this is deja news live from berlin and the french president emmanuel mccall is self isolating up to testing positive for covert 9 take a few ladies are concerned about black holes recent contacts spain's prime minister sanchez is already in quarantine and the leader of island is to restrict his movements as well also coming out new delhi infections top 30000 in germany for the

1st time and hospital cases are also climbing rapidly we report from the front lines way young and previously healthy patients battling to stay alive. tough physically and emotionally abused we speak to too late german gymnast who revealed their experiences of bullying and mistreatment into support. and 10 years ago today to museum street vendor set himself on fire as fucking a revolutionary wave across the region known as the arab spring but a decade on the water has really challenged. i'm rebecca riches welcome to the program french president emanuel mike hall is self isolating after he tested positive for covert 9 taking the office of spanish.

minister pederast sanchez says he too will quarantine for a week after meeting with machall in paris islands prime minister will also restrict his movements the french president also came into contact with numerous layers and high level officials at a summit in brussels. for more on this let's bring in an elizabeth mateschitz a freelance journalist in paris and elizabeth what's the latest how is macondo. who has no symptoms he is a self isolating. he tested positive his wife today is one of tested negative the day before yesterday because she went to visit a hospital so she will be isolated from him until they see whether in the meantime she might have passed it on to her but the chief of staff of the eighty's is also supposed to isolate and as well as the chairman of the national assembly so a lot of people that he's met over the last the last few days he will you working

out of. the 1st floor of the it easy for at least a week indeed as you mentioned he met with many many high profile people in the last days a year later as as well as during an interview somewhat in brussels at the end of last week do we know who else needs to choir in st. i think the portuguese president was in front yesterday and will have to wear a t. . and. he has also talked with various negotiators in the team talking about roxanne so that's also something that's also a bunch of people who will have to quarantine in the list is not finished yet there will be more now we're just looking at some pictures of emmanuel mack who at that summit and he's standing rather close to all the a year later is now he is somebody who's obviously been very strict and very vocal about the guidelines has not problem let down his guard what you say. i would see yes and it's not new because there have been often you know footage of him

going in official visit going to to meet with people staying along and taking off and cutting back his mosque the same mosque in the way that we would all of a last spring that we're not supposed to do it that's when you didn't have p.p.d. in france and therefore the advice from the government was that he didn't really need it in any way it was there was a technical just show you're not supposed to touch the mosque itself you're just supposed to touch the strings on either side and it was too difficult for us to to to use mass and then of course when we americans have enough people in became compulsory. he's the inconsistent to all those that have been moments when he gave interviews with out of us there have been moments when he made a point of wearing a mask it was not it was not a single sort of code of behavior he did various things at various times or analyser 10 journalists in paris thanks very much. here. the

number of new covert 19 infections in germany has risen to its highest yet topping 30000 in a single 24 hour period germany's health minister says all a u. member states planned to roll out a vaccination program on december 27th but as the number of hospital cases here rises dramatically elating doctor fears that in the coming weeks while medics will be left making decisions on who gets lifesaving treatment we look now at the already dire situation in one general hospital. a new kind of a patient has a drive by ambulance a tribe or good university hospital he's traveling in a special isolation pod so none of the transport team gets infected the 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 covert 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 for turning patients on to their stomachs the lungs get and can heal. pretty soft and high and. 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 have 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 that 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 course 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 every single patients life here but the time off to christmas could turn into the intensive care teams was nightmare. they have these homes planned is covering the situation here in germany for us hands an alarming situation some doctors having to make very tough decisions about how to treat what more can you tell us about the situation in hospitals here. well yes there's one hospital this morning that reported that there are more tree capacities have been exhausted and they're having to start storing bodies in refrigerator

containers and there's also been some alarming last 24 hours about reports from eastern sections saxony those in the far east of germany on the border between the checked with the czech republic and poland that's the region that has the highest incidence of infections at the moment it's fairly remote to the hospitals are small their capacity is limited and there it is said that decisions about whether or not a patient gets life prolonging treatment store already need to be taken for instance in the case where people have to be transported to other hospitals hundreds of kilometers away sometimes they're too weak to be able to make such a journey so on paper the situation in germany still looks pretty good there sort about 4 and a half 1000 intensive care beds available and an emergency reserve of 11000 emergency hospitals for instance in exhibition holes but in certain regions the situation is dire already all eyes and hopes are of course on vaccines getting the

go ahead from able thora teas and being rolled out how fast can hospitals expect to see a relief from map. hospitals in fact are not the 1st to be able to get the vaccine and about a week's time the 1st people will be people in care homes aged people who are most threatened by the disease on the other hand these will be people that and that will then probably not end up in hospital so that will be some relief for hospitals 2nd and care personnel including hospital stuff so they can reckon on getting the shots pretty quickly they have been pushing for this to happen as quickly as possible because of the difficult situation they're facing now with germany being in a hot a lockdown now until the 10th of january given the situation this die situation in the hospitals almost germans willing to accept these new tougher lockdown missions has indeed they are most recent polls show that about 3 quarters of the people are

in favor of the locked all and i think in the light of the reports that are coming out of hospitals and all that preparedness to follow the rules is actually increasing randi to be political correspondent thank you. let's turn on some of the other stories making news around the world russian president vladimir putin has faced hundreds of journalists at his annual news conference in moscow appearing via video link the president answered questions about covert 19 russia's vaccine and the economy and says he himself has not yet been vaccinated but will be as soon as possible. the european court of justice says devices that we used to cheat diesel admission tests were illegal faults wagon and other comic has used so-called shutoff devices to make their vehicles appear less polluting in lab tests the devices were at the center of the diesel gate scandal which has engulfed the entire industry. fiji has declared a state of natural disaster

a cycle and yes the hits authorities say no part of the pacific on the nation is likely to escape the category 5 cyclone and have set a nationwide curfew some experts warn the storm could be the southern hemisphere is most intense tropical storm on record. and to a controversy in the world of sports now with the spotlight on german gymnastics a report by germany's dish bagle magazine recently shed light on serious allegations of bullying and mistreatment by a female coach at a national gymnastics center in the city of chemists but now de w. has spoken to 2 former elite gymnast's who trained there and elsewhere and i say the problems are much wider than previously reported. naomi and ruby vandyke learning to love gymnastics all over again for many years their love for the sport hatch disappeared. h 10 and primed for big things between this

move to an elite training center nico. when their performances do it they say they were called fat and lazy by their coach thus slim's 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 too heavy and you're embarrassed i may be out of them yet miss on one occasion cheering a ball as exercise naomi said she was purposely dropped on her head to teach her a lesson before has 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 that you see. 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 if they ended up doing move to the olympic training center in pemex. earlier this month problems there were uncovered by dish magazine does another gymnasts accuse the head coaching chemists gabrielle fraser of bullying them and making them train through injury naomi and ruby say pain killers and injections were handed out freely without prescriptions and without the knowledge of athlete's parents but the twins felt they couldn't speak up because of the package they come with. 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. one time of this big. fraser who's been

suspended pending an investigation has called all the allegations baseless and says she never overstepped the mark it was her strong denials that prompted naomi and ruby to tell their story. stating that we can definitely confirm these baseless allegations that the other girls have made. 2 or 3 of them are with us in candidates and we witnessed how badly they were treated. we can easily say it's not baseless. and they convince us that. 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. and joining me now is doug marsh hi todd who chairs the sports committee of the german bundestag. thanks for joining us what is yours.