blue, she knew the just a a the u. s. co been to respond to that new road block, sad testing capacity runs out with the de infection rate. surging doesn't polls. in some states, we have a surge when we do need more testing centers. i mean, look at these lines that is all horrible. honestly. you know, most of our friends have to wait on line for hours an hour to get her food. i've had to wait, i'm blind for hours to get touch with the on the cross train fog travel, cale aligned count for more than 5000 christmas weekend slides needing 1000000 granted to close. hello. thank you very much for joining us here on all

t sunset. we've been searching for you around the world. tell us in your own woods where all you from. one man here doesn't need pain. got is a poor father christmas. he get the past of welcome to our correspondent on a trip to land. a watching all the international we are live from up go on. it is saturday, the 25th of december. so if everyone celebrating a very, very merry christmas getting started, the u. s. as i said is seeing a such a while the co infection rates all searching in the u. s. up 55 percent in the past 2 weeks. now in new york, texas and new jersey, they've more than doubled with the spread of the on the con variant and in florida they've jumped sevenfold while on tuesday, joe biden promised half

a 1000000000 free test the for americans. he will so pledge to open more testing sites, although many testing centers have actually closed down to staff shortages, including 13 in new york, 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 are waiting to get coven tests here and manhattan. that is a horrible, honestly, you know, 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 lines for hours to get tested. so it makes no sense to be that's not good. it's probably why i'm standing on line and the 26 degree weather, the end of the day. it's the holidays. we have a search, 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. a lot of

people need to get tested. sidenote, they're saved. it 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 to say, 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. found she the 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, refuse to get vaccinated. the virus is going to find you, please get vaccinated. all these people who've not been vaccinated, you have an obligation to yourself, to your family, and quite frankly,

i'm not criticizing this to your country, get faxes it now it's free. it's convenient. i promise you, which saves lives. i honest to god, believe it, you, patriarch, duty really big long lines here. 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. while countries grew up with the ever changing requirements of the con demik christmas, travel has taken a hit. more than 5000 flights have been cancelled for the festive, weaker meaning. the millions of people have been left stranded. reasons include, coven outbreaks, among cabin crews, and of course, new cross border safety checks on these point, say reports from berlin on the cale facing travelers. a christmas nice no. and you can across the united states as flights are cancelled. and people always,

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 plains been delayed. it comes as of tons of cancels a dozen long distance flights and suspends popular connections, g to low demand and pilots falling sick. some 33000 connections have been canceled . that if we 10th planned flight and b, lufthansa chief is angry at the european union. he says that the company would have to pay off a 2000 in t flights to follow e rule and not to move landing sloths 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, these bottom is king. for those who are planning the holidays across the atlantic, be 2 biggest american airlines, delta and united, have cancelled around $200.00 flights according to the carriers. the reason is a spike in only con cases and to quote, an exhaustion of options and resources. this follows a call to the us authorities by the delta t o who asked to cut quarantine for fully vaccinated people to 5 days from the current. tim, these developments come several months after the fi. oh, of another american, a long southwest, ordered his employees to be fully vaccinated against by the same. let's take a look at how this happened. several months ago. me

in the news . 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 invoice vaccine in place by december the 8th. so we're working through

that. ah, ah, in this case, the established is what be easiest time to flying back to our team, peter over manage to catch a plane to lot planned on a mission to track down none other than 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 everyone knows in africa. yeah. yeah. yeah. right. yeah. so you get to to look to, oh, so left to right and yes so, so are on there. i have no idea, but i guess somewhere in finland the present day. i think santa claus are probably living somewhere where there's a night feed and night,

little i factory that he has were all the toys actually sackcloth or isn't in norway in new york. the north wall. new york. 6 city, north paw in north america. the answer is usually that he lives in the north pole. but there's a few problems with that. firstly, best 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 sun to slay is the elite team over reindeer and looking after those reindeer is johan, who has the wonderful title of rain? dia 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 radius can't live in the north po can like no, am i sans ice originally from a mount ear, quarter of

a balloon glory. but he was here in robin name it because it's easier for people to reach to him then i'm the ranges are here in northwell. there's nothing to leave round. you look after the reindeer, how do you whisper to a reindeer? what makes hello heard his name. what makes a good rain d. f. 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 are 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, chilling, laying down, eating, chatting with the friends, you know? but that leaves us with quite the problem. what about all of the letters to enter 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 poll here. he's taking some time out of her dear to talk to her 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 arrived 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 with santa get and her 1st we thought 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 where 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 made 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 mira 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 to speak to the man himself. santa claus. hello. thank you very much for joining us here on arte sunset . we've been searching for you around the world. tell us in your own words, where are you from? oh, i am from here. las vegas? yeah, i've been here for. oh, really long time. actually here on the arctic circle i. g. o small than 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 distance isn't all over the world,

can 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 what i ranges, they fly, no, go to phyllis and on the tricks. no exclusive fear. first of all, remember world is the wild evenings of the time zones. okay. so will you travel? you all the time, the same time sometimes on the banjo. like that's how you do it. well, well, the other way, sir. the santa china thought, oh christmas eve. how tiring? nice, going very slowly while you're waiting. oh, well, that's my other secret. the world is turning around that day, a little bit slow. thank you very much. santa claus. a merry christmas. you all are married. and a very merry christmas for me as well. peter,

all of her for our tea in santa's village in the arctic circle. lapland. and from traditional christians i dance to something more. wow. if a fast, if it chair pushes too many boundaries here, well, hes not active. ah christmas. the traditional yuletide holiday this year, making this traditional with a special christmas guide. mm. christmas tolerance diversity guide. we all know that christmas is a family holiday. that makes oral your parents are properly number i am this year. follow the agenda and make us know woman instead of snow man. or even better that this new person designed for themselves. ah, no gifts,

no don't. so teddy bears prepare your children for the brave new world. i remember diversity is not at i o is no longer an appropriate costume. this is appropriation, zoological appropriation offensive to the dear community. mm hm. and obviously sandra new 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 sandler is not coming to town anymore. i follow these instructions.

stick to the spirit of christmas. you decide? oh oh oh. join me every thursday on the alex salmon. sure. and i'll be speaking to guess in the world of politics, sport, business, i'm show business. i'll see you then. 0, one of the major fights, chance to merge with president bush junior, was in 2008 this so called bucharest, something at that stage. the united states actually wanted for georgia and ukraine to get them and nato membership to start the so called membership action

class. and it was germany that stop that and then said, no, no, we don't want to do that because these countries will not add to the stability of nato, which is one of the prerequisites in the nature of treaty with i'll come back and the 2nd richest man has left out a cnn in an interview at tessa basil mosque, a job that he's not provide enough to pay on the news network. you know, what, what was it you said the the requirement for being a cnn? cnn?

as are you, are you pervert, i have lots of well, our quip followed a series of controversies out cnn and co. chris cuomo was recently fired for lying about helping out his brother than governor of new york. both siblings have been accused of sexual misconduct and of a sin and presented as don eminent screens has been served for sexually assaulting a man in a bar a claim he denies. most recent evo, producer john griffin was charged with sex crimes against children. while in the light of one of those, we got reaction from legal and meta unlist, 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, celine, besmirch and 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 explain, 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 the and n, he's absolutely correct. so, prediction year 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. ah, today marks thought he as soon as the symbolic and all the us all the credit and so

get flag was lowered and replaced by the colors of the russian federation with president we call gorbachev announcing his resignation. just reminder, of course the u. s. and saw united by the communist ideology existed for almost 70 years. however, the relation between its republic becomes rocky. with the liberalizing policy of perestroika doing little to stabilize the situation. the union was replaced by 50 newly formed states among them. of course, russia. some of these now formed the commonwealth of independent states. we asked people in moscow how they felt about the collapse of the soviet union. the downside is that the last territory, we could not restrain the urge of certain nations to gain independence. it was inevitable. it was going to happen anyway, but little soon period when an empire is collapsing, it's always bad because something big and united fragments into 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 as well lived together. we could travel to all our republics now at silver. you cannot go so easily with lou on a financial level, but in terms of our basics, wife has improved option. as for everything else, on an ideological level, things are not as good. the youth of today are lacking in ideas. there is no shared sense of purpose within the country. don't accordingly also get the collective opinion from grandparents and parents is that it was better with usaa. education was better, perhaps everyone's mood was good, but i think there is more freedom. now there is little trouble that was just a pretty long as it has definitely become better now. we are not as isolated as we were before, but there is more opportunity for a self fulfillment inside the country. she was more missed when the following day you a thought was formally dissolved that was rejoicing in the us at the demise of its main rival. the noodles, very different and socialist countries like china, al,

you're and i spoke with our guests about those well changing events the, the collapse of the soviet union is don't political leadership. and that is a job is the main person who bears responsibility. 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 anatomy . what is your listen? and they fell out. they hated one another. now had deals and go work together. so would you probably been with us today? that's all we had to reform. those reforms are absolutely necessary. the gorbachev was working on 2 fonts, 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 then russia to, to come to terms we'll say that see in the pay say that space,

the number of conflicts, whether that's new going a car back from touch cheapest on to for example, k cost on is back on tv. 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 a bare, been rather narrow to tell you, waited, but the feeling of community community policy that existed within the soviet union, that local level, that is lost. and i think everybody knows results of the disintegration at the beginning of the, at the soviet union, that there was a real hope for a confederate world confederation. and that failed immediately after that initial period after going to charles reform stale. and yes,

and you also to try to engage with the united states. and europe is the that field as well. he gave 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 you tube, it proved to be a utopia. it's not just a matter of what was done for, for people in the countries of the soviet unit itself. it was also the way in which the soviet union was able to interact with the rest of the world. and overall, it's present 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. well, something politician for the fall of the u. s. a saw as inevitable several years even before it happened. one of them was unlocked about now in the mid 1980, she became a member of the supreme sophia. and want to keep us is our together. as a student, socialist, she was also an outspoken critic of me. call the child saying his actions as the cause of the unions collapse. now in her late sixty's and a lot of i still active and political life starving is child rushes piece and unity parting. i don't know, quarter, but to me and the doff by sponsors back then in the huge soviet union or any person created, worked, lived, and believed that tomorrow would be better. and in fact, it was to day, we see what a beautiful planet we had. we looked abroad and it seemed that all the democracy, all the beauty was there. we wanted to be like them. although the culture,

beauty and morality, which was in the soviet union, wasn't in any other country. i don't want to offend anyone, but this is a fact. the great soviet union was the 2nd world power in most respects. 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. we strongly opposed gorbachev on his policy of perestroika, how to go, which often ruined the country where you've got what your gorbachev came to destroy the country. i was sure of that when people asked him the question, what is perestroika? he himself could not explain it. and so a man came and destroyed the country from the inside. from the top, are you from very much know the gum in the markets economy was one of the main aspects of perestroika. do you think it was a mistake to replace the planned economy with the markets one yet? those muslims cause i have to tell you, it wasn't the market economy. of course, capitalism is basically a terrible system. capitalism assumes only

a bunch of people can own, the wealth of the country. the world is and the market economy, if it had been introduced as the ussr planned, it would have been wonderful. it would be a welfare state. whether we like it or not, the whole world will come to this because capitalism has outlived its usefulness. capitalism, as lennon said, ill always pregnant with was, was attacks provocation, seizures, all the time, you have to fight. what for you, what are we fighting for? was nobody has the answer go. where do they want to leave the world? today? the arms raised has started again. every one demonstrate who created the big rocket . the plane is that the points us. on the contrary, we must stop off. we're not talking about justice security, the environmental we're talking about who will sees the most for 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 want a shout stop. what do you want and say no guys, let's be friends. the whole point is only in friendship and peace, political little bit. and that's how things are looking are and as ever thanks for joining us, sir. our next our documentary jumps had fastened the marks wild of hacking to sit back and enjoy. ah, 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, often has very dramatic development. only personally and going to resist. i don't see how that strategy will be successful, very political time. time to sit down and talk

with forced to chill. tristan's goal is to child exerted formerly with which one is more about though it was just my way to let him go to that. with his aggressive what was left the key mislabeled bar, i need to sit there and had the i would also feel ethical been for the event with potential support for audiences, a couple of minutes when you was working with the report that was playing with his excuse you wishing that you ignored from italy, downwash when you get here? no, i mean, unless you put that amount with a female power for you with

with i guess the media, we get off no go. and i me a little bit, but because of its stores, when you saw my refund, you issued just the payment of elizabeth gifts, the but because i still need to speak to nervous dealer. mm hm. just got my be other groups off. i thought the oxy organism additionally done is so christmas. gotcha. and then the gigabyte but also does not want it. that can cause their opinions. i'd say this use the probably just for me, exec yes. get the oregon. yes. and then i will continue to lead to start the dollar, lose it on the live and whatnot.