Outside the home with two americans dying from tobit every minute, the nation is bracing for a starkest period of the pandemic. Time is running out before the United Kingdom cuts ties with the European Union and today, the two sides failed to secure a trade agreement. Instead saying talks will be paused. Negotiators want to talk to politicians so they can get better guidance on where to go next. With less than four weeks before the transition period ends, it is down to the same three Sticking Point that have threatened to derail the process for months. Lets bring in our correspondent in london. It has been a dramatic week of ups and downs. Now it is ending in this pause. Is that a surprise . It is a surprise that suddenly they are paused tonight, but we have an explanation. What they are trying to do is reach this post brexit trade deal and that time is really short. We have said that many times. We have seen sincehe eu was no longer bluffing for the United Kingdom because of the referendum in 2016 and brexit, we have seen all kinds of deadlines coming go. We have seen steps forward and steps back. There is no way of knowing if these divergences are going to be a real problem. We know both camps are putting a lot of hard work into it. What we know tonight is that the u. K. And eu negotiators who have spent at least three days and three nights discussing, there are significant divergences that remain. They have mutually agreed, both brexiteer negotiators for the eu and the United Kingdom, that they will pause this, go back, talk to their principles. The british Prime Minister will now talk to the Eu Commission president to talk about the state of play and where the talks are at. No surprise that subsidies and enforcement of new rules, fishing remained the key Sticking Points. That has been true for a long time as well. We started the day with demands on the table, that was categorically denied by the European Union. Lets remember that there is a mandate by the 27 member states. Donning street has said everyone is working hard but this issue of time, they are all up against it. Time is extremely short. The 31st of december, will there be a trade deal or not . On the 31st, the United Kingdom, rain or shine come rain or shine, it will be much more complicated, whether it is filling in forms or taxes, is there if there is no deal. Both parties still say they want a deal. How much of this is posturing . A theater to try to call each others bluff . They are all trying to decrypt the body language. The late nights, then get response and beget a good morning, saying this was an important day. Then suddenly a pause. What is not going to change is the 31st of december date. It was interesting to see Frances Europe minister this morning warned that france could veto a deal if it did not the british position is also that nothing is agreed until everything is agreed and they will not do a deal at any price. What we know is that whether it is bras johnson in the United Kingdom or the 27 eu leaders, they will all need to be able to sell whatever deal is agreed if a deal is agreed. It is going to be uncomfortable, there are going to have to be concessions, and we will have to see. The other people will have to ratify this if there is a deal, the eu parliament, that all takes time and there is little of it. Thank you for the latest on this one billionth chapter of the brexit drama. On friday, Emmanuel Macron granted a two hour wideranging interview to the Popular Online video platform route. It is a play to reach young voters with the interview streamed on youtube and facebook. Among the highlights, he said he is keeping his options open for a 2022 president ial election, including potentially not running at all. He also called it a big lie that freedoms are being eroded in france under his rule. That referring to the controversy over a security law in france. Macron denounced violence both by and against the police. Here is more of what he said on that topic. I expect a Police Officer to be an example so i would say there is zero tolerance on both sides. But what is important is that we dont look at one side of the violence. Because otherwise, you will never get out of this cycle where in some cases, there is the citizen as victim and a violent Police Officer. Macon has had a fraht relationship with the media during his term. Our diplomatic editor going to the program earlier and explained why macron decided to give a long interview like this. This would have been unthinkable at the start of his presidency. There was an incident a few mont when he first came into office, and infamous exchange with a journalist where he said, im not interested in journalists, im interested in the french public, and he said journalists are too interested in themselves and not interested enough in france. To go from that over the course of the last three years to this more than two hour long interview, not just with journalists, but interacting with the public, that is a big change over three years. I think he realized that his attempts to keep a distance from the media at the beginning of his presidency, and he was trying to make himself different from his predecessor in that respect, but over time, you realize that keeping this distance was not going to work, he needed to have a closer relationship with the media and that became obvious during the yellow vest protests when a lot of things that he said were not understood or badly understood or taken out of context, so that is when things really began to change. That was france 24s diplomatic editor. Frances downward trend in coronavirus cases continues. Friday, authorities reported 11,221 new infections in the past 24 hours. That is down by over 8000 from last week. Deaths are declining, but Emmanuel Macron has said that in order to end the nationwide lockdown on december 15, the new daily number of infections needs to drop to 5000. In the United States, two people are dying every minute from covid19 and several experts project the daily death toll will soon surpass 3000. These bleak numbers are prompting officials to plead with americans to wear masks in public and stayathome as much as possible. Joe biden has promised to impose mask mandates whe he has authority, such as in federal buildings. He plans to ask the general public to wear masks for 100 days. But joe biden does not take office until january 20 and lacks the ability to require mask wearing nationwide. For more on why covid prevention has failed in the United States, we welcome lawrence brown, a professor of health, policy, and management of Health Policy and management. Seeing these record numbers of cases, hospitalizations, and deaths, i think the question that people are asking is why are Americans Still hesitant to wear masks . Some of it is that example on the part of the president. It has become a symbol of liberty and freedom and resistance, i dont wear a mask because nobody tells me what to do. There is also portions of the population, they say the young invincibles, people think it is a more severe version of the flu, so if i get it, i will survive, and they probably will, but to many other people, even if they are lacking in symptoms themselves so joe biden is proposing, he cant mandate, he cant do a National Mandate requiring people to wear masks and even if he tried to, it would cause great antagonism, but he said he will ask the american people, encourage them to wear masks for 100 days after he takes office and the hope is that that will bring about some decline in the rate of new cases which is very high. The other day, we had 220,000 new cases and as he said, we are close to 3000 deaths per day. Joe biden ran for president largely on a platform of we are going to get the coronavirus under control when i get into office, but it does seem he is hamstrung on what he can do. Because you have 50 states in the union and it looks like we have 50 different coronavirus policies going on. Exactly the difference between new york exactly right. The difference between new york, were it has been to consider the all along, the difference between those states and south dakota where the government insists that it is a matter of personal choice, it is like day and night. In florida, the governor has a large estate with heavy incidence of coronavirus, he says it is up to people to use their own judgment. There is no uniformity. It might have been different if there had been Firm Leadership from the beginning at the national level, but when the president says it is not important, it is going to go away, it discourag and ridicules the wearing of masks, it sends a bad tone. It got us off to a bad start. Of course, republican governors who are trying to be in trumps shadow, do not want to push the public in a mask wearing direction. We talk about joe biden because he is the incoming president but we cant forget that donald trump is the current president. What is his administration doing right now towards the coronavirus . I cant see that they are doing anything about the coronavirus. His fda is moving close to approval of vaccines. I think what has happened before and since the election is he has thrown up his hands and said that the governors let the governors deal with it, the vaccine will become a, it is a product of his operation warp speed, he likes to claim credit for it, and that is about it. In terms of coping with these staggering rates in the meantime, it has been left to the governors. Lawrence brown from columbia university, thank you for joining us on the program. Thank you. Venezuela is set to hold controversial parliamentary elections this sunday. The u. S. , eu, and many citizens see the vote as a fraudulent power grab by the ruling party, an effort to seize control of the last institution in opposition hands. Mainstream opposition parties say they will boycott the vote. Maduro says he is confident. And opposition candidate for the parliamentary elections has been out campaigning in his district, despite mainstream opposition parties vowing to boycott the vote. [speaking foreign language] thousands of candidates are promising to confront in the ruling socialist party, but opposition leaders accuse them of being shadow allies of president maduro. His main rival, guaido, is recognized by more than 50 countries as venezuelas by full leader but guaido will be missing from the ballot. He says free and Fair Elections are impossible under darrow. Under maduro. [speaking foreign language] guaido and his allies are sponsoring a weeklong referendum, asking venezuelans to reject the vote. Their absence is likely to hand maduros Party Control of the national assembly, the only institution not in his hands. Not in its hands. [speaking foreign languag among the socialist Party Candidates is maduros son. He hopes joe biden will lift the american sanctions, which will aggravate the countrys economic crisis. In india, tens of thousands of farmers are protesting agricultural reforms. The new laws will loosen rules around the sale, pricing, and storage of farm produce. Protests began last week and idiots government is saying it will and indias government is saying it will consider Building Block rolling back parts of the reforms. These highways are normally choked with traffic. For the last week, they havent hoped to tens of thousands of farmers protesting agricultural reforms. The law passed in september aim to deregulate the sector, but farmers say they built lead to their exploitation. With enough supplies to last weeks, they are threatening to besiege the capital if the Prime Minister refuses to abolish the laws. [speaking foreign language] the government claims the laws will give farmers more autonomy to set their own prices and sell directly to private businesses. But growers say they will no longer be guaranteed minimum prices by the government, nor able to make ends meet. On thursday, 40 farmers unions met with government representatives for a fourth round of talks despite not having beats an agreement, Officials Say farmers should leave the streets while negotiations are ongoing. [speaking foreign language] agriculture is the primary source of livelihood for about 58 of the countrys population, making the reforms a hot political issue. They have compounded existing resentment from farmers, thousands of whom have committed suicide in recent years due to debt and erratic weather patterns. The coronavirus costing big bucks for the Tokyo Olympics. The games postponement due to the virus is expected to add at least an extra 2. 4 billion to the already huge budget. The massive costs making it harder to build public support in japan. Even before they were delayed eight months ago, the Tokyo Olympics were set to be the most expensive summer games on record. Now costs are rising again to the tune of over 2 billion euros. I think our biggest challenge is the additional costs. We need to continue to cut costs as much as possible while working together to host a safe and secure olympic games. The additional spending increases the budget that was set last year at over 10 billion euros. The extra costs will cover covid19 countermeasures and operational spending, including transport, salaries, and rebooking of venues. The japanese government is responsible for covid19 related measures. Theokyo metropolitan government and tokyo 2020 organizing committee are responsible for the costs of it being postponed. Organizers have tried to scale back on costs, offering fewer free tickets and scrapping welcome in ceremonies, but they have saved just 230 million euros. They say 18 of tickets sold in japan will have to be refunded because spectators are demanding their money back. Public opinion on the games is mixed. Recent polls suggest a majority believe the olympics should be put boned again or canceled. Observers say the additional costs agreed on friday may reinforce skepticism about the wisdom of holding such an event during a Global Health crisis. The virus continues to shake up the Film Industry and warner bros. Has announced a major shakeup for 2021. The studio says its entire roster of films next year will be released simultaneously in cinemas and on its streaming platform. Why some where a this could spell the beginning of the end for the silver screen. In the next year, warner bros. Pictures is bringing you the biggest premieres in theaters and streaming exclusively on hbo max. The exact same day. A blockbuster announcement for hollywood. Originally intended for the Christmas Day release of wonder woman 1984, warner bros. s most anticipated releases will be coming to the small screen via hbo max, including the matrix 4, suicide squad, and june. Warnerros. And every other studio has had a difficult time getting their product in front of people. Unless they are streaming. We know what has happened to movie theaters and how they are making roughly 10 of at they did a year ago domestically and that has created huge problems. This may not be what works in the future, but it is what works right now. Warner bros. Hopes that despite the pandemic, enough people will brave the cinema to see the release of their bigbudget flick, tenet, but the movie growth just shy of 54 million domestically. Where is about facing a financial flop, some studios have pushed back a release date of high grossing films such as Daniel Craigs last outing in 007. Theaters usually hold a 90 day exclusivity with new releases. Universal talked that bounty 17 days with amc, allowing titles to go to Online Streaming Services after three weeks. Disney opted to ditch the cinema entirely for the release of moveon, instead releasing the movie to its disney platform as a paid option. The different approaches all have an impact on hollywood and some worry that the news from warner bros. May spell the beginning of the end for cinema. Though the justice of how revenue will be shared with movie theaters and its effects on the industry are unknown and experts opinions remain divided. It is not known whether warner bros. Will extend the new release model beyond 2021. It is time for a look at the biggest business news. For that, costing their joins us from his home. The new monthly jobs report is out in the United States and it is not good news. Thats right, analysts were expecting 400,000 jobs to be added. It to hunter 45,000 it is 245,000. Unlimited fall, but that is because you had people unemployment did fall, but that is because the latest sign that the recovery is slowing United States. The number is the fifth straight month where we have seen declining job growth. That being said, it did not seem to have too much of an impact on the markets in large part because investors hoped that those negative numbers could put pressure on policymakers to pass another und of stimulus. Wall street closing out the week on a high note, shares on the dow jones up around 0. 8 , slightly bigger gains on the s p 500, up 0. 9 . Nasdaq up as well, 0. 7 . Gains on the european index, the footsie up 0. 9 . The ftse up 0. 9 . We have been hearing for months in the u. S. About a potential coronavirus stimulus deal, another one to replace the one that ran out. What do we know about this latest agreement that congress is hammering out and the chances that it is going to work . It is much smaller than deals that were floated before the election. This would be just over 900 billion, which is less than those multitrillion dollar deals we were talking about before. This new compromise is the product of republican and Democratic Senators and apparently it satisfy Democratic Leaders enough to say that it is a good starting point. To give you the key elements of this pn, support for small businesses, aid for state governments, extension of certain unemployment relief programs. It does not look like it is going to include under the rou of those 1200 stimulus checks like we saw in a previous to this plan. Lawmakers said in a press conference they could have a deal, pushing for an agreement by next monday. Either way, stakes very high. Job support not very good. The recovery is slowing. The aid for previous recovery packages is stunning to run dry. On december 26, they have two unemployment benefit programs expiring, it could affect millions. A lot of pressure on congress to get some sort of stimulus across the finish line. A lot of americans in need and keeping their eyes on whether or not help will be coming in time for the holidays. Thank you so much for that update. Now im going to take a short break but stay with us, i will be back in a few minutes with more news you need to know. Xxxxxxdnoooooooooooooooa 12 04 20 12 04 20 [captioning made possible by democracy now ] amy from new york, this is democracy now the reality is december and january and february are going to be rough times. I believe theyre going to be the most difficult time in the public heah history of this nation. Amy record shattering. Over 2800 people died in the United States thursday from covid19 as infections, deaths, anhospitalizations