as long. as mostly. no use no love. for them would. cause a. scene. i can't sleep. sleep. sleep. u.k. prime minister boris johnson is dealing with 2 of the biggest economic shocks his country has ever suffered in peace time leaving the european union and the corona virus pandemic the latest breck said the deadline passed on sunday in the 2 sides are still talking britain was dealt dealt another blow today as the e.u. and countries around the world bans travelers from the u.k. because of a new mutant strain of corona virus i'm phil gale in berlin and this is the day.

the new variance is out of control and we need to bring it under control it's not as though we can stop this getting into other places there's some there already guys take very little break and i can't go back home. because. you'll be quiet. how do i like not being able to flow freely around europe i think it's a little bit annoying because every country has a right to make drugs if they think it's going to be for the safety of their citizens and it's the right thing to do i just hope that maybe 2021 is going to be different. and that. also on the day our german court hands down to life sentences to a right wing extremist after he killed 2 people near

a synagogue last year survivors of that attack a still feeling its effects the world never had a problem with the fireworks on new year's eve in the past but i noticed this year that they made me feel a bit i wouldn't say they made me nervous but i really don't feel comfortable with the misuse. welcome to the day germany france india and saudi arabia are among about 30 countries lining up to impose a bans on travelers from the u.k. as britain battles and mutated strain of corona virus that he said to be much more contagious u.k. ports and airports have been thrown into chaos leaving the country 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 train the channel crossing to

france is a crucial trade route truck drivers and their goods now stranded. young to law by new. glossy. this is good to like it this is what you have to live for the next 2 days you know it will make you . think. this travel at london's heathrow airport was also disrupted with some passengers left in limbo. confused at this time is given out i appeared on board in december citrus and you see the situation is totally different it's hard going 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. not friends 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. well let's take a closer look at this mutation with john campbell he's an independent health i noticed an educator joins us from colorado in the north of england i welcome to day w. it's in the nature of viruses to mutate so why is this mutation got authorities so exercised. well they go to is that this new taishan all this embarrassment form of the virus was more prevalent in areas where there is an increase in incidence of the virus generally so in london in the southeast for example there was an escalation of cases and they found out that this virus was correlated with that escalation in cases and then this went to pull ups and down an important down the biological virological institute in the u.k. they did some blood based tests radical sure of the virus in the out human cell

cultures question 50 k. did experiments and the conclusion from their work was that this virus is more of this this variant of the virus is more transmissible so we seem to have a virus which is more transmissible than the previous forms of this virus is still the soccer virus too of course is just a new variant but about 70 percent if they accept a 2 percent more contagious and that increases the transmission ability by about by about 5.4 to point 8 something like that so it is quite a significant increase in the degree to which the virus can be transmitted around and what that means is that if the virus has a particular biological tendency to to be transmitted we have to be even more rigorous without the courses with our hands faced space ventilation measures because the viruses that bit easier to catch so i think that's why people are worried about like there is evidence that is more transmissible so more contagious

does that necessarily mean it's more deadly. it certainly doesn't mean that the particular mutation on this virus is called the n. 51 y. now that is the 501st amino acid on the spike protein and the effects what's called the receptive binding there remain where it actually fits into that is that to sell to cause the infection so we know it's a specific part of the virus which is specifically adapted to fitting into the receptor cell it doesn't seem to be affecting anything else in the virus itself so it's an increase in transmissibility and as well as that when we look at the n.p.t. me ology yes there's more people admitted to hospital in an area where this mutation is but that's because there's greater numbers of the virus all together so the virus does not seem to have a greater pathogenicity in this variant seems to cause disease is the same as the other virus but it spreads and more people get sick all of the same time is the

problem and we've only just started to vaccinate people i know the fact they should have begun in the u.k. are already are we happy the veins vaccines will still work against this mutant strain. so remarkably good question now the vaccines work in different ways especially on a vaccine like the oxford vaccine which we are looking out to the moment probably going to be accredited soon and we have researched the recent quoting laws for vaccines we have peer reviewed publications on where the files are in the media and with more going by press releases but we know that the oxford vaccine will stimulate these neutralizing antibodies now they may be partly effective because the neutralizing antibodies stick on to the spike protein so it's possible they will be partly affected but the vaccine also generates agglutinative county bodies that clothe a lot of the viruses together and the vaccine also stimulates cellular immunity which is probably even more important than antibody immunity so it stimulates a group of cells called natural killer cells which will kill virally infected cells

it stimulates a group of cells court t. cytotoxic cells which again kill virally infected cells and it also stimulates cells that eat the virus called fungo sitting rounds such as macrophages and new drug feels so it's attacking the virus in many different ways so it might have a minimal effect on one aspect of immunity but the vaccine is still going to work overall because this vaccine is boosting immunity in so many different ways so it's now in a situation where countries all over the world abounding flights from the u.k. is that likely to be effective i mean is it is it already out there. this virus was definitely identified on the 28th of september now alarm bells were particularly round at that time because this and fiber one mutation was just one of actually 12000 mutations that this virus has been documented to have had since it left

behind way backings january and the start of the year so it wasn't particularly worrisome that there is this new mutation but the so it was a question for. the question was a was about countries. ballina flight from the u.k. is that likely to be affected yeah yeah yeah this is it because it's already been around from the 20th september you have the end of september all of october all of november and into december to spread around the world so we know it's spread around or pass of the u.k. we go it's all over wales for example the prevalence is not high yet but it's also in scotland do we know for sure it spread to denmark the netherlands and the stray aliya and he may well have spread to other countries now i strongly suspect the robot caught institutes in the centers for disease control in the united states are frantically doing genomic analysis and as we speak to see if that drug benefit is already there i suspect it is certainly

a real risk that it could be all right good talking to as ever thank you so much that's fairly clear john campbell independent health analyst thank you. well the european union has now caught up with the u.k. the united states and others by approving the coronavirus vaccine developed by biotech and pfizer germany and other say they'll start vaccinating within a week britain and the u.s. have already authorized the drug which is manufactured in belgium with a european travel ban in place a british transport minister grant shapps was keen to reassure people that u.k. access to supplies of the vaccine will not be affected most vaccine doesn't come by what's called row roll on roll off which is what we're talking about here in other words it's not usually accompanied by by a driver by a whole year it comes on those containers and i just put this into context there are about 6000 vehicles we'd expect to stand in dover today probably i would say

4000 would have gone across from just under 2000 on the euro tunnel but there's probably something like $32000.00 units that will be in the daily total so the vast majority including. all of that actually comes by container and as you say there are good supplies in the meantime so this well i mean bans on nation program that's the u.k. transform it is a grant chaps and despite what he says the u.k. is looking increasingly isolated it leaves the european union its biggest trading partner in less than 2 weeks and no deal on future trading arrangements has been struck at britain's office budget office of budget responsibility projects that leaving the e.u. will cost the country between $1.00 and a half and 2 percent of g.d.p. and $300000.00 jobs so add to that the economic and social costs of the curve in pandemic and this latest european travel ban unknown at 10 downing street is likely

to be having a happy christmas so how is boris johnson's government coping with these body blows u.k. analyst quentin pinto is an associate a member of chatham house so welcome back to t.w. and let's start with bracks it sunday was supposed to be the latest deadline for a deal between the e.u. in the u.k. does it matter that another deadline has been missed. i think it does i think the whole uncertainty that this is creating really throughout british business and british industry is very bad news the. business is coming out again today begging the government to give them clarity about how to plan the government is shouting get business to say get on get ready for it and they say well get ready for what we don't know if we're going to crash out without a deal or we don't we whether we're going to have a pretty modest deal but at least no terrorism no quotas which makes

a huge difference to the red tape ok how do you then read this that this latest step a new travel ban and that because of this newton coronavirus trainee do you see this as a necessary precaution or perhaps a piling on the bracks impression. i think it's the former rather than the latter because but it does make it very clear that the brics it this is a this is really an early taste of the sort of chaos that i think we're going to see after january the 1st particularly if we have no agreement i don't think that the e.u. has been as you say piling on the pressure i think that mainly it's just to find a landing space for both sides to be able to come out of the door and say oh well we did all right we got a victory the trouble is that the british side and boris johnson in particular have been saying all along this was going to be so easy we could have our cake and eat

it we could get a good deal just like. proving to be much much more difficult so both on the kelvin side and on the bricks side boris johnson is looking to be somebody who is living in fantasyland i did want to ask you about other missions countries have spent a year going into and out of economically destructive lockdowns and back again but we have some national leaders like i'm going to maclin just send to our own who have seen their popularity soared despite this as boris johnson fairing. not well atoll and there was a recent poll done by a conservative party website which suggested that party activists his own supporters confidence in boris johnson was 2.9 percent in contrast to confidence in his chance of the exchequer his finance minister resume

act which was over 70 percent so boris johnson is really suffering quite badly from being perceived to constantly. hope for the best on coby hope for the best on rexx it and then having to retreat or do you and i think what his problem is really and it's a problem both with british voters and with his fellow e.u. leaders or is former fellow e.u. leaders i should say that he's losing trust they don't actually believe what he says one victory from bara johnson's government has been that it was one of the 1st in the world approve a vaccine and began a vaccination program that hasn't helped him. not a lot i mean it is the only bit of good news is that there have been these at least 3 vaccines we know of that seem to have come up with good results and be usable now

the brits rushed through the process of actually getting the 1st of the vaccines approved for use and distribution of course we can't forget it most of the backseat developed in britain it was developed in germany an. american well so this sort of great british drive was actually just about rushing through the validation process but having said that it was good news i fear that it's already almost evaporate. he won boris johnson won last year's the l. action with the conservatives 1st convincing majority for many years that there are a lot of conservatives do have a lot to be grateful a to him for but the conservative party is also a new torricelli ruthless about holding on to power is he now a liability i think he's looking pretty frail actually i mean it is an extraordinary situation that was a tremendous election victory only last december but he's been weakening ever since

i feel part of it is built into the man this is a man whose real no claim to success has always been to be full of optimism full of good cheer funny guy doesn't really matter if he doesn't do the detail and he's suddenly been faced with this nightmare of a pandemic on the one hand and delivering very complicated brit's it on the other which do not play to his strengths he's not a details man and that's why he's in a mess so on that point as you say breaks it was always going to be politically fraught and then we had covert has punished johnson just being unlucky. i think it's worse than that actually i think he's very badly qualified for the job i think that he played his cards quite cleverly to get the job if you remember he ruthlessly undermined the previous prime minister to resign may and he won the

leadership of the party but this is a man who has never been good at choosing the right people to surround him i don't think he's got people who warned him against being overoptimistic i just for one example remember that he said the brits were going to have a world beating test and trace man it was quite out there says area to make exaggerated nationalistic claims for it and it's been a pretty good disaster so he's just been the wrong man in the job at the wrong time quentin pale from chatham house thank you. amnesty international is accusing spanish health authorities of effectively abandoning residence or cat. covered 19 pandemic in one of its most serious allegations its report says many people in facilities for the elderly have been

denied access to hospital care the w.'s young from the shelter reports there is just time for a coffee before one bad day at all has to go back to his care home in a month that it suburb now at least the 81 year old can leave 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 even walk home right the. hope was that 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 at least i could speak to my family but it was all very heart the. one says his little drawings drive away the dark thoughts one in 5 residents in his care home has died of cope with 19 states you cannot still fuck this wrote

a report for human rights organization and it's the international in spain spending off the pandemic in his view the country violated several basic rights of elderly people. there is no way that a human rights violation can be the solution for a problem we're talking about this is what happens here these people couldn't go to the doctor couldn't go to see their doctor or go to the hospital these are acceptable because this is commission against a specific group and a group of cases. in madrid and barcelona particularly at least people's rights were being abused still hopkins said about spain. health minister. also came under criticism i'm aware that there are some investigation stations of course they cannot make any pronunciation of these issues before the day right body to do to make

a judgment. the profitability issue. there was a clear. instruction from the u.s. he go and measure the vote of the e.c. . discarding any kind of discrimination. more than 30000 care home residents in spain have died of covert 19 though the situation has got better recently doctors representative say many cases would have been avoidable at the care homes been better equipped. with christmas just around the corner spain seems to regain some optimism infection rates are falling some restrictions are being relaxed however the discussion regarding the violation of basic human rights of elderly people during the pandemic will certainly continue after an hour outside their door must make his way back to the care home he likely won't leave even for christmas the risk is apparently too high and he'd rather be alone in his small room he says than see

a return to the conditions of spring. here in germany a far right extremist has been sentenced to life in prison for attempting one of the country's worst anti semitic attacks since the 2nd world war the 28 year old was convicted of murder and attempted murder after he killed 2 people last year in a thwarted attack on a synagogue in the eastern city of. his only regret is that he wasn't able to kill more people at times chiffon be smiled as the judge read out her verdict she called his crime cowardly and said he will spend the rest of his life in prison. had he succeeded in his attack it would have been the deadliest hate crime in post-war germany but his attempt alone convinced many in germany that anti-semitism has become a problem that authorities do not have under control. it was 2019 on yom kapoor the holiest day of the jewish calendar that more than 50 community

members and guests were celebrating in the synagogue and holla. at midday stephon be heavily armed attacked the synagogue. he fired shots at the door and threw hand grenades. but the synagogue solid wooden door withstood the attack and it saved the lives of those inside. among them was max privoxy chairman of hollows jewish community the experience has left him traumatized. as a desert bird ever had a problem with the fireworks on new year's eve in the past but i noticed this year that they made me feel a bit. i wouldn't say they made me nervous but i really don't feel comfortable with . it because i associate them with the attack in the death of me these are months

luck. when he failed to enter the synagogue the right wing extremists shot a woman who had spoken to him while walking by he didn't storm to a snack bar and opened fire killing a customer. he filmed everything on a helmet camera streaming the attack live on the internet a sign in the window commemorates the 2 people who were killed. next provide he has twice found paper swat stickers left in front of the jewish community office. once he saw a police officer quietly removing a swastika he finds this unsettling. and among kind. of bullets when you can't feel completely sure that you can trust or depend on police or security authorities for. calm then that's a bad thing. politicians and holler and throughout germany stressed that combating

anti-semitism is their highest priority all the same many jews and holler so they are afraid 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. germany has seen an increase in anti semitic attacks over recent years so we asked the government anti semitism commissioner felix klein what was behind this well there are many factors that have. led to that situation one is the radicalization and brutalization in the internet also or the the perpetrator of hell is a good example for that he was radicalized. quickly and to such an incredible extent but also other factors the attacks of populist politicians against our remember in this culture and the fact that so many taboos so many red

lines are being crossed and people don't. don't hesitate to do that anymore so so that has led to a rise of. of the crimes because many of them are committed in the internet cause distortion holocaust denial. but also incitement of the people and now we have to find all the means possible as the state but also as a civil society to counter that. that's it after the day.

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safety of fuel cars travelers in germany get into the christmas spirit by getting behind the wheel and having to drive through. i'm phil welcome to the program russian opposition leader alexina valmy has published a recording of a phone call with a russian agent alleged to have been involved in his poisoning last year investigative website named the man is part of an elite team that trial based on the family for years now he claims he's cold with the agents revealed key details about how he was allegedly poisoned the kremlin has dismissed the recording as fake the latest accusation against the kremlin will now be even more difficult to deny

last week journalists released names and pictures of russian f.s.b. domestic security agents whom they allege could have carried out the poisoning of alexei nevaeh. noun of all me himself has released a recording of a phone call of him talking to one of the operatives allegedly involved in the attack had posed as a colleague in the conversation he asked why the operation failed. the plane made an emergency landing the situation didn't develop to our advantage had the plane been able to fly for longer everything would have turned out differently. not only collapsed on board the plane after the aircraft landed an emergency doctor suspected poisoning and injected him with an antidote several days later of all he was allowed to be flown to germany dismissing the phone call as a fake president putin alleged not only is supported by u.s.

intelligence services he said in cases like that it's only natural for the f.s.b. to track him but joked that didn't mean he needed to be poisoned. it's going to be some red faces in moscow tonight let's go to the russian capital where we find the correspondent and we sure would welcome emily tell us more about that conversation . while that conversation seemed to reveal new details about these poisoning with not via me of course asking the questions brazenly himself we pounds found out it seems from the operative that the poison that got into the system was put on the inner seams of his underwear we also heard that later on f.s.b. operatives collected his clothing and washed it several times in order to kind of erase traces of that poison so it fits seems that the conversation that we heard on you tube say that confirmed a lot of the details that we saw are revealed in the recent investigation led by

the. so was all russian or thorson is saying. well we've just heard a statement from the f.s.b. itself they said that that phone call that we saw in the youtube video and published is a fake they said that it's a planned provocation aimed at discrediting the f.s.b. and f.s.b. officers and they also said that now by me was using the methods of foreign security services there has also i think it's interesting to point out that a very heavy handed response today from police here in moscow for example one of these allies who was kind of staking out the house of that alleged operators of that we saw in the video or heard in the video she was arrested actually lives on d w russia's programming and my colleague was just talking to her as she started being

arrested live on the air. most of what implications that of this for the kremlin and indeed for russian security forces. well i think it could end up being a huge blow to the f.s.b. i mean this video already has millions of views on you tube it got those views just in a few hours so it's really making waves in russia and beyond and of course if this is confirmed that that in f.s.b. agent was behind these killing and that they had bought or rather his attempted killing his poisoning and that they botched that offer ation that's a huge embarrassment to the f.s.b. and to putin as well who used to head the f.s.b. himself a militia with in moscow thank you the european commission has now approved the use of the bomb tech finds

a coronavirus vaccine to the meds and so you can see recommended authorization solutions are slated to begin in most european countries over the next few days the shots already in use in britain canada and the united states. trucks arriving in the parting from a pfizer factory in belgium the drivers were probably there to collect the company's codes of 19 vaccine and death bound to be under pressure to deliver. so too with a used drug regulators the pfizer vaccine was authorized in britain and the united states weeks ago and cold had been growing for the use medicine watchdog to allow it but the organization defended the time it took saying it had refused to compromise public safety. and the agency's commitment our experts have worked tirelessly to reach a robust science based consensus from the switch from the start of the rolling review on to the final c hakan p. today has been achieved in just 11 weeks when we would usually expect to spend

a year or more in its report the european medicines agency said the vaccine was safe and effective officials added there was no reason to suggest it would not be equally effective against current you strains of the virus. now the job can be delivered to vaccine centers already set up throughout europe to begin the massive task of immunizing millions of europeans across the e.u. student medics were tired doctors pharmacists and soldiers are being drafted in for a vaccination drive of unprecedented scale. but the big question is how willing are europeans to be vaccinated on the streets of berlin most say they're in favor but many have hesitations. were low lows or how to take it it's just finished at the core and i think it's a problem because. we need it but it's important at the moment. i salute you i

don't know i'm thinking about it but it causes an allergic reaction and i have allergies and i have asthma i don't know i see my own works in some everybody try before me i don't want to be the 1st to try. the medicines agency says the vaccine will not be a silver bullet that allows life in europe to quickly return to normal but it's definitely a step in the right direction. all right some of the other stories making headlines the u.s. president elect joe biden has been given the bound tech flies a covert 19 vaccine in the state of delaware age 78 mr biden is in a high risk group he's pledged to make fighting the virus his top priority when he takes office next month the u.s. is also administered the 1st dose of the vaccine developed by the american drugs make a downer. travel bans imposed because of a new strain of corona virus that's emerged in the u.k.

have left hundreds of trucks stranded in southern england long lines of stationary vehicles have built up on highways leading to the port of dover lorry crossings to france blocked supermarket chains are warning of possible food shortages. courted england has found 2 men guilty of killing 39 men women and children from vietnam who suffocated in a sealed truck near london the driver and the other man were convicted of manslaughter the deaths too many years ago exposed in the 6 people smuggling trade . in germany amounts been sentenced to life in prison for attempting one of the country's worst anti-semitic attacks since the 2nd world war of course convicted the 28 year old far right extremist of murder and attempted murder he defended to kill 2 people in ice water the attack on a synagogue in the eastern city of holland last year his only regret is that he wasn't able to kill more people at times chevron b.

smiled as the judge read out her verdict she called his crime cowardly and said he will spend the rest of his life in prison. had he succeeded in his attack it would have been the deadliest hate crime in post-war germany but his attempt alone convinced many in germany that anti-semitism has become a problem that authorities do not have under control. it was 2019 on yom kapoor the holiest day of the jewish calendar that more than 50 community members and guests were celebrating in the synagogue in harlem. at midday stephon be heavily armed attacked the synagogue. he fired shots at the door and threw hand grenades. but the synagogue solid wooden door withstood the attack and it saved the lives of those inside.

among them was max prevert ski chairman of hollows jewish community the experience has left him traumatized. as a desert bird never had a problem with the fireworks on new year's eve in the past but i noticed this year that they made me feel a bit. i wouldn't say they made me nervous but i really don't feel comfortable with me. because i associate them with the attack in the doesn't mean these are moms look. when he failed to enter the synagogue the right wing extremists shot a woman who had spoken to him while walking by he then storm to a snack bar and opened fire killing a customer. he filmed everything on a helmet camera streaming the attack live on the internet a sign in the window commemorates the 2 people who were killed. next perverts he has twice found paper swastikas left in front of the jewish

community office. once he saw a police officer quietly removing a swastika he finds this unsettling. and mankind. does mind the politicized when you can't feel completely sure that you can trust or depend on police or security authorities force them to. calm down that's a bad thing. politicians and hala and throughout germany stressed that combating anti-semitism is their highest priority all the same many jews and holler so they are afraid 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. germany's traditional christmas market so normally to all visitors from around the world but this year the pandemic is keeping tourists away on most markets are closed there are however some

exceptions one town on the rhine has come up with a novel method of spreading 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 stuff the apples for chocolate whatever you want. it's not just germans in their millions who flock to christmas markets normally people come from all around the world just not this year thanks to the coronavirus but this leisure park in western germany has come up with a way for visitors to have fun without risking infection. views and ideas if we're certain that we're 100 percent buyers free to get in their cars the entire time 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 sure that the times are tough but you got to have some fun as well it's nice to get away from everything isn't for 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 chance to put aside worries about the pandemic at least for a while. but said show up today at the top of. the website that's the. story of producer propaganda. they were called the rhineland bastards born after the 1st world war. their mothers were germans living in the occupied dry land their father's soldiers from the french colonies.

food german children had a hard time and because they were a reminder of the german defeat. exclusion and control culminated in forced sterilization under the nazis. this documentary examines the few traces that remain of their existence. the children's shape. starch january 11th on d. w. . new strength of the corona. virus prompt countries around the world to impose travel restrictions on the united kingdom and science africa our reporters speak to passengers whose holiday travel plans have been stuffed birds by the new rules. also coming up u.s. lawmakers reach a deal on end 900000000000 dollars stimulus package to address the economic

hardships caused by the pandemic but do the measures go far enough. and germany's pretty christmas lockdown is a major blow to retailers who fear they may not be able to survive without the usual holiday spending spree. this is did of event though so i'm kate ferguson thanks for joining me to new potentially more infectious strains of the corona virus has been identified one in england and the other in south africa the news prompted governments around the world to restrict travel in and of the 2 countries and forced thousands of would be passengers to abandon their hold their plans. german flag carrier lufthansa continued flying passengers to britain on monday but its planes are returning to germany empty travelers and doso dorf and frankfurt agreed that something had to be done but were sympathetic towards passengers stuck

in britain just days before christmas it's just awful for everybody who wants to return now and celebrate christmas with their families of course it's really bad they're all stranded. it had to be done and it's good that it wasn't strictly as possible and then it's with britain and they've got brecht's and as well let comes on top of it but there's nothing you can do. with. the fast changing restrictions and frequent flight cancellations due to the pandemic have left many travelers frustrated well it was really hard to find a plane at 1st because like they say there is a plane but it could be cancelled any time so i was always like afraid like is it going to get cancelled or no but in the end like i got the plane and i'm coming i'm coming home today. my i'm slowly getting fed up with it i've had enough the flights here are really empty. it used to not be like that when people were flying

yeah i hope it will eventually be over so we regain our freedom by. the week before christmas is one of the busiest and most lucrative of the year for the airline industry and the sector is bracing for even more turbulence ahead as new coronavirus trains pop up in other countries many truck drivers are also stranded france barred ferry connections with britain and shut the euro tunnel only unaccompanied containers are allowed across london and paris said they are working on lifting the ban quickly. the emergence of new more infectious strains of the virus have of course unsettled global markets as well that's going to do is financial correspondent caught it in new york high end so what are the markets making of all this you know well i mean clearly the imitation of the virus

did cause some confusion early on on no wall street blue chips at the beginning of the week traded lower by a good 400 points and specially the. industry the tourism sector i mean there's there is quite some concern that you have business could actually worsen also don't just look at stocks look at oil prices for instance was this mutation there was all this concern that we might see a slowdown of the global economy and at least at some point prices dropped by 4 or 5 percent by the end of the day by the way we even did close slightly in positive territory it was the dow jones industrial average it was one of the biggest turnarounds of the year here on monday and that was partly because the federal reserve firm had their stress tests done for the u.s. banks and now they gave the green light that banks are allowed to buy back their own stocks for the 1st time since march and that really put the financial industry

on fire and that was one of the reasons why it's stocks did turn positive by the end of the close ok and stay with us for a moment because i want to talk to you about a nother big development in the united states where lawmakers have reached a deal on a $900000000000.00 stimulus package it will be the 1st federal aid package since the cares act back in march the simonis measures include $600.00 direct payments to individuals and an additional $300.00 per week in unemployment benefits bus critics say it's come too late to avoid a major slowdown in the labor market. let's see what you make of all of this hans will this be another for the millions of americans who are really struggling right now well it's helping and i think it's really important to understand this money is meant to be to bring us from here to there it's in a package it's not necessarily as stimulus program but it is really to help

americans so while their health situation is still a grim and still a lot of businesses are basically under water so it is in a pick it is important for millions of americans but it's not going to be sufficient to fully recover the u.s. economy but yeah definitely i mean if you look around so many businesses are closing during their winter months so we said might see more layoffs restaurants might have to shut down entirely so it is definitely a very welcome to help even if someone called an economist pointed to the fact that it would have been nicer to get that money earlier out so that people in the u.s. could spend just for the holidays. to in a very christmassy new york thank you very much. electric car maker tesla has joined the prestigious s. and p. market index where it's been valued at over $600000000000.00 the company had

a ready being listed on the text on the age of nasa clare its share price has skyrocketed over the past few months tesla which sold 140000 vehicles last quarter is now the most valuable car maker in the world. since the beginning of this year tesla share price has been going from record high to record high even though the company lost 1100000000 dollars last year as investors piled in to get a piece of the emo bill of the action even on musk's electric vehicle company's share price shot up by a stunning 700 percent this year alone. the recent prospect of an s. and p. $500.00 listing turbo charge the stock as a result tesla is now worth more than rivals general motors ford toyota honda chrysler and vokes wagon combined and that despite the company's comparatively low production numbers. we'll see if the growth aspirations that must

continue to unfold as many people expect you know i'm in the more cautious camp i think the valuation as it's written but now that tesla has managed to accelerate product to pretty and generate surprisingly high profits over the last 4 quarters critics have generally fallen silent for the time being but some investors do appear to think tesla is overvalued as the us markets close on monday tess i was actually the main drag on the s. and p. $500.00 dropping off its record high to lose over 6 percent and close just over $650.00. here in germany nonessential businesses have been closed for almost a week as the country struggles to contain rising infection opera's the decision is an especially big blow to retailers after anna reddy high difficulty here. these days local residents here in dusseldorf only go out to buy groceries or perhaps pick up some flowers the rest of the stores have shut their doors due to the

lockdown shopkeeper done the elop iraq has followed suit even so she comes in almost every day and she still sells some of her sustainable clothing and other products on line chaps as i toss and zips in an online shop so i've had an online shop since 2017. luckily i didn't have to start from scratch this year so that helped that it would go but that doesn't make up for the losses incurred by a locked down shot at sources are going up one order has arrived this morning by email the customer will pick up the perfume later online shoppers are mainly locals but almost all of the retailers are germany's most luxurious shopping street that could examine and dusseldorf have closed their doors shopping centers are nearly deserted. but there is still work to be done at least for this jeweler sonia kies is designing a piece for a client the pandemics global impact has hit her business especially hard her

family shop creates custom me jewelry. i don't need unique gems which we carefully select in person as uncut stones at the mines but i can't get over there so i can't fulfill my orders now. foodland her husband shows images from the last trip to a sri lankan mine in march. they've already cut this stone. but more are needed for the order luckily the client is patient an exception to the rule. our industry is in great distress many of us are down 30 percent. done at least was able to sell the perfume before noon the customers stopped by that's how many retailers are operating right now she's prepared should the lockdown go on for longer at least until the end of january. and finally we

take you to finland the snowy far north where visitors would normally be flocking to visit santa claus under the current travel restrictions however crowds in the la plan tired of revenue and we have to when told to having the winter wonderland looking abundant but santa too has adapted to working from home he's been communication with children and via video instead quite the business savvy individual he's been charging 79 euro's for a 5 minute call funds he'll hopefully use to help his elves whether these turbulent times. that so far so i saw things.

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