that's right. in the headlines this hour shopping centers food courts even an opera house just some of the places moscow residents can be vaccinated as russia ratchets up its coronavirus vaccination program. germany strengthens coproduced frictions nationwide is the country steps up its fight against the pandemic. and spends his last night inside the white house washington d.c. has been turned into a militarized hours ahead of joe biden's inauguration to be the next u.s. president. i guess it's pretty intense but in doing so they close a lot of pretty much the downtown areas the barricades the checkpoints there's no

concrete blocks everywhere never seen security like this here or anywhere in america. very good morning to you thanks for joining us here on our. pressure is continuing to ratchet up its coronavirus mass vaccination program more vaccination points are opening up across the russian capital so muscovites can get a job while shopping grabbing a bite to eat or even at the opera. reported earlier from inside moscow's famous gillick on the opera house. russia's vaccination effort is picking up steam and here in moscow vaccination points are being set up across the city and additions are 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 africa right in these walls there was a hospital during the 2nd world war we're still waiting for the doors to open to visitors and 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 and factions there are those fears might be unfounded but these mobile inoculation points that are set up across the city give them this psychological comfort of loss the process is really simple you 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 one spot light version of its major coronavirus vaccine for russia's health care officials are setting its sights on achieving a herd immunity by autumn and to do that they have to vaccinate at least 60 percent of the adult population or $40000000.00 russians and this is white a challenge even production wise according to denise months or of russia's minister of trade and industry the plan to pull this off is there. this is a city as of today almost 6500000 doses of the 2 components of sputnik v. have been produced we were expected to produce not less than 7000000 doses in january and 11 1000000 in february and 15 1000000 doses a plan from the judges 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 plan that make because they're losing money by the day i do too the restrict exceeding and the more jabs are taken and the sooner life can get back to normal. germany is extending and toughening up its current scope of restrictions nation wide because of spiking infection rates chancellor angela merkel's announcement becomes public hostility towards the lockdowns. tonight all of our efforts to stop the spread of the virus faces a serious threat of i would like to emphasize that we desired it on measures that were limited until january 31st than are now extended until february 14th that of course is a huge them and we understand one dam means 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 in 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 'd for serious worry these in would soon follow this mutation is 1st and foremost more transmissible than

others transmission means more seriously ill people that's why limiting contacts and continuing to bring down infection numbers is so important. 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 e.u. 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 becomes the $46.00 president of the united states later today every nor gratian of course a momentous event for america this time around though the ceremony will look markedly different a large crowds no parades instead almost 200000 flags have been placed at the national mall are 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 and it's creating an

atmosphere in and around the capital more akin to a war zone as r.t. america correspondent john king 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 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. just not just in d.c. security has been massively stepped up rallies all planned by both democratic and republican supporters across the country in violation of rules that's led to fizzed that it's supposed to the british and could have disastrous consequences because the it has a 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 step 3 way that 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 in doing so they close a lot of people downtown areas to barricade to 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 there is good cause one in 3 voters still believe that biden wasn't legitimately elected one in 3 hold this radical view and you were out so kay 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 went on the auction 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 foundations of the parties because something needs to be done these these congo on 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 that 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 this is not react not forcing accountability only and hold in 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 alfonse 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 and no one's trying to be the better person here trump is skipping the integration and flying the into florida not so much as the good luck to biden to offended themselves good britons 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 american 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 easy 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 recent polls seems to confirm that grim assessment conducted after the stillman of the capital it found full out of 5 marathons believe the u.s. is full in a pot some of a fortune of those surveyed said they were still proud to be american we canvassed opinions in new york and texas. i think there are real divisions and i think that comes around. this time that it's now. i mean there's that kind of political divides that sort of manufactured i think that to walk through things that happen at the capitol i mean it's really easy to feel like there's going to be a school before i would say you know we're like oh i'm a good spot there that's a lot of. this country is going to mark this. you know that and then this

serious thing you know the president you know 400000 individuals americans dying from coronavirus you have millions of people on employed you have business is falling for bankruptcy issues between the current president and the president coming in 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 childish. meanwhile another poll reveals 32 percent of europeans are distrustful of the u.s. with more than 60 percent of respondents calling america's political system broken we asked people in germany and france for their thoughts. the relationship is not good because of trump but whether it will improve its $5056.00 available to so it will be difficult to unify because transfers go to rather. the u.s. and e.u.

seem to be taking a confrontational approach to each other at the moment i hope that biden will be more friendly towards the evening 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 charmed he was the man for the job they thought they were happy with what they saw what happened when we see what he has done and what he's doing we think to ourselves that he really must be stopped that's all well it's been 4 years like no other and while many are claiming now they're glad it's over there are surely a few moments of the style just succumb donald trump himself back at it. live. to lead me. to.

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sleep. sleep. see all the why restaurants in italy have flouted the little by staying open during the down speak to one of the. school behind the protest after this break. social media platforms today function as the public square the real key to almost everything we do when society the same plumbs can be. viewed sensually disappear you should probably be companies. is it time. 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 cash to their friends causing now this huge crisis. join me every thursday on the alex salmond shill and i'll be speaking to the world of politics or business i'm show business i'll see you then. come back in italy a number of restaurants have refused to close their doors sin protest over coronavirus the country's current lender tough restrictions that require

restaurants and cafes to close by 6 pm when business owner said that she believed the infection risk posed by restaurants is being exaggerated. no no border the 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 but 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 they should at least not make us fail. voters kicked off on social media earlier this month under the open hash tag for despite strong support online the number of restaurant owners taking part in the

protest was reportedly low those who did plow the rules however were issued with fines as. it has been the epicenter of the crow virus pandemic last year in europe with the country introducing new restrictions only last week as it brace itself for a 3rd wave remark a.z. believes the curbs have pushed her sector to the brink. with the state support if we can call it that didn't even cover the basics deals 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 had very little work no earnings are gone we at the end after a year of this we don't have enough money to cover our expenses. as the w.h.o. led team sent to investigate the origins of covert 19 currently undergoes

a mandatory quarantine in china he's going underground spoke with the director general of china's center for disease control who shared his experience of being among the 1st to isolate coronavirus. just take us back i mean when did anyone get. coronavirus before the case is reported in wu ham i understand on the 17th the nov 29th south china morning post reported no way province i think that we isolated the virus early january from my china c.d.c. colleague i don't you credit me we work together very hard we call the virus early morning all at night on january 6th and 7th we work day and night this is the 1st time we saw whole lot of virus and looks like a cost because of new technology it was reported here that the shanghai public health clinic will send to release the genome and it was kind of shut down that was

one of the newspapers here while you know you have a lot of rumors you have a lot of it give you know something different from from here you go and look ask laska pfizer ask of fire and of buy and tack they deliver that they give you a vaccine go and a check with them where did they get the sequels to sensitize the gene to deliver their a marni vaccine they claimed they doll oday the secrecies from the cheese that it's a global initiative all all you friends of ours sharing is called it's us but let me myself we've together ways organizer of that organizes it we put the sequence there and the god you know everything shared with everybody now tell me about them long as it is known that's a very good word you know law roughly you coast to chronic we don't want to see the chronic because we don't have enough coffee to see whoa

slow whole chronic carbonite here we are what we saw from 'd a car with an i.v. in the home were you could you walk and you the u.k. some. patients where they recover the skill has some elite symptoms this is a skill not a lawyer enough fast to see whether or not a cop in nigeria will be a chronic disease at least it's long enough that much longer than that peut respiratory your knees and you're seeing that in china yes we also see a lot of it you know that i also we have so many cases i don't want to be recovered at the end of the you know but to be positive so all those are really made scientific question. because from things i was amusing brief from around the world starting in nicaragua

where residents of the town of did amber put on a colorful musical display as they celebrated their patron saint sebastian people did their best to don and the covert face masks along with bright. sunny nicaragua's a freezing cold russia where low temperatures are given a wintry touch to one of the best known buildings in moscow the normally gold 9 meters starts on top of the moscow state university campus turned white who frost as temperatures in the capital plummeted the building is the tallest of the stalin era skyscrapers in the city and was the tallest in europe until 1990. moscow region a very special employee has joined a local rescue team according to. him to morrow is very obedient a good swimmer and a top notch communication skills the 30 foot hopes the rescue team unwind after a hard day. great stuff ok europe today

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