financial survival. when customers go. well reduce and lower. that's undercutting but what's good for markets is not good for the global economy. shopping centers food courts even an opera house just some of the places moscow residents can be thanks in a to this. nation. germany extends straight to the strictures across the country is the. nation steps up its fight against the pandemic. from last night in the white house washington d.c. has been turned into a militarized zone just hours before joe biden's inauguration as the next u.s. president. i guess is pretty lame but in doing so they close

a lot of pretty much the downtown areas the barricades the checkpoints that concrete blocks everywhere never see security like this here or anywhere in america . by that very good morning and thanks for joining us here on. russia's 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 even while they're at the opera constantino reported earlier from inside moscow's famous opera house. mass vaccination in russia is picking up steam and here in moscow vaccination points are being set up around the city in addition to regular hospitals this one for example is inside the opera house which

is quite symbolic if you think about it because this historic building right in the center of russia's capital is no stranger to house here 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 the outpost opens in a few hours and we're expecting people to show up at large numbers because some of them might be afraid of due would vaccination inside regular hospitals they might be where we have to get up and factions there and those fears might be unfounded but this mobile inoculation points like this one here give them this sense of a psychological comfort and it's the process is also quite simple you have to make an appointment as you would with a regular hospital it's done on a 1st come 1st served basis on the flip side though you might have to spend some time standing in line however this might be not that bad because they go into play opera music for those waiting to get inoculated vaccination in russia is being done

completely free of charge and the right few options there are to vaccines that are approved in registered in this country 1st want to put nikki in them there was another one and there is a 3rd one that is coming up in already showing promising results in clinical trials russia is also conducting a clinical trial for a one day spot light version of its major coronavirus vaccine russia's health care officials are setting its sights on achieving herd immunity by autumn and that means they need to vaccinate at least 60 percent of the population or 40000000 people which is quite a task even production wise but according to denise monteiro who is russia's minister of trade and industry the plan to pull this off is the. there this is a scene as of today almost 6500000 doses of the 2 components of sputnik v. had been produced we were expected to produce not less than 7000000 doses in

january and 11 1000000 in february and 15 1000000 doses of plans from not just this f. course additional vaccination points like this one is going to play a role besides cinemas and theaters themselves want them to get vaccinated successfully as much as anyone else there have been hard time during the pandemic and they're losing profits by the day because of restricted exceeding the more jabs are taken the sooner life can get back to normal. and while germany is extending and toughening up its current cova destructions nationwide because of spiking infection rates chancellor angela merkel's announcement comes amid rising public hostility towards 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 year that of course

is a huge step in we understand what 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 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

and would do it soon for this mutation is 1st and foremost transmissible than others more transmission means more seriously ill people that's why limited contact 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 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 46 president of the united states a little later today every inauguration of course a momentous event for america but this time around the ceremony will look markedly different but you know large crowds no parades instead no bill march 200000 flags which have been placed on the national mall and meant to represent the people who were prevented from coming by the pandemic or the safety measures though don't

relate covert thousands of national guard are being called in to keep security creating an atmosphere in and around the capitol a bit more akin to a war zone as 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 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. because not just in d.c. the security has been massively stepped up rallies are planned by both democratic and republican supporters nationwide in violation of the rules and it's led to fear is a day of suppose 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 step 3 way it 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 there's no concrete blocks everywhere so you really can't get anywhere near the national or constitutions i mean you know it's really sad that 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 neris 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 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 have a country that's getting more deeply polarized as we have 2 political parties that are playing each other for each other's problems and issues the foundations 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. 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 that 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 alex 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 them to 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 and the recent poll seems to confirm that dream assessment conducted after the storming of the capitol it found 4 out of 5 americans believe the u.s. is fooling the pot a similar proportion of those surveyed said though 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. and i asked system at least now. i mean there's there's a kind of political divides that are often sort of manufactured i think that through walk through things that happen at the capitol and yet i mean it's really easy to feel like they're trying to baseball before i would say you know really

good spot there was a lot of. this country. playing the part. you know that and then the serious everything you know about the president there 400000 individuals americans dying from poor coronavirus you have millions of people unemployed you have businesses falling for bankruptcy to play issues between the current president and the president coming it's not a very. easy switch over i think a kind of what the current. president like 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 over 60 percent of respondents called america's political system broken we asked people in germany and france for the thoughts. the relationship is not good because of trump but whether

it will improve its 5056 available to song it will be difficult to unify because trans has a lot of radical support in the us and seemed to be taking a confrontational approach to each other the most of which i hope by in which he will friendly. because under trump there was a lot of distance to see just about music or just i don't know that i have confidence in this president and i knew a lot of american people who loved china 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 we think to ourselves that he really must be stopped that's trying to start quite low down its international relations and i think you're going to see the repercussions about i think other nations leverage because so it's going to get better but it's not going to happen overnight i know that in this small e.u. . but i think vested interests in the tradition of friendship and trade relationships. just hours to go before the inauguration of joe biden is u.s.

president the outgoing donald trump has delivered his farewell speech and it boasted about his achievements in office but also 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 know that the movement we started is only just beginning there's never been anything like it you're right there and it's been 4 years like no other while many are claiming they're glad now that it's over there are surely a few moments of nostalgia in store for us all is now donald trump himself may look back at it all. i mean. look. the

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please please please please please. please please please. please. the for. number of restaurants in italy fell out of our strictures by keeping the doors open in protest over the kids will be speaking to one of the onus behind the 5 best after this break. what 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 down 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. the world is driven by shaped. thinks. we fear to ask.

welcome back in italy a number of restaurants have refused to close the duals it's in protest over coronavirus restrictions the country's coming down the tough limits requiring restaurants and cafes to close by 6 pm when business owner said she believed the infection risk posed by restaurants though 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 ours 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. one

of the protest kicked off on social media earlier this month under the open hash tag but despite strong support online the number of restaurant owners actually taking part in the protest is reportedly low those who did flout the rules were a few to finds by police. it was the epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic last year in europe with the country introducing new restrictions on the last week as a brace itself for a 3rd wave very marchese again believes the curves have pushed her sector to the brink. the state support if we can call it dad 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 and

earnings are gone we at the end after a year of this we don't have enough money to cover our expenses. as a w.h.o. led team sent to investigate the origins of over 19 currently undergoes a mandatory quarantine in china artes to going on the ground show spoke with the director general of china center for disease control that's george who shared his experience of being among the 1st to isolate the corona virus. 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 in 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 over to give you know something different from from here you go and look ask laska pfizer ask a fire and a buy and tech 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 sherry it's called it's us me myself we pick other 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 rare 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 he will be part of what we saw from 'd the college in $92.00 the whole were you could you would i do the u.k. some. patients whether 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 if you would respond to reach 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 remain scientific

question. and finally this hour some news in brief for you from around the world. this was the scene in nicaragua has residents of the town of dizzy amber put on a colorful musical display. they were celebrating their patron saint sebastian people did their best to don and take over face masks as well though along with the brunt of. sunday's nikki regular sunny a not so warm in russia where low temperatures are given a wintry touch to one of the best known buildings in moscow temperature in the capital of plummeted in the normally gold 9 meters star on the moscow state university campus there it is turned into something more closely resembling

a giant snowflake the building is the tallest of the stalin era skyscrapers in the city it was also once the tallest in europe that was until 990. i'm moving just outside the capital to the moscow region a very special employee has joined a local rescue team quoting to a colleague. named is obedient a good swimmer apparently also outgoing the pope not only gives the rescue team a helping pull with their daily duties but also helps them wind after a. lovely way to end it ok enjoy that i'll be back with updates and often. is your media a reflection of reality. in

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