in the headlines this hour thousands of demonstrators turn out in baghdad exactly one year after the u.s. assassinated iran's top general there growing tension is seeing to run again vowed to avenge his death while american strategic bombers are flown over the gulf. plus in the stories that shape the week the u.s. 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 rest between drugs definitely bads definitely staff. also the argentine president

warns that a smear campaign and trade war against the sputnik the cold vaccine is hampering its global distribution as the country starts using the russian shop. 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 of the nurses. coming to you live from moscow this is the weekly on r t international i'm donald quarter taking you through the past week's top stories welcome. tens of thousands turned out in the iraqi capital this weekend marking exactly one year since the rainy and military commander qassam solomonic was killed by a u.s. drone strike at baghdad airport on the anniversary angry crowds demanded foreign troops get out of iraq they've been on the streets since saturday night having lit

candles at the site of the attack and set up a memorial so solmonese murder not only ignited fury in the middle east it also escalated tensions around the globe. so. you know. the. big. thing in the week is when you're going to be home in on what. you. think.

just ahead of the anniversary iran asked the u.n. security council to stop what it's called washington's quote military adventurism as the pentagon flew strategic bombers over the region then on friday a top iranian official valid revenge for solmonese death. the resistance to make life for the enemy tougher and tougher on one of the forms of vengeance for the saloon on these blood will be different expulsion of americans from the region another message of harsh vengeance will be punishing the perpetrators of this crime and those who did it. so money is daughter recently told r.t. is going underground that her father's killing had fueled iranian anger the turbo all 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 will for the new is in iraq and my telegram. one am i see every deal is sharing on that china telegram about 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 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 in 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 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 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 chomped and they are so wrong they are sinking this 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 them in their 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 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 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 worse than the other one. some of the stories from the past week 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 while the state of california is reporting that its intensive care units are at full capacity also angeles county is one of the worst affected regions so overwhelmed hospitals there are setting up makeshift wards and beds outside and the authorities have even reportedly sent out rationing guidelines for clinics to give quote less care to those 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 has become. we're stuck now we were running low on oxygen on supplies on you know all the respiratory drugs definitely bads 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 all so they could have released to 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 a way officials issued a safer at home order to try and curb the spread of the virus scatterings for anything other than emergencies and political or religious purposes have been banned most non-essential companies have been forced to shut down in the city's mayor urged people to think twice about their plans over the festive period. there's no celebrating this year for our health care workers who are facing the toughest times they've ever seen for them which staying home for them with skipping holiday parties every sacrifice makes

a difference to stopping the covert 1000 so. for marci assented any its 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 big saving why i would drive by bars and people would have their masks off and there 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 continue to gather and i understand how important holidays are there just as important for me i haven't seen my family in minds 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 agent your cum or pity but there's plenty of younger people that have died from this. over on the east coast new york state has now registered more than a 1000000 covert cases since the pandemic began and the daily number of deaths is also at near record levels despite that the mayor of new york city's being heavily criticized after telling residents to stay home but then being seen dancing with his wife on times square on new year's eve and takes a closer look at the controversy which finishes out 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 coded 19 with very swift measures and a local government is reassuring everyone that soon things will be back to normal. in this job. 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 are downsizing with 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 $22000.00 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. dawn 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 caleb mop and r.t. new york veteran american broadcaster larry king is being treated in the hospital after being diagnosed with copd 19 he's the host of the larry king now show and also political thing here on r.t. king is 87 and is said to be in stable condition but remains under medical watch because of his age and a number of health issues his news career stretches back 6 decades including

a lengthy spell at c.n.n. during which he was he interviewed many of the world's leading figures we wish him all the best and a speedy recovery. still to come on the weekly russia's coronavirus vaccine makes headway internationally as argentina starts our mass vaccination campaign with sputnik the that story and more after the break.

looking back to the kaiser report imax guys are time to go to being no dollar collapse dot com john welcome back to you now john we've known you for many years going back 3 big coing days and well 2020 seems to be the year that bitcoin has driven the dollar to collapse in a way that gold was unable to. welcome back to the weekly despite the turmoil of the past year a surprising number of businesses actually made record profits in fact dozens of

people in the u.s. became billionaires that's according to a report by the u.s. based institute for policy studies but it's also against the backdrop of rising unemployment and hardship across the country as taylor reports 2020 the years that won't be messed coronavirus could a virus a covert 19 entire health care system that is on the very brink of collapse lockdown shut down major health crisis hospitals and health care workers are bracing for an onslaught of fraud a virus patient storing and unemployment so many workers are still hurting very badly as the economy starts to tank hunger. 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 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 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. made a problem with the birds that you have a veto on then 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 the word 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 if 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. all across to. my. breaking people's freedoms and where the. people.

and. so instead of forcibly imprisoning people in their homes musk courage people to get back to walk all face starvation and get infected 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 argentina has begun to amass covert $900.00 vaccination program with russia sputnik the shot health workers are also among the 1st to receive it the country follows russia and bell routes in approving the shot and argentina's health ministry says so far it's seen only minimal side effects like a headache and a fever in one percent of people who have taken it meanwhile president alberto fernandez has dismissed fears of using sputnik the 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 when my son is quoted now 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 and there's a geo political dispute who will be the one to distribute the vaccine correspondent ricardo romero from r.t. spanish channel reports from outside a vaccination center in the capital. be remembered in argentina as the start of the biggest of x. nation ever carried out in the country of origin has received 300000 patients and. the vaccination of medical workers and hospital staff of caring for people infected with coded 19 they were the 1st to receive the vaccine across medical centers they have 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 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. 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 basic it seems to me to do is the begin though 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. in the fight against. the campaign will involve around $7800.00 vaccination 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. latin american commentator francisco domingo has told us washington is leading the propaganda campaign against sputnik v. in an effort to save face and ease a suitable. for them to create a whole wall other most fear deeply by the united states but also some of the e.u. . and d.c. they. are going to russia and china the reason needs. to come to the conclusion there is such a massive. you need that and then because these countries china russia

and a few others actually have them if you have. if you people before if you actually cared about the population rather. than the results and you know the most to do with if you were to compare we. all european countries the united kingdom but also the united states you have something close to putin that's the reason why the future campaign unfortunately she's bored with it with the media and the occasional once in order to consider the forces of her own mackie and my present who created the must the 1st we're going to be the country could. be jobs. in while in russia more than 26000 new covered 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 over one pensioner is proving 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 let them. say she was hospitalized in a relatively severe condition she was upbeat and responded well to the treatment she recovered quickly she felt we'd be precious to us and we wanted to. see because . we're grateful to the doctors she's an optimist and radiates positivity that's why she's made us happy for so long.

some world news in brief there have been multiple arrests in the us state of oregon as hundreds of anti lockdown protesters marched to the governor's mansion and capitol building demonstrators called on people to deliberately spread the cove and to gain herd immunity and use guns to defend restaurants that violate shutdown orders. in northeast spain cattle and police have broken up a 2nd mass new year's rave and made arrests the multi-day illegal party was attended by hundreds and abandoned warehouse in barcelona that organizers are now facing 860-0000 euro fine. and europe's most active volcano is still putting on a pirate classic performance with smoke and ash rising from its snowy peaks dozens of earthquakes hit cicely's mount now over the new year preceded by flying rocks and flowing lava only a few weeks earlier. thanks for joining us for the weekly i'll be back with more in

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championship. not many people know about this on the usual sports but motorcycle racing on ice is tommy's true passion. 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 sport. ice 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 on the drive my truck

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