into the trap of kind of the corpses. this is g.w. news live from berlin a new phase in the united states his fight against the coronavirus pandemic regulators approves the biotech pfizer vaccine the move clears the way for an unprecedented vaccination campaign expected to begin in the coming days. rising covert 19 infections and deaths force leaders here in germany to make some

tough choices a tougher lock down is now in the cards less than 2 weeks before christmas. time the u.s. supreme court rejects but texas will soon to overturn the u.s. election result president donald trump called to suit the big one that would keep him in office the ruling could finally put an end to his hopes. unpublishable yes welcome to the program the u.s. food and drug administration has approved the buy on tech pfizer coronavirus vaccine the makers say they'll start shipping doses immediately and the 1st inoculations could start as early as monday the vaccine was shown in trials to be 95 percent effective in preventing covert 90. i have really good news today our nation has achieved a medical miracle we have delivered

a safe and effective vaccine in just 9 months it's a turning point for the country with the highest coronavirus death toll in the world and counting. it seems heartbreaking that we have daily records that exceed 911 deaths every day and i think you know it's very very difficult to go to work every morning knowing that hospitals are being filled clinics are preparing to deliver the bang on tech pfizer shot and begin the largest vaccination campaign in u.s. history health care workers and elderly people in care homes are expected to receive the 1st doses but now that the vaccine is on its way will most americans take it. i think it's kind of your civic duty to get vaccinated and. i don't see any issues with doing it as long as it's safe it's a way to depopulate the world that's the agenda behind the vaccines sorry i'm not

interested i will never take it over my dead body and that is the 1st step to kind of let things on the now 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. for you as michael says this is a scary question. intends to see justice. and i ask the question what can. the united states can. here 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 content of. what a surgeon covert 19 fatalities here in germany is alarming all authorities on stoking calls for a stricter lockdown at the beginning of the pandemic the death toll was hailed as being remarkably low now with the 2nd wave the picture looks bleaker on saturday or thirty's reported nearly 500 deaths and the numbers are still rising or the public health 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 and tougher restrictions now seem almost inevitable chancellor angela merkel and regional leaders will hold 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 covered 19 yet out on the streets you might not know that the country is in crisis the so-called lockdown like to restrict gins means 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 battenberg and their guns. from saturday residents there may only leave their homes with a valid reason such as going to work or school this 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 escape

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 get 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

to discuss this more i'm joined by d.w. reporter joel told reuters joel welcome to the show as we've seen there in the report and we've heard before on sunday the german government's going to be getting together going to be discussing the situation which is worrying to say the least we know anything about their plans but the question really now is when and rather if they introduce hotter lockdown measures some cabinet members are saying that such measures should start immediately other newspapers are reporting that wednesday is more realistic and some states are bringing in their own local restrictions such as not time curfews you have to remember that up until now germans had thought that might be a christmas as usual meaning that shops would stay open and that they could go and travel and visit their family members in fact authorities had previously approved a plan to relax measures over the holidays and allow people to meet in bigger groups but now experts have told the government they have to lock down hard and fast medical herself gave an emotional speech last week in the buddhist tog urging

people to have a restricted christmas and until now it has been has been some state leaders who have resisted those calls but the situation is changing fast and the situation is changing fast and and you know we've been essentially here in germany in this sort of this so-called light lockdown lockdown light why hasn't not worked where we can look at some of those measures and maybe we'll get an explanation for example we had in germany only hospitality entertainment and leisure leisure businesses were closed down but meanwhile school shops and workplace and stayed open and there were no stay at home orders or not curfews and as a result people's behavior really didn't change much and case numbers have stayed quite constant they've definitely stay quite constant but germany's approach in comparison to other e.u. countries is it's it's even difficult sometimes to compare within countries but why they compare actually i did e.u. level well some people have been doing a comparison a team in oxford university has been creating in. decks of lockdown measures which

we can see now here represented on a map now the docket colors mean stricter measures such as stay at home orders and closing all but non-essential shops that was the case in france and greece and to some extent in the u.k. now spain and italy have had not time curfews and into regional travel bans germany as you can see there is somewhere in the middle it had to close its restaurants and gyms and events but otherwise it was business as usual it was fairly business as usual has been opened to a certain degree we can say now how are other e.u. countries at me you've mentioned that they're a little bit how they tackling the outbreak as we've seen numbers go down haven't we in many places sure we can have a look like comparing to countries that had a pretty similar situation germany and the u.k. now in those 2 countries they both had a spike in november and as you can see on the left there it has stayed fairly constant in germany but in the u.k. in november they introduced a hotshot lockdown and they have now brought those numbers down and it is the same

case in other countries that also brought in hostile measures such as france is spain and italy so we can say that the lockdown light hasn't worked and that's why many here are now anticipation dissipating harsher measures to start or to be announced by tomorrow and maybe to start as soon as monday or wednesday next week well we'll certainly be keeping a close eye on that joe little really thank for that update let's turn to take a look at some of the other stories making news elsewhere in the world and the 1st international aid convoy has arrived in ethiopia's region since fighting broke out more than a month ago the mission includes 7 red cross trucks carrying medicines and supplies for a bad 100th i was our $1000.00 families who were displaced from their homes by the conflict. at least one person has been killed in a rocket strikes in the afghan capital kabul no group has so far claimed responsibility it's the 2nd such attack within

a month peace talks between the government and the taliban have been underway since september. police in spain have arrested 3 people in the southeastern city of movie after $21.00 migrants were found hiding in a sweat shop and the refugees were forced to work in unhygienic conditions for 2 euro's an hour the factory sold clothing to african countries. now the u.s. supreme court has rejected a lawsuit filed by the state of texas to overturn the results of last month's election president trump and scores of republican officials and lawmakers had supported the action and the suit changed or challenge president elect joe biden's victories in michigan georgia pennsylvania and wisconsin but justices ruled that texas didn't have the right to challenge other states run their elections trumpet reacted with between saying quote the supreme court really let us down.

so the question now is whether this is the end of the road for donald trump's campaign to stop joe biden from taking office in january and 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 in jurisdictional hurdles that it faced but one of the the unique aspects of the texas suit is that it essentially sought to bring the entire election before the supreme court that it identified it's a 4 different states were texas claimed it had statutory and constitutional problems and invited the court to to handle the issue in one fell swoop there is still really 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 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 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 courts rejection of this case doesn't shut the door on all these other cases that remain pending in the lower courts. moving to sport now and in the bundesliga unbeaten involves bird hosted i'm touched frank 1st the visitors took the lead but a double from 5 to 5 chorused won the game for the hosts 1st the dutchman level things up from the penalty spot for his 8th goal of the season. and the dying

minutes he struck again to seal a $21.00 victory 12 sprague's unbeaten run now stretches to 11 games and the win puts them into champions league contention. o'barr new nicks robert levin dusky is one of 3 finalists for the fi for best man's player award he joins regular zio now messi and cristiano ronaldo 11 dusky played a key role in byron's travel winning season the prolific polish striker scored $55.00 goals last season the winner will be revealed on december 17th. well the vatican has unveiled its christmas tree on st peter's square and we're going to leave you with pictures from that ceremony for now on publicly us in berlin and for me and the rest of the team here thanks for watching season.

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