their. faces date of any news live from berlin closing down for a pandemic christmas governments across europe tight lockdown restrictions they fear the end of year holidays could turn into covert 19 mass super spreader of that also coming out germany marks a grim anniversary 4 years ago today a truck plowed through a christmas market and the capital darlin we'll look at how the country reacted and the lessons learned.

i'm rebecca ritter's welcome to the program more european countries are tightening coronavirus restrictions and worried that the year and holidays could turn into mass covert 19 super spreader events if millions of people travel and visit friends and family sweden has changed course and is now urging people to wear face masks italy has banned travel between regions and ordered shops bars and restaurants to close until january 6th. for italy it was more a question of when not if new measures would be announced with all important christmas holidays days away the the government has ordered a national lockdown and. it is the world to me one of these it is not an easy decision it is a painful decision to strengthen the regime of measures necessary for the upcoming holidays and to better protect ourselves and keep in sea. by the january recovery.

much of europe has imposed tough restrictions to curb the onslaught of the virus over the festive period. though austria will introduce its rules one day after christmas even sweden who until now had taken a lazy fear approach is recommending masks on public transport officials door stop short of shutting businesses. count very serious look look down for example would have an effect in the long run because people would not put up with in italy memories of the springs deadly 1st wave are still fresh many said they welcome the government interventions. of the state we will be forced to have a different christmas we will make up for it next christmas it's not a tragedy. dave i think a lot done is the right thing we must defeat the virus and respect rules always

whatever it takes. for the future which it will be a difficult year and new year's eve as well and i'm placing all my hopes on a better a pet any. officials to hope to relax the rules in the new year but with household committed to keep mixing in the coming days there is no guarantee that the end is near. 0 for more on this i'm joined by journalist seem a gift from italy same age really one of many countries across europe tightening restrictions can you give us details about what will be happening there. yes the prime minister make this announcement saying that he had no choice the virus is continuing to circulate and there is very serious concern about of attentional 3rd wave a sudden surge over this festive period so yes the put in place this measures and this includes from christmas eve right up to the 27th as well as from the 31st of the 3rd and then again from the 5th and 6th which is around the feast of the

epiphany those key dates all of it he will be in a so-called red zone a riyadh what that means is bars restaurants and shops that are not essential what all be shut up only you can only leave your home for essential it to d. and you have to carry a cell declaration form to explain what it is you're doing and where you're going a maximum of 2 people from one household can go to another that does not include children under 14 on those festive days in between those days it will be an orange still where you will be allowed to move within your town but it across this period there will be no internal regional movement and that curfew still remains in place from 10 b.n. right up till 5 pm so a very strict lockdown indeed but as the prime minister said the idea being to prevent that the wave coming up in january and davao italy has recorded the highest

cova death toll in europe with close 268000 fatalities why is that. well it is it is very very distressing figure to see such a massive debt top end that is in large part because of italy's elderly population italy has the 2nd oldest population in the world and the average age of the victim here in italy is 80 years all in so with an older population you're going to have unfortunately more deaths on top of that certain religious have said these are the this 2nd wave perhaps the restrictions or the lockdown measures could have been put in pleas earlier like for instance countries such as ireland to get put in place those measures earlier on in the 2nd wave but of course it's he suffered greatly in terms of its economic impact due to the lockdown the 1st time around and so that's why the government held of that perhaps years and decades of cuts to the health

system and as recent investigative report also show that it's really not it's pandemic response since back in 2006 so it's a variety of reasons as to why we have this very unfortunate number of deaths to decode 19 right same test making to us from persia italy thank you a 2nd covert 19 vaccine has been authorized for emergency use in the united states millions of doses of them a dern a vaccine are expected to be added to the massive american vaccination program which began this week with health care workers older people in long term care facilities are next in line the approval comes one week after the u.s. food and drug administration authorized the vaccine developed by antec and pfizer. well here's a look now at some of the latest developments in the pandemic german health department's report of 31300 new cases on friday and 702 deaths related to covert

19 more than 25000 people have now died of the disease in germany in france that toll has passed 60000 president emmanuel mccall is asking people to remain vigilant after he tested positive for the for the virus in india surged past 10000000 coronavirus cases the 2nd highest in the world although new infection rates appear to have fallen sharply in recent weeks and in australia the sydney to hobart yacht race has been cancelled for the 1st time in its history organizers say border restrictions forced by sydney's new corona virus outbreak have made it impossible to stage the rice. this weekend germany marks the 4th anniversary of the terrorist attack on a christmas market in the heart of and islam most extremists hijacked 20 ton truck and killed the driver he then ran a vehicle into the crowded market killing another 11 people and injuring thousands more the terrorist escaped and was shot dead by italian police 4 days later.

but lindh was unprepared for such an attack and had to learn how best to help those affected in the aftermath. eustis minister is an emergency pastor in the days following the december 26th in terror attack he met many of those traumatized by the event he says their grief was made even worse by the disastrous response from official support agencies. such as what does exist if it did not work as well at that point from people understood very clearly that they were on their own. to a certain extent that's because the berlin agencies and institutions were themselves overwhelmed you know morgan is that sort of i'm a bit of a father of one as a result people waited a long time for financial and psychological help a public memorial service however happened very quickly the day after the attack

possibly to suit their what the scenes for the memorial service was meant to be for victims' relatives but many of them had no idea at the time that they were actually the relatives of victims it was far too early. officials understood that there were not structures in place to deal with this kind of event a central liaison now coordinates support for victims and their families who will also get more financial help in the future. because we all know that money can't make up for the terrible pain that people have experienced it can only help with immediate problems. for the victims of the 2016 attack we've retroactive. we increased the payments even tripled them. frank says that the victims of racist and anti-semitic attacks in the cities of how now and how have had quicker access to support he says the agencies have learned from their mistakes. that was put to the test earlier this month interfere

where a driver fatally rammed 5 people. that's the perspective of the victims is what matters are the perspective of the victims' families. every step of the process you have to say slow down don't hurry thinks but the many people who are suffering after an attack get immediate. and then you have to come to an agreement with the victims' families and also the families of the. 4 years after the 2016 berlin attack us this monster still stays in touch with many of the victims he just wishes the changes in victim support had come in time to help them earlier. an attack and it's now the stories making headlines this hour a fire at an intensive care unit treating covert 19 patients in southern turkey has

killed at least 9 people state media said the blaze was spot when an oxygen tank on an artificial respirator exploded at sankoh university hospital in the city of getting on to. several rockets have been fired at a major u.s. base in afghanistan officials say they hit back home airfield in the country's northern pollen province no casualties were reported and no one has immediately climbed responsibility for the attack. supercycle and yasser has flattened entire villages as it tore through the pacific island nation of fiji authorities say at least 4 people were killed in the changes made cycle into stronger and more frequent gasser the 3rd maximum strength storm to battle be on in in 5 years. a pair of endangered or ragged tanks has arrived in indonesia so they can be released back into their native habitat the 2 were seized from smugglers on the border between thailand and malaysia and 27 taking thailand has returned

a total of $71.00 iraqi tanks to indonesia in the last 15 years. now to namibia where there are more cheetahs than anywhere else in the world but even there the big cats are still highly endangered one threat comes from ranchers who kill the cheetahs if they catch them preying on their cattle but now researchers have given a baby as far as data that can keep them from their cattle out of harm's way a rare sighting of wild cheetahs and namibia the country has the biggest free raging population of cheetahs in africa but the big cats here as elsewhere on the continent are highly endangered. you the population is threatens because it doesn't look inside of national parks but on commercially was followed there's obviously leads to conflict is the truth ok livestock of the frogs. scientists from germany's latin it's institute have

discovered a way to reduce that conflict they've been researching cheetahs in the media for more than a decade part of their study includes putting radio collars on the cheetahs and minor ting their movements they found she does a vastly preferred some areas over others allowing them to map safe and unsafe areas for cattle herding. it's about 10 percent of the area that is highly dangerous because concentrations of to cheetos is very high and about 90 per cent is much less risky for the farmers and their cut by moving their cattle out of harms way farmers now lose much less of their herd to cheetahs. around the country adopt a management to the east they know it is a high risk area and they just can't hold their cattle to another place all it's

just really not change and when cattle herders lose less of their livestock they kill fewer cheetahs an example of how scientists working closely with locals is helping conserve africa's most endangered cat. but as for now and in friday night's blunders later match berlin continued to exceed expectations this season when they pulled off a stunning 21 victory against dortmund the winning goal started with a set pace in the 78th minute which martin free headed home court really on it was his 4th goal of a campaign the most of any defender in the bundesliga the win puts any on in 5th place right behind and. heavy snow full is clobbering northern japan leaving motorists stranded and causing power outages in some regions a strong cold and massport record snow this week to mountainous areas in niigata and good mum prefixes several old times before records were set on friday with more

than 2 natives falling in the city of wada in just 3 days already has have issued warnings for more snow avalanches and transport disruptions. you're watching data being used my from palin's our reporter series is up next thank you for that more news at the top of the hour thanks. lou good morning to you as it is all its way to bring you more conservation. how do we make cities greener how can we protect our terrorists we can wreak a difference google ideas or mental series including $3000.00 do w. and all mine. children to come to terms. one joy in trouble i'm an earlier.