we. ask. in the headlines this hour thousands of demonstrators turned out in baghdad exactly one year after the u.s. assassinated iran's top general the growing tension is seeing tehran again vowed to eventual death while american strategic bombers are flown over the gulf. coast among the stories that shape the week the united states suffers a post holiday coronavirus surge with cities like los angeles already out of intensive care beds one nurse tells us that's not the only thing in short supply. we're stuck now we were running low on oxygen on supplies on you know all the respiratory drugs definitely. definitely. also the argentine president warms the smear campaign and trade war against the sputnik vico vaccine

is hampering its global distribution because the country starts using the russian jap. i remember our colleagues who died because they worked in the health and i'm happy because this should be the end and i'm internally grateful on behalf of all the nurses. hello and welcome to the we. will take you through some of the biggest stories we've covered here over the past 7 days as the world into 2021 some of today's developments to bring you up to speed on 1st though tens of thousands turned out in the iraqi capital this weekend marking exactly a year since iranian military commander kasim sort of money was killed by a u.s. drone strike at baghdad airport angry crowds use the anniversary to demand foreign troops leave iraq they've been on the streets since saturday night having lit candles of the site of the attack and set up a memorial ceremonies murder not only ignited fury across. the middle east and also

escalated tensions around the globe. so. i. cut. out. the i. think. because if it's not me at all i i i.

just ahead of the anniversary of the un 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 iranian official vowed revenge for some the mounties death. other things either that the resistance will make life for the enemy tough and tough on one of the forms of post vengeance for to sell him on his blood will be different it's expulsion of americans from the region another method of horse vengeance will be punishing the perpetrators of this crime and those who are today's. ceremony still so recently told out he's going underground that her father's killing hadfield iranian 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 add a child for the news in iraq and my telegram about one am

i see every deal is sharing on that china's had a girl 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 saw all of a 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 father wrote iran together what happened in iran and iraq was something something so special in the history you see how people come to the street 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 salim 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 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 silly money this is the beginning our people are united and they will stand and 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 the middle east 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 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 a warthe than the other one. went to some of the biggest stories from the past week in the united states 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 while the state of california is reporting that it intensive care units are at full capacity los

angeles county is one of the worst affected regions overwhelmed hospitals there are setting up makeshift wards and beds outside the authorities have even reportedly sent out rationing guidelines for clinics to give less cash to those are less likely to survive although it's still unclear whether those guidelines have been implemented one nurse in l.a. told us just how bad the situation is because. 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 all so 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 we'll have a officials did issue 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 a band right now most non-essential companies have also been forced to shut the city's marriage 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 from last year santini its public recklessness that's to blame for the rapid spread of the virus i can't even a mountain would 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 were saving why i would drive by bars and people would have their masks off and there'd be it 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 continued 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 cum morbidity but there's plenty of younger people that have died from this. but overall nice coast new york state has now registered more than a 1000000 coated cases since the outbreak began the day number of tests that who is it may have record levels despite that the most being heavily criticized after telling residents to stay home but then being seen done so with his wife on times square on new year's eve. looks at how the control to see has kept an 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 over 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 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 that's an american broadcaster larry king's being treated in hospital right now off to being diagnosed with cope at 19 he's governing the host of larry king now and also politicking. 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 other health issues king's news career stretches back 6 decades including a lengthy spell at c.n.n. during which he's interviewed many of the wolves leading figures and we wish him all the very best and a very speedy recovery as well. still to come on the weekly rushes coronavirus jab makes headway internationally as argentina starts

a mass vaccination campaign with the vaccine among all stories after the break. welcome back to the kaiser report imax guys are time now to go to john rubino of dollar collapse dot com john welcome back to you now john we've known you for many years going back 3 bitcoin days and well 2020 seems to be the year that driven the dollar to collapse in a way that gold was unable to do. the world is driven by shaped by.

the day or thinks. we are here to ask. them back to the way to buy the turmoil of the past year a surprising number of businesses actually made record profits in fact dozens of people in the united states became billionaires certainly according to a report by the american based institute for policy studies but it's also against a backdrop of course of rising unemployment and hardship nationwide saskin take the ripples. 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 film major health crisis hospitals and health care workers are bracing for an onslaught of patients storing unemployment in this show many workers are still hurting very badly as the economy starts to tank hunger. 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 hardy blockbuster a year but according to the richest man all know who made $75000000000.00 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 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 baz 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. for me the problem with that you have a veto on you don't you just do it but you try to divide 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. have a lead on this about protection well he does what the body. workers will call a just 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 beat making 75000000000 a year but you can just tossed in on 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. or cost to foreign might. break the people's freedoms and where the. people. so instead of forcibly imprisoning people in their homes musk courage people to get back to walk all face starvation and get evicted on no pay what set lethal virus off to roll 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. while argentina started a mass covert vaccination program with russia. with health workers being among the 1st to get it the country follows russia in approving the shot and argentina's health ministry says that so far it's seen only minimal side effects like a headache and fever and one percent of the people who've taken it then well president alberto fernandez has dismissed fears of using sputnik very saying it's fallen victim to a politically driven international smear campaign. there is a very vicious dispute going on very cruel dispute and it's shameful one 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 there want to distribute the vaccine corresponding

recalled i remember from r.t. spanish channel reports next from outside a vaccination center in the capital. be remembered in argentina as the start of the biggest effects a nation ever carried out in the country has received 300000 doses and 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 vaccine. 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 and 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. when the sars 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 and. it seems to me today is the beginning of a new stage for us 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 the virus the campaign will involve around $7800.00 vaccinations centers as a whole and distributing those. 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. a lot in america commentator francisco domingo suspects that it's washington that's leading the propaganda campaign against sputnik very an effort to save face and eases up the effort to create a call all elements fear deeply by the united states but also by some of the european car. and he says they ate the decrease in russia and china as the reason needs and they have to come to the conclusion that there is certain a massive. the fight you need to go and then because these countries china russia and a few others actually have demonstrated that if you have an incentive if you pull people before profit if you actually cared about the population rather than anything you know the results and you know demonstrably good where if you were to compare we foreman's all european countries in the united kingdom but also the

united states where you have something close to pretend that the reason why it 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 mass the 1st we're going to be the country controllers here there were jobs. i mean while in russia more than 26000 new covert cases were recorded on saturday most infections are among older people with almost half of those catching the virus in moscow over 46 years old however one pension is proving that there is hope now about 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 them. she

was hospitalized in a relatively severe condition she was upbeat and responded well to the treatment she recovered quickly she felt really precious to us and we wanted to play around. the 1st thing 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. world news in brief there have been multiple arrests in the u.s. state of oregon hundreds of anti lockdown protesters marched to the governor's mansion in the capitol building demonstrators called on people to deliberately spread code to gain herd immunity and to use guns to defend restaurants that violate shutdown orders. in northeast spain catalan police have broken up

a 2nd mass media's raif and made arrests the multi-day legal policy was attended by hundreds if not abandoned warehouse in pasadena its organizers now face 860-0000 euro fine. europe's most active volcano is putting on a par a classic performance with smoke and ash rising from its snowy peaks dozens of earthquakes hit cicely's mount etna over the name here proceeded a few weeks earlier by flying rocks and flying low over. and that's today's news and just some of the big stories that we've been tracking through the holidays here on all of iraq's edition of the weekly and around 33 minutes from.

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believed that the properties would not hold value the banks were. banks take up that same practice they decide they're not going to lend in those areas that meant that all these benefits were flowing to potential homeowners flowing to whites and not going to minorities. element of racism into our ownership culture. problem its own problem is made most of them up and like the wimbledon don't know what we did are probably going to work with them living 2 doors away so we passed a law in 1968 fair housing act it proclaims that her howard. is now part. of why. the movie.