cursors. northern lights. arctic circle starts december 21st d. w. . this is deja news live from berlin a record number of covert 19 related deaths in germany as the country goes into our block down the daily death toll tops 950 as schools and non-essential businesses shut for at least 3 and a half weeks also coming out standing up to the batteries for a. mates the brave young faces behind the pro-democracy movement about to receive

europe's most prestigious award for freedom of thought. and to the moon and back a chinese mission prepares to return to earth with the 1st lunar samples collected in more than 4 decades. past the change for the better dortmund's new coach crews the skeptics wrong as the perennial bundesliga contenders start what they hope for me and you winning streak. i'm rebecca richards welcome to the program germany's top infectious disease institute's says the number of covert 9 tain related deaths reported over the last day rose to a record 952 the grim news comes just as the country and his heart a national lockdown schools and non-essential businesses will remain closed until

at least january 10 and the government is urging people to limit their contacts as much as possible. in much of germany hospitals and now at that breaking point. the number of patients needing intensive care has hit record highs as has the number of deaths from coke at 19. the latest figures showed 952 people died from the virus over the last day that's almost a 1000 more families who be grieving instead of celebrating together this christmas . meanwhile many others were rushing to buy last minute gifts before wednesday's lockdown 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 of the right people seem pretty stressed about the whole thing you can feel it but we're finished we got our shopping done. non-essential shops of now close their doors and there's hope a different kind of christmas present may be coming soon germany is waiting for the

1st corona virus vaccines to be approved but so far not even the health minister knows when that will happen. so not so national authorities are supporting the european authorities to the best of their ability to 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 a currently being equipped millions of doses of vaccine are own order because establishing priority is key in distributing the vaccine. many people wanted as quickly as possible but that isn't enough at least with the heightened risk of infection will be invited 1st the elderly as well as frontline medical west in the beginning so that's why we need clear and transparent priorities the vaccine is being kept under key and lock and it's very highly protected the vaccine is coming

to germany but unlike with father christmas himself nobody can be sure yet when to expect it. let's break down what's changed in germany under this latest strict a lockdown 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 companies are being encouraged to allow their stuff to work from home where possible chance of a another miracle has made an appeal for people to limit their social contacts during the holidays the number of people allowed to mate indoors will remain restricted to 5 not including children under 14 and in anticipation of new year's celebrations the sale of fireworks have has also been banned. let's bring in chief political correspondent melinda crane who is standing by at one of britain's was popular shopping districts in the i was also one of those people out there about yesterday trying to do some last minute shopping it was really busy assuming it's

a little different out there today. absolutely eerily quiet if you know what this absolutely beloved shopping district would normally look like i'm standing on germany's famous. behind me is a landmark in all of europe europe's largest department store also berlin's absolute landmark the car david a if you were here then you probably saw that yesterday there was still a line stretching around the block people trying to get in there to do their last minute shopping and now the grocery department is still open but as you can see the entrance is absolutely devoid of shoppers and in fact all we are seeing are lone pedestrians an occasional couple or family behind me if i go over here you can see germany's famous memorial church the good death. perhaps known to some of our

viewers is the place where the attack on the christmas market occurred 4 years ago it too was the sight of people drinking mold wine enjoying a little fellowship and christmas treats until yesterday evening now absolutely shut down so instead of the 100000 people who would normally be visiting the cod a they on a day like this there are perhaps a few 100 and how are people reacting if you've been able to find any to speak to how are they reacting to these measurements. with absolute understanding and support for the measures most of the older people we're seeing walking around here pedestrians are wearing masks they are all saying absolutely the right thing to do and if you look at the polls 80 percent of germans say this is essential the chancellor who announced these measures on sunday she is seeing an absolute wave in popularity since she said last week that we cannot go on this we have what is

the street shutdown when it isn't the 1st one it's not now the 2nd strict one to reign tell us what does it mean for them and their employees. retailers are saying it's an absolute catastrophe the fact is the federal government is once again offering significant support directly to affected retailers the finance minister saying that will add $11000000000.00 euros to the total monthly budget for corona support another less retailers associations are saying that as many as 50 percent of the retails retailers in the inner cities could wind up having to shut their doors despite support they also were saying this will have significant consequences for germany's inner cities with shops shutting down and potentially a boost for online sales but with real implications for urban life. i'm in the crane's band has from famous cardiff thank you very much.

let's take a look at some other developments in the pandemic now the drug regulator in the united states says its analysis shows the maternal vaccine is safe and 94 percent effective the datta manes the vaccine could get emergency approval in days and could be rolled out next week south korean officials say there are only 3 intensive care hospital beds left in its capital seoul a city with a population of nearly 26000000 the country has reported a record surge in cases in recent days and scientists from the world health organization of planning to visit the chinese city of woo han where the outbreak was 1st reported i want to find out how the virus moved from animals to humans. and they'll be more coming up on the pandemic later in the program. combat in the coronavirus in one of the most remote parts of the world brazil is using the army to help the medical treatment in the amazon rain forest but the troops bringing out

aid also pose an infection risk to indigenous groups. first let's take a look at some of the other stories making news around the world japanese prosecutors have charged a man with murder over an arson attack on an animation studio last year. is accused of setting the curator animation building on fire killing 36 people and injuring dozens more he claimed the studio had stolen his work. dozens of police officers were injured in clashes with anti lockdown protesters in ukraine on tuesday demonstrators gathered in kiev to rally against racism the announce coronavirus restrictions non-essential businesses schools and gyms will be shot from the 8th of january in an effort to slow the spread of the virus. hungary has amended the definition of family in its constitution to limit adoption by same sex couples and 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 hungry in a more conservative mold since coming to power. belarus is all far terry and later alexander lukashenko has tried to stamp out dissent in the country but the opposition trying to bring about change has been undeterred whether in exile or under threat of imprisonment at home later today the european union will honor the ladies of the batteries opposition by awarding them the 2020 sachar of prize for freedom of thought despite a clampdown on international journalists calmly went to minsk to mate with a young woman who's been out protesting from the very start. just as the writer started coming out to march on sundays is as much a part of everyday life as having breakfast and neighborhood just won't keep quiet it's here that you finally get to meet your neighbors for all the demonstrative

good humor fear is never very far away in minsk but most people here don't want to be recognized and only agree to be filmed wearing them mosques one person who is willing to take that risk is media 20 she's only ever known one leader and xander. was mr bush back in august we felt the change was really close like it was in reach just a day or 2 more and everything would change for nothing but 34 months later when not where we wanted to be. was. police emerge after on mock bans scattering the marches in all directions dozens of smaller demonstrations in parallel across the capital means making the police's job that much harder for the hundreds of protesters still routinely arrested each week and the stakes are rising the courts hand out ever harsher sentences. that the previous year only really hits

you when you get home and find out about what's happened online i have a suitcase the jail packed and ready at home in case they come and arrest me i know what to do. eventually the protesters recruited continue this time without the help of modern technology so often in protest days and the government has switched off mobile phone networks. the reaction to their protest from the locals is overwhelming. one time we were running from the police a woman lettuce into her house to hide there were about 30 of us thought of it. and she didn't let us leave till. the next morning she was so worried with gets arrested. that was really brave that was really risky what she did this is a known sooner. but not everyone is as impressed.

as the march reaches its conclusion the question is as ever how to get home without getting arrested. it really feels like we've changed as a country whatever happens now that can't be reversed can be compared to what. no one can say with any certainty how long these protests will continue or what they might still achieve before most of these young but the russians are protesting giving up doesn't seem to be an option. the commission president on the line says there's been some progress on post brecht's a trade deal with the united kingdom addressing the european parliament this morning from july and said the next few days it would be critical but that it was still too soon to say whether a deal would happen she said 2 top sticking points remained fair competition in the e.u. market and fishing rights for a huge vessels in u.k. waters. well over companies hauling goods between the e.u. and the u.k.

new border regulations and walls that will come with breaks it looks set to name longer waiting times and more red tape with british stockpiling driving up demand truck drivers leaving france are already getting a taste of the potential chaos to come. alexander phenomena has moved from cali. the port of cully a key departure point for good scattered across the channel by truck for now they move freely between the european union and the u.k. but with the end of the brics a transition there will be new rules and restrictions on what terms that's what both sides are still negotiating the port authorities however tell us they have purchased my. as they can have all quit it is actual we've hired new employees we've restructured the organization we've opened premises we have trained our employees we've created a special computer system so i think we're ready for the deadline quickly

approaching the port is experiencing the highest levels of traffic so far this year last week they processed almost 22000 trucks here extreme stockpiling has led to long lines and massive delays in their last few weeks as businesses try to get goods into britain the for a potential no the exit many here fear this is just a glimpse of what the situation will be like when customs standards and immigration checks kick in on both sides of the channel david saying there is war it his business operates $110.00 trucks that transport flour sugar and elder goods from across europe to the u.k. with disruptions and delays to be expected the whole of fear is he'll lose money. i think the main risk is the traffic jams with long standing and waiting times for the vehicles and that's really harmful for us. on the one hand you're not earning

any money on the other hand you still have the running costs for the truck and the driver was i think in more pain and it was very shocking for us one of his drivers just came back from a tour today u.k. he says going there was a nightmare. he started here at 9 in the morning and arrived in dover at 5 pm. and normally normally already in england by midday. david sanger is disappointed that the politicians have wasted so much time they ask you to anticipate the changes to come he says while they wait until the last minute to decide at the port in cali meanwhile the customs. officers are also getting a bit anxious or anything but he'll give what we're impatient to see if everything we did will work but i feel that if there are any problems we'll have to fix it. whether there is

a trade deal or not they tell us big changes will come when the u.k. leads to single market. now you might remember the images last month of a chinese spacecraft blasting off for the moon well it's due to return to earth in the coming hours carrying fresh samples of moon rocks and debris chinese ground crews are awaiting the landing of the unmanned mission and a week and with it the 1st lunar samples in more than 45 years. china 5 was one of the most complicated and challenging missions in china's airspace history when the rocket was launched on november 23rd it was a source of national pride the probe was made up of 4 modules one was the lander which is dug for rocks and soil. the materials were then transferred into a return capsule for the journey back to earth. protocol to a quick hollows all of our current lunar program consists of 3 phases orbiting

lending and returning to the 5 will carry on to 3rd face bringing moon samples back with the earth for the 1st time we hope this will be a success what are you good your mother q. it's the 1st time in 4 decades that material has been brought back from the moon china's space ambitions are no secret and have been growing for years. in 2003 it secured a major breakthrough when it became the 3rd country in the world to send a man into space. 10 years later china hits another milestone successfully landing an un pilot. spacecraft on the moon it was the 1st soft landing since the soviet union success in 1976. more chinese cheers in january 29th teen and a global 1st lunar probe touching down on the far side of the moon boosting china's

space ambitions mars is also in its sights this year beijing launching an unmanned probe to the red planet. in july china put the final satellite into orbit for its chinese navigation system the country's rival to the u.s. g.p.s. but this lunar mission to bring back material from the moon was one of china's most ambitious to date. and joining us now from the netherlands is not my corcoran he's senior advisor for science and exploration at the european space agency mark thanks for joining us this is a complex mission it could still end in failure if the spaceship crashes upon landing how challenging is the technical side of this mission i think it's important to realize that china could have done this in

a simpler way you could have had a direct return of luna samples from the surface for example but it's chosen to do it in a way which is complicated because it leads to the next step it leads to the ability to send humans to the moon so for example landing on the surface with an orbiter going around the moon and then rendezvous in with that orbiter reconnecting with it getting rid of one piece of the spacecraft flying back with another these are all the things that the apollo missions did in the 1960 s. and seventy's so i think it is more challenging than it needs to be for the what it's doing today but for a very very specific purpose is that the main purpose then you know to put humans on. well in this case of course they are bringing samples back from an interesting location a place called mom's room current in the o.c. honest and which is the ocean of storms on the moon and in fact it's a place that no other mission has been to before whether soviet or american the

samples there that the minerals on the moon are much younger than in other locations so that's actually important for trying to understand the evolution of the moon and what happened there billions of years ago and also it's important because those samples as i say different from the ones we brought back before and we're very interested everybody all the international countries interested in going back to the moon are really curious about how to extract resources from the minerals on the moon water oxygen and other things which we can use when we actually go and sit on the moon for a longer period of time. as so you'll be sharing the information that china has been putting so much if it in space exploration in racing is a way heading into a future where china leads the race and the u.s. and europe will be struggling to keep up. yeah well yes there's this narrative about the new space race is constant but i actually don't think it's like that it's whole we are collaborating very actively with china on scientific missions we've also sent some of our astronauts to train with china so there's

a possibility in the future that we might actually fly on the chinese space station for example and at the same time the united states and europe along with canada and japan and perhaps with russia as well looking to build a thing called the lunar gateway we've been building hardware for years to go back to the moon just delivered that to nasa so it's ready to fly astronauts back to the moon 3 european nationals will be going to the moon in the next decade or so but this is all part i think of a very different approach to lunar exploration and the rest of the solar system a much more collaborative approach so i think yes china's doing very impressive work at the moment it's a good we shouldn't deny that for a moment but it's something which we're all doing together and i think it's very exciting time for space exploration in the next decade in de la mccall came from their pains face agency thank you very much my pleasure.

well as a rare mid week slight of matches in the bundesliga and dortmund got back to winning ways after a coaching change don't one's new interim boss at entebbe rissa q. and a 21 win in raymond and picked the youngest player ever it to stop in the lake. dortmund 16 year old yusuf mukoko who became the but is that his youngest debutant in november started his 1st league match at braman another historic moment for the teenager it's also the 1st start of the season for assistant coach turner had 18 did see it do it many got their new head coach fired up early in the 12th minute jaidyn since no 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 brain means next egleston put it on a t. for a cab and move all who smashed it into the net to level the affair. after the break

the youngster mukoko got his chance but this 16 year old put too much peperoni. grey means aggressive defense cost them the match. publica brought down money well a congo to set up the decisive goal. the day pov lanka did his best to prevent marco rice's winner but to no avail publicly managed to get a hand on the ball but royce was there to clean it up. dortmund with a view to it's at the helm get back to winning ways with a 21 victory over braman. paula corona virus has spread far and wide even to some of the most from most parts of the world like the amazon rainforest in brazil people there also need medical treatment and when they become available vaccines getting the doses to them will be a major logistical challenge which the government is living up to the army. the

troops are ready the destination an indigenous community in the amazonas region who got a stone it's hard to reach the area where this group lives luckily we have the right transport truck and. tommy doctors and nurses airlifted to the region whether to kunar people live the flight takes them 100 kilometers across virgin rainforest. the resilient army has been responsible for these medical missions since the start of the pandemic 6000 security people live in villages here and in the forest the soldiers and doctors arrival is an event the community put on a welcome ceremony it's the 1st visit to this kind since the pandemic began then the medical work begins local people help doctors examined everyone and carry out false coronavirus tests so far 2 people in the community have died from covert 1935 people caught the virus but they say they recovered with the help of traditional

medicine. but the military operation deep in the amazonas region is controversial the soldiers help the community but risk infecting them at the same time indigenous groups a critical. 2 years ago the government pulled doctors out of the indigenous land and they weaken permanent local health authorities in the region. so instead they send in a lot of troops to areas where they used to be health missions. it's just. that security people are happy about the doctor's visit at least but they are skeptical about the vaccines being promised. the football field if the vaccine works we will take it but if it's not clear that it's really effective we would be reluctant to use ensure efficacy bad because only vaccines that don't need to be

kept in a freezer can be transported here and when they arrive here in the amazon it will be up to the army to distribute it. you know watching data over the news coming up next the business news with my colleague rob wants to change for that show i'll be back at the top of the hour with more news headlines until then you can always stay up to date on our web site that's state of any dot com i was on social media to i'm rebecca races in the end thanks for watching.

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