this is d.w. news live from berlin critical days for germany's health care system with new infections at record high levels the number of hospitalized patients is also climbing rapidly we've reports from the front lines for young and previously healthy patients who are battling to stay alive. also coming up guilty verdicts in france's charlie hebdo trial a paris ford convicts 14 people for their role in the 2015 islamists attacks on the satirical magazine and the jewish supermarket. and dropped on their head and calls

in fact we speak to 2 german gymnast who revealed their experiences of bullying and mistreatment in the school. i'm sumi so much going to thank you for joining us germany plans to roll out its covert vaccination program on december 27th a nursing homes will be 1st in line to receive the shots but the vaccines won't come soon enough for many of germany's hospitals a leading german doctor fears more and more medics will be left making decisions on who gets lifesaving treatment in the coming weeks we look now at the already dire situation in one german hospital. a new covert patient has arrived by ambulance a tribe or good university hospital he's traveling in a special isolation pod so none of the transport team gets infected that patient is

only in his forty's he's transferred to viviane it's what's month's intensive care unit with 5 members of her team she turns him on his stomach the prone position is an important therapy for seriously ill patients the team make sure the patient is well padded as he will lie like this for several hours afterwards the inflammation sits at the back of the lungs and a lot of fluid collects there the lungs can heal if we lie on them the whole time by turning patients under their stomachs the lungs get as and can heal. credit is often higher if. once a day the team turns each patient on to their front and back again it's a big effort but printing and being put on a ventilator is not sufficient for many critically ill patients. need to be connected to an artificial lung to keep them alive. it

pumps the patient's blood into a machine where carbon dioxide is extracted and oxygen added. to the blood is then pumped back into the patient's body. for patients who are this ill there aren't many options left this is the last trump card we've got. our therapeutic options a sobering we've got oxygen and the artificial lung but they're only gives us more time the lungs have to heal by themselves. in the hospital pharmacy there's no wonder drug against the coronavirus ram disappear one of the great hopes at the start of the pandemic has yielded disappointing results as have many other drugs. medics of the virus for nearly a year now but the odds of surviving a severe case haven't improved much yet every 2nd patient who's on a ventilator dies and behind each of those numbers is

a human being. in the 2nd wave many young and healthy people have also been infected. but that's no guarantee for a milder cause of the illness. this is a young man 45 years old with a very severe case of coded is a prime example that a young healthy person without any notable preexisting medical conditions can be brought to the brink of death by the virus. he was in the intensive care units really are at their limit we have to be clear about that there may still be some spare beds but every day there's fewer and the patients lie here for a long time for weeks even months and that means that the beds don't free up again quickly at the moment they can still fight for every single patients life here but the time after christmas could turn into the intensive care teams was a nightmare. for did ever use hands brandt is covering the

situation here in germany for us good morning hans some hospitals in germany already say that they're having to choose who can get lifesaving treatment can you tell us more about that. yes there's been some alarm in the last 24 hours about a report from a doctor in eastern saxony this is a border in the east of germany that borders on on the czech republic and on poland and is currently the area in germany where the rate of infections is very much the highest across the whole country and here it's a remote region the hospitals are small the number of bits that are available is not that large and the number of patients coming into those hospitals is threatening to overwhelm those hospitals and a doctor there has said that they have already had to make decisions whether or not a patient should get all possible treatment depending on what. chances of survival are and that is really this scary scenario that everyone is trying to avoid that

patients come into hospital and cannot be fully treated in this case the doctor said it was a patient who would not have survived being moved several 100 kilometers into another hospital as we've just seen in that report sometimes they're moved by helicopters but it's not always possible to move patients so this is a scary situation if you look at the numbers on paper the situation is still controllable there are still 4 and a half 1000 beds in intensive care that are available across germany and there's another 11000 that are set up in emergency sit in emergency hospitals in execution holes for instance but in several specific cases the situation really is critical we know a lot of hopes are riding on vaccines getting approval from e.u. with the words but how fast can hospitals actually expect relief. well hospitals are frankly are not 1st in line when the when the vaccine is made available there

is a very detailed plan about who gets this vaccine 1st in the 1st are patients or are other people in intent and care in. oh the people they're likely to get it 1st but that means that they will possibly not end up in hospital so in that sense as relief the hospital association has recently called for the vaccine to be made available as quickly as possible as we know that germany has now entered a tougher lockdown that lasts until the 20th of january given the situation in hospitals are most germans willing to accept these tougher measures. yes indeed there are most recent surveys say that up to 3 quarters of germans are in favor of these locked on measures people who feel that the numbers of cases have to be brought down and as i said there is some alarm about so the situation in hospitals at the moment and i think that also motivates people to actually stick to the rules . reporting for us thank you very much. let's

take a look now at the latest global developments in the pandemic the u.s. has registered more than $3700.00 cova deaths within 24 hours another grim record that's according to numbers compiled by johns hopkins university a twitter has announced it will remove tweets containing misinformation about covert $1000.00 vaccines facebook and youtube have already announced similar measures and a health worker in the u.s. has suffered a severe allergic reaction after getting the biotech pfizer vaccine unlike similar cases in the u.k. she had no history of serious allergies doctors say they are prepared to treat rare reactions which can happen during vaccine rollouts. while many countries grapple with the challenge of a mass vaccination drive others are providing an example of how to go about it india plans to roll out the coronavirus vaccine to 1300000000 people starting in february it is likely to become one of the biggest logistical exercises the world has ever seen but experts there say the country is universal in an immunization

program means there is a considerable medical infrastructure already in place. and sharing that have more . to journals this will be a busy day it is whole group storen to receive immunization and it is not easy task the community health worker has 1000 people under her kid in this district all of the state. it is to just responsibility to the north everything about them. that not just happen when babies are conceived and what lacson nations. need she is a crucial element in india's nasa program that backs in its $25000000.00 children every year. this experience and knowledge will come in handy when the covert 19 vaccine is deployed. we know about each family how many members are above 50

how many are young children below 5 we have the complete backward if someone is a diabetic has high blood pressure or tuberculosis we already have a record of this bus and we can get them vaccinated accordingly. 50 other community will good like will draw up their priority to c.p. and lists and mortified this primary health care center. it is already equipped with all storage for child immunization vaccines. and corner cases to transport them for the into the villages 20 such health centers reports to the new can health administration. dr browne deep at the helm in bible district is confident the existing infrastructure of ill health things get off to a good start. but he acknowledges that communication bilby key much like it was for vaccinating children when parents were skeptical about putting kids through pain for an uncertain benefit fighting rumors to awareness campaigns will be key

for the coronavirus vaccine to. there would be people rushing for the vaccine that they want the right thing in the post. and there would be people who really needed and they may not know that they needed and should get it that will be a talent in the indian government which focuses on awareness as well along with jumping up cold storage capacities hiring more backs in meters and drawing up lists of priority to c.p.s. like health care workers and the elderly the comprehensive vaccine deployment plan also includes a new digital platform and app both for health administrators and civilians. who've been beneficiary the beneficiary management platform will track beneficiaries plan vaccination sessions and manage them. free mobile can be used by citizens to register to receive the vaccine. asked for residence

these seemed ready to trust a vaccine cured by the government. they say vaccines are important doctors tell us they help so we'll get. i'm not worried at all about the vaccine the most important thing is to stop the pandemic. is ready. and completely confident that she can help pull off this namath exercise. now to some other stories making news around the world u.s. president elect joe biden is going to receive a covered 1000 backs seen in public as soon as next week according to transition officials at the white house has announced that current vice president mike pence will be vaccinated against coverage 19 this friday. pelosi an opposition leader said last night he said australia has received the european parliament's talk's human rights prize on behalf of her movement the prize for freedom of thought is

awarded yearly to an individual or group for an outstanding contribution to democracy and human rights. and a major winter storm has hit much of the northeast coast of the us delivering a disruptive blow to transportation systems and causing traffic chaos 2 people have died after a major highway pileup that involved 60 vehicles in the state of pennsylvania around $50000.00 households experienced power outages. a court in the french capital paris has found 14 people guilty of involvement in the 2015 attacks on the satirical magazine charlie a dole and a jewish supermarket they were convicted of helping the 3 attackers who were killed by police the verdict comes at a time when france has again been hit by a wave of islamist attacks prompting renewed debate over freedom of speech and tensions and france's secular society. on the day of the verdict charlie hebdo as

cover reads god has been put in his place crime cannot be justified in the name of religion the 14 convicted of helping to organize the deadly attacks were given jail terms from 4 years to life but the court rejected some terrorism charges against several defendants. sue could decide this is your this ruling recognizes that without a compass is there would be no attackers and no terrorism. everyone operating in this shadow world should be severely punished. january 2015 to terrorists forced their way into the charlie hebdo offices and shot dead 12 people including france's most famous cartoonist coco an artist who survived the attack left her shaking that after the shooting there was a deathly silence. just 2 days later another terrorist seized hostages in a kosher food shop 4 people were killed this trial was an attempt to end

a national trauma. this is an important trial because in this country freedoms are under attack it underlines that we will defend these freedoms and outpolled the law before but even as the case was being heard tara returned to france knife attackers struck near charlie have because form offices a teacher was beheaded and there were fatal stabbing said challenging me. this verdict ends one painful chapter but the threat of terror remains all too real. now to controversy in the world of sports the spotlight has been turned on german gymnastics after allegations of bullying and mistreatment of us spoke to 2 former elite gymnast say the problems are much wider and previously reported. naomi and ruby vandyke are learning to love gymnastics all over again for many years their love for the sport had disappeared. aged 10 and primed for big

things the twins moved to an elite training center near cologne when their performance is dick's they say they were called fat and lazy by their coach just slims the front is the worst thing was when he said he wouldn't come to competitions with us because we were embarrassing him when you're 14 or 15 you need a coach he supports you no matter how badly he always let us down just before the competition saying you're so you have a. reality of them yet miss on one occasion injuring a bar's exercise naomi said she was purposely dropped on her head to teach her a lesson before i had he pushed me 2 or 3 times to go down lower but i knew he wasn't holding me properly that's why i didn't go lower and then i did under pressure but he let go of me and said there you see what if. they complained to the local gymnastics association but say they weren't taken seriously or believed

and makes a field day with the problem with devastating effect on their development as if there's another thing that i still remember when i was 14 i just didn't want to wear my gym outfit anymore i always thought everything about me was wrong how i look where i come from what i do how i talk who i am so it really hurt me as a person back then and also meant as an issue. in a statement to the local association the right nischelle turner said it was quite surprised by the allegations adding the r.c.b. takes the allegations raised very seriously and will clarify the facts as soon as possible. at the time naomi and ruby were given 3 options either put up with the coach quit the sport or estate ended up doing moved to the olympic training center in penates earlier this month problems there were uncovered by the sheiko magazine a dozen other gymnasts accused the head coaching chemists gabriella fraser of

bullying them. making them train through injury naomi and ruby say painkillers and injections were handed out freely without prescriptions and without the knowledge of athletes parents but the twins felt they couldn't speak up because of the baggage they come with. by it because we were always told we were annoying a we were the problem we didn't want to be a nuisance we just wanted to show we were actually hardworking and so that's why we didn't mention a lot of things. on time off this big. freebie that acceptance came with surprise and she was forced to ignore her constant back pain with one coach telling her it was just pretty competition of. and she would often tell me i was imagining the pain in my back but i didn't know the difference between so muscles and real pain that went on for a year and a half and at some point i believed i was imagining it. if

it wasn't her imagination ruby having been denied access to her mit scans would eventually need an operation. fraser who's been suspended pending an investigation has called all the allegations baseless and says she never oversteps the mark it was her strong denials that prompted naomi and ruby to tell their story. stating we can definitely confirm these baseless allegations that the other girls have made by 2 or 3 of them were with us in candidates and we witnessed how badly they were treated it like we can easily say it's not baseless. and. these days the twins only compete in the national league no longer dreaming of international success but at least now they can perform again with a smile on their faces. that report from

jonathan crane he is with us for more hi jonathan good morning to you how significant are these allegations i think they are very significant because up until now in germany we don't e how about problems with one coach copperhead a phrase that he mentioned in the piece as told us they experience problems with another coach who we're not naming for legal reasons and also when they try to then complain to the association they were essentially accused of lying what they've been keen to point out for us is that this is not necessarily about individuals it's more a system that allows these individuals to kind of operation their own bubble with nobody questioning judgments now we've obviously had to put some of these allegations to. german gymnastics federation they say that of all the allegations including those made by name in ruby this is what they've also had to say it is important that the case is independently investigate it if the investigation shows

that structural changes have to be made the d.t.b. were actively addressed them we do not accept any crimes of. encouraging other gymnasts to contact if they also have problems reports i think given everything that's happening with this story now there will be more gymnasts moved to come forward in germany well these allegations come in something that's been a watershed year really for gymnastics on a whole yeah indeed it has i mean these allegations coming out now in germany follow a host of allegations coming from all over the world and they were prompted really by. a documentary on netflix called athlete now this kind of any told the story of a brave gymnasts in the united states coming forward to get justice against the disgraced u.s. team gymnastics. he was eventually found guilty of sexually abusing hundreds of gymnasts he will never now the prison and as a result of that gymnasts from countries like the u.k.

the netherlands. came forward i don't necessarily talking about sexual abuse painting a picture of a really healthy traps in gymnastics these young girls we're talking fat shaming unhealthy at training methods making them train through the pain. is worse for peace seem to be a systemic problem is want to pick up on the training methods and this idea that pain killers and they may be said were handed out freely now we put that to the german gymnastics federation as well and they said that any kind of treatment any kind of painkillers for mine is it does require parental approval clearly in this case that did not seem to be happening where you've been looking into the allegation what are some of the responses in here to them well naturally there has been a bit of pushback as well. i mean some people would say look this is elite sport this is what you expect it's going to be difficult it's not easy you have to push yourself and nobody complains when these athletes bring home medals or other awards that thomas devised who is in charge of the center in kemet he told to speak oh

it's not a child's tea party gymnastics now we tried to get some comment from him he declined to comment on specific allegations while the investigation is ongoing but i talked to naomi ruby about this and they said sure we made sacrifices we train 30 hours a week we missed out on the social events we can go shopping with our friends but where we draw the line is this kind of psychological abuse these unhealthy training methods we have to ask them what price the medal is what price the success and i think is ruby says to me you know there has to be another way just because we've done things like this in the past doesn't mean to say we should do it like that in the future jonathan krane from sports thank you for sharing that reporting with us you're welcome through. right let's take a look at some other stories from around the world authorities in fiji are warning that no part of the pacific island nation is likely to escape the approaching supercycle own the category 5 cyclone with wind gusts of up to 325 kilometers an

hour is expected to bring flash floods huge waves and destruction. and because it has risen to an all time high of $20000.00 the value of the virtual currency has rocketed since march when it was worth just $5000.00 analysts say high risk funds are turning to more exotic investments like bitcoin to make a profit. a chinese lunar probe has returned to earth landing an inner mongolia after completing an historic mission china is only the 3rd country to have brought back samples from the moon surface a feat last achieved by both the soviet union and the u.s. in the 1970 s. . imaging shows the cops who with its precious cargo touching down to earth. helicopters then spot the lunar probe in the icy wasteland support staff quickly move in to recover the spacecraft china

hopes the contents will help scientists discover new information about the geology and history of satellite. chunk 5 was one of the most complicated and challenging missions in china's aerospace 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 land which has dug for rocks and soil the materials were then transferred into a return capsule for the journey back to earth it's the 1st time in 4 decades that material has been brought back from the moon. beijing now has its sights set on building a moon base cementing its role as a superpower in the news face race. football now want to get champions byron munich find themselves in the unusual position of 2nd place on wednesday night they face tough opponents in visitors vosburgh who are yet to lose

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