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tiny points of light in the darkness of this pandemic amid mounting debts the 1st corona virus vaccines were given today in the united states one in every 1000 americans has now died from coburg 19 here in germany daily new infections are exploding l 3 times higher than their springtime peak the result of tougher lockdown begins this week lasting into january despite all of our hopes and efforts this year christmas in the new year will not escape the shadow of this pandemic i'm going off in berlin this is the day. ben thank you for everything you have already closed at the beginning of november it would have been ok if you think we know that the health system is very heavily pregnant that is it had taken another week i think it would have been to late it's

better to get to those with an act now to acknowledge i think it isn't good for anybody to close everything the week before christmas they are cutting us off right now when we have the biggest sales of the whole deal syria very many deaths tumult . also coming up going the extra mile the european union and the u.k. extend talks again for a post breaks a trade deal another ditched law will it make a difference. and very last mile to go about it said an essential one and we want a level playing field we want a level playing field not only at the start but also over time. to our viewers on p.b.s. . of the united states and to our viewers all around the world welcome we begin the day with the new lockdown that we saw coming weeks ago today german chancellor

angela merkel announced a new nationwide lockdown starting on wednesday and lasting until january 10th this new lockdown is what merkel warned the country about in early november when a partial lockdown took effect as merkel feared the partial lockdown only partially worked the corona virus is no longer spreading exponentially here in germany but the number of new infections and the number of could 1000 deaths remain the highest they have been since the pandemic started this new walk down is a bitter pill to swallow for germany a country long praised for its managing of the pandemic but that same management included the hope that a lockdown light would be heavy enough to hold down the virus and allow normal christmas and new year's celebrations we're now we know that hope has fallen victim to the virus and a new walk down this is what the german president said today. because in q dogs

d.m.v. it was nice chicks have i was good we are not at the most 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 low level. of need or we can leave. as the german president there from 40 steinmeyer or one of the regions in germany that has seen a surge in new coronavirus cases is the state of saxony and it is not waiting for the rest of the country to implement the new walk down we used to serve all filed this report. the city of bouts with medieval charm and historic lanes

a touristic highlight in normal times but now the streets are empty the shops are closed their phaeton has some of the highest corona virus case numbers in the country the strict lockdown has been imposed 3 days before it is introduced in the whole of germany. for the city's mayor a necessary step. nor do people want to be involved in the decision making process that is why you buy it but recommendations but when that didn't work we started introducing bans again as a last resort we are in a situation where we must use this last resort to prevent the cases from exploding even further you know some of. this explosion in cases comes as a surprise for many in this relatively rule and quiet part of germany which had so far gotten quite well for the deming we ask around to hear what people have to say about the missions. and i think the measures

a simply right and necessary. to see everything going down the drain like this there really is a lack of perspective jobsite going bust. up there through in demand it and i don't know whether the measures are really necessary in my opinion testing should be done differently we should test for corona and for influenza because well the flu patients we normally have every year. we visited today and now is to close his shop due to the lockdown measures. and then again encounter skepticism when it comes to cope at 19. just as i don't believe that the virus 66 or that it is around here. it must have been produced by someone because the world alone doesn't create such a fires. and then now the speck seen after such a small sign. that is something i can't believe this is the formations now for its

evil for the ne the people to ny and the reality of covert 19 i'm not representative of the majority view here and we don't have more people who question the virus and go protesting here than another for each and they are not the majority they have very loud intolerant minority on to midnight. to them and everybody else that lockdown is not sending a clear signal of just how far away from normal times we still. will let you start date for germany's coronavirus vaccination program is looking like the end of this month or more likely early january now that's a stark contrast across the channel and the atlanta it was one week ago today when the u.k. began inoculating people against the virus and today the united states followed suit rolling out its nationwide vaccination program the buying on tech fines or

vaccine has now been delivered to all 50 us states a new york city intensive care nurse received the 1st shot in the young. i hope for. reading this. right. i mean i will if i'm on the beginning to end. paying for a time in our country. all right my next guest is one of the go to people in the united states when it comes to bioethics and public health lisa lias vice president for research and innovation at virginia tech she spent 14 years at the centers for disease control and she served in the obama administration and tonight she's with us here on the day ms lee it's good to have you on the program seeing the 1st person bats unaided in the u.s.

today how did you feel was it was it hard to be full of excitement you know how i think it's an up very very difficult few months the last 10 months have been horrible for her all the people who've lost loved ones and sick but especially for health care providers and to see that nurse today get that vaccine and start this program in the united states was a real bright spot if it will get better and the way it's going to get better starting now is a whole vaccination program here in the united states and that seemed to all 50 states what have what have they revealed about america's public health infrastructure. that's an excellent point why you have testified before congress about the need to invest in in public health and public health infrastructure what has this pandemic and now the attempt to deliver the best and

we know that this vaccine is extremely efficacious and going to work if we are able to distribute it across the country and well you know it's public health infrastructure is what gets this distributed and we've seen already that we can we can do this we do a lot of planning behind the scenes you off for cursing to deal with with emergencies one thing we've seen over and over and this particular distribution last logistically is that public health infrastructure mosby's or that you can't just or money on to it when there's a number can see we have to have this starting now and continuing into the future so when we get our next public health emergency in that infrastructure we know that there has been a normal amount of money billions and billions of dollars a $900000000.00 office operation or only very few 1000000 to distribution of the vaccine and that's really where the rubber hits the road where we need funding and

we need to fill that knowing it public health infrastructure to get this vaccine from the plant into the arms of all americans you know talking about investing in infrastructure the obama white house had an office dedicated to dealing with pandemics the trump white house dismantled that office in your opinion what impact on u.s. public health did bent dismantling half. so the house of emergency infrastructure was started to be be built in this country in the early ninety's we had a large infusion of importance money even after 911 in 2001 and since then he's back running great deal of you know our parents exercises and we have a fairly decent infrastructure laid out what we need to do is fund it only so

we have the right kind of personnel in the right places at the right time to get these. help mitigation strategies like vaccines out there and it's going to take resources whether it comes from an office of preparedness or it comes from. directly from congress in a large and. do we mean public health making nothing happen is not free it takes it takes investment and we must continue to invest so behind the scenes we're already you know making nothing happen it's not for free that that's the best quote we've heard no long time leisurely joining us tonight from virginia tech ms lee we appreciate your time in your insights tonight thank you i should think you stay well. we'll still to come on the day the passing of spine turned novelist john le carre the writer who like no other defined the cold war thrill we had not been to 5 whole anime ideologic not with communism today but search for

ideology is becoming very peculiar and 30 alarming. so we're talking about a new beginning with all trends but we should also be clear from the 1st of generally on this is in 3 weeks the u.k. will be a 3rd country to the european union. well that was the european commission president was live and ally in giving the u.k. post breaks it reality check on sunday another self-imposed deadline blew by this one to secure a trip trade deal before britain leaves the e.u. single market on january 1st sunday lyon and u.k. prime minister boards johnson they've agreed to extend the talks pledging to go an extra mile but the path forward it is narrow and with just 2 weeks to negotiate time is running out. this is what the chief negotiator michel barnier tweeted today as talks continue in brussels the e.u.

commission is preparing for quote all eventualities it's and there are lots of them that's going to be used charles until now she is on the story for us tonight in london good evening to you charlotte after what happened in brussels is the u.k. government is it now preparing for a no deal or do they still think that a a trade deal is possible. o'bryant up until yesterday when we heard the deadline was missed in the negotiations and said to continue the talk coming from both sides was that no deal was looking like the very likely outcome of these negotiations then though the phone line who we heard just there from the e.u. commission put out a statement saying talks would continue she said that they had been constructive in that they had been useful buoying hopes for many who are hoping for a deal to be the outcome of these negotiations but as has happened so many times

brant then boris johnson the prime minister here came out with his own statement poor a little bit of cold water on that he said just yesterday in his own words well if the fondling is optimistic the not so great but they are still a big gaps on several key issues important there the key issues that have been plaguing these talks with so many weeks now the issue of the e.u. fishing access to u.k. water is the so-called level playing field that's the issue of competition between you and u.k. companies and enforcement governance as well being the 3rd key issue which is proving a so problematic here and look the fact is as you said it is less than 3 weeks now until the transition period ends so the question is now not just can a deal be done but can it be done in time and the only people who really are going to know that are those who are sat around the negotiating table because while we hear is journalist might be fed bits of information here and there it's unclear

exactly how much of that is is just plus thirds of trades talking tough as these negotiations really do go down to red line and whether or not whether there are deeds and some real genuine issues that might stifle any hopes of a deal if it is true would you take a listen to some reactions in the u.k. from people about the state of these negotiations. to extend it has. its price in time may i don't think they're going to come to any kind of agreement it's a little short of that but i think we get very disappointed if we don't very very disappointed and they can't be bullying us around and forcing use into something that is makes is a client states of the e.u. . what the law was a company defied for years to sort of you know is that his position it's a shambles really even show you talk to lots of people you get this mixture of anger disappointment resignation you and i we talked about briggs it was times

what's your take. yeah and i mean those comments that we just heard a comment that i've had over and over again here in the u.k. there is a real sense of fatigue now as these talks drag track gone and it doesn't help of course that we keep seeing these deadlines like the one the possum yesterday which was self-imposed coming and going still without a deal here and you have to remember that the u.k. like the rest of the world is still struggling with just today that more strictures here in london are coming into place coming into place a lot of people really do have a a wait and see approach now they'll start to pay attention again when they know whether or not there is or isn't going to be a deal but to sign many people who have businesses who have dealings with the european union they don't have the luxury of wait and see and there is some real anger among business groups farming unions who say that they're just days now until the transition period ends and they still don't know exactly what they're preparing

for now the government line for weeks has been while there are going to be changes either way but if you talk to farmers in the agriculture industry there automobile the car industry that is saying well you know what if a deal thought no deal does materialize that is going to be incredibly disruptive so real concerns say particularly when the u.k. is facing so much damage in the economy from the current virus. some would say that this is exactly what boris johnson always wanted running the clock with the e.u. against the wall would be what are the possible calculations at this point. well. that i've been reading from the e.u. side that's exactly what they would love to know exactly what boris johnson hopes to achieve once privately publicly though his line up for a long time has been that the u.k. would prefer to have

a deal but not at any cost he also repeated just yesterday that the u.k. would do very very well his words with or without a deal say what he thinks privately is still a little bit on knowing there are certainly many within his party who would sleep easy the idea of a of a no deal materializing what happens there we will just have just days to find out the chinese from period ending december 31st that is right time is ticking away if you have chosen people in the story for us tonight in london as always charlotte thank you. the british spy novel author john macarthur a has died at the age of 89 after falling ill with pneumonia he was best known for his intricate cold war thrillers a number of which were turned into. the car a whose real name was david cornwell found some of his inspiration for his books

while working for the british secret service. the best sort of author donna carey 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 cold war was the main backdrop carry himself worked for british intelligence and hamburg in 1964 he quit to dedicate himself try to writing. for and 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 august 968 and that drew me to berlin. many of his best sellers were made into movies aspire who came in from the cold starring richard burton came out in 1965.

but 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 ninety's. tailor of panama as a novel was my 1st novel with no ideological content it 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 right sort of stories were off set in germany. i think. it was in some mysterious way my destiny always to write. but germany in one way or

another or the rights often made cameo appearances in the film fashions a face full of if your father will show a lot of speaking parts and it b.b.c. series time you know. but sometimes it was thrilling and you'll miss him. the master of spine fiction john the carry has passed away at the age of 89. well my next guest tonight knew john le carre as an author as a client and as a friend i'm happy to welcome to the day mr johnnie geller he is the c.e.o. of the curtis brown group he was john le carre's agent mr geller joins me tonight from london mr geller it's good to have you on the program but we start by extending my condolences to you on the loss of a dear friend for our viewers who may not have read the qarase books tell us

what made him such a tight end of contemporary english literature especially the modern spying awful. well i hear for inviting me. i mean what made him special was so many things i think his command of the english language you look at the crowds and it just sings and so there are very few writers like but i think the really important thing about him was that he used the spying for the regime era as his instrument as if it was a musical instrument and with that he pushed the boundaries are probably what people 'd were used to a time when it was fleming and james bond and some of the other writers and what was going on in popular culture to sort of expose a slightly gray a dark underbelly and a more of a reality who what where the ideology and where the reality hits and i think you

know he resonated with so many people with spy who came from the cold that he became this sort of superstar probably unexpected i don't think he ever thought he would be that level of the popular novelist as i always think he probably saw himself in the in the in the reign of graham greene and another life you know and he was also someone known for speaking his political mind he was a vocal opponent to breaks it saying that the british people had been lied to by the break 6 years and for our u.s. viewers he also said that trump isn't and breaks it were fueled by the same desires this desire for a return to empire was he frustrated there in the final days before he died at the situation there in the u.k. and in the u.s. . yeah i mean i would go further i think he was despairing when i used to i mean i saw him a few times this year because of the lockdown it was difficult but we spoke quickly

and and i mean mouth and the anger that he showed in age in running in the field his last novel which was really a cry for. people to realize that europe is a hole and he's a european and that it put those words in his great character george smiley to to to make that point and i think with trump i mean it it's not a far stretch for europeans to look puzzled trump is a man populism and in a way hopefully that is now over but i think that if it was very very worried about the british. growing sense of isolationism of this idea of retreat to a path that apps never existed in fact it's a path that he he kind of lampoon i mean a lot of his novels were were almost comic novels they were about craft system they were about mistakes made at highest levels of spying you know and. i think his feeling more was that we were getting somewhere and then we were going to push

back and he really wants to resist i've got 20 seconds for you mr geller i know that you were the mr le carre's. you losing a mentor what was the most valuable lesson that you learned from him. that's a good question i think right to. save your life i think the fact that he carried on when i 1st met him he was in his seventy's and he said to me this is the last novel we'll never write another and each year it carried all right i think what keeps people alive we have to keep that sense of purpose i mean his energy and his commitment it inspires me it will continue to inspire me all my life john together we appreciate your time tonight and you sharing your memory use of the late great current john together thank you so rest of q thank you well the days almost on the conversation continues online you find us on twitter either at u.w. news you can call me important golf or t.v. every member whatever happens between now and then tomorrow is another day we'll see you then everybody.

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