this is the deadly news live from berlin germany heads fatah to lock down restrictions over the festive period retailers hopes of a christmas recovery as dashed as stores and schools are told to close from wednesday the government says surging coronavirus numbers have left no choice also coming up the u.s. prepares to launch an historic vaccination nation in its fight against the pandemic does is that the fines apply and take vaccine are being shipped across the country bringing hope to millions. and the german football after a spectacular window of

a hope a live accuser to take top spot in the book is that. a math anyhow and welcome to the show germany is set to return to i taught a lockdown from wednesday chancellor angela merkel and mounts to rock of tough need measures the announcement comes as the latest official numbers show awake on wake rise in 19 infections and deaths schools and kindergartens will close as well as non-essential shops and services setting the stage for a rather bleak holiday season in germany. on the hunt for stuffing feelers in a berlin toy store the owners have been planning all year for the christmas rush which will now be abruptly cut short. they're not going yet they are cutting us off right now when we have the biggest sales of the whole year. of course that makes me

angry that. it's part of a new more strict coronavirus lockdown announced by chancellor angela merkel amid surging infection numbers. and now due to christmas shopping the number of social contacts has risen considerably that means we must implement these measures they will have a broad impact on many many people we are aware of that. across germany it has become clear in recent weeks the law to restrictions imposed at the start of november have not been sufficient to control the pandemic more and more people are dying with the virus and hospitals are approaching the limit of their intensive care capacity. we have many deaths to mourn. all watching the statistics. and we know that their health system is very heavily

burdened. and our job was always to avoid overburdening the health system. retail shops will suffer missing out on the most lucrative days of the year in the lead up to christmas and they are only being given 2 days' notice but the government is once again mobilizing billions to soften the blow. if it comes to a complete closure for a whole month we expect to spend just over $11000000000.00 euros for that month. so that shows that this is a very generous support package. and i want to say that i think it's absolutely justified it does if you're absolutely. it will be a reluctantly quite holiday season in germany. but the hope is that will be also true for the health care system. or for more let's bring in the w.

political correspondent nina neda the numbers are still rising 4000 cases more compared to last monday and 41 more deaths compared to last monday when does this just become too much of the german health care system. set herself in the press conference on sunday that the health system in germany was extremely heavily burdened already and that the latest measures are necessary to keep the health system from collapsing you have to keep in mind there are currently still some 4600 intensive care unit beds available across the nation but some clinics are already reporting that they don't have any more capacity and of course the big idea is to make it possible for doctors and nurses to get a bit of breathing time as well because of course what's different to the 1st wave in the spring is that these people have worked nonstop under extreme pressure for months now while most agree the new lockdown starting on wednesday is necessary it

is also inarguably incredibly expensive costing billions of euros per month how long can germany keep this up germany was extremely fiscally disciplined until it was hit by the pandemic so it did have a good starting position and it is quite easy for the finance minister who we saw in the report on life choice to just spend billions on compensation for people who are having to close their shops at the moment but of course there are a lot of people are saying that the current strategy of having crisis meetings every few weeks and bringing public life to a standstill in a matter of days and then having to compensate people for closing their shops essentially is not a sustainable strategy anymore and so we already know that there is a plan to meet again on the 5th of january where this topic will also have to be addressed. name of the public is being blamed for the lock down law it's not producing the desired results why should we have any faith that it's tough to lock

down now it's going to work. i think there is widespread consensus here in germany that essentially we've only got ourselves to blame that the government and the state premiers saw themselves forced to implement those tough and measures from the middle of this week what we saw throughout the autumn was a very mixed picture of measures it depended very much on where you were in the country which measures applied and so this is not a very good strategy if you want to convince people that measures are necessary if the neighbors in town across the border in the next neighboring state have completely different rules and this is the feeling that we get from the government that they say we need to bring public life to a standstill the rules need to be the same nationwide and this is what is going to change people's attitudes but also hopefully bring down. political

correspondent dana thanks so much and historic vaccination if it is due to get on the white in the united states with the arrival of millions of doses of the covered 19 vaccine health care workers and nursing home residents are expected to be among the 1st to be given the biotech pfizer vaccine with the number of coronavirus deaths in the u.s. approaching 300000 it comes to light for me. this is the closest tammy can safely get to her husband has another life hit hard by the pandemic he lies motionless unable to breathe on his own. looking through a window if it's nothing you really want to want to do in right now but for a window. heart over the past 2 weeks the u.s. has repeatedly exceeded 2000 covert related deaths per day surpassing earlier pandemic tolls better surge back in may we were tired we were exhausted and we

thought wow i don't know how this could really get much worse and fast forward to now to this week and the surge that we thought we were having that was really nothing compared to what we're experiencing now but a massive logistical effort is underway that will hopefully save lives and ease the strain on frontline workers this weekend the 1st shipments of the biotech pfizer vaccine left the manufacturing facility in the state of michigan this precious cargo is expected to reach hundreds of key sites across the country by monday 2 major package delivery services u.p.s. and fed ex are part of the ground in air operations. i was pretty excited. they just came up and said hey you're going to be one of the people unloading vaccines for us and you know what that's pretty monumental for so

i was pretty excited happy to be helping now so like i can finally do something about these problems instead of just staying at home so it's great states are responsible for the distribution one supplies arrive from line workers and millions of the most vulnerable are supposed to get the 1st doses. ok let's take a look now at some of the other stories making news around the world. iran's foreign ministry has summoned the invoice germany and france after the european union condemned the execution of an opposition journalist ron described it as an unacceptable interference in its domestic affairs. was hanged on saturday of his role in protests 3 years ago. police have shot and killed a gunman on the steps of new york's st john the divine cathedral shortly after a christmas carol concert attendants were leaving at the end of the event when the

mosque man opened fire no one else was wounded the gunman's motive remains unclear . but his novel is john like having has died the writer whose real name was david cornwell wildly popular he's thrillers which touched on his experiences as a spy during the cold war is the novel sink a soldier silas i think global best seller he was 89 years old. in nigeria about 400 students still missing after gunmen attacked a secondary school in cut scene a state on friday some students were able to escape during a shootout between police and the gunman but many more were abducted and it's sort they likely to be hope for friends. students who should be sitting at these desks a missing that disappearance has devastated the local community. because. that child is

a child regardless of who their parents are children have been kidnapped even in konqueror from 10 pm on all we could hear was gunfire we couldn't sleep. some of my relatives children were taken what i've been here at the school since dawn are. we here in katsina earn a terrible condition we can't see how the government is helping my younger brother and my child were taken away by the kidnappers i've been at the school since dawn and we still haven't had an update on. the attack targeted the government science secondary school in the canker district of katsina in northern nigeria. is the home state of nigerian president mohammad yukari he has condemned the attack in a statement bihari said the military had located the kidnappers and exchanged fire

backed up by air support it's the latest in a series of attacks by gunmen on nigerian schools one of the most serious occurred in 2014 when members of jihad his group boko haram kidnapped nearly 300 schoolgirls the families affected by this latest incident still waiting to find out who took their children. to sport now and in the bundesliga leon baby here scored twice by leverkusen bait hoffenheim for one to go top of the table the jamaican winger is enjoying a brilliant run of form at the moment and one of his trucks on sunday which you're about to see well almost certainly be a contender for goal of the season. leon bailey's performances this season have again attracted the interest of several big english clubs there's club scouts didn't have to wait long for another glimpse of bally magic. i

assure corner routine with not the merry and then the strike a contender for goal of the season 4 minutes gone which if this go with the sublime things went the ridiculous for opponents hoffenheim just over 20 minutes later on great crime riches lackluster back pos intercepted by bailey and he did the rest of my. 2 now the hosts were coasting to the top of the table. 5 minutes into the 2nd half and hoffenheim hit back with a screamer of their own christophe paumgarten looking up and eyeing the corner of the net. but moments later the to go christian was restored florian fear it's true the visiting the friends after a nice exchange with patrick shake hoffenheim exposed me and the game with 9 men in . the final act and lucas allowed a penalty to make it 41 and ensure the business leader has

a new name at the top of the table. and while the bundesliga season is still fairly young the formula one season is done and dusted the final race the abu dhabi grand prix on sunday so red bull's next step and close the year on a high note for the dutchman starting from pole led every lap of the rice to cross the finish line some 15.9 seconds ahead of delta they brought us lewis hamilton who was already crowned champion this season struggled all day and came in 3rd after missing the previous rice was covered 90. and a quick reminder of the top story we're following for you this hour germany's government has announced a red. tend to talk a lot down measures from this wednesday as the country struggles to stop the rising to run the bar states and infections schools that can be gotten supplies earlier than planned ahead of the christmas holidays non-essential shops and businesses will also shut down. watching the deadly news mall news coming

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