news badges by adult arrival guy. when customers go buy, you reduce the right now, well, reduce the lower that's under cutting, but what's good for food market? it's not good for the global economy. with the headline here on out the international. huge, a huge dwindling us testing centers at amr cotton suite explanation for the daily infection right now increasing 7 fold in certain states. we have a surge when we do need more testing centers. i mean look at these lines. that is are horrible. honestly, you know, most of my friends have to wait on line for hours and hours to get her food. i've had to wait. i'm blind for hours to get tested. and millions of people worldwide facing serious traveled chaos as christmas. the cove with c deadline counseling

flight leaving people drawn to the airport all around the world to close. hello. thank you very much for joining us here on our sunset. we've been searching for you around the world. tell us in your own words, where all you from that chair here when our tea about correspondence had to weigh north all the way to the homeland of father christmas. our story coming up in just a few minutes with hope you're having a great day enjoying a little festive chair with the family. this is all the international welcome to the program. my role research us is seeing a search and amr kron cove it case is all across the country. apparently they're up by 55 percent new york, texas in new jersey. they've more than doubled down south in florida. the sunshine state. they've jumped 7 fold. now on tuesday, joe biden promised half a 1000000000 free tests for americans. he also pledged to open more testing sites,

although many testing centers of actually shutter that shops now you to stop shortages. that includes 13 of them in both new york and new jersey. the lines are growing here in new york city, and so is the frustration. 13 different coven testing centers throughout the city close down to day. all while demand for tests is rising amid and increasing infection rate. we spoke to some people who were waiting to get coven tests here in manhattan. that is a horrible, honestly you see how many people are on this line right here. and most of my friends have to wait on line for hours and hours to get tested. i've had to wait on the line for hours to get tested, so it makes no sense to be. that's not good. probably why i'm standing on line. and the 26th degree weather the end of the day. it's the holidays we have a surge, we have to be vigilant, active, and we do need more testing centers. i mean, look at these lines. there's a 100 people on this line. i think it's making the lines really long. i think

a lot of you will need to get tested sidenote there. save. that becomes a whole drama amongst friends and family. i live with roommates. they need to know . i live in the same room with them and you know, i'm doing this, i'm going testing. now keep in mind, we're seeing a rapid rise in the infection rate throughout new york city. keep in mind the entire cities cove at 19 infection rate, for the month of november, was only $35800.00. so quite a spike in coven, 19 positive tests. now we're here in a situation where people are seeing this as joe biden, not keeping his promises just recently, he was promising more co, good tests would be available. dr. foul g r u. s. government health officials and joe biden is saying that if you're not vaccinated, you shouldn't be seeing your family for the holiday season. i worry so much about people who still to this point, refused to get vaccinated. the virus is going to find you, please get vaccinated. all these people who have not been vaccinated, you have an obligation to yourself, to your family, and quite frankly,

i know you criticize this to your country, get faxes it now it's free. it's convenient. i promise you would save the lives of an honest to god, believe it, your patriotic duty, really big long lines. your anger is rising, frustration is rising. people are angry at the mayor. people are angry at the governor and the new york state government, but people are also angry at the white house, caleb mop and archie, new york. and while countries grapple with the ever changing requirements of cove, it christmas trouble has taken a serious head a more than 5000 flights have now been cancelled for the festive weekend. that means millions of people have been left stranded. now the reasons include a cove at outbreaks among cabin cruiser, also that of a new cross border safety checks. so why fi correspondent, paul, asleep now, reports from berlin on the chaos facing christmas travelers that a chris nice me here and you can across the united states as flight suck,

cancelled, and people to 4 hours a day of celebration has become a day of frustration and chaos with thousands of would be travelers who instead of spending christmas with their friends and family, are being refused to fly. what's more, passengers are complaining. they're only allowed to check in 2 hours before departure. the result, people missing slice and planes being delayed. it comes as of tons of cancels a dozen long distance flights and for spins popular connections, g to low demand and pilots, falling sick. some 33000 connections have been cancelled. that if we temp planned flight and b, lufthansa chief was angry at the european union, he says that the company would have to carry out a 2000 empty flights to follow the rules and not to move landing slots at various airports. while climate friendly exemptions were found in almost

all other parts of the world during the time of the pandemic, the e u does not allow this in the same way that harms the climate and is exactly the opposite of what the commission wants to achieve. meanwhile, this bobby is 2 for those who are planning the holidays across the atlantic. the 2 biggest american airlines, delta and united, have cancelled around $200.00 flights according to the carriers. the reason is a spike in on the concave aces, and to quote, an exhaustion of options and resources. this one is a call to the u. s. authorities by the delta t o, who off to cut quarantine for fully vaccinated people to 5 days from the current. tim, these developments come several months after the fio of another american eylandt southwest ordered his employees to be fully vaccinated against by the same. let's take a look at how that happened several months ago. let me

choose choose . i've never been in favor of corporations imposing in that kind of a mandate executive order from president biden mandates it all federal employees. and then all federal contractors have to have a mandate invalid vaccine in place by december,

the 8th. so we're working through that in well, it's actually not exactly the easiest time to be flying around the world right now . but somehow, peter, all of a did manager catch a flight this time, all the way north to lapland, his mission, to track down for the christmas. he's probably the busiest man on the planet right now. but where santa claus lives generally depends on where in the world you are. where does santa claus live in at the north for i have your nose in africa. yeah. yeah. yeah. right. yeah. so you get to to look to. oh so left to right and yes, oh, so are on there. i have no idea, but i guess somewhere in finland main present day, i think and across a pile of the living somewhere where there's a nice b and night,

little i factory that he has for all the toys actually sank lovers in norway in new york. the north all new york city north fall in north america. the answer is usually that he lives in the north pole. but there's a few problems with that. firstly, there's no buildings there for sumter in his elves to live in, and it's far too cold. secondly, there's no christmas trees at the north pole. in fact, they've no trees at all. and you don't usually see some to slay being pulled by these guys. of course pulling santa's sleigh is the elite team of reindeer and looking after those. reindeer is jo hannah, who has the wonderful title of ring dio whisper. johan, a thanks very much for talking to us. we're looking at where son to lives now. there was some room as he lives in the north pole. but reindeer can't live in the north po, can like, no, am i sans ice originally from

a mount ear corner of the inventory. but he works here in rome. i name it because it's easier for people to reach to him then i'm the radius are here in north fall. there's nothing to eat round. you look after the reindeer. how he whispered to a reindeer, what makes hello heard his name. what makes a good reindeer? a santa ah, the reindeer needs to be patient. it needs to be curious. it needs to be strong enough and bold enough. if they are too shy, they afraid to fly over the skies. now what does the rain do? you do for relaxation when it's not flying. they are just, you know, killing, laying down, eating, chatting with the friends, you know, but that leaves us with quite the problem. what about all of the letters to santa that are addressed to him at the north pole? i'm here in the bustling epicenter of santa's post office and joined by a very busy postal elf called here to he's taken some time out of her dear to talk to 30. thanks very much welcome welcome to santa claus main,

post office. thank you very much for having me. now. the question i have is, what do you do here with all of those letters that arrive from the girls and boys all over the world? well, 1st of all, this very, very many letters that arrived every year. there's always are over half a 1000000 letters that sent to get and the 1st we sought him out by the country. and so that's what i'm doing here right now. santa has received a letter sir, around $200.00 countries so far. so what happens to those letters that are addressed to the north pole? please tell me they come here. they come here, let me see if i do have here some. ah example, for example over here. so this is the place way they all end up anyway, so they come to the right may even though you put the wrong address in it. well that's good to know that everybody watching make sure that their letters always arrive with santa claus. well, it's good to know that santa is receiving his mail here in lapland,

but this wasn't always his address. most theologians will agree that saint nicholas was born in nor around the mediterranean coastal town of mirror. now damira in turkey in around $288.00 d. however, there's not many images of santa in his home town on christmas cards. well, there is one way to settle this argument good and proper and the speak to the man himself, santa claus. hello. thank you very much for joining us here on our t sun. we've been searching for you around the world. tell us in your own words, where are you from? oh, phone. i am from here. you got last dd. yeah, i've been here for a scream. the long time actually here on the arctic circle, i hawking walden way over 30 years in my house. yes. yeah. i have my office now here. i'm here every day of the year. so children all over the world can come and meet me,

but you're able to travel extreme distances and all over the world to make sure that you deliver toys to the boys and girls. how does that happen? oh, that is actually quite easy. oh oh, you know my, my ranges, they fly, no go to phyllis and on the tricks. no exclusive here. first of all, remember the world is the wild even into the time. so. okay. so will you travel you all the time? the same plan from times on the danza. like that's how you do it. well, well, the other way, sir. the santa, have you ever thought, oh, christmas eve. how tiring? nice. going very slowly while you're waiting on. well, that's my other secret. the world is turning around that day, a little bit slow. thank you very much. santa claus. it, mary. you all,

mary. i and a very merry christmas for me as well. peter, all of them for r. t in santa's village in the arctic circle. lapland. and so from a traditional christmas idea to something more woke, if festive chair pushes to many boundaries for you here is a possible alternative. ah christmas. the traditional yuletide holiday this year. i'm making this traditional with a special christmas guide. me christmas tolerance diversity guide. we all know that christmas is a family holiday. i make sure all your parents are properly numbered. i follow the agenda and make us no woman instead of snow man or even better at this new person designed for themselves.

ah no gifts, no, don't any better. prepare your children for the brave new world. i remember diversity is not at all i o is no longer an appropriate costume. this is appropriation, zoological appropriation offensive to the dear community. mm hm. and obviously, sandra, know, has to be cancelled. i because he is a white, his gender male who amuses mrs. close, discriminate against children based on behavior. whereas red, which is a communist color, makes children sit on his lap, makes people destroy trees and exploit sales. so sorry kids center is not coming to town anymore. i follow these instructions

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. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have. it's crazy confrontation, let it be an arms race is on offense. very dramatic. development only personally and getting to resist. i don't see how that strategy will be successful, very critical time time to sit down and talk with it is good to have you with us to day. now the world's richest man has lashed out.

let's see, an, an in an interview, tesla boss. ellen must joke that he's a not perverted enough to appear on that news network. you know, what, what was it you said the the requirement for being a cnn georgiana is, are you, are you pervert voted or? no? well, i quip followed a series of controversies, etc. and, and you may know some of them anchor chris cuomo right there. recently, 5, lying about helping his brother then governor of new york. both of them have been accused of sexual misconduct by the way and other c and, and presenter. right there. don lehman has been sued for sexually assaulting a man in a bar. it's a claim he denies. and most recently cnn producer right that john griffin was charged with sex crimes against children. well, we got reaction from legal and media analysts, lionel. let's go back to what chris cuomo did. not only was he providing strategy to his brother, but he was working with his governor staff,

one in particular. and he was talking about basically how they could sullying besmirch in impede the reputation of those women who might be making these allegations of the 1st place. so now this transcends strategy sessions from going and deliberately targeting and the conspiracy to impugn the integrity of women who dared complain about untoward behavior. this is not at all consistent. so one thing i wanna just explained that i think of 2022 brings something to bear along with the death and the destruction and the, the, the internment of, of, of, or in terms of i should say of cnn is the fact that what is really news today is not what people think. sometimes a satirical is more, is more on point now as far as see and n. he's absolutely correct. so prediction here to be to be

waxing vatike in python and it's going to be over for that wretched news organization before you know it because everything that mr. musk said is true. so today, ma to 30 years since the symbolic end of the ussr, the gremlins soviet flag was lowered and replaced by the colors of the russian federation. of course then president mikhail gorbachev, announcing his resignation. now the u. s. s. are united by that of a communist ideology. it existed for nearly 70 years. however, relations between its republics had become a bit rocky, with the liberalizing policy of perestroika doing pretty little to stabilize the situation. of the union, of course, replaced by 15 newly formed states among them, russia, of course, and some of those now form that of the commonwealth of independent states. while here at r t, we hit the streets of the russian capital to ask people 30 years on how they felt about the collapse of the soviet union. i me downside is that we lost territory. we

could not restrain the urge of certain nations to get into band and say it was inevitable that it was going to happen anyway. but little soon period when an empire is collapsing is always bad because something being united. so from what recommends you to a lot of smaller pieces, and it always ends up in war because everyone starts to have their own ambitions. there's a lot of war and anger and beats as well lived together. we could travel to all our republics. now at silver, he cannot go so easily with lou on a financial level that interject our basic surgery, life has improved off sources for everything else. so on an ideological level, things are not as good. the youth of today are like him in ideas. there is no shares. yes, but you're still the county of the year was built according miasca. right. the connected opinion from grandparents and parents. what is that? it was better when you are so sorry. education was better. perhaps everyone's new. good. i think there is more freedom now there's little sub. oh that was just a president who has definitely become better now. we are not as isolated as we were

before us. look, there is more opportunity for self fulfillment inside the country, which was more when the following day, the ussr was formerly dissolved, there was rejoicing in washington and ultimately at the demise of its main rival. though the mood was rather different and socialist countries like china and my colleagues saskia taylor looked back on. those are well changing events with a panel of guests. i know that they say that every empire crumbles. do you think that the collapse of the safety union was inevitable? the, the collapse of the soviet union don't political leadership and that is a job. is the main, a good thing. one of the reasons why he was so unsuccessful was he attended economic, economic, and political reform at the same time. and the other thing was that he had an enemy, but as you're listen and they fell out, they hated one another. now had you go to work together, so would you probably been with us today. so we had to reform those reforms are

absolutely necessary. the gorbachev was working on 2 fronts, one to reform the soviet union inside, and also to reform its relations with the capitalist world. and he tried his efforts there failed because of the inability of the united states in russia, the union in russia to, to come to terms we'll say that see in the pay. so that space, the number of conflicts. whether that's not going to come back from touch cheapest on to for example, take us on is back on team. do you think that we would have seen those kinds of disputes if the u. s. a saw had remained a whole the biggest loss i think of all in terms of. busy relations human relations. ready was the breakdown of their been rather narrow to tell you, waited the feeling of community community our see that existed within the soviet union,

that local level that is lost and i think everybody knows resolves the disintegration at the beginning of the soviet union. there was a real hope for a confederate world confederation and that fail immediately after that initial period after going reforms, dale and yes, and you also to try to engage with the united states and, and the europeans that failed as well. hey, give the world a vision of a fair society, a just society, and on paper, it was the fairest and the best society you can imagine. but it was a utopia. it proved to be a utopia. it's not just a matter of what was done for people in the countries over the soviet unit itself. it was also the way in which the soviet

union was able to interact with the rest of the world. ready and over ruled it's presence was i would say very positive. and since then, the lack of having the soviet union has made the world a much more dangerous place and a place much more dominated by big capital in a way that has been disastrous for the climate and disastrous for a majority of the world's population. some soviet politicians, the saw, the fall of the u. s. s. are inevitable. several years before it even happened. one of them was a g. i'm a lot of in the mid 1080, she became a member of the supreme soviet and work to keep the u. s. s. all together as a staunch socialist or she was also an outspoken critic. all but then president mikhail gorbachev. seeing his actions as the course. so the unions collapse. and now in her late sixty's, i'm a lot of a, it's still active and political life serving as chair of rushers,

peace and unity party. and i'll be correspondent donald quarter, got a chance to go to the time. and the doff by some serious back then in the huge soviet union of any person created work to leave and believed that tomorrow would be better. and in fact, it was him to day, we see what a beautiful planet we had a long as we looked abroad. and it seemed that all the democracy, all the beauty was there and we wanted to be like them is. although our culture's music and morality, which was in love with union, wasn't in any other country. luckily, i don't want to offend anyone like you are. this is affecting the great soviet union was the 2nd world power in most respects i. although in some it was ahead of the united states, this country did not need to be rebuilt. it needed to be improved and moved forward if we were strongly opposed. gorbachev, i have policies about her story. go how to go. which of the room, the country where i can go to watch your gorbachev came to destroy the country. i was sure of that book and we come when people are in the why? sure. what is nearest roy cargo?

he himself could not explain it a biscuit, and so a man came and destroyed the country from the inside or from the thought of value strong, very much. no. the gun on the market economy was one of the main aspects of per store. i was glad you think it was a mistake to replace the plan. the colonies are the more glass you get those small arms cuz i have to tell you it wasn't the market economy which of course, capitalism is basically terrible system. capitalism assumes only a bunch of people can own the wealth of the country or the world, italy's and the market economy. if it had been introduced as the ussr planned, it would have been wonderful. it would be a well 1st danger. because whether we like it or not, the whole world will come to this because capitalism has outlived its usefulness as if on our capitalism. as lennon said, we're not always pregnant with was iraq was attack fabrication range seizures. when you're gone time, you have to fly for cook were what for you, but what are we fighting for boys? so nobody has the answers about where do they want to let the world today, the arms race has started again,

isn't everyone demonstrate who created the big rocket playing field? is that the points us? on the contrary, we must stop the bossman. we're not talking about justice security, the environment voice we're talking about who will seize, demoniac soil. michelle. everything has a beginning and an end, but we are already approaching a point of no return. of course it's terrifying. if today they start rattling their weapons. and so i want to shout somebody stole. what do you want? and say no guys, let's be friends, you, beth. the whole point is only in friendship, this peaceful, political, little for the needy. you know, it's a really interesting chat donna had with him. a lot of are you going to watch it or full right now at auto dot com or at our, our t youtube channel as well. but thank you for joining us here on this special day. all of us here at ortiz or national wishing you a very merry christmas as saskia taylor will be here at the desk in half an hour. so i am with more of your worldwide headlight.

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