that will never change this obesity epidemic that industry has been influencing very deeply the medical and scientific has failed. so what's driving the obesity epidemic it's time for both of. shopping centers food courts and even the and the opera house these are just some of the places where moscow residents are being vaccinated as the nationwide campaign is expanded. also this hour germany extends its lock down to the mid february despite pushback from the public after a spike in front of arson cases. and donald trump steps out of the white house for the last time as u.s. presence all a massive security operation unfolds in washington d.c. but the you know you ration of his successor go by. i guess it's a pretty good chance what they do it's what they've lost a lot of pretty much the whole downtown area just to barricade the checkpoint

there's no concrete blocks everywhere never seen security like this here or anywhere in america. watching march international coming to you live from the russian capital where it's just turned 5 pm welcome to the program russia is in a race against time to get its population vaccinated against kobe at 19 and here in moscow the authorities are getting creative with new hubs being set up in some surprising locations artie's constant reports. 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 is reserved for employees of moscow theaters let's have a listen to their take on the vaccination and the pandemic in general. let me a good local 1st 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 do you vote 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 me. 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 a brooch. well 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 spot nick live version of its major coronavirus 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 $40000000.00 russians must be vaccinated in the next 7 months this is school wide 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 the 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 age of this is and of course the vaccination points like this one are go into play a role besides theatres and cinemas themselves one population to get successful 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

jobs are taken the sooner life can get back to normal. germany is extending and toughening its covered lockdown due to soaring and faction rape. and chancellor merkel's and comes amid rising public hostility towards the restrictions and the law 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 and that of course is a huge step in we understand what damn 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 for serious worry these and 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 limiting contact and continuing to bring down infection numbers is so important. all 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 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. in the coming hours joe biden will become the $46.00 president of the united states every inauguration is a momentous event for america but this time around the ceremony will look markedly different and large crowds and no parades instead almost 200000 flags have been placed on the national mall they represent the people who were prevented from coming by the pandemic other safety measures don't relate to code though 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 hunt 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 a human 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 so the latest work says 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 promiscuous 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 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 there and 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 and violation of anti pandemic rules outside to fears that a day of suppose a celebration could have disastrous consequences are. 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 troops there guarding 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 guard 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 stab freeway 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. pretty much the whole downtown areas to the barricades and 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 and there is 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 i'll be watching . when i 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 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 foundations of the parties because something needs to be done these these congo on 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 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 aren't always truthful and in this case it isn't they're 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 react 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 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 trump is skipping the integration and flying the into florida not so much as a 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 your ration of joe biden but the the imagery of 25 a nation governed. by a government that is not recognized as legitimate by that number that you know that percentage of the american 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 assessments conducted after the storming of the capital itself 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 we canvass opinions in new york and texas there are real divisions and i think that comes from sort of lasting caste system at least now. i mean there's a lot of political divides that are often sort of manufactured i think that through walk through things that happen at the capitol to get it i mean it's really easy to feel like they're trying to be scolded for i would say that really not a good spot there has to be you want to keep this country. going apart. you know that and then the serious serious thing you know the president you have $400.00 in individuals americans dying from poor 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 if it's not a very. good day 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. at the same time another poll has revealed that 32 percent of europeans think the u.s. can't be trusted and over 60 percent of respondents america's political system has 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 5050. 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 would be more friendly towards the e.u. because under trump there was a lot of distance between the 2 that'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 about i think other nations because so it's going to get better but it's not going to happen overnight i know that by the small pro you from. but i think vested interest in the tradition of friendship trade relationships and. we can now bring and live news anchor at c g t m in beijing who is also previously the network's chief u.s. correspondent what are your expectations for today's ceremony how different will be from previous ones. well this is a very unusual let's say on american ceremony in that and outgoing president did not really greet the incoming president the transfer of power was anything but peaceful. you know something you know

a peaceful transfer of power of course has been touted as part of the american institution part of u.s. democracy by people from the left and right but this year on fortunately we're not seen diets and of course as you can see right now a heavy presence in washington d.c. a very different town now when i was there 4 years ago covering the naki ration of triumph january 20th 2017. i can tell you had better memories of america before that day could you tell us about how the inauguration build up is being viewed from china's perspective. well i think for one thing beijing is ready to work who are divided at the ministry on a whole host of issues from climate change to improving trade relations to really stop this ask leading trade war that does neither side any good and. to some extent reset this relations to make it more cooperative less confrontational but i think

beijing is also ready to have a very realistic expectation of america of the by the administration because his hands can be tied let's face it there's a midterm election in 2 years senator kerry lection in 4 years and the military industrial complex in washington d.c. is not going away some think tanks that tend to be hawkish that profit from it confrontational you know her relationship with china are not going away. they're funded by the major military many factors weapons manufacturers in washington so watching this from beijing i think policymakers i would assume that i would assume have a very realistic expectation of the by the insertion when it comes to trampy actually found time to mention what he calls the china virus again before boarding air force one for the last time he's been blaming beijing for the pandemic since

the outset are some in the government they're really glad to see him go. well you know what i do not know for a fact howell how the others of this country feel about it so i can't tell you hi and some of my friends feel about it. trump has been let's face it there are tears charismatic leader but the is fanatic he rallied a base that is white nationalist ultra right right that was capable of doing the damage as they did to the capitol hill as we saw a week ago. and here's a very divisive figure it launched a mccarthyist take. a fanatic cold war new cold war on china since 2018 that aims to ban our chinese communist party members and their families which amounted to hundreds of millions of them from coming into america the you know

really scapegoat of china for his administration's incapacity incapability of controlling and preventing this virus from going to this point and china was the easy scapegoat and he and pump ala peter navarro bannon went all out for it. this is not courage this is cowardness you were mentioning earlier attending. inauguration 4 years ago what kind of town does this unusual ceremony with its huge military presence and flags instead of crowds well except for biden's presidency. well really i'm worried about a few things 1st of all biden's a decent man he had his fair share of diversity in his life i think many people in china wish him well but we also realize that there are some institutional obstacles that by then we need to face for example how can he certain band the congressional filibuster of course his party has a you know

a slim majority in both chambers of congress but the democrats will need really 60 votes in the senate to defeat if in the muster something that the democrats don't have and if joe biden wants to go further than his initial policy proposals with executive orders to really go deep and change america structural problems from you know amending constitutions the electoral college system the voting rights system you really have to need 2 thirds majority in the senate in many cases to make that happen something the democrats don't have again so on top of that there is of course this division over 70 percent of republicans still think that the real election by then one was wrecked so much division not just with the left and right but within each faction. within each group there are different factions that there are you know really radicalized i'm worried about that. we've been speaking with

when one news anchor at c.d.t. and bay thank you for your time and your comments. just over an hour ago donald trump left the white house for the last time as u.s. president he was flown to joint base andrews in nearby maryland for a brief sendoff ceremony and gave a speech speech wishing luck to the new administration and promising his supporters that filthy back. things that we've done have been just incredible and i couldn't have done i'm done it without you so just. say goodbye we love you we will be back in some form. there's no denying the trumpet presidency has been like no other and while many are claiming now they're glad it's over there are surely a few moments of nostalgia here's how the trump himself might look back at all.

yes. that's all for this hour news wise but if all those stories have been quenched your thirst for news head on over to our web site r.t. dot com for countless articles and interviews thanks for tuning in. i'm after a time see welcome to another lockdown edition of going underground today on the day the joe biden his inauguration is the 46th president of the united states of

america in a ceremony guarded by 25000 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 has 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 frugality 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 and we are at the vanguard of the mass coronavirus injection campaign why are you concerned about the vaccines currently on the market i don't think i'm worried about the back seat you know when

you're talking about a vaccine this is the only weapon we'll get an a viruses or any you know kind of a positive so i'm won't worry about the vaccine the same for the car we did 98 is the 1st time ever the home of beings could use our vaccine against car the virus is specified according to 19 everybody already knows we have a so many are new and balakot we deny it so because we have so many are new and we want to have we're actually you know. you checked it to the. so-called. healthy population we are worried whether or not there might be some other word event so this is a everybody is worried oh ever while you are talking about why we are to you these because that's a no other choice we are leaving all these ers we are also working very hard try to do the ballots between the risk and benefit because we our assessment tell

us us the vaccination and the huge actually the vaccine it's better that you take the risk for the coffee the night you can see it because we do have the herd immunity you the whole word the virus got a chance to be mutated you are they go to 5 or 6 you take you to viruses we loudly immunity pressure the hours we will keep you taking this is our bari so you general we sued to take an 8 you think there's a risk for vaccination rather than wheat we cannot wait at a more. comments you may have been exaggerated in the in the media about your concern over the pfizer vaccine this certainly is 0 evidence that that in norway directly linked to the m r n a vaccine. why do you think there have been reports of

your concern over them are in a vaccine.