i've. read. this is d w news live from berlin the us takes a major step towards conquering the coronavirus an expert advisory panel endorsers the bio intake finds a vaccine as the countries to use more than $3000.00 deaths in a single day also coming up the 1.8 trillion euro budget for the e.u. gets the go ahead poland and hungary had been blocking passage of the budget but the disputed dispute is now over the new spending plan also includes billions in coronavirus relief. and the head of germany's disease control agency ranks as the

alarm as daily covidien fiction's reach a new record high is germany heading towards the title walk down. i'm gerri great thank you for joining me we begin this show in the united states which looks to be set on the verge of authorizing the country's 1st corona virus vaccine an expert panel made up of scientists and doctors has been scrutinizing the dr from the bio on take 5 is a vaccine trials it is now issued in an emergency recommendation to the food and drug administration this is a major step towards a mass vaccination campaign in the country so far close 230-0000 americans have died from coated 19. let's go straight to washington now where our correspondent

all of us sal it is down by hi there all of us so an expert panel has endorsed this vaccine is that it does that mean it's approved now. well that was the last big hurdle at least jarrett so we're almost there it was a recommendation as you mentioned about the food and drug administration the f.d.a. who was then in charge of issuing that emergency authorization usually always follows those recommendations so that said we are also in a very grim situation in the united states as you know yesterday a new record was said 3000 people died of covert 19 so it's very clear that that panel would say yes to the buy and take pfizer vaccine also given that it's already approved in the united kingdom but what's missing now of course is the the formal authorization of the f.d.a. and that could happen as soon as tonight or tomorrow and looks to be a formality as as you say let's talk the next steps now how quickly could have

vaccinated vaccination program start and what would this look like well the u.s. government hopes to get some $20000000.00 people vaccinated until the end of the year and that could even start as soon as the f.d.a. issues its final approval of the city of washington d.c. will relocate is currently preparing for 1st vaccinations to take place next week so senior citizens will be 1st as well as front line workers those who are really exposed or at risk and of course there are also some challenges ahead as you know the the vaccine has to be stored at minus 70 degrees celsius so there are some transportation issues resulting out of that you need special equipment special freezers unnecessary and that is a problem in particular for the rural areas of the united states which does not have access to such equipment all of it there is a lot of people in the united states who will be needing a vaccination what is the general attitude among the american public to to

a vaccine how do they feel about it. well it's hard to map out a general attitude jerad as it's very it's very different in the coasts and along the coasts and in rural areas but latest poll suggests that some 60 percent of americans are now willing to get vaccinated that's up and it was a little bit less a bit earlier there's a lot of misinformation and conspiracy theories circulating also on the topic of the vaccination and of course at 19 in general of course and therefore 3 former presidents have come out and they want to get vaccinated in front of the cameras to raise awareness also to make people to raise the credibility in fact and those are george w. bush bill clinton barack obama so it's a bipartisan a bipartisan effort here and the hope of course is that as time goes by and more people get vaccinated also the acceptance grows within the american population and

that's our correspondent in washington d. w's all of a salad thank you very much olivia meanwhile here in europe leaders in brussels say they've come to an agreement on the e.u.'s 1.8 trillion euros budget which includes hundreds of billions in coronavirus relief funds member states poland and hungary had blocked approval of the budget plans to tie the money to respecting the rule of law but a compromise brokered by germany which currently holds the e.u. presidency ended this deadlock. after a tense few weeks the jovial atmosphere at today's e.u. summit suggested e.u. leaders knew what was to come. oh i swear 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 we are 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 they 750000000000 euro rescue funds to help breathe life into the e.u.'s virus had to come here. but just in time for dinner a compromise table by german chancellor angela merkel seemed to do the trick 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 and bitter organs case until after the next election but it seems this was a concession that had to be made to a block desperately needed funds before christmas. michael let's bring in our correspondent matus in brussels good to see they a year leaders have managed to say this budget the standoff is over what exactly

were the concessions that got everyone to agree in the end. right so you can boil it down to 2 key can concessions are 2 offers that were made one is that something that will simply delay things because the european court of justice will now have to look at this mechanism and basically confirm that this is fully legally functional and secondly there will be a declaration signed by a member states that everyone agreed to tonight and that is that this rule of law mechanism will only be applied in a fair manner so it will not be you misused for political. party political gains if you want and that was a concern that hungary and poland at least that's what they said that was a concern they brought forward so now that that this is out of the way the money can flow and if you want it's been a bit of

a political thought but at the end of the day quite a historical day that this huge amount of money of this rescue fund is now being put on the table and it's the 1st time the e.u. is taking up debt something that germany for many many years has avoided and that is now taking place the 1st time the money does will now flow as you say and we know that a big chunk of this package was made up of is made up of coronavirus relief fund so what happens to this money now. exactly this money when we're talking to loans and grounds about the same size of this money will 1st go to those states that are most in need those states the hardest hit by the pandemic for instance italy and spain now before they can unlock their share of that money from that fund you have mentioned they will have to come up with a financial plan and. a suggestion how to restructure their economies before they can actually get their hands on that money but basically the money is

now there lots of it and it will start from general area next year onwards ok stay with this it's been some busy days in brussels because there's another of course unresolved issues the post breaks a trade deal british prime minister boris johnson as we know met we've seen live underline the e.u. commission president to discuss these issues let's listen to how boris johnson described parts of the meeting on thursday it was put to me that this was kind of a bit like twins and the u.k. is one queen the e.u. is another and if the e.u. decides to have a haircut then the u.k. is going to have a haircut or else face punishment of the e.u. decides to buy expensive handbags the. expensive happened in the u.k. has to buy expensive home back 2 or else face terrorists and clearly that's not a sensible way to proceed unlike any other free trade deal.

haircuts and handbags new york talk history the issues that that stand in the way of the steel. well 2 key issues are still sticking points i want to fishery which i think can be resolved because you have interests on both sides you have you fishermen ship it fishing in british waters and on the other hand you have british fisherman who are trying you're selling 70 percent of their catch in the e.u. now the more difficult thing is the internal market the so-called technical term of level playing field and was hiding behind that technicality is the idea that you need to have the same standards if you throw away barriers and tariffs you need to have fair conditions so if one country has the standards they cannot be that the other country simply dumps their cheaper products cheaper only produced in a less of a quality on the other market i think what the british prime minister here on the other hand is referring to is the norwegian model which is the idea that the other country is forced to follow the standards what the e.u. in this case of the u.k.

is looking for is some sort of a mechanism where you can agree that there need to be tariffs to be introduced a once one country deviates from a certain standard and from what i've been told from diplomats here that's a completely fair and logical consequence of any trade deal that was to be made ok that's a corresponding matters they in brussels thank you very much. for here in germany deaths from the corona virus have now passed the 20000 mark weeks and weeks of a partial lockdown have not done enough to bring injection numbers down chancellor angela merkel has made a passionate plea for people to reduce their social contacts especially over the upcoming christmas period if not germany's top scientists are warning that the country has little choice but to introduce tougher restrictions. with only 2 weeks to go until christmas the looming question is will

a hard lock down come before or after the holidays the president of germany's will but call institute is concerned the curve might have been flattened but efforts to reduce infection rates have yet to show effect it's just used for our calculations show that the plateau we're on is extremely fragile the situation could easily go sideways again leading to a quick exponential growth of case numbers explode into our heart especially in assisted living facilities the situation is problematic according to german authorities residents of nursing homes are more at risk than ever. currently receiving double the amount of outbreaks in assisted living facilities than in spring and every outbreak affects a lot of people and are tough and several states are now considering tightening the measures already in place berlin's government is considering closing all non-essential retail schools may switch back to distance learning and extend the

winter break it's below but i believe these 2 and a half 3 weeks will give us plenty of opportunities regarding disease control. state leaders are hoping to set out a coordinated road map in a meeting with chancellor angela merkel. if you get a moment of fun also a few minutes look at the ring looks likely to take place on sunday. we were very interested in getting together as quickly as possible in order to rapidly gain clarity about the path our country will follow used to open door at one point they're cute. in light of recent developments religious services over the christmas holidays are also in the balance. then i mean if there is a possibility of a religious gathering endangering lives i'll be the 1st to call things off mom the so-called most wonderful time of the year now marked by fear

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the name is eddie michael jr welcome to the program now do you think to any fight over 19 the continental us box needs 60 percent of its population that's according to africa's center for disease control but it will need about 1500000000 doses of vaccine on proper infrastructure to achieve that goal in concerns that countries won't receive enough doses and out there is not enough capacity for a rollout this is the spice the world health organization's kovacs initiative to ensure access of low income countries like malawi took over 19 vaccines here in the south and people are waiting to get desk job but they're concerned that when the promising career finally arrive they may be at the back of the line. that it would have been then up to me to have

a 19 has affected every country if they choose to start with a few countries only it means people in other countries left to wait will have died by the time the vaccine reaches them. they were my native malawi doesn't have the capacity to handle the vaccine on its own it would have been better if a non-governmental organization gave a hand to make sure that everyone gets the all important vaccine and i think that is that i think about every 4th of the country already has an effective vaccine program called expanded program on immunization or e.p.i. but by antic fires and new dern of vaccines which promise 95 percent efficacy require ultra cold storage something that can provide. the kind of equipment that many countries including malawi it's not the out of court to kind of equipment so as we do our assessment will look at that but however

we still don't know what a vaccine is going to come into the country. the oxford astra zeneca vaccine seems more promising it can be transported at standard refrigerator conditions and stored for up to 6 months authorities here are hopeful about a possible covert $1000.00 vaccine roll out in the near future. as a country we're ready because the e.p.a. program already these facilities and malawi is one of those countries in the on the continent that does well in this immunization program so we have infrastructure in place already in all of the you know the regions that we have warehouses that can keep this one that. the health minister hopes malawi's 18000000 citizens will start getting their jobs by the middle of next year. but africa's center for disease control says a much bigger challenge is the entire continent that will need one and

a half $1000000000.00 this exene. from on this here is viral or just professor barry shoop he's the chairman of south africa's minister advisory committee on a coronavirus vaccine development hello and welcome sir now what are the major challenges in distributing covert 19 vaccines across africa. the main problem in distributing it is 1st of all storage. you know one of the vaccines as you probably know requires very altered freezing stories out mon 17 that should not be practical in africa in fact in africa the only practical vaccines for storage considered to be those that can be stored in the order of fish are at a temperature for the whole continent that's number one number 2 of course is vaccine reach in many parts of africa including south africa they are also the country which will also borrows for example and to get vaccine right to the

delivery point is going to be quite a challenge that's a challenge with a conditional that scene program to show many good towards infant and children and it's going to be a lot more of a challenge of course trying to get through to the entire population and number 3 is also trying to define who are the co-morbidities because initially of course is not going to be taxing for everybody we need to define who are the priority groups they will agree the front on health care workers with the and they already and then we come down to the next group which i will but it is underlie illnesses and they also priority groups but how to define them out to democrats. circumscribed who's going to be those people is what's going to be a major distribution challenge and also cause the just ticks of getting to the countries of the problem ok so. a lot of challenges but we know the what's the way around them. i mean the way around them is that it's got to be will

play and we'll organize this is a new situation trying to immunize the entire population so a lot of thought has gone and has hester still got into it and this is one of the challenges of africa because obviously in the high income countries in europe and north america those problems and those challenges and not yet is a cute. getting the vaccine as it was also going to be a challenge for africa but we can come to that now if you just know but once we got the event seemed to try and get it to get that coverage after such a level that it's going to affect the population unity to try and get to herd immunity we're going to have to call to do a lot of careful planning that really is the planning careful planning the ticklish planning that has to go into it at this stage. it's about. the vaccines. well i mean this is this

of course that's a big big question and the one thing you have to remember related to that is that the epidemic in africa so fall is not nearly appear to be as severe as it is in europe in north america africa seemed to be a lot. of civilian volved and the many reasons for that name to it but the number of reasons was probably in africa it's not nearly as severe so the kind of impetus that the the urgency to get effects in africa is not quite as acute as you go particularly in western europe 'd yes i think africa will only get vaccines well off 'd to. europe and north america but hopefully we will be able to get fairly soon to the context. enough of initial tranche of that scene to vaccinate the high risk groups population immunizations are going to have to watch wow. professor.

chairman of. the committee. and development of many thanks for that insight thank you thank you very much for the. president has been reelected for the 2nd time in office with a narrow win of 51 percent of the vote that's ahead of his rival john muhammad who are 47 percent of the result of this closely fought election had some residents of the carpets all across. well 1st of all i think. the very great. descending now democratic and what i think about it is. everyone's reaction towards it i mean a lot of people. when you look at. everybody who with the results are just moving on with. life.

i'm happy with their current president strong this election. creates a job. it's it's not it's it's the. he said i was looking out for 3rd party honestly speaking. these people coming to do the same thing again for the next 4 years is going to be the same thing nothing will change because you know it's like. you coming ok going to a politics for 4 years i'm giving you paul for 4 years the next 4 years you come in rupie. i was nervous jocks to devote generally free and fair but your position in d.c. party back in the other main candidate john hama rejects the result and says it will appeal joining me now is peter deputy general secretary of the n.b.c. party hello and welcome said why is your party rejecting the results.

well clearly you have. flaws and arrows and. you know confronted the despotic elections you would have the keys whereby most of the places in the stronghold of the ruling government you had already printed. would you know you see stop how do you got this time nobody knows most of them were arrested in. stronghold and you have the keys whereby most order is always coming from the region in the eastern region by an extra 390000 votes and. struggling you would realize that when you look at the results from the electoral commission there were some tabulation arrows and if you guess that they gave you how to change it if you are from last night this morning they have changed the figures they have declared 3 times in each of the cases when you out it goes to

a runoff so it is not a one time victory we think that this results as flawed it is discredited it is 50 shows and we have rejected it we do not results we would not recognize this and president as the president elect and we are going to use any. means possible to reverse the salvation of the will of the people so how exactly are you going to go about this what are your next steps. well. you know we we have various avenues that we can use to. bury my people always remain powerful and the strength of the people the voice of the people remains the. nation and the people. there i think is supposed to be done we're going to use the people we do use public court of public opinion we. will use every means possible to. reverse. and will certainly keep

you posted about those next moves the deputy general secretary of the. talking to us about suppose ition going to contest the results meanwhile we elected president and stressed that it was a close call the 2 parties will have to work together in parliament and that that's the will of the people. now is the time for each and every one of us irrespective of our political affiliation to unite join hands stand shoulder to shoulder and walk out to praise gonna where she deserves to be that's it for now stars go to d.w. dot com slash africa or visit our facebook and twitter pages we leave you with more pictures from ghana after the election results came out. i thought up.

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sometimes i am for those that nothing with the coming of the german thinks deep into the german culture. and take this drama. it's all that. no time rachel join me for me to get the bungee jump. a blockbuster. says in a home sharing platform. value on its market debut will speak to our correspondent in new york also coming up. the european central bank is setting aside a further half a trillion euros for potential bond buying as it seeks to steer the eurozone through the coronavirus crisis. and we're asking if any countries will make it through the pandemic relatively unscathed your of what looks like it may be among

the lucky few. this is. welcome to the program shares in air b.n. b. have more than doubled in value on their us stock market debut they opened at $146.00 each of valuing the company at over 100000000000 dollars the i.p.o. marks an extraordinary turnaround for which was badly damaged by the coronavirus pandemic. a doorbell montage rang in. replacing the customer bell ringing ceremony when a firm goes public. after a difficult year for the company with travel restrictions hitting its business it was a relief for c.e.o. brian chesky to finally float the business on the nasdaq stock exchange to investors thank you for believing in us even when it wasn't always the obvious

thing to do you know air b.n. b. is rooted in the fundamental idea that people are good in we're in this together in the end we're not just a company but a community and so now it makes sense that we take every be public so we can share air b.n. b. with more of the world. the pandemic made getting to this point painful demand collapsed due to travel restrictions prompting the us company to lay off a quarter of its staff revenue shrank in the 3rd quarter to 1300000000 dollars 18 percent less than the year before but air b.n. b. slashed costs pushing up net profit in the 3rd quarter to 2 119000000 dollars the only time that abyan be has ever turned a profit. hugh company was helped by the easing of travel restrictions during the summer as customers turn to apartments over hotels for holidays and business travel

the company was founded in 2008 and is one of the most popular travel companies worldwide with around 7000000 listings in 220 countries still abyan b. is not welcome everywhere there's an increasing number of protests like here in spain residents say holiday lettings push up their rent they claim they're being pushed out of their neighborhoods by abbey and be the company may now be public but plenty of challenges still lie ahead. financial correspondent in new york yes go out and discuss this a bit more and more than doubling in share price on day one this is an extraordinary day view by a very heavy m.b.a. isn't it. it's breathtaking no doubt about it the company was worth about $100000000000.00 back in the spring the company's value dropped to $18000000000.00 and now air b.n. b. is worth more than all of the big chains like hilton the hyatt or marriott combined

in that for a company that says in this prospectus that it actually never might be profitable they had a profit here or there but for this year so far they have a loss of a biologist $700000000.00 every m.b. it did profit recently that travel assisting closer at home renting cabins entire houses and that for a longer period of time rather than staying in a hotel but that the stock price doubled and now we see this almost $100000000000.00 valuation that clearly is quite a remarkable yeah and this just as to what's been a remarkable year in terms of what is it about 2020 that brought us to the record heights we've had. now well i mean what happened is that was the pandemic that central banks all over the globe even pump more money into the system we're seeing negative rates or 0 rates and that actually brings a lot of liquidity and people keep buying everything what's on the market pending

on the metric of 2020 has been a record year for i.p.o.'s so far here in the u.s. companies raised about $150000000000.00 and we still have a couple of more i.p.o.'s coming in the next couple of days what also happened by the way is that more of the younger investors also we also jumped on the market risk online brokers like a robin hood to where you can trade to resist 0 commissions and especially those investors they tend to buy stuff that they know like door dish where we had this big i.p.o. on wednesday or stocks of companies like air b.n. b. that to those younger investors are very well familiar with the u.s. to young blood in new york thanks for joining us. by the european central bank is expanding its already massive monetary stimulus program as the pandemics impact on the eurozone economy drags on the e.c.b. is adding an extra $500000000000.00 euros to its bond buying fund taking the total

pot to $1.00 trillion it's also keeping interest rates at the historic lows the message is simple christine legarde once eurozone governments and banks to know that she has their back telling them not to worry about rising debt levels reassuring them that borrowing costs will stay low for a very long time. preserving favorable financing conditions over the pandemic period will help to reduce uncertainty and bulls to confidence thereby encouraging consumer spending and business investment and ultimately underpinning the economic recovery and helping to offset the downward impact of the pandemic on the projected path of inflation the e.c.b. is helping markets through expectant demick emergency purchase program or pep it

was started in march carrying a value of 750000000000 euro then increased by 600000000000 in june now the e.c.b. adds another $500000000000.00 bringing the total for the stimulus package to $1.00 trillion euros expected to last until march 2022 the frankfurt based central bank promises more emergency bond buying further providing cheap liquidity hoping that it results in renewed spending with government and corporations investing as much as they can to work themselves out of the deepest economic crisis in decades now of some of the other business stories making the news the e.u. has agreed to extend sanctions against russia for a further 6 months the blockade originally introduced measures against energy arms and financial sectors to punish russia or is an exaggeration crimea. and france's find google 100000000 euros an amazon 35000000 over breaches relating to

advertising cookies the countries that digital previously watchdogs at the companies put the small data on uses computers without their consent. now any country get through the pandemic relatively unscathed well one of the most likely candidates is your acquire the small south american nation appears to be reaping the benefits of low unemployment a fair health system and years of state investment in welfare. europe why has had less than 100 deaths caused by the corona virus and just a few 1000 cases borders with its neighbors remained closed though and infections have risen sharply again. in the spring schools and universities were closed along with shops. but now the streets are getting busy again. many people voluntarily wear masks in public there's still a need for caution but there's also an obvious sense of relief that things are not

worse than they are. at the past 2 research institute the mood is upbeat when the pandemic began they were able to respond immediately with nationwide testing. test kits came from these laboratories they said the approach taken by the government has helped. well no i think one of the big advantages and poor guy compared to other countries was that both the president and disk or on a virus team were supported our scientists right from the start of so that the scientists were then able to make decisions in good time well for decades europe has invested in its welfare state and that appears to be paying off now in the crisis. the country is home to around 3500000 people poverty is definitely an issue in some areas and impossible to overlook in the capital. still the mayor of montevideo is proud of the city and says here too everybody has access to health care. for the why you would have why has transformed its public health service over

the past 15 years now in this emergency it's exactly this system that's playing a huge role. in this video has the best health service of any city in the whole of latin america. i mean you've got to do. the deal but i feel my whole family lives in montevideo and they've been enjoying meeting regularly with relatives and friends again. so what do they think is the secret of europe was relative success in the crisis so far. perhaps it's a different mutation of the virus that we have that means the cases aren't as bad as in europe and. perhaps it's the climate yet in the same. no way there must be some other reason. a few months ago when they had to stay in quarantine never thought their lives would improve again so quickly. and finally

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