countdown to the end of this year will be held inside a football stadium and there will be no spectators rody will keep its traditional fireworks display at the usual concert simply because it is being scrapped london's iconic fireworks over the times have also been cancelled while scotland's famous may celebrations have been removed online many may have been hoping to mark the end of 20 twentieth's say goodbye to it but the celebrations will still be muted for the moment it does look as if 2021 will continue in the same church rectory with more cases of could be registered and of course continued restrictions on citizens . there well some parts of the world have already said goodbye to 2020 just an hour ago bangkok so in the new style albeit without the usual crowds of calls so whether it's a fond farewell or a good riddance to the outgoing it is certainly want to remember with life turned upside down not just by the pandemic but also by conflicts and revolutions. the shining lights for all this though front line medics have become the indisputable heroes of 2020 rising to the occasion and s

as we heard from mollyann rodie, our feeling most impacted, disproportionately impacted by covid-19 and perhaps the least confident or the most -- having the greatest the table.n we also -- it's very important for our members of congress in these options as katherine had outlined. do we need e being, an independent panel that can ome forward, pull different interests together and change the national conversation? there are many ways in which might be done, and we were not very specific on that. o i'm going to ask my colleague, john, to tee up the susan rom congresswoman brooks. please. thank you. mrs. brooks: hello and thank you for giving me an opportunity to participate in such a discussion today. i am not able to be there in person, but the vote schedule has been very fluid as get an ip has tried to end of the year spending package done. unfortunately, i have to be on a discussion's his taking place, headed back to d.c. stephen thank morrison, katherine bliss, staff atand all of the csis for their work in putting this panel together. the timing and topic of the not be more uld import