and for all nonessential shops to close now a full nationwide lockdown is looming in parliament on tuesday chancellor merkel made a passionate plea for all states to take immediate action. so how does his ass how does this ease i know how much love gets poured into those christmas stands and i'm sorry from the bottom of my heart but if we have to pay the price of 590 people dying every day thus just not acceptable in my eyes and we must take x. and accept of those players to decide this is. the question seems to be whether germany's 16 states will impose more restrictions before all right after christmas by the way people are prepared for a different holiday season this year. the many live decided not to visit my grandparents sign a i think it's better to make an effort to keep them safe. and it's not about how

it feels it feels terrible for everyone but we have to get this under control somehow. daughter will only come for a short period of time we have to accept that i hope this will not be my last christmas with this i think i'll go back to sleep but i will not feed them my new. car maybe just. listen to this in a room that's really hard you know or been really. some german states of already introduced their own tougher restrictions it remains unclear where the miracle will try to get all 16 states to commit to more nationwide measures before christmas but whether each state will continue to go its own way. let's find out more about this with someone younger who is covering the story for you assignment is surely losing the fight against covert 1000 particularly when it comes to the elderly the most vulnerable group. well you know the numbers have got

a lot more worrying in recent days and that's really what i think the robot call institute the big public health institute has been saying today that the overall picture is very worrying they're warning of a possible exponential growth in infections as you've said and a record number of infections over the last 24 hours and what we're seeing also is a picture where no longer the infections are concentrated into just a few hot spot locations which obviously is easier to deal with pretty much the corona virus is now spread across germany and so it means it's time for drastic action another thing that experts are pointing out is that there are twice as many infections now in care homes in old people's homes than there were in the spring and of course those people. are more likely to suffer serious effects and death and

now deaths in germany from carbon 19 are above 20000 so very worrying sign indeed now the merits of easing lock down over christmas are currently being hotly debated are they now definitely off the table considering the rising number of infections. well the hopes of easing easing restrictions over christmas are still there but again as the president of the institute loads of dealers said you know the aim is to get contacts down and they haven't reduced by the 60 percent which is his target he said if that can happen through voluntary changes made by the population then a tough lock down will have to happen they looked at the united states experience over over the thanksgiving weekend which seems to have led to a significant spike in infections germany wants to avoid a repeat of anything like that over christmas and so that's why at least those

experts are saying that we can't afford to lose in the measures during the christmas period sam young are reporting thank you. acyclic on some of the other stories making news around the world. police in germany have raided homes in berlin and hamburg targeting organized crime involving drug dealing money laundering and tax evasion $3.00 people were arrested officials say $500.00 officers were involved in the operation which aimed to seize what was described as substantial assets and gather evidence for prosecution. the head of the world food program has received the nobel peace prize on behalf of the u.n. agency he described the award as a call to action with 270000000 people worldwide at risk of starvation he said failure to address their needs could cause a hunger pandemic that would dwarf the impact of covert 1000.

the european central bank has added an extra $500000000000.00 euros to its pandemic recovery fund the bond buying program now has $1.00 trillion euros at its disposal the aim is to boost confidence in the euro zone economy the program allows for the extent of purchase of government and corporate bonds until march 2022. meanwhile european leaders have gathered in brussels in a in an attempt to salvage the e.u. is $1.00 trillion euro budget well this includes hundreds of billions in the coronavirus relief funds which the bloc cannot deploy until member states reach consensus with the 2 days 2 day summit rather started on an optimistic note poland and hungary which blocked the budget looked willing to make concessions or a deal at least the 2 countries objected to a provision that would prevent them from accessing funding unless they respect the

rule of law germany appears to have come to an agreement with them over how to proceed but that will still need to be approved by the rest of the member states families find out how that is going now our correspondent to garrick my to say is standing by in brussels georg to what is the hold up what is still standing in the way of the 7th year budget being approved. well key to the right here is how closely the rule of law mechanism can be connected to that you budget and also to the recovery from this massive recovery fund that everybody's waiting for and that is where hungary and poland have put in their veto and obviously all other member states would like to see that gone so that the money can actually get to the people who need it now what the german compromise proposal has done is it may have results that raul there's concern that the rule of law mechanism can be misused that is what poland hungary are concerned about politically misused to punish them and let's bear in mind those are the 2 countries that get most money in terms of

subsidies from the e.u. and the mechanism for sees that the european court of justice now basically provides a legal declaration that the mechanism as it stands is working and also. to file a lawsuit so that could delay things but basically and that is why leaders have mainly been upbeat the mechanism nisan itself sooner or later so maybe in only 2 years times and not right now will be up and running and will penalize those and will prevent those who violate the rule of law in the e.u. from getting funding i gave please stand by we're going to continue our conversation in just a 2nd because the budget obviously is not the only deal that needs to be sealed in brussels the terms of the post brags that relationship also needs finalizing the european commission has stepped up its plans for the possibility of a no deal publishing a contingency plan on this after britain's boris johnson and you commission president or as of underlying fail to reach an agreement among other things the

news continues he planning aims to ensure air and row travel between the e.u. and u.k. as well as fishing access. and we still are standing by he's in brussels garret why are the 2 sides still at odds. they have every i should point out at this point that the leaders have made clear that the negotiations remain with michel barnier the chief rex of negotiator so they only have a chat over breaks that. over dinner tonight and the reason for that is that basically the lines that the e.u. has set out for those negotiations have been clear and have remained more or less the same throughout the past couple of months the 2 key sticking points are fish because the e.u. vessels fish a lot in british waters whereas the u.k. sells a lot of fish to the e.u. so there needs to be a compromise needs to be reached on that in that field and then the so-called

technical term of the level playing field is a key thing because the u.k. will leave the single market so they will no longer. play by the rules of the you respect the standards of products and so if they want to sell. and deviate for instance with their standards and sell those less qualified products to the market the you want some sort of a mechanism to control that so that the u.k. is not dumping a cheap product on that you market kerrick mattress reporting from brussels thank you. and we turn our attention now to the u.s. where regulators and tom prosecutors in 46 states have filed an antitrust lawsuit against facebook alleging that the company used its dominant position to crush or buy smaller competitors the suit which forced the company to divest its major acquisitions instagram and whatsapp the legal action follows a similar suit against google and comes amid growing bipartisan cause in the u.s.

for more oversight of big tech firms. facebook's growing dominance has long been a phone in the side of the u.s. government. now citing breaches of antitrust law washington wants the company to be forced to sell off instagram and whatsapp by using its vast troves of data and money. facebook has squashed or hindered what the company perceived as potential threats they've reduced choices for consumers they stifled innovation and they degraded privacy protections for millions of americans facebook acquired photo sharing platform instagram in 2012 and purchased messaging service whatsapp in 2014 both are now technically so closely linked to facebook that divesting would pose some serious challenges. as space x. a test launch on wednesday complete at the highest and most

a lab or at flight yet for its prototype starship rocket the spacecraft nearly reached its goal altitude of 12 kilometers but engineers still have a few kinks to work out before their planned mission to mars and back. 3 to. a picture perfect start for starship number 8 the rocket is the most ambitious space x. test yet in the company's auditions quest to make human travel to mars possible. it climbed for several kilometers before leveling off its stainless steel hull glinting in the sun. after 4 minutes and 45 seconds of flight this ship switched off its engines and began its descent but just as a flawless journey seemed within reach the ship was engulfed in a ball of flames. despite this dramatic finale the test is considered

a success by space x. the company believes the data collected will help to develop a space ship capable of carrying both crew and cargo to the moon mars and beyond. space x. found a long mask with enthusiastic tweeting miles here we come. there will be more tests soon here in the texan desert construction of stock ship number 9 is almost complete. stick with us. now to. the fight against the corona virus pandemic. has the rate of infection been developing. the latest research. information and context around a virus update. on t w. i don't entirely

run by a scam for jurors or dealing with an enemy killed many civilians. come including my father. i was a student i wanted to build a life for myself. but suddenly life became our kind of. providing insights global news that matters d.w. made for mines. millions of people are at risk of hunger because of the covert 19 pandemic even in the us and europe more and more individuals are relying on and out just to get by as the coronavirus crisis hits their livelihoods have to come to these places of the my doses can eat is what saves me. from while the disease

doesn't discriminate the way it impacts disadvantaged people. these inequalities. this is. w.'s coded 19 special i'm joined on the pandemic has a raced years of economic progress in many countries like in spain the country is in its worst recession in more than 80 years and that's weighing most heavily on its people seemingly endless queues who food in madrid's working class district off by your cash some people have been regulus at this food bank at a church for years but others are near. the pandemic has brought them here some are too shamed they hide from the camera so others speak for them. to give up their people here have been waiting to get minimum state subsidies for ages . that people who apply for furlough in march and still haven't been paid.

by one of europe's worst coronavirus outbreaks of spain's economy has been left chanted people know incomes migrants and casual workers have suffered the most maria worked as i had reza for the past 17 years that was until the pandemic how she her husband and their 5 children have hit rock bottom up almost as now not made of money before but we always had food never in our lives did we imagine we'd end up like this. movie i was entitle to ply for fellow payments but she has had to wait too long for the money to come through. is that a lot for me i should think about the families who don't have food. please don't forget us that the system is at a standstill and house situation is very bad i'm one month one month the government says it will extend the furlough scheme it has rolled out a basic income program but the process of getting benefits is highly bureaucratic

and lengthy. and even with the money food the donations remain essential demand is soaring many people awful in through the cracks and have little to no financial aid the spanish food bank federation's latest figures show just how many people now depend on their help. it was almost every made up on the 1st part of the pandemic we had $1000000.00 beneficiaries. the now we're looking at 1000000 890000 you know me out of the bottle in the moment they'll be out of the in the military. their warehouse on the outskirts of madrid supplies 70000 killers of food every day that's mainly paid for by government and e.u. aid these schemes have been extended and a recent campaign for donations should ensure that the warehouse doesn't run out of store back at the church rather than santa needs more volunteers to pull the many trolleys and reduce waiting times they go from empty to full within seconds before

they get to the waiting hungry. and i have confessed that on some days during that i'm damned if i thought i'd make it home because the stop i was going at the speed of a person who had aged 40 years of age but that doesn't stop him. one fool truly contains food supplies for a month including treats that families cannot now afford. over at all only when the children see the cocoa or truck and it's a very happy we have to put up with that because i can only buy the essentials for one night i'm up there are set. to condemn it has hit spain's already battered economy hard it's unlikely it will recover quickly enough so people may have to rely on food handouts will some time to come. now as we saw in the report they are the coronavirus pandemic has pushed many around the world into economic hardship now we want to look at the link between the coronavirus and social inequality. here

to help shed light on that is nico dragon no he is a professor from the institute of medical association at heinrich heine a university and it goes on dark welcome to you now your research has focused on how social phenomenon like poverty affect one on a biological level what has the coronavirus taught you about covert 19 and existing economic divides it shows us that. the crew up on damage has social inequalities mentioned when we look at the epidemic launch good date we see that poor up people or poor countries oh poor area us says' a high of. infections and we also perform some studies unsymmetrical disease and sound that group people have

a higher is to have a soviet. cause of the disease when getting infected so we clearly see a social gradient in the curl not condemning so basically we're looking at a situation where if you're poor you're already more at risk for the virus and if you do get the virus you may face even more economic pain is there a health policy answer to that kind of vicious circle. so. hard to answer because this is a structural problem we see it has inequalities in the early. disease we study it so we see it in kind of us killer diseases we see it in psychological disease and it's always there and we haven't found a proper response yet i guess it's quite important to notice that and saying

strategically how can we handle this problem in the acute pandemic in the situation we are into now but we need a long term strategy to reduce hats inequalities in all diseases in the long run but given these outlaw existing inequalities and society how much a strategic handling that you speak of how would that look like in practical terms . so i guess and the w.h.o. hats on ization gave us some good advice is this a strategy called townson or policy is that means that the countries should implement. ideas and strategies to improve palettes and all the policies and in particular to sing about how it's inequalities in discotheques

for instance when you look at educational policies all right tex policies where the root of the inequalities lie you should consider that and you need to implement this kind of sinking and this kind of strategy in all the policy years he's which shape it does so should determinants of have it so there are some ideas but we need to implement them. can you give us any examples of strategies that one can employ in order to integrate the social component and fighting the pandemic what 'd seems to be promising and in my view is to focus on area neighborhoods because they. have to participation of the people who are mostly affected and you can

change settings for instance in germany we observed that the ring discussed ways to demick many structures which help poor people who were closest so. they started to find your ways for instance online counseling or that worked was it was there they opened certain facilities only for for children from disadvantaged families and i guess this focus on area as neighborhoods and local communities. can be one chance to react quickly in the moment thank you very much nico gano there for us he is a professor from the institute of medical says he all edgy at a university and does not die thank you very much for your insights thank you. and now we come to that part of the show devoted to one of your son in questions

about the coronavirus our science correspondent derrick williams has an answer for you. after you receive a vaccination for 19 can you still transmit the virus to it that's. the short answer to this is that we still don't know at the moment but it's an issue that both drug developers and health care authorities have on their radar trials appear to have shown 90 percent or higher efficacy with at least 3 candidates so far that means that after tens of thousands of test subjects were given either the vaccine can do that or a placebo 9 out of 10 people who later caught coke at 19 were those who had been given the placebo and importantly at least with one candidate vaccinated subjects' who who subsequently caught the disease they only had mild symptoms that indicates that vaccines can have positive effects even if they don't prevent infection

completely and that really touches on the crux of this question we somehow have the idea that it's all or nothing with vaccines i mean either they protect you or they don't right well wrong it's actually better to think about it more like a sliding scale remember in trials around one in 10 people who contract it coben 1000 later had actually received the vaccine and they might well have been infectious maybe others were as well and that's known to help powerful the immune responses and whether or not it can provide what doctors call sterilizing immunity which is whether the body can wipe out the virus before it really starts to replicate if a vaccine die. doesn't prevent the virus from replicating but just neutralizes or or mitigates the effects of the disease then at least some vaccinated people could

in theory i'm still spread it out how many and how often we don't know yet but experts are hopeful we'll have a better idea in the next few months. now if you have a question for derek just send an e-mail to feedback taught english at the dot com and expert in the subject line or leave a comment on our youtube channel thanks for watching.

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