i come from a poor family, the pop star wants to become president. and jesus, god is and we are not credible story with bobby water storages. december 10 o d w this is news and these are our top stories. police outside the german parliament in berlin have turned water cannons on. protesters are rallying against coronavirus restrictions and arrested more than 100 people. lawmakers have approved a new measure, extending government powers to limit social contacts. infection rates have been on the rise in germany, prompting the government to take action. public schools in new york city will close on thursday in an effort to contain soaring numbers of new coronavirus infections.

the city's mayor bill de blasio said there would be a halt to in 1st and learning in schools. i do what he called an abundance of caution. us authorities say boeing's 737 max airliner will be allowed to fly again. if planes are fitted with new software and pilots are given special training, the jet was grounded after 2 crashes that killed nearly 350 people. those accidents were caused by faults with the flight control system. the 20 months of grounding is the longest in commercial aviation history. this is g.w. news from berlin. follow us on twitter and instagram at w news or visit our website . did a view dot com today, german lawmakers passed legislation that gives the government more legal backing

for decisions a bit. protecting public helps in the pandemic. this includes social distancing, rules, facemask requirements, and closing stores. the government enjoys broad support for these coronavirus policies, but there are loud opponents making outrageous claims and saying politicians are using public health to disguise the erosion of personal freedoms. similar, they say to hell, the nazi party used the power of parliament to dismantle democracy. i'm burnt off in berlin. this is the day to be allowed to oppose the measures even to deny the obvious told us it is and must be possible in a free and open country that imus is a fake. this is about correct that anyone who doesn't understand that, i'm sorry,

months of restrictions on fundamental rights are being passed just because you are loved doesn't make you right. and it certainly doesn't mean you are in the majority. also coming up mass coronavirus testing in liverpool, england, the british government hopes that it will help stem the virus, but there are warnings it made lead to the public, letting down their gore. we need to explain to the public. this is not a possible to misbehave. this part of the jackson hole of white a public protection protesters pushed back by police with water cannons, the of the brandenburg gate here in berlin. people violating the laws of social distancing and mask wearing,

accusing police and politicians of using the coronavirus crisis to deny them of their civil rights. with you, our viewers on p.b.s. in the united states and to all of our viewers around the world. welcome, but we begin the day with a clear and controversial message about the current pandemic and the ones yet to come. today, both houses of the german parliament passed legislation designed to remove a legal gray area concerning the government's power to protect public health. a strong legal underpinning for decisions such as requiring facemasks in public were shutting down businesses. and the legislation was debated today and moved through parliament quickly. the reason lawmakers say the government still has work to do before the current pandemic ends. and they say future governments will need the same legal backing if and when another pandemic happens. here is what the german health minister yen spahn said today about the legislation

. protection of health is not absolute. but we have decided that health protection will have a relatively greater weight in this pandemic. since we have decided by a large majority in society, parliament that we do not want to accept an overstraining over health system that we can as absolutely avoid suffering through illness, intensive care being on a ventilator and death with us. we want to reduce the suffering to the best of our abilities. well for more tonight, i'm joined now by andrew goldman. he is a member of the german parliament for the business friendly f.t.p. party. he also happens to be a medical doctor by training dr. allman. it's good to have you on the day again, why was this legislation needed decisions by the government, restricting personal freedoms, closing stores, etc. are they on the verge of being unconstitutional? i wouldn't go that far yet. we need at this debate in the parliament,

it was overdue. and this help democracy works in germany. we have legislation power and also the extra power and we control each other. and that's why it was important that we had the debate. didn't happen for a very long time in our parliament. and honestly, i do not really see so for the personal freedom is eroded, the major problem is the acceptance of the rulings. and so far these rulings were done without, without palminteri and power and that was necessary to do, even though i do not agree with all the laws that were passed today. the legislation that was passed to address is the current situation, the current pandemic. do you think that it will make it easier for future governments to react when and if another pandemic occurs? i don't think so because there was this law passed very quickly. this was important . it was passed very quickly. however, we from the opposition. a lot of critics on the law and the free democrats also

brought in a new motion with a different law that was more thorough. only written, clear cut, actually looking at the different stages of a pandemic and how to react to the make. because the, the situation that we're facing here so far is that there is a majority of course accepting those rules. but a lot of those rulings are not very logical and doesn't really make sense. and this has to be debated again and again, of course, i'm not quite sure if this is going to stand by the constitutional a court's here in germany. so you're saying the legislation passed today may not stand up with its challenge before the constitutional court if there's a possibility that down could happen is nothing that's quite an unconstitutional. but there's a lot of lacking points in the law because the, the government needs to explain their ruling and also has to bring this

into the parliament. and so far it's just passed a bill and said, these are the rules that we're going to do period. and that is not good enough and then we have to be more precise in those laws. could you tell me what is the one thing about this legislation that needs to be changed? what would you change? well, 1st of all i would, i would really change what has to be done in a different situation to pendennis starts off where you have to prevent an infection. and these are, of course, those rules that we know about this physical distancing wearing mask in the public, especially in public transportation or in buildings, buildings. then the next step is when the endemic is quickly arising. this is the number of infections are increasingly very strongly then stronger measures have to be made. and this is, that is what's missing in this legislation that the connection between what is happening and what has to be done is not there just says if there's a pandemic situation,

these are the things that we have to do. and that is not clear cut enough before we run out of time. let me get your reaction to the news that pfizer and by on tech have successfully end of the late stage trials for their corona virus vaccine. i mean, that's wonderful news, isn't it? oh, this is really wonderful news today, the press release by be on tech and pfizer is very promising. i was still skeptical a week ago when we weren't so sure if the effect of that vaccine goes through all age groups. this was in the press release today that it goes through the age groups, the effectiveness of the vaccine of 95 percent. now i'm awaiting the primary publication of that data. and secondly, i do hope it's not only put into the f.d.a. filing. it's also put in the name of filing here for europe, so that we might have a new vaccine by march of next year. yeah, i'm going to ask you about that. pfizer says that it plans to ask the f.d.a. in the u.s. for emergency approval as soon as this week, when do you expect the request for approval here in europe?

when is that request going to come? well, i hope as soon as possible, of course, because we are in a similar situation as in north america. and is a company here in germany, cooperation with pfizer in the us. and i do hope i asked the company today. i didn't get any information about them so far. if they're going to file student here in europe, because the filing situation is pretty much similar between the u.s. and in europe. ok, dr. andrew allman member of the german parliament dr. own, we appreciate your time and your insights tonight. thank you. thank you for having, me again. well, in the u.s., the food and drug administration has given of emergency approval to the 1st rapid coronavirus tests that can be done at home after a simple nasal swab. the result, positive or negative, appears in about 30 minutes. this test does require a doctor's prescription, but it bypasses the lengthy process of waiting for results from

a lab. but this is good news against a global backdrop of restrictions and lockdowns. here in europe, there is a patchwork of national responses to the corona virus. now this map shows all of the countries that have imposed a partial or total nationwide lockdown as it stands tonight. there are 17 countries with a go from austria, which began a total lockdown on tuesday. you've got germany, which is in the middle of a 4 week partial lockdown stores, schools are open, restaurants, bars and gyms are closed. the world health organization says that more than half of new infections reported worldwide last week came from europe. and the situation is worse in the united states. what we see here are the states that have issued a stay at home order, similar to european lockdowns. and as you see here, new mexico is the only state that does that. they're supposed to be color coded and

new mexico is the only state that is telling people that they have to stay home. other states are advising that they do that, which is california. you see there kentucky and then in the northeast we have the states of massachusetts and rhode island, where the day's best news in the pandemic is a transatlantic story. the u.s. pharmaceutical giant pfizer and germany's buy on tech have announced that they are corona virus vaccine has passed all safety tests and trials by on tags. c.e.o. says regulators in europe and the u.s. could approve the vaccine as early as december safety. and that it's so far in the case that they feel is there a total of 8. that could happen that we get an auto because they should until middle east and to, to provide the millions of those as an experienced to the region. get an

approval on all right for more now on the latest in the coded vaccine raise, i'm joined by a dog and he's a senior scholar and johns hopkins center for public for help security. it's good to have you on the program. the pfizer biotech vaccine, it has taken just 10 months to develop, which is a remarkably short time. how can we be sure that it's safe? we can be sure that it is safe because we've seen in animal data, we've seen phase one in phase 2, and now face 3 data. you have to remember that speed, it's just exene was made,, had to do with the fact that it was using a new technology, an m.r.i., any vaccine platform. and that's where we cut this feat down and wasn't that the safety was at there were corners cut in phase one or 2 trials. we will have to follow people once they are vaccinated. 3 years, like we do with all that scenes. but in the middle of a pandemic, we're going to get an emergency use authorization based on the safety data that we

have so far. and it does look good and you think we have to continue to follow, as i said, to make sure nothing late longer term occurs. but i do think everything is it is pointing the right way when it comes to this vaccine amiss. are you concerned that there are no long term observations with this vaccine? i'm not concerned in the sense that any time we have a vaccine it gets approved and then we follow people out in what are called face for trial. so when the h.p.v. vaccine was that was approved, we didn't have 2 or 3 or 4 years of safety data, but we followed people even after it was approved and it ended up being safe. i don't have a major concern most vaccines that make it this far. don't usually have long term consequences. i think it's important to understand that. but to me, i don't think there's going to be a signal here. and i think that in the middle of a pandemic, you also have to weigh the risk in the benefit. and i do think that the vaccines, the way we're seeing them now, are really, it's the benefits outweigh any risk that, that we have with not having

a long term data. do you plan to get the vaccine? i do plan to get the vaccine. as soon as i'm in an eligible group, i am a health care worker and take care of covert patients now. so i may be in the 1st priority group, so i will gladly get this vaccine. we know pfizer and biotech say that the vaccine is 95 percent effective and i know that they were is static about that number, 95 percent. why is that number? so we press the numbers so impressive because we never thought that a 1st generation vaccine using a new technology would reach those types of that level of protection from symptomatic over that. we were looking at 5060 percent. that's what we would have been happy with. but to see them really hit it out of the ballpark 90 percent really made people take a step back and understand that this technology does have a lot of promise, not just for cove it, but for future infectious disease axioms as well. we know that vaccine denial is likely to be an issue, a bug signs of the atlantic. there will definitely be some safety concerns among

the public. how many people will need to be vaccinated to ensure herd immunity and to stop this pandemic? it's likely going to be maybe 78 percent of the population. if you assume that everybody has the same risk of, of transmitting the infection in me. also the fact that we're not 1st looking at her, the media, we're looking to try and decrease the virulence of this infection to be able to stop people from needing to be hospitalized. so we may be able to give our hospitals breathing room before we get near that herd immunity threshold. so it's important to remember that this vaccine, because it is so effective, is likely to really be able to take the pressure off of hospitals and take the pressure off i.c.u. beds and ventilators. and that's really what's driving a lot of the public health concern about this virus that's what's lacking. the curve is about is about keeping it below hospital capacity. how do you think governments and public health officials should deal with this vaccine skepticism that we, that we see we have to really be as transparent as possible about the process that

led to the development of these vaccines. what the clinical trials show in terms of both the safety and the efficacy, try to be able to answer any question that may come up. tell people what we know, what we don't know and really detail them on all of that. the benefits of this vaccine may provide and help to make this risk benefit calculation. we have to be proactive. we cannot be reactive because the anti vaccine groups will already be going after this vaccine prior to its prior to its arrival. you know, and from expecting too little to expecting too much from these vaccines are what you take a listen to what mark ryan said today he's with the world health organization. take a listen. some people think the vaccine will be in a sense the solution, the unicorn, we've all been chasing. it's not having vaccines is going to give us a huge chance. but if we add vaccines and forget the other things over, it does not go to 0. a measure, are you concerned that once the 1st vaccine injection is given?

are you concerned that will see people do drop social distancing, stop wearing face masks, and let down their guard. we're already seeing people let down their guard, and i do think that there is that danger. you have to remember that the vaccine isn't going to be a magic bullet unless it's coupled with a lot of other things in till we get across a herd immunity threshold. and it's going to take a process of years to get the world vaccinated. so koven $1000.00 is not going to go right to a sleazy roque. we will still need to think about what measures we need to do to keep ourselves safe, especially for those who aren't able to get the vaccine or who are the vaccine doesn't work for a number, not everybody's going to be in a priority. so this is going to be important that we have to get through this process by a lot, by using a lot of common sense things you've been doing from the beginning, wearing a mask social distancing washing your hands a lot. all of that's going to continue for some time, even when the vaccine is available. let me ask you, before we run out of time, did the german health minister says they could get vaccines will not be compulsory

. do you think that's a sensible policy? it's going to be hard to make a vaccine compulsory when it's only if i'm a available on an emergency use basis. i think once you see full license york and a much more robust safety profile, then i think you can see, you'll see schools, for example, or employers making these vaccines a requirement as a condition of entry. but i think in the early rollout of this vaccine, it's likely going to be just something is highly encouraged, but not something that we will have a basis for a mandate. because of the, because of the lack of all of the long term safety data, which we won't have for a couple of years. and which will then will lead to the full licensure of the vaccine. are measured on to the johns hopkins center for security missions. good to have you on the show. we appreciate your time in your valuable insights tonight. thank you. and your well, a city that has tested all of its residents that describes the northwest english city of liverpool. it has become the 1st city in the u.k. to carry out mass testing of the entire population around 100000 people have been

screened for the virus in just the past 2 weeks. it is hoped that blanket testing will help to stop transmission of the virus, especially by carriers with no symptoms. you know, charlotte shelves until report this is being billed as the u.k.'s latest weapon in the fight against covert 19, with the city of liverpool on the front line. that piloting a city wide testing scheme. the 1st of its kind in the u.k. and a massive p.r. campaigns underway to enlist the hoffa 1000000 people living in liverpool, the move people get tested, the better we can protect that great city and drive the disease down that start the fight back against. let's get tested. let's do it together. that story for liverpool, local authorities have set up dozens of testing sites across the city, and they've brought in the army to help. the logistics considerations of this

operation have been significant. we deployed 2000 troops to the city of liverpool within 3 days across $45.00 sites. liverpool volunteered to try the mass testing operation after recording one of the highest rates in europe with or it is hoped that by testing as much of the population as possible that identify more asymptomatic cases and break the chains of transmission. the scheme is tested over $100000.00 people since it started a week and a half a day. but there's still a long way to go ahead of time and well, it's good. it's a good idea that i've had mine done. both me and my husband were negative. i think to get the hope population tested to be able to identify who started, particularly those who have it and showing symptoms. and that really looked so the fill it with action takes off processing tests quickly is the key to a scheme like this asymptomatic volunteers myself. included,

are asked to do the swap them sounds. you get the results on your phone within an hour. you know, these are the lateral flow devices that are being tested 5 like this one across liverpool. now a lot like a pregnancy test, they can determine results in 20 to 30 minutes. and the benefit is the results can be processed right here, the testing site, instead, then a lab. and that's why these tests at the back of the pools math test. and there's some dispute about how many positive cases are being missed. critics also fear that getting a negative test could give people a false sense of security that results only valid until the moment you leave the building. and once again, at risk of being exposed to local councillor, paul brown says this scheme was never designed to be a silver bullet. we need to explain to the public. this is not a passport to misbehave. this is part of the jigsaw of wider public protection.

it will be difficult to tell what direct effects the scheme house on cutting infections is happening while england is in lockdown. the pull bryant says every asymptomatic case that's identified is a step in the right direction. as we've identified through that program, 527 people who we now know are positive, who have no symptoms, and were not previously have known that they were symptomatic and infectious. and they've now can take steps to take themselves out of circulation and protect themselves and their family and their friends. originally planned to last 2 weeks, this pilot's likely to be extended with increasing public engagement top of their priority list. but it's a blueprint for the u.k.'s testing strategy. and the government's already announced more mass testing schemes, in dozens of locations across the country where thousands of people took to the streets of poland's capital. warsaw all today to

show their opposition to a supreme court ruling that almost totally bans abortions, police force protesters away from the parliament building, which the protesters wanted to be watching. the court's ruling bans abortions for irreversible congenital defects, including those for fatal illness. today's demonstration was the latest in a series of protests following last october's court ruling. a polish women decide to have an abortion will now be forced to travel abroad in even greater numbers than before. one destination is neighboring germany, where the abortion laws are more liberal. pushing them, barrett in has worked for the initiative time to barbara or aunt barbara for 5 years. she helps polish women have abortions in berlin, her phone, and her constant companion, a woman who had an abortion here 2 weeks ago is calling her right now. is going to

probably know she has some problems and would like to go to the doctor, the vice. but of course, she doesn't know which doctor she should go to. our question can or cannot say, or how she should act. is this a doctor she can trust or not? it's estimated that up 215-0000 polish women have abortions each year illegally and foreign clinics and very fearfully. that's why ocean american wants to help. she has been receiving more than twice as many calls since poland's abortion law became more restrictive. the woman she is meeting now is pregnant, but her baby is severely deformed. is about the time that she was completely stressed out. she cried for 2 days because she didn't want to bear a sick child. and she was suddenly forced to that's the way to avoid

having the baby, the woman traveled hundreds of kilometers to berlin to protect her identity. we turn up the camera. so poland's abortion law is the strictest in europe. a gynecologist who regularly performs abortions for women from poland tells us about her experiences. we generally see women of all ages. we see teenagers who became pregnant through rape or through a moment of thoughtless behavior. very, very young women between the ages of 14 and 17. but we also see women who are well into their forty's and we meet again in the evening. the woman who she picked up from the train station is just seeing the doctor. the ultrasound clearly shows that the baby had no chance of

survival. the abortion is scheduled for the next day and the organisms are both dead before the diagnosed have been confirmed. it doesn't look good that our doctor just asked why is it that the polish doctors haven't already carried out? the terminations missed some of those good luck. but abortion, even under these circumstances, is illegal in poland. that's why polish women look for help or brawn and find it. and berlin with the better team and the time to baba initiative of the day is almost on the conversation, continues online. we'll see you tomorrow. everybody conflicts

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