RT News - January 04 2021 (12:00 MSK)

A huge day for press freedoms and one man in particular, publisher Julian Assange, as the UK decides whether to hand the exposer of numerous US war crimes over to the Americans. The US misses its 2020 vaccination target, by a long shot inoculating fewer than a sixth of the 20-million Americans it had promised would get the jab before year's end. A doctor gives us her take on the problem. Europe's efforts at mass vaccination have also been slammed as sluggish amid soaring infections and greater restrictions. The British prime minister goes to war with teaching unions over whether to reopen schools, amid a post-Christmas pandemic spike. We hear from a union rep.