they make me feel a bit i wouldn't say they make me nervous but i really don't feel comfortable i sociate them with the attack. when they attack or failed to enter the synagogue he shot a woman walking by who had spoken to him he then storm to a snack bar and opened fire killing a customer the gunmen filmed everything on his own helmet camera streaming the attack live on the internet. a sign in the window commemorates the 2 people who were killed. 9 months later the trial of the alleged perpetrator began. the 28 year old confessed expressing his extreme right wing views he showed no remorse. max play wachowski has twice found paper swastikas left in front of the jewish community office once he saw

a police officer surreptitiously removing a swastika he finds this unsettling. i can't feel completely sure the police or security authorities are safe. and that's bad. politicians in holland and throughout germany stress that combat ing anti semitism is their highest priority all the same very few jews in holland dare to show their religious affiliation in public. the synagogue door which saved their lives has been replaced with a new one that is even stronger. let's talk more now about the trial and the lessons learned we have missed in there with us a leading politician of the green party here in germany mr think you so much for joining us 1st of all you've been following this trial very closely what do you

think of the verdict. well that's the highest potential penalty in our democracy that's possible. therefore i fink it's an important sequel i'm aware does not bring back here on our kevin to their families it's a clear message to the sort of very t. of this country of this court is stronger and the hate of those racists and tiresome it's why do you think this trial is so significant what does it show us. well you know we witnessed in new zealand we witnessed as we studied so many cases before the myth of the lone attacker that got radicalized in internet could there is nothing we could do about it so i don't buy that anymore we're living in the age of digital ization and it's very clear these people get radicalized they have their friends they have people day interact with and it's our business as a straight to find out what's going on there and not to look aside and oversee that

so so therefore i think dischord case will hopefully be the last one where we've heard so you know them if. you have radicalized and nobody could do something about it you have been very critical of authorities here in germany for not doing enough to battle anti-semitism where exactly have they failed. well as you said i witnessed. here and i listen so or. group. our security community dear. when they were in front of the courts and it's hard to find words to see a state digitalisation i mean you know. it's a shame we're talking about for florida just economy and the experts let me quote unquote experts have no clue simply no clue about internets you know and this is

again let me repeat there the 4th largest economy the boom the screen allam to it no experts could explain this for instance why the music was searched by this guy what song were searched the people in the court watching used to google and found out war in between a few minutes then these experts there are you know they existed business to know something about right wing extremists music. and it's pretty much the same for most of the area so the state has to learn who's our enemy and be a city liquids as our enemies are. mr serious not just online we should say that he has been talking to members of the jewish community in holland even since that attack have told us they just don't feel safe they go to police and report anti-semitic crimes or assaults and they don't feel like they're being taken

seriously i mean how can that be. of course that's a measure of empathy that's a measure of. that we have a policy of pheno that you can come whenever you want to and that there is somebody who shows that they have interests of course this is not something which we can solve on a national level you need the right people in the rights offices steer but it's generally awareness that has to change it's changing it's what's the right decision towards the right direction this court decision is a very clear and a very strong message. unlike we had the court decision before in many shows where you know that's the t. says was there were 3 guys in to commit to suicide one is in front of the courts and we completely oversold the network i mean people did not read by themselves where did they get the weapons from. so things are changing towards the right

decision towards the right direction too many lifes could have been still alive if the state would have been a bit more aware in the past and you've put your finger on some of the problems perhaps some of the shortcomings what is for you the biggest. after this trial. i think the good news is now that the security. side is. up and is looking into the networks meanwhile the next step i think is that we have to put our finger into all those. ideology comes from look we're now next to the national parliaments you're sitting there the right wing ideology is represented in every state parliament in many local parliaments so it does not come from anywhere it comes from people create the back. and then the other side radicalized and think that they have to act in the name of the so called majority

which we also have to fight against those people who create the ideology i'm talking about 50 party i'm talking to people who tell us that so-called foreigners juice muslims whoever are the reason for them so maybe the most important message is that we have to teach our children we're all individuals we're not representative. of ethnicity of a whole religion of the whole country and if individuals fail it's individual steps fail and that's important because no child is born as a racist no child is born isn't estimate it's a society that creates anti-semitic it's just the parents sometimes in this case obviously comes to internet and therefore it's us to fight against. we'll have to leave it there chum is tamir of the german green party thank you so much for joining us on a. pleasure. it's now countries from germany and france

to india and saudi arabia have imposed travel bans on the u.k. that comes us britain battles a new strain of the coronavirus that said to be much more contagious the measures are already wreaking havoc at airports and other travel hubs in the u.k. which is now effectively cut off from continental europe. and 3 denied trucks headed from england to the european mainland forced to turn back after alarms were raised over the new coronavirus train the channel crossing to france is a crucial trade route truck drivers and their goods now stranded. by young to law by the. wealthy to the this is good to like you to this is what you have to make of the day to day yeah american.

travel at london's heathrow airport was also disrupted with some passengers left in limbo. confused this time if you've been out i appear at one point in december citrus and you see the situation is totally different it's hard time. really but for an awful lot of people but. i think overall world sweden are opening up of all of the country. nonsense to see your family get back together. in the new covert strain has already been detected in mainland europe and as far away as australia. experts say the newly developed vaccines should still protect against the mutation all right well as more countries ban travel from the u.k. let's speak now to tom nuttall he's the berlin bureau chief of the economist and he actually flew in from london to germany last night tom thanks for joining us and we understand you went through

a bit of an ordeal that you documented on twitter so tell us what happened. i mean there was no suggestion either it stands today in london new on the plane that there would be any problems at the border. but then when he arrived. we were told that we had to be divided into 3 groups german citizens and those who had a documented negative test result were able to proceed through the airports as normal and the rest of us. kind of shoved into a corner. and told that we needed to wait until going to nation could be provided and it took quite some time one point i and other people were told that we were going to have to return to the united kingdom even though we were legal residents here and. in the end those of us who could demonstrate that we live in berlin were allowed to leave the airport those who couldn't have to stay there overnight i'm told that they would be tested to see. what we've seen that there's been now

a very strict lockdown put in place in london also the existence of people trying to get out before that lockdown went into place i mean tell us what that was like. well actually i it wasn't as bad as i expected i put this flight very very late in the day wanting to make sure that i wasn't stranded in britain before the ban came in i assumed a lot of people would be doing the same but the airport wasn't particularly crowded the flight wasn't full of so there was a sort of a peculiar sense of normality almost little to see that all came shattering down when when we arrived at bergen airports and the and the police who were clearly improvising didn't know what their own instructions were try to manage this tricky situation as authorities are now trying to assess what this new mutation of the virus means in the u.k. what was your impression in london how do people feel about the government's handling of the pandemic well it's difficult. that the

government suggests that it only received information that the the very rapid growth in caseload that they seen in london in the southeast was linked to this new mutation on friday which was the day the day before that they announce a new restrictions on the people are saying that they were to have been much more courses or not to have been encouraging people to travel over the christmas period as they had done previously and certainly ought not to have been walking opposition politicians who wanted to talk. to want to touch the restrictions of christmas so you know people are not very happy that these new tier 4 restrictions that were put in place a couple of days ago are going to make it a very very difficult christmas particularly in in london in the southeast and it's a sort of a strange. contradiction between the one hand vaccinations being rolled out at pace now around half a 1000000 people in britain have been received 1st or 2nd vaccine but on the other

hand we see this extraordinary growth in case loads and hospitalizations and it's very clearly going to be a difficult winter in britain as well as in other countries. tomnod told freeland bureau chief of the economist thank you for sharing your experience with us. so what does all of this mean for the european union strategy let's go right to brussels where our correspondent max is standing by for us hi max good to see you so we know that representatives of e.u. countries they're going to meet later to coordinate their response to react to this new mutation in the u.k. do you think we could see further border closures. also i mean we have seen some rapid developments over the last couple days of the last couple hours already will phone list a 3rd or roughly a 3rd of e.u. member states. suspending travel from and to the u.k. so it really does seem that e.u. leaders have gone into panic mode now the you council presidency has called for this this crisis meeting to discuss further steps they're most likely going to

touch on the issues of corn teaming and testing and put potentially also in coordinating efforts in terms of the border closures but important to note here that the e.u. does not have any competencies they can in terms of closing borders they cannot tell member states when to closed or open their borders that's completely within within the responsibility of the member states. but if you learn one thing from the past pandemic from the past months from the past year when the 1st wave hit us back in march and april and member states started closing their borders this that a lot of chaos lead to a lot of uncertainty among people living in the e.u. and this is something they're really do not want to repeat and as we've heard already there's a great likelihood that this virus is in mainland europe already and border closures wouldn't really make a difference they are right max and it comes at the same time that the major european medicines agency is expected to approve that biotech pfizer vaccine tell

us more about that. that's right so the e m a has reviewed the biotech far as a vaccine for the last couple of weeks and is meeting as we speak and hopefully will come to give their green light later today which means that it's only up to the commission to give their final approval which means that the vaccine can then still be started to to be distributed to the member states and the 1st patients will be able to get their shots but this doesn't mean this is a 1st step in the fight back against the pandemic could this mean that all of this is over because there are limited quantities of vaccines there's limited numbers of vaccines that are going to be available in the next next timeframe so we'll have to wait for for the pharmaceutical companies to ramp up their production to be able to distribute larger numbers of clergy quantities to member states and also other

countries in the world to have a really have an effect on the pandemic. max and are reporting for us from brussels thank you let's take a look now at some other developments in the pandemic interpol is bracing for a sharp rise in crime as vaccines are rolled out around the world ahead of the agency says thieves are likely to try to get their hands on the precious drugs by breaking into warehouses and attacking shipments during transport the south korean capital seoul and sounding surrounding areas will ban most gatherings of 5 people or more later this week the country reported its highest daily death toll on monday amid a surge in infections and thailand has begun testing tens of thousands of people after its worst outbreak to date the infections have been linked to the country's biggest seafood market which is located outside the capital bangkok in a region that is now under lockdown. and now to some other headlines from around the world in the u.s. top leaders in congress say they have reached an agreement on

a new code 19 relief package after months of wrangling lawmakers struck a bipartisan deal worth $900000000000.00 businesses and individuals will now get long overdue support in an economy that's been battered by the penn demick talks between britain and the european union on a post to break that trade deal are expected to continue on monday after negotiators failed to meet another key deadline for compromise the european parliament had warned that it would not vote on a deal secured after midnight on sunday it's believed significant different differences remain on fisheries. germany's main services trade union has called for a strike against amazon's a 6 german warehouses the campaign would last until christmas eve the union says its goal is to pressure the online retailer into recognizing collective the wage and workplace safety agreements. sports now in bundesliga football false burkhead into the winter break and 4th place in the table after

a narrow victory at home over start guard the wolves accomplished the job even after corona virus particles made things a bit more complicated. stuttgart coach pelligrino matter right so had good cause to smile after his side were handed a boost ahead of the game opponents vosburgh plans were thrown into disarray as 2 of their players tested positive for corona virus just hours before kick off with 3 others having to quarantine. but it was the hosts who had the best chance early on getting twice went close to scoring the opening goal but was denied by gregor coble and the post. shook up fired back and almost took the lead when c. last for a minute to go went through on goal. but the wing asleep his shot just wide. nil nil at half time but vosburgh finally broke the deadlock soon after the break with more than a hint of good fortune. is free kick took 2 deflections the

wrong footed coble and the bull dribbled over the line. she took out should have levelled the scores in the 78th minute but nico gonzalez completely fluffed his lines and his missed kick was easily cleared. the visitors couldn't find an equaliser and that meant vosburgh either came their coronavirus chaos to claim a victory that puts them in the bundesliga top 4. ok let's take a look at the bonus a table to see what all of those results mean buyer nick finishing the calendar year after top ahead of labor close and light sick false for leap frog dortmund into 4th place in the bottom half mindset and shock are going further and further addressed they'll be hoping for a change in fortunes 2021. north america national hockey league the n.h.l. is set to play a shortened season due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic the new season will

start in january instead of october and conclude with the playoffs in july now they usually play $82.00 games in the regular season but that's been cut down to $56.00 divisions have also been realigned to minimize travel. sky gazers are gather gearing up for a close encounter of the celestial kind after sunset today when a great conjunction of planets becomes visible to the naked eye jupiter and saturn will come so close together that they will look like one bright or the to meet every 20 years but astronomers say they haven't been this close in almost 4 centuries and with the alignment falling on the winter solstice in the northern hemisphere astrologers say it could even osher in a new era of rebirth. and one of the biggest traditions at this time of year here in germany are the christmas markets they normally draw visitors from around the world but this year the pandemic is keeping

tourists away and most markets are closed there are some exceptions though one town on the rhine river has come up with a novel idea to spread some holiday cheer a drive through christmas market. it's a magical winter wonderland filled with bright lights thrilling fairground rides and evocative christmas aromas wine popcorn gingerbread and all there to be enjoyed from the safety of your own car. as we are lifting it's just like a real christmas market we've got our men stuffy apples free chocolate whatever you want but. it's not just germans and there are millions who flock to christmas markets normally people come from all around the world just not this year thanks to the corona virus but this leisure park in western germany has come up with a way for visitors to have fun without risking infection. if we're certain that we're 100 percent buyers free to get in their cars the entire

times families don't even get out the whole trip is done in the car. as many as 650 carloads of visitors a day can take the 2 and a half a kilometer trip through the winter playground open air christmas fun instead of being stuck at home it's a big draw but still with social distancing. yeah i'm going to times attack but you got to have some fun as well it's nice to get away from everything is in full we just want to forget about the coronavirus for a while there are heavenly bodies to entertain the car bound visitors some more earthly creatures are also on hand. and if you're hungry there are fries from across the dutch border down the road. and jugglers ready to thrill with their daring exploits. christmas markets are all about spreading a little happiness. and

the trends to put aside worries about the pandemic at least for our while. ok let's get a quick recap of our top stories here on t.w. a german court has handed a life sentence to a german them for murdering 2 people in an attack on a synagogue last year it's been described as one of germany's worst anti-semitic attacks since world war 2. and countries around the world have imposed travel bans on the u.k. that comes as britain battles a new strain of the corona virus that is said to be much more contagious measures are wreaking havoc at the airports and other travel hubs in the u.k. which is now effectively cut off from continental europe. coming up next

on d w news asia driven from their homes forced into camps now. just are falling prey to human traffickers. and a reunion against all odds arrange a refugee manages to track down the family she thought was lost from. her she has those stories coming right up on g.w. news asia staterooms. the good.

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