systems on the. northern lights like the arctic circle starts december 21st g.w. . this is the w. news live from berlin french president emanuel mccraw itself isolating after testing positive for coverage 19 there are concerns about his contacts following a recent e.u. summit some european leaders and are restricting their movements after meetings with the french president also on the program germany's daily company infection rate tops 30000 for the 1st time hospital cases also timing rapidly for reports

from a hospital by john and previously healthy patients battling to stay alive. physically and emotionally abused d.w. speaks we to at least german athletes who reveal their experiences of bullying and mistreatment in the school. 10 years ago today or 2 news in st francis set himself a might spark in a way for uprisings and rebellions against repressive regimes that became known as the arab spring so what has changed since then. i'm still gal while come to the program. french president emanuel mccraw is self isolating after testing positive for coverage 9 taking the office of spain's prime minister petro sanchez says he will quarantine for a week after meeting president macro in paris and diaries to shuck michel martin

will also be strict his movements the french president came into contact with numerous at a youth leaders and officials at a recent summit in brussels. let's get more from correspondent ben riegert in brussels welcome bad as it being has there been any news yet as to where president macro might have contracted the virus. well the elysee palace and many protections in europe are now checking their calendars to see who contacted or had their contact with a man who had not call and there are quite a few contacts in the last days monday and tuesday he met the prime minister of spain the prime minister of portugal and also the president of the e.u. council here in brussels and all 3 men are now in south isolation and michael also attended the e.u. summit a week ago but it's very unlikely that something happened there because he was

tested positive yesterday and the it is a palace and authorities a french francais he is contagious maybe since monday only so there is no need actually for the leaders who attended the summit to go into so isolation and the german chancellor. already said she tested negative after this summit and vicious mudhole speedy recovery and mcauliffe himself he will go into 7 days of isolation and so he has to cancel a couple of the journeys one to trips he wanted to make for example to lebanon but did he say paris is saying he's working he's not that is he's working from home office right ok we're going to take a look at some pictures of a recent summit and we'll be able to see that mass but there's also a lot of touching and the heads leading it together is quite words had have

a huge lead has been sort of letting their guard down. but this is this is of course hard to tell we were not in the room the only can see also the pictures because journalists and not allowed on the premises been the leaders meet in person they were close together they had dialogues standing in the groups together when this should be possible for a couple of minutes because the same situation is if you go into a shop or if you are in public transport that's that's the same the e.u. officially says all rules all hygiene rules had to but the minute the leaders also had lunch and dinner without masks nobody knows exactly how far the distance was but i think it's premature to say that they somehow did not obey the rules ok so what did what other sort of reaction are as likely to come out of brussels as a result of this as i said the calendars are getting checked and some people are

going into south isolation but brussels itself is not so much concerned in paris the prime minister of france is also in search of salacious he's also working from home though this is a little bit of a hindrance but nothing that really keeps people from working and governing and this is not the 1st time that that happened you might remember that also the prime minister of the united kingdom and also the prime minister of bulgaria already suffered from called it ok thank you for that's a bad bigots in brussels. germany's daily covered infection rate is hitting new records topping $30000.00 in a single 24 hour period the health ministry says the e.u. member states a plan to roll out a vaccine provokes a nation program from the 27th of december but as the number of hospital cases in germany skyrocketed sudden leaving doctor has told the w

a face fears that the coming weeks will see more medics making decisions about who gets lifesaving treatment and who doesn't so here's a look at the dire situation at one german hospital. a new kind of a patient has a drive by ambulance or 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 months 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't heal if we lie on them the whole time for turning patients under their stomachs the lungs get and can heal. can use all kinds of 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 that 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's 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 live also been infected . but that's no guarantee for a milder cause of the l. ners. this is a young man 45 years old with a very severe case of covidien 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. 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. well let's get more on this from d.w. correspondent hans branch welcome hans as we see the die situation in one hospital give us a wider picture across germany. as one hospital today that reported that a small tree was overflowing and that it now had to store bodies in refrigerated containers there's also been some alarm about reports from eastern saxony that's in the far east of germany on the border to the czech republic and to poland that's the area where the infections are highest in germany at the moment is pretty remote the hospitals are small their facilities are limited and in that area there are already reports that doctors have to decide whether somebody who is seriously ill

can be given survival chemical you've been given additional treatment so that there might possibly survive or that there might be other patients that have a better chance of survival but also involves transporting people that i was seriously ill for hundreds of kilometers because in this remote areas there is no additional resource available so on paper and germany there are still over 4000 intensive care beds that are free and about 11000 in the emergency hospitals that have been set up in exhibition halls and such like areas but transporting people to those places is not always possible so the situation really is getting more and more critical than german hospitals right but i guess the imminent arrival of a vaccine will help lighten the burden. yes it will but it's not hospital staff that are 1st in line to get this vaccination 1st people that are threatened most seriously by the disease people in care institutions and old age homes and so

on 2nd line the hospital soft but even if the old people get vaccinated 1st that will eventually be a relief to the hospitals because those people will most likely not end up in hospital still vaccination is going to start within about a week so there is some relief on the horizon at the moment ok thank you for that political correspondent husband. i will take a look now at some of the other stories making news around the world starting in russia where president putin has accused the united states of starting a new arms race in these audio news conference facing hundreds of journalists mr putin said washington's refusal to extend the new start treaty which limits that nuclear armaments has forced russia to respond by developing new hypersonic weapons . fiji's declare the state of natural disaster a psycho and he has a heads or starts they say no part of the pacific island nation is likely to escape the category 5 cyclone and have set

a nationwide curfew experts are warning the storm could be in the southern hemisphere is most intense tropical storm on record. for the region opposition leaders for a lot of the kind of guy has received the european parliament struck human rights surprise on behalf of a movement the soccer of prizes for freedom of thought is awarded annually to an individual or group from standing contributions to democracy and human rights for. a cause in paris a sentence 14 people involved in the 2015 attacks on the satirical magazine challis have doe and the jewish supermarket they were convicted of helping the 3 principal attackers who were killed in shootout with police the defendants were jailed for between 4 years and life. now to a controller seeing golfing german gymnastics tesh spiegel magazine recently been ported on allegations of bullying and mistreatment by female coach in the city of candidates the w. has been speaking with to form

a lead to jim the us who say the problem is more widespread than previously been asked. now you know me and ruby vandyke learning to love gymnastics all over again for many years their love for the sport had disappeared. aged 10 and primed for big things between this move to an elite training center near cologne but when their performances do it 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 you're embarrassing me. on one occasion during a ball's exercise naomi said she was purposely dropped on her head to teach her a lesson before 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. 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 pemex 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 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. the ads because we were always told we were annoying. 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. when tom of this big. crazy 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 that we can definitely confirm these baseless allegations that the other girls have made 52 or 3 of them were with us in cannes nets 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 the no longer trimming of

international success but at least now they can perform again with a smile on their faces. was produced by jonathan crane from v.w. sport joins me now welcome jonathan so how significant are these allegations i think they are pretty significant because up until now we don't really heard about one instance in chemist's with one coach gabrielle a phrase what we have for. this was also involving another coach. and also it involved you know the organization the wryness attorney but that was the local gymnastics association who essentially just didn't take the allegations seriously accuse them of lying and. people keen to point out they didn't want to single the blame on individuals but rather a system that allowed these individuals to kind of operate in their own bubble without having any kind of questions asked of them now we've obviously put some of

these allegations to the german gymnastics federation this saying that they're taking all the seriously including those made. naomi and ruby they also say it's important that the cases that independently investigate if the investigation show that structural changes have to be made the d.c.p. will actively address them we do not accept any climates of fear in our gyms now they are encouraging other gymnasts to contact them if they have a problem because i feel like this is going to get bigger this story the more this comes out to be moved to come forward or the sports committee of the german parliament is also keeping an eye on this and they will scrutinize the matzoh for the next year and this is being quite a year in the us yeah exactly. to have these allegations come outs following a wave of other allegations. in the summer specifically and that coincided with the release of a netflix film called athlete

a now this is all about the downfall of the disgraced u.s. team gymnastics. the brave gymnasts in the u.s. came forward and accused him of sexual abuse he was found guilty of that abusing hundreds of goals he will never leave prison now and that really translates to mass in the u.k. the netherlands australia all of the well really to come forward with allegations not of section abuse but other forms of abuse we're talking bullying fat shaming making them a train through injury a real similar pattern that shows the whole culture of the sport is potentially broken and the medical thing as well that we had in the piece that painkillers and stuff being given out freedon on the german gymnastics federation told me you know if you're in my and you need friends from approval for things like that clearly that was not happening and so what sort of response has been for the has been an element of pushback as well because some people would say this is elite sports it's not going to be easy you going to have to make sacrifices and complaining when

athletes are bringing home medals. rewards in fact. the senator and candidates he said they speak on magazine when they made their allegations gymnastics is no child policy he said in other words it's not supposed to be easy he actually went comments to us when we contacted him he said the investigation was ongoing so he can say anything about specific allegations but when i put some of this today i mean really they said yeah we made sacrifices we trained 30 hours a week we were able to see our friends we missed out on social occasions but where we draw the line is these kind of unhealthy training methods and this physical and mental abuse that's where the line is and so we have to kind of what price this success and this really be told me you know things can change that has to be another way just because things were done a certain way in the past doesn't mean to say that they have to be like that in the future thank you for that creigh deeds of useful. 10 years

ago today 2 new zealand street vendor set himself alight in front of his local town hall is desperate act was in process to official corruption and it sparked a wave of uprisings and rebellions against repressive regimes in the region that became known as the arab spring but while some of the protests toppled longtime dictators they also led to a number of civil wars that are still going on. this man lit the spark that left scorch marks across the entire hour bridgend on december 17th 2010 mohamed bouazizi says some cell phone fire to protest official corruption in tunisia he died from his injuries a few weeks later but by then his story of desperation had inspired a nationwide i pouring of rage. and soon afterwards the arab spring protests took down their 1st high profile political target.

tunis is that sure an autocrat zina ben ali fled to saudi arabia with only a few family members and close aides into. the antigovernment protests multiplied rapidly be on to his ears borders with anger over repressive regimes economic hardship and political failure spilling onto the streets social media was used to spread the word on organize and few of our countries were left untouched by the unrest some of the biggest upheaval was experienced in egypt where decades long ruler hosni mubarak was overthrown setting the stage for a power struggle eventually won by the military. and libya syria and yemen became embroiled in for trucks of conflicts which are still taking a huge humanitarian toll today. while the international community

also played a role in this people across the arab world sally is a middle east analyst from the global public policy institute and he says that western countries prioritized at their own interests of the humanitarian issues that sparked the revolts. we should definitely look at the western democracies and how they have. development and since 2011 as they have often publicly claimed and stated that they support the end use of these rouge protest movements right and 1st and foremost that you know you're in union and its member states and the united states has actually put their interest in stability in the region over the protection of human rights and demands of the protesters for the most part at least the basic assumption underlying this is that the autocrats of the region will provide stability and but that is fundamentally flawed in my opinion as long as citizens and most arab house respects period and high levels of inequality the

repression and injustice that has actually sparked the protests 10 years ago. and these are actually the very basis of the author of carrying rulers in those countries they do not contribute to stability in the region quite the opposite i say from the global a public policy institute will take a look now at some of the other stories making news around the world a major winter storm has hit much of north east of the northeast coast of the united states disrupting transport systems and causing traffic mayhem a 2 people died after a major highway pileup involving 60 vehicles in the state of pennsylvania. and next year but in film festival above the nominee will look very different a u.s. magazine varieties reporting that the 71st brought it out it will take place in march virtually 0 organizers hope to put on a scaled down version of the festival with some on site screenings engine.

or a chinese lunar probe has completed its historic mission and returned to earth landing in net in a mongolia china is only the 3rd country to have brought back samples from the moon's surface a feat last achieved by the soviet union and the united states in the 1970 s. . thermal imaging shows the capsule with its precious cargo touching back 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 lander 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 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 launch a crude space program. 10 years later china hit another milestone successfully landing in unpiloted spacecraft on the moon. it was the 1st soft landing since the soviet union success in 1976. more chinese cheers in january 2019 in a global 1st aloon approach touching down on the far side of the moon boosting

china's space ambitions mars is also in its sights this year beijing launched a probe to the red planet. effect and in july china put the final satellite into orbit for its chinese navigation system the country's arrival to the u.s. alone g.p.s. . beijing now has its sights set on building a moon base cementing its role as a superpower in the news face race. it's time to monitor our top stories out this hour french president emmanuel ma cross has tested positive for conflict 19 all self isolate for 7 days a year leaders who had recent contact with him a concern on spain's prime minister by the quarantine and islands that teeshirt is restricting his movements. coming up next indeed if you knew

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