so what's driving the obesity epidemic. in our headlines this hour shopping centers food calls even an opera house just some of the places moscow residents can be vaccinated wrapped up its coronavirus vaccination program. germany extends in strength and scope the destruction is nationwide is the country steps up its fight against the pandemic. don't try to spend his last night in the white house washington d.c. has been turned into a militarized zone hours before joe biden's inauguration as the next u.s. president. i guess it's a pretty good chance but in doing so they've closed

a lot of pretty much the whole downtown area barricade the checkpoints there's no concrete blocks everywhere never seen the security of like this here or anywhere in america. thanks for joining us mid day here in the russian capital this is r.t. international. pressure is continuing to ratchet up its coronavirus mass vaccination program. points are opening up across the capital so muscovites can get a job while shopping grabbing a bite to eat even while they're at the opera aunties constantino reported earlier from inside moscow's famous opera house. russia's mass vaccination is picking up steam here in moscow vaccination homes are being set up across the city in addition to regular hospitals and this one for example is inside an opera house which is

quite symbolic because this is a historic building right in the heart of russia's capital and it used to be a hospital during the 2nd world war besides the fact that this is an opera house that comes for the benefits well 1st of all the entourage of of this beautiful building and band while you're waiting in line to get in the accumulated you could listen to a relaxing opera music well 1st the 1st few hours here at this vaccination posts is reserved for employees of moscow theatres now there are people who are reluctant to go to regular hospitals for vaccination because they might be where we have taken up infections it was fierce might be unfounded but mobile inoculation points like this one give these people psychological comfort and plus the pro says is really simple all you need to do is to show up it is done 1st come 1st served basis vaccination in russia is being done completely free of charge and there are a few options there are 2 approved and registered vaccines that are available in

the country 1st one sputnik v. and then there was another one at the corona and then there is a 3rd one that is common up and already showing promising results in clinical trials and top of that russia is conducting clinical trials on a one dose despotic life version of its major coronavirus vaccines russia's health care officials are setting their sights on achieving herd immunity before autumn and that means that at least 60 percent of the adult population or $48000000.00 russians must be vaccinated in the next 7 months this is why it's a task even production wise but according to denise monteiro who is russia's minister of industry in trade the plan of how to pull this off is there in the solution as of today almost. $6500000.00 doses of the solution is hundreds of sputnik v. who will produce we are expected to produce not less than the $7000000.00 doses in january 11 1000000 he said during and physically 1000000 doses the planet will not

produce is of course that this will vaccination points like this one are going to play a role besides theatres and cinemas themselves want the population to get success for the vaccinated as much as anyone else because there have been hard times with a pandemic they are losing profits by the day due to restricted seeding the more jabs are taken the sooner life can get back to normal. germany is extending and toughening its current code restrictions nationwide and due to spiking infection rates chancellor angela merkel's announcement comes amid rising public hostility towards lockdowns. 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 one dam eans for citizens and others or private gatherings will be limited to one person from

a house sold 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 '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 why 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 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 becomes the 46th president of the united states later today every inauguration is a momentous event for america but this time around the ceremony will look markedly different but no large crowds and no parades instead almost 200000 flags have been placed on the national mall meant to represent the people who were prevented from coming by the pandemic or the 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 more akin to a war zone is not in america correspondent john hardy reports. we are at the corner of 14th street and ask and we're 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. it's not just in d.c. security's been massively stepped up rallies are planned by both democratic and republican supporters nationwide in violation of the rules and it's led to fizz that they have supposed celebration could to. give 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 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 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 and there is good cools 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 in our country when all the election is on one side and the 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 that'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 react 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 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 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 that grim assessment conducted after the still being of the capital it found 4 out of 5 americans believe that the u.s. is quote falling apart some a proportion of those surveyed said that they are still proud to be american we chemists opinions in new york and texas. i think there are real divisions and i think that comes around for the last half the stuff about the south. i mean there's a kind of political divides that are often sort of manufactured i think there are 212 things that happen at the capitol that i mean it's really easy to feel like they're trying to be simple before i would say that we're really not a good spot there has to be a lot of. this country. playing a part. you know that and then the test seriously everything you know about the

president 400000 individuals americans dying from 4 coronavirus you have millions of people unemployed you have business is 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. meanwhile another poll revealed that 32 percent of europeans are distrustful of the not to stace with more than 60 percent of respondents calling america's political system broken we asked people in germany and france for the thoughts. relationship is not good because of trump but whether it will improve it's $5056.00 available to song it will be difficult to unify because trans has a lot of radical supporters the us 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 it's just about music or just i don't know that i have confidence in this president and you lot of american people who love charm 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 with think to ourselves that he really must be stopped that's trying to start quite large 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 by the small e.u. from. but i think vested interests in that tradition of friendship trade relationships and just hours to go before the inauguration of joe biden as us president the outgoing donald trump has delivered his speech 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 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 so live in 4 years like no other and while many are claiming they're glad it's over there surely a few moments of nostalgia worth hanging around for here's how donald trump himself might look back at it all. please. please. please please please. please please. please.

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for. still to come a number of restaurants in italy flouts fictions that keeping the doors open in protest of the kurds will be speaking to one of the ideas behind the protest after this break.

social media platforms today function as the public square key to almost everything we do. the same can be. centrally disappear you should probably be companies. isn't trying. to. come back in italy a number of restaurants have refused to close their doors in protest over coronavirus curbs the country is currently under tough restrictions requiring restaurants and cafes to be closed by 6 pm when business owner said she believes

the infection risk posed by restaurants is actually being exaggerated. no no border the i'm not afraid that we might spread coffee because we respect all the regulations distancing unmasks 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 cities 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. part of the process kicked off on social media earlier this month under the i am open hash tag despite strong support online the number of restaurant owners taking part itself was reportedly low those who did flout the rules however were issued with fines by

police. italy was the epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic last year in europe with the country introducing new restrictions only last week as it braces itself for a 3rd wave very marchese again believes that the curbs though have pushed her sector to the brink of no beef with 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 fined 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 don't have enough money to cover our expenses. as the w.h.o. led team sent to investigate the origins of covert $9000.00 currently undergoes a mandatory quarantine in china and he's going underground spoke with the director

general of china's center for disease control that's george fuk out 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 may 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 what the virus and looks like a cause because a new technology it was reported here that the shanghai public health clinic will send to release the genome and it was going to 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 a fire and a 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 that she said 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 organizing we pulled the same cause there and a 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 on one from a you coast to chronic we don't want to see the chronic because we don't have enough cause to see whoa slow hope chronic cough and night he will be part of

what we saw from 'd the covered in $92.00 the whole were you could you would i do the u.k. some. patients whether they recover the ski or have some elite symptoms this is a skill not a lawyer enough fast to see whether or not a cop with an i.q. 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 to be positive so although our remey decide to question. this hour with some news in brief around the world.

this is the scene in nicaragua as residents of the town of rionda put on a colorful use a call display that was celebrating their patron saints of last year and will develop the don't take over to face masks along with the bright costumes. sunny can regulate the freezing cold russia where low temperatures are given a wintry touch to one of the best known buildings in moscow as temperatures in the capital of plummeted the normally golden 9 mean to star on top of the moscow state university campuses 30 to something more giant snowflake the building is the tallest of the stalin era skyscrapers in the city and was the tallest in europe until 1990. and a little further routes in the moscow region a very special employees joined a local rescue team according to colleagues the welsh corgi the name tomorrow is obedient a good swimmer very outgoing a pup and only gives the rescue team a helping pour with their daily duties but also helps them unwind after a hard day. which. average of out of today appreciate coming here and i don't get

to check out plenty more stories because our website. 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.

i'm after a time see welcome to another lockdown edition of going underground today on the day the joe biden is in or he rated as the 46th president of the united states of america in a ceremony yarded by $25000.00 troops in the u.s. capitol washington d.c. it all comes just hours after global debate over a pardon for julian assange the world's most famous journalist and publisher locked up in a maximum security prison here in london but hanging over biden just as it did don't trump will be the global coronavirus pandemic that is killed at least $2000000.00 people or around the world joining me now from china is the director general of china's center for disease control professor george to go thanks so much for coming on i'm going to tell you that 2000000 dead britain are reportedly the worst affected in the world they're going ahead with vaccines we are at the vanguard of

the mass coronavirus injection campaign.