and if we go on believing that will never change this obesity epidemic that industry has been influencing very deeply the medical and scientific establishment . what's driving the obesity epidemic it's corporate bosses. in the day's headlines shopping centers food courts and even an opera house these are just some of the places moscow residents can get vaccinated as russia ratchets up its run of our sox nation program. also this hour germany extends and strengthens code restrictions nationwide as the country steps up its fight against the pandemic. and donald trump has spent his last night in the white house and washington d.c. has been turned into what looks like a militarized zone hours before joe biden's inauguration as the next u.s. president i guess it's a pretty good chance what they're doing so they closed

a lot of pretty much the whole downtown area describe it ok let's check points that you know concrete blocks everywhere never seen security like this here or anywhere in america. a very warm welcome to the program from all of us here at r t h q in moscow thanks for joining us this hour. russia is continuing to ratchet up its coronavirus mass vaccination program more bucks nation points are opening up across the russian capital so muscovites can get a job while shopping grabbing a bite to eat or even at the opera artist constantine reported earlier from inside moscow's famous opera house russia's mass vaccination is picking up steam here in moscow vaccinations are being set up across the city in addition to regular hospitals and this one. 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 literature to limit the global conversed of all is 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. but with which incident in august i was very sick so i decided that it's important to overcome it somehow because my contracts have brought a full and through here in the theatre you have to constantly be on form 2 weeks

after leaving the hospital i sank the battle parata but it was very difficult for small business the pandemic was difficult it is not yet clear how difficult because we do not know all the consequences if we believe in a bright future but it is not yet clear thank god we work in russia because everything is much more complicated abroad. so 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 why it is done on 1st comp 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 is another one half of our corona and then there is a 3rd. that is common up and already showing promising results in clinical trials

and top of that russia is conducting clinical trials on a one day life version of its major corona virus attack seems 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 $40000000.00 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's russia's minister of industry in trade the plan of how to pull this off is there and this is a scene as of today almost 6500000 doses of the 2 components of sputnik v. have been produced we were expected to produce not less than $7000000.00 doses in january and 11 1000000 in february and 15 1000000 doses of plan from the places and of course the vaccination points like this one are going to play a role besides theatres and cinemas themselves one population to get success for

the vaccinated as much as anyone else because they are having hard times with a pandemic they're losing profits by the day due to restricted seeding the more jobs are taken the sooner life can get back to normal. germany is extending and toughening its current code interest actions nationwide it due to spiking infection rates chancellor angela merkel's announcement comes amid rising public hostility towards the lockdowns in the us 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 and we understand what that means for citizens and others or private gatherings will be limited to one person from a household all the 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 it in the press conference we also heard the health minister yen spawn saying that these mutations of covert 19 will cause for serious worry isn't would soon follow this mutation is 1st and foremost more transmissible than others more 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 'd 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 and 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 46th president of the united states and about 4 hours time every and is a momentous event for america but this time around the ceremony will look markedly different and large crowds of no parades and said almost 200000 flags have been placed on the national mall they are meant to represent the people who were prevented from coming by the pandemic other safety measures that don't relate to go thousands of national guard troops have been called in to maintain security creating an atmosphere in and around the capital that's more akin to a war zone as

r t america correspondent john honey 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 crew 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 tents that's one of the many checkpoints so the latest 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 this coast 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 it's members the associated press is reporting that a dozen national guard members right now have been pulled from inauguration that just gives you an example of the intense security the national guard the army looking at its own people to make sure there is no potential problem. again i want to be clear we're not hearing of any threats but security here is high and they're not taking any chances. rallies are planned by both democratic and republican supporters nationwide in violation of anti pandemic rules and that's led to fears that a day of suppose that celebration could have disastrous consequences artie's has a story the good news is it will be a sunny inauguration for the 1st time and many many years it's about it for good news washington is on red alert had locked out no huge crowds new fans say 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 troops and their garden not against an enemy not against terrorists but against their room population. 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 god intelligence 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 this operation 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 and 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 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 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 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 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 this is not react not forcing accountability only and all the ends of 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 as 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 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 a nation governed. by a government that is not recognizes 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. a recent poll seems to confirm that grim assessment conducted after the storming of the capitol it fell that 4 out of 5 americans believe the u.s. is falling apart a similar proportion of those surveyed said though that they were still proud to be an american the canvas opinions in new york and texas. there are real divisions and i think that comes around. the caste system now. i mean 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 they're going to be scolded for i would say that really not a good spot there has to be a lot of people this country is going apart. you know that and then the serious serious thing you know the president you have $400.00 and individuals americans dying from poor coronavirus year because of people unemployed you have

business is falling for bankruptcy your plate issues between the current president and the president coming in it's not a very. it's a easy switch over i think a kind of what the current the new president like biden is doing as far as trying to impeach steele trying to tell the president is kind of childish. meanwhile another poll has revealed that 32 percent of europeans think the u.s. can't be trusted and over 60 percent of respondents see america's political system as broken we asked people in france germany and the u.k. for their thoughts. the relationship is not good because of trump but whether it will improve its 5056. it will be difficult to unify because trump 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 the biden will be more friendly towards the e.u.

because under trump there was a lot of distance between that see just 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 think 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 because so it's going to get better it's not going to happen or not i know that for you from. but i think vested interests in the traditional friendship trade relationships with. donald trump and his wife want to have just left the white house for the last time they are now headed to a send off ceremony and they will not be attending joe biden's and now you're rationed breaking with a very long tradition there and the trump presidency has been like no other and while many are claiming now they're glad it's over there surely moments of the

stars are in store for us all here's how donald trump himself might look back at all. the luck. of the luck. in the.

lead up. still have a number of restaurants in italy a flop coronavirus restrictions by keeping their doors open and protests over the curbs we hear from one of the owners behind the protest after the sharp right.

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probably be companies in your town is a. welcome back and oddly a number of restaurants have refused to close their doors in protest over coronavirus rules the country is currently under tough restrictions requiring restaurants and cafes to close by 6 pm on business owner said she believes the infection risk posed by restaurants is being exaggerated. no no i'm not afraid that we might spread coffee because we respect all the regulations distance in masks 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 they should at least not make us fail. the protests kicked off on social media earlier this month under the hashtag i am open but despite strong support online the number of restaurant owners taking part in the protest itself was reportedly low to flout the rules however were issued with fines by police and lee it was the epicenter of the core of our spending europe with the country introducing new restrictions only last week as it races itself for a 3rd wave mary mark believes the curbs have pushed her sector to the brink. with the state's support if we can call it that didn't even cover the basics deals rents and so on we haven't had any real how 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 explain chanson 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 owning so gone we at the end after a year of this we don't have enough money to cover our expenses plus a return to some news in brief from around the world. in the presence of the tom put on a colorful and musical display they were celebrating their painter in st sebastian and people did their best to don anti covert face masks along with their bright costumes. from sunny nicaragua to freezing cold russia where low temperatures have given a wintry touch to one of the best known buildings in moscow as temperatures in the capital plummeted the normally gold 9 meter star on the moscow state university

campus turn into something more closely resembling a giant snowflake the building is the tallest of the stalin era skyscrapers in the city and was the tallest in europe until 1900. and in the moscow region a very special employee has joined a local rescue team according to our colleagues the welsh corgi name rusa is obedient a great swimmer and very outgoing a pup not only gives the rescue team a helping paul with their daily duties but also helps them unwind after a hard day at their break down of today's top headlines for now but if you're looking for more you can always head on over to our website or to dot com thanks to me at this hour. the world is driven by a dream shaped by one person. no

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this has been bust the one business show you can't afford to mess i'm rachel love and then washington coming out fight is nominee for treasury secretary uses her confirmation hearing to call for the floor for a 1.9 trillion dollar coronavirus relief bill and the markets they're reacting to the hope of new stimulus what to vaccine race is in full speed but the w.h.o. insane lower income families have been hauled up forgotten as the world's

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