than 26000 new cases have been recorded in the past 24 hours most are among older people with almost half of those cutting the bars in moscow over 46 years old however one pension is proving there is hope no matter how old you rock. 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 them. she

was hospitalized in a relatively severe condition she was upbeat and responded well to the treatment she recovered quickly felt really precious to us reminded to. the person because. we're grateful to the doctors she's an optimist and radiates positivity that's why she's made us happy for so little. some world news in brief this sunday there are 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 are to deliberately spread covert to gain herd immunity and use guns to defend restaurants violate shut down old.

insane castle and police have broken up a 2nd mass media's rafe and made arrests the multi-day legal policy was attended by a 100 to one abandoned warehouse in barcelona as organizers face 860-0000 euro following. selling scenes of europe's largest volcano smoking dozens of earthquakes if it systems mountain or over the new year with white and black smoke and ash rising high from its snowy peaks. ok that's the waiting for the next meet the people of alaska who say they're not only up against an ecological time bomb a 3rd world conditions but also a government they say has forgotten. join me every thursday on the all excitement and i'll be speaking to get a feel of the world of politics or business i'm show business i'll see you then.

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