but the state leaders line from berlin e.u. states restrict travel from britain to contain any new strain of the coronavirus the move paralyzes traffic at british courts which are now effectively cut off from the continent the u.k. is battling the grown up virus mutation sweeping through the country south that could be far more infectious also coming up. deal or no deal with time running out to british and you officials fail once more to find common ground unopposed brick says trade pact so what's preventing

a breakthrough we'll ask one of europe's leading negotiators. and a maximum sentence for an anti-semitic atrocity a german court sends a man to prison for life for his deadly attack on a synagogue in the eastern city of holland. come to the show we'll get to these stories in just a moment but we want to start with some breaking news here russian opposition activist alex a no ball and he says he has spoken to one of the security agents alleged to have been involved in his poisoning last year and a clip on his you tube channel have on they said the agent believed he was talking to a security council official in fact now bonnie was on the other end of the phone line the agent from an elite toxins team and russia's f.s.b. security agency reveal. details of how was poisoned last year and bombing is

currently recuperating here in germany. the w. moscow correspondent emily sure one has more emily welcome tell us more about what nirvana he said in that video well in that video and he was pretending to be security council official and he said that he was preparing a report for the security council which of course is headed by russian president vladimir putin and that that was that is why he was talking to this official on the phone he used the call to confirm some of the reporting that we had heard last week from the media outlet belling cat from should be good an investigation into these murder not murder but his alleged poisoning and the official on the other end of the line confirmed that poison was used and he confirmed that that

poison was put on. underwear he also confirmed that the f.s.b. had collected the clothing that he was wearing to destroy that evidence and he confirmed that most likely would have died on the plane that he was on when he left tomsk if that plane hasn't hadn't landed in in an emergency in an emergency landing that that pilot decided to to take has there been any official response from russian authorities. there haven't been any official responses yet we've been hearing reports that the operative that nobody spoke to on the phone that he called the police that there's police outside his apartment building and of course last week at putin's yearly press conference putin was asked about these poisoning and he said that yes a group of f.s.b.

officials had been following me but that they hadn't tried to poison him and he said that if they had wanted to poison the politician they would have done so and they would have brought that the case to a close essentially killing him evolution when in moscow thank you very much countries from germany and france to india and saudi arabia have imposed travel bans on the u.k. that's as britain battles a new strain of corona virus that said to be much more contagious the measures are already causing havoc at airports and other travel hubs in the u.k. which is now effectively cut off from continental europe. entry denied trucks headed from england to the european mainland forced to turn back after alarms were raised over the new coronavirus strain the channel crossing to france is

a crucial trade route truck drivers and their goods now stranded. young to law by the. glossy. this is get to my kitchen this is what you have to live for the next 2 days yeah i want to make here. i think. 'd this travel at london's heathrow airport was also disrupted with some passengers left in limbo. confused and this story is even out i appeared on board in december situation you see the situation is totally different it's hard time to. really put strain on a lot of people but. i think overall we're all just waiting on the opening up of all of the country. nonsense to see our family get back to you know. 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 . e.u. regulators are set to approve the coronavirus vaccine developed by bio on tack and fines or for use in europe it will be the 1st covert 19 vaccine to be authorized by the european medicines agency and amsterdam the shot has already been given the go ahead under emergency provisions by officials in britain and the united states scientists at the mayo are expected to conclude that the vaccine is safe the european commission must still rubber stamp the decision before the inauguration can be rolled out across the 27 e.u. member states. let's cross straight to mark sunday to get the view from brussels max welcome we're expecting the approval of the biotech pfizer vaccine from the a today we've been waiting a long time for that approval haven't we. well that's right we call it did really

feel like an eternity in a way but in actuality have a close look at it this is quite an impressive achievement or only just not even a year after the start of the pandemic 1st take europe and now is the big day in the e.m.a.'s hopefully finally give the give their green light on the pfizer vaccine later today they have been assessing reviewing the vaccine for the past couple weeks having a look at all the data compiled by the by the by the companies making sure everything is well everything is safe everything is according to the standard manufacturing procedures and they will likely give their green lights later today and then it's all just up to the commission and the commission will give the final green light which means that probably by the end of the week the 1st batches can can leave the storage is and and be distributed to you member states and then hopefully you soon after that the 1st needles will be able to go in later today representatives of countries are meeting to coordinate their response to this new

virus strain and britain could receive further border closures. we've seen quite a few strong responses already over the last day over this the course of this this day as well with a roughly a 3rd of e.u. countries postponing travel between the u.k. and the rest of the e.u. now at the german president council presidency has called for an. emergency meeting today for a crisis meeting to bring together representatives of member states you institutions and experts to discuss further steps this is most likely going to they're most likely going to touch on issues such as testing and corn tuning they're also going to talk about border issues but it's important to note here that's. the authority over the borders or it's pretty another way the e.u. does not have the mandate to close the borders that is up to the individual member

states and after the beginning of the pen demick in march and april during the 1st wave when i saw that member states were individually closing borders that brought a lot of chaos and uncertainty to citizens in the e.u. and this is something they're going to try to avoid at all costs and on a different note this new strain of coronavirus has been has been around since september as we now know and so it's most likely already in mainland europe all right max and then brussels thank you very much and we're just receiving some breaking news the european medicines agency has recommended conditionally this biotech pfizer vaccine. let's keep talking about this new strain of the corona virus professor peter chems the heads of the 1st approval study here in germany for a vaccine developed by the pharmaceutical firm cure back he's also the director of tubing and university hospital and joins me now from fessor crimes there are thousands of people stranded border is closed tell me why is this corona virus

variant causing so much concern. well actually i don't know why it is a bit surprising to me already hundreds of a mutations and variance if you want this is a new one and that is really more current date use or textures and this johnson said yesterday. i think the proof needs to be shown to us i cannot understand why it is so frightening. i don't see it yet so sorry i cannot help you and journey of fire ologist said he is not particularly worried by this mutation and that just like you just said it's not yet been shown to be much more and fact if you don't seem too worried as well how worried should the general public be you know i'm not for it and so

many youths. day this time. head of state has announced that it is a dangerous approach to that is the difference or maybe. you know you didn't just behind this statement i cannot see my you medically so frightening cannot handle and see. for instance vaccine should more work wherever there is such invitation. and now we've heard boris johnson say that it's a lot more contains this why would that be can you just break down how a new strain of the same virus can be more contagious to among people. yes well i have not seen any director showing it so it can be that some strains of. you know the thrower i don't think there's a chance that it's not something very unusual. normally the differences

are not so big but in this case i have not seen any. data this can be easy to see that i cannot see that even that is correct so i'm sorry. this is coming up a few days before the holidays how would you recommend the public tree this this new announcement these news of the new strain. where i was yesterday going to. council on the. borders are those all those i think this is exaggerated there you have reasons to close orders to return to grex it is. does strain with a lot of the and while new reasons why one should close the borders and joseph borders is not a good idea anyway specially in the european union you know should work together

with within our member states and do good to combat unbending we can only go really succeeds to finally come about there are staging to seize a call for unity of their front page at kempton and director of tubingen university hospital thank you very much aren't you a report by amnesty international is a spanish health authorities of effectively abandoning residents of care homes during the cold 1000 pandemic and one of its most serious allegations the report states that many people and facilities for the elderly have been denied access to hospital care deadliest and philip schultz reports. fare is just time for a coffee before one by battle has to go back to his care home in a month that its suburbs now at least the 81 year old can leave the home for a short while in spring when the pandemic began it was different for months one was

imprisoned in his 10 square meter room at the same time every hospital in the city was told not to admit and he'd walk home resolutely either sit down shut up wasn't she not of course i heard about it and it made me think i asked myself what happens if i'm sick then that be no one to help me anymore that makes you scared to be 3 months alone with these thoughts for me i believe i could speak to my family but it was all very hard in the. one says his little drawing stryfe away the doc faults one in 5 residents in his scaffold has died of covert 19 states ignacio fuck this wrote a report for human rights organization and is the international un spain's and laying off the pandemic in his view the country violated several basic rights of the people. there is no way that a human rights violation can be the solution for the problem we're talking about on

the end this is what happens here these people couldn't go to the doctor couldn't go to see the doctor i'm going to the hospital these are acceptable because he says commission and against a specific group and a group this case they have people. in madrid and barcelona particularly people's rights were being abused still hopkins said about spain's health minister . also came under criticism i am aware that they have some investigations he should be stationed or of course i cannot make any pronunciation of d.c. just before the day i had body to do to make a judgement on these procedures to what i may say it was a clear. instruction from the us he go and measure the mode of the health he seeks . discarding any kind of discrimination. more than 30000 care home residents in spain have died.