this is deja vu news live from berlin a record number of cope with 19 related deaths in germany as the country goes into a hard lockdown the daily death toll tops 950 and schools that non-essential shops and businesses shut for at least 3 and a half weeks. also coming out u.s. senate majority leader mitch mcconnell becomes the most senior republican to congratulate joe biden on winning the presidential election 6 weeks ago. and the coaching change at dortmund pays off right away for any help wonderfully the

contenders start what they hope will be a new winning streak. i'm serious i was going to get to have you with us germany's top infectious disease institute says the number of covert 19 related deaths reported over the last day rose to a record 952 that's grim news comes just as the country enters a harder national lockdown with schools and non-essential businesses to remain closed through january 10th the new restrictions coming into effect sent some last minute shoppers scrambling to buy presents in time for the holidays. there is always a surge of people work christmas time hunting for last minute gifts but this year the crush has come earlier than usual in germany. shoppers rush to make last minute purchases ahead of the country's tough lockdown but people seem pretty stressed

about the whole thing you can feel it but we're finished we got it done. and he's on time for health reasons all i can say is that it's the right thing to do we can't wait until it all falls to pieces. but while some may not find what they're looking for a welcome christmas present may be coming soon germany is waiting for the 1st corona virus vaccines to be approved the problem is so far not even the health minister knows when that will happen. and that's a non national authorities are supporting the european authorities to the best of their ability the goal is to secure approval before christmas. germans have watched patiently as a vaccine invented in the country has been rolled out already in the u.k. and the u.s. mass immunization centers are currently being equipped millions of doses of vaccine are on order those with heightened risk of infection will be invited 1st the

elderly as well as front line medical workers establishing priority is key in distributing the vaccine many people wanted as quickly as possible but that isn't enough at least in the beginning so that's why we need clear and transparent priorities the vaccine is being kept on the key and lock and it's very highly protected the vaccine is coming to germany but unlike with father christmas himself nobody can get be sure when to expect it. ok let's break down now well what has changed in germany with these new stricter lockdown measures starting today all non-essential shops are closed supermarkets pharmacies as well as banks are allowed to remain open schools are shut until the 10th of january and a ploy are being encouraged to allow their staff to work from home as far as possible a chance i'm going back will also made an appeal for people to limit. there are social contacts during the holidays and the number of people allowed to meet

indoors will remain restricted to 5 not including children under 14 and in anticipation of new year's celebrations sales of fireworks have also been banned. and let's bring in our political correspondent nina hansei with more on this story good morning nina how effective can these measures really be and how can they be inforced especially when it comes to checking how many people are gathering for christmas i would say that the biggest difference when you compare these new measures to what we've seen throughout the also thirty's also tried to bring down the numbers but they did so with a patchwork of measures it really depended on where you were in the country to know which rules apply and sometimes they were quite different so now we have a measure in place that is rigorous and that is more or less the same nationwide so that is of course a big plus in terms of being able to comply with the measures because you simply

know what they are and then of course if you close schools or if you ask people to keep their children at home that is also a major difference that was something that authorities have promised would not happen and also explains just how dire the situation is christmas is just around the corner now how are germans reacting to these new tougher rules. well of course germany has christmas as the most important family holiday periods and germans had been promised an easing of restrictions around the christmas period but i think it had been dawning on germans that the current measures in the autumn that they were not enough and that the infection numbers new infection numbers were still growing at a rate that was simply not sustainable and also if you looked at the polls from the recent months about half the germans always said that they were ok with the measures and 3rd of the population said they wanted more strict measures because

they were beginning to hear of hospitals where doctors are beginning to have to decide which patient does get integrated and which one doesn't and that is of course extremely critical a lot of people are putting their hopes on a vaccine which still has not been approved here but how well is germany prepared to roll that out once that approval is there. germany will have a vaccination program in place where they work with the federal state so it will be a state run program essentially and working with some 440 vaccination. across the country and most of them are already well equipped and they're almost ready to go the deadline for that was yesterday and. now still looking for stuff to give those vaccinations but most of them already their sports hold music calls for most supermarkets so they're going to all sorts of isolated places that are not currently in use and the body that is in charge of approval folder drug has said

that it will have a meeting on vaccines on the 21st of december instead of the 29th and the health minister here in germany said yesterday that he's expecting that once we have the approval it will take $2.00 to $4.00 days until the vaccination program can get started. there reporting for us thank you. to the u.s. now where senate majority leader mitch mcconnell has become the most senior republican to congratulate joe biden on his victory in november presidential election mcconnell was among many congressional republicans who had refused to acknowledge biden's defeat of president donald trump trump has continued to make unfounded claims of widespread fraud mcconnell said knowledge meant comes after the u.s. electoral college officially confirmed the results of the election. and earlier we spoke to g.w.

is washington bureau chief you know as poll we asked her what you expect from trump and his supporters now that more leading republicans are accepting biden's victory . he will keep feeding the narrative that the election was stolen off him simply to keep his supporters angry and on his side legally don't jump as snow for the options to fight the outcome i think at this point his rhetoric is nothing but air are really to prepare his come pain running again for president in 2024 i was attending a trump rally just last weekend in washington and it was actually quite amazing how many of his supporters told me that they would start their own party if the republican leaders stone loosens with donald trump so we have to keep in mind donald trump has no loyalty towards the republican party whatsoever after all he was a his whole life democrats so it's not about america 1st it's about some 1st and

he knows that this child said they will create a new party gives him a lot of power and this is something he will use to keep his influence. all right let's check in now on some other stories making news around the world dozens of police officers have been injured in clashes with anti lockdown protesters in ukraine demonstrators gathered in kiev to rally against recently announced coronavirus restrictions non-essential businesses schools and gyms will be shut from the 8th of january on an effort to slow the spread of the virus. and hungary has amended the definition of family in its constitution to limit adoption by same sex couples it now defines a family as a female mother and a male father rights groups have attacked the move prime minister viktor orban has worked to recast hungary in a more conservative mold since coming to power. officials in nigeria

say they are in talks with the kidnappers of hundreds of schoolboys in the north of the country although they're not saying whether they are negotiating with jihad a spoken or another group boko haram claimed responsibility on tuesday more than 330 boys from a government secondary school in the northwest state of katsina are missing if boko haram is behind the abduction this would represent a significant expansion of the group's activities into new areas. waiting for news of her child her son one of the boys snatched from a school on friday. if this government is just then we want them to rescue our children because they have the power to do starting this slow to take action because it's not their children who have been taken they've put us in the situation where parents and grandparents are in absolute confusion they've stopped us from having peace of mind we're totally devastated. by. the missing

pupils were boarders at this school in kids who know they were taken in a bylane to tack by dozens of gunmen with assault rifles while they were asleep in their dormitories. usama is one of the lucky ones he managed to escape the kidnappers. up i was about to slape when i started hearing sporadic gunshots and before i could even get outside there were many people there were already outside and so we were asked to go back into a hostel then they said the gunmen are already in the school we even climb the school fence but then these men asked us to go back and we thought these men were soldiers and they were trying to protect us but unfortunately they weren't soldiers . he was over here with. many details of the ride in the school and its aftermath are still unclear. that it let's go

and out and as i said and is one of the boys that has been abducted we heard the security forces saw our boy surrounded by the gunmen on top of a hill we want the government to help security forces rescue our children we just want to see our boys in whatever condition so that we can have peace of mind. at the stage it's done on show how long parents like will have to write. football now there was a rare midweek slate of matches in the bundesliga dortmund were hoping to get back to their winning ways after a coaching change dortmund's new interim boss 8 in 10 such took his club on the road to bremen including the youngest player ever to start in the leak. dortmund 16 year old yusuf mukoko who became the but is that his youngest debutant in november started his 1st league match at raymond another historic moment for the teenager

it's also the 1st start of the season for assistant coach turn his 18th hits each joint minute got their new had coach fired up early in the 12th minute jaidyn said show shot was blocked when raphael guerrero found the rebound to dig the ball over a year republican for the early. the don't mean lead didn't last long only about 15 minutes brains next egleston put it on the t.v. for a candid movie who smashed it into the net to level the affair. after the break the youngster mukoko got his chance but the 16 year old put too much peperoni. 5 brame in aggressive defeats past them the match. public of brought down money well a conduit to set up the decisive goal. the days to have wake did his best to prevent marco rice's winner but to no avail publica managed to

get a handle on the ball but royce was there to clean it up. dortmund with 18 kids at the helm get back to winning ways with a 21 victory over braman. also on tuesday night club box visit to frankfurt offered high drama right to the very last moments frankfurt's andre silva had a foot in all of frankfurt scholes keep broke the deadlock in the 1st house when he sprinted to the ball and fired in at this goal past some but the visiting team had their own hero in last pool netted a hat trick including the equaliser in the 95th minute it ended 33 frankfurt's 8 draw in 12 us. and let's take a quick look at the scoreboard at this midpoint of match day 12 frankfurt played to a draws we saw as it struck art and when he on berlin asked that hair to her land and minds as he saw dortmund edged past fremen 21 looking ahead of

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