thinks. we ask. in the headlines this hour shopping centers food courts even an opera house just some of the places moscow residents can be vaccinated russia ratchets up its coronavirus vaccination program. more german extends and strengthens code to do strictures nationwide is the country steps up its fight against the fund. and spends his last night in the white house washington d.c. has been turned into a militarized hours before joe biden's inauguration as the next u.s. president. it's pretty intense what they're doing so they close a lot of pretty much the whole downtown area the barricades the check point there's

no concrete blocks everywhere never seen security of like this here or anywhere in america. thanks for joining us you're watching international. russia continues 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 constantino rushkoff reported earlier from inside moscow's famous opera house. russia's mass vaccination is picking up steam here in moscow vaccination houses 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 then while you're waiting in line to get inoculated you could listen to a relaxing opera music 1st few hours here at this vaccination posts is reserved for employees of moscow theaters let's have a listen to their take on the vaccination and the pandemic in general it was that there was. no global conversed of all it's dangerous for me as a vocalist because the disease would severely affects my singing voice because it has an impact on the loans and the vocal operates itself or you know 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 dearest 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 live version of its major corona virus vaccines russia's health care officials are setting their sights on achieving a herd immunity before autumn and that means that at least 60 percent of the adult population or 40000000 russians must be by. unaided in the next 7 months this is quite 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 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 edge. and of course the vaccination points like this one are go into play a role besides theatres and cinemas themselves one population to get success for the vaccinated as much as anyone else because there have been hard times with a pandemic they're losing profits by the day due to restricted seeding the more jabs are taken the sooner life can get back to normal. germany's extending and toughening up its current restrictions nationwide because of spiking infection rates and michael's announcement comes amid rising public hostility towards loved ones. and all of our efforts to stop the spread of the virus faces a serious threat i would like to emphasize that we decided all 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 isn't

would do it soon for this mutation is 1st and foremost more transmissible than others more transmission means more seriously ill people that's why limits in 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 a previous poll while politicians aren't 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 a 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 judy 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 of course for america but this time around the ceremony will look markedly different when the large crowds no parades instead almost 200000 flags 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 don't relate to code such as the thousands of national guard have been called in to maintain security for the created an atmosphere in and around the capital more akin to a war zone as r.t. america correspondent john d. explains. 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 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. it's not just in d.c. that security has been massively stepped up rallies are planned by both democratic and republican supporters nationwide in violation of anti pandemic rules this let's if is a day of supposed celebration could. see it as the story. the good news is it will

be a sunny inauguration for the 1st time in 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 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 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 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. pretty much the downtown areas to barricade the checkpoints 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 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 and there is good pools 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 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 not one but

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 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 wholly strewth and in this case it isn't that 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 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 and no one's trying to be the better person here slump 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 america hasn't been this divided since the civil war but nice to think that it'll be better off for the inauguration but why would it no one seems to be in any rush to make the 1st move actions run high in america today and. i think every precaution needs to be taken to ensure that a repeat of january 6th doesn't occur. on inauguration day trying to disrupt the you know your ration of joe biden. but the the imagery of $25.00 a nation governed. government that does not recognize 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 a 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 a recent poll seems to confirm that dream assessment conducted after the still make of the capital it found that 4 out of 5 americans believe the u.s. is fooling the pont 7 a proportion of those surveyed said though that 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. and asked system but now. i mean there's a kind of political divides that are often sort of manufactured i think that through the looks of things that happen at the capitol i mean it's really easy to feel like they're going to be scolded for i would say that really not

a good spot there has to be a lot of. this country. playing a part. you know that and then the serious serious things you know about the president there are 400000 individual 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 a kind of what the current. president biden is doing as far as trying to impeach steele trying to sell president to childish. meanwhile another poll revealed that 32 percent of europeans are distrustful of the united states with more than 60 percent of respondents calling america's political system broken because people in germany and france for the thoughts. the relationship is not good because of trump but whether it will improve its 5050 but. 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 the biden will be more friendly towards the e.u. because under trump there was a lot of distance between the 2 it's about music not just i don't know but 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 with him to ourselves that he really must be stopped that's all trying to start quite large international relations i think you're going to see the repercussions of that i think other nations rich because so it's going to get better but it's not going to happen overnight i know that by the small pro e.u. from. but i think vested interests in the tradition of friendship and trade relationships in the end it's been a 4 years like no other and while many are claiming now they're glad it's over

there are surely a few moments of nostalgia in store for us is how donald trump himself might look back at things. let me. sleep. sleep sleep sleep sleep. sleep sleep. sleep sleep. sleep sleep. sleep. sleep. sleep. sleep. sleep sleep.

sleep. sleep live. live. live. live up. to bill become a number of restaurants in italy flood coronaviruses strictures by keeping the doors open in protest over the cubs we spoke to one of the onus behind the protest after the show press.

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 by.

thinks. we fear to ask. welcome back into a number of restaurants have refused to close the door in protest over corona far risk the country is currently under tough restrictions that require restaurants and cafes to be closed by 6 pm when business owner though said she believes that the infection risk posed by restaurants is actually being exaggerated. 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 so. the protests kicked off on social media earlier this month under the i am open but despite strong support online the number of restaurant owners taking part in the protest was reportedly low those that did flout the rules were issued with fines by police. and it 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 remark aisy again believes that the curb so have pushed her sector to the brink. 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 not earning so gone we at the end after a year of this we don't have enough money to cover our expenses. ok let's wrap things up with some news in brief for you from around the world. starting in nicaragua where residents of the town of put on a colorful a musical display they were celebrating their patron saint sebastian people did their best to dawn and face masks along with bright costumes. from sunny nicaragua to freezing cold russia where low temperatures are given a wintry touch to one of the best known buildings of moscow as temperatures in the capital of plummeted the normally golden 9 me to star on top of the moscow state

university campus is turned into something more closely resembling a giant snowflake the building itself the tallest of the stalin era skyscrapers in the city and was the tallest in europe until $990.00. and in the moscow region a very special employees joined a local rescue team according to colleagues the welsh corgi named obedient a great swimmer apparently very outgoing the pup not only gives the rescue team a helping poor with daily duties but also helps them wind after a hard day. and we could all do with a little bit of that now and again i think that's all for now appreciate you company this is r.t. days coming your way could see if my colleagues in half an hour. join me every thursday on the alex salmond and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics or business i'm sure business i'll see you there.

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the day or. week to ask. hello and welcome to cross talk where all things are considered i'm peter lavelle social media platforms today function as the public square they were key to almost everything we do when society the same platforms can ban you would be platform you essentially disappear you should private companies have that kind of power is it

time to rein in big tech. discuss these issues and more i'm joined by my guest lionel in new york he is a legal and media analyst in c. that we have geoffrey carr he is author of inside cyber warfare mapping the cyber underworld as well as founder of the suits and spooks cyber security conference and in los angeles we cross to graham elwood he is a regular on the jimmy door show is one of those host of the political financial entity and you to cross titles and i think that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate what he was going to lionel in new york. this flurry of events around big tech the the banning of parlourmaid parlor appears to have reappeared beastly donald trump has been banned from most of these platforms and there are a lot of complaints that

a lot of other conservatives are being treated the same way essential the question that is before us right now is should these big tech companies define what speech is define what it is and indirectly what dissent is and should they have the right to. arrange and define what the public sphere is lionel well the 1st thing is i've always believed in my line of law which means that people always like behind technology the 1st thing is we have to understand these are not private organizations or private companies social media is not some quirky little thing we talk to grandma about her favorite cappie oka recipes these are you chiles this is the phone company this is f.c.c. this these are t.v. waves this is whatever analogy you want but that bit line and they're not legally bound i mean i think they should become utilities because what i'm saying is they function as utility that's what i'm saying we have to change that this idea forget section 2 3rd.