naughtie. join me every thursday on the alec simon show and i'll be speaking to guest in the world of politics spore business i'm showbusiness i'll see you then. in the headlines this hour shopping centers food course even an opera house to some of the places wasco residents can be vaccinated as russia ratchets up its coronavirus vaccination program. in germany extends in strength and scope of destruction nationwide as the country steps of its fight against them. does donald trump spend his last night in the white house washington d.c. has been turned into a militarized zone joe biden's inauguration as the next u.s. president. i guess is pretty. good at 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 anywhere in america. good morning and thanks for joining us on r.t. international. russia is continuing to ratchet up its coronavirus mass vaccination program vaccination points are opening up across the russian capital so that muscovites can get a job while they're shopping grabbing a bite to eat or even while they're at the opera which is where our correspondent. there now is inside moscow's famous galley call or perhaps morning to you constantine take us through what's taking place where you are. good morning neal yes russia's vaccination effort is picking up steam and here in

moscow vaccination points are being set up across the city in addition to our regular hospitals and this one for example is indeed inside an opera house and that comes with the benefits well 1st of all the entourage of a historic building and. then while you're waiting to get an ocular you can listen to relaxing opera music here. so who said that standing in line should be boring right. anyway the vaccination outpost here has just opened and we're still waiting for more people to come and i should say that there are people who are reluctant to go to regular hospitals for a vaccination because they might be wary of picking up infections there and those fears might be unfounded but these mobile inoculation points that are set up across the city give them psychological comfort. you know what else i should

say is that here the process is really simple i mean you have to make an appointment as you would with a regular hospital all you need to do is show up it's a done 1st come 1st served basis now russia's health care officials are setting their sights on achieving herd immunity before autumn and that means that at least 60 per cent of the adult population should be vaccinated and that means it's we're talking about $40000000.00 of russians who must be vaccinated before that time in the next 7 months and that is white a challenge even production wise but according to denise monteiro of who's russia's minister of trade and industry the plan to pull this off is there. most of the city as of today almost 6500000 doses of the solution is hundreds of sputnik v. who didn't produce we were expected to produce less than the 7000000 doses in

january and 11 1000000 in february and fig leaves a 1000000 doses i planted from the producers in the room. and of course the additional vaccination points like this one is going to play a role besides the theatres and cinemas themselves one population to get successfully vaccinated as much as anyone else because they they are having hard times during the pandemic. they are losing profits by the day because of restricted seeding so the more jabs are taken the sooner life can get back to normal so you go constantine. but the microphone back to the spica. again yeah sure. it's really quiet right now but believe me it's really good it's relaxing well it was good it was good lee if you leave it there all day if it's up to make good for the soul as they say many thanks

. now germany is extending on toughening its current destructions nationwide due to spiking infection. announcement comes amid rising public hostility towards. tonight all of 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 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 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 and would do it soon for this mutation is 1st and foremost transmissible than others transmission means more seriously ill people that's for limiting 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 there are 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 becomes the 46th president of the united states later today every more gratian of course is a momentous event for america this time around the ceremony will look markedly different of you know large crowds and no parades instead the almost 200000 flags which have been placed on the national more than meant to represent the people who were prevented from coming by the pandemic and the safety measures though do not relate to code such as thousands of national guard that have been called in to maintain security creating an atmosphere in and around the capitol a bit 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 this not just in d.c. security's been massively stepped up rallies are planned by both democratic and republican supporters across the country in violation of the rules and it's led to food is the day of supposed celebration could have disastrous consequences. as 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 zunes 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 in capitol hill on january 6th since then the secret service the f.b.i. the national god intelligence even the 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 and desire

distrust and fear are in the air hagon like like a poisonous me stephanie webb that doesn't matter which way you voted people are statistically warrant this isn't the country they've lived in their entire lives. and it isn't just washington d.c. it's it's all over the country and there is good cause one in 3 voters still believe that biden wasn't legitimately elected $1.00 and $3.00 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 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 cause one in 3 voters still believe that biden wasn't legitimately elected $1.00 and $3.00 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 and our country was on the watch. when i'm on 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 as 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 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 support 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. the thing with press statements and i can tell you this from experience as they aren't 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 the ins 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 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 $25.00 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 no 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 and the recent poll seems to confirm not grin assessment conducted

after the storming of the capitol it found 4 out of 5 americans believe the u.s. is fooling a pot a similar 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 when i asked to stump up the south. 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 to get i mean it's really easy to feel like a good time to be a school before i would say that really good spot there was a lot of. this country. playing a part. you know that and then the serious everything you know about the president you know 400000 individuals americans dying from 4 coronavirus you have millions of people unemployed you have businesses falling for bankruptcy you 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. you while another poll revealed 32 percent of europeans all distrustful of the u.s. will than 60 percent of respondents calling america's political system broken we asked people in germany and france for the thoughts. the relationship is not good because of trouble but whether it will improve it's $5056.00 available to song it will be difficult to unify because trump has a lot of radical supporters 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 e.u. because under trump there was a lot of distance between just about music or just i don't know that i have confidence in this president and you lot of american people who love trial 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 trump has done quite a lot of damage international relations i think you're going to see the repercussions of that i think other nations leverage because so it's going to get better but it's not going to happen overnight i know that biden is small you try. but i think vested interests in the tradition of friendship and trade relationships . and we're just hours to go before the inauguration of joe biden as u.s. president the going donald trump has delivered his farewell speech in which he boasted about his achievements in office he also that 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 is i prepared 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 know has been for years like no other and while many are claiming now glad that it's over there are surely a few moments of nostalgia in the forests donald trump himself may look back at it all. let's. look. at least.

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in protest of the cuts speaking to one of the owners behind the protest after this break. the world is driven by shaped by. the day or thinks. we dare to ask. social media platforms today function as the public square the real key to almost

everything we do when society the same plumbs continue the pothole of you essentially disappear you should probably be companies trying to come is it time. to. join me every thursday on the alex salmond shill and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. welcome back in italy a number of restaurants have refused to close their doors in protest coronavirus limitations the country is currently in the toughest directions that require restaurants and cafes to be closed by 6 pm on business owner said 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 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 they should at least not make us fail. on the protests 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 protests was reportedly low those who did flout the rules as well issued with fines by police. it was the epicenter of the crime the virus pandemic last year in europe with the country introducing new restrictions on the last week

it's suppressing itself for a 3rd wave remark a.z. again believes that curbs though have pushed her sector to the brink. over 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 it's from nations 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 not earnings are gone we at the end after a year of this we don't have enough money to cover our expenses. ok let's wrap the hour up with some news in brief from around the world. bright scene there in nicaragua residents of the town of duty on bourbon putting on

a colorful musical display they were celebrating the patron saint sebastian people doing their best to dawn covert face masks as well as the colorful. regular it's a freezing cold russia low temperatures here are given a wintry touch to one of the best known buildings in moscow temperatures in the capital of plummeted in the normally gold 9 meters star of the moscow state university campuses turned to something more closely resembling a giant snowflake that the building is the tallest of the stalin era skyscrapers in the city it was the tallest in europe until $990.00. not quite sold in the moscow region a very special employee has joined a local rescue team according to colleagues the welsh corgi there named mary you see it is obedient a good swimmer very outgoing the pup not only giving the rescue team a helping poor with their duties but also helping them unwind after a hard day. and that wraps it up for this

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