northern works within the arctic circle starts december 21st on w. . doesn't do w. news live from berlin hundreds of abducted boys and 90 area walking to freedom. first images of the schoolboys kidnapped last week by islamist militants arriving on government buildings in the northern city of thena their abduction prompted public anger and fresh demands for better protection for nigeria's children. also

coming up germany's daily coleridge 19 cases surged past the 30000 mark and deaths top 800 the country's health minister brandy's a new law spelling out the life saving job 1st and who will have to wait. welcome to the program many of the $300.00 plus school boys kidnapped in northern nigeria are now free the boys who were abducted from their school in the northwestern state of casino racine arriving a government buildings on friday the students will undergo medical examinations before being reunited with their loved ones nigeria's president says their release was quote a big relief to their families the entire country and the international community the jihadist group boko haram claimed responsibility for the kidnapping.

you know your correspondent who wants to interest joins me now from a buddha and the wife too good to have you with us we just saw the boys arriving at casino state governor at the casino st governor's office as they walk their themselves barefoot some carrying their belongings what more do we know about how they are. their boys are writing because. the government has been received by the governor and the. tradition and then chicken that has. you don't have a section have a really. long time in the one ship one trout. to high people go up in the. parent. how big of a victory is there rescue for the president he had come under

a lot of fire for his handling of the situation well it is a big relief for the president to get this boy. rescued or released. but you know. something that the position he had. in mind what happened when. he was he. said when. gloria has repeatedly claimed boko haram has been technically defeated what does this kidnapping tell us about their presence and strength in nigeria. if there are 5 what many people like you say you look or are a lot in technical duty you did yes still around truong deal or leaders do what they come to town to do a task. but what happened in my degree of our mary where to slaughter some really

serious shit to sicken me every day and then the abduction of this would give the i wanted to push so many of the government 6 search of schools down in the northern part of the county to w a correspondent why so interests in a budget thank you for that update that. germany's 1000 crisis keeps escalating more than 30000 new cases confirmed in a single day as germans hope tighter lockdown restrictions will start to bring those numbers down deaths related to cope with 19 are also climbing and they tend to lag behind infection numbers by several weeks the country's 2nd wave is threatening to overwhelm the country's medical system hospitals and the worst hit areas have begun to transfer patients to less severely affected places. to talk more about this we're joined by hans but and political correspondent hans welcome

germany's infection rate is at its highest since the beginning of the pandemic walk us through how that is affecting the country's health care infrastructure. well as we've just seen the number of deaths is rising very rapidly and in many hospitals in germany the limits of all to be reached or have been reached already that's especially true for areas in eastern germany or in the far east of germany which at the moment have the highest infection rates in the country these are rather remote areas where hospitals are small and their facilities are limited in their in those areas people are being moved out of those hospitals every day and only back by helicopter to other parts of germany where there are still beds available all of the shifting around of patients is happening in many regions of germany at the moment so the health system is under strain it's not overstrained

yet but at the same time one has to say overstrained other people who are working in these hospitals they've been working very hard this is a very often physically exhausting work and many of them themselves are either infected or so exhausted that their card work anymore are german lockdown measures not working or why do we continue to see thet only increasing infections and death . well we have to see that the infections that we are calling to know are people that infected themselves maybe 10 days ago and the people the deaths that are so we are seeing are people that are infected themselves maybe 3 weeks ago so there is a lag involved in this and we have to say that the measures that were in place 10 days or 3 weeks ago were not sufficient they were not working the more severe lockdown was only impose this week but there is some hope as a result of the vaccinations that are about to start with. vaccinating agent that was developed in germany about which should germany has shown me very proud of we

have a report about this let's have a look at this report. by on tech began as a small startup back in 2008 now the world's focus is on the vaccine development and mind one of its early backers the german government is pleased to be seeing a return on its investment. it's my concern myself also as the head of the federal government we are incredibly proud that we have researchers like this here in germany doesn't. read about the corona virus outbreak in china in january and predicted a global pandemic you decided to really direct their resources from research in cancer to finding a coronavirus vaccine. site it's a very exciting time when we get the approval from the european authorities we can start delivering our vaccine potentially even this year our employees will work

through christmas to make sure that our vaccine makes it to all countries. and. initially some 400000 doses will be kept for use in germany if the e.u. gives the green light by the 23rd of december faction nations could get underway here by the 27th. slice of it so. it's clear who will be receiving the vaccine 1st our primary goal is to protect people over 80 years old and those who live or work in retirement homes or care facilities. the health minister says the rest of society will have to wait their turn for the vaccine. hence media reports are that that response vaccine rollout plan diverges from the commission's recommendation what do we know about that. there's a health minister will be signing this regulation today and he has confirmed that

in fact where is the experts had curriculum and it's 6 groups 6 levels of patients that all people that should be vaccinated he has regrouped this into 3 groups and the reason for that is that he feels that his middle flexible so you don't have to just finish vaccinating everyone in the top groove before you can go one step further down so he feels that with his flexibility the whole situation will be more easy more easily. managed in this situation but the main priority still remains with people that are over 80 years old and with people that are involved in caring for sick patients especially in hospitals you know you political correspondent hans brown thank you very much. meanwhile the u.s. has moved closer to approving a 2nd covert 19 back scene after an independent panel of experts and doris the shot made by pharmaceutical company modernity the decision paves the way for the f.d.a.

to approve emergency use of the vaccine the u.s. has already started its mass immunization with a covert vaccine by biotech finds or the e.u. under pressure to follow suit said it to with speed up its approval of the modern of vaccine now a decision is expected on january 6th. let's take a look at the latest global developments in the pandemic china is planning to vaccinate 15000000 higher risk people before the start of its lunar new year at least 4 chinese made vaccines are in phase 3 testing a study in singapore suggests pregnant women with cove at 19 do not get more ill than the wider population the study also found that babies born to infected mothers have antibodies against the virus and officials in australia have declared sydney's northern beaches a coronavirus hot spot 21 beaches will be closed because of a spike in cases sydney residents are being urged to stay at home. now take

a look at some of the other stories making news around the world the u.n. secretary general antonio good terrorists has addressed the german bund us talk today telling lawmakers the kovac 19 vaccine should be affordable and accessible to everyone tara she also praised germany's response to the pandemic speech as part of anniversary events to mark the 75th anniversary of the un's founding. the northeastern united states has been hit by record amounts of snow the powerful snow storm has hit massachusetts pennsylvania and new york affecting 16000000 people officials have warned of near impossible travel conditions and have asked people to stay off the roads. and some sports news now russia faces consequences over its doping practices the country's banned from competing ads or hosting major international sporting events has been upheld for 2 years

including the next 2 a lympics and the football world cup in qatar but the ruling from the sport's highest court does cut in half the 4 year ban the world anti-doping agency had imposed individual russian athletes will however be allowed to compete at those events if they are not implicated in doping here's a look back at the entire russian doping saga. the russian doping scandal became headline news in late 2015. the country was banned from world death led ics and its national doping agency was also suspended. in 2016 the world anti-doping agency commissioned a major report it alleged state sponsored doping across a wider range of sports including at the sochi 2014 winter olympics in russia. the international olympic committee opted against a blanket ban on russia competing at the 2016 rio games but the pressure increased

and by the 28000 winter games in south korea russian athletes had to march as neutrals under the olympic flag. the i.o.c. president thomas bach then lifted the ban and russia's anti-doping agency was reinstated. but by $29.00 team there were allegations that moscow the arbitrary data had been manipulated before being handed to the world anti-doping agency it led to water imposing a new 4 year ban on russia competing across a range of sports including the tokyo olympics however russia could play and help post the european men's football championship as it was not deemed a major event. russia appealed the overall ban to the court of arbitration for sport the world's highest sports court which has now ruled that the band would be

held but for 2 years instead of for. president vladimir putin had always denied the existence of a state run which open program but now that the c.i.s. has rejected the appeal the kremlin has nowhere left to turn. our munich's robert lewandowski has won the 5th best men's player of the year award after scoring 55 goals in all competitions last season's he beats previous winners from china rinaldo and leant on messi to the prize pool held fire in the champions league bundesliga and german cup trouble it's a 32 year old 1st global award meanwhile england defender lucy bronze took the women's prize 29 year old won the champions league with leo in august before moving to manchester city. and a quick reminder of the top story we're following for you germany has registered more than 30000 new covert 19 infections and over 800 deaths in one day the health

minister is readying a last stelling out who can get an ocular late at 1st. coming up next a new edition of our documentary series doc films us politics for sale the power of the make coverage that's all for me. we'll have more headlines for you at the top of the hour for me and the entire d.w. news team thanks for watching. new year mean no no here's we're going to do to you and stares german sausage i want to bring you. i'm. surprised to see what is possible who is medical really what moves. along the way maurice and critics want to join us from eccles last august.