this is a. major step towards ending the coronavirus britain becomes the 1st country in the world to approve the 5 vaccine for. next week calls it a historic moment. in the program 3 pro-democracy activists a sentence for the. protests and the crackdown against.

5 people killed in. a police say the attack was intentional. and the program. britain has approved the has approved the corona virus a vaccine manufactured by pharmaceutical partners a pfizer brown tech becoming the 1st country in the world to do so london says it will be made available across the country from next week it's a result of a collaboration between the u.s. and drug maker fires a german company biotech it's still awaiting regulator approval across the rest of the world including the e.u. wealth or to say could be authorized for use with a week's. don't have

a story from our correspondent in london very shortly 1st let's take a look at some other developments in the corona virus a pandemic start in germany where the public health institute has reported 487 deaths over 24 hours the highest daily figure in germany so far officials say they've been affected they've been expecting daily deaths a trend upwards of following a steep increase in new infections 4 ticals prime minister antonio castor has said that securing a vaccine for all european countries will be a top priority when his country takes over the european union's notating presidency in january and media reports say japan plans to allow large numbers of overseas visitors to attend next year's tokyo lympics without mandatory vaccinations or quarantine that's provided they submit negative prove it test results and download tracking apps. no court in hong kong has sentenced leading pro-democracy activist

jocks you joshua wall to a total of 13 and a half months in jail for charges relating to last year's anti-government protests i hate and 2 other pro-democracy activists pleaded guilty to charges including inciting an illegal assembly in june beijing imposed a national security law on hong kong after the territory was rocked by mass protests critics say the law is being used to silence dissidents and strip hong kong special status as granted when control of the territory transferred from britain to china. d.w. correspondent phebe kong is that in hong kong and joins us now welcome phoebe talk us through the sentences. well just how long faces 2 charges are for inciting and only thing over i simply have actually been in 19 and home home caught so to seems. a total total of 2 months and

have chosen to. stay in the court. ruling in the city. just want this most high profile leading up to this so far to be sent the high price is the. long side to. all my comments now this is still one of the most prominent. and also i was. was was sent to jail or respectively 7 months and 10 months if lay a little bit beyond expectation that. has no criminal record also to 10 months in show so that is pretty have the money. for me and says. ok stay with us please i think we were going to find out more about joshua won't.

come back to you. hong kong 2014 the umbrella movement takes to the streets for months of protests spurred by a government plan to prescreen candidates for local elections. was front and center . everybody here has to stay alert this demonstration has been peaceful and the police haven't bothered us much but now they've brought tear gas and plastic bullets we have to do all we can to protect ourselves. he was arrested at the age of $171.00 became an international political figure. 16 he founded a new political party. aiming to define hong kong's long term future himself was too young to be a candidate though that didn't stop him from trying to run for office. in $29000.00 he was jailed for 2 months but went free in time to join widespread

protests over a proposed new extradition law to mainland china this time around the demonstrations were much more violent wang was arrested along with thousands of others. in july 2020 things went from bad to worse for pro-democracy activists china passed the new security law for hong kong that made wang's demos sisco party illegal the party disbanded and wong went to trial for his activities in last year's protests undeterred he told d.w. in a recent interview he would not back down. recent boss their 1st activism and thinking critically even is such difficulty timing what didn't and doesn't all of us were arrest this is last summer and 2000 people including me were prosecuted is still important for us to stay and fight despite his defiance a long sentence will keep him out of the public eye for several years. back to

phoebe tong and hong kong and fabian what's going to happen now. so we are leaving after this. show immediately and out of here. she has no criminal record or. pending. appeal. that was also rejected so all of them. today. on the court the judge said that. things that. were active participants in the particular protest last. or surround the police had order and. they. were active.

in trying to mobilize to. play on the street at that moment and according to some we was just a wall when she was away on the court. he yelled. i know it's tough but i will have. just put at least saying in the courtroom and also . he has. to. be sentenced today and the sentences movies a clear message from beijing for the pro-democracy movement in hong kong. this is not the 1st time for social and also. activists to be. sentenced today we now know. just how long it's now have to. he has to stay behind bars for more than that yes so that means he cannot let him

go even any kind of test for the next year and this is another major setback. a huge blow to. these 3 activists where really. one of the most opposition. but past few years now are u.s. and. house to spend several months and even more than the year so that is right they were. and this is example of what a protest is now going on going on. and now they're seeing. and also lay out possibly this in the. near future all right phoebe kong there in hong kong thank you. don't take a look at some of the stories making headlines around the world the u.s.

justice department says it's found no evidence of widespread voter fraud in the presidential election the statement from u.s. attorney general william barber's a blow to president trump's attempts to challenge the election results as he refuses to concede to joe by. hunger a member of the european parliament has resigned after breaking lockdown rules by attending what's been described as a gay sex party in brussels a yasha sire who has previously backed out in t l g p t legislation in hungary admitted attending the party which was broken up by police he belongs to hungary's ruling conservative party and is an ally of prime minister viktor orban. new zealand has declared a climate emergency and pledge that its public south sector will be carbon neutral by 2025 prime minister just in the are told parliament urgent action is needed for the sake of future generations the country joins 32 others who've issued emergency declarations over the global health emergency. one of the world's largest

telescopes has collapsed after 57 years of operation located in puerto rico it's been deteriorating since august and repair efforts were deemed too dangerous radio telescope featured in the 1995 james bond film golden eye was used to track asteroids and study distant planets or a german man is to appearing in court today after driving his car into pedestrians in the western city of tripoli police have confirmed that 5 people were killed including a 9 week old baby the driver a local man is in custody no motive has yet been established. as a city in mourning outside candles were lit at a makeshift memorial for the victims. and inside the city's cathedral

a service for those killed and injured. i think this is the worst black day in the history it ts since world war 2 we are all used to seeing these kinds of pictures happening all over the world but no one ever thought it would happen here we were very much mistaken as we've painfully found out today. a baby was one of the 5 kills when a 51 year old local man drove an s.u.v. for around wild kilometer through the center of tria hitting people at random authorities said he was stopped by police. social media footage showed the man being arrested investigators said he had consumed a significant amount of alcohol. and i'm not sure that's we have no indications that the motive is of a terrorist political or religious nature.

escaped there are indications that there could be a psychiatric problem involved movies of eyes on shock was just conk out. here. as is the case across germany christmas markets have been canceled entire but despite the quiet atmosphere police urged people to stay away from the city center on tuesday evening. as. reports scientists welcome this is quite a thing to us. indeed it is as you walk the streets as i was walking the streets coming here today you could see that there's just an air of sadness and trauma i spoke to one man last night who said that he had seen the bodies he said he wanted to stay out here because he couldn't get to sleep it's just been a traumatic experience for him for witnesses but also for the nation i mean german

chancellor angela merkel even said you know this incident has made her incredibly sad now if you were able to look behind me you would see that people some people have started to gather and light candles in memory of the victims. but in general it is just a sad day for everyone here what's known of the victims. so what we know about the victims is that authorities have confirmed 5 people have died more than a dozen others injured of the deaths one of them was a 9 week old baby and her father a 45 year old man and that the mother and their one year old one and a half year old child are also injured at the hospital so for this family it is just been a destructive experience and but at the word is that yet to release more information one of the one of the victims is also a 73 year old woman so in general the age just it's a massive range across the victims. and the police have

a suspect in custody. indeed they do they have a 50 they believe the perpetrator that they apprehended yesterday was is a 5051 year old man he is a lifelong resident of true authority said over the past couple days he had been living out of a vehicle it is it is not known whether that was the same vehicle that he used to plow into people right behind me and what we do know is that he was living in there for the past couple days the vehicle is not he's already said it could have been. and to him at the moment they don't know much more and they've also asked the public to not speculate about a motive one thing is clear the police said they haven't found evidence to suggest that this was a politically motivated attack so for now they're not looking into this as a terrorist attack but they are saying that it was deliberate he did swerve his vehicle right behind me in zigzag form deliberately intentionally trying to target

pedestrians so what else is being said about the investigation at this stage. what today the man will be showing up in court and it will be the judge's decision whether he will be going to be detained within a jail or he'll be moving towards a cycle. essentially the investigation they're saying that there are going to continue efforts looking into the psychological doing a psychological evaluation of the suspect and seen whether or not he was in his right mind when he committed this deliberate act thank you for the us. entry. let me take you back to our top story britain has approved a coronavirus vaccine produced by pharmaceutical partners a fire be on tap for emergency use making it the 1st western country to do so it'll

be made available across the country from next week vaccine is the result of a collaboration between the u.s. drugs make a fighter and german company beyond tech. matthew moore from the w. business is here to tell us more welcome matthew so let's start with the distribution when does that start how's it going to work well obviously there's a huge huge moment in there the lifetime of this the whole for this year really vaccinations will start for next week so by on tech of said that they will begin delivering vaccinations this week the u.k. government says that they will be distributed next week and obviously they're going to have you given to the most needy fossil care home residents health care workers and the extremely vulnerable to those in high risk groups in all the u.k. has ordered 40000000 doses that's for 20000000 people but this is an incredible achievement the fastest this is

a fast and fast this vaccine ever produced the closest it comes to is the months vaccine which was i think 4 years and all in the planning so it's a huge moment historic moment but people just have to wait a few days longer but i think we can manage ok so approval in the u.k. only at this stage what does that mean as far as its bid for approval in the u.s. and the e.u. goes so the moment the u.s. regulator is due to meet next week to make to get its opinion. the european medicine agency is due to meet at the end of this month now there are some people in europe within the european union who say that they should bring that forward to be pressure no doubt know to bring that forward. but the german health minister said yes that he could have down pending expectations and said it probably won't be until january that they start administering vaccinations in germany and it won't be until next summer that people that the weight of population is vaccinated. ok now

big concern about this of course is its handling because this has to be stored is at minus 70. how they're going to deal with it well this was so this was a vaccination that you would really positive results in stage 3 trials something like 95 percent effects of one of the drawbacks was there's this issue of storage needed to be stored because it's an m.r.i. and a vaccine it breaks off if it if the temperature gets too warm so it has to be stored at minus 70 degrees pfizer who are producing this by antec of transportation kind of containers that can be using to dry out dry ice can can store these vaccinations for. up to 10 days for transportation and then the vaccination can be thawed and stored at around $2.00 to $8.00 degree so in a kind of normal for 245 days but it does create a pressure on the system because you people are desperate to get it has to be

shipped around the world. so naturally there are still questions but i think pfizer is is they were doing the chain logistics and putting in place all that they can. manage some of these issues. will be a huge logistical challenge in the coming months with a bit of good news in this. coronavirus pandemic finance matthieu move business thank you. well the pandemic has brought much of life as we know it to a standstill including venice is famous gondolas normally the boat would be busy ferrying tourists around the city's canals but with barely any international travel an important source of income has dried up leaving the city's gone villages desperate for work. they are the symbol of the city for centuries gondolas have been an integral part of life in venice but the covert 19 pandemic has emptied its famous canals gondoliers can only sit and wait for the

tide to turn in their favor. you're told to go see the place and there's no money coming in this last summer was a disaster international tourism is gone from america china japan australia canada before the whole world came to venice. in the past millions visited the city each year now gone to lir's don't expect more than one booking a day since venice relies on tourism job alternatives are few and far between. but i hope we will recover in the short term but we can't make any predictions because we have no control over when this pandemic will end this virus which has hit the whole world and which has hit venice so hard as well. good i mean can come in or. a place that was once

struggling with an overflow of tourists is now fighting to keep its economy afloat without them. well the u.n. refugee agency has appealed to ethiopia for access 296000 eritrea refugees in the northern region there are concerns of possible food shortages following reports of attacks abductions and force recruitment of refugees meanwhile the nearly month long war has displaced thousands of people into neighboring countries like. italy africa correspondent traveled to a town on the border with to grow. they were lucky after crossing the border from ethiopia to sudan latter bore han and her family found refuge in this home the nearby campus already overcrowded there they would have had to sleep outside on the ground. where. the mayor was and i thank the owner of this house so

much because she doesn't know was she doesn't know anything about us but because we were neighbors across the border she took us in more than 50 people. she and never forget the moment she realized she and her 9 children had to flee their hometown in to cry. we cried and our children cried with us they wept in front of us the shooting started while we were eating and we just had to leave. even me. 6 families live here together that is more than 50 people in one house among them a tourist bar he and her husband when the fighting in tikrit i started they tried to bring their children to safety. when the shooting started i gave my children to our neighbors who had

a car to take them with them. since then she hasn't heard anything from them because of a communications blackout and to get i she can't call the neighbors or people in her village. my children are always on my mind whenever i close my eyes i see them the owner of the house a study day by him it's not the 1st time that she has welcomed refugees in her home in the 1960 s. she house people who fled the war in ethiopia these people came to us and those all we don't have much money but they are our neighbors so we had to hurt them many residents of this already poor region have again welcome to keep them refugees in their homes some of us out only others provide food and water however the influx of people here has resulted in instant price hikes residents tell us vegetables fruit and even water has become much more expensive still they try to help as much as they can for. the 2nd time that she had to flee her home she doesn't want the same

for her children. i hope my children will have a better life will not become like us i wish they go to school and study do their jobs and stay away from politics it is a pretty. good 30 day abraham says her guests can stay as long as they need i was alone in captivity for years but now the only phones known as the world's loneliest finally has a new life was transported from his or in pakistan to cambodia after rights groups send us to the campaign to save him from miserable conditions like many other travelers. test before his flight he's not alongside several other americans. and moon rocks may be coming to earth for the 1st time in more than 40 years aboard a chinese spacecraft china's space probe has touched down on the moon surface on

a mission to collect geological specimens so scientists can learn more about the moon's origins if successful it will mark a giant leap forward for beijing's space program. it is a reminder of our top stories at this hour britain has become the 1st western country to all surprise a coronavirus vaccine for emergency use a regular users of approved the drugs main frighten us pharmaceuticals money fast profiles a german company pontac vaccinations a shuttle to begin next week. reporting home called his jailed 3 prominent pro-democracy activists for between 7 and 13 months for that pots in last year's i'm to beijing protests joshua wall ivan law and i 1st child i have pleaded guilty to inciting a false wrongful thrice in the protests to something comes as china tightens its control of the territory. as a choice of today it's

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