discovered. subscribe to the documentary. this is the news and these are our top stories. britain has become the 1st western nation to begin vaccinating its population against the coronavirus it's also the 1st country rolling out the biotech pfizer vaccine the 1st shot went to a 90 year old grandmother. instead of saxony has become the latest state to expand its lock down schools and most businesses to close one of germany's leading health institutions now says the government should

consider a lockdown beginning christmas a. strike in india has shut down a large portion of the country's infrastructure shops and markets tens of thousands of families have been camped on the outskirts of the capital delhi for days demanding a repeal of new agricultural bills. which prime minister bars johnson will travel to brussels on wednesday in a final push for a price post break that trade deal with the e.u. meanwhile london has withdrawn clauses in its legislation that reneged on an earlier agreement in a move seen as a positive gesture. this is data news from the ne can follow us on twitter and instagram the handle is at the w. news we can also visit our website to be found that dot com. medical history was written today it happened at 631 this morning in coventry

england 90 year old margaret keenan rolled up the sleeve of her merry christmas t. shirt looked at the nurse holding the syringe and said go for it was the 1st shot in the 1st mass vaccination program using a clinically tested vaccine against the corona virus today's injections are no shot in the dark more like points of light that in time will in this long and dark winter the winter that is this pandemic i bring call from berlin this is the day. the time from the top. down it. took into account that the people coming down. and the water that march or april would have given anything that they would be able to play the day

they found it and they found. the thing i can't wait to check out. also coming up 4 decades ago a gunman shot and killed the senior and former beatles member john lennon tonight the man his music and its message how do they sound and translate in our world 40 years on. the lead and that's one of the make. and what happened. but you our viewers on p.b.s. in the united states into our viewers all around the world welcome we begin the day with a mammoth medical marvel taking place in the u.k. a race to protect as many people as possible from

a virus that less than one year ago was unknown and unnamed today the u.k. became the 1st country to begin a mass vaccination program against the corona virus that causes coded 19 the 1st country to use a vaccine that has been clinically and fully tested the vaccine administered today was developed and tested at an unprecedented speed by the german firm buy on tech in the u.s. from a suitable giant pfizer it received approval in the u.k. last week since then $800000.00 doses have been transported at south pole like temperatures to 50 hospitals nations are watching and hoping to roll out their own vaccination soon as the virus continues to claim wives every day by the thousands we have this report tonight beginning in england. with one prick the largest vaccination campaign in the history of the u.k. was launched. 90 year old margaret chain was chosen to be the 1st

recipient and she played the role with grace and gratitude. i say full for her for speaker says this phrase and it's the best thing to set up in. the midst of a few friends. from london to edinburgh thousands of elderly patients were vaccinated on what the government dubbed the day the u.k. has secured 800000 doses to be administered in the coming weeks. british prime minister boris johnson visited a london hospital where staff were administering some of the 1st gas. what i would say is that. there are those on the street who. feel that they have back seen something they need to. leave the ideological reasons for medical reasons i think that. i need that there are maybe 2 people who count themselves empty boxes just

taking the approach i could see it's the right thing to do it's good for you and it's good for the whole good. it wasn't just a big moment for the british that same vaccine developed by by on tech pfizer is set to be rolled out in europe and the us pending approval there that could be a matter of weeks. but many other countries are pinning their immunization hopes on china chinese authorities are preparing a massive rollout of their own coronavirus vaccines beijing is already negotiating sales to countries in asia the middle east and latin america they've even sent out the 1st shipments. for more i'm joined now by dr on carson heard it he is chair of the london assembly health committee dr so hard it's good to have you on the program i understand your committee found out via a survey that a quarter of londoners are unlikely to get the vaccine do we know why that is.

but of course with this this figure is consistent with other surveys also the 25 percent people don't want to be actually in the end the reason they quote half of them quote the reason being that they don't trust the government or they don't trust the drug companies get up people who believe that this is a vaccine doesn't exist but all the buyers of the exist but of course we need to win them over and we need to reassure them that this is a safe vaccine it can be stated liver and is a game changer in the fight against people back to the big over 19 pandemic m how do you plan to convince these skeptics that they should get the vaccine i think is an exercise in public communications we need to reassure them this is a safe we need to make sure that people are expanded the risks of not having that seen and reassure them that this is safe about tested let's not forget some that 44000 people have already had the vaccine before it's been given a license and the right last has been given by the independent regulatory

authorities there's been tested by an independent body who looked at all the evidence it's been trying to whom beings is safe and i bet we trust in the vaccine and i think we need your reassurance and communicate this information to all the public what about the argument that this is these vaccinations are the beginning of the end of this pandemic i mean that should be a convincing argument should. absolutely i think the only thing we have so far was social distance that was the only tool we had but this is a game changer by giving the vaccine we're going to do 2 things one is we could have kept ourselves the 2nd things we have kept new other people in the community because once you know that the nation the life of such a population that is there vaccinated you get what's called herd immunity so when you take the vaccine you yourself and you have in your community and what how long do you think it will take before we get to that level of herd immunity. well of course that differs from different these different did it for me though is that 95 percent 80 percent we don't know what the favorite is probably as betty said and i

suspect that will take about 89 months to get there i suspect that we'll have that need to the most people by the by may june of this year and the off that was in the uk but i think of kate move us about next 9 months to get to the head of energy dr on car so to chair of the london assembly help committee we appreciate your time and your insights tonight thank you think about it. the u.k. mass vaccination program comes as the virus is surging yet again from a midsummer viral madness to the winter of our discontent how befitting that today the 2nd person to be given the new vaccine was an 81 year old pensioner who goes by the name william shakespeare shakespeare received his jab at a hospital in coventry not far from where england's great dramatist him poet was born the famous name inspired some wits with comments like the taming of the flu

and the 2 gentlemen of corona. some asked if the woman who received the 1st jab if she was patient one day then was shakespear patient to be or not to be. here in germany the country's top scientists are recommending a much tougher campaign to stop the coronavirus one that does not allow any exceptions for christmas or new years today the country's national academy of sciences known as leopold dina's said the government should consider a 2 week nationwide hard lockdown starting on december 24th several states including bavaria have already announced curfews and stay at home orders. with the christmas shopping season in full swing many people are probably thinking more about presents than hospitals but statistics say more than 4000 patients are being

treated for cope with 19 and germany's intensive care units due to its high number of infections saxony has taken a decisive step. sensually schools and daycare centers will be closed from this monday december 14th. germany's influential national academy of sciences leopold diena recommended that the holiday season be used to impose a heart lockdown across the country this would include lifting the otherwise compulsory school attendance from december 14th and banning all groups sporting and cultural events access to public spaces would also be more restricted from christmas until at least january 10th and beneath treason but in fact if we do not shut down and the infection numbers continue to climb then we will probably have to impose even stricter measures for an even longer period this lockdown as a kind of investment also in the economy so that we can ease restrictions again in january or february the chairman of the state premier conferences calling for new

subsidies programs should businesses be forced to shut down again mr bush to pull the programs we already have would certainly have to be more flexible so that businesses that are affected by further measures can also be covered by the support programs and a meeting between the federal and state governments concluded that the states can unilaterally impose stricter measures. well i'm joined now by professor ralph think he is a psychologist and one of the co-authors of the report that was published today professor i think it's good to have you on the day your report calls for tougher restrictions or calls for harder walked now that's what chancellor angela merkel wanted weeks ago she's a scientist so are you are you confident that the country's other political leaders will follow the science this time. president would even ing i'm more confident than i was a week ago and i think you can already see the 1st signs you just reported of sex

and the and similarly in the oreo they are also pretty harsh measures announced but mostly i believe that the numbers are very powerful and speak for themselves and i do think that i do hope that the political leaders will he do it by says here all scientists and to some to the numbers you know the the current plan here in germany would allow an easing of restrictions between christmas and the new year your recommendation calls for this hard walk down to be implemented on december 24th christmas scene why is that. yes correct actually what we are proposing is the 2 step procedures locked on one already start of december 14th. and the idea there is that if you start with the marked on the 24th and your name and during the family possibly with symptoms and with the virus so actually the people who really want to see there are enough ones to think about self finding themselves 010 days before

the 24th and the reason is all of us who are christmas and we are doing all the things that are we to reduce it to the spread of the virus we are very close together for your insight we're getting together we are possibly seeing together and then of course president. and at the same time the very same period also present is a huge opportunity because in general all night some read it shops are closed and we tend to be a toll so in a way these tunnels of christians itself as a great opportunity to actually have a knock on you know way that at the same time we can we at the same time we can appreciate the things that we would otherwise appreciate christmas let me ask you about the psychology of this pandemic perhaps we've noticed here in berlin that this year more homes and apartments are decorated for christmas much earlier than

usual light in this very dark season what does this tell you about. the desire for hope and the mental health of the public after a year of this pandemic. but i'm not sure that i would read too much into it i think at the same time what we also know that we all came kind of interior decorators and holmy chris because we're spending so much more time inside and at the same time it's also true is that in times of uncertainty and this period i don't uncertainty we also like rituals of the rituals we like to do what we always do because the personal to some extent safety. possibly i think that is me the more reflection off the uncertainty around us and not so much and necessarily of all else and i want to pick up on this point you made about christmas if people are going to get together with family that they should quarantine or isolate for 10 days is that realistic most people i think would say that they can't isolate for 10

days. the idea here is that he made a very very firm effort to really mean most to contacts that we have and the way that could make it possible is for instance trying to read him work from home which requires for instance that employers to really encourage the use to work from home the same holds for compulsory school attendance we are giving people and parents a choice to not send their kids to school. for kids to be homeschooled and in that sense we do everything we tend to make it more possible that people can reuse of any moisture context they have 10 days to christmas ok ralph think of germany's leopold an academy of sciences mr hadley we appreciate your time and your insights tonight thank you as well better thank you. oh my next guest is

professor andrew oldman he's a member of the german parliament and the advisory board the g.h.a. the german health alliance dr always good to have you on the program again this is the german government's leading scientific advisory body today sending a clear message that we need a harder walked they want it the german chancellor has been warning it for weeks what about the other political leaders are there are they going to finally listen to the science. but i think that thank you for 1st of all for having me back again but i think it's not a question of seeing the signs or appreciating the increase of infection rates in germany i think everybody is aware of that and nobody's putting this into question and the question the real question is how we could how do we approach the situation it is a pandemic a crisis that is very serious. measures have to be taken however many

politicians have different ways to approach this problem and one of the ways you could do it is make it very easy everybody goes into lockdown and then everything is fine but the collateral damage that is done psychologically and economically has to be put into the equation as well so the national academy of sciences put out a very strong paper of their opinion scientifically it was more weak paper to be on as i say this as a scientist myself i would have liked to see a lot more explanations besides we need to go into a lockdown what are your of the countries that did that or are you in favor though of what is recommended that being a harder walk down beginning on christmas eve december 24th. i'm in favor of about 80 percent what's written in that paper which is already in effect in germany that has to be followed because what we have as a problem in germany and this was actually addressed in this paper from the

national academy of science that control of the implementation of quarantine measures are not being done in germany on a white scale and if we do not control quarantine or isolation measures then even a hard lock down would help us to stop the affection rates so i think everything has to be put into this caution and we need a wider discussion it is not simply done doubt really scientists are thrilled to meet basically clinicians and allow people put out this paper but again i think there are other countries in the world that did better for example taiwan or south korea that's true that's true but they have a much stricter follow up when it comes to quarantine as you say which we don't have here in germany are you finding political support then to take on measures that some people would consider to be a violation of personal privacy well personal privacy.

and a secondary role with our infection control laws in germany because it's the public to the official public health institute if you are infected the problem is that the manpower is missing to control those people who are got infected or even here in berlin i heard about stories that people were sent to quarantine 14 days after they had their disease far too late and they probably had cause more infections that he set up i would be very much in favor of more control of those measures all right dr andrew allman as always our girl no we appreciate your time and your insights tonight thank you. thank you for having me and. this was john lennon in his adopted hometown of new york city where he spent much of his adult life and where his wife ended 40 years ago today outside his luxury

apartment building a gunman shot and killed blend in front of his wife next door in central park is where lennon's ashes were later scan 2. well for more on lennon's legacy i'm joined tonight by lesley ann jones she's a music biographer and author of the book who killed john lennon it's good to have you on the program leslie and john lennon it's like elvis presley one of these artists whose music lives on after they've died but also artist becomes even larger than life in death almost like a pop cultural deity if you will is our perception of john lennon today is it anything close to the reality of the man when he was alive. i think it's often sad isn't it that the most important thing a rock star can do to ensure longevity and methodology is to die young and

not that john would wish this upon himself but of course his castle or his legacy has gone through the roof and it's biggest today than it's ever being my children my 3 kids know beatles music they know john lennon music they don't necessarily know very much about the man which is what inspired me to write this book i also wanted to approach this subject very much from a woman's point of view and to tell john story through the e-mails in his life i'm glad you brought that up because what struck me today in preparing for this talk was that you know there are reports of physically abusing his 1st wife and also physically abusing his son that's not something that we hear a lot of the singer the massage of mr. why is there in europe. john had a very difficult dysfunctional and he said childhood not very much love little affection his mother gave him away tyrell to sustain it was time his father ran

away to sea until didn't see him again until he was of like 20 and it was a very caustic cold household that he grew up in so the thing that fascinated me from the beginning was how come this didn't experience very much love as a child was even able to conjure up love songs how did he know that love is all you need and how did he know that money couldn't buy it but there was a hangover from childhood or obese just function and he was angry he was this and he took those things out on other people he hung learn to harness his anger in his business and to get a hold on that. was it was there any moment like in the pit for me when you were doing your research for your book where you thought as a woman. john lennon i think is more or less likable than i used to.

definitely and i would credit yoko ono with that i think she was his salvation she got him at a time when he was right on the night that the beatles will breaking up they were broken and she got the blame for that of course she was blamed and run out of town for having split up the greatest group in the well she didn't they were heading that way in which they were off the road and in the studio of fighting and the other thing she was subjected to a lawsuit racist abuse in this country but the reason why they went to new york to live was to try and find her child kyoko been a ducted but the outsider was that young because obviously a very famous woman a very well educated hysteric musical all the things that people don't want to know about she brought something to john's life that was missing for his entire life and he made him a nicer and i found at the end of my research that i liked him a whole lot better than i heart you liked him because of his wife.

pretty much although i think he did revise quite a lot of his thoughts about his life you know in the early days he would beat somebody up if they dad to suggest that he wanted to get going on it sort of honeymoon with brian epstein the beatles manager he put a d.j. in hospital just saying that a much later on here and he said i must've been terrified of the in a factor in me because when those things were happening homosexuality was illegal in this country so my 967. you know the descriptions of this man and his wife reminds me of christer the artist christo and his wife song called. there were all these rumors that john called really made crystal what he was in the same beast be said in any way with yoko and john lennon i mean you said she made him a better man. she definitely did but i think the mess in the middle he made her as

a woman as well so they wanted a perfect match and a lot of people have bad things to say about the kind of music she was making at that time we didn't see the same things about b.s. when she came along she does not own up to liking your career just was ahead of her time and was trying to present herself in a way that rocked people up their own way but donna and john together as musicians i think they could have really taken that experiment very full. fascinating talking with you leslie and wish we had more time unfortunately we're out of time lesley ann jones music biographer and author of the book who killed john lennon leslie and thank you for your time and your insights thank you for having me the day is almost done but the conversation continues online you'll find us on twitter in news or you can follow me brit go off t.v. and remember whatever happens between now and then tomorrow is another day we'll

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