in the headlines this hour thousands of demonstrators turman turn out in baghdad exactly one year after the u.s. assassinated iran's top general there growing tension is seeing tyrannic again vowed to avenge his death while american strategic bombers are flown over the gulf . plus on 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 argentinean president

warns that a smear campaign and trade war against the sputnik vico vaccine is hampering its global distribution as the country starts using the russian shot and. i remember our own colleagues who died because they worked in the health 6 when you can have it 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 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 a rainy and military commander qassam soleimani was killed by a u.s. drone strike in baghdad airport on the anniversary angry crowds demanded foreign troops to 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 solmonese murder not only ignited fury in the middle east it also escalated tensions around the globe. so. you know look i. really. would be. missing the playoffs because he would be.

just ahead of the anniversary iran asked the u.n. security council to stop what is called washington's military adventurism as the pentagon flew strategic bomber bombers over the region then on friday a top iranian official valid revenge for so long is death. getting. the resistance to make life for the enemy tougher and tougher on one of the forms of vengeance tomorrow to sell him on his blood will be different to expulsion of americans from the region another method of harsh vengeance would be punishing the perpetrators of this crime and those who did it. so i'm on his daughter recently told r.t. is going underground that her father's killing had fueled 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 added a child 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 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 unsought of stress like my heart was going out 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 in 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 events and they are waiting for an answer because they know what generals really money did for them america sought 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 of the art 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 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 and the list is destroyed everywhere they are trying to enter and hurts 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 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. or and they're killing my father but biden support that 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 warthen the other one. some of the stories from the past week the us 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 its intensive care units are at full capacity los angeles county is one of the worst affected regions overwhelmed hospitals there are setting up make shift towards and beds outside and the authorities have 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 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 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 out makeshift units outside of the

hospital our government they blew it also 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 l.a. 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 have been banned most non-essential companies have been forced to shut down as well and the city's mayor urged 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 with staying home for them with skipping holiday parties every sacrifice makes

a difference to stopping the cove in 1000 so. from our see a sense honey it's 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 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 agent your cum or didn't 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 coated 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 kaleb often 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 covert 19 with very swift measures and a local government is reassuring everyone that soon things will be back to normal. this jar 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 to. 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 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. 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 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 sauce detail reports. 2020 the

years that won't be missed coronavirus could a virus a covert 19 entire health care system that is on the very brink of collapse lock down major health crisis hospitals and health care workers 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. 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 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 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 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 there 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 like safety protocols and no moscow and firing people who spoke out. made a problem with that you have a veto on 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 on this 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. but might. break the people's freedoms and where the. people. america the country. and. so instead of forcibly imprisoning people in their homes musk courage people to get back to walk or face starvation and get evicted on no pay what's that

lethal virus off the role 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 a mask over $1000.00 vaccination program with russia sputnik the shot health workers are among the 1st to receive it the country follows russia and belarus and approving the shot an argentinian argentina's health ministry says so far it's seen only minimal side effects like a headache and fever and one percent of people who have taken it meanwhile president. 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 one of my sons quoted 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'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 effects nation ever carried out in the country has received 300000 doses it's really not a focus is on monitoring the vaccination of medical workers and hospital staff caring for people infected with coded 19 they were the 1st timers in a 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 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 a. province more than 300000 people signed up for voluntary vaccination with very provincial governor who was the 1st time vaccinated in the region detail the significance of this new step in the fight against. the basic it seems to me of the to do is the beginning know 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 as an supergroup aleutian in the fight against the virus the campaign will evolve 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 the in an effort to save face and eases of the. effort to create a whole wall other most deeply by the united states but also some of the. dc's they. russia and china the reason needs. to come to the conclusion they sent in a massive. you need then because these china russia and a few others actually have demonstrated if you have an incentive if you could people before if you actually cared about the population rather. than the results

and you know you want to do good when you went to compare we. all european countries in the united kingdom but those from the united states you have something close to 2 feet in the reason you should complain unfortunately she's bored by it was the media and the 8 in 1984 to consider the forces around maggie and my reason we created a must but we're going to be the country with 20 of the where the jobs. mean all 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 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 a lot of them. she was hospitalized in 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 more news in brief there have been multiple arrests in the u.s. 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 covert 19 to gate herd immunity and use guns to defend restaurants that violate shutdown orders. in northeast spain catalan police have broken up a 2nd mass new year's rave and made arrests the multiple the multi-day illegal party was attended by hundreds and abandoned warehouse in barcelona as organizers now face 860-0000 euro following. 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 etna over the new year preceded by flying rocks and flowing law only a few weeks earlier. thanks for joining us for the wakely my colleague neil harvey will be joining you in just about another half an hour thanks for joining us.

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dollar collapse dot com john welcome back to stacy now john we've known you for many years ago and back treat bitcoin days and well 2020 seems to be the year that big going has driven the dollar to collapse in a way that gold was unable to. time after it as you welcome to going underground the team and i will be back with a brand new season starting on january the 13th with today we're rebroadcasting our coverage of julian assange extradition trial as today marks the sched jewel ruling in london that may decide the future of all global free speech black lives matter. movement has come on. us by the hard work practice but the the

core of what is driving it is the footage that is undeniable that everyone it's not a matter of the you know do you believe the police do believe friends of the person who were shot but witnesses it is undeniable of exactly what has occurred is not only stimulating parts of the black community i think the black community is on the understood this all too long. but it stimulating enormous acceptance and sympathy outside our community because the argument is proven a son speaking to us in 2016 after being granted asylum in the ecuadorian embassy in london the un special rapporteur on torture claims the founder of wiki leaks has been tortured by u.k. authorities since his capture by scotland yard and this week the trumpet ministration seeks to extradite just lacked that could see him die in a u.s. prison his supporters include amnesty international reporters without borders as

well as even mainstream news outlets cognizant that the court of controversial english judge for their separate could lead to the nail in the coffin of free speech in britain as sanchez millions of supporters around the world here are a few who have spoken to us here and going underground it would be cruel on the order. the british. to exceed 'd to the us then tradition. it would be to be sure they've already committed many crimes. but the sergeant is offense is not being bill and if he's extradited it comes up for trial on the us as spinoza's laws which even chariot to. trial is being. committed the crime of littering the general population know things that they have a right to know and that powerful states don't want them to know anyone who exposes

misconduct is not a terrorist i mean julian assange says never threatened anyone he has never committed a violent trying he's never threatens to commit one. and he's exposed oftener and so i think we should be grateful that we know that these things and states should be grateful that senator hold those people to account that. war when he leaks has done an incredible job. hopefully you know the saying will be solved but it's not same situation he has committed no crime and we're here all political and i wouldn't support him. i think you're an incredible person who has brought or why didn't we have to support him in every way the parents i'm going to have a lot less and on the right what i now look at the case of julian assad i've got

a month to concrete a man with. cruelty pushups cruelty a court that can treat him with such cruelty. is quite capable of a form of fact cruelty in a problem. but the most important information that we choose in the sun she's fellow citizens of the need is information about the secret malfeasance and wrong doing of all governments which legend. and julian the song which along with chelsea manning and edward snowden and the other whistle to close down the years of the heroes who helped us to gain some of the knowledge that the powers that be would keep secret if they could support whistleblowers as part.