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healthy during the holidays kids. good to have you with us britain is becoming increasingly isolated over a new more contagious strain of the coronavirus nations have been to the u.k. . relief for the long queues of trucks stuck waiting to leave.

trucks have been backed up for several kilometers at the english port of dover after france barred their entry. well let's go straight over to dover we're. standing by show it what's the situation there. good morning terry well another night with these lorry drivers just behind me on the side of the most a way here i think few when they planned this journey expected this is quite how it end would end we've spoken to a few already they've said they're worried now that they may not be home in time for christmas a lot of sadness a lot of anger here at the speeds which this travel ban was put into place without any warning they are now stuck in these tailbacks they go on only along this stretch of motorway just behind me now the government said in a press conference yesterday that there was some 170 lorries stuck back to back on

the motorway but we've since heard and we can verify for having driven along the motorway that there are more like 900 trucks stuck that out as you just said there are talks underway to try and negotiate how they can cross through the ports and get into front said one proposal at the moment is perhaps that they might need is to be tested for the current of ours before they are allowed into france to leave the mates who and to get on the way of the question is though exactly how how long that will take how many days will these drivers still be stuck here just behind me . francis ban on travel from britain does not stop trucks from going the other way then or brits concerned about food supplies possibly being disrupted. well the question terry is nor can i add chuck's decedents to the u.k. it's do they want to because the worry is that once you are in the country to go

back is going to lead to just this being sock on the side of the nice way potentially for days on end of course that's putting a lot of people off now the government has said that they we aren't going to see immediate says shortages of food of course in the lead up to the end of the tri brics a transition period at the end of the year there have been preparations in place there has been stockpiling of resources to try pre-packed actually for it eventuality quite like this that doesn't cover fresh food which is why you're getting several supermarkets major supermarkets here warning that if this goes on for days and days they could be shortages of some of the fresh fruits u.k. imports situ as for example lexus another thing that supermarkets a warning about the government says there's no cause for concern yet the public's being urged not to go on to stockpile but of course images like this will be alarming for a lot of people who have heard about all the eventualities of what could have happened in the event of a no do break that for example now the border closures are also affecting christmas

plans for many people you know with loved ones stranded in britain or with those abroad afraid to travel their household affecting the country's. terry it's been a really tough few days here in the u.k. the vaccine was a house started to be rolled out we know 500000 people that had the best days that really boids the 1st several days people felt like that was the lights at the end of the tunnel many then have christmas plans because they were told that they would at the f.b.i. day relaxation of the rules families could meet top around the country all of that now in light of this new variant of the current virus is no more the country parts of the country are essentially in lockdown christmas than many has been completely counseled and of course there is a huge amount of concern about this new variance which is cool to be up to 70 percent more transmissible lot of warnings from authorities about the social

distancing measures and concern about whether or not they will be enough to deal with this new battery and. a great deal of anxiety here in the u.k. this morning sorry thank you very much. bill there in the british court over. well you states are set to begin mass inoculations within days of the blocks medicines agency has officially approved the foster biotech biotech vaccine the shot is already in use in britain canada and the united states. trucks arriving in departing from a pfizer factory in belgium the drivers were probably dead to collect the company's codes of 90 vaccine and have 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

allowance 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 new 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 tied doctors pharmacists and soldiers of being drafted in for

a vaccination drive of unprecedented scale. and we have team coverage on this story this morning of course one of my son and joins me from brussels and lee in a phone hummer stein is in our parliamentary studios good morning to you both max now that the vaccine approval is here or all e.u. countries equally prepared to roll it out. the u.s. $27.00 member states and not all have made their vaccination strategies public yet but it's likely going to be very soon the e.u. commission came up with a vaccination strategy with a plan and will start rolling out the vaccine right after christmas and there are still some technical issues in place of some logistical issues that have to be dealt with but the deadline for the vaccine to be brought to the member states is december 27th so member states should be able to start right away with vaccinating

their most vulnerable population starting on sunday although we also hear that some member states might not be ready just in time for for sunday yet lenny you're looking at the situation here in germany what's the immunization plan. well max said germany is hoping just as many of its european neighbors to start vaccinating the 1st people on the 27th of december so after a final check the 1st doses will be delivered to the 16 regional states those were responsible for setting up the vaccination centers for organizing the teams and then they will start vaccinating the 1st people on the on the 20 seven's who are those people well the 1st group of people to be vaccinated in germany are those over 80 years of age those living and working in nursing homes and health care workers at a very high risk off infection and health minister has said he expects 1300000 doses to be delivered to germany by the end of the year and then he's expecting

around $11.00 to $13000000.00 vaccine doses in the 1st quarter of 2021 and very excited obviously to start vaccinating people here. it's a milestone in the fight against the pen demick. stay with us because we want to talk for a moment about how hesitant some people are when it comes to the new vaccine we summarize some of the major concerns in this short report let's take a listen. for instance i'm scared of the side effects the side effects and side effects every vaccine has side effects including ones that are already approved it's normal. most of the companies have reported very mild side of back. around a 3rd of the people get a fever depending on the vaccine but it usually only lasts a few hours and then the next day they're fine again this is the least. and right

now the concern is not that there are any major side effects at all we haven't seen anything near adverse events directly related to the vaccine from the trials. because there haven't been any studies on the long term effects. let's go there are no long term studies we don't know anything about long term effects yet. might wake up 2 years after getting vaccinated with the deformity. most side effects appear immediately after the vaccination within a few hours or days at most it's very very rare for anything later than that. what we know about vaccines and the general biological response is based on decades of research and what we know about events that could happen usually happen within the time period of a clinical trial and we haven't seen anything that's concerning so far. so some concerns expressed there people with regard to the new vaccine mix what's the

european union doing to address these concerns. yeah we just heard from many people this is a very emotional issue a lot of people have concerns regarding the effectiveness regarding the safety of the vaccine and. coming occasion really is is key here the e.u. made sure time and time again not to overstate and not to understate the safety and effectiveness of the vaccine the e.u. commission president was enough on the line is a doctor herself by trade and she knows that this is not an issue of faith but an issue of scientific evidence this is also one of the reasons why the e.u. opted for a thorough approach in terms of the approval unlike other countries like the u.k. and like the u.s. they did the e.u. did not go for the emergency approval with all its disadvantages and by doing so hopes are that this would give people more trust and would convince skeptics that

this vaccine is safe to take any willing or germans to take the shot we know that some people here are skeptical to what's being done to boost public confidence in the vaccine. well terry if they're not as willing as they were in the spring well we have studies in the spring suggesting that almost 80 percent of germans were willing to get the vaccine. that number is around 48 percent so people do seem to be more skeptical a lot of those people asked said voiced the same concerns we just heard in the reports they worried about the long term effects their worries about the speedy approval process and as max mentioned communication is really key and we see a lot of high ranking politicians in germany come out and try to insure people that disapproval the speed of approval process doesn't mean the vaccine is not safe trying to contract conspiracy myths too that there will be sort of people will be

required to take the route to take the vaccine and so information dissemination of information is really key here president. has emphasized that people will have access to reliable information from their doctors would have to ensure them that everything is safe and that their questions are being answered he's also though called it an act of solidarity to get the vaccine to get vaccinated because in order to to achieve herd immunity around 60 to 70 percent of the population would have to be vaccinated against competent. i predict we'll be seeing of additions around europe demonstrative getting a bunch of new themselves around december 27th do you know usually early from harvesting much time to thank you both very much. 3 say look at some of the other stories making headlines today the u.s. congress has approved a new covert $1000.00 relief package the $900000000000.00 deal provides aid to

individuals and businesses hardest hit by the growth of virus pandemic it's the 1st stimulus package since march and comes after months of wrangling between republicans and democrats. president elect joe biden has been given the biotech pfizer coated 19 vaccine in his home state of delaware aged 78 mr biden in a is in a high risk group he's pledged to make fighting the crowd of virus is top priority when he takes office next month u.s. has also begun administering a 2nd covert vaccine developed by the american drug maker mowed down. more kind of corruption on hawaii's big island as cast a red blue of the night sky. from killing mountain shot 50 meters into the air hundreds of people reported feeling earthquake tremors the eruption created a new lobby on lake within the crater. prone it russian

opposition figure alexina body has published a recording of a phone call with a russian agent alleged to be to have been involved in his poisoning last summer media have named the man as part of an elite team that trail for years the kremlin has dismissed the recording as a fake but trying to confront the would be assassin an associate of the bunny's was instead detained by police. with. the addition of going to come from an alleged would be assassin alexina needs a lawyer. arrived as an apartment block in moscow along with a d w camera team. according to the valley a man who lives on this street is one of the security service agents who tried to kill him with the credit suitable. for police arrive and

take her away. you know what i'm really where you were there was a job of you. alexina valmy the prominent critic of the russian government an anti corruption investigator fell ill while on a plane in russia or an organist. he was treated at a hospital in berlin and recovered laboratories in europe confirmed that he had been poisoned with the soviet era military nerve agent nova chalk. now now found he says he's uncovered new details on the plot to kill him on a video of a phone call he says he duped a member of russia's domestic security service f.s.b. into revealing details of the plot to kill him during the 49 minute cool the alleged agent to mitigate that novacek was planted in the valleys underwear and that if the flight had been longer things would have turned out differently.

moscow has repeatedly denied that they tried to kill nerve on the and the f.s.b. said the phone call was a provocation and foreign security services were involved. whatever the russian government's response in the valley says he will pass you legal action against the men he says tried to kill him. i'm joined on the line from moscow by evangelists don office director of alexina bali's anticorruption foundation your colleague you both sabol was detained last night do you know why she was arrested. michael michael occurred about several n.p.'s today. now and he spoke directly to the artist of his apartment. my name.

because the doorbell of the apartment. after she was in the car she was the tenant for illegal entry. and after nightly explanation. today morning she was really the local police chief. was being prepared and now 2 of our samantha and paula station pending trial for an administrative france. alexina bonnie alleges that he talked directly on the telephone to an alleged f.s.b. agent who allegedly tried to kill him those election about he have any proof that he was actually talking to the person. this is exactly the person. we know this from the analysis of the phone can

receive. his flight we know he's. been out of the leader of the group. makes it clear that he knew a person of details and. and crawled over the board on the. names of the capabilities of the old. who are not graphic. and another proof for. the conversation a lot of effort is going into the investigation of this alleged assassination attempt what do you expect to happen now what do you want to happen now.

but we want the. criminal case for each we want. for the nation it. gave him want to all evidence to be eliminated in court we want to be in a $24.00 or 5 piece upon. a time. this is anonymous thank you very much for speaking with us that was even injured on off director of election upon these anti corruption foundation talking to us from moscow sports now an empty stadiums have become a common sight since the outbreak of the crown of irish pandemic the absence of supporters has changed the match they experienced dramatically but for those watching at home technology does offer a substitute e.w. went behind the scenes at a recent honestly to much to see and hear the enhanced stadium experience. here i was those off hand chance but without actual fans in the stands like

g. lewis faulkner knows exactly what buttons to push to make the when you see the experience from home sound as normal as possible the enhanced audio operator can react to almost every action on the pitch with the 20 sound effect at his disposal it's all done on this magic pad we have already got somebody i follow by with whistling soledad making noise in the stadium. tones chances penalties you name it operators like fog are ready for everything even for contact attacks they know so called attack we have this last album here i like the one right now it's running across the across the page of the so i then go past the roys it's all the schools not the old i think this but the. sky germany had to dig deep

into their archives to replicate the noise as. each sound played as a match specific because everybody using a team has its own unique sounds in the stadium i was missing missions which we had to remove the referee whistles any board noises as well as interjections from coaches and players for the basic already or top it and then i would often know where to be done i the sound is then mixed with the my feet coming from the stadium . this is what a goal with the fan noise option for example sounds like on my t.v. if i can't hear the disappointment at a missed chance. i get everything plant down to the smallest detail like my god and all sometimes we have to add resonance to make sound richer when a small team plays in a big stadium for example. it was missing until the. sound on i

was sound off. him noise is not exactly everyone's cup of tea. but for fans watching the business leader from home during the pandemic they can choose to bring their match day atmosphere into their living rooms even if it's not quite the real thing. with the holiday season underway around the world many families are being kept apart thanks to the coronavirus pandemic but many parents aren't content to let coven 19 ruin most magical time of the year for their children in russia that's opened the door to a new type of children's entertainer. it's the holidays in the russian capital but with the pandemic still raging here many families are worrying that father frost could leave more than just presents under the christmas tree. that's created a booming market in children's entertainers who have recovered from kovac 19 with

the antibodies to prove it with at least a temporary immunity to the virus they promise to bring only holiday cheer to their clients homes only tarasoff and sofa are actors by trade but come december they transform into. father frost or did not ross and his helper sneak over. after recovering from cope at 19 they decided that even a global pandemic shouldn't dampen the holiday spirit the 1st snow fell and the holiday season started and i said to olga let's do it if we both already recovered without any symptoms why shouldn't we work the kids will be safe and so will we. keeping hope alive is the best gift this season. everyone needs the celebration of the words as everyone has been waiting for it we all hope this will and next year it's just 2020 the year was just bad bad bad

i really hope it will get better. from father frost thanks to a healthy dose of coated antibodies the holiday spirit is alive and well despite the coronavirus pandemic. there is very very huge everyone blow air kisses because we can't hug each other. just remember the top story we're following for you here today on the news the u.k. . are scrambling to. reopen the severed trade links on monday e.u. countries shut their borders to british traveling to keep up a new and possibly more contagious strain of the corona virus which is spreading in southern it to. your news for now coming up next starbucks leaders

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