this is deja vu news live from berlin a rare appeal from germany's president as the country had for a new lock down with coke with 1000 numbers still rising contactor steinmeyer tells germans they must delay christmas shopping and cut back on social contacts if they want to save lots. also coming up the u.s. prepares to launch and historic vaccination effort and its fight against the pandemic doses of the finds are biotech vaccines are being shipped across the country bringing hope to millions of vulnerable americans. and chong wei covering

the real life spot i was named became synonymous with the cold war espionage novel has died at the age of 89. i'm sumi so misconduct that you could join us germany is set to return to a tighter lockdown starting wednesday to try to curb rising covert 1000 infection rates schools and kindergarten says well as non-essential shops and services will close private social gatherings will also be restricted health departments reported more than 16000 new infections on sunday that is 4000 more than a week ago fatalities related to cope with 1000 rose by 188 in a statement german president find potash time meyer called on people to take the lockdown seriously. presumed to drop the movie it was.

we are not at the mercy of the virus it's up to us and we know what to do. you can postpone celebrations friends and relatives will also be happy to receive their presence at a later point. what matters now is to preserve health and to save lives our most important goals must be to bring down infection numbers as quickly as possible and then keep them at a level. of need or we can leave. let's get more on the story now we have our political correspondent standing by for us hi nina good to see you we saw the german president there addressing the nation appealing to people what did you make of what he set now 1st of all you have to know that of course technically speaking from photos is the number one here in germany from the process. but he doesn't interfere in daily politics but whenever

he does address the nation you can tell that he feels it's an important crossroads that has been reached so it's important for him to speak to again and to tell them why certain measures are unavoidable now that have been implemented by the government and by the state premiers and this was also the case today when he addressed germans and said that he could understand everybody who felt some sort of corona fatigue and that many people don't know what the future will bring and that they've had enough essentially but he also said you know we need to pull through this together and it's up to each and every one of us to do whatever we can to protect the most vulnerable and at the moment he said it is unavoidable that we have to implement strict measures and avoidable because if you look at the numbers right now.