looking forward to the town. this is what happens to pensions in britain. as a report. in the headlines this hour shopping centers food courts even an opera house these are just some of the places moscow residents get vaccinated ratchets up its coronavirus vaccination program. german extends and the strength and scope of destruction nationwide as the country steps up its fight against the. spends his last night in the white house washington d.c. has been turned into a militarized zone hours ahead of joe biden's inauguration to be the next u.s. president. i guess it's pretty. good doing pretty close. pretty much the downtown area barricade the check point there's no concrete blocks

everywhere never seen security you like this here or anywhere in america. very good morning this is r.t. international. russia is continuing to ratchet up its coronavirus mass vaccination program more vaccination points are opening up across the russian capital so that muscovites can get a job while shopping grabbing a bite to eat or even spending time at the opera let's go live to constantine the correspondent who's inside moscow's famous opera house good morning to you constantine how. increasing the level of its vaccination program. good morning to you well russia's vaccination effort is picking up steam and here

in moscow vaccination points are being set up across the city an addition to regular hospitals and this one for example is indeed inside an opera house which is quite symbolic because this historical building right in the center of russia's capital is no stranger to health care after it right in these walls there was a hospital during the 2nd world war we're still waiting for the doors to open to visitors as the vaccination outpost is opens is opened up in a few hours and we're expanding we're expecting to hear people who might be reluctant to go for a vaccination to a regular hospital because sometimes people are where we have picking up an factions there those fears might be unfounded but these mobile inoculation points that are set up across the city give them this psychological comfort and plus the process is really simple you don't have to make an appointment as you

would with irregular hospital it's done on a 1st come 1st served basis on the flipside though you might have to spend some time standing in line a vaccination is being done completely free of charge and the right few options there are 2 approved and registered vaccines available here in this spot. and then the reason a 3rd one that is coming up in already showing promising results in clinical trial trials also is conducting clinical trials for a spot light version of its major coronavirus vaccine western vaccines like wires are in violent attack in but during the shots unlikely to be available here in the near future as there are new negotiations between those companies and the russian of the word is at this point nonetheless russia's health care officials are so. insights on achieving a herd immunity by autumn and to do that they have to vaccinate at

least 68 percent of the adult population or 40000000 russians and this is quite a challenge even production wise by its according to the news month or of russia's minister of trade and industry the plan to pull this off is there. and this is this is as of today almost 6500000 doses of these solutions hundreds of sputnik v. has been produced we were expected to produce not less than 7000000 doses in january and 11 1000000 in february and 1000000 doses and plans from the producers of them. and of course the additional vaccination points like this one is going to play a role and besides theatres and cinemas want the general population to be successful in vaccinated as much as anyone else because there have been hard times during the pandemic because they're losing money by the day due to the restrict exceeding and

the more jabs are taken and the sooner life can get back to normal and many thanks looks lovely that. correspondent though than opera house which is going to be just one of the cultural locations where vaccinations are going to be administered. meanwhile germany is extending and toughening up its current restrictions nationwide because of spiking infection rates chancellor angela merkel's announcement comes amid rising public hostility towards the lockdowns. and i love our efforts to stop the spread of the virus faces a serious threat i would like to emphasize that we decided on measures that were limited until january 31st are now extended until february 14th that of course is a huge step in we understand one dam eans for citizens and others or private gatherings will be limited to one person from a household over than your own kindergartens and schools all closed right the way

through until the 14th of february we've also heard a call for whoever can to work from home where that's possible masks will continue to have to be worn on public transport in shops and in places where you going to be in prolonged close contact inside with another person the new mutations of the covert 19 virus seem to of been very high up on the list of things causing concern to politicians here in germany we hear the angle of merkel talk about this in the press conference we also heard the health minister yen spawn saying that these mutations of covert 19 will cause 'd for serious worry these in would soon follow this mutation is 1st and foremost transmissible than others transmission means more seriously ill people that's for limiting contacts and

continuing to bring down infection numbers as soon as this is all when it comes to increasing the severity of those measures that are being taken to prevent the spread of covert 19 there are signs that there's not much stomach for it here in the country at the moment only 28 percent of those polled in germany said they wanted to see tougher restrictions put upon them that's down 21 percent on the previous poll while politicians really in any kind of agreement when it comes to what's. the best way to move forward for germany if they're only vaccinated people in a restaurant or cinema they can no longer in danger each other as long as it's not clear whether a vaccinated person can transmit the virus they can be no exceptions i would consider a curfew after 8 pm to be justified i reject nationwide curfews on principle angle merkel also took time out to talk about vaccines saying that she will be

speaking to brussels on thursday about the use one for all and all for one vaccine program it's something that has come in for a bit of criticism here in germany due to how slow it's taken to roll that out just over one percent of the population here in germany that received both jobs of a covert 1000 vaccine that are needed. joe biden will become the 46th president of the united states later today every no gration is a momentous event for america but this time around the ceremony will look markedly different no large crowds no parades instead almost 200000 flags have been placed on the national mall they're meant to represent the people who were prevented from coming by the pandemic other safety measures don't relate to covert though thousands of national guard have been called in to maintain security creating an atmosphere in and around the capital that's more akin to a war zone of r.t.

america correspondent john hardy reports. we are at the corner of 14th street and ask and we are just away from the national mall the national mall is basically all this area is what's called the red zone it's in the d.c. metro area it is all locked down the streets the bridges the tunnels it's been like this for basically a week but it's really over the last 24 hours you know the amount of security the amount of intensity has ratcheted up you can see just yesterday when we were out here as i mentioned earlier it was pretty quiet couple media people like myself out here doing reports but now there's actually national guard members troops standing on the street you know information and that's the case behind me here you see the white tent that's one of the many checkpoints the way this works is in the red zone all the streets you have to go through checkpoints and that's already happening in a lot of these checkpoints in fact my photographer rode 17 miles incredibly from his house this morning he wasn't allowed to bring his bike in to this area to this

red zone controlled area right now there are no specific threats but the national guard has been doing additional security screening of its members the associated press is reporting that a dozen national guard members right now have been pulled from the inauguration back just give me an example of the intense security the national guard the army looking at its own people to make sure there is no potential problem then i want to be clear we're not hearing of any threats but security here is high and they're not taking any chances. if you saw just d.c. security has been massively stepped rallies are planned by both democratic and republican supporters nationwide do. it's like to feel is that a day of supposed celebration could have disastrous consequences because the it has the story. the good news is it will be a sunny inauguration for the 1st time and many many years it's about it for good news washington is on red alert had locked out no huge crowds no fanfare they've

even divided the city into color coded zones like baghdad residents could move around in green zones but red zones are restricted and guarded by $25000.00 troops there guarding not against an enemy not against terrorists but against their room population. ok. all of this of course following what they call the insurrection at capitol hill on january 6th since then the secret service the f.b.i. the national guard intelligence seemingly anyone with a badge has been moved to prevent trump supporters from trying it again and

everyone's a suspect even the troops stationed in washington being screened for right wing sympathies by the f.b.i. this is like something out of north korea we're continually going through the process and taking 2nd 3rd looks at every one of the individuals assigned to the suppression we need to be conscious of it and we need to put all of the mechanisms in place to thoroughly vet these men and women who would support any operations like this. and. distrust and fear are in the air hagon like like a poisonous me stab freeway and doesn't matter which way you voted people are statistically warrant this isn't the country they've lived in their entire lives i guess it's pretty. tense but they do it so they close a lot of people downtown areas to the barricades and check points that no concrete

blocks everywhere so you really can't get anywhere near the national or constitutions i mean you know it's really sad. it's lived in washington for 20 more than 20 years i've been to a lot of inaugurations and i've never seen security like this here or anywhere in america and it isn't just washington d.c. it's it's all over the country and there is good pools one in 3 voters still believe that biden wasn't legitimately elected one in 3 hold this radical view and you were out so k. that's bad but in america where the most guns per capita in the world at really really bad right now there's too much going on in our country when all the election is on one side and a trumpet ministration if you're scared of a long gun our country was born on long guns the revolutionary war was won and fought with longer we have a country that's getting more deeply polarized because we have 2 political parties

that are playing each other for each other's problems and issues the politicians of the parties something needs to be done these these congo law in the country needs to heal right you can't very well run a country with this kind of divide brother against brother neighbor against neighbor and if you listen to democrat press statements at's what they've been trying to do think the events of the past few weeks have proved out just how damaged the soul of america has been and. how important is to restore it that work starts on wednesday the thing with press statements and i can tell you this from experience as they are who always truthful and in this case it isn't they're preaching peace but what they're doing is something else entirely turning the 74000000 people who voted for trump and to lampas to be shunned and costs that there has to be consequences but history shows it is not reacting not forcing

accountability only and all then it's those people and those movements i don't know if there's such a job as a political exorcist but they need to do something to fix the republican party to get this demon out there are republican members of congress i know who clearly have lost their minds who just will not accept reality when it comes to the facts about donald trump if you voted for trump you voted for the person who the klan supported you voted for the person who nazis support you voted for the person who the all right supports that's the crowd that you are in a new ones trying to be the better person here trump is skipping the integration and flying those into florida not so much as the good luck to biden too offended themselves good riddance they say what next merica hasn't been this divided since the civil war but nice to think that little be better off for the inauguration. but

why would it no one seems to be in any rush to make the 1st move passions run high in america today and i think every precaution has to be taken to ensure that a repeat of january 6th doesn't occur. on inauguration day or trying to disrupt the now you ration of joe biden but the the imagery of 25 a nation governed. by a government that is not recognized legitimate by that number that you know that percentage of the americans so you know this is it's going to be a very difficult 4 years for the united states i don't know if we're ever going to be able to recover from this the partisan political divide is so deep and so wide joe biden is not the politician to bridge it he is one of the reasons why this divide exists so is donald trump and there's there's not joe biden will speak of

unity he will speak of healing but the fact of the matter is he has now the trust of a significant percentage of the american people and there will be no healing there will be no unity. davison poll seems to confirm that grim assessment conducted after the stowing at the capitol it found 4 out of 5 americans believe the u.s. is falling apart the same a proportion of those surveyed said that they were still proud to be american we canvassed opinion in new york and texas. i think there are real divisions and i think that comes around for the last last system not least now. i mean there's a kind of political divides that sort of manufactured i think the 212 things that happen at the capitol i mean it's really easy to feel like they're going to be this ball before i would say that really not a good spot their past you want to. be more prone to lean in a direction that it is falling apart but i'm kind of an optimist so i want to

believe that we can get through doing this country. playing a part. you know that and then test seriously everything you know about the president. people and you have 400000 individuals americans dying from 4 coronavirus you have millions of people unemployed you have business is falling for bankruptcy you have rights in the capital you have a president who has been impeached not once but for you. there is no full confidence. in america and we can't play issues between the current president and the president coming it's not a very. easy switch over i think it kind of what the current. president biden is doing as far as trying to impeach the ultra president is kind of childish. meanwhile another poll revealed 32 percent of europeans are distrustful of the united states with more than 60 percent of respondents calling

america's political system broken we asked people in germany and france for their thoughts. come on i think the relationship could be better but it's all against one hand there is the bad but i guess now there is a good for the salt i think biden is too old to be president the relationship is not good because of trauma but whether it will improve it's $5056.00 we have a song it will be difficult to unify because trump has a lot of radical supporters the us needs to be taking a confrontational approach to each other at the moment i hope you'll friend it was because under trump there was a lot of distance between just about music or just i don't know but i have confidence in this president i knew a lot of american people who love trial he was the man for the job they thought and they were happy with what they saw what happened when we see what he has done and what he's doing with think to ourselves that he really must be stopped that's for

me i'm not sure that she will succeed to really really unify america but even so if you makes a coalition if you're listening to really she's going to list say which is really going to listen to the supporters of trying to find that it is not bad for unifying the americans which just hours to go before the inauguration of joe biden as us president of the outgoing donald trump has delivered his farewell speech in which he boasted about his achievements in office and extended his best wishes to the new administration i stand before you truly proud of what we have achieved together we did what we came here to do now as i prepare to hand power over to a new administration at noon on wednesday i want you to know that the movement we started is only just beginning there's never been anything like it and while much of the media's been criticizing america's last 4 years under donald trump artie's decided to take an alternative look at his presidential term.

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11 days ago banned the group and banned every person who was an admin on the group employee's volunteers and we don't really have an explanation why they never they didn't tell us that it was a specific post or a specific incident or anything i think that what we're seeing right now is only the beginning there will be more bans there will be more censorship is donald trump a legitimate president that's an acceptable conversation but the opposite is not true you are not allowed to question if joe biden is a legitimately elected president you're not allowed to question if oter fraud existed in order to enable the democrats or joe biden and if you engage in that kind of speech you will be de platform to band and they will also come after your businesses as they've done with me as well. in italy

a number of restaurants have refused to close the doors in protest of the current of our country's economy and the tough restrictions requiring restaurants and cafes to close by 6 pm on business owner said she believes the infection risk posed by restaurants is being exaggerated. no no i'm not afraid that we might spread coffee because we respect all the regulations distance in man asks disinfectants everything that is required of us i don't understand why in hotels and buy highways places that offer the same services as us seated lunches and dinners they say that the virus does not spread but here it does someone has to explain that to us i'm not an expert i'm not the one who has to say the measures that must be taken i hope that after a year they would be able to solve the problem at least partly but things are getting worse if we can fix it we should at least not make us fail you know. the process kicked off on social media earlier in the month under the open hash tag

but despite strong support online the number of restaurant owners taking part in the protest is self was reportedly low those the did flout the rules were issued with fines by the police. it was the epicenter of the crowd of ours pandemic last year in europe with the country introducing new restrictions early last week as it braces itself for a 3rd wave mary mark is a believe the curbs have pushed her sector to the brink. of if with local weapons the state support if we can call it dad didn't even cover the basics bills rents and so on we haven't had any real help i got find on friday 400 euros which i have already paid but it was then reduced to 280 i will stay open until they give me explanations and solutions i've had the same experience as most italians i don't know how our sector will survive we have very little work not earning so gone we at the end after a year of this we do have enough money to cover our expenses. this is our to be

back with more for you in just over half an hour. well we said in 2008 right here on this show was that because there was no attempt to reform what the banks had done and the global financial crisis was caused by the banks who were hoarding the cash they were sitting on the cash they were lending it here we are in 2021 exactly as they predicted they did not reform the banks in fact they just expanded their credit card they expanded their capacity to print and borrow and then give away that cash to their friends causing now this huge crisis. so we were soon as you proceed through she's going to memphis mccomb do.

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reactor exterior all 3 daiichi reactors have nuclear fuel rods that have been exposed to some degree so they are teetering on the edge of a meltdown. you need to sit. down. nobody. can get you in. a warm period. concerning that situation in japan i'm now joined live from vermont. now we're reporting at the moment that all suggestions that a partial nuclear meltdown is now underway this is not a nuclear chain reaction this is not a nuclear bomb this is the radiation left over after the chain reaction has started sort of story to interrupt but you say this is not a nuclear bomb but would not the effects be the same as a nuclear bomb if obviously it does reach meltdown and there is an explosion. the chemicals that are going to be released are similar actually the chemicals released

from other the radioactive chemicals released from a nuclear. disappear quicker then the radiation that is released in a nuclear power plant all we're looking at an apocalypse this is churned all bowl on steroids do you think it's definitely going to happen or do you think crisis could be a. no i don't think crisis can be averted. her containment building of a devious messy nuclear reactor could keep that power plant shut down longer than expected 1st energy says it will restart the plants clean told of cracked displaced those who live in the shadow would be dispensed see any problem can be alarming i don't give a.