many stories. make up. made for minds. this is. coming up today and situation in south korea. that's the assessment from the country's president. recalled. this is the country on the verge of its 1st ever national locked. down silenced as slick song productions plus a new generation of do it yourself. at the ready to fill the vacuum and capture a few fans.

i vish babaji welcome to. join us south korea has ramped up testing facilities amid a 3rd wave of corn about us infections over the weekend the country reported a little over 1000 cases its highest daily increase since january president has called it an emergency situation and has ordered the mobilization of police military personnel and medical doctors to cup the spread of the virus this despite tougher social distancing rules that were implemented last week from tomorrow schools will close in the capital and further destructions haven't been ruled out and if implemented these would in effect mean

a lockdown for the 1st time during the pandemic. dozens of covert 900 testing sites are opening up in south korea's capital and anyone can turn up and get a free test before people had to pay if they tested negative. seoul and its surrounding districts are coronavirus hotspots more than 2 thirds of the country's new infections have been recorded here and that's making the president anxious. it's a very serious and marriage and see situation. back is against the wall. this is a crucial moment to devote all our virus control capabilities and administer to stopping the coronavirus. south korea is no testing 4 times as many people a day than it was an early october sunday saw the country's highest daily number of

new infections since the pandemic began and its caseload is expected to surge again this week there's growing unease and frustration among the public. i have no idea where people are getting infected and they don't even know themselves we all need to do everything we can to prevent this virus from spreading even more. but was not. injured i had to take the subway today although i am worried that i might have been exposed to the risk of infection i think i'm going to head home as soon as possible. it seems like the virus is out of control it will be a huge problem for the economy if the government imposes the highest level of social distancing this should be handled very quickly before that really happens. to them and. the highest level of social distancing would essentially mean a lot dying for south korea 4th largest economy authorities are hoping to have that

and that they are. head of the current approach to testing who put the country back on track in its fight against convict 19. and joining me now from solely as a correspondent frank smith frank south korea was held up in the year as a model of a country barbara spawns to the court on of august crisis how have things gotten so bad well i think we need to look at how cruelly virus keep this out of korea and the initial rates here there were large cluster infections that took place at sort of super spreader events that made it a little bit easier i think for contact tracing to take place for them to find a source and and find everybody that had caught the virus from those types of events and then what followed were would arguably now people are considering half measures so they didn't institute and strict

a lot down as perhaps some would have recommended and so now what you see is a cluster outbreaks are much smaller and they're taking place at a variety it's in use like churches elder care centers hospitals private gatherings and schools as well so that makes it more difficult for contact tracing to take place for them to find the source of the virus and and get more under control your sort of contact tracing is proving difficult what is the government's trying to do to battle this increased care stored. well it's been talking about what it's going to do next some of these measures are free testing and increased contact tracing i'm getting instant messages throughout the day that are rewarding the way or people have been infected in my neighborhood they're also increasing quarantine and you know again messaging the public there may be more

a lot and measures put in place there or have also been a shortage of it's here in so korea so they're calling on private hospitals and other public facilities to provide potentially more i.c.u. b.s. if they become required. franken talked about increased messaging for the public care with the current outbreak the current 3rd wave that is in motion across south korea does that mean then that the country is weeks away from a national lockdown well to be honest with you based on what the prime minister said today we're perhaps days away depending on how the testing and the results of that testing go is in the next few days we had cases over a 1000 a day here in south korea for the last couple of days a record on sunday over

a 1000 so the government's looking very carefully at that and messaging that they may have to go to the highest level a lot down called 3.0 here in south korea and warning that there could be an economic impact they have got some support for that particularly in the media with the creator all advocating for this level 3 large down saying the country will stand little chance of defeating the virus without radical action so momentum appears to be building but just explain to us frank level of 3 located on what exactly does this in table. well it's not quite the full stayed home order that we seen in in places in europe. but it will result in more closures previously at 2.5 we seeing things like bars and fitness centers having to close churches reduce the number of people that they enable to come to their services of

course everyone is is covered in masks schools will fully be closed under level 3 live down but again it's not a stay at home owners that we see in places you know other countries particularly in europe franco across the world to footy go pears to me surfing in in populations dealing with constantly changing rules and restrictions i wonder if that's the case in south korea as well well i don't think that's quite the case here we had earlier on and when the government was saying to you know its opposition especially its sort of radical right wing opposition and they couldn't hold demonstrations in the capital and there was pushback from some groups at that time we're not seeing that now and i think in the general public because there have only been these sort of half measures they were reasonably tolerant people could still

go to restaurants people could still go out shopping for example and go about their day to day lives just not big events like you can go to sporting activities or large scale church services for example but again you know the public is being prepared to recognise that the 1st half measures haven't being being as effective as they need to be to bring the coronavirus in south korea under control franks may have been several thank you very much for that. the coronavirus pandemic respects disaster for performers and entertainers the world over in india the lockdowns even shut down bollywood but to its resulted in an unexpected boon for independent musicians industry data shows a sea change group to do it yourself performers have found followings on facebook and other online streaming sites and it's just that easy access that makes these

acts popular with young music fans here's why. you can see if you look at. it like. this little more like just one independent musician finding a new audience must defeat. their online videos tackling social issues have struck a chord with millennial looking for him to time and while india's film industry is on pulls. to because of the. music and movies we know i think. that the average age exposure in that will likely be people being more open to listening to experimental music listening is a. big name stars and movie melodies usually dominate the charts in bollywood obsessed india. but during the pandemic norm feel music is filling the vacuum.

in india more than 75 percent are probably more than that. of the consumption of music happens on the film. so if you can understand out of every 100 songs of even 5 songs are written songs and they are not using so that automatically opens up all the independent additions to. musicians like rafa dula rocca form a way to found some fine. same with viral videos about the plight of migrant workers stranded during india's lockdown. people walking fountains of kilometers to get home i feel terrible watching these scenes. i couldn't go anywhere and i had my ball fun so i recorded the track and uploaded. again i was. there because.

after uploaded my song i received a lot of support many of my friends showed the clip and i got a lot of appreciation wasn't. fully would my soon push the likes of little more like out of the spotlight. but for now in his indie musicians i have. that's if it is of course mall on deductions off going forward slash if we leave you now with pictures from the farm of protests in the movement has stepped up. to the life demonstrators have created to feed and house thousands camped outside the deli thanks for watching we'll see you tomorrow about. the for.

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our see our series 100 german must reads takes us back to weimar era berlin with the. famous novel grand hotel. well when pope francis met with artists at the weekend and extolled their lofty and demanding calling to transmit truth and beauty and got us from despair his words were widely appreciated in cultural circles crippled by the pandemic but they were alas only words of 2 giants of classical music german violinist honest and mexican conductor along with our dollar prada decided actions speak louder. state orchestra rehearsal stravinsky for the artist emergency benefit.

many classical musicians are struggling through to the coronavirus pandemic but some big names like mexican conductor a laundry done a para are stepping up to the plate raising funds for those hardest hit. in an orchestra you always sit as close as you can with the other musicians especially the strings violinist cellos viola. for the instruments who play in the same voice it's important to stick close to each other when you have this this which is of course what it usually is everyone is so far away from each other which it's almost impossible to perform at the standard where you use to if you see of. the corona crisis has forced many to rethink how to make live classical music

possible. violinist and a sophie mozart has been performing in churches. distance teams. services include requiems for the many families who have lost loved ones perhaps it's also an opportunity to remind ourselves of the healing quality of music and how important it is for society we can't just be put in the same pot as nails studios and outdoor swimming pool the money raised goes into an emergency funk to help musicians whose concerts have been canceled the performances also highlight the importance of music according to life is short but life without art is unthinkable. in music is energy and music is memories music is what unites us music. music is all that much more and the one thing that music is no

answer is. simple. yes indeed indispensable it is in fact in joining me to talk more about this is my colleague melissa holroyd welcome melissa now tell us exactly what it is that the atmosphere has been doing ok so we've just come out of one lockdown i'm about to go into another one either way the concerts the cinema and all of that the theaters are all closed but what is allowed is church services and what. has been doing is she has been playing during the church service with the priest and you know with the whole thing going on and she's been raising money for people who have lost income because they've had their concerts cancelled she's also been a little bit critical of this choice of religion over art she says that they both offer similar things in a way they both offer people hope and they both offer people a context to something greater than themselves i have to agree with her on that but

you know relatively speaking we should also mention german artists have actually been received quite a lot of support since the beginning of the pandemic of may not yet compared to other countries absolutely they have received a lot of support support and they're going to continue receiving support to the. 50000000000 euros that's for small businesses but it's also for freelance artists and it's also for people in the cultural sector and so there's i mean people don't get the money straight away there's a course of vetting process these things do take time and you know there have been people that have been tried that have tried to cheat the system so it won't come straight away but people are receiving support that's right and there have been some some issues about how that is coming that's for sure but it is amazing really how creative people have been in terms of finding ways to get their music out there and possibly even earn a little bit of money with it on as well and give us an example well along who we just saw in the report she has put together her impossible orchestra she got some

of her friends who also happened to be some of the best musicians in the world together to work on some pieces and put those together she says the good thing about a global pandemic is that when you call up these people who are usually busy for the next 10 or 15 years you don't have anything to do they don't have anything to do this is the on the couch so they're like yeah ok i'll take part in it i'll take part in this performance and that evening i should say i mean a lot of people have tried to make money through live streaming that's had mixed results especially in the world of classical music where people really value this contact between the composer and the performance and the audience you know and they do feel as though they have a direct link there to the composer however long ago that was and that's very very important so those people i think are you know if they want to listen to a recording they going to resort according but they're less likely to pay for a live stream right i think that's definitely left our port beethoven a bit out in the cold and his anniversary year hasn't it let's hope that we get

things under control with this pandemic so 2021 looks a little bit better all round for the cultural sector thanks very much melissa holroyd. oh he was born david cornwell but it's john le carre hole be remembered as a master of the spy thriller and best titles like the spy who came in from the cold or the constant gardener he dominated the bestseller lists as an ex agent himself a car i wrote what he knew but his novels were also a forensic analysis of human nature and his passing on saturday at 89 marks the end of an era. for bestseller to carry the world of espionage never lost its fascination the spy turned over a list had a writing career that spanned 6 decades with 25 novels to his name the cole was the main backdrop carry himself worked for british intelligence and hamburg in 1964 he quit to dedicate himself. to write saying.

i started watching just for fun a few years back. i was already writing about spies before i joined the service so i was born when the war went up in 1968 and that drew me to berlin. many of his best sellers were made into movies the spine who came in from the cold starring richard burton came out in 1965. kerry didn't stop writing when the cold war ended with the fall of the berlin wall in 1989 for kerry the world of espionage was always a metaphor for the human condition. the writer was disappointed with the geo

political developments in the 90s. tailor of panama. was my 1st novel. with no ideological content its spoke to the new materialism to the new postwar era it spoke also to my own disappointment that there was no energy for the reconstruction of the world when the cold war and. the reuters stories were often set in germany. that's incorrect because in some mysterious way my dense to me always to write about germany in one way or another the writer often made cameo appearances in the film versions of his books your brother will show a lot of speaking parts in the b.b.c. series time. but sometimes it was blink and you'll miss him.

the master of spy fiction john the carry has passed away at the age of 89. on topic we could all do with a bit more escapist literature these days so our series on german language novels in english is timely if you need to complete your christmas reading list austrian author vicky balm was born in vienna and after stints as a musician and a boxer became one of the 1st modern bestselling authors best known for her revolving door of a masterpiece the grand hotel. and hotel lobby is great so many people passing through who knows what they're really like what filthy secrets they're hiding what they'll be doing when they're in their rooms so many stories to tell you could fill whole books with them. when vicky baum's novel grand hotel came out in 1929 it was such

a sensation that it sparked a whole new genre the hotel novel grand hotel is about the lonely battered lives of hotel guests whose paths cross in 1920 s. berlin and unhappily aging prima ballerina a con man a wounded world war one veteran a businessman about to go broke people on the way up or people on the way down the ladder of wife prosperity and disaster maybe separated by no more than the thickness of a wall where valving door turns and much that looks like chance after all really the law of cause and effect. grand hotel was austrian author vicky baum's international break through the action packed story was quickly turned into a broadway play and 2 hollywood movies the 1st one with credit garbo won the oscar for best picture but all moved to california to help with the film and after hitler took power the jewish author stayed in the united states all in all vicki baum's

fate in california turned out a lot better than some of her characters theft adultery murder are all part of grand hotel and bombs book the hotel stands for the drama of life itself. well no end of sad news in 2020 and the death of charlie pride over the weekend. due to complications of covert 19 struck a chord around the world pride was the very 1st black superstar in the largely white genre of country music can so we'll leave you with one of his hit songs is anybody going to san antonio stay safe and all the best from us by.

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i'm phil gal welcome to the program a new media investigation has found that a group of russian special agents followed opposition leader alexei in the valley for years before he was poisoned this summer the agents from russia's security service f.s.b. are said to be part of an intelligence team specializing in toxins and nerve agents lax in the valley still be covering in germany after collapsing on a russian domestic flight in august doctors in germany found he'd been poisoned with a nerve agent. is near investigation by the website valley caton. alongside the spiegel

and c.n.n. discovered telecom and travel dates are showing the f.s.b. agents tail the valley including on the day he was poisoned. is on the investigative reporter with the independent investigative organization he's part of the research team looking into the alleged attempts against the valley welcome to w m let's start with these 8 people that you've identified what do we know about them and how did the right. so this team that we're following for a while you could say people who are all in the f.s.b. that aggression domestic security service and almost all them have experience with medical training with chemical weapons especially with the research and development around knowing shock which is the soviet era family it was it was he was against. his daughter along with alex about me i'm back in august of this year and so these men all work and operate at a different office the offices in moscow and that 3 of them followed the volley to

tom's can say period where he was poisoned. how have you landed on these bees 8. yes so we very very long process i'm not going to bore you with but in short we did as we looked at the russian privacy is pretty much nonexistent without allies there and so we examined the russian data market telecom data and also passenger manifest for flights to look as suspicious so we look for people who travel itineraries that closely match that of all around the time he was in siberia so he flew in the one city called it was a big risk in siberia and he left from another city called tomsk a week later these are about 300 or so kilometers from each other and so we're looking for people who want roughly the same itinerary and we're following up because we figured if you're an f.s.b. officer turned into poison opposition figure you'll arrive a day or so before he does and leave a little bit afterwards and we did this we found that there were 3 people who got the same areas that. they were really surprised we looked more to these people and we notice that these people want the future colleagues had fallen of only for over

30 trips since 2070 practically every time the only one around russia because he was a presidential candidate i'm sorry 2017 these people have the exact same track what in return following the bombing and these are not just normal f.s.b. officers they're ones who have medical i'm chemical weapons training that matched that of the eventual incident he separate and right so you have these names i presume what do you do with the. well we deal with them so we looked into their background see what they're about how to join the f.s.b. and so on they are from a handful of different backgrounds but. just the time is short that what i really meant is ok now that you have these names and the presumed proof that you have outlined what do you do with those names i'm this investigation. well it's up to there is no current investigation open in russia about this this is a russian citizen it was poisoned in russia so it's their responsibility

theoretically to create investigation even the report itself we published the names in our investigation it was done longer spiegel the insider russia and c.n.n. . we knocked on one of their doors c.n.n. they want to knock about their doors and he's got to question in their face so i what i don't know any of them happening is people who put their names out there probably nothing is going to happen to them but their names are out there for the roxy we're talking to you thank you for joining us out of tola from belling capture . the president. urged the job of public to abide by tough restrictions as the country struggles to deal with the surging covered 19 cases germany's preparing to end strict lockdown after weeks of more limited measures fail to drive the numbers down. describe the crisis as bitterly serious in other leaders a in the public to make sacrifices as the country prepares for a holiday season like no other. last minute christmas shopping came early this year

people are still roaming bellowing streets looking for gifts but from wednesday on the shops will have to close as germany enters a tougher lockdown while polls show around 3 quarters of germans backing the measure opinions on the high street are mixed. then for if everything had already closed at the beginning of november it would have been ok then maybe we could have had a normal christmas. we have to go shopping now because stores were closed from wednesday but it's understandable that stores will have to shut down. its glow if you i think it isn't good for anybody to close everything the week before christmas. the most shops make their biggest earnings right now. difficult financially for a lot of people. you know. the germans have been under a partial lockdown for the past 6 weeks bars restaurants and all the leisure

facilities closed the new rules include closing schools and prohibiting alcohol consumption in public. the deface of continuously high infections and deaths germany's president appealed to the public to take responsibility. visit if you don't feel we're not completely at the mercy of the virus it's up to us and we know what to do. you can perspiring celebration friends and relatives will also be happy to receive their presence at a later point. what matters now is to preserve health and to say you. mentioned leaving. germany heading into a new food lockdown this year's christmas will be far from ordinary. united states meanwhile. has begun the largest a vaccination campaign in its history the 1st person in the u.s.

to receive the covered 90 vaccine and son lives in intensive care so long on the jewish medical center in new york state health care workers and residents of nursing homes are 1st in line to receive treatment treatments of the fights of facts a revival at hospitals around the country. that's got more d.w. washington bureau chief in this poll welcome back you know so we have a momentous event which has begun with a single injection tell us more. right phil while germany and europe are still waiting this huge huge vaccination come pain began today the government promised that $20000000.00 people will be vaccinated until the end of the year the 1st who get the vaccine will be front line workers and here in d.c. we just learned the 1st people who get it by the end of the big will be 5 fire

department workers so there is for those who applause who support the vaccination there's a lot of excitement going on that we finally overcome this really grim time ok so health care workers the people in the residential homes. i'm wondering about the wider american population do people bombs to get vaccinated. that's a very good question i think this is true all over the world and especially here in the united states so the biggest or one of the biggest challenges i shall say is really getting people to take the vaccination they have been many misinformation campaign is about the effectiveness of the vaccine they also have been concerns from people that the vaccine was over politicized and was developed followed too quickly so the latest polls say that only 60 percent of the americans are willing

to get vaccinated and it might be interesting for our international audience this is especially true for african americans who were often used as vaccine testers in the past and have a mistrust in the medical system in the u.s. anyhow so therefore former presidents president bush clinton and barack obama will get vaccinated on t.v. life to convince to overcome this skepticism well it's just tough to nurse lindsey ago about take historic job a job president trump weighed in with a tweet that is a 1st function nation administered congratulations usa congratulations world so is what donald trump been doing about vaccinations. well right he is the president of the united states he still is the reson for president of the united sense and the head of this operation of warp speed and he is in charge in ensuring

that vaccine is distributed throughout the world but. still we have to keep in mind what he did earlier on i was just attending a trump rally for reporting on saturday and it was quite interesting to talk to his supporters because the mistrust he spread early on about the urgency of the pandemic is still very relevant among his followers and this might prevent many to get the vaccine. the w. washington bureau chief in his poll thank you so many other stories making news around the world now starting britain where the health minister mark hancock says london and parts of southern england will go into the tightest tear of coronavirus restrictions at midnight tuesday pubs and restaurants will only be open for takeaways and the people only allowed to meet outdoors in public spaces. and you commission president joseph on the line is reporting some progress in talks

over the blocks future relationship with the u.k. and negotiates the trying to resolve differences on issues including fishing rights and fair competition for business britain leaves the e.u. single market in just over 2 weeks. now to the door for football's champions league round of 16 the knockout stages of europe's top club tournament defending champions by munich will face off against italian lots you will hear dortmund will place a via a games include liverpool against leipsic of manchester city are going to merge i'm glad about that last season's a runners up a party senator amount against barcelona matches will be held over 2 legs of the 1st games are due to take place in the middle of february. well as you saw all 4 bundesliga teams have made it into the champions league this season of progress to the knockout stages and some consider that a shock because the bundesliga has been referred to as a farmer's league being the level of competition except at the very top is of

lesser quality than elsewhere but this season 2 clubs be on the regular contenders violent and dortmund hole ready shown their worth. a lot of bought. and r.v. life sick. one looking to return to their glory days of the 1970 s. . the other looking to prove their historic run last season wasn't a fluke. plot by having reached the knockout stages of europe's top club competition since 1977 nearly 10 years before the oldest player of all their current roster was born black bought into that drought by picking up points against reality and the law number one in 2 on the all time title list in their final group stage match there was joy in defeat after learning they had advanced. made it through in my team deserves

a lot of respect in pride for that matter i'm very proud of the guys rb leipsic who 1st earned promotion to the bundesliga in 2016 maybe to the champions league semifinal slash season and they did it without the services of t.-mo vienna which made you the noddles man look even more impressive at the helm in a tough group that included last season's finalists p.s.g. leipzig needed a win last week against manchester united in their final group stage match in order to advance in the bulls stampeded through. yeah that's what i'm an isolationist to my team for getting to the next stage that was a big win for us after the experience last year in the knockout phase and the lads were burning to get there again and they did it 2 years ago no going to sleep side even made it through to the champions league quarter finals but last season 2 teams reached the final 4 in the bendis league repeat that success and shake its farmers

league tag once and for all. up to date. fair at the top of. hour up next here on. your business object. where i come from we have to fight for a free press and was born and raised in a military dictatorship with just one t.v. shadow and if you newspapers when official information as a journalist i have worked on the streets of many cantrips and they have problems are almost the same for doing the social inequality a lack of the freedom of the press and corruption who can afford to stay silent

when it comes to the fans of the humans and see them live through fools who have decided to put their trust in us. my name is jenny harrison and i work at the. high hope soap stopping the coronavirus as the vaccine is rolled out in some developed nations but what about the vellum nations experts say it acts as an fight and substandard africa's off to getting the vaccine. german retailers prepared to go into lockdown again this time many of them could be shutting down for good. and it could be a quiet time on the slopes in switzerland this winter it looks like a lot of tourists are going to be a white. let's do business cover 19 infections are accelerating

fast in parts of africa so the confidence leaders are closely watching as coronavirus vaccines are rolled out. in other parts of the world that access and financing could hold back africa the african union says the continent needs around $12000000000.00 to buy the japs china has offered to share its vaccines which observers say is a sign beijing's trying to flex its soft power in africa china has 5 vaccines in the 3rd phase of clinical trials the 3 most important ones from senior back can see no biologics and see no farm if approved which african nations will get access well these countries have signed a memorandum of understanding with china's massive infrastructure project known as the belt and road initiative it's quite likely they'll be 1st in line let's bring in deborah voigt again she's director of the africa china research initiative at

the johns hopkins school of advanced international studies how do you see this is it a case of signing up to this felton road initiative and getting access to the vaccine . at this point we have more than 40 countries in africa who signed onto the dalton road initiatives and i think that it would be problematic for beijing to select out of those 43 some to the 1st and some to follow up so what i expect i'll do is to operate through the w.h.o. that demi has already gotten a plan that it's heading the co-ax and i think china has already signed on to that in october and i think by following in his footsteps they'll be best placed to get the death soft power results from this because picking and choosing is really going to be a lose lose for china will whoever china does get on board what will try to want it return from those african countries. i think this is much more

a matter of getting general sense of china doing the right thing and being part of a global effort so it's going to be more like when the hiv aids crisis was in the headlines and the united states started the program it wasn't as though they said ok we'll have an hiv aids program in your country only if you're doing certain things for us so it's much more of a broad kind of public relations are or a general kind of program that reflects well on the donor rather than something that's going to be a quid pro quo or little considering the access challenges and financing challenges i pointed out how reliant is africa on china for this vaccine. well the access the accessibility is going to be a problem we have several different kinds of vaccines and development around the

world now and the ones that have come to the forefront require a cold change and it's quite restrictive and has to be very very cold temperatures and so you have for that you have to have electricity you have to have transport so all of that is going to be problematic and here i think it's possible that china will be able to sound some medical teams to help out with that as they did during the ebola crisis in the earlier part of the decade. but that's going to it's going to be a much bigger. transport challenge of and logistics challenge than china alone will be able to do so i think they're joining in with kovacs of the bill and melinda gates foundation with the debbie a joe and then with all of the departments of health this is going to be it's going to be a complicated effort and the countries that can put in place a cold chain that's dependable are the ones that will probably get the viruses the

backseats 1st there are some back scenes that don't need to be chilled at those temperatures is it going to be a case of africa then having to take what other countries are and what. i think some of this is going to depend on supply and demand to the market because some african countries will be able to purchase vaccines but right now the so many of the preorders have tied up a lot of the vaccine so they're still going to have to wait so it the ones that don't require that culture in are also further from being able to be rolled out so all of this is still a high degree of uncertainty as to when these will be able to reach africa debora the other thing is that according to oxfam international rich countries representing only 13 percent of the global population of corn and over 50 percent of the promise doses of leading back same candidates way it is that leave africa.

yes it's notable that a number of countries have reserved far more vaccine that apparently they need so if they only need 2 doses per person they preserve more of their populations so so this is again if it's going to be if the chinese have pledge that they want to approach this vaccine as a global public good but global public goods the financing the chinese and pledge $2000000000.00 to developing countries in general and that's not going to go very far you've got the e.u. putting money on japan and other countries in europe have pledged money for the kovacs program the united states house and joined so where we're standing outside of this general global public good effort which i think is unfortunate but it is true that countries either further down. the line in terms of being able to to have either market based demand or assistance through a foreign aid network they're going to have to wait longer and that's been the case

in africa for so many different kinds of health emergencies everybody can thank you very much pleasure. now to some of the other business stories making news south african power company eskom is to receive a $100000000.00 from engineering company a b b it's one of several cash payments on sardi's awarded to as come from suspected of embezzlement the government found the utility group and it as much as $32000000000.00 to contractors during the administration of former president jacob zuma. an unprecedented data link shows how nearly 2000000 chinese communists are infiltrating some of the world's biggest companies reports party members employed at companies like h.s.b.c. and pfizer critics are concerned these placements mean a risk to intellectual property. germany is going into a hard lock down to cut the number of new corona virus infections non-essential

shops will close for the remaining christmas season until january 10th the german government has pledged age for the businesses affected the retail is one that many of them may never open shop again. this berlin toy shop is a hot tip for anyone looking for creative games the store has it all from books to chemistry sets to haue made soft toys but from this wednesday the shop has to close and the owners are annoyed. and then just once yes indeed i of course it makes me angry they're cutting us off right at our busiest time of year a time we spent a whole year preparing for that because i think they could have gone into lockdown in october to make sure we could have the shops open now during these 2 weeks and i didn't even try before you leave office an office. in the state of saxony moshav required to close on monday 2 days earlier than the federal deadline entrepreneur

mark sits or is packing up his wares mulled wine and traditional christmas decorations from the f mountains. just 2 weeks ago he opened this christmas store in downtown dresden as an alternative to the christmas market which is being counseled. if this is the course that you believe dress and loved having to close it again is particularly bitter with much because i must be the. government has introduced 8 of over $11000000000.00 euros each month in which the stores are forced to close. retailers can get a percentage of their fixed costs like rent electricity and loan repayments reimbursed the payouts are up to half a $1000000.00 euros per store. the german retail association says the aid is not enough it is worried about a wave of bankruptcies and the loss of 250000 jobs in inner city retail in this scenario every 2nd job in the sector would be lost the british pound rallied

against rival currencies monday of the britain and the european union agreed to yet again extend trade talks to avoid a no deal break that come january 1st he used chief negotiator. with the blocks ambassadors in brussels where he lay sions and fishing rights from a key issues both sides face new trade tariffs sure the deal falls for several european countries depend heavily on revenue from winter tourism especially the ski resorts of the alps the swiss are hoping for good conditions but they could be in for a disappointment at the moment all of switzerland is considered a covert hot spot. the conditions on the deal have a let's say in the swiss region of engadine are outstanding at 3000 meter is still not much action but residents are hoping for a season full of german tourists in the valley hotels are ready to welcome guests but all of switzerland has been deemed a high risk area since september. yes yes i think people are

worried because this is on life. the infection rate has risen dramatically even in the sparsely populated region of engadine will germans and the europeans want to spend their winter vacation there no one really knows guests from further afield though won't be showing up. there's so much of africa if you find star hotels did fine in the summer opportunity but they're all worried about the winter no international visitors just aren't coming out of public homes so there still there's hope that domestic tourists will come and take over it measures are in full effect in all ski resorts this season that means masks on the lifts physical distancing and hand sanitizing waiting times are non existant at the moment but during the holidays visitors will have to be disciplined. we can tell people what to do but the guests have to behave as we tell them. in the gondola as the windows

are open and there are fewer passengers in the snack areas there are no salads no birthday and cake under plastic wrap. we have to be more responsible and wear a mask that's better for sure. if they close down we're out of a job but health is the priority. people here remain hopeful they're doing all they can to prevent business from going downhill. as. the boy. the boy.

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. i'm not laughing at the germans well i guess sometimes i am but i say laughing with you but i don't think i think into the german culture of. nudity ridiculous grandma day oh you know it's all about who care enough time rachel join me i mean if you haven't been to the host. hello i'm christie company one month from today versus in uganda will pick their next president the election campaign has been one of the most violent in the country's history rights groups accused the oil for tees off human rights abuses amnesty international say with even action day fost approaching it is imperative that the ugandan authorities reverse the.