the coronavirus an. instructional monday to friday on w. this is d w news live from berlin and britain scrambles to reopen vital trade links with europe outbound traffic at dover is paralyzed following the courts of a new and possibly more infectious variant of the corona virus in the country but cross channel freight traffic could resume as early as wednesday. also coming up customized protection ahead of biotech says his company can target the u.k.

corona virus mutation with that tailor made vaccine in under 2 months. and russian opposition leader alexei in of all he says he notes nearly killed him with poison last august an associate of the vallies tried to confront the alleged hit man and is detained by police instead. i'm sumi so much gun it's good to have you with us britain is becoming increasingly isolated after a new more contagious strain of the corona virus emerged their countries have been banding sleights to the u.k. stranding passengers at airports but there will be some respite for the long lines of trucks that are stuck waiting to leave britain the u.k. and france are reported to be restarting freight traffic starting on wednesday trucks have been back. for several kilometers at the english port of dover after

france barred their entry. and we have our correspondent in dover. hill is standing by for us there hi charlotte good to see you tell us what the situation there is right now. saying the frustration is building among the hundreds of lorry drivers who is stranded here outside the ports in davis some of these guys have been here for 2 nights in a row now what you have to understand is of course if you're stuck on a motorway there are no toilet facilities these guys aren't having hot meals this really is a desperate situation for them they tell us that had they had any idea that this is what they would be facing that never tried to make this trip across the border a lot of them from the european mainland say that they just want to get home for christmas and old only talks are ongoing today about how this resolution how this will be result there's no aunt says and so when these drivers will be able to move

on one suggestion has been that said the drive is all tested for the current of ours before they enter fronts but there are big questions logistically about fast how that will work and then how long it will take so really is a very very difficult situation for these drivers here as they sit and they wait. this doesn't mean of course this ban from travel from britain it doesn't mean the trucks can't go the other way so why are there concerns about food supplies in britain. yeah simi trucks can still come into the u.k. from france but a lot of drivers simply don't want to and you can see why just behind me that concerned that this situation isn't going to be result in their return journey they might be stuck in something a lot like this now the government has said that there shouldn't be any shortages of. for example in the short poly because there's been

a lot of stockpiling in the build up to the end of the break the transition period and concerns that in the event of a no deal that there would be situations like this but you have to think about perishable food fresh meat friesen vegetables if this goes on for days and days the u.k. relies heavily on imports a day sort of thing so there are warnings of supermarkets about shortages in the medium time as things like citrus fruits left us for example but the public crucially is being warned not to stockpile the government saying that they are working hard to get this ever solved as quickly as possible and tell us what all of this means the border closures means for christmas plans i mean there are people who have family member stranded in britain or abroad. who the u.k. now as you said is essentially caught off for so many places and for those trying to reach loved ones over christmas it's a heartbreaking situation but christmas in essence for so many people in the u.k.

has basically been canceled this year the public had been told that this previously that they would be able to to meet their families they would be able to travel now with the emergence of this new variant of the current virus we're hearing could be up to 70 percent more transistor miscible those plans have now been counseled many spending christmas very sadly along the. charlotte show some poll reporting from dover there for us thank you very much. now the chief executive of germany's bio on tech says he is confident it's widely approved vaccine will work against a new strain of the corona virus the company said the likelihood of it working is high but if needed a version of the vaccine that specifically targets the new variant could be ready in a matter of weeks this comes as the international community grows more concerned by this new strain of covert 19 biotech's vaccine is authorized for use in more than

$45.00 countries around the world. and that includes countries here in the european union and we have correspondents across europe monitoring just how vaccines will be rolled out let's get the view 1st of all. on the how much time here in berlin lenny what is the situation here. well germany is as many of its european neighbors hoping to vaccinate the 1st people on the 27th of december so just in a few days time after the final check the 1st vaccine doses will be delivered to the 16 regional states those days were responsible for setting up a vaccination centers for getting the mobile teams ready and then they will deliver the 1st shots on the sunday and who are the 1st people to get vaccinated those over 80 years of year of years of age those living and working in nursing homes and the medical personnel that is at a very high risk of infection we do have to note that the willingness of germans to

get the covert exene has decreased only 48 percent 4048 percent according to recent studies say they would get vaccinated so authorities are trying to inform people to tell them that this vaccination is indeed safe and they're hoping to yes stop the rollout on the 27th of december all right let's cross over to paris now where did have you sonia found the cars then and buy for us that sonia what is the plan there in france or all of the vaccine. when so me the french government is saying that you know logistics are being put into place and the country really is of track to start vaccinating by december 37th that's and that's this coming sunday now france is secured to the european union about $200000000.00 is the french government has said it has purchased or than this is a weak workman things like 7 ges and special freezers stores to store the vaccines and much like other european nations france has also said that in the 1st phase it

will start vaccinating elderly people and start in the countries 10000 us in homes this is a particularly one problem group but a major concern here in the country is also you know a very high level of vaccine skepticism among the population and one recent poll said just about 41 percent of french people say they plan to get inoculated so that really complicates the picture but french president money micro has twisted the vaccine will not be made compulsory and that he hopes to win over people with transparency and conviction well we can get the view from spain now do you feel a choice is standing by in seville young philip what is the situation there has a spanish government rolled out its power laid out its plan rather for what it's going to do with vaccination. yes the plan has just been made public and spent yet seem to be quite optimistic about their spend his health minister says that he thinks this is not the end but at least the beginning of the end of the fundamental secluding to his plan the vaccine will be brought to 50 all across spain and the

population will be divided into trish gene tri oritsé groups next a nation will be voluntary and will be tree so the government will register the reasons of those who refused to be next in 1000 also the government had to admit that not everything is sorted i would guess for example it seems to be unclear how many doses the spanish government will actually receive in the initial phase of the program might last but not least let's head over to italy a country that we know has been hard hit by call that 1000 sima got the standing by for us there seem a what is italy's plan. well the prime minister decepticon to has done december 27th as vaccine day and it's an important day it's the start of things changing around the hopis although they still have to be high on god not the 1st person that is expected to be vaccinated it will happen here in rome and it's the least of foremost infectious disease hospital and that will be followed by

a campaign in january to explain to talons that the vaccine is indeed safe and it's important to get vaccinated the country received initially $1800000.00 shots of that pfizer vaccine to start with the vaccine is free it will not be mandatory and the plan is to set up some 300 also that scene of villains that will eventually reach to some 1500 of these pavilions which will be set up in the squares throughout the country these pavilions have been designed by architect stefano where he they've been to dawn with korean rolls flour a symbol they say that is supposed to symbolize regeneration the hope is that people will come forward and get the vaccination it's nice health minister welcome the news of the approval of the vaccine and sit there it mocked a new phase in the fight against this pandemic all right that is the view across europe as the european union plans are rollout the pfizer biotech vaccine thank you

lanny sonya young philip and sima great to talk to all of you. let's take a look now at some other developments in the pandemic germany has reported its highest 7 day incidence rates since the beginning of the pandemic the rubber cock institute says there are nearly $200.00 infections per 100000 people in 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 pandemic taiwan has discovered a local transmission of covert 1000 ending a 250 day virus free period health authorities say a woman in her thirty's has tested positive after a contact with a new zealand pilot. and now to some other headlines from around the world 6 hungary an opposition parties have announced that they will unite in an effort to unseat prime minister viktor orban and 2022 national elections these parties of

formally agreed to coordinate a single joint candidate to oppose oregon's nationalist party in each of hungary's electoral districts stargazers have been treated to a once in a lifetime illusion after jupiter and saturn appeared closer together in the night sky than they have in centuries they are aligning orbits meant the frozen gas fears appeared closer and more vibrant than at any time in 800 years. the volcanic eruption on hawaii's big island has created a new lava lake within the crater lava from kill away a shot 50 meters into the air hundreds of people reported feeling earthquake tremors the eruption cast a red glow over the night sky after steam sort into the atmosphere. leading the russian opposition figure alexina volley has published a recording of a phone call with the russian agent alleged to have been involved in the volleys poisoning last summer media have named the man as part of an elite team that

followed a volley for years the kremlin has dismissed the recording as a fake but an associate of nirvana's try to confront the would be assassin and was detained by police. with the address of the audition going to come from an alleged would be assassin alexina of on these lawyers of sobel arrived at 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 i don't really know where you were before this is the job of you. need the prominent critic of the russian government an anti corruption investigates a 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 novi choke. now now found me 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 me and the f.s.b. said the phone call was a provocation and foreign security services were involved. or you whatever the

russian government's response in a valley says he will piss you legal action against the men he says tried to kill him from. and with the talk now to correspondent and we show when he was standing by in moscow with the latest hi amalie so we know that the police have now released . but 2 employees who work for and of all these you tube channel have now been arrested can you tell us why. well they were detained yesterday and they're apparently being questioned by police according to these team about disobeying police orders there in detention so far and are apparently awaiting trial when it comes to do both so but she was as you say released but she is now facing a potential criminal case for a sensually it seems for sitting outside the door of this allegedly assassin for

the day and for trying to bring his doorbell at least that's what not by needs team say now we don't know of course but it does look a bit like a crackdown on members of these team and i even heard one russian expert today saying that perhaps we could see a wider crackdown on other members of the opposition even members of the opposition that have nothing to do with these team it does seem that perhaps going forward we might see kind of a hard line from the kremlin after all next year is an important year for the kremlin as well with parliamentary elections coming up so they may want to keep things under control with it when it comes to the opposition and really what about the you tube video that only posted how do we do that that is not fake. absolutely sumi we just simply don't know that it's not fake in the video itself

not via me at the beginning he gives a little bit of an introduction and he says that he is absolutely willing to face any audio analysis any forensic speech and audio analysis of the voice of this alleged assassin and i guess one thing that you could point out is that what we see in the video certainly confirms the information that we we were told or that we read about in the in the previously published investigation led by belling cat and the insider that was published earlier last week but ultimately we don't have any official confirmation of the city of that video and of of the recording of that voice and how are russian authorities responding to the recording . well the f.s.b. released a statement yesterday calling the video a fake they said that it was a planned provocation that was aimed at discrediting the f.s.b.

and the agents working for the f.s.b. all agents working for the f.s.b. they also said that the methods that not only used to essentially disguise the telephone number that he was actually calling from those are typical methods that the that foreign security services use essentially accusing them of working with foreign security services and the line that the russian authorities have taken so far is to deny that russia has anything to do with. these poisonings so far and that's probably the line there we're going to see going forward but it certainly seems that this video is a worry for the kremlin and will be a worry for the kremlin after on all it's already gone viral and has millions and millions of views on you tube what about emily an investigation into what happened is there a chance that these you tube video could lead to such an investigation if not russia then perhaps in the european union well when it comes to an investigation

and russia that is still what members of not buying these team are demanding and there did seem to be some movement on that last week after the publication of that investigation by led by bell and cat viney himself said that he had been that he was being questioned by german public prosecutors he so far has been and that on the that he said that that was on the request of russian offshore it is now an adviser he has so far refused to be questioned by any russian officials but he is still demanding this investigation so there does seem to be some movement on that front but we don't know whether there will be a full investigation. and reporting from moscow thank you. 30 sports now empty stadiums have become a common sight since the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic of the absence of

supporters has changed the match day experience dramatically but for those watching at home technology does offer a substitute did anyone behind the scenes at a recent bundesliga match to see and hear the enhanced stadium experience. here i was in those offhand chance but without actual fans in the stands like every time to lose faulkner knows exactly what buttons to push to make the bundesliga experience from home sound as normal as possible the enhanced audio operator can react to almost every action on the pitch but the trainee sound effects at his disposal it's all done on this magic pad we have already got some slides i follow but with listening soledad if you're taking off in the stadium. tones chances penalties you name it operators like faulkner are ready for everything even for con to a tax write off so call the time we have this last i got here i like the one right

now it's running across the force approach to something i then go past for the royals and all the schools i want to go i think the spots on. the sky germany had to dig deep into their archives to replicate the noise as. each sound played is a match specific because everyone you see the team has its own unique sounds in the stadium i was in these missions with we had to remove the referee whistles any bore noises as well as interjections from coaches and players for the basic already are competent and often when should be done i the sound is then matched with the my feet coming from the stadium. this is what a goal with the fan noise option for example sounds like on light t.v. if. i was sent here the disappointment at in this

chance. was everything planned down to the smallest detail like all sometimes we have to wed resonance to make the sound richer when a small team plays in a big stadium for example it was dissonance with the. sound on i was sound off. hand noise is not exactly everyone's cup of tea. but for fans watching the window seat off from home during the pandemic they can choose to bring the match day atmosphere into their living rooms even if it's not quite the real thing. christmas in the holy land is different this year the coronavirus crisis means there are no tourists and social contact has been reduced to a minimum but santa claus is still making his rounds in jerusalem and bethlehem he's had to adapt like everyone else santa is always on the cool in december so

it's isa consisting year the father christmas of the holy land though israel and the palestinian territories are gripped by coronavirus the true slim santa hopes through a festive season. this is centers house the work place of jerusalem st nick and also it says family home it's december the busiest time of the year for santa and yet in 2020 the pandemic has changed everything it's very hard for us with this crazy situation what we have would govern one thing i try my best to have plan a b. c. . at the nursery school run by the daughters of charity center is to help decorate the christmas tree due to the pandemic he's unable to visit some schools or hospitals this year he and the 200 try to keep their distance from one another but it isn't always easy. you know who i am.

at christmas though people look towards neighboring bethlehem which christians believe to be the birthplace of jesus the city is now in the israeli occupied west bank easter is on his way there to visit a family even center must be flexible and take a detour or 2 the direct route from jerusalem to beth amis blocked by the israeli separation barrier and checkpoints. the service it's a family he knows the children anthony and andrea eagerly awaiting him though this time he. only go as far as their door knocked and to that apartment safety comes 1st. in bethlehem christmas isn't being cancelled it will simply be celebrated differently not as color fully and above all

without any foreign visitors will never see christmas and all around labor of record i want to watch the war logs and. well. it's time for is set to return to choose. even ing is falling on the city it's time to open the doors of centers house. in spite of the pandemic he said because to see a means to fulfill his duties. as. europe's biggest and oldest lottery draw el gordo is starting in madrid today though translates as the fact one and it is fast indeed dishing out a total of $2400000000.00 euros in prizes this year tickets cost 20 euros and most prizes consist of smaller sums making it incredibly popular across spain but due to the covert 1000 pandemic this year's draws being held under strict conditions and

winners are being told not to celebrate in public. while santa around the world are busy doing their duties as christmas fast approaches one santa in california was so eager to get his presence out to the kids that he got himself all tied up in some power lines santa got the shock of his life after flying his paraglider into the cables luckily some little helpers from the local fire department were on hand to get him down safe and sound they said they'll make sure he uses reindeer next time. let's get a recap of our top stories here and g.w. outbound traffic at the british port of dover is paralyzed as the u.k. and european states scramble to reopen severed trade links in new countries shut their borders to british traffic to keep up a new more contagious strain of the corona virus that has been spreading in

southern england. and the head of german drug maker biotech says his company can produce a vaccine tailored to the u.k. coronavirus mutation in just 6 weeks but overstocking also expressed confidence that biotech's existing shot would be effective against kerry. coming up next with the long lines of trucks in dover mean for supply chains and logistics steven beardsley has d.w. business. really.

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the sun for monarch. fantasy. to see. the secrets because it starts december 25th. the. supply chain severed travel routes suspended markets fall in the u.k. sudden isolation following the discovery of a new coronavirus variants can london and the e.u. work out a coordinated response. also in the show we'll talk to the c.e.o. of german vaccine developer biotech about that variance and whether it's vaccine

just approved in the e.u. can protect against it. and the e.u. and china say they're closing in on a landmark investment deal we'll see.