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periods in a changing environment but the ice disappears earlier and it keeps retreating it case fish the last years have been smelling rough. makes it hard. our future depends on what happens here in one of the most fragile ecosystems on earth. northern lights place within the arctic circle starts december 21st on w. . the corona virus is ravaging the united states just last week the daily death toll from covert 19 hit a record high of more than 2800 yesterday a new record more than 3000 and remember the thanksgiving holiday it was 2 weeks ago today the surge from that super spreader event is only now beginning the hospitals are already flooded with coated patients testing the o. s.
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to city of america's health care system like never before how much more before it snaps i'm burned off in berlin this is the day. when you hear that every 36 comes an american is standing you know that we're out of in big trouble is still a lot of artists out there making people really specially at this point striving to get back to some kind of. physical distancing according to grounds that should. as we get into this. not then he's going to through a horrific few months opera people get there but for me. also coming up big trouble for big tech almost every u.s. state has joined the u.s. government to sooth facebook they argue there was nothing fair and square when the
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social media company became a social media jock. for nearly a decade facebook has used its dominance and monopoly power to crush smaller rivals and snuff out competition all at the expense of everyday users. but to our viewers on p.b.s. in the united states and to all of our viewers around the world welcome we begin the day with america's coronavirus carnage in the united states the virus is spreading out of control 288000 people in the u.s. have died from cove in 19 in just the last week the daily death toll has gone from one record high to the next on wednesday there were 185000 new cases reported of the vaccines against the virus cannot come quickly enough and they won't public health officials say it will probably be the summer of 2021 before enough people
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have been inoculated to reach what is known as herd immunity but only enough people decide to get vaccinated the death toll by february the middle of winter is expected to reach 450000 a hospitals across the u.s. are already at their limits in terms of space and personnel consider the state of south dakota the governor has refused to issue a stay at home order there has never been a walk till our next report on the consequences. south dakota one of america's least populated states but yet the virus has spiraled out of control here like nowhere else in the u.s. . in the city of sue false a mask mandate was put in place recently without sanctions many citizens remain defiant i think it's a good idea that people wear masks but some people balk at the idea of being told
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to do so i think with some of the shut downs are doing and the picking and choosing that they're doing is making it a lot of businesses like muslim people nowadays like even ehlers are not right now but i think it's for the best like there's happy. south dakota now sees the highest hospitalisation rate of the u.s. and there is no relief in sight here at the vera mccann in hospital the intensive care unit is at capacity patients are dying from cold on a daily basis is putting a big strain on nurses and doctors who are increasingly overwhelmed by the amount of patients they're seeing every day. out of schroeder is one of them he and his colleagues are working 12 hour shifts trying to save those who are at the brink of death. a task which comes with the personal toll we deal with a lot of dying right now unfortunately not everybody's recovering how we'd like. a
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little harder every day people are coming in typically for acquiring much oxygen a lot of them end up getting a breathing tube. and from there you know it's just a battle for their life you talk to their families we do that's one of the tougher things right now is especially for code patients who are not allowing visitors so. talking with families on a daily basis updating him on what we're doing and how the patients doing that's a really big thing right now i kind of see and understand his weekly press conference mayor paul 10 hakan of the republican party updates his community about the latest developments the mayor has been criticized over his handling of the pandemic has its place with a mass murder why is it such a challenge for you to convince your center. in this part of the country i think there's a fierce independence a lot of people have made the mistake of calling
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a cowboy country at one point and people didn't appreciate that but the point of that term meaning we're independent we don't like people telling us what to do. christine no bjorkman wishes for more government action against the pen demick told her she lost her husband took over at 19 after a 30 day long struggle at the hospital her ordeal. where. she says his death could have been avoided with stricter rules. the whole mask mandate got political and should never been political and should have been a medical thing. and i think it just got so blown out of proportion and i think maybe it came from our president he started it. christina bjorkman is pinning her hopes now on the president elect and a nationwide mass mandate once he takes office before then thousands more could die
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from cold at 19 in south dakota and the rest of the united states. well america between hope and helplessness let's put in dr schaffner he's professor at vanderbilt university in tennessee he's one of the u.s. is leading infectious disease experts dr schaffner it's good to see you again welcome back to the program this is the week that we saw the u.k. roll out its vaccination program we want to let our vote viewers know you're a member of the c.d.c.'s advisory committee on immunization practices what has the u.s. been able to learn and glean from the u.k. . well it's good to be with you and i think one of the things that we've learned right away is that unexpected things will happen because on that very 1st day of vaccination in the u.k. they had 2 patients individuals i should say with allergic reactions you know or the allergic reactions none of those had appeared during the clinical trials so we
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knew this in advance but there was right in front of us we have to expect the unexpected and so as we go about trying to vaccinate in the united states alone 330000000 people we are going to have some bumps in the road that we had best be prepared for and part of the way to deal with that in advance is to have very clear communication with people so they know what to expect when those allergic reactions in the u.k. do they change the calculus at all when you're looking at this new vaccine. i think they don't at all change the calculus but they may add an exclusion category going forward that's still being discussed by the advisory committee but in any event this is such an effective sexy and the studies show that so far it's so very safe that we can confidently go ahead recommended to our
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population but then we'll have to reach out to all of the segments of our diverse population here in the united states particularly people of color who are of different ethnicities those are the communities that have been very hard hit by the virus and we want to make sure that those communities have the information so that they can make good decisions for themselves and their family members and we hope those decisions are to come forward and be vaccinated so if they want to give vaccinated doctors after is the infrastructure in place to ship and to deliver a coronavirus vaccine immediately well of the vaccine will be shipped the places where it will go have been determined and all of those places have been plenty how to organize the vaccination campaigns so everyone's at the starting line ready to run the race and we're ready to get going and i think it
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will be done successfully u.s. president elect joe biden has called for 100000000 vaccinations in his 1st 100 days in office that sounds good it's easy to remember is that possible. it's an aspirational goal we would hope that we could do something that profound of course we have to have the vaccine and then we have to organize everybody coming in for most of us are looking beyond the 1st 100 days this will take several months and during that time just as dr felt she said in your setup piece we'll all have to keep wearing our masks social distancing avoiding large groups as we ended continually to the people who are protected in our population and maybe by this time next year we can celebrate the holidays in
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a more near normal fashion yeah i think everyone will agree with you that hopefully within a year from now we'll be able to do that what about between now and let's say the start of next spring how grim is the outlook in the united states. well i'm afraid that this virus is being transmitted throughout the united states for chile over the entire country in a rather uninhibited fashion at the present time there are so many people who have coded fatigue that they have cast their masks aside and are going about it meeting in groups and traveling and every family get togethers over the holidays those are transmission circumstances those are accelerating or events that that actually encourage transmission of the virus and then of course people bring it home and it's transmitted in families and in neighborhoods so we're all down this
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is going to be a hard winter and the medical care system will be as you say stretched you and i spoke earlier this year as the pandemic was 1st making itself known in the u.s. when you consider all that's been learned and experienced since then if you could go back to january or february what is the one thing that you think should be changed or you would change. i would change the link things of having a 1st of all recognition of what the problem is then deciding that we have to have a national not a state wide strategy and then clear honest straight communication and i would put it put the public health officials in the front and kept the pull politicians in the background supporting public health that would have been a much more effective strategy men ne of these deaths could have been prevented wise words from dr bill schaffner been to university of tennessee tonight dr
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jeffrey prefigured time and your insides of everything you're doing to help people thank you for only have i not been so used to. by using your. data and money. or hindered the company potential threats they reduce choice for consumers they stifled innovation and privacy protections for millions of americans. and that was the attorney general of new york announcing a lawsuit that you could almost call the entire united states against facebook almost all of the states along with the federal trade commission are suing facebook for illegally killing competition they argue that the companies should be broken up my colleague reporter jill dougherty is on the story for is joe i mean you've got a case here we're facebook it is a giant but it became
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a giant by buying up smaller companies what's wrong with that well read you a quote directly from mark zuckerberg the regulators say they found in one of his e-mails now in 2008 zuckerberg wrote it is better to buy than compete now that summarizes the alleged misconduct that went on here because under u.s. antitrust law it's illegal for companies to buy off their rivals in order to get rid of competition now the f.t.c. says that's exactly what facebook has done in what it calls a buy and bury strategy you have to remember that facebook started in the desktop era and when smartphones came along it was really threatened by these new apps that let people share photos more easily and messages more easily and rather than improve its own services facebook used its financial power to buy up these rivals and effective effectively create a monopoly in social media and messaging and regulators say it has gone too far and what's been the response from facebook well mark zuckerberg has previously said that breaking up his company would be an existential threat that he will go to the
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mat to fight it and he thinks he will win integrating all of these apps and adding more that's really the backbone of his growth strategy and you have to also remember that this regulator the f.t.c. gave facebook for mission to make these takeovers in the 1st place a couple of years ago and now the company put out a statement on twitter where it said years after the f.t.c. clear acquisitions the government now wants a do over with no regard for the impact that the president would have on the broad of business community or the people who use our products every day and facebook has weathered many legal storms before just last year was fined $5000000000.00 for privacy. breaches the european commission is currently carrying out its own antitrust investigation into some of its practices but this case is different because in this case the f.t.c. is calling for the company to be broken up into smaller entities that are separate from each other and it's hard for facebook to argue that it's not everywhere in its own sector i mean it owns whatsapp it owns instagram as well yet and we can give
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you some numbers there it has 2360000000 active daily users according to its our numbers that's up by 12 percent since last year and all of these apps that it has purchased is integrating them tightly and as if to illustrate that today on social media the biggest talking point about facebook was not about these antitrust issues it was about a simple taney a service outage that occurred that meant that uses for multiple apps were unable to send messages and that really illustrates how this is going to be difficult is going to be a difficult legal case it's going to be difficult technically if they want to try on wind the companies and it's not clear that's going to be popular because many people use these apps and it's not really clear that users are quite as upset by these monopolistic an anti-competitive practices as other regulators that that's true maybe resistance is futile we will find bill joe as always thank you ard let's take this story over to the u.s. my next guest is an authority on antitrust law in america i'm happy to welcome george page to the program mr he is
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a professor of law and economics at cornell law school in new york state professor hey it's good to have you on the program with this how do you see this has facebook become a giant by buying up all of its possible rivals well the claims are very limited that it has made a lot of acquisitions there are only 2 claims identified and at the time both of those rivals were quite small you have to see believe know that there's a possibility that if left alone those rivals could have become much larger and posed a serious threat to facebook. every exit there are many acquisitions of competitors all the time that are allowed. and not challenge or the challenge and show it doesn't succeed but if he sees claims of these acquisitions while small time were different in the sense that they could have grown much much larger and enough to pose a threat to facebook now that remains to be proved. what about the argument from
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facebook that it has grown thanks to purchases that were approved by the us government the f.t.c. i mean can the government respond we always have the right to change our minds. there's no well there's no legal obstacles there's no question whether or not that should have been a policy when the laws were enacted different story but the government certainly isn't title to go back and say with the wisdom of hindsight we believe those acquisitions were in a competitor so there's no legal obstacle no the government cunt have to explain why it is they decided this wasn't a problem back at the time. and there could be things in the government's files which make could quite damaging to their current case but there's no specific legal obstacle to coming in 6 years after the fact and saying we now believe those mergers were in a competitive but is it in sales professor i mean correct me if i'm wrong but it sounds like the f.t.c.
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is saying that. facebook should have known back then what was going to happen and if that's the case should the f.t.c. also have known back then that this was going to happen when it approved those purchases. well the f.t.c. is are even if facebook didn't know what was happening the that you reference those emails from her you know if he she needed didn't see those at the time period they didn't didn't anticipate the argument. and so yes that that's a problem for the but again there's no legal obstacle they simply have to make the case that that those acquisition should never been permitted and with the pipes i had to have contributed to my microsoft to a facebook's monopoly there is so much political will at the moment against big tech you've got bar bipartisan support for regulating social media almost every state attorney general has joined this lawsuit i mean what does facebook have going
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for it at the moment other than lots of cash. whether they've got the courts that is to say. although we have now is an allegation a complaint and it really looks good when you read only the government side or only the state side but at the end of the day they would approve this in a court of law if they the f.t.c. is going to prove that these acquisitions might have grown to really compete against facebook's core business and that's not that easy what does facebook have a monopoly what's the market. what about twitter what about you tube what about tick tock so a lot of things would have to be proven and courts are not always that sympathetic to government argument all right towards a professor of law in economics in law school professor here we appreciate your time in your insights tonight thank you. happy to help. well christmas is only 2 weeks away and there are reports from the u.s. to the u.k.
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to you right here in berlin that more people than usual are decking the whole sales of everything from trees to garland are up this year and it's not only homes this is what travelers see when they arrive here in berlin at the central train station now germany is known around the world for its christmas market is a tradition that goes back 700 years last year there were $3000.00 markets across the country they generated nearly 3 and a half $1000000000.00 in sales this is what these dumb and mark christmas market in central berlin look like last year it's one of the city's upscale markets and this well that's the same square right now the corona virus pandemic the lockdowns social distancing they have stolen much of the magic that you find it these markets only a small fraction of vendors are setting up shop this month and they're hoping that there will be customers but most people will tell you they visit these christmas
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markets for the socialising huddling together in the cold warming their hands with mugs of hot mold wine a perfect spreader event for the coronavirus it is that threat which prompted the city of nurenberg to cancel this year's market germany's most famous nuremberg is located in bavaria where the corona virus is giving new meaning this season to silent night. this is christmas eve as it gets here and back in 2020 usually the central market square is bustling with the city's famous christmas market at this time of the year but it was cancelled weeks ago and now the city center has become almost ghostly. only fruit and vegetables on offer but no one comes to buy them. and it's been working here for 3 decades he says he's never seen his city so empty. feels it's all full
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for us there's no christmas here no no tourists it's terrible just look the market square is completely empty. and it's the same all over the city the state government has asked variance to only leave their homes if they have valid reasons like going grocery shopping this it in the doctor or going to work wearing a mask is compulsory in most areas of the city center partial school closures a ban on alcohol in public places and a nighttime curfew complete the strictest lockdown in germany police have increased their presence in the city center to remind people to stick to the rules but for now this little resistance they tell us. of course there are people who intentionally defy the rules there have been incidents of people refusing to cooperate when police tell them to wear masks but luckily those people are really the exception on the fella bones. no bagus seem very conscious of the
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risks the city faces right now and they're willing to play along all the people we speak to think the authorities should be even tougher. is in the monitors that we think the lockdown is absolutely justified there's just no alternative at the moment the restrictions should be tightened even further for shift soile the misty america that this was very much needed and the fact that everything's been kept open for all the business in the run up to christmas that's a very corporate driven attitude even the numbers are higher than ever so in fact i think we'll need even tougher measures like in spring i mean just doing and we're going to suppression of no money in for. i'm totally fine with it because there are so many people suffering and people not taking this seriously should see what it looks like in hospitals. and that discriminate and getting worse every day at the moment more than 180 people are being treated in hospitals for cope with 19
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and while that doesn't sound much it means that hospitals are working at capacity over the past weekend for the 1st time ever patients had to be moved to hospitals in surrounding areas to make sure they get the treatment they need to survive that scares people including those who are suffering from the effects of the lockdown that is already in effect like market trader on the 2 things are hard lock down is the best option now there are 3 and we've just got to get through this and maybe things will get better back to its base or maybe even in time for christmas for that known back as a willing to make sacrifices in the weeks ahead. well the day is almost done but the conversation continues online you'll find us on twitter either d.w. news or you can follow me a brant goth t.v. and remember whatever happens between now and then tomorrow is another day stay
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this is g w news live from berlin tonight the 1.8 trillion euro budget for the european union gets the go ahead poland and hungary have been blocking passage of the budget that appears to be history now the new spending plan also includes billions in coronavirus relief also coming up deadlier than germany's sets a new record for daily coronavirus cases the head of germany's disease control
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agency raising the alarm is coded 19 continues to spread despite a nationwide partial lockdown and gone down in afghanistan so-called islamic state says it's responsible that it kill the t.v. news malo line my walk. off it's good to have you with us we begin with a budget breakthrough european leaders in brussels say that they have come to an agreement on the e.u.'s $1.00 trillion euro budget which includes hundreds of billions. in coronavirus relief funds member states poland and hungary have blocked approval of the budget over plans to tie the money to conditions that require member states to respect the rule of law but
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a compromise brokered by germany which currently holds the e.u. presidency that compromise ended the deadlock after a tense few weeks the jovial atmosphere at today's summit suggested e.u. leaders knew what was to come. all eyes were on these 2 men the prime ministers of poland and hungary had threatened to veto the entire e.u. budget over plans to link funds to rule of law conditions today we feared that we might be. attacked in an unjustified way you're fighting for the victory of the. of the common sense both felt a lot was at stake and for the e.u. 1.8 trillion euros roughly one trillion for the next 7 year budget and a 750000000000 euro rescue fund to help breathe life into the e.u.'s virus had to come in. but just in time for dinner a compromise table by german chancellor angela merkel seemed to do the trick
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council president china shell announced on twitter that all 27 member states had reached a landmark agreement the deal was done. but not without controversy the changes could see rule of law proceedings delayed by years in viktor orban case until after the next election but it seems this was a concession that had to be made to and block desperately needed funds before christmas. all right let's bring in our correspondent as he is standing by in brussels for his good evening to you georg so we've got a deal on this budget's what led to the breakthrough. well 2 things are at the heart of this compromise that has now been found 1st of all hungary and poland can now seek legal certainty at the european court of justice that this if you want rule of law contingency amend mechanism is really legal and 2nd lead and they will
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get a legal declaration from council member states overall 27 saying that this will objectively be applied once the mechanism is in place so if you want a little bit of a political fight sure it's coming but it's coming to late and once it's there. the member states that are affected can appeal at the european court of justice but what is essential for member states and member body make that clear tonight is the text itself so the true that the new tool in the toolbox of the european council has not been touched that remains fully in place yet and it also means that the problems that the european union hands with under in poland those problems have not gone away does this mean the budget mean that the coronavirus relief funds are are they ready to go where they are needed most to get only in spain for example. that's right these are the criteria that money is destines to go to countries that
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have been hardest hit by the corona crisis and that is among them italy and spain it is mainly the ground's outfit grounds. the some of the smaller part loans and butts in order to get that money there is a conditionality member states ones to unlock that money from this fund and need to come up with a plan how they want to use that money and need to indicate how they want to reform their economies as well. and there is of course another unresolved issue and that is the posed breaks a tree deal georg british prime minister boris johnson he met with the e.u. commission president ursula from the lion to discuss the issue on wednesday take a listen to how he described their meeting. it was put to me that this was kind of a bit like tween and the u.k. is one twin the e.u. is another and if the e.u. decides to have a half cut then the u.k. has got to have a haircut or else face punishment of the e.u. decides to buy the expensive handbag the. expensive had back in the u.k.
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has to buy expensive hand back 2 or else face terrorists and clearly that's not a sensible way to proceed unlike any other free trade deal aren't careless get beyond the handbags here talking to the issues that are standing in the way of a trade deal. well as. we can say a little bit with the handbags because that is the main sticking issue apart from fish which remains a problem because a lot of french and dutch fishermen are fishing in british waters but then again britain is selling most of their fish 70 even more percent to the u. market so that is one of the sticking points but the key sticking point is a level playing field a technical term for if you want handbags or whatever a item that is produced in a country insulted the other country and what the e.u. is saying is we need to have some some standards that we can agree on if you want
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to import your products with 0 terrorists and 0 barriers they need to apply to standards otherwise you can dump. cheaply produced products onto our market and that would destroy the internal market in the us be very clear that is the red line they will not cross and that's a sensible point they have there and the british prime minister said this evening georg that there is a strong possibility that these trade talks will collapse is the european union prepared for their. that's what michele dunne you also said yesterday that the likelihood is now bigger that there will be a no deal rather than a deal that you has always been seeking that deal and they've made some compromises but they've also made contingency have been announce contingency measures and these include all kinds of measures that will smooth that cliff and that we're facing now on the conditionality that the u.k. does the same thing so for instance they would allow british fisherman to enter the
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european waters and vice was they would allow a british outlines to cross e.u. territory if european airplanes can cross british territory but only for half a year what this will not do is avoid the chaos we're expecting for instance regarding supply chains and transport from the u.k. to europe and vice versa all right our very own dear mountains in brussels tonight with the latest on the double d. of our day the budget and breaks thank you. our let's take a look now at some of the other stories that are making headlines around the world 3 weeks before britain is due to leave the european single market huge lines of trucks have formed at the english border of dover and the channel tunnel and you see it right there are key crossing points to the european union the just it's groups say british companies are scrambling to stockpile goods ahead of a potential no deal breaks israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has welcomed broncos decisions normalize relations in a deal brokered by the u.s.
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president trump broke the news on twitter calling it an historic breakthrough under the deal the u.s. will recognize morocco's claim over the disputed western sahara morocco was the 4th arab nation to recognize israel in recent months lebanon's prime minister hasan dione has been charged with negligence over the beirut airport explosion that killed more than $200.00 people in august 3 former cabinet members were also charged the office says that his conscience is clear the blast was caused by explosive material that had been illegally stored at the port for years. u.s. authorities looked to be on the verge of authorizing the country's 1st coronavirus vaccine the food and drug administration advisory panel has been meeting to scrutinize the data from the bio on tech pfizer vaccine trials many in the u.s. are hoping for emergency authorization as cases in america so.
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here in germany deaths from the corona virus have passed the 20000 mark reeks of a partial nationwide lock down have not done enough to bring infection numbers dale chancellor angela merkel has already made an impassioned plea for people to cut down on socialising in germany's top scientist a warning that the country will have to introduce tougher restrictions if people do not reduce social contacts voluntarily. german scientists are once again sounding the alarm despite the partial lockdown coronavirus cases are rising again and deaths are soaring to record highs. in country the infection activity we are currently seeing can quickly rise back into the exponential phase again if you extra cases could be enough to spark that. and ladies and gentlemen this we must avoid the virus has spread widely across the
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population. germans are being told to drop their christmas travel plans for now shops are still open and some stand selling mulled wine have sprung up across many cities. to liverpool diena germany's academic advisory panel to the government says this has to stop it has called for schools to go on their winter break early and for all non-essential 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 when. asked how does this effect i know how much love gets poured into those christmas fans and i'm sorry from the bottom of my heart but if we have to pay the price of $590.00 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
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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. many clever 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. i think i'll go back to live but i will not see them maybe. or maybe just. isn't this a room that's really. been really. some german states of already introduced their own tougher restrictions it remains unclear whether miracle will try to get all 16
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states to commit to more nationwide measures before christmas or whether each state will continue to go its own way. a television news has been shot dead in eastern afghanistan so-called islamic state has claimed responsibility. and was killed along with her driver as she travelled to work in. a war who are prayers for a heroine hundreds came out to pay their respects to journalist my wand and her driver assassinated on their way to work. for many young women in afghanistan my one was larger than life a t.v. anchor in a country where 2 thirds of girls are barred from attending school my one was also an advocate for women's rights and continued to speak out even after her own mother was killed for doing the same. but. then early thursday
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morning in this street she and her driver were ambushed by gunmen the attack was claimed by the militant group islamic state. where. my wand was a brave female journalist and. she was working for any local t.v. . but unfortunately today she was murdered by the enemies. not only her family but all the women of our province are sad for. the. islamic state has claimed responsibility for a string of recent attacks on civilians in afghanistan. as the u.s. draws down troops there and conservative militant groups resurge many worry that a life like my ones will once again become impossible.
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here's a reminder our top story this hour european leaders in brussels have come to an agreement on the emus $1.00 trillion euro budget which includes hundreds of billions in coronavirus relief funds poland and hungary and been blocking the spending plan over provisions tying the money into respect for the rule of law. next up is due to be business with rob want to stick around we're back in just a moment i'll see you next time. i'm scared that of a war. and in the end it's a me you're not allowed to stay here any more we will send you back. are you familiar with this. with the smugglers when lyon said. what's.
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