are afraid of being attacked and are scared to leave the camps at night. which it's awful after 5 pm i don't go out even not to the pharmacy or the market. looking. for most people here a return to syria is unthinkable. houses destroyed and he fears being arrested his name is on the regime's wanted list and so he'd rather stay here than risk being put into a torture prison. when many of the more than 300 schoolboys kidnapped in northern nigeria and now free the boys who were abducted from their school in the northwest state of katsina have arrived in government buildings the students will undergo medical examinations before being reunited with their loved ones nigeria's president said their release was a big relief to their families the entire country and the international community the jihadist group boko haram claimed responsibility for the kidnapping but the

government has cast doubt on those claims. correspondent florist joins me now from lagos flourish me just so pictures of the boys arriving at the. governor's all from the office what more do we know about how they are. what we know about the boys right now he's that we do know that they had experience not seen on the ground kyra had the opportunity to talk to one of the boys and he said he feels one describe it joy to just be back contacts be back to safety they haven't yet been reunited after ice they are still in government custody some of them describe that they would need to walk in the forest on then fruits flubs 2 days the only stop to sleep in the nights before the t.v. that journey day very for his handling of the situation.

this case has very quickly become a political issue. people all highly sconce believe that this is very much if you cheat for a president who hardly of course because he can see that's the. reaction because right now as we speak president will how he's going to great to have the president when he seems even before they are united in their families and even for the r.g.p. made should there is ground to be the president of course he sees this as he as he as he beat the cheat while he's 0 points out also saying that he's using this as and what she needs to make he's the district should do. the floors bihari has repeatedly claimed has been technically defeated what does this kidnapping tell us about their presence and the strength in nigeria.

well 1st of all that led to point out that the government has. p.p.t. refused to. talk was carried out bible however if even the cuts even if it wasn't carried out by the fact that it happened in the 1st please tells us that there are many more threats to the nature u.s. security than just to iraq it's very clear tells us that the security conditions. is rocky to terry i'm the president claims that it locked up and what's being put in place and he's asking danger as. you know we still i'm improve the security quite shows. but if this attack tells us anything it tells us that the security quick to shine in a 15 people will never. corresponded florist.

thanks so much. ok let's take a look at some stories making news bitcoin has risen to another record high topping $23000.00 u.s. dollars value of the virtual currency has rocketed this year this could be a boon for platforms like coin base which on thursday to go public it would be the 1st big american exchange to list on the stock market. heavy snowstorm in japan has left thousands of vehicles stranded on a major highway between tokyo and the northwest of the country soldiers were dispatched to provide food blankets and portable toilets japan's where the agency is forecasting even having a snow fall over the weekend. meanwhile the northeast united states is digging out from its own massive snowstorm from pennsylvania across new york to the moment people watched up to one of snow pile up more than 16000000 people are affected by

the early season snowstorm. british and you ladies have turned pessimistic of of the likelihood of finding a post break that trade deal that is prime minister bars johnson says the chance of an ideal outcome in last minute talks now looks very likely he's been locked in discussions with european commission president on the line who says of the coming remaining differences will be a huge challenge your pain parliament has set a sunday deadline for an agreement. well some affects of britain's exit from the e.u. old body being felt many doctors and nurses from the e.u. countries have been living in the u.k. and they're proving hard to replace quickly. even if it does rain a bit too much luigi donofrio has grown to love london needs a place where you can really integrate people coming from all over the ward by the old live together and this is amazing. he's worked as

a nurse in south london for 6 years and has become a head nurse but now he's going back to his family in northern city since it wrecks a referendum he feels neglected by the british government as an e.u. citizen that his work during the pandemic has gone on appreciated. our boys have never been heads and we've never been on the rada even during last year we supported u.k. in many different ways but i've never seen much a person appreciation would never be known the rod. and spoil out the e.u. citizens in the future doctors and nurses will need to be if they want to work in the u.k. already far fewer entering now than did before breaks it. the coronavirus pandemic has exposed deve flaws in the u.k. health service amongst them a shortage of staff so every year doctor nurse. that goes back to their home

country leaves a gap on the hospital ward or in the cowherd. everything that i think about raj siegel runs several nursing homes in 04 in eastern england he often discusses with his team how to cope with stuff shortages since the bracks referendum it has been nearly impossible for him to find qualified workers. 120 stalls. we are now down to 98 permanent staff and the rest is made up of agency staff and where we had for approximately 20 odd european nationals we're down to one or 2. from portugal as to so remaining e.u. work job is hard minimum wage with lots of overtime we the big city if. people can come out we'll be. at can to either out get us i think now

can take at about this people. the elderly people whom she cares for have become like family to maria in spite of brags that she wants to stay in britain for the time being but most of her friends have already gone back home a court of arbitration for sport has cut russia's olympic ban from 4 years to 2 russian change will not be able to compete at the next 2 games individual russian athletes will however be allowed to take part if they are not implicated inducting the ruling could signal the end of russia's long running battle with. 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 that 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. by $29.00 teams there were allegations that moscow laboratory data had been manipulated before being handed to the world anti-doping agency it led to wada 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 appeal be overall ban to the court of arbitration for sport the world's highest sports court which has now ruled that the ban would be up held but for 2 years instead of for. president vladimir putin had always denied the existence of a state run the open program but now that the c.i.s. has rejected the appeal the kremlin has nowhere left to turn. a blind. he has won the think men's player of the year award after scoring some 55 competition goals previous wins christiane i'm going. to stay home help find the champions league and a german travel it's 32 year old. global award in england bronze took the women's process the 29 year old won the champions league with the all before moving to manchester city. and

a quick reminder of the top stories we're following for you this hour germany's health minister has presented the government's timetable for vaccinating people against. and they can't give us will be given top priority no question said to begin on december 27th. many of the more than 30300 abducted boys in nigeria to a government complex in the country's north were kidnapped last week by suspected islamic knows. and coming up next in asia the commas in a standoff with the indian government of a new market reforms not going anywhere. and the interactivity that gets the blood flowing and keep the spirits high in. a story small with my colleague. after a short break more from me at the top of the al until then you can get all the lead's news and information around the clock on our web site that's to be found at

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are very welcome to. join us for almost a month now thousands of farmers in india have been camped just outside the capital protesting against the government of prime minister narendra modi say 3 new agricultural laws passed in september make them worse off the government says the farmers are wrong these opposing views have led to a deadlock despite several rounds of negotiations between both sides. of these farmers for they view on what's at stake. 3 weeks out in the winter cold passions are still running high at this protest thousands of farmers have occupied this mean highway today with a simple ultimatum repeal the new farm laws or we will see put. that in the record has worked tirelessly at a free kitchen to thieve the protesting farmers. she sees the blockade as an

opportunity she wants to teach her young daughters what it means to fight for their right and what you're going to comicon with come here to show our kids how to protest to struggle when they grow up they should know we are sikhs we are farmers who belong it is our duty government back beyond saying believes the new family laws will likely slash margins on his sugarcane crop the new legislation allows farmers to sell to corporates but seen believes this will eventually undermine the security of the minimum support price tag indeed by the government. he is also frustrated that farmers were not consulted before the laws were passed for him it is an unwanted gift or got a home the government is trying to explain to us why these laws are for our benefit listening to us the government thinks we're ignorant we don't understand the law vital and how to stand is that a farmer who takes

a crop from seed to harvest everything. and it is this determination to make the government listen that has made this protest and crowing force to reckon that. back in the water of delhi and this 12 kilometers stretch that board with free medical and food kitchens and the temporary home for housing for farmers this is the part of 2 minutes i veteran during affairs journalist peace sign up is out to talk to the farmers in his view the negotiations collapse because amending what he calls fundamentally bad laws won't change their content. he also says this government's lack of consistency on promises made to farmers over the years has increased the distrust he acknowledges that the current system needs reform but he feels these laws failed to do that. you have

already agrarian the agrarian we've known for years you know 300 of them. i want to live for now the young and the old have come together don't mean to make their voices heard. despite the bitter cold and the deadlock their spirits are high. for 69 years worth one thing she did distort test it's a celebration she has filled land since childhood and he says the time has come to teach the government a much needed lesson the enemy know we've been protesting in punjab for 3 months now the prime minister could have said something to us then now that with come to his home he's run away mine is that how you treat guests ready to stay for 6 months this isn't even the beginning we're just getting started. you know the government insists that the farm was a misunderstanding the intent of. however the pharmacy be having faced what it done

and baton charges for a cause they don't pass they are adamant they will not give up till the more the government backs down. and joining me for more now is david drucker he's a farmer himself and chairman of the. farmers organization in india good to have you on the program now despite assurances from the government to the contrary farmers are still convinced that they will be worse off under the new farm laws why is that. so you areas governments over the last many many years in a bid to keep food inflation in control have artificially suppressed farmgate prices for years and literally for decades and now the majority of farmers who are not getting the short prices want to short answers for their produce while the few farmers who get a short prices are worried that they will lose the benefits now these fears are not

unfounded in the run up to these 33 acts that have been formulated by by the parliament there have been many indications from government functionaries and government offices about limiting or doing away with support pricing mechanisms as they exist the c.a.c.p. with sets the support prices or the central bank the reserve bank of india or a union minister have all said and some what their terms about the possibility of how support prices are not sustainable and that's why the fears actually exist but the overall argument coming from the government so here is to be that farmers will have more choice they will not be bombed by the government marketplaces where they get these assured support prices that you're referring to and you know that sounds quite reasonable resolute so you know i just give you an example of what these combination of the these 3 bills do now imagine a stock exchange which are without

a regulator where share transactions are not recorded where data is not collected where they grieved party in this case the farmers are being denied redressal recourse of civil courts no farmers have a choice if traders come to one platform this is a great gated markets don't increase competition but they increase the monopoly as even price discovery becomes impossible for farmers in such a situation terms of trade will become worse for farmers and over the longer term the choices will vanish. now there is there is a thing one point of agreement at least between the center and the farmers and that is that indian agriculture requires an overhaul and the government is adamant that these laws help to do that so what you are saying is that that is not the case and the government's intentions are perhaps less than noble no not at all i think the government's intentions are very noble they want to do good for the majority of the people but the way the bureaucracy has gone about enacting these laws the trust

deficit between the government and farmers has increased these off issues have not only misled the prime minister's office they did not consult farmers all state governments before notifying the law ordinances so rather than focus on processes they have been fixated on outcomes and whenever that is done. end result is never a good is never a good one but there have been at least 5 rounds of negotiations with the government and the government has assured farmers that look these minimum prices of support will be available yet the farmers don't seem convinced no it's not about just minimum support prices very small portion of the farmers get minimum support prices it's it's farmers feel that these bills will take away what they were little benefits they have off the markets i think so it's the government's responsibility to be magnanimous to listen to the farmers to win their

trust have empathy it's necessary that farmers return to their villages not feeling that they have lost a battle but with the reassurances that the central government is working for their benefit and not working for league ox and corporate houses i think the ball is in the central government's court to win the hearts of farmers are there how do you see these protests ending do you see this deadlock continuing. i hope the government stops listening to their bureaucracy i have all the government starts listening to the people who elected them and i think it's in the hands of the government now where and when these protests and as i said the government has good intentions now it needs to find a way to address those intentions into into actions are david drucker a pleasure talking to thank you so much thank you.

year round in the chinese city avoid the river banks of the young sea the river tracked a steady stream of visitors 2020 of course changed all that a lockdown and fear that waterways could be cutting the coronavirus kept people away but china's massive surveillance and contact tracing efforts have outbreaks on the way in the crowds have now flocked back to the river banks and even over the edge. warming up before a bracing daily ritual in lieu hon. these are the riverside regulars refresh by a frigid plunge into the young the river many credit their good health to a vigorous swim through its murky brown waters. do you all there's a difference between swimming in winter and swimming in summer but as for winter swimming i can say after you try you may not be able to change the habit and will

be addicted to it. a famous figure from china's past popularized the practice chairman mao founder of communist china in 1966 a staged women the young see helped melt launch a political comeback nearly 50 years on his strongman image has remained afloat among the river swimmers of. chairman mao was still swimming in the young sea in his seventy's so we learned from chairman mao to swim in the big waves of the river right having such a good source of water we must learn from the practice we must insist on swimming in the young sea river. while a fund a version for strong swimmers the mighty young sea also poses a drowning hazard a volunteer lifeguard squad some 2000 strong make it their business to be ready so far they've chalked up 700 rescues. where we

swimmers saved people from the water before we formed an official volunteer squad but we did not have scientific rescue skills so we decided to get organized and train with each other to carry out scientific rescue operations from withdrawal. as winter sets in a steady flow of swimmers slices through the water another sign of the city coming back to life and its people going out to seize the day. that's of the lives of course more on. facebook and twitter as well or really even now with a look at south korea as the end all but lantern festival celebrating. its not a little ahead of the direct mission throwback abundance or that of.

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success. at some scribe like the. kooks. hope. physically draining and emotionally exhausting. health care workers on the front lines. are being pushed to the brink too often their work is only. the w.h.o. says there is a global shortfall. of some 6000000 nurses it's an especially big issue in poor countries because qualified workers tend to move abroad for better opportunities. but even in richer nations the worker isn't especially well paid in germany for example nurses earn 20 percent less than the average wage. coronavirus has brought their experience and faces to the fore. how big

a toll is the crisis having on health care workers. welcome to your covert 19 special. the already tough job for health care workers has only become more challenging in the pen demick regardless of which part of the world here is the w.'s all over salads with this report from the u.s. state of south dakota. south dakota one of america's least populated states but yet the virus has spiraled out of control here like nowhere else in the u.s. . in the city of sue false a mask mandate was put in place recently without sanctions many citizens remain defiant i think it's a good idea that people wear masks but some people ball get the idea of being told to do so i think with some of the shutdowns are doing and the picking and choosing that they're doing is making it

a lot of businesses like most of the people nowadays like even ehlers are not right now but i think it's for the best like there's happy. south dakota now sees the highest hospitalisation rate of the u.s. and there is no relief in sight here at the vera mccann in hospital the intensive care unit is at capacity patients are dying from cold on a daily basis putting a big strain on nurses and doctors who are increasingly overwhelmed by the amount of patients they're seeing every day. out of schroeder is one of them he and his colleagues are working 12 hour shifts trying to save those who are at the brink of death. a task which comes with the personal toll we deal with a lot of dying right now unfortunately not everybody is recovering you know we'd like it a little harder every day people are coming in typically are requiring much oxygen

a lot of them end up getting a breathing tube. and from there you know it's just a battle for their life if you talk to their families we do that's one of the tougher things right now is especially for code patients who are not allowing visitors so. talking with families on a daily basis updating him on what we're doing and how the patients doing that's a really big thing right now kind of scene at his weekly press conference mayor paul 10 hakan of the republican party updates his community about the latest developments the mayor has been criticized over his handling of the pandemic or you've been hesitant in the 1st place with a mask mandate why is it such a challenge for you to convince or send us a necessary to wear a mask in this part of the country i think there's a fierce independence a lot of people have made the mistake of calling a cowboy country at one point and people didn't appreciate that but the point of that term meaning we're independent we don't like people telling us what to do.

christina bjorkman wishes for more government action against the pen demick told her she lost her husband took over at 19 after a 30 day long struggle at the hospital her ordeal. where. she says his death could have been avoided with stricter rules. the whole mask mandate got political and should've never been political and should have been a medical thing. and i think it just got so blown out of proportion and. i think maybe it came from our president he started it. christina bjorkman is pinning her hopes now on the president elect and a nationwide mask mandate once he takes office be full of then thousands more could die from cold at 19 in south dakota and the rest of the united states.

now one indicator for how prepared a health system is to battle the coronavirus emergency is the excess ability of intensive care here's a look at the real ability of i.c.u. beds in selected countries germany has 33.9 critical care beds for every 100000 people in the united states there are 25.8 and 10.6 intensive care beds for every 100000 people in korea in india that number is at $7.00 and finally mexico $3.00 beds the number of intensive care beds is only one factor having excess capacity is less helpful when there aren't enough personnel to tend to them and that's exactly the problem in many cases let's talk to someone familiar with the challenges. as the head of the german nurses association he joins me via skype welcome to w. now the germany and europe are stuck in the 2nd wave tell us about the experiences

that nurses and other caregivers are reporting back to you nurses and all professionals in germany they have a heavy vote in the workload these days because of that and make it has reached unprecedented levels and they have to take care of many many patients seriously ill patients we know that many patients die once they have to be of it's nice you and in particular at the nursing homes the residents are severely ill quite often and many of them have it and this is puts a lot of pressure on all health professionals and into the on the nurses in particular. here in germany there are complains that there are not enough nurses to handle the rising number of covered $9000.00 patients and could one also argue that a pandemic simply is such an extraordinary event that hospitals would be understaffed in any case. both is true to a degree but primarily it's that we do not have enough nurses to take care of

patients in normal times so outside and then make compared to other european countries we have a much higher workload some more patients per nurse than others and in of course in a situation like this now and then make revery have extreme situations this shortage reaches and you will level and. verse and by that. and where is this short it's coming from for many years our governments haven't invested in more nurses so we had cut off nurse positions in nurses in the hospitals over the last 15 or started 15 years ago with a new way of financing hospital cost and that has never been revoked and we have been more than 10 years that we need more nurses and we have in addition we have an aging workforce so many nurses are going to retire within the next to 12 into the

grove years so nobody listens to our plates and we hope this will change now some say it's all about the pay which is too low for such a demanding job would more money solve the problem of there not being enough healthcare workers. money alone wouldn't be the solution if we ask nurses what they want most is that they say i want to call the so i want to reduce my workload and then of course on the 2nd or 3rd place in what they want is a better salary we had a buy variation between salaries in germany difference between regions and different between hospitals and nursing homes for example so an increase would be good and our association. is asking for $4000.00 euro as a starting salary for each nurse now during the 1st wave of the pandemic people start on their balconies and applauded frontline workers we don't see any of that right now does that bother you not really because you know it is

a pleasant pleasant sign or a symbolic gesture. getting some applause but applause but to be honest i have more benefits if you get better payment more positions for nurses so this is only a kind of a token evens and sounders is there really and up by that because they said oh yeah now in this situation where you are afraid you are getting up close but in every day when we have difficult situations when we are complaining about clothes we don't listen we don't hear anything from you from talking out of the german nurses association thank you for your insights. time now for your questions about the coronavirus here is our science correspondent to eric williams. can we achieve her demeanor see if you can get angry in fact it. there are plenty of questions about this pandemic where we still don't have really clear cut answers like when your immune memory of the virus wanes so much that you could catch it

again that's happened to a few people but as far as we can tell not really very many so far a number of studies now when they came that at least in most of us the average amused response to sars cove 2 remains active for for at least 6 months which is positive because the average duration of immunity in individuals either after they've had copd 19 or have received a vaccine against it that will play a defining role in how fast we reach herd immunity however even if we do begin seeing greater numbers of re infections relatively soon it would make herd immunity impossible to achieve just harder because it's going to take years though to pin down the average duration of immunity i'm discussing it now means that you have to make some assumptions if we assume for instance that the duration of immunity and

someone who's vaccinated is short say just a year or 2 then herd immunity will be a lot tougher to reach to get there we'd have to vaccinate populations really really quickly and on a wide scale because without a booster shot many people will start getting sick and transmitting again pretty quickly experts say in that scenario if coverage doesn't advance fast enough then sars who too could become endemic and seasonal like the for. lou but at least in some places if we assume a more positive scenario that the duration of the munity provided by a vaccine is much longer and and importantly also that vaccinated people can't transmit the virus to others then herd immunity will be easier to reach because in a manner of speaking once people have been backs unaided they'll stay vaccinated.

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this is the news live from berlin germany's government pleads for patience as the pandemic tightens its grip the health minister unveils the official timetable for 19 vaccinations but was not enough vaccine to go around who gets the lifesaving jab 1st and who will have to white coming up 1st images of the nigerian school boys kidnapped by islamist militants arriving back at government buildings the abduction leads to public anger and demands for better protection for children. and migration and mental health.