this is d.w. news live from berlin german chancellor angela merkel warns the country is at a crisis point in a rare of emotional clete markel urges the public to accept limits that will save lives from the coronavirus but can german leaders get people behind a total lockdown during the holidays as health experts are insisting. also coming up after calls for more transparent reporting turkey reveals its coronavirus situation is much worse than previously thought our correspondent has more.

accusations of racism sparked a walk off at a champions league match press harrington is in the studio to explain what happened . plus think of this guy the next time you're tempted to litter we followed the death defined work of the chinese crew tasked with keeping this new pristine. i'm sumi so much going to it's good to have you with us german chancellor angela merkel has made an impassioned plea for tougher restrictions to bring down the country's high coronavirus numbers germany's death toll from covert 19 has hit a record daily high of 590 with more than 20000 new infections michael doesn't have the power to unilaterally impose new rules instead that decision is up to individual german states while addressing the german parliament earlier mackerel.

urged her fellow politicians and the public to recognize the seriousness of the moment. or the slightest incident a snowfield seen toggles there are 14 days until christmas 14 days and we need to do everything we can to ensure we have void any further exponential growth in our scientists have told us any contact that is not absolutely necessary should be avoided and this hard as that is and i know how much love goes into it when christmas stands a set up with mulled wine a warm waffles it doesn't fit with the agreements we made that food and drink should only be for take away to our homes all the good by this too would mean that i'm really sorry it breaks my heart but if we have to pay the price of $590.00 people dying per day that is simply not acceptable from my perspective we must out of this decide this. chief political correspondent linda crane followed that speech

in the german bundestag for us she joins us now and a chance of michael there closing her dress with this impassioned plea for more action that is pretty unusual for her what did you make of it. indeed it is it was in part a response to a call from a leader of germany's right wing party the f.t. just before the chancellor spoke telling the chancellor she should get out of her ivory tower and give citizens the facts so the facts are precisely what the chancellor did give her listeners at the end of her speech saying that she believes in the power of reason and the power of science and then rattling off a series of numbers that show the very die.