their dogs 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 and so not so little storage is a supporting the european authorities to the best of their ability the goal is to secure approval before christmas. germans have watched patiently as the vaccine invented in the country has been rolled out already in the u.k. and the u.s. mass immunization senses a currently being equipped millions of doses of vaccine our own order those with a 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 there isn't enough at least 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. well let's break down what's changed in germany under this law has to stricter lockdown starting today all non-essential shops are closed but supermarkets pharmacies as well as banks are allowed to remain open schools are shot until the 10th of january and companies are being encouraged to allow their staff to work from home where possible chancellor angela merkel has made an appeal for people to limit their social contacts during the holidays 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. let's bring in chief political correspondent melinda crane he is standing by at one of pennants most popular shopping districts linda i was also one of those people out and about yesterday trying to do some last minute shopping it was really

busy consuming 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. 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 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 2 were down so instead of the $100000.00 people who would normally be visiting the cod a day on a day like this there are perhaps a few 100. people drinking mold wine enjoying a little fellowship and christmas treats until yesterday evening now absolutely shut the crimes being to us from violence famous condé thank you very much. let's bring in dr viola plays a man now she's a physicist and germany's max planck institute dr plays a man you've been pleading for a strict lockdown to come into place much earlier than today but politicians ignored the whole has has today come to light. roll up and obviously would have been nicer to have a street lockdown in november and then it wouldn't have to talk about a lot over christmas we were discussing

a lot at the man regrettably it's possible to meet with 345 or 6 people over christmas it's a family holiday. but on the other hand it's a time to also know the shops the businesses and schools anyway costars in a sense it is at least a reasonable time to come out. ahead speaking specifically of exponential growth and could you explain in simple terms if possible what the government hopes to achieve with this lock down so what is very clear from already logical thinking you know we've been made and while the growth of calculations about it so absolutely clear that as soon as the case numbers are low you know this is a threshold of 30 pardon for a few cases when they control this much easier why it is that we have the health authorities that do the testing that we will contact tracing and as soon as these can actually come they can be faster than the virus if case numbers are too high we don't have sufficient tests we don't have sufficient capacity for contact tracing

the origins are slow after the virus and it's absolutely crucial especially because of the asymptomatic cases that these people are identified before they continue spreading the virus so lonely has 3 to 5 days of information time and it would be associated extremely important to help it off or excuse me to this context tracing the past of this information right now the head of the world medical association has said we'll be saying much longer lockdowns despite the beginning of vaccinations is he right. well let's imagine it depends on home once it's here and there isn't how much new t.v. and how much the u.s. mission stops the spread of what is absolutely clear from all of this if there are . corners 3.3 and only 50 percent of the people get vaccinated and effectively reduces our by 50 percent so we know down to 1.7107 is still

above the critical one so it will not be sufficient to return completed to a normal life or just on that it's a question that we like to ask all our experts because it's the one that everyone wants to know when can we expect to see vaccinations allowing a return to normal life. this is a very difficult question and we don't have the data yet to do any populations and that i'm sorry. or i'll adopt a veil of plays a month thank you very much for your expertise. want to take a look now at some other developments in the pandemic the drug regulator in the united states says its analysis shows the madonna vaccine is safe and 94 percent effective that out of maine's 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 record reported a record surge in cases in recent days and scientists from the world health

organization are planning to visit the chinese city of woo han where the outbreak was 1st reported they want to find out how the virus moved from animals to humans. the european parliament has awarded belarussian opposition latest atlanta chicken osca the top human rights prize on behalf of had democracy movement taken osca said the award was an important marker of the fight for freedom in belarus she's been living in exile since denouncing the results of the presidential election in organist opposition supporters have been demonstrating on the streets of the capital minsk weekly since that has been to the elections. day correspondent nick conley has reported extensively from belarus and he joins me now make what is this prize main for the push for more democracy in belarus. well this is obviously an important symbolic gesture by european lawmakers trying to express

their support for the democratic opposition in belarus it's a pass on the back definitely it comes with a bit of money but this is more of the same for the past few months with the leader of opposition the winner of that election she has been getting the red carpet treatment wherever she goes in europe and she frankly has had enough she has in recent days really made very plain that she wants to see actions following these words that the sanctions that have been put in place against the bill of russian regime are not enough there's mainly travel bans asset freezes for the top players in that regime a regime that has been used to sections being imposed time and time again she wants to see things that will have a direct impact economic sanctions that could really hurt companies really see that regime run out of money and visa for each of the russians who need to leave the country so i think a sense that this is different and nice thing to have but it's not the big step that they're really hoping for. all these anti-government demonstrations have been going on since all this and you caught up with one of the young protesters

a 20 year young woman to get a sense of where this movement is 4 months on let's take a look at what she had to say. because the russians 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 she 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 you agree to be filmed where. one person who is willing to take that risk is media 20 she's only of unknown one leader and xander. was mr bush back in august we felt the change was really close like it was in. just a day or 2 more and everything would change for these kids but me 4 months later

when not where we wanted to be a member of congress to let our. police emerge out of on mock grounds 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. look at the previous year only really hits you when you get home and find out about what's happened online i have a suitcase for jail packed and ready at home in case they come and arrest me i know what to do. differentially the protesters recruitment continue this time without the help of modern technology so often protest days in belarus the government has switched off mobile phone networks. the reaction to their protests from the locals is overwhelming. one time we were

running from the police a woman let us into her house to hide there were about 30 of us this is one of the important says 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 one of these at the scene. but not everyone is as impressed. as the march reaches its conclusion the question is as ever how to get home without getting arrested. because it really feels like we've changed as a country whatever happens now that can't be reversed can the best of which. no one can say with any certainty how long these protests will continue or what they might still achieve before most of the. protesting giving up doesn't seem to be an option . incredibly brave young woman and how have the protests evolved since

they 1st began in august. as this government crackdown has intensified over the protestors have had to react i'll just give you one example when i was minutes in minsk in the summer you would see the white and red flags the opposition on balconies everywhere you went hanging from trees from power lines every way it was really visible everywhere you went in the city now back then the government sent city employees with cranes with all kinds of quipping to try and bring down those flags a kind of cats and mouse game they would take down those flags and next morning people would put them back up but that really has changed those flags are disappearing as police are going to arrest people just for hanging out a symbol of protest a small as a flag from their own balconies the big protests we saw in the summer hundreds of thousands people in the center minutes with their children with their pets it was always going to fester what was it already didn't feel scared were enjoying feeling the power in the crowds they are now meeting in much smaller groups we saw in that

protest marching in the neighborhoods to try and say safe and shy and spread the police more thinly so definitely an adaptation there but they think the important thing is that for months on these protests are continuing what stood out to you about these protests as you've been following them over the past several months and where i mean can you say way you think they might be going. i think this is a really profound cultural change as in that piece medea said there about a mental change so whatever the police does however the regime cracks down and tries to keep people in their homes off the streets bettors really does seem to me like a country that has changed this was a country it was always a really a place where people didn't talk to strangers or people distrustful people fear people they didn't know and didn't have some personal connection to when i was there in the late summer it seemed like you to transform people striking up conversations on the streets demonstrations people different ages different generations differ. backgrounds really talking about the kind of country they want to live in and even if these demonstrations are now made more difficult you see

people moving online you have neighborhood what's up some other messenger groups where people are discussing politics day or day one lady said to me that she had lived in her building for years and not known another person that building and now they had met each other demonstrations and were finally feeling themselves to be a community and a group people who want to change things i think that is something that worked be rolled back and these protests really costing the energy the regime a lot of energy trying to police all this so even though it does look pretty difficult now after months of protests no major change i think if they keep that momentum up this is going to be a serious challenge to lisa look shanker and his 26 years in power. nick conley thanks very much carol for tanks. as take a look now at some of the other stories making news around the world dozens of police officers were injured in clashes with anti lockdown protesters in ukraine on tuesday demonstrators gathered in kiev to rally against race and lay announced coronavirus restrictions non-essential businesses schools and james will be shot

from the 8th of january on in an effort to slow the spread of the violence. 8 commission president sort of on the line says there's been some progress on a post rex a trade deal with the united kingdom she told the european parliament the next few days would be crucial to sticking points remain fair competition in the e.u. market and fishing rights to e.u. vessels in u.k. water hits on through. japanese prosecutors have charged a man with murder over an arson attack on an animation studio last year shinji al is accused of setting becchio to animation building on fire killing $36.00 people and injuring dozens more he claimed the studio had stolen his work. and you might remember the images last month of a chinese spacecraft blasting off to 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 with it the 1st luna 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. we hollowed all of our current lunar program consists of through phases orbiting lending and returning to the 5 will carry on to 3rd face bringing moon samples they were the earth for the 1st time we hope this will be a success for. 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. well in 2003 it secured a major breakthrough when it became the 3rd country in the world to send a man into space 0. 10 years later china hits another milestone successfully landing an unpiloted spacecraft on the moon it was the 1st. soft landing since the soviet union's excess in 1976. more chinese chairs 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. a 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 one 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 it 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 that 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 without orbits 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 and to put humans on the right. well in this case of course they are bringing samples back from an interesting location a place called mom's room curragh 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 what happened there billions of years ago and also it's important because those samples will be 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 but china's been putting so much if it in space exploration in recent years away heading into a future where china leads the rice 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 atoll 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 a space exploration of the next decade in dave not mccolgan from the airplane space agency thank you very much my pleasure. out as a rare made wake's light of matches in the bundesliga this week dortmund got back to winning ways after a coaching change the team's new interim boss and intensive so he would have to one win in braman and pick the youngest ever player to start in the league. don't mean 16 year old yusuf mukoko who became the but his think is youngest debutant in

november started his 1st league match at raymond another historic moment for the teenager it's also the 1st turn of the season for assistant coach turn his 18th hits it do it minute get their new head coach fired up early in the 12th minute jaidyn said so shot was blocked when raphael guerrero found the rebound to dig the ball over year republican for the league. to do it when lead didn't last long only about 15 minutes framings next egleston put it on a tee for kevin move 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 . grainy and aggressive defense cost them the match. publica brought down money well a kanzi to set up the decisive goal. a dazed pov

lanka did his best to prevent marco rice's winner but to no avail publican managed to get a hand on the ball but royce was there to clean it up. dortmund with a vintage at the helm get back to winning ways with a 21 victory over braman. also on cheese day gladbach visit to frankfurt off and high drama right to the very last moments of federal francis under a silver had a boot in all of frankfurt's goals he broke the deadlock in the 1st half and heat latched on to the ball and fired in this girl. costigan zama. found the visiting side had their own hero in la they netted a hat trick including the equaliser in the 95th minute it ended 33 francs it's a stroll in 12 days. you're watching news coming up and day to me news asia the logistical challenges

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