mantissa. oh. this morning tragedy i wish i see i start december 25th. was. this is day w news and these are our top story is the european union's medical regulator is speeding up the approval process for the coated vaccine the regulator is bringing forward a crucial meeting to next week that's after pressure from germany and other e.u. states the german health minister said he hopes the vaccine would get the green light before christmas if that happens germany's mass vaccination program a clue to start before the end of the year. u.s.

senate majority leader mitch mcconnell has congratulated joe biden on winning the presidential election in a speech on the senate floor the republican leader ended a weeks of silence over president donald trump's defeat it came a day after the electoral college officially confirmed fightings victory. dozens of police officers have been injured in clashes with anti lock down protesters in ukraine demonstrators gathered in kiev to rally against a tougher coronavirus restrictions on essential businesses gyms and schools will be shot on january 8th in a bid to curb the spread of the virus this is deja vu news from berlin follow us on twitter and instagram at news or visit our website to d.w. dot com. for. a long war. tomorrow a hard lockdown begins here in germany no christmas shopping little if any

christmas gatherings no new year's fireworks all because the corona virus continues to spread in kill at alarming rates in the u.s. where the death toll is the world's worst people are already being vaccinated in canada and the u.k. as well the vaccine was cleared for emergency use it all 3 countries but not here in germany why germany's coded 1000 death rate has never been higher then right now if this isn't an emergency what is i'm hearing coughing berlin this is the day. will come but that's good because we have very impatient because we are ready but unfortunately the vaccine is not going to get back to normal again that you get to see these grandchildren that we can be optimistic about an approval on december

25th. over the. new infections must fall significantly worried about it was no he. also coming up after 5 weeks of denial finally leading republicans in the u.s. are now acknowledging joe biden as america's president elect the electoral college has spoken is president donald trump listening we the people vote faith in orange petitions held the integrity of our elections remains intact. and now it's time to turn the page. which you our viewers on p.b.s. in the united states and to our viewers all around the world welcome we begin the day on the eve of germany's next lockdown on wednesday practically everything in the country will shut down for at least 3 weeks

a strange silent 9 will fall of one christmas and last well into the new year this was not what political leaders promised in early november a partial lockdown took effect a lockdown light that was supposed to flatten the curve just in time for christmas it didn't happen now a harder walk down that could last a month is the bitter medicine being prescribed for germany now the silver lining here there are already vaccines that could end this pandemic that explains the russian the u.k. and the u.s. to start mass vaccinations in glaring contrast here in germany the official policy has been no rush that is until now this is what the german health minister said today if i'm fine because that to me from the beginning we said we wouldn't do any measure and see approval but a regular approval because it's about securing and retaining trust in vaccination

cheering this pandemic. secondly we also said from the beginning that we'll do this at a european level not a national one seal is that it's with us from the goal is to secure approval before christmas. in germany we want to begin vaccination by the end of the year for them yeah this mixes well as vaccinations begin around the world and with countries like germany eager to get started the european medicines agency now says that it will try to move up its time line in a statement published today the e m a is now expected to approve the 1st back seen next week instead of the scheduled date of december 29th. none of this changes the fact british and american regulators have already approved the 1st back seat the european union still has not earlier we spoke to european lawmaker uta paolo's she sits on the european parliament's committee for the environment public health and food safety she defended the pace of your well actually i believe the crucial issue and

actually nation is not whether you have to stamp or on your city if it can't on the 21st or the 29th or even the 4th of december the crucial issue is how fast can you rollout the vaccine to your population how fast little you get the population vaccinated at the end of the day and how well you create sufficient trust in the population to actually achieve herd immunity by vaccination and therefore i think it was prudent by the e.m.e.a. to say we will have a public hearing on the 11th of december where are all questions can be addressed where independent scientists can come forward with their concerns and where the public can have their say and therefore we can create the trust which we need we are seeing now that the companies are saying well we do not know whether we can

supply sufficient that's in goes to the net of the population very quickly so that might be another bottleneck which we don't see yet so i would not put so much pressure on the regulatory authorities who are really working day and night in mccook was in the committee last week assuring us that they are doing this that i would put pressure actually on our public health system to ensure that everyone who wants to be vaccinated can be vaccinated and that we have a. plan to ensure that the risk groups the elderly. the people with diseases are vaccinated as soon as possible. and that was huge of power goes there with the european parliament while europeans continue to wait in the u.s. a nationwide vaccination program is now underway and it comes at a dark moment in this pandemic more than 300000 people in the u.s. have died from coburg 19 that means one in every 1000 americans has died from the

corona virus on this day 2 of america's largest ever vaccination program hundreds more hospitals are now inoculating their workers against the virus w.'s carlina chamorro went to world virginia to see how one small city is getting ready. people on the streets of winchester are in a good mix the 1st batch of vaccines for could be 1000 are expected today. mayor david smith assures that this is the 1st step back to normal it went to start but only if everyone cooperates as they're saying people near them and businesses closing is hard not to believe that this is happening there's all kinds of conspiracy theories out there and there are some people that are afraid to take the vaccine but if you get vaccinated that there will be light at the end of this

tunnel so there is hope today they are expecting the 1st 3000 doses to arrive at the hospital our team has been preparing very specific processes for receiving it is but not just doctors and nurses it's really anybody it's by exposure not by title or by role so if we have environmental services folks who are in it were exposed to are a covert patients because people clean those rooms then they would be in that 1st group the initial part is to start the procedure the medical center has recruited many volunteers from the community they'll help with the registrations the vaccinations observing the side effects and also entering data. the ones who are going to inject the vaccine have a basic grounding in pharmaceutics this is their last training session before the vaccines arrive. we evaluate their exposures we determine if they need quarantine and we offer them testing if that testing is needed to ensure that they

can return to work safely the process of delivering the vaccine is very sophisticated it has to be stored minus 70 degree celsius this is specific way to warm it up and it must not be shaken before it's injected but the volunteers are not intimidated by this. it's essential now that we get we do all that we can to administer as a vaccine to as many people as possible they've been preparing for this process since november it's important not to stop the ongoing operations in the hospital this is why the volunteers are vital for this procedure. we have to decide it would be most beneficial to see if we have help from our community that's willing to stand in this particular stand while we're still allowing our fully to take care of our patients every day when chester medical center has been doing its part so have some of the shipping companies like you p.s. from the control center there tracing every batch of vaccines that are being expedited all over the u.s.

hopefully also arriving soon in winchester. for my 1st guest tonight brings years of experience in running a u.s. state's immunization program dr kelly moore is an adjunct associate professor at evander university medical center she joins us from nashville tennessee tonight dr moore it's good to have you on the day i mean when you think about what's happening in the u.s. canada and the u.k. and hopefully here in europe as well this distribution of the vaccine the billions of people vaccination history is being written right now isn't it. it is this is truly unprecedented this is the largest mass vaccination effort to combat a disease ever in human history it's an exciting thing to be a part of and the logistics in the u.s. i mean this is a mammoth undertaking and it let's take tennessee as an example what does the state of tennessee have to do once the federal government ensures that the vaccine has

been delivered safe and sound to its borders well the state him in his ation program takes the lead on making sure that the right recipients get these boxes of vaccine these are not small boxes each shipment can contain in as few as $975.00 doses as many as close to 5000 doses so these early shipments are arriving at large medical centers right now where they have already trained people to give them vaccines and have already come up with their lists of who the prioritized recipients are the other complicating factor with the pfizer biotech maxine that's being used is the requirement to store it at all to low temperatures dry ice conditions as you've heard and that's unique we've never tried to handle that before so people are paying close attention to getting it right and this of course is not cheap i mean what about the costs here is there anything comparable

in public health history to the cost that we're seeing with this vaccination role well. not to my knowledge however in the u.s. a big. big gap exists currently between what we've invested in developing and purchasing these vaccines and what we've so far invested in our back distribution and vaccination programs that are going to be taking place across next year so one of the things those of us with public health experience are advocating for very strongly right now is for congress to step up and pass legislation that will ensure sufficient funding for this distribution program it costs a lot of money to get this vaccine into the arms of the people who need it wherever they are and we can't afford to expend billions on a vaccine that we don't actually deliver right now delivery. i'd like to get your

opinion here in europe there is the perception that the european union medicines agency has simply been too slow to approve the 1st vaccine as an immunization expert how important is time and perception in a pandemic. well in the united states we have close to 3000 americans dying every day so every day counts in the lives of the people who are affected by the sirens so we felt that although we did not cut corners on safety that we had enough information to be going on with that we had looked carefully at the data available from pfizer in violent attacks with the early results and we're confident that the results tell us that it is safe to proceed we have to acknowledge though there are still uncertainties about how long this vaccine will work and if there are any rare or late term side effects we don't yet

know about that right now all signals are go and we simply can't afford to wait too many lives are being lost every day you know what we've got our fingers crossed that things will work as planned moving forward dr kelly moore associate professor of health policy at vanderbilt university medical center dr moore we appreciate your time tonight employee send our merry christmas wishes to your colleague dr bill schaffner thank you. completely thank you well still to come on the day's scrutiny over china's treatment of weaker muslims a d w special report on allegations of abuse and what china doesn't want the world to know there are no 5 policemen following their own stuff. if you film here we will have to take measures against you on this place is a state secret. but a man's of us had hoped a presidential election would yield

a different result the electoral college has spoken so today i want to congratulate president elect joe biden. it took us senate majority leader mitch mcconnell 5 weeks to say those words today he finally acknowledge what's been apparent for more than a month slowly more republicans in congress are accepting the fact that joe biden will be the next us president many republicans have used the time since election day to contest the results they have failed however every time speaking last night president elect biden slammed president trump and his supporters denouncing their attempt to overturn the election in the supreme court this legal maneuver was an effort by elected officials and one group of states to try to get the supreme court to wipe out the votes more than 20000000 americans in other states it's a position sarge 3 we've never seen before

a position that refused to respect the will of the people refuse respect the rule of law and refuse to honor our constitution president elect joe biden there let's bring in our washington bureau chief now in his poll good evening to you we've got mitch mcconnell saying another is enough we've got vladimir putin the russian president today congratulating joe biden yet president trump he remains that one voice that refuses to concede what do you make of that. well for mitch mcconnell brain this is simply political he sees the reality in front of him which is that joe biden will be president of the united states and he as the senior majority leader has to work with him because either party will only have a razor thin majority however for the mainstream republican the reason they have waited this long is that they want to satisfy trump supporters by saying we tried

everything and waited for the last moment but this moment is here now the result is clear and biden will be president come january 21st and there's a lot happening in washington right now we've got the u.s. attorney general bill barr one of trump's staunchest supporters he's leaving his post next week let me just say just a few weeks before the inauguration i mean how do you read that why even bother to resign when you're so close to the end of the administration anyway. well the virus fate has been similar to most trump officials who even actually hint at splitting from the why the towers and it's narrative but despite being one of trump's most loyal cabinet members are didn't lean far enough into president trump's concern since conspiracies about a rigged election and that is the reason for this political war since. we know

january 20th is inauguration day and that is one month away president trump has his full executive powers until then what moves do you think don't just all trump have his sleep. as we learned over the last 45 years this is very very hard to predict i mean i think it's fair to say that he will keep feeding the narrative that says. that the election was stolen simply to keep his supporters and korea and you know on his side i attended another rally last saturday here in washington brendan that is quite astonishing thing to see how many die hard supporters still believe that the election is raked without any proof as we have learned so legally trump is no for the options to fight the outcome but at this point i think it's important to understand that his rhetoric is nothing but p.p. are to prepare for his campaign running again as president in $10.00 to $24.00 that's

right and also help him raise money which he's going to need the to the trump presidency has left the republican party divided into disarray i mean is it still a conservative party or has it morphed into the party of trump here's what some conservatives see for the g.o.p.'s future take a listen they're going to be driving the party further and further into the truck to space which is authoritarian which is nationalist which is highly regimented around the obedience to the dear leader i think the republican party will have you know will have some disagreements and fractures but the biden ministration and the left wing that they were going to party are going to have are going to be a force for cohesion among republicans if you look at double drums bass rural non-college educated whites you know they can not alone guarantee an election win in the u.s.

so keep can the republicans can they rally around the center or the far right in their long term future how do you see this. that's a very very tricky task then i mean donald trump got 73000000 well it's and let's say at least a 3rd or so of them are die hard from supporters which the party needs to have a chance to win the white house again so trump has lost this election but he and those with similar mindset. the politics of the republican party for years to come i'm pretty sure they won't disappear any more we saw earlier this week a member of congress a republican announced that he's leaving the party because of its behavior these past 4 years there's talk of maybe forming a nother party a split with the trumpets what are the implications of that. well that is the real threat again of the republican leaders don't listen to the

die hard from supporters they might really try to start their own party that's also something which i heard a lot over the last weeks and that wouldn't destroy the g.o.p. donald trump knows that and he will use this this possibility to keep his influence all right our washington bureau chief in his poll with the many changes that are taking place right now in washington and the u.s. as always in his thank you. critics have called it a 21st century genocide trying to so-called reeducation of more than 1000000 we girls and other muslim minorities exiled we have just been dealt a fresh blow by the international criminal court it has rejected calls to investigate beijing for alleged genocide and crimes against humanity china maintains its goal here is to re educate people and to steer them away from islam

is to extremism but muslim minorities say beijing is trying to wipe out every trace of their identities we have this exclusive report. scenes of a family outing with 0 hour harm her husband to assume john and the little daughter by are in turkey a safe location for now. but for good 0 a normal life is too far away she says she does not feel safe anywhere. near the amount of the cold i still wake up from nightmares in which i see myself in a chinese internment camp again the images and memories of the interrogations of the beatings and the things they did to him and their haunt me i then feel sick for a few days and i can't sleep i argue with my family i even think about hurting myself. in 201700000000 han was arrested in sindh junk china's westernmost region she is an ethnic azar born in china and was living

in kazakhstan at the time on the trip back to china she was detained by police and then hope for a year in several reeducation camps. although they tortured us they had cameras everywhere you were not allowed to pause scratch your head or cry if they saw that they would force you want to a metal chair they would make you sit there for 12 hours 24 hours you were tied to the chair and if you tried to move it would get tighter then they make you repeat chinese words that you didn't know if you forgotten they used electroshock device on your head. back in kazakhstan her family did not know where she was at the same time authorities in china suddenly started to detain large numbers of the region's muslim minorities i traveled to the region to see for myself middle school number 4 of which are counted was one of the camps she had been to in 2018 a high wall was built around the school and shacks were built in the courtyard

today the school is back to what it was china has defended the facilities as the creation of training centers and declared that by 2019 all trainees had graduated but 0 has also told us that many of our former inmates would later transfer to regular prison on the outskirts of 2 more facilities. there are now 5 policemen following. a prison with watchtowers and another camp where both built in 2017 when the campaign against ethnic minorities took off or theft after. the one town if you film here we will have to take measures against you in this place is a state secret rooms immediately. with 0 was told she was detained because she had been to cause a stand that was seen as a sign of being disloyal to china more and more service now calling what is

happening in the region could genocide after reports of forced birth controls the releasing. in the camp was your every cause the inmates were administered injections of an unknown substance. from local county after the injection some women stopped having their periods those who still had it were given one pad they had to use it for 2 or 3 days if their period would come it would come if not not we stopped being ashamed about it at some point we even stopped thinking of home most of us had stopped crying by then when i meet will. 0 is one of the lucky ones she was finally allowed to leave after her husband had compay twitter in kazakhstan she has no news from her relatives in the region. finally some fun with foam australia's gold coast have seen the waves they are pouring mother nature of bubble bath stormy weather has whipped up sea foam that

has covered beaches along the queensland coastline the unusual phenomenon was a hit with younger residents look at that those who took quickly to the sea for a phone back experts say that sea foam is not dangerous it's largely protein from degrading organic matter that's been lathered up by turbulent waters whatever you can do to get that bubble. the day is almost done the conversation continues online you'll find us on twitter either at the w. news or you can follow me of brant goff t.v. and remember whatever happens between now and then tomorrow is another day we'll see that if 1.

100000 kilometers an hour to reach mars. the hope mission of the united arab emirates. 80 percent of the mission scientists are women. the country is entering a new era. john female scientists are reaching new heights global trade zones are. next on d w x. villagers in kenya were being poisoned

by a lead smelting plant a factory that recycled batteries caused illness and death. but felicity far harder to have the facility closed and one of the. number called flood blood day when everyone in the room would be able to receive treatment. going for good. 60 minutes. look closely. listen carefully to. the soup. to get.

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what is life really like as a refugee we made a photographer offering insight into the hopes and the suffering of migrants. coronavirus feels like the only news of 2020 but this year has also seen many millions of people forced to flee their homes figures are not yet out for 2020 but they certainly haven't improved since last year when according to the un's refugee agency 79500000 people were classified as either internally displaced or refugees around 40 percent of them were under 18. and then came the pandemic. extensive lock downs have left many people jobless that's a key reason says the un for many to leave their homes. 2020 also saw the morea camp go up in flames on the greek island of les voss leaving thousands of people homeless how are they doing now what is life really

like for migrants in greece. athens a few days before lockdown any reason why is out and about with his camera. many of the refugees who were sent to the greek mainland after moria camp was razed to the ground have ended up here in victoria square now that they have been granted official refugee status they have been left to fend for themselves or. when people are granted asylum they no longer have any right to receive state aid. they get no kind of financial support anymore and no accommodation. the greek asylum laws have increased the misery of people seeking refuge in europe for years any reason i have been documenting their fates with his team or him much empathy when he was young to fled with his family from albania to athens where they

lived illegally the prestigious law the agency photographer has made highlighting migration and the plight of refugees his life's work and i was there when the blaze broke out at the morea camp on. mama. you know i remember the exhaustion and fear in their eyes but i also saw hope that moria was finally over the hope that things would improve but one of the girls who have often photographed the 12 year old afghan girl monita organized a protest march on the day after the fire. at 1st only 20 children took part then the march kept swelling in size they all just wanted to get away from the island. and these are desperate cries for help but the european union remains deeply divided on asylum and migration policy the greeks rushed to build a temporary replacement camp directly by the sea the night is one of the few

photojournalists with access to cartel pay she too is only allowed to work with a police escort and attempt to control the flow of information to the outside world about the catastrophic conditions the accommodation in tents the lack of medical provision food and running water. people wash themselves with seawater. but when the winter comes what should they do then deny him or not. because the children are already in a pitiful state. after. and yet people continue to have this unbelievable energy for example i saw manager crying in despair when moria was burning and then she really impressed me with their actions 1st she organized the protest and then she established a school again in the new camp and taught the youngest children so. it's

unbelievable how these people manage to keep looking ahead. you might possibly up with the next against the hernando. 'd flooding the looming winter the coronavirus pandemic what has to happen to meet europe remember its fundamental values. i can't comprehend that we aren't helping these people because we're afraid of more migrants arriving. some of the people that we're talking about have been living here for 2 or 3 years already hardly any migrants arrived here last year. first some year the photographer is a mainstay including myself from afghanistan this is by this masters will be far fewer than a bomb and when i told her that i would be leaving in a few days she turned around suddenly and said to me will you come and say goodbye to us before you leave us up here that this almost welled up with tears in the

mirror. before you need say goodbye to us is also the working title of a forthcoming photo book a book devoted to the people whose lives he has been documenting since 2015 when the number of migrants arriving in europe reached its high point. the photographer has followed their movements their arrival in germany and sweden in some cases these photos also tell a story a fresh starts after her leave. it was hopeful to see that many of the people who made it as far to announce stand on their own 2 feet and were able to begin a new life. in athens and i will continue to record the struggle of the morea refugees to survive they too should have a chance. why did the

wealthy gulf states take in barely any refugees the united arab emirates for example appears to invest it substantial oil revenues in stately buildings vast airports and airlines full prestigious p.r. friendly projects some analysts say many fear social unrest should the country welcome in too many migrants yet despite such criticisms one thing is changing in the u.a.e. the status of women that's particularly clear in its state funded mosque mission. he is monitoring the progress of the hope spacecraft. it's sipping along at more than 100000 kilometers an hour on course for mars. it's set to go into orbit around the planet in february. pressure rafi is

a chemist and propulsion engineer and also does shift says risk manager in the control room the responsibility is huge but she and the rest of the team are well prepared for unexpected events. losing contact me. we always have contingency plans and face. off nominal situations like. contact. the emerick mars mission is the 1st interplanetary mission by an arab country. why block. the hope spacecraft was launched from the tiny gushy must play center in japan on the 20th of july it was a big moment for the team at mission control in dubai. the aim of the mission is to gain a complete picture of mars atmosphere clouds gases and dust storms and thus new insight into the planet's climate dynamics.

the mission also has strategic goals polishing the image of the u.a.e. and inspiring young people to study science it's a conservative society ruled by old men that is still dependent on oil revenues but it wants to go high tech become a knowledge economy and appear liberal. the mohammed bin rashid space center exemplifies this process of transformation it started developing satellites in 2006 with know how and technology acquired from abroad. i'm sure rafi has been working here since she graduated from university she's the spacecraft propulsion subsystem leader on the mars mission

it's a huge venture and adventure with its ups and downs. working with women was something new for mosen i wanted the lead mission systems engineer it took some getting used to but now they work together as equals. from the beginning you're used to seeing female engineers working on sides of you know some technical. segments or sectors that you normally think only men works there but you will be surprised to see them out and the interest that the female engineers have. the mars mission builds on the success of the space center's earth observation satellite cully 1st set launched in 2018 the 1st satellite built entirely in the u.a.e. and mainly by women on the mars mission 80 percent of the scientists are women.

being at the center doesn't become an obstacle course of becoming a mother i'm indeed the mother my son and i do have a kid so it doesn't hold us that way from being out and taking care of all of my families but rather it it gives us such us to contribute to the country that has a lot of support from the center as well supporting us with flex but timing's and also supporting us in terms of giving gus specific leaves when we acquired a. government policy in the u.a.e. just to achieve gender equality and to empower all women and girls however 70 percent of the workforce are still men even though there are lots of educated women. who. are mere yes minister of state for advanced science and science lead on the mars mission hiring for the

mission without regard to an old boys' network meant new opportunities for highly qualified women having a small organization a more of a start up culture that is there. it needs to develop at a very fast rate where the objectives are very challenging you no longer are able to discriminate against people and you have to get the best people to to fulfill the job. still there's a long way to go until gender equality use attained in many arab countries nonetheless the space center has offered women like i show rafi the opportunity to reach for the stars. and now from space we had back to us in 2015 there were around 1300000000 vehicles on our planet comes motorbikes buses most of them privately owned forecast suggests that by 2050 this figure could

almost double to more than 2 and a half 1000000000. the rapid rise in vehicles will be felt most in developing countries where absolution is already a huge problem. electric vehicles like these buses in chile own mini vans in kenya will be essential if we're to achieve a proper shift to sustainable transportation but he calls remain the exception in most places that's something that's gradually starting to change in the philippines . more than 13000000 people live in metro manila the air is thick and not just with humidity pollution has long been a problem here according to the world health organization the philippines has an exceptionally high rate of air pollution related death postal delivery work but lead solder struggles to make his way through this congestion every morning but

he's one of the few people in the city with an emo pen and can travel from a to b. quietly and without creating any emissions he doesn't hear in the passage district of manila i would always go by emo pit given the choice. it's quieter and it doesn't pollute the air you also save on gas money. but the other motorbikes around me are really loud i feel much more relaxed on my mo could write something out the guys that it's a lot less stressful martian driving they are much otherwise there's. the philippines electric postal fleet is part of a model project that is co funded by the united nations and the philippine energy ministry a total of 30 vehicles. and tricity met sherman the once to become an environmental pioneer and cut traffic congestion with new concepts pasig is one of 10.

being promoted with funding from the e.u. and the international climate initiative. but it's not that simple and america pasig knows just how urgently change is needed. climate change an air pollution there definitely problems for us globally but. the image of. air pollution is definitely a big problem recently we just completed our greenhouse gas invented the. air pollution in the city are. learning to see the least and we need to do it every week to lower these numbers in the near future. to profit from this switch to elect your mobility.