little correspondent linda crane followed that speech in the german bundestag for us she joins us now hi bill and a chance of michael there closing our 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 eye for the 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 dire development in infection rates in death rates and the shrinking of intensive care capacity in this country over the last 2

months and she cited the findings of germany's council of experts to dina which said yesterday that the current restrictions simply aren't enough she said history and science show us that the 2nd wave of a pandemic is always more difficult and more painful than the 1st we are now in the middle of that 2nd wave and we simply must to do more and with we said she meant not only the states the federal states working together with the federal government but every individual on his or her own and there she drew quite an interesting distinction between democracies like germany and authoritarian regimes saying they can handle things differently than we can lead must depend on every individual doing their bit and she used that moment in her remarks to thank all of the many great majority of germans who in fact are complying with the rules well we know that germany is also taking on a lot of new debt to mitigate the economic effect of the pandemic what are the

chance i have to say about that. she said that she is well aware that this is the 2nd highest level of debt that germany has ever taken on the 1st time just being in this year also because of the pandemic but she said extraordinary situations demand extraordinary measures and she said we are very well aware that this debt to does burden future generations it will be paid back and the government has issued a schedule for how it intends to repay the extraordinary debt and she said i also have listened to the calls from all political parties here in the buddhist tog for this money to be well invested for it to be put to good use and then she listed a number of the areas where she believes that is the case from research and development on new energy sources like hydrogen to infrastructure to the health care system and artificial intelligence and a major push on digitalisation so

a very very clear statement from her that she believes this is money well spent our chief political correspondent linda crane reporting from the bundestag for us thank you let's take a look now at some other developments in the pandemic israel received its 1st shipment of coronavirus vaccines on wednesday the country is expected to receive enough vaccine for about a quarter of the population of by the end of the year and israel plans to start administering the vaccines on december 20th china has tested more than a quarter of a 1000000 people for cope with 19 after a handful of new cases were detected in the southern city of chengdu and south korea reported 686 new coronavirus cases on wednesday as it battles a 3rd wave of infection that is threatening to overwhelm the health system the daily tally is the 2nd highest since the stars to off the pandemic. and coronavirus numbers are climbing in turkey which now ranks 4th globally in the

highest number of daily cases doctors there are sounding the alarm after months of pressure by health experts and opposition politicians the government as we introduce stricter rules to contain the pandemic. yulia han has more. he recommitted all of that either as a celebrating her birthday she turns a 2 day or 2 biggest wishes harry potter cake and meeting her best friends. the latter is more difficult to organize since trick to coronavirus measures have come into force in turkey young people under the age of 20 are only allowed to leave their homes for 3 hours a day did i know that like i used to be able to go outside whenever i wanted it that was much better i also miss school now everything is done why is zoom and it's so annoying they are ok. he has his mother's trying to organize life

as best as she can between work and curfew she's often surprised how quickly the children have adapted to the difficult situation. to turn musky do not know the kids where their masks without complaining even when they're playing they got used to it only when we look at old photos of the do we notice that the masts weren't always there and if you're making me then you're going to get all the. curfews for children are not the only new anti coronavirus rule in tokyo those older than 65 can also only go outside at certain times public transportation is forbidden for young and old people and on weekends everyone with few exceptions has to stay at home. it looks pretty bleak these days in istanbul's usually very busy neighborhoods restaurants bars many shops closed. until recently the turkish

government only published a number of call that 19 patients showing clear symptoms and that's why many people here thought turkey was surviving the crisis relatively well but now the authorities have started. release data on the number of all new infections every day and many are realizing turkey is one of the worst affected countries in the world. the government now reports about $30000.00 new infections per day. many of us are angry about how the government is managing the crisis but there's nothing we can do. the government is concerned with its reputation they want to look good that is why there is no transparency. publishing the need to but they should have informed people much better right from the beginning then everyone would have known what to expect and how to act if you could read it. and record in

their deals with many covert 19 patients he's a family doctor and belongs to the turkish medical association he says the authorities are still hiding the true extent of the crisis. we still have a lot more cases than the government says according to our estimates we have about 50260000 new infections per day our doctors and hospitals are at the absolute limit we have to urgently take radical countermeasures. he of us thinks the current restrictions are already plenty tough parties over the kids have to go back inside next year she hopes for a birthday with the coronavirus. that report there from our correspondent yulia han in istanbul and she's standing by for us with more on the story hi yulia good to see you can you explain to us why

turkey has different restrictions for the young and also for the. delay can you hear us. yeah. yeah i hear that all right it looks like we're having some trouble with you leon's line there can you hear a little tremor time here i can hear you know ok we were just taking a look at your report and i want to know if you could explain to us why there are different restrictions in turkey for the young and for the old. well the tech is government 1st introduced stay at home orders for those aged $65.00 and older and those aged 20 or younger in april when the pandemic started basically arguing that the elderly are a risk group that needs protection while asymptomatic young people might fuel the

spread of the virus now both age groups combined make up about 40 percent of the turkish population and since most of them are not pod of the workforce keeping them atone and that's certainly part of the reasoning here is less harmful to the economy than let's say similar measures targeted at the working population in spring though the curfews were much tougher the young and the elderly were completely banned from leaving their homes for about 2 months and the authorities argue that this helped bring the numbers down so what we're seeing now is somehow a soft aversion all of the curfews we saw earlier this year while the overall coronavirus situation here in turkey is much was that it was in spring you mention in your report you leave the discrepancies between how turkey has been reporting new covert 1000 infection so how clear is the picture there of the situation right now. well my impression is that the condemning here in

turkey a risk spiraling out of control many people we speak to either know someone who tested positive for call that 19 or someone he even died from the virus now we have the official figures published by the turkish health ministry and according to this we had more than 33000 new infections in the last 24 hours that's the highest number reported since the beginning of the pandemic it's also the highest number in the europe right now the official death rate has also more than doubled in less than 3 weeks now these figures are already very alarming if you now listen to what the turkish medical so she says and it represents most of the countries doctor as the actual figures are even higher and now add to this they are warning some say it's actually a cry for help that hospitals are full that i see use of fool especially here in istanbul all of this is painting a very grim picture given that

a learning situation yulia do you think that the current measures that are in place or enough to curb the spread well the turkish medical association the doctor we spoke to fool the report clearly say no they say in a city like istanbul with 16000000 people you would actually need to shut everything down for at least 14 days to relax the situation in the hospitals at least a little i don't think we're going to see anything like this because the government already said that they want to avoid any additional economic pain but the government government now is being criticized a lot for their lack of transparency for giving the economy a priority in this house crisis and for acting too little too late. and in istanbul saurus thank you very much. let's take

a look now at some other stories making news around the world the united nations says the earth is on course to warm by more than 3 degrees celsius by the end of the century after greenhouse emissions reached a new high last year the u.n. said the impact of this year's dip in pollution due to the pandemic will only be negligible without a comprehensive and rapid shift away from fossil fuels. british prime minister boris johnson and e.u. chief was enough underlined will hold talks in brussels this evening as they make a last minute push for a post to break that trade deal it comes after months of deadlock negotiations between officials both sides have warned the chances of reaching an agreement by a year and deadline are slim the u.s. supreme court has rejected an africa to overturn the results of the presidential election in the state of pennsylvania it signals that the nation's highest court which includes 3 judges appointed by president trump may not go along with this efforts to overturn his defeat in last month's election. venice was caught off

guard by surprise flooding on tuesday after a sudden change in the weather forecast parts of the city were submerged at high tide in spite of the new multibillion euro barrier designed to prevent flooding the flood gates hadn't been activated within the 48 hours needed to be fully operational. now a small indian town in the state of under publish is swarming with investigators after a mystery illness made hundreds of people sick including children officials and say blood tests on some patients have revealed the presence of nickel and lead they have now identified possible sources of what appears to be a mass poisoning. more than 500 people many of them children have been hospitalized with the mystery illness since saturday patients have reported a wide range of symptoms including noisy and headaches some had convulsions on the

street others just collapsed with no warning. and then another. my father asked me to put on a news channel on his mobile phone while i was doing that i fainted i only regained consciousness in the hospital. bob you on we got our daughter admitted last night that she was vomiting had diarrhea and was shivering we were afraid to end up there so we brought her to the hospital. medical officials have been baffled about the cause of the illness they struggle to find a link between those taken ill but now traces of heavy metals including nickel and lead have been found in the blood of some patients tests on the water supply and food such as rice and oil being carried out one scientist said the source could be pesticides. we have collected more than 70 blood samples we have collected 70 food samples water samples milk samples and all samples for

analysis and so on to analyzing we will be able to conclude and find the reason behind this disease. that we are suspecting that it could be metal toxicity and pesticide toxicity. the majority of people appeared to have recovered within hours and were sent home but doctors warn if heavy metal such as lead are confirmed as a cause then this could lead to more health problems down the line. sports now in football paris senator monster champions league game with is that ball buster actually here was abandoned after players left the field in protest they accused a match official of using racist language the incident happened in the 1st half. a member of a sun bowls coaching staff was sent off after which players reacted to the official's choice of words the game will be played on wednesday with different referees the turkish club were out of contention for the last 16 but p.s.g.

can finish 1st or 2nd in the group. and cross harrington from these forces with us high crest take us to what happened here will the 4th official who's of romanian descent sebastian cole 6 who said who basically was referring to an assistant coach said bussy should hear of cameroonian dissent saying the black guy over there the black i was there go check who is the black one over there stop possible that he does that and that pretty much sparked you know what the players deemed as racist insults and he walked off the pitch together both sides p.s.g. and the turkish side as well and basically after this exchange happened a lot of players a coach was outraged the coach here where bill was outraged say why do you say the black guy why the black guy why the black guy here player. but also was very irritated at that issue and the romanian state anti-discrimination came out and already said have acknowledged the fact that if you identify

a player by his race in the romanian language it is deemed as racist and that's a huge problem because the officials are supposed to put out fires not sparked them into you know what it is today and it seems to be of race is it in the black eye you know for football at this level and to find out the 1st racist incident in european football or is there a protocol and how to deal with this yet typically is the official who is there to you know regulate this situation whether it's you know monkey chants from fans or from of an opposing player we've never seen the official himself you know be the center of attention in this regard in that's the unfortunate side of it because you can argue that there was ignorance on the officials part will you a fish should inform and educate their officials to make sure that. as it happened so right now as it stands as the official has been removed the action will resume with another official you know in their place but as you stated before p.s.g. is set to advance by structure here is not but despite whatever happens moving

forward i think it shows solidarity and it will definitely change i think you wafers attitude and the players' attitude and just the rules of football it altogether because there are no fans everyone's watching on t.v. it's definitely not the best light for the sport to be in right now and what does happen with the game now well the game continues as i've said the game will continue. and i just hope moving forward things like this don't repeat you know itself because if they do and the players choose to walk off as i mentioned you know the sport right now relies on everyone tuning in on their television fans are permitted anywhere right now so i think i'm assuming that the organization will hand out some sanctions probably another anti-racist initiative we've seen many in the past i think this will just be the next chapter and an opportunity more than anything to make sure you know everyone is educated and has you know the same understanding so things like this don't happen to get across arrington from get up these forts bringing us up to date thank you so much. and if you look at the action

our last season's semifinalists rb leipsic have reached the champions league last 16 after beating manchester united 32 and eliminating the english team leipsic top of group h. at the moment pending the result of that p.s.g. game birthday dortmund were already through but top 2 group after with their win at thin it as a 16 year old yourself out mukoko became the youngest ever champions league player not seo also qualified while you ventus won 3 nil at barcelona to beat the catalans to top spot in the group. over on the dreadful crash out of the champions league in the group stage for the very 1st time on wednesday night if they lose to germany's ball as you mentioned it would be a huge fall from grace for coach 700 sedan the back hope it will be kindled memories of their glory days. xina jeans a dan coach real madrid to 3 straight champions league titles between

20162018 but now the record 13 times winners risk going out in the group stage for the 1st time the 3rd in group b. heading into the final round of matches captain said joe ramos is set to return from injury but they all know defeat at home to merge back will dump them out and leaves it down clinging to his job no group. club will do what it has to do i'm just thinking about the game. movie and commute for the length of close will do as it always does. i'm not really thinking about it. not. in. that back warmed up for the game with a hard fought to 2 george freiburg in the bond as leader at the weekend. some players scored a cracker and will hope to shine again against reale having been directly involved in 8 goals in 5 champions league games this term. cut back need just

a draw to reach the knockout stages for the 1st time since their heyday in the 1970s. we know what to expect and that we need to defend with real passion and diligence at the same time we know that without quality we will certainly have chances to score and we want to make use of that. it is one of the most exciting ends to a champions league group stage in years. now for a spectacular view guidebooks for china's tiananmen mountain warn visitors that this rocky climb is definitely not for the faint of heart but imagine if you are this guy right here he is part of the national parks cleanup crew here's a look at the risk that he takes to keep these cliffs so pristine. on

a rock face like this even the tourists sky walk is daunting. but for some the job starts on the other side of the railing fun figure who collects the litter that was thrown from this breathtaking height perhaps just to watch it fall young has to follow the same path as they say just don't look down. on their water bottles plastics tissues much less than before. somehow yang has gotten used to working on the edge of a cliff. i

have no fear i've got used to it or i was a little afraid before when i just started doing it but now it's nothing. to young and his colleagues have collected 2 tons of trash this year alone that's less than half their annual haul earlier but still a sad testimony on tourism today. even in a place like this were. for. ok let's get a reminder now of our top story on you in an address to parliament german chancellor angela merkel has demanded tougher holiday measures asked coronavirus cases sale to drop germany's death toll from cope with 19 and set a record daily high of 590 state leaders are considering a strict lockdown through the festive season. coming up next our show made

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