welcome to the program on a day when hopes of conquering the coronavirus been demick have seen been served a hefty blow after discovering a new apparently more contagious coronavirus strain of britain more and more countries are barring contact with the u.k. the netherlands was the 1st country to impose a slight ban on sunday morning belgium and italy followed suit later in the day germany joined on sunday but fears over importing this new virus variant are growing and so is the number of countries with precaution precautions friends are led rumania bug areas switzerland spain canada argentina peru colombia and chile have all now banned flights from britain. rushing to catch one of the last flights to britain many passengers here in madrid were hoping to make it before the midnight deadline on sunday the start of the flight ban a lucky few who made it on time to spend christmas with their families others were not so lucky. i was really scared because they had a flight on choose day but i don't know if they're going to cancel all of them in the end so i bought the last seat on this flight t

detachment and ignorance to the actual reality facing the american people during the covert 19 and demick thankfully let them eat cake was only one small cry from up on high that was quickly drowned out by the thousands upon thousands upon thousands this year who took to the streets around the world in the cause of racial justice and equality and while we still have yet to see the real institutional changes we so desperately need we were able to show that the spirit of revolutionary change for the better is still just as powerful it was today as it has been throughout human history not even the globe trotting pandemic could stand in the way of that. now let's start watching the hawks. on a cd. player so you like to see the prizes you always stay see a. great city displays systemic deception. which . brings up the field as. well as watching the. turf. all right stated at the top of the show over the next 2 days will be highlighting some of our most fascinating interviews from the last year and none was more controversial and mainstream believe challenging than when we sat down with the aut

that was 2020 and what a year it has been my friends 2020 brought us everything from pandemics to plan demick from tiger kings to karen queens to unset police violence to rights as protests in the streets we got to witness both the best and the worst of humanity here in the 1st 20 years of the 21st century i mean not only not only did we get a front row seat to the epic the spoiled narcissist meltdown of our brand name in chief one us president donald trump but as an added bonus we as the bungle we were also able to witness the epic failure of the united states congress as well after our pirlo and pocketed leaders like mitch mcconnell nancy pelosi jim jordan and chuck schumer revealed to us not only of their deprived loyalty to deep pocketed party donors but also their let them eat cake levels of detachment and ignorance to the actual reality facing the american people during the covert 19 and demick thankfully let them eat cake was only one small cry from up on high that was quickly drowned out by the thousands upon thousands upon thousands this year who took to the streets around the world

detachment and ignorance to the actual reality facing the american people during the covert 19 and demick thankfully let them eat cake was only one small cry from up on high that was quickly drowned out by the thousands upon thousands upon thousands this year who took to the streets around the world in the cause of racial justice and equality and while we still have yet to see the real institutional changes we so desperately need we were able to show that the spirit of revolutionary change for the better is still just as powerful it was today as it has been throughout human history not even a globe trotting pandemic could stand in the way of that. now let's start watching the hawks. on a city street. there so you can see that this is joyce state. great city displays systemic deception so which. brings up the bill as. you. know watching. her. all right stated at the top of the show over the next 2 days will be highlighting some of our most fascinating interviews from the last year and none was more controversial and mainstream believe challenging than when we sat down with the authors of t

says the global economy is moving towards a recovery and predicts global output will reach preplan demick levels by the end of 2021 with countries like india and china, leading the charge germany's biotech and its u.s. bonafied is or say they filed for european union approval for their coverage. 19 baxi follow similar steps in the u.s. . the u.k. and companies hope to make their vaccine available by the end of this year. us has also requested a year approval for its vaccine. both drugs to be around 95 percent effective, correspondent bruce and sends us this update from frankfurt on the financial markets. high hopes are put of the various promising kind of that's for a corona vaccine. the month of december has started on an upbeat note here at the frankfurt stock exchange of this. after a strong month of november in november alone, the german index dax skate around about 15 percent. now it will be important to bridge the gap until we have a vaccine. that's what many economists are convinced off, which means that government spending should not be ending too soon. and worldwide, government s

community about the latest developments the mayor has been criticized over his handling of the pun demick in this part of the country i think there's a fierce independence a lot of people have made the mistake of calling a cowboy country at one point and people didn't appreciate that but the point of that term meaning we're independent we don't like people telling us what to do. christina bjorkman wishes for more government action against the pen demick in october she lost her husband took over at 19 after a 30 day long struggle at the hospital her order. when. she says his death could have been avoided with stricter rules. the whole mask mandate got political and should have never been political and should have been a medical thing and i think it just got so blown out of proportion and i think maybe it came from our president. he started it. christina bjorkman is pinning her hopes low on the president elect and a nationwide mask mandate once she takes office before then thousands more could die from cold at 19 in south dakota and a role the rest of the united states. the coronavirus situ

the 55 year old says it's always crazy a few weeks before christmas but since the coronavirus kind demick there's been a boom in online shopping logistics companies have been inundated since march back into i definitely noticed a difference of course the number of parcels has gone up after the 1st wave there was massive growth. this december i'll definitely have to work overtime and on my days off to. d h o currently delivers of levon 1000000 parcels a day in germany alone before the pandemic they used to deliver some 5000000 a day. after a 20 minute drive arrives in his delivery district he has 160 parcels to deliver today on some days it can be up to 200 and they can weigh up to over 31 kilograms. that's where i'm off on that we have a lot more large parcels and also more heavy parcels i really noticed that i think the tendency to order online was already there. but the virus has made it so much stronger still people have been shopping online for a while now and then think. with the onset of the pandemic and closed stores the benefits of online shopping become apparent ordering from the

this is the news africa coming up on the program the survival of journalism during it on demick as the media industry deals with the hotshots all the calls are biased and that makes one that gets old media house in south africa is out of print but as about the rights movement also coming up. it's a life threatening journey on water from africa to the come our.

the 55 year old says it's always crazy a few weeks before christmas but since the coronavirus kind demick there's been a boom in online shopping logistics companies have been inundated since march back into i definitely noticed a difference of course the number of parcels has gone up after the 1st wave there was massive growth. this december i'll definitely have to work overtime and on my days off to. d h o currently delivers 11000000 parcels a day in germany alone before the pandemic they used to deliver some 5000000 a day. after a 20 minute drive devolved arrives in his delivery district he has 160 parcels to deliver today on some days it can be up to 200 and they can weigh up to over 31 kilograms. we are we have a lot more large parcels and also more heavy parcels i really noticed that is now but i think the tendency to order online was already there. but the virus has made it so much stronger still people have been shopping online for a while now and then think. with the onset of the pandemic and closed stores the benefits of online shopping become apparent ordering from the comfort o

welcome russian british scientists have agreed to combine forces on their vaccines in a bid to global demick astra zeneca say it is ready to work with the developers of russia. today we announce a clinical trial program to assess safety and immunogenicity of combination of a's a d 1222 developed by astra zeneca and oxford university and sputnik v. developed by russian research institute the vaccine developers hope and combining their drugs could lead to a better immune response to the corona virus the clinical trials will be held here in russia volunteers aged 18 and over the job created by oxford university and astra zeneca meanwhile has shown varying results pending in the dose with an average efficacy of 70 percent no doubts compared rushes sputnik v results so far they are 'd sitting at 90 percent. they have a problem vaccines efficacy isn't high enough this should be improved we have 2 different ads no viruses they will take one of them and use it as a booster i got the thoughts of molecular and professor lawrence younger earlier he ses cross border cooperation is a vital component in t

detachment and ignorance to the actual reality facing the american people during the covert 19 and demick thankfully let them eat cake was only one small cry from up on high that was quickly drowned out by the thousands upon thousands upon thousands this year who took to the streets around the world in the cause of racial justice and equality and while we still have yet to see the real institutional changes we so desperately need we were able to show that the spirit of revolutionary change for the better is still just as powerful it was today as it has been throughout human history not even a globe trotting pandemic could stand in the way of that. now let's start watching the hawks. if you will. in a city. that is so let's see is this. state see a. great city desolate systemic deceptions so which. some things are still. watching the. her. all right stated at the top of the show over the next 2 days will be highlighting some of our most fascinating interviews from the last year and none was more controversial and mainstream believe challenging than when we sat down with the authors of the

a national locked on to talk of the prick now these are the figures since the beginning of the pun demick more than 70000 people have died prime minister decepticon t. has previously denied i.q. sation is that he underestimated the crisis or of the families behind the civil action insists the government was slow to respond. not as of about nothing was done * to prevent the spread of the virus and then obviously we were not ready we didn't have intensive care oxygen masks prepared adequately so regardless of where this virus developed elite was not ready to face said up to now not one politician has responded to the committee or those representing victims to explain the 70000 deaths we've heard nothing from lumber to use regional government help ministry and prime minister contact you are obliged to take a position to write a deed in court and provide an explanation to all of italy's citizens to know her headline stories today versus sputnik v a vaccine has been approved for elderly people after trials demonstrated its effectiveness for those age 60. 2 are reports what we might be dropping

been demick and are a bit demick it is very important to have a one but the that treat it and deal with it in one way. across the country and not . a governor or 3 state to deal with it the different ways so if you have a centralized operation that simple as a bridge will be much more efficient been in achieving the goals compared to each state will deal it differently and also you know in each state you will have different policies and different priorities you have to have a centralized operation and this is what's happening with the team that the others are going to his or put together by. president elect by then and giving the priority to experts in the field to particular the officials and to institutions like me you know and the c.d.c. and the f.d.a. and the department of the human services all these the go there really is that quote a comprehensive approach to the this problem dr can you tell me just on a on a very simple level about manufacturing facts same so they're talking about these 100000000 doses just in the united states alone but in the u.s. across the whole world there

ebola deadly ebola happy demick in. west africa. to deal with a pandemic which was universally agree. with any needs ret the united states some other countries i mean the warnings about this since. the beginning of the millennium have been constant the planning. has been kind of their reports have been guarded since it but it's suddenly united states it's in your country and . most countries of western europe are always planning came to not it was largely. ignored and now in my country the. president tried has who he says are all on which is a medical spokesman name scott apple as he's a parks news commentator who exactly parrots the line that the tribe in ministration expresses that mass probably useless schoolchildren don't transmit the earth and to make the testing should be limited to only people in critically endangered groups trump obvious he says things that he says off of the united states doing better and he certainly is doing better than the united kingdom on deaths per capita well in the case of britain i mean i think you

the blow of deadly ebola happy demick in west africa. to deal with a pandemic which it was universally agreed. was any need for at the united states some other countries i mean the warnings about this since. the beginning of the millennium have been constant the planning. has been kind of the reports have been gotten since but it's suddenly the united states it seemed your country and. most countries of western europe are always planning came to not it was largely ignored and now in my country. president trout has who he says are all on which is a medical spokesman name scott adler's he's a park's news commentator who exactly parrots the line that the trouble ministration expresses that a mass probably useless schoolchildren don't transmit the earth and to make the test change should be limited to only people in critically endangered groups travis a says things that he says off of the united states doing better and he certainly is doing better than they're the united kingdom on deaths per capita well in the case of britain i mean i think

ebola deadly ebola happy demick in. west africa. to deal with a pandemic which was universally agree. with any needs read the united states some other countries i mean the warnings about this since. the beginning of the millennium have been constant the planet. has been kind of their reports have been gone since it but it's suddenly united states it's in your country and. most countries of western europe are always planning came to not resolved we. ignored and now in my country. president tribe has who he says are all on which is a medical spokesman name scott apple as he's a parks news commentator who exactly parrots the line that the tribe in ministration expresses that mass probably useless schoolchildren don't transmit the earth and to make the testing should be limited to only people in critically endangered groups trump obvious he says things that he says off of the united states doing better and he certainly is doing better than that the united kingdom on deaths per capita well in the case of britain i mean i think. it is now

it bloweth deadly ebola happy demick in west africa. to deal with a pandemic which it was universally agree. was in the needs threat the united states some other countries i mean the warnings about this since. the beginning of the millennium have been constant the planning. has been kind of there are reports that have been dance into it but it's suddenly the united states it seemed your country and. most countries of western europe are always planning came to not resolved really ignored and now in my country. president trout has who it is desirable on which is a medical spokesman name scott adler's he's a parks news commentator who exactly parrots the line that the tribal ministration expresses that mass probably useless schoolchildren don't transmit the earth and to make the testing should be limited to only people in critically endangered groups travis a says things that he says off of united faith doing better and he certainly is doing better than their the united kingdom on deaths per capita well in the case of britain i mean i thin

but the pen demick has on lost some hot truths. to hocus become heroes no amount of tech innovation to keep our street food culture alive. the stories of abuse in aged care homes in the west to shock the world that there's no answer to wonder when he speaks those sending elderly loved ones to thailand to live out their death on al-jazeera. i've been covering all of that in america for most of my career but no country is alike and it's my job to shed light on how and why a new perspective can change a world. so one chin is ian could began as a hobby has grown into a passion own way of life. teaching the next generation to strive for a higher level. and in so instilling in his country. a sense of freedom and strength. on al-jazeera. u.s. politicians vote on a massive coronavirus relief package of the country's total number of infections also is $18000000.00. better than oracle on a says al jazeera live from doha also coming up facing isolation more countries shut their borders to the u.k. of a phase of a mutated strain of covert 19.

the already tough job for health care workers has only become more challenging in the pen demick regardless of which part of the world hears the w.'s all over salads with his report from the u.s. state of south dakota. south dakota one of america's least populated states but yet the virus has spiraled out of control here like nowhere else in the u.s. . in the city of sue false a mask mandate was put in place recently without sanctions many citizens remain defiant i think it's a good idea that people wear masks but some people balk at the idea of being told to do so i think with some of the shutdowns are doing and the picking and choosing that they're doing is making it very difficult for a lot of businesses like most of people nowadays like even ehlers are not right now but i think it's for the best like there's happy. south dakota now sees the highest hospitalisation rate of the u.s. and there is no relief in sight here at the a verum a cannon hospital the intensive care unit is at capacity patients are dying from cold on a daily basis putting a big strain on nurses and doctors who are inc

but the pen demick has on mosques some hot truths. to haunt us become heroes no amount of tech innovation to keep our street food culture alive. grease the birthplace of democracy but ethnic turks from the northeast tell a different story the greeks they bounce to control our religion our believe their religious leaders jailed journalists silenced schools closed and a surge in the far right they say that if you don't like police you can both hurt you why i'm turkish but i'm most of the people in power investigates western thrice contested space on al-jazeera the virus is indiscriminate get those living in poverty are far more vulnerable to the dangers of covert naive i'll be re-examined the reasons for this disparity the social and economic inequalities that surround us from much deeper and much more problematic. and refill and asks whether lessons learned from the global pandemic could lead to positive change. the fix thank him will be all hail the lockdown exposes privilege and poverty during a crisis on a. bi chair and authority sa

governments to combat the spread of false information on covert vaccines which he calls a 2nd punk demick francesco rocca did that public reluctance to take the job could still to counter the virus. we believe that the massive coordinated efforts that will be needed to roll out the covert vaccine in an acquittal manner need to be paralleled by equally massive efforts to proactively build and maintain trust cited survey showing that in many countries most are unwilling to take a covert vaccine and as examples of fake news he highlighted a popular belief that the virus doesn't affect young people all africans and also claims that the virus has disappeared and the pandemic is over the red cross director for health and cat told us he believes public acceptance of covert vaccines will emerge over time well the reason one element these is a new prime demick a new virus that behaves in ways that we didn't know until a year ago and we have been discovering it slowly slowly by slowly and so science is adopted and it will be and communicating able being science is difficult and that's why i think m

jeremy more than half the malaria and demick countries have reported disruptions to malaria diagnosis and treatment what are the consequences of that if you're not diagnosing it earlier on what chain of events is that creates. it's a disease that you know operates very quickly so. if people are not getting diagnosed in a timely manner getting medication. the rate of mortality is going to increase very significantly and i think we have seen that these here. the levels are definitely going up it's hard to say exactly by how much and the worst may be still to come because i think a lot of the economic impacts of the pandemic are still coming and i think that will have a major effects in sub-saharan africa where of course as you mentioned malaria it's easy is the worst martin have the doctors without borders teams have been reporting delays in diagnosing malaria what i what are their concerns. well we are of course also observing delays and to places where we work. very often to the whole of just tickle implication of. travel restrictions drugs diagnostics but that's that can just be ship

trump has been very much invisible today also played a very passive role in the handing of the pen demick in particular since it became clear that he lost the election and as we speak we are getting new record numbers in deaths and in new cases of course so joe biden's point has always been we've got the vaccines now but the pandemic is not over yet so it's more important than ever right now as the cases go through the roof to wear a mask and that's why he is putting a mask mandate in place for the 1st 100 days really following of his of his presidency come january 20th really following the advise of scientists you are and that is a very different approach of course in comparison to the administration as joe biden is really trying to make this is number one topic and his number one priority as soon as he takes on with his presidency and just a quick word about the holiday season. giving 3 weeks ago christmas this next week another spike in infections it seems inevitable. it looks like it there is no nationwide mask mandate in place right now so that would be one point to prevent the sprea

foresees by economic activity returning to preplan demick levels by the end of 2021 . germany's new lock down is keeping its largest package delivery of busy d.h.l. expects up to 20 percent more volume in parcels this year as more customers turn to online purchasing and shipping instead giving gifts in person d.h.l. expects to ship 1800000000 passengers through the end of 2020. the u.s. federal reserve is joining a group of central banks focused on climate change the group counts 8 team members including the bank of england and european central bank the fed has been communicating with the group for the past year. apple shares rose to a 3 month high in tuesday's session the company had announced plans to ramp up i phone production by 30 percent in the 1st half of next year japanese business daily nikkei says apple expects to make 230000000 and sets in the coming year. and australia says it will appeal to the world trade organization over china's hefty towers of over 80 percent on bali the move comes a day after china threatened an informal ban on australian culture rela

the corrupt demick has social inequalities mentioned when we look at the epidemic launch good date we see that poor people or poor countries oh poor area us says' high of. infections and we also performed some studies unsymmetrical disease and sound that group people have a higher is to have this. cause of the disease when getting infected it so we clearly see a social gradient in the current condemning so basically we're looking at a situation where if you're poor you're already more at risk for the virus and if you do get the virus you may face even more economic pain is there a health policy answer to that kind of a vicious circle. so. that's hard to answer because 'd this is a structural problem we see it has and that quality is. the only. disease we studied so we see it in cut us killer diseases we see it in psychological disease and it's always there and we haven't found a proper response yet i guess it's quite important to notice that and saying strategically how can we handle this problem in the acute pandemic in the situation we are into now but we need a long term strategy t

up to that point has been full this year though there was the added stress of the koran about us and demick a fact not lost on their parents all the rest of the country. they navigated the cameras in attention like a pop star's wading through popper. to a group it was probably the biggest day of the year for the country's top students for many the biggest day of their lives so far. kind of the korean society makes you study your whole life up to list point for this one exam i'm quite relieved it's going to be over soon. then there were the equally nervous parents offering last minute encouragement their offspring had endured a year of coronavirus restricted study. the exam itself was postponed once and many were relieved it hadn't been postponed again. by the good of the good people never done if the exam was further delayed than students would feel much more psychological burden and much more inconvenience. even and then. beyond the socially distanced lines to enter there was the technology used to check students in and check whether they had a fever for thermal detectors seemingly everywh

started sweden's government has proposed a new temporary law to expand its powers to tackle the pen demick such as the tightened lock down the nordic country has been hit by rising hospitalizations and deaths israel has received its 1st shipment of corona virus vaccines the country is expected to receive enough vaccine for about a quarter of the population by the end of the year israel plans to start administrating the administering the vaccines on december 20th and south korea reported $686.00 new coronavirus cases on wednesday as it battles a 3rd wave of infection that is threatening to overwhelm its health system the current daily tally is the 2nd highest since the start of the pen demick. and coronavirus numbers are climbing in turkey which now ranks 2nd globally in the highest number of daily cases after months of pressure by health experts and opposition politicians the government has changed the way it counts cases that has revealed a much worse situation than previously thought debbie's yulia han reports. and it was actually it was celebrating her birthday she turns 8 to date her 2

the european state germany it remains one of the country's worst affected by the pun demick in the state of saxony is one of the region's hardest hit with crime and tory really struggling to cope giving you a sense of that here some footage from a video agency play. in germany as a whole was badly affected this year with many lockdown restrictions put in place let's take a look at how it's impacted the festive season in the country with peter all over. across in europe christmas festivities are subject to this year because of the coronavirus pandemic here and this gentleman marked it's usually the scene over one of the german capitals a local bustling busy christmas markets not this year though like carnival in the spring time the markets of being counseled being a loosening of covert restrictions to allow people to gather with loved ones over christmas itself friedrich merits the man who will be going with the chancellor angela merkel's job next year wasn't happy with covert restrictions having an impact on a family christmas personally i would see it's none of the government's business

detachment and ignorance to the actual reality facing the american people during the covert 19 and demick thankfully let them eat cake was only one small cry from up on high that was quickly drowned out by the thousands upon thousands upon thousands this year who took to the streets around the world in the cause of racial justice and equality and while we.

trump has been very much invisible today also played a very passive role in the handing of the pen demick in particular since it became clear that he lost the election and as we speak we are getting new record numbers in deaths and in new cases of course so joe biden's point has always been we've got the vaccines now but the pandemic is not over yet so it's more important than ever right now as the cases go through the roof to wear a mask and that's why he is putting a mask mandate in place for the 1st 100 days really following of his of his presidency come january 20th really following the advise of scientists you are and that is a very different approach of course in comparison to the administration as joe biden is really trying to make this is number one topic and his number one priority as soon as he takes on with his presidency and just a quick word about the whole a very seasoned. founders giving 3 weeks ago christmas is next week another spike in infections it seems inevitable. it looks like it there's no nationwide mask mandate in place right now so that would be one point to prev

certainly not a lot of money if you consider that millions have lost their jobs throughout the pen demick. it is at least something people something that people come in looking forward to in the 1st checks will be paid out as soon as next week or right now we've become used to seeing republicans and democrats effectively refusing to work with each other but this passed the senate $92.00 votes to 6 so where does the spirit of compromise come from. first of all feel that the democrats wanted more they wanted that this package includes 2 trillion u.s. dollars what they could finally agree on with the republicans was $900000000000.00 u.s. dollars so it came short a little less than half of what was planned or at least according to the democrats initially but the democrats also hope that this is only a 1st step and that the biden administration would put another package together joe biden just spoke a little while ago also tackling that issue of course they are for and in light of those plans the democrats were willing to to sacrifice is in to find a compromise with the republican the republic

certainly not a lot of money if you consider that millions have lost their jobs throughout the pen demick bought it is at least something people something that people can be looking forward to in the 1st checks will be paid out as soon as next week right now we've become used to seeing republicans and democrats effectively refusing to work with each other but this passed the senate $92.00 votes to 6 so where does the spirit of compromise come from. now 1st of all feel that the democrats wanted more they wanted that this package includes 2 trillion us dollars well they could finally agree on with the republicans was $900000000000.00 u.s. dollars so it came short a little less than half of what was planned or at least according to the democrats initially by the democrats also hope that this is only a 1st step and that the biden administration would put another package together joe biden just spoke a little while ago also tackling that issue of course they are for and in light of those plans the democrats were willing to to sacrifice is in to find a compromise with the republican with the re

means were the real social distance in terms of health in general and mary particularly in this and demick. are we used to really fight and how are we layered and organized in our societies. at the end of 2017 the world health organization issued a report in which it said at least half of the world's population cannot obtain essential health services and each year large numbers of households are being pushed into poverty because they must pay for health care out of their own pockets what the w.h.o. report was pointing to was that preexisting inequalities be they poverty race or gender they were compounded by the fact that the systems and institutions that are meant to provide a safety net for the public have been chipped away at for decades making them increasingly unable to provide the services they were created to deliver. and you have a few other laugh and you know guy i have many other as. well at least. in it because of. their. course that of. the last. you know i. have been going see luck for the country i don't think you know how i'm home of chalk and i should i be already in a heal

of hungry as take a look at the long musk his wealth grew almost 6 falls during the pun demick while mark zuckerberg almost doubled his both must zuckerberg are worth more than $100000000000.00 each i depended with guests profiting from the pun demick. always love these kinds of analyses is it the government has a day or 6 not going to the drops from the government there's nothing naive here the government isn't doing something then as a result the government is itself the result of the way this is cya the works which puts enormous wealth and therefore political power in the hands of a very small number of people who will turn out to have a government policy that makes them richer this burst of new wealth is just as surely a product of government policy was unnecessary you know the unintended consequences of lockdowns and such and in this case they call them non-pharmaceutical interventions but there's also capacity limits on businesses are going to be almost the opposite of what we're hoping for the draconian policies they've increased the gap. between the rich and poor that created

senda the busiest time of the year for santa and yet in 2020 the penn demick has changed everything it's azeri hard for us with this crazy situation what we have would cover 19 i try my best to have a plan a b. c. as me as a center try to bring joy for jerusalem and to the word also my message is always love and happy and happiness and safety for them and joy and we say inshallah everything will be ok the palestinian christian from jerusalem's old city has been slipping into the role of santa claus for the last 3 years in real life he's a former professional basketball player turned coach is a remembers that there was no santa around when he was growing up in jerusalem a city 3 words religions call home when i was a kid i never see real santa and that's why i want to eat of the children here this evening t.v. in the show on pictures or fake saturday like a toy and now when they see it real in jerusalem they feel very proud of what we have said dangerous. but is that because the see it's no ordinary sense nic he's home to his craft at specialist sent to school in the us these are the dipl

the last he is a man of few studies looking at reception but we've also looked at it since the pen demick began and one nice opportunity we had to do that was a study that we had running at the beginning of march looking at neighborhoods and people's connection to their community and the original intention was to look at people's sort of the patient and community events but when the pen demick really game stayman much we changed the purpose of wonder secular project in order to look at how this particular research question around the link between a group memberships the trust we have in others and now risk perception and what we found was that you now sample of a couple of 100 people in a strain the stronger the people identified with their local neighborhood in their community before coated so in early march the more likely they were to trust the night is in lockdown which sounds like a great thing but the problem in this case with trusting one's neighbors was that that also predicted that they were 'd more comfortable being in close contact with those neighbors so breaching physical dis

house of representatives is back to 3 fold increase in direct print demick relief checks to $2000.00 the measure will need a 2 thirds majority in the senate to pass the house is also overturn trumps veto of the annual defense spending bill russell and jordan reports from washington congress voted for this spending measure to fund the military through october 1st 2021 the president objected to the legislation for a number of reasons and decide and voted it and vetoed it now what is happening is republicans and democrats are joining together to have basically push back trumps a veto and that means that assuming the senate does the same thing as early as on tuesday this funding bill will be calm law president elect joe biden as his house again over the lack of information that his transition team is getting from trump's of ministration point and warned that he's still being obstructed on national security issues and that key agencies have been severely damaged by trump's policies south africa's president sorum opposer has announced stricter measures to combat a surge in corona virus cas

well the reason one element these is a new pun demick a new virus that behaves in ways that we didn't know until a year ago and we've been discovering it slowly slowly by slowly and so science is adopting to enable that and communicating able being science is difficult and that's why i think media scientists to of a critical role to play to try to explain in very simple terms that what is happening and why changes may be happening people at the moment of a very high level of vaccine hesitancy and so right now we see that the only 30 percent of population in many countries would actually be ready to take the vaccine we know that these these will increase time passes by and people get more confident and i think we have a role to play to ensure that people feel comfortable comfortable that people feel trust towards the air of authority used words that the scientists and words that means that we putting in place to keep everybody safe for all around the world new research shows that the economic effects they are the kind of crisis have plunged nearly 700000 people in bresson into poverty

a time for complacency and especially we're seeing countries that initially waybill to contain the demick quite well then are reporting a rise in new cases we're looking at south korea we're looking at malaysia so the w.h.o. officials are really keen to stress that the the the the measures that governments have put in place to contain the outbreak of the virus they still have to be men tamed and it all officials are also very keen to stress that a vaccine the successful vaccine is really not the silver bullet that people are hoping for it is the light at the end of a very long tunnel but it would be foolish to assume that people can just relax and put their guard down because a vaccine is already being rolled out in the u.s. and the u.k. now officials say and that's because while. a successful vaccine has been developed having enough of the vaccine is still a challenge now at the moment officials estimate it'll take 12 to 24 months before a majority of people can be vaccinated and so they want people to keep. to keep doing the things they've been doing to keep themselves and other people

human rights group amnesty international says over $600.00 health workers have died during the pun demick in the u.k. that's the 3rd highest reported figure globally. the british government though has insisted it was a colossal race against time to make sure the n.h.s. gold what it needed from across the p.p.a. providers and entirely but dr jenny ball again disagree. why is it that the national audit office have come out and said there needs to needs to be comprehensive lessons learned there needs to be is proper exercise as to where that p.p. that was promised did actually reach the front line they've had a long cancel look at this and they produced a report and i can tell you that i was giving a lot of interviews and as was you know much of da u.k. we were listening to frontline doctors all of us were working hard and we reporting these issues we have cleared data to support that it wasn't getting to the front line so this is again something that really worries me about the kind of memory problems the judgment might decide to have later on it was not the case that p.p.a. was officially

believe it took too long to declare emergency well it clearly as you remember bore the brunt of the bun demick in europe in the 1st half of this year the 1st deaths emerged back in february with the pandemic quickly spreading across the country in march the government imposed a national lockdown to tucker the brick and since the beginning of the pandemic more than 70000 people died prime minister just said because he has previously denied accusations that he on the rest of the crisis that's not what the families are saying be in the civil action they insist the government was slow to respond. nona's of the about nothing was done * to prevent the spread of the virus and then obviously we were not ready we didn't have intensive care oxygen masks prepared adequately so regardless of where this virus developed elite was not ready to face said up to now not one politician has responded to the committee or those representing victims to explain the 70000 deaths we've heard nothing from lumber to his regional government health ministry and prime minister contact you are obliged to take a position to w

that was 2020 and one a year it has been my friends 2020 brought us everything from pandemics to plan demick from tiger kings to karen queens to uncheck police violence to righteous protests in the streets we got to witness both the best and the worst of humanity here in the 1st 20 years of the 21st century i mean not only not only did we get a front row seat to the epic spoiled narcissus meltdown of our brand name and cheap one u.s. president donald trump but as an added bonus we. have bungled we were also able to witness the epic failure of the united states congress as well after our per wind pocketed leaders like mitch mcconnell nancy pelosi jim jordan and chuck schumer revealed to us not only their deprived loyalty to deep pocketed party donors but also their let them eat cake levels of detachment and ignorance to the actual reality facing the american people during the cold with 19 and demick thankfully let them eat cake was only one small cry from up on high that was quickly drowned out by the thousands upon thousands upon thousands this year who took to the streets around the world.

germany remains one of the country's worst affected by the demick in the state of sucks in the is one of the region's hardest hit with credit turia struggling to cope here's footage from a video agency ripley. well germany as a whole was badly affected this year with many locked on restrictions put in place with more now and how it's impacted the festive season in the country here's our europe correspondent peter liber. across in europe christmas festivities are subdued this year because of the coronavirus pandemic here in berlin this gentleman marked it's usually the scene over one of the german capitals local bustling busy christmas markets not this year though like carnival in the spring time the markets of being canceled there being a loosening of covert restrictions to allow people to gather with loved ones over christmas itself friedrich merits the man who will be gunning for chancellor angela merkel's job next year wasn't 'd happy with covert restrictions having an impact on a family christmas personally i would see it's none of the government's business how i celebrate christm

grew almost 6 fold during the demick while mark zuckerberg almost doubled his both must count zuckerberg are worth more than $100000000000.00 i debated with a guest profiting from a pandemic. always love these kinds of analyses is it the government has a day or 6 not going to drugs from the government there's nothing naive here the government isn't doing something then as a result the government is itself the result of the way this is cya the works which puts enormous wealth and therefore political power in the hands of a very small number of people who will turn out to have a government policy that makes them richer this burst of new wealth is just as surely a product of government policy was unnecessary you know the unintended consequences of lockdowns and such and in this case they call them non-pharmaceutical interventions but there's also capacity limits on businesses are going to be almost the opposite of what we're hoping for the draconian policies they've increased the gap. between the rich and poor that created new controversies of wealth this tremendous consolidation going on r

british strain of coronavirus we look at a challenging year for the country the worst hit by the pen demick. plus the british government puts most of the england under the toughest level of covert restrictions as case number spiral following the discovery of a highly contagious new strain. and argentina's president warns a smear campaign and trade war against the sputnik unbecoming vaccine is hampering global distribution as the country starts to living russians down.

pandemic and demick it is very important to have a one body that treat it and deal with it in one way. across the country and not allow it for a governor of the state to deal with it different ways so if you have a centralized operation doesn't promote its operation will be much more efficient in achieving the goals compared to each state will deal it differently and also you know in each state you will have different policies and different priorities you have to have a centralized operation and this is what's happening with the team that was going to his or put together by. president elect by then and giving the priority to experts in the field to public health officials and to institutions like the you know and the c.d.c. and the f.d.a. and the department of health and human services all these together really it's a comprehensive approach to to this problem hamas authorities who control the gaza strip considering imposing a 2nd lockdown as corona virus infections continue to set a sofa avoided taking such a drastic measure because of the harm it could do to an economy with more than

demick has largely put paid to that weird lockdowns meeting fans house. with stadiums now eerily empty even huge games like dec last occur between dortmund and by and have been played behind closed doors. matches in the pub is no longer possible while paying for a t.v. subscription at home is not an option for many people. but there is one trusted old media where everyone around the world can cheat on into games good old live radio comment track i. believe broadcasts league games over the airwaves in multiple languages all across the world live to fans everywhere from passive getting to that then. we're going to see and hear how people followed the biggest game in the bundesliga live on the radio. my spent 10 years in bavaria and make no secret of the fact that i'm a buy and supporter. for the. e.w. . who. it's totally open the draw is very likely but i hope there's a lot of go. well. beyond this welcome to the bundesliga and to dare classic the darby of deutschland and the highlights of the 1st half of the season brochure dorman vs by munich so great to

thinking out of the bombs outside the box we meet some of the designers creating spaces for a post demick world. on the eastern edge of yours a big cold dough of and it's hard to push is an area of high pressure which means that by day temperatures not a river freezing in here vilnius for example a mosque is run about months for to minus 6 but this is moving so you know offices are allowing the persistent snow film or falling of the italian the austrian alps to be moving eastwards and staying out of it you've got snow over the slightly higher ground in remaining in down towards well garia for example with significant running thunderstorm with that low now that cold air as it comes across the northeast developing another storm system is going to slowly revolve into the north of the u.k. and this northerly wind coming down through the baby. has weathered western spain and western france will disappear or at least prompt a development in the western med that if you remember not so long ago had a problem sardinia with flash flooding well this might be a repeat forecast because it will cloud u

certainly not a lot of money if you consider that millions have lost their jobs throughout the pen demick bought it is at least something people something that people come in looking forward to in the 1st checks will be paid out as soon as next week all right now we've become used to seeing republicans and democrats effectively refusing to work with each other but this passed the senate $92.00 votes to 6 so where does the spirit of compromise come from. now 1st of all feel that the democrats wanted more they wanted that this package includes 2 trillion us dollars well they could finally agree on with the republicans was $900000000000.00 u.s. dollars so it came short a little less than half of what was planned or at least according to the democrats initially by the democrats also hope that this is only a 1st step and that the biden administration would put another package together joe biden just spoke a little while ago also tackling that issue of course they are for and in light of those plans the democrats were willing to sacrifice in to find a compromise with the republican with the rep

foreign washington coming up we have a special show today breaking down some of the impact the copen 1900 demick has had across multiple sectors plus so much of our lives have moved online because of the copen $1000.00 pandemic could we see the term internet celebrity take on a whole new meaning and later time it says it has a limited poverty nationwide when you take a deep dive into how they accomplished this amazing feat we have packed show today so let's dive right in. during the coven 1000 pandemic business has suffered due to lock downs and social distancing measures that have changed the way of life over the last several months here on boom bust we've covered numerous sectors that have taken a hit and those that have had to completely change their business model whether it's the food industry retail sports or even the movie business everyone has had to adapt so we thought it would be a good idea to bring back some of the expert analysis breaking down the pandemics impact we start with the impact on the restaurant industry with andrew zimmer for time james beard award winning t.v. personali