president, challenges are going to be your credible story. this blog you want to do some return on g.w. . this is g.w. news, and these are our top stories. german chancellor angela merkel and the leaders of germany's 16 states have failed to agree on tougher coronavirus restrictions. merkel said the state leaders had objected to new measures, but have agreed to meet next week. the chancellor said restrictions imposed earlier this month had not had the desired effect. and she called on germans to reduce social contacts to an absolute minimum. there's been another breakthrough in the

race for a vaccine against a covert. 19 u.s. biotech firm says it's a vaccine is nearly 95 percent effective and has been tested in a late stage trial involving $30000.00 volunteers, but are not expected to have enough safety data for u.s. regulators to approve and roll out the vaccine this year. the european union is facing a fresh political crisis after poland and hungary blocked the blocks, new long term budget and coronavirus rescue package that you countries objected to a new mechanism that would tie funding to respect for the rule of law. this is the news from berlin, follow us on twitter and instagram at state of new news, or visit our website for more in the span of just one week 2, promising coronavirus vaccines. the 1st trials showed both work very well and

preventing covert 19 without serious side effects and they'll arrive not a moment too soon. in europe partial lockdowns known as lock down lights are becoming hard and heavy. and in the u.s. were a person is infected every 2 seconds. now walk down, 2.0 is now just a matter of time. i'm burnt off in berlin. this is the day we have a lot of work ahead of us. but knowing the vaccine is going to be affected, it's great news, but we still need to complete a regulatory process. this is not the time for complacency. there are many, many questions about that it shouldn't take, in fact the city, the disease itself relations especially there is going to be a long period before

a vaccine is. so we have to make sure that we are ready for this winter. this is a dangerous virus. which can attack extreme system in the body to those countries, not lifting the virus around and on the plane was fine also coming up in just over a month, the u.k. could be headed for a coronavirus christmas and a no deal new year. and prime minister boris johnson. well, he's headed for days of self isolation again. good. which is don't feel great, and he doesn't matter that i have the disease of them bursting with antibody has increased contact you and say you got so far as late, then follow the rules. that's what i'm going to do. it's a really important milestone in the fight against the pentagon, because it demonstrates that our very senior morning 1273 is able to prevent covert

1000 years east, including severe disease and people who are seeing less the president of the us drug maker merck journal. on his company's experimental and now very promising coronavirus vaccine to our viewers watching on p.b.s. in the united states and to all of you around the world. welcome. we begin the day with another coronavirus vaccine that is outperforming even the best of expectations. last monday, pfizer and by on tech were the 1st to announce overwhelmingly positive preliminary results in trials of their corona virus vaccine. today, just one week later, the u.s. drug maker merck joined them. and here is what we know. now, according to medan and their vaccine is almost 95 percent effective at preventing covert 19, a crucial difference to the pfizer vaccine, which must be kept at arctic like temperatures at all times the maternal vaccine can be transported and stored in every day refrigerators. and we're going to says

if testing continues to go well, the vaccine should be available by spring of next year. well, the good news comes as u.s. president elect joe biden. scientific advisors are planning to meet with drug makers to map out a nationwide vaccination plan. biden's team is moving forward, the troubled ministration has still offered no assistance. and that just as the u.s. is seeing its biggest spike in corona, virus infections and deaths. since the start of the pandemic, the number of new cases, as you see right here, has more than doubled just in the past month. and while cases are spiking nationwide. the latest hotspots, well, they are in the upper midwest and states of north and south dakota, wyoming. iowa and wisconsin, which are reporting record numbers of coated $1000.00 hospitalizations. now in terms of new cases, these are the states that have the highest daily numbers right now. california,

texas, illinois, georgia, ohio, and michigan where no one in the u.s. can say that they were not warned public health experts predicted back in march and april that without a well designed strategy, the virus would emerge again with a vengeance. take a listen to what the governor of michigan told her state we are in the worst moment of this pandemic. to date, the situation has never been more dire. we are at the precipice and we need to take some action. because as the weather gets colder and people spend more time indoors, this virus will spread more people will get sick and there will be more fatalities . well, unfortunately, the michigan governor with mers dark forecast of the plight of the entire country. it's expected that 150000 more people could die by mid january if radical steps are not taken. let's go now to our correspondent there alina cho,

moise. she is in washington d.c. tonight, could even see you carlina. there are 2 promising vaccines in the pipeline now, but cells and thousands could die before we ever see their 1st injection. is all of america ready to return to a lockdown. while most of the people don't want it because it's, they have economic reasons for that. there are restaurants that they are small businesses. they could not go without help of the government and again a lockdown. so most part of the population don't want a lockdown, but this would be the fastest way to fight against the virus. and it's going to be really a long time until the vaccine arrives and it is a go through. so it's not that all of a sudden it's can be sold. otho, who it's going to be the 1st group of people who get that vaccine. that is

a very important question, probably the health for perth, physicians, nurses, and so we can't count yet on that vaccine. people don't want a problem economically. they can't handle a lockdown. and this is the big problem that not only the united states, but several countries around the world are having right now. and this is also when i became really aware of being right now into having, being at it takes us they arrived yesterday. i filmed a report there at about 19 and talking to the physicians, the nurses, and also to people who have their own restaurants of their own small businesses. and that may be, may make me be very aware of this problem, worry it paso is on the border with mexico, but no one is talking about the wall anymore. the pandemic is raging. here. numbers are soaring. right now we have about $241.00 inpatient coburg, 19 cases. now to contrast, with about 45 days ago, we only had 30. but

a lot of those people that you see going into these tents behind me. they will wind up inside our hospital, have authorities are already arranging to move patients to other cities. if the hospitals become overwhelmed, planning for months of strain, there is going to be a long period yet before a vaccine is here. so we have to make sure that we are ready for this winter, not only here in el paso, but also around the country. resources are finite. there is already a back luck in dealing with the dead refuge generated more outside the hospitals serve as makeshift more terrorists. funeral homes in the past, so are so overwhelmed that families sometimes have to wait a week to bury a last one. funeral director sam, selves are struggling to cope earlier in this case is the year it was the level of stress is very high because it is not comparable to how it used to be some months

ago we had around 30 services for months. right now we're having around 80 percent of users for me is this 2nd wave of the pandemic is not only hitting record numbers of people, many of whom could die. local lockdowns in the past will to try and curb the spread are wreaking havoc, a business. here in el paso, there's a 10 pm curfew, but even during the day, many people stay at home. this is where the economic effects of the pandemic can most clearly be seen. downtown at basle seems abandoned. also this restaurant wasn't able to keep most of its south. now the owner has to attend the few clients himself. the current situation had a clear impact on his political decision. he voted for joe biden. i knew he could do better than donald trump, and i think we all hope the same. we hope for a different government that supports us. some money of all works just around the

corner. for him, the presidential race is not over yet, nor from president biden. it's not going to be the president of the currents going to be donald trump. he feared his business might be hit by the pandemic. but now he has orders until july next year. republicans, he says, are good for the construction sector. despite his support for trump, he has his own opinion on covert 1900, specially after he tested positive. everyone is going to get the virus and we're going to fill up the hospitals. testing is one of the crucial instruments to avoid to this problem. we get cordy needs 10 testing centers in at basle. he works for a private company that is being paid by the state of texas, but his main concern in the penn dam make is not political. i don't have fully knowledge of what joe biden is planning to do in his administration, but until now we haven't had any kind of difficulties with the current administration. i don't think it's a matter of resources,

but the main concern is how to communicate to the people what to do or not. supporters. biden supporters to different sites that seem to come together in the past. in fear of the coronavirus were you strong? are the people that you spoke to who say that the trumpet ministration has done a good job in dealing with the pandemic? yes, brant, because it's pretty clear that photons didn't take this pandemic seriously from the beginning on. and then you can see the immediate effects. you can see this refrigerated more. you can see people who are dying and patients and the family members of the people who died and emma, who are not receiving the well the way they would like to say goodbye in a funeral home because their last ones who have died. i have to be in this

refrigerated morgue. so these are really, really tragic stories. and then hearing force from someone who also was infected himself. and this man even took a clearing because the most from set to do so. he's completely convinced that donald trump is not only right in the political thinks he said, but also in his speech about about the health care and, and covert 19, specially since donald trump himself was infected. so of course, we were all the whole team, were quite shocked to hear that that was, it was, it was shocking. and at the same time, we noticed that one of his main reason for donald trump or the economically his business and very well the construction sector is going right now. be because people are renovating their homes for a lot of homes. so he has war against orders until next year, as you heard, we know the bill passed, so is on the us mexico border. what was the situation like of the mexican side for

people who contract the virus? well, officially is there also certain measures on the mexican side and there's supposed to wear a mask always and say, you know, but you also have to consider that we're talking about a very poor side of mexico and a lot of people, they brief a or 2 ward to go out and have something to eat by the end of the day. and so the virus is not their main concern. surviving is their main concern. and on the mexican side, also a lot of this people. so across the border who want to have a visa, usually they, they would cross the border and they would work, for example, in restaurants as cooks or a waitress in a restaurant. and then they would go back and to live in the cheaper time. i at the mexican side, and now they are not able to do that anymore because they can't cross the border even though they have

a visa. the only ones who are allowed to cross the border are the ones who are u.s. citizens. and i, for example, the owner of the restaurant, i, tough to, he lives in the mexican side, but he is a u.s. citizen himself. that is why he was allowed to vote. but he ran out of wages because they were all mad because you had a visa, you are not able to go to the u.s. right now. a decision, the power of a passport there. we know we've got 2 months to go before the bar to ministries. we can take any action, i mean, where do you see the u.s. at the end of this year? do you see it in a big lockdown or do you see even more death and misery on the horizon? well, we have to see this special task force of. 'd 'd joe biden plans to do what they, i mean this is a really seems to be a very high level group off a professional event, physicians and experts. and to see all of them, as we know, not only from the united states, but also from germany and from europe,

that the most effective thing the most effective measure is a lock down. but we also know how our economy rolls, why it can be really good about why i love down and we'll have to wait. i can tell you where i see the united states. and i definitely can tell you that this fire is, is. 'd well, it's killing a lot of people in this country right now. you know, unfortunately that is the said truth in the u.s., tonight. w.'s carlina chinmoy of the story force in washington, d.c., carolina. thank you. thank you. but we have covered the brick sit story for almost half a decade now. and we've reported on free trade talks over many months here on the day, but now the end could be in sight and it's not looking very good. there are just days remaining for london in brussels to come to some sort of agreement. now we

know deadlines have been broken before in this breaks it saga, but striking a deal is still nowhere in sight. foreign minister saying no deal could very well be the final result. we have a little more than 40 days left to the 1st of january when everything changes. and of course, it takes weeks to ratify an agreement of the scale. so that is why i think everybody is now pointing to this week. certainly the next 10 days as a period where we really must find a way forward all the lights. i think we have to start preparing in a very intensive week for no trade. your prices, which is the last thing we need to cope with what our resident brig said analyst alex forrest, why he joins me here at the big table now it's good to see you again alex. so let's talk what we just heard there from simon. cover the really, he's spelling it out, forced little time left to strike a deal. so what's the hold up? well, there are some main sticking points and the fish 1st one is the whole issue of fish

and fisheries because the u.k. wants to take back control of q.k. war to snout. this is not an economic reason, because this is what about no point, not 4 percent of the british economy. this is purely political, this is about suffering take. and this is what boris johnson needs to prove to the brics. it is that he can do for them. a 2nd reason is to do with the so-called level playing field. a europe does not want to have a big rival on its doorstep. it wants to make sure that the u.k. is not going to end up south subsidising companies and therefore become a threat. but the u.k. saying that we need to set our own rules. and then there is the age old problem, with ireland. northern ireland, of course, stays with the u.k., the republic of ireland with the e.u. . the aim is to keep the border between the 2 open. but although an agreement has

been made with the u.k. and the e.u. in this withdrawal agreement, we currently have the british government just slating to do that is breaking down trust or you've got all of this going on. and at the same time, you've got the british prime minister boards, johnson, and i'm not going, i'm not making this up. this is true. he is self isolating in his flat, in downing street a 2nd time this year because of the corona virus. take a listen. now i've got to self isolate because somebody i was in contact with a few days ago has developed and it doesn't matter that we were doing social distancing. it doesn't matter that i'm good. it's because don't feel great city people do. in my circumstances, and i see it doesn't matter that i have the disease or the bursting with antibodies, we've got to interrupt the spread of disease. he's bursting with antibodies. i'm in that sports johnson for you right there. this is not good timing for him. a

little to laugh out of, but it's not great timing for the prime minister. is it? no, it's not great timing. as you say, it's the 2nd time he's had to self isolate the 1st time. of course, he actually got 19 and ended up in intensive care in hospital was very, very ill, obviously, very close. i mean, really, the clock is so close to the end of these bricks at negotiations and he's holed up in a flat in downing street. and of course this was supposed to be his big reset. there have been these complete extraordinary shenanigans going on in downing street over the past few days, pitting the ultra ultra bricks. it is against the brics. it is, he won't quite so outre including his own fiance. so what we've seen is the man who has been at the side of boris johnson since 2016, dominic cummings publicly wore to walking out of number 10 downing street carrying a box and leaving. and just before that we had had the director of communications doing the same thing. so this was already still,

obviously he wanted to put them in the past. now say, hey boys, i'm back in control. i'm the nice guy, trust me and he can't write. so we got these key words, the tears out of downing street. you have met and interviewed many of them, including mr. cummings, and i understand that was not a very pleasant encounter was or no, it wasn't. i wasn't interviewing him. i was interviewing his then boss, another brick sit him, michael, go. michael gove, didn't like the questions. he walked off 3 men appeared at my side. 2 of them. i knew one of them. i didn't. it was dominic cummings, who swore me using the f. word, calling me various things, but i'm not allowed. it turns out that many, many people have experienced this, not just journalists, but even conservative m.p.'s. and i think many had had enough said to boris johnson, he's got to go. and finally he decided, yes, he's all especially considering he's other member of the conservative party. could the u.k. be closer to securing this elusive bridge to deal with the e.u.?

i mean, the clock is ticking while some think now that because dominic cummings and others have gone yes plus with joe biden in the white house in just a couple of months time. things could be looking good for that. but what does boris johnson want? and we still don't know the answer to that. he must know that business is going to suffer. the economy will suffer if there is not a deal secured with the e.u. . on the other hand, he's got to keep those bricks of his half in. he now has time isolating in downing street to make up his mind plenty of time to think about that he's done in what he may or may not do a lot for is winding our bricks and analysts with the inside story. thank you alex . it was, alan said, one of the sticking points mentioned fishing quote. the question is, how much access will e.u. fishing boats have to british waters next year? wonder who wants full control over its territorial waters. high drama on the high seas, or boxes in barbara veins, a report now from

a seaside village in france where breaks it has residents bracing for some choppy waters. fresh fish from the english channel? jump? yes, i go on loads his latest catching his sons about still has been pitching in since he was a teenager. the tiger 3 is a family fishing business in its 3rd generation, the 4th grandfather who began fishing in u.k. water. i'm the owner and i'm waiting for my son to take over, but not if i built this for him. if it was, we've been working here for 47 iris. and in the end it's all for him. but breaks it turns out the way they expect it will become complicated because there are already too many boats fishing in the channel. the lawn is home to francis. biggest fishing port. french fishermen catch more than $200000000.00 euros

worth of fish in british waters each year. 10 times more than the u.k. side pulls out of the water. the french would like to keep bringing home red mullet like these. caught on the u.k. side of the channel despite breck's that everything will grind to hold here. but maybe we can still salvage something. i don't think it will be a death sentence for coming, but it would be a catastrophe for our lives. for everyone here. there are no walls in the sea fisherman, like all, if you had to stress many species, are born in french waters and move to british seas. once they've matured. for centuries, the 2 countries have been sharing their fish in their waters, hard to imagine that this could suddenly come to an end. the separation line in the channel runs right here. if there is no deal,

the french fishing boats and the european fishing boats lose this entire zone. and we will all meet in this small area of the doj and the french. so we will then systematically over fish. and this will quickly lead to bankruptcy . that also holds true for bigger boats the captain or is unloading pollack called off the coast of scotland. some of these fish will be sold back to the u.k. . meanwhile, british fisherman sell around 70 percent of their catch to the europeans. it's a matter of taste. what they don't like, they sell to the french who are crazy about u.k. courts. see spider place and dover sole or difficult shows we trust on both sides. and we have to save jobs and find a solution. so we can both survive because of all of us. they have the fish,

we have the markets, we have the internal market with a few 100000000 consumers, feel it should report all this into question to all we've managed to work together for decades and decades. this is new to this elite who are they also in $5000.00 jobs depend on the fishing industry. if there is no breaks in free trade deal, the town's future is at stake and small operations like john p.l.c. would be fighting for survival. after a quick break in the harbor, he's heading back out into the channel. u.k. waters are only 40 minutes away, but politically, britain and the e.u. remain oceans the pot. well, the day is almost done, the conversation continues online. you'll find us on twitter either at u.w. news you can follow me at t.v. . we'd like to leave you tonight with images of space x.'s falcon 9 rocket blasting

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