and so this means that above and beyond your own household you can invite 4 other people. in the holiday period from your closest friends and families to your partner. or. direct relations your parents and your children. and sibling us. but we would like to appeal to all citizens and if you are inviting other households over for christmas or other holidays please. reduce your contacts for 7 days before you do that or to have a protection week and then from new year's afternoon is there. will be no changes but from wednesday. when they 16th of december we will be closing retail apart from essential goods retail.

and non-food products. in. food for primarily food stores will not be expanded and we are also putting a ban on fireworks ahead of new year's eve and they'll be in an ordinance in place to make this law. but there will also be a ban on body care services hairdressers beauty salons etc schools will also be limited and daycare centers as well so that will mean that children are to be looked after at home wherever possible and from the 16th of december so that's from wednesday schools will be closed certainly the school children no longer have to go to school there will be emergency care. in place for some children. and distance learning will also be offered the. senior year. high school

might be dealt with differently and daycare will be run just the same as schools in this regard we are appealing to employers to offer home office options wherever possible from the 16th of december to the 10th of. january. and in terms of take away and delivery food from restaurants this will continue to be possible but you are no longer allowed to eat your takeaway near or at the restaurant you will know that in recent days and weeks we have again and again had a situation in which. there have been groups of people meeting just outside of the cafe suppressed durant's and they have been able to eat their food just outside at religious services will only be possible under strict constraints and we will be speaking with the churches and other religious institutions.

we will be focusing as well on senior citizens. and homes for the very other late they will be mobile care services as well and they will be getting rapid tests as well we would. ask you to refrain from traveling abroad if not absolutely necessary and the quarantine regulations will remain in place there will be economic support and the minister will say more about that in a moment and we've put together a package of measures as well. which ensures that people are compensated for the difficulties they'll be experiencing in their livelihood we are calling on everyone to reduce their contacts. as wherever they can and i want to thank. everyone in germany who has it here to these rules and regulations which you have to until

a large extent and i'd like to urgently appeal to you in the next days and weeks to avoid contacts that aren't absolutely necessary and by doing so are to contributing to not exceeding the response capacity of our public health systems and those who work in hospitals the physicians the care geriatric care as nurses i want to thank all of you because for you this is going to be a very difficult holiday season and we are putting these efforts in place to support you as well as helping everyone stay well thank you very much. well in recent. days and weeks there has been a process of reaching an agreement between the federal states and the national government and as the chancellor has just said these are. tough measures for nearly everyone they're tough for families that tough for school children they're tough for retail and for many companies for the cultural sector

who still have no idea of how things can proceed from here this is a comprehensive decision that we have agreed on. for myself i would just like to say a bit about my take on the situation. and to look back over the last few months because in recent days i've read again and again why now why not a harder lockdown why can't politicians agree on this that or the other thing. if you look at what's been happening since february and in march in all of the federal states of germany we have to say that we have responded quickly all of the state premiers half we have restricted things we have closed things from one day to the next things that everyone took for granted were suddenly not possible anymore. and we have a longer merkel has been living with a 16 state leaders that mating has ended we go live now to our political

correspondent hans bronc who is standing by. a lot to digest there what did you make of it. well there was at the moment as far as i can see no surprise and what i'm going to maxwell and her colleagues have announced are busy announcing at the moment in the transfer really that you see behind me the restrictions that had been agreed on in a discussion paper were it seems passed without too much discussion that's unusual for this kind of meeting in the past these meetings since sometime around october have been very acrimonious and have taken many many hours for agreement to be reached today they have to side of that there will be a lock drawn from the sixteen's of december in other words this coming wednesday that retail shops will then be closed except those shops that sell essential goods that other institutions such as schools will be sent into home schooling into distance learning that companies are encouraged to give their employees off from

that time across the christmas period or to also allow them to work at home also closed will be hairdressers and other shops or other services that involve very direct personal contact and i have also imposed a ban on the consumption of alcohol in public spaces and the use of fireworks. so that's a whole government to try and restrict the number of people that gather in public in private there will be a restriction on 5 people from 2 of all souls that are allowed to meet around christmas time that it is going to be loosened slightly it will be 5 people but it does not need to be only 2 households you know hans the water holiday season will change significantly this year from the 16th changes come in and another point up

for discussion is how that will affect business medical and state leaders also discussed i believe compensation. yes indeed compensation was a central part of this agreement that has not been breached between the central government and the situation 16 regional states and one is talking about an expense of somewhere around 10 or 12000000000 euros every month in order to compensate all the businesses and all the. all the people who work for work for themselves who work independently who also can be compensated. this amount of money has already been spent in the last couple of months and there has been some dispute between central government and the regions as to who's going to carry what part of that load so far it's been central government that has paid most of the money and there has been some dissatisfaction amongst politicians here in berlin that the regions are not taking enough for share for themselves at the moment it continues to be the case that it is central government that will pay most of these 121212 1000000000

euros every month how exactly is going to be allocated is a little bit open here because until now the compensation that has been paid in the last couple of months has in some cases been too generous some restaurants for instance have been doing better under lockdown than there would have if they had been running the details many details to follow hans for your input thank you very much david lee a political correspondent hans prat. ok going back to early a story and a quick development of corona virus vaccines has been grabbing the headlines but the pandemic has also spurred inventors to come up with other tools against the virus and next report looks at some simple but effective innovations that could help save lives for. is this simple like a weapon against the corona virus. rosario valas thinks so together with other researchers dr invented this l.e.d.

lamp its light has certain frequency characteristics which could destroy the coronavirus. this one bulb is similar to an ordinary one you screw it in switch it on and it works. in the light and then destroys all microorganisms by destroying their structure that is the outer membrane and in the case of the corona virus probably also the protein spike the sting. used by this is already worked with bacteria and a series of experiments carried out by the researchers together with the a chalion military have now also shown that the special l.e.d. light destroys the corona virus and it's not harmful to humans either. now we have to fine tune the whole experiment in some way because we must not forget that up to now we have done the whole thing and laboratory conditions which are different from the normal environment. the

coronavirus pandemic in italy has also inspired other inventions for instance when ventilators became scarce and hospitals and doctors sounded the alarm these young researchers quickly developed a valve model and their start up company the valve can be produced with a 3 d. printer and attached to a standard commercial sports snorkeling mask. the next day we took this to the hospital they tested the ventilator for half an hour then a doctor came and said they work we need $100.00 of them within the next 24 hours. another new invention is this anti covert carpet it reduces the amount of bacteria and viruses carried into rooms from outside step on at once and your shoes are disinfected the carpet automatically releases disinfectant when it senses when. the inventors of the anti coronavirus lamp hope they too consumed implement their

disinfectant and hospitals and schools. and sport now and in the bundesliga bush a dope and have suffered another humiliation losing $51.00 at home to promoted. the latest fake men's dope and have now won just once in their last 5 league games. these a gloomy times for dortmund coach losing his father his top scorer is out in just in his side always slow out of the blocks his on the break by stuttgart they conceded a 26 minute penalty a clear foul by emirates chan who was booked c. last while the new chuka us courts and the sport's. giovanni raina has been a rare bright spot for dortmund this season. is sublime for us touch and finish in short the home side went into half time on level terms of them any money . but there was nothing level about the 2nd half as she ran riots by man

gets to ko grabbing his seconds with the dortmund defense or that see my. and they were in even deeper water moments later for the 1st hour with the 3rd goal . before tan gooey cool of barley made it 413 stick up goals in 10 minutes and the final insult came in injury chinese don't win try to bring some respectability to the scoreline nicholas john zarrella is taking advantage of the oceans of space. 51 the final score. heaviest home defeat in more than a decade the pressure now weighing even heavier own father. well in 7 days like i'm defending champions by munich were held to a one all draw at when you're on berlin when you on got off to the perfect stop after just 6 minutes of pommel glancing a header from

a corner. not single but thought i would come back in the 2nd half would you know it was robert levin dusky to the laws in the poll scoring his 13th league goal of the season one remain on top of the title but of one on the one they lost 4 league games. well in formula one the red bulls max and has climbed to pole position for the final race of the season in abu dhabi if the dutch driver and his team's 1st ball of this year he had step aside he's paved and lewis hamilton with less than 110th of a 2nd separating the top 3 hamilton is pertaining to action after contracting the coronavirus has already won the world championship. you're watching news from berlin we'll have more on germany's preparations for

a harsh reality holiday season on the pandemic there's more news coming at the top of the hour don't forget our web site is there any dot com you can also follow us on instagram and twitter as well warnings coming at the top of the. copy it's very good. very nice then we have capacity left. we are living during the most extraordinary time.