this is deja vu news live from berlin germany under a holiday season pass to make lockdown shops and schools will close private gatherings will be sharply limited to no fireworks and no alcohol in public places chancellor i'm good at medical and i'm still measures after meeting with regional leaders. in the final act of us that brags that dramas goes into overtime european commission president or is it off on the line says trade negotiations between brussels and london will keep going up for today self-imposed deadline to do pay

i'm the e.u. need a trade deal to prevent chaos on the borders starting on january 1st. and public nearly as welcome to the program we start here in germany where the chancellor angela merkel has set the table for a bleak holiday season earlier today she announced a raft of tough measures saying they were necessary to bring that on the spiraling numbers of new covert 900 cases most known the. november the measures that we put in place on the 2nd of november have not been enough and when instead of back for a while we were able to stop the exponential growth and we had to pretend to do that and even talk but now we're seeing a new rise in infections and exponential growth once again. that's been good to.

and what that means is that many people are dying you've been following the statistics i'm sure. you have this in the finally also know that we are close to exceeding the response capacity of our public health systems under aim was always to prevent this and this is why we must act and we must act fast on the results of the decisions that we made today. most of you had to give us the wooden chancellor angela merkel speaking there earlier now let's break down for you what's going to change in germany so from wednesday non-essential shops will close supermarkets pharmacies and banks will be allowed to remain open the schools are also going to shut in principle until the 10th of january and employers are being encouraged to allow their stuff to work from home as much as possible chance or chance or i'm going to medical also made an appeal for people to limit their social contacts during the holidays the number of people who live to meet indoors will remain restricted to 5 and that doesn't include children under the age of 14 and in

anticipation of a new year celebrations sales of fireworks are going to be banned well for more on this now joined by our political correspondent and pantai hans now the lockdown as we've seen has been and i'm still one of the main takeaways. i think one has to emphasize what's important here is that finally there seems to be real consensus between the central government between chancellor angela merkel and the 16 regional leaders it's taken more than 2 months to reach this point 2 months in which triangle america has always pushed for harsh or locked on for more strict measures and the regional leaders have resisted that have tried to find exceptions for their particular regions and have watered down what the central government has wanted so we have now a situation where all parties are clearly on the same page that the situation is critical that it is serious that's very important in trying to sell these measures

to the german population and to those businesses and sectors of the economy that are going to be particularly hard but hardly affected by this exactly as you were saying there that there'll be a significant impact on business and tell us about whether and what type of compensation they'll receive because indeed the finance minister said that compensation is going to be paid it's going to be somewhere around 11 or $12000000000.00 euros every month if that month is a month of locked on that it's huge amounts of money but at the same time we have to say this is a time that is critical for retailers especially because this is the most important time of year where they make a large and large part of their turnover the offer of their profit. what exactly the numbers are going to be what exactly the measures are going to be is not clear yet until now the subsidies have been based on turn over and it's turned out that

that has been sometimes too generous so there's going to be a new way of calculating the assistance but the finance ministers say that this is going to continue well into the new year into the summer of next year of necessary well we had been expecting this lockdown but what is the reaction what's the reaction been so far in germany. well talking about retailers 1st very action has obviously been particularly harsh some of them have warned that this could be the end of shopping as we know the fear that shoppers are now going to turn to the internet to online shopping at might never return to high street shops in other words the shops on the main roads are going to close to home but otherwise the reaction has been very widely positive obviously from other members of the government they support what they're chancellor is doing both from the conservative party of i'm going to marco and from the social democrats and we know that within the german population all polls recently have shown that

a very large majority of people are in favor of stricter measures in order to bring down the number of infections especially the number of deaths and t w political correspondent thanks for that update. u.k. and e.u. negotiators are to be given extra time to agree a post bragg's it trade deal european commission president it was enough underlying said although negotiations with british prime minister barak's johnson had been constructive they're going to continue talks on a free trade agreement beyond today's deadline and if they do reach a deal it could avert chaos for cross border commerce in the new year and give businesses the certainty that they're calling for. that this is what set off on the line to say. we both think that it is responsible at this point in time to go the extra mile. we have accordingly mandated our negotiators to continue the talks and to see whether no reach an agreement can be reached even at

this late stage the negotiations continue here in brussels. so a decision has been postponed yet again now as the hours tick on what was meant to be the final day of negotiations we're going to bring in our correspondents multi-nationals in brussels and charlotte chel some pill in london welcome to both you're going to start with marina in brussels now is it off on the line said that they'll go the extra mile so it's essentially another extension marina. that's correct and what is interesting is that what we just heard was the last one and statement was also released as a common written statements together with boris johnson and they both had their heads or useful conversation on the phone so there seems to be some lies at the end of the tunnel because they apparently didn't believe in the big 5 is our or is

something something like that and we hear also from here negotiators or from experts in process that we go shooters made some inroads the biggest problem at the moment is the fact that the e.u. once did u.k. to adhere to certain standards if the u.k. wants to have don't have to pay for it is that if you pay once a customs free trade and the u.k. at the moment says they want to say sorry and that's that's what they repeat all the time why breck's it if we have to act. to european rules so this is one of the major sticking points at the moment we're going to cross over now to charlotte in london how has this latest extern extension gone down in the u.k. . well probably another deadline missed today of course there is and has long been fatigue here these deadlines coming and going there was the

people that we've spoken to they just want to see breck's it done now but there was a degree of optimism after that joint statement that marina mentioned that was released by prime minister boris johnson and the funding line from the e.u. commission that was feelings that looked like a deal could be done that's of course eased concerns among many about the prospects of no deal the rhetoric really have been ramping up over the last couple of days on both sides about the prospect of that being the outcome of the talks just a couple of days ago prime minister boris johnson saying that the likely is very very possible that the likely outcome of these talks would be no deal then some hope today although i have to say that has then been dampened by a statement from the supporters johnson gave just a short time ago i asked about this possible optimism about the deal boris johnson said well if us live meaning as the vaunted iran is optimistic then that's

great but he pointed out that big differences still remain on both sides and crucially he wouldn't be drawn on whether any progress has been made over the last couple of days let's take a listen we are always happy to. talk make progress where we can i do think as i say there is a deal to be done if all parties want to do it but we remain very far apart on these key issues and they are they can be looking into the use regular treat. people just got to take back control of our fisheries for our viewers after people voted for it so i think there's a point to i think that you know it's very clear what the u.k. is talking about. british prime minister johnson speaking there short of clarity huge differences remain does johnson expect to reach a deal well as marina touched on

a short time ago the fact that these today this conversation between boris johnson as live on the white house ended in a an announcement of a no deal is leaving some people with hope the talks 'd will continue as well what boris johnson things about the prospect of a no deal he said in that statement as well that it would have some clarity and simplicity if that was a no deal he stressed the u.k. must prepare for that outcome and said that whatever happens deal or no deal the u.k. would prosper short of shells some pill in london and. in brussels don't . now the 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 now our next report looks at some simple but effective

innovations that could help save lives. is this simple light bulb a weapon against the coronavirus. rosario valas thinks so together with other researchers the doctor 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 stain. gets by. this is already worked with bacteria and a series of experiments carried out by the researchers together with the italian military have now also shown that the special l.e.d. light destroys the corona virus and it's not harmful to humans either.

for 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. to get. 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 weight the inventors of the n.t. coronavirus lamp hope they to consume implement their disinfectant and hospitals and schools. to sport now and bundesliga team bowls dortmund have sacked coach museum 5 a day after a stunning 51 thrashing at home to rivals stuttgart father managed only one victory in the past 5 matches with dortmund falling to their current 5th place in the standings assistant coach and in tears it will take over until the end of the year . actually sticking with football and sort of these late game defending champions byron munich were held to a one all draw when you're on berlin when your own got off to the perfect start after just 6 minutes pummeled glanced in a header from a corner. but buyer came back in the 2nd half and equalized through robert 11 dots the pole scoring his 13th neat goal of the season fired remain top of the table put

a one on one of their last 4 in the games. you're watching news from berlin we'll be back again at the top of the next hour for me and the rest of the team here take care cesar.