just that i will never take it out of my dead body and that in the 1st step that kind of things and then i want to take that step to basically go out and have normal times again normalcy. some states are planning to begin vaccinating as early as monday but the shot comes with complex distribution challenges it has to be shipped and stored at all true temperatures and countries are competing for limited supplies. was the question how could you as margo says this is a skating question. in terms of. this to. ask the question what can go in your. states how can the. u.s. health officials say they will have enough doses to vaccinate every american who wants to be by the middle of next year europe is set to make its own decision on

the biotech pfizer shot later this month in what could be the beginning of the end of the global pandemic. when a surge in covert 19 fatal of these here in germany is alarming authorities and stoking calls for a stricter lockdown at the beginning of the pandemic germany's death toll per capita was one of the lowest among hard hit countries now with the 2nd wave the picture looks bleaker on saturday german health authorities recorded nearly 500 kovac 19 related deaths and the numbers continue to trend upward. well the country's disease control agency also registered more than 28000 new infections in a single day those figures suggest weeks of a partial lockdown haven't slowed the spread of infection tougher restrictions now seem almost inevitable something chance for i'm going to medical and state leaders will discuss emergency talks on sunday. here the record

infections are not just a number german hospitals like this one in mannheim are struggling to treat the rising number of patients with covert 19 yet out on the streets you might not know that the country is in crisis the so-called lock down like restrictions mean shops and schools are still open the german said of baton veteran back is not waiting for the federal government to take action you fire up. from december 12th on we are imposing a general lockdown for all of baton verbeck runs. from saturday residents there may only leave their homes with a valid reason such as going to work or school the situation is dangerous all lawmakers seem to agree on that several other german states are urging action at the national level. we can see it getting away from us slipping from our hands we

have to make a decision that's clear more resolute and more understandable and try to live is good this is a matter of life and death to put it clearly it's a matter of ethical responsibility that we in the government have chancellor angela merkel is also in support of stricter measures on sunday germany's federal and state leaders will meet once more to discuss the crisis meanwhile germany's schools are preparing for more restrictions or possible expansion of the vacation period yet education ministers are asking for as few cuts to schooling as possible. in our opinion vacation should not be extended but rather we should introduce remote learning or even a lifting of compulsory attendance or a combination of both. just under 2 weeks to christmas eve and germans may only have a few days left for christmas shopping before stricter measures are put in place it

looks like this holiday season will be even quieter than usual. well i'm joined now by our political correspondent hance brown tie hans did german government is going to meet on sunday as we know they're going to discuss the situation which as we've seen is worrying to say the least what do we know about their plans do we have any idea of that how far these at this lockdown is going to go and how strict italy well it's going to be one of this by an all notorious meetings between chancellor i'm going to mouth of a central government and 16 leaders of germany 16 federal states these lean meetings have been going on for more than 2 months and normally what happens is i'm going to mco the central government pushes for a very much more strict lockdown so strict measures and the states put a brake on that and say that they don't want to go so far we've seen in the report just now that various states have imposed restrictions others have not the need is to find a common line and that's really been the problem over months now what we expect

novel is that it seems very likely that the central government that i'm going to macro will finally put be able to get to the kind of strict measures that they have been pushing for for almost 2 months it looks very likely we'll have a serious locked on sometime this coming week possibly as early as monday at the latest by the end of the coming week we're all holding our breath selves and let's not forget that here in germany in fact that since the beginning of november so over a month now we've had this so-called lock down and light and why is it that it hasn't worked because exactly said that it hasn't worked it has stopped the rise of the effect infections that stop the attacks appear exponential rise by for a couple of weeks now we've been on a kind of plateau of somewhere around 20000 new infections infections every day the number of affections has not dropped and that's really what needs to happen we need to get these number of infections dom the question of why that had us has not worked we don't really know clearly people are still having too many contacts and

we don't really know exactly. because contact tracing has not been working out to anymore because of the number of infections that compu followed up probably people are still meeting too much in shops in private in the private sphere possibly also outside maybe the schools are a particular drive of the infections we don't really know but these all these places are likely to be restricted severely know whatever the issues are the numbers are what they are why has it been so difficult for at there to be suppose consensus wise to german governments he's been so reluctant to use a stricter measures here well obviously there is this tension between the regions because various regions have a different infection rates the ones that are not so badly affected feel that they don't need to in pres substrate blocked onst and so on so there's been this dispute between the regions and the central government that has put a brake on many things then obviously the financial considerations for the

government if you impose a lockdown as a government you need to compensate the people who are making losses as a result and clearly these 2 or 3 weeks before christmas for retailers are the crucial weeks and the entire year's 7 losses that they will suffer are going to be substantial the government is already spending dozens of billions to try and compensate people so the financial considerations are there in the background as well and clearly there's a lot of pressure from business not to impose these locked on and locked arms but i for a moment i think i think what's clear in this coming week we are going to have a strict locked onto me well get ready for that hans brand new political correspondent thanks for that update. well take a look at some of the other stories making news elsewhere in the world the 1st international aid convoy has arrived in ethiopia's region since fighting broke out more than a month ago the convoy includes 7 red cross trucks carrying medicines and supplies

for about 1000 families who were displaced from their homes by the fighting. a series of rockets struck the afghan capital kabul killing one and wounding 2 others the afghan interior minister said that 10 rockets were fired near the karzai international airport no group has so far claimed responsibility but this is the 2nd such attack in the city within a month. iran has executed a dissident journalist for encouraging anti-government protests in the country back in 2017 some criticized around the government with a website and internet news channel was living in exile he was captured in 2019. well the u.s. supreme court has rejected a lawsuit filed by the state of texas to overturn the results of last month's presidential election president trump and scores of republican officials and lawmakers had supported the action to suit challenge president elect joe biden's

victories in michigan georgia pennsylvania and wisconsin but justices ruled the texas didn't have the right to challenge other states run their elections he reacted with a tweet saying quote the supreme court really let us down. so the question i was whether this is the end of the road for donald trump's campaign to stop joe biden from taking office in january we put that question to michael moore he's an election law expert at florida state university. well this one of the things that made the texas suit so unique and again the court held they didn't even have jurisdiction a lot of commentators had pointed out the numerous procedural and jurisdictional hurdles that it faced but one of the unique aspects of the texas suit is that it essentially sought to bring the entire election before the supreme court that it identified 4 different states where texas claimed it had statutory and

constitutional problems and invited the court to to handle the issue in one fell swoop they're still read there are still cases pending in the lower courts as a matter of fact the wisconsin supreme court has just agreed to hear an appeal of brought by the trump campaign tomorrow there are other cases where the trump campaign has lost in the lower courts were it can still ask the supreme court itself to hear those cases so over the upcoming days and potentially even weeks i expect to see continued litigation i think it's extraordinarily unlikely that any of those lawsuits will succeed but the the short answer is no this is this case while it presented one unified package that would have allowed the court to consider all of the objections being raised right across at least in most of the states across the board the court's rejection of this case doesn't shut the door on all these other cases that remain pending in the lower courts. in the bundesliga on

friday and be convulsed for a coasted i'm touched frankfurt and the visitors took the lead but a double from 5 chorused won the game for the hosts 1st a dutchman level things up from his penalty spot for his 8th goal of the season. and in the dying minutes he struck again to seal a 21 victory. false bird's unbeaten run that stretches to 11 games and the win puts them into champions league contention. the vatican has officially inaugurated its christmas tree on st peter's square on friday evening and we're going to leave you with pictures from that ceremony before now i'm fully assembled in for me and the rest of the news team thanks for watching season.

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one the tragic. secrets of the cast starts december 25th. was. this week on world stories. russian funeral homes after passage in. german clinics search for volunteers but we begin in sudan the african country is a haven for thousands of refugees fleeing war torn ethiopia the fight over the tea grain region has torn families apart and half of those seeking safety are children

. as. likes to sing songs he learned growing up in tikrit and he misses playing with his friends and especially with his older brother. in law. i miss them all and i want to go back home because i want to play with my brothers i miss my friends and my brother us. it's been 3 weeks since a.o.p. last saw his family his mother had brought him to his teacher's doorstep when the bombs started falling on the hometown and home at a she said she had to search for her 2 older sons a safe way yasser recalls without a 2nd thought she took him and ran recess a good minute i said we jumped over dead bodies our neighbors were dead but we couldn't bury them so we just kept running. and you hope so a lot of things a 7 year old shouldn't see says i see for us all she's close friend of his mother has known him for years he trusts her. many other children who flatly die when not

so lucky the u.n. estimates almost half the 40000 refugees from the region actually it's not clear how many of them arrived in sudan on their own but the health ministry is currently registering all these as especially vulnerable. we face multiple problems 1st an important one we have to find out whether the family came to sudan or not if the family was killed we need to explain that to the child after that we look for a solution. a safe way yesa hopes that she will never have to explain that to europe she believes his parents are alive but with no phone and no communication blackout in today she can't reach anyone in their hometown. if god lets me live long enough and if there's peace i'll take the boy back to his mother now i'm a refugee but i will do what ever i can for this boy he's like my own son. life at

the campus heart up in s.f. was still wearing the same clothes as when they left home often they have to try 3 or 4 comes to get water but still sometimes a safe or manages to get a up something special. i love her because she takes care of me she buys me this quits fruits and candies i really love you. according to official statistics 40000 people in russia have died from the corona virus so far this situation is especially dire in a city south of the euro mountains the workload in funeral homes there has doubled and become more dangerous. with a steady stream of coronavirus dead speed is of the essence at the mall every morning the team from the funeral agency. comes here to collect new victims of the pandemic 29 year old artur kinsey k f has been working in the funeral business for

12 years but he says he's never had to bury this many bodies. but for fortune one time there was a huge line of hearses standing in line outside the morgue it was only then that people started to understand the death really come. call the relatives threatened to fire the body like. this movie in the city of is only for people who died of corona virus or had contact with an infected person the bodies have to be sealed in plastic the coffins closed. many russians feel that dead should be treated with more respect for explains. but relatives are often more tense than usual because their dead are handed over to them and plastic body bags. they aren't allowed to open the bags so i tell them that right away some people cry and demand that we open the bags that i have to explain that they could get

infected themselves this virus is no joke. the british it. has been in the business for 7 years today he's in charge of the team of undertake has he says since the 2nd wave of corona virus there have been at least twice as many deaths in the city of funeral agencies have had a tough time keeping up. we have work a lot more work over a 1000000 people live in the capital of the republic of. government statistics say that only around 90 people in the region have died of the corona virus since the pandemic began but the official numbers also show that during that time over $4000.00 more people died the nost year coronavirus infections are spiking across russia but. the situation is under control. the undertaker. today unicode slover and his team are entering

a 92 year old woman she didn't die of the coronavirus that means her relatives can say their final farewell with an open casket which is the tradition in russia. usually funerals a big family affair as in russia but the pandemic has changed that people are often worried about getting infected and stay away. so far no one in your research team has caught he can only hope it will stay that way. and russia people say if it's decided up there think she'll get run over by a street car you won't drown fate is fate if the coronavirus is my fate it will pass me by. her with her. the next day the team prepares for 4 more funerals and his colleagues hardly have time to worry about their own health

at the moment they're just too busy. with a number of corona infections is rising in germany as well which can be seen in the intensive care units medical personnel are already at their limits and hospitals are searching for volunteers. talk germany's parliament zuzana of uganda has been working here for 18 years but she has another job too. when the corona pandemic hit germany she volunteered to work part time as an intensive care nurse in berlin shockey te hospital. just finished a 9 hour shift taking care of covert patients now she's come back into the office to finish off some work for her full time job. i can stay at home with a clear conscience if my colleagues are slaving away in the i.c.u.

i have the training and can help so i help there's no question about it. and german hospitals are in dire need of help intensive care units are stretched thin. chief nurse of the one of europe's largest research hospitals she has put her finger on the problem germany's health care system is facing. we have enough ventilators enough beds enough masks and gowns and gloves but we're worried that all the beds can't be used because we don't have enough personnel. for it to deal with this the shanty have launched a campaign to rehire former health care workers like suzanne of you got she trained to be a nurse over 25 years ago but decided to move into

a different profession in this all hands on deck situation it's people like her that are needed now. in the i.c.u. use are running at full capacity if one person is taking care of 3 or 4 covert patients that's rough you have very little time after work i leave the hospital with a sad feeling because they couldn't give the patients the attention that they deserve . despite rising corona numbers germany's health care system has not crashed yet. but hospitals were already understaffed and the workload was too high before the pandemic despite all the problems zona has rediscovered her passion for nursing care she couldn't even imagine quitting her job in the boom the stock but for that she says hospital working conditions would need to improve.

our last journey takes us to finland the scandinavian country has done well during the pandemic at the beginning of november the finns had the lowest infection rate in the e.u. instead of strict rules the government relied on its citizens to act responsibly until now. how has finland managed to keep the coronavirus at bay during this 2nd wave it's not due to harsh restrictions on citizens because there aren't any masks are recommended but not required in most places all stores are open. restaurants and bars are 2 orders for alcohol and at 11 pm. is director of the national coronavirus strategy he explains it relies on a sense of personal responsibility mere recommendations wouldn't work everywhere but here they do parents are quite obedient in the sense that they are suggested to

try to maintain. avoid a lot of gatherings of a lot of parties many people into and through work with the way it is suggested says many finns are working from home and surveys show in person social contacts have been cut by 2 thirds but the number of new cases has started to rise so now the government has ordered students over 12 to wear masks in school and limited the size of social gatherings in the helsinki area to 20 people it also extended until at least mid december a ban on all non-essential travel into the country finnish officials say in the summer half of new coronavirus infections came from abroad that's dropped to 6 percent now that tourists aren't allowed in the european union is pressing governments to restore open borders as soon as possible one government proposal is that travel restrictions could be eased by making it mandatory to be tested on a rival team on. it is deputy mayor of where the airport is located and he's

responsible for security there he says his city doesn't have enough medical professionals to carry this out commune communicated to the government that if you lift restrictions and if you make the law that forces our staff. to move over to the airport the situation is so that we cannot treat our finnish people anymore so well that like difficult decisions lie ahead for finland as it tries to figure out how to continue blocking the virus but not visitors.

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