this is it every news line from berlin last throw of the dice crunch time for breaks it talks again in a race against the clock the british and european negotiators meet again today to try and seal the deal but talks are at an impasse and with the gregs a deadline just days away a threat of a no deal divorce is melting also coming up germany's bavaria steps up its shutdown

the state remains a stubborn hotspot for corona virus infections all now it's facing the toughest measures in the country and other states could follow suit and some exciting weekend soccer action in the bundesliga and germany's business leader rather by in labor cousens scoring goals and stopping them on their way to 2nd place in the bundesliga we'll tell you how they extended it remarkable a newbie in st. why aren't thank you so much for your company everyone british and european negotiators are once again locked in talks with time fast running out to secure a post briggs it trade deal european commission president or zavada lyon is due to speak to britain's boris johnson later this afternoon to evaluate how the talks are

going while that use chief negotiator nischelle banyan is downbeat about the chances of a breakthrough saying key sticking points remain on this fight to grow. fears of economic chaos if britain leaves without a deal at the end of the year london has once again said it will not extend the negotiations all right let's get you where the latest now from brussels interviews alexander naaman is standing by and tracking all developments there for you alexandra it feels like groundhog day again is this the end game while we have entered the end game that was apparently what e.u. chief negotiator bunya told members of the european parliament today he also briefed do you best interests in the morning and delivered what was described as a gloomy downbeat assessment with regard to the prospects of ceiling new trade deal with the u.k.

he apparently said that the talks would continue until wednesday but no other and now of course all eyes are on the law fund and boris johnson's and stick question is if they are able to to solve 2 and deadlock but you know as well as me that we have seen a lot of deadline approaching and then being extended and journalists here in brussels even joke that this isn't there for ending story but of course we have to say that the muti in brussels is gloomy at the moment rather gloomy like there where there were only what are the sticking points. there are still 3 issues that the talks have been circulating around in the last weeks when we talk about. for a further competition when we talk about a mechanism that has to be a style blish to to make sure that both sides can solve their disputes in the

future and of course there is a question of fishing rights how much exits european fishes will get in the future u.k. waters fishing represents just one percent of the u.k. g.d.p. but it seems to be a very symbolic and emotional issue for the u.k. and now is are finally what happens if they don't reach an agreement well i think we are going to see a lot of kiddo's disruptions and still a if there is no trade agreement there will be tariffs on goods customs checks new customs checks and we are probably going to see lines of trucks at the border wait we can see delays in the delivery of medicine it's likely that of course we need to deal with a lot of paperwork and many areas from d.h. and trouble in general to transporting transporting you pads are going to be

affected kind of phenomenon reporting from brussels thank you. back here in germany the german state of the varian new were coronavirus infections remain among the highest in the country all after crisis meeting on sunday the regional government decided to tighten restrictions above and beyond the national guidelines starting wednesday varian's will be asked to stay at home with only a few exceptions. germany has been under a partial lockdown for over a month now yet the number of new coronavirus infections and deaths from covert 1000 remain high the current measures don't seem to be working as well as the government and the state leaders had hoped for. so it cites what the robot called him students reporting day after day as obviously cause for concern the numbers are not going down steadily and they're actually staying at a very high level and for the last couple of days they have been rising again this

is far from the turnaround we had hoped for. calls for tougher measures like rowing across the country in bavaria. has announced restrictions. people will only be able to leave their homes with good reason for example to go to work the doctor or go shopping or to exercise evening curfews stricter border checks and a partial school shutdown are also on the list this year the current system alone is not enough so we need to think again whether it makes sense to wait until january 10th on the current state we have to act and i think it's better done sooner than later we know what we have to do and we have to do it in good time germany 16 state premiers and chancellor angela merkel had agreed to ease current restrictions slightly over the christmas period. i understand the urge to celebrate christmas with one's family but maybe we can take a break for a year. it's. good us i think that with all this coronavirus stuff people are also

trying to make sure that no one else gets sick they'll just spend time with their families more mature science of climate. people will meet anyway because grandma can't be alone at least i hope so. but the loosening up frustrations is now being called into question with coronavirus cases and deaths still as high as they are the move may be too risky. let's find out more now with political correspondent simon young assignment while other german states follow various lead. i think that it's very likely the economics minister peter myers been talking about this today and he said that intensive discussions about corona measures are going to be needed again in the coming days because he said that the efforts that are the regimes that are currently in place around germany clearly are falling well below expectations

in terms of beating the 2nd wave and infection numbers remain worryingly high he said and there's a prospect that at least in those places where have been designated as corona hot spots with high infection rates continuing there will have to be a possibly a rollback of the loosening people had been hoping to loosen the restrictions over christmas but in fact state authorities in central government had already agreed that if necessary that loosening those relaxed restrictions over over the christmas and new year period could be rolled back and for instance the health minister in north rhine-westphalia one of the most populous states in germany has said you know that is what they are going to be looking at doing why he is very a doing as well as some of the other states. yeah that's a very good question and the bavarian state premium marc has had his own for that

today he said that a certain sloppiness in attitudes has been creeping aimed in bavaria he said that in some places the rules were being very intensively in force and he also said that people have been looking for loopholes and sort of work arounds to avoid having to you know where the markets and keep the distance in some cases he didn't say exactly where the area is a large and populous state you've got big cities you've got to very rural regions so it may be that in some cases you know the following choosing of the corona rules hasn't been sufficient that's why from wednesday as you reported they're going to be toughening the measures again to try and get on top of it now as you reported and alluded to were german authorities plan to relax restrictions for the holiday season could we see them not just revisit the guidelines for telling people actively to stay home over christmas. i think that's what people will be encouraged

to do the government says that they do want to see people are able to celebrate christmas have family gatherings in some reduced form the question is really around what happens immediately before immediately after that period but it's worth saying also many hospital managers very worried about the relaxations of a christmas i said it will certainly lead to a spike in infections because more contacts always do and they're saying they're worried that they're at the limits of their capacity in some cases hospitals are using 40 percent more in intensive care beds than they were. in the spring of this year when of course a previous spike in infections was saying he's having a political correspondence i mean young thank you. let's take a look now at the latest developments in the corona virus pandemic the serum institute of india says it has applied for emergency use authorization of its coronavirus vaccine in india britain says it will administer the 1st doses of the

buy on tech pfizer vaccine on choose day health care workers and seniors will be forced in line and co $1000.00 infections in germany are still trending upward despite the partial lockdown imposed in early november health departments reported more than 12000 new infections about 1000 more than on monday last week. and it's only now about some of the other stories making news around the world iran's revolutionary guard says a remote controlled weapon was used in last week's assassination of a top nuclear scientist officials said no attackers were present when they were seen as far as the day was shot by a high precision machine gun fitted with a camera an artificial intelligence iran has previously been to israel for the attack. meanwhile in australia residents have been told to evacuate from fraser island as bush fire is burnt to word homes more than half of the world heritage

national park has been destroyed by fires in recent weeks with a heat wave worsening conditions is thought an illegal camp fire sparked the blaze . the u.s. president donald trump's personal lawyer rudy giuliani has tested positive for corona virus he has reportedly been admitted to a washington hospital but tweeted to say he was fine of the 76 year old has traveled extensively working to overturn trump's recent election losses are. for. venezuela's socialist president nicolas maduro has hailed a gigantic election win that hands him control of the national assembly and cements his position in power while i'm a jew or as a socialist one almost 70 percent of the votes but turnout was just 31 percent after opposition parties called for a boycott international observers have condemned the vote saying the results did

not reflect the will of the venezuelan people suffer claimed acting president one why though set the vote was a fraud. germany and poland are marking the 50th anniversary of a historic agreement the treaty of warsaw was a cold war non-aggression pact that guarantee germany's acceptance of poland's post-war borders on the polish a capital representatives of the polish and german governments late greets at the memorial for the warsaw ghetto heroes to commemorate the event on the memorial is also the place where a former german chancellor it has stored gesture of humility with poland in 1970. west germany's chancellor at the time really but i want to travel to communist poland to sign the agreement at the memorial for the warsaw ghetto uprising against the nazis but i want went down on his knees as a mark of atonement for the 6000000 poles killed by germany's nazi regime during

world war 2. faced with the abyss of german history and the burden of the millions who have been murdered i did what we humans do with words fail us. that's how we leaped on to describe the moment that's come to be known as the genuflection of warsaw. it was an act of atonement for the sins of the nazis of the nearly half a 1000000 jews and present in the was so ghetto most were killed in total nearly $6000000.00 poles perished today a plaque commemorates the historic gesture the square where it happened renamed in honor of the german chancellor half a century later the meaning of that moment still echoes throughout warsaw. he was begging for forgiveness it was a gesture to ask us to forgive the germans for everything they did to us during the war. in this was a person who broke certain to booth a person who broke barriers he was brave enough to make this extraordinary gesture

. for the 1st does not above all it pave the way for a dialogue between germany and poland it marks the beginning of reconciliation years after the end of world war 2 when there was still a lot of animosity on both sides i never got at home brown's gesture was met with hostility nearly 50 percent sort as a sellout of national interests at a time when many still sought to reclaim former eastern territories dog's hopes were dashed when brown signed the treaty of warsaw formally accepting the existing border and recognizing the polish state a chapter that's gone down in german history as a game changer. was not that's not in the what can you tell us about this picture yet it is worth it if that's really planned to kneeling before the memorial to the warsaw ghetto uprising that marked the turning point in west germany policy towards eastern europe because this was obviously a significant gesture by the federal republic of germany especially because it was made by someone who himself had resisted in arts.