program so we just heard the c.e.o. of bio on tech there telling you that he is confident that his vaccine in its existing form can be effective against this new virus strain but he cannot be entirely sure given that information do you think that vaccinations could should still go on. yes absolutely one of the prime reason is that this new variant would not we don't provide the vaccine i think is see is that the mutation that we have seen that in the spiteful routine that the one that makes the cone chip structure on the surface of the virus those are very few compared to the total length of the protein so the antibody response is ordering against the entire length of the protein so the air force even wanted to mutations occurred that's not going to completely make the vaccine ineffective so therefore the vaccines that are approved. and the biotech as well as the advisers that would be all of the active because they do it is the immunity against the whole entire protein not just at

a specific single point ok so that is good news but how dangerous is this new strain. yes that is something we are really concerned and that is one of the things that has to be really sort of has to be really centered is that out of $23.00 mutations that we have noticed but in this new variant 7 of them they are in the spy protein that make the surface of this virus and any mutation that come into the spy proteins is of critical importance mainly for the transmissible transmitted transmission of this wire is so if we look on to those specific mutation 2 of those mutations are at a critical side that allow the widest to bind to oversell and $32.00 other bodies so that is making the virus more infectious more trust miscible and i don't 70 percent higher transmission has been reported for this white as well that is really something that we have to look very carefully so it does not really dominate not only in the u.k. but beyond that let's talk about transmission of the head of germany's disease control agency was asked today whether he thinks that this new virus strain is

already in the country here let's take a look at what he said. we know that this strain in the united kingdom was 1st detected in september we also know that it was found in the netherlands and denmark this means there is a likelihood that this strain has already reached germany undetected for me i think the probability of this is very very high. so mohammad if that's the case what do you think of these measures that have been taken of closing borders and stopping travel with britain. well one thing is really true so i mean is that you know if you recall from the very beginning of this and make most of the infections from will on china move to other countries through travels through social contacts and so on so now that we have identified this new variant here in the u.k. certainly there are possibility that it is already reaching to other countries because it was 1st identified back in september and at that point it wasn't the dominance of chances for people to specifically pick up that strain and then having

the possibility to escape the test that is conducted on to the airport and then to be really moving into any naive country and that is pretty slim but having said that we have to make sure that this strain is not disseminated not only in the euro but also in any other countries because if it has 75 percent more transmissible and if this becomes the domain experience that is going to make a really big trouble for the transmission and the inspection tool so how do we do that mohammed beyond the vaccine because that will take some time to get rolled out . well that is really the big challenge that this moment i think it is even more of what he some because we are in the festive season and even middle to having this at newbury and the infection rate would increase and that 1st couple of weeks in general he thought he would be very hard to do to have the height and weight off infections but i can don't leave it really to have his eyes is that a vaccine is. on the way to their efforts that we've put it so far our work

and just to make sure please follow all the little regulation that have been put in place on the shelf social contact on the face covering and to follow more than ever because this festive season is really major what he for me seeing behind him but i think the action in coming days virally just mohammed one here from lancaster university joining us thank you so much thanks for having me. well the country where the new more contagious strain of the virus was 1st detected britain is becoming increasingly isolated other nations have been banning flights to the u.k. stranding passengers at airports but they'll be some respite for the long lines of trucks stuck waiting to leave britain the u.k. and france are reportedly restarting fraiche traffic starting on wednesday the trucks have been backed up for several kilometers at the english port of dover after france bargain their entry. and we have our correspondent in dover. pill is standing by for us there hi charlotte good to see you tell us what the

situation there is right now. seeing 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 mostly way 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 of trying 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 although talks are ongoing today about how this resolution how this will be result there's no aunt says as to 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 the ends of fronts but there are big questions logistically about 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 seamy trucks can still. coming to 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 resulted in never 10 journeys they might be stuck in something a lot like this now the government has said that there shouldn't be any shortages of troops for example in the short time that's partly because there's been a lot of stockpiling in the build up to the end of the break the transition period in concerns that in the event of a no deal that there would be situation like this but you have to think about

perishable food fresh food fruits and vegetables if this goes on for days and days the u.k. relies heavily on imports of those sort of things so they're all warnings and supermarkets about shortages in the medium time and things like citrus fruits leftists for example but the public crucially is being warned not to stockpile the government saying that they are working hard to get this ever told 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 this is 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 though 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. let's check in now on some other stories making headlines 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 it is the 1st new stimulus package since march and comes after months of wrangling between republicans and democrats. yes president elect joe biden has been given the biotech sizer coded 1000 vaccine in his home state of delaware fighting pledge to make fighting the coronavirus his top priority when he takes office next month the u.s. has also started administering a 2nd to cope with vaccine development of the american drug maker moderna. 6 hungary an opposition parties have announced that they will unite in an effort to

unseat prime minister viktor orban in 2022 national elections the parties have formally agreed to coordinate a single joint candidate to oppose or bond's nationalist party in each of hungary's electoral just streets and 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 there are aligning orbits meant the frozen gas fears appeared closer and more vibrant than at any time in the last 800 years. leading russian opposition figure alexina valda has published a recording of a phone call with a russian agent alleged to be have have been ill involved involve news poisoning last summer media have named the maddest part of an elite team that followed not only for years the kremlin has dismissed the recording as fake but an associate of nepalis tried to could front the would be assassin and was detained by police.

he was with the people going to confront an alleged would be assassin a very briefly kuwait alexina bounties lawyer lubow super bowl arrived at an apartment block in moscow according to novell me a man who lives on this street he's one of the security service agents who tried to kill him if you put on the shin yes obscene you see the shell if you get produce off the waiting many i was outside his whole army the police arrive and take all the way from the fever. you know it's you know what i'm really working on you know it wasn't a good job of me at that she's gone. the prominent critic of the russian government an anti corruption investigator fell ill while on a plane in russia back in august. he was treated at a burley in hospital and recovered. laboratories in europe confirmed that he'd been poisoned with a soviet era military nerve agent nabil chuck. who

now an avanti 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 the f.s.b. into revealing details of the plot to kill him. during the 49 minute call the alleged agent admitted that nabil chalk was planted in lieu of danny's underwear and that if the flight had been any longer things would have turned out differently. moscow has repeatedly denied that they tried to kill novell any and the f.s.b. said the phone call was a provocation and foreign security services were involved. let's get the latest on the story now d.w. correspondent is in moscow for us hi emily how is the kremlin responding to this interview that involve the recorded. well of course the russian authorities

have repeatedly denied any connection between russian officials and this poisoning we've just heard a statement from the kremlin spokesperson made to his cough who said that he hadn't watched the video but that now viney seems to have delusions of grandeur delusions also of being persecuted and he also commented on the fact that the video goes into great detail about where the poison could have been placed and perhaps well it seems it was placed on these underwear he said that there should be a friday and analysis about why he is so obsessed with his own across the area those were the words of the kremlin spokesperson he also referred back to a statement that we heard earlier from the f.s.b. yesterday they said that this video is a fake that it's a provocation aimed at discrediting the f.s.b. and agents of the f.s.b.

so again firmly denying that but it's clear that this video which now has millions and millions of views on you tube will be a worry going forward as well for the kremlin ask you about those allegations of the video being fake in a moment but 1st we saw in the report that the police released lubov sobel but now 2 employees who work for nobel news you tube channel have also been arrested tell us about that. so as far as we know those 2 employees of the you tube channel are still in detention yesterday they were questioned according to numbers on these team and they were where they seemingly will be in detention until trial they're being questioned apparently on. disobeying the orders of the police and. who was she was released from detention but she now is potentially facing a criminal case for a century breaking into this legit assassins apartment even though from what we saw

in media reports and in her own live streams she was essentially just staking out his apartment sitting outside it for a long time in a car and she tried to ring the doorbell as well now she's facing a criminal case it does seem that this could be part of a crackdown on members of. these team that we could see going forward and i even heard one russian expert speaking about the fact that this could be part of a wider crackdown on other members of the opposition even members of the opposition that have nothing to do with these team and with this investigation after all for the kremlin it's really important to kind of keep control of the situation in this country this year next year as well ahead of upcoming parliamentary elections in the country which are scheduled to take place next year and we what do we know about this you tube video from novotny how can it be verified. well

we we don't know we can't confirm whether the voice on the other end of the line was the voice of this alleged assassin in part because we don't we cannot 100 percent confirm that that assassin was really the the alleged assassin of. me now in the video itself says that he is prepared to face a forensic audio analysis of the voice on the other end of the line but of course we can't and we don't have official confirmation that that is a real voice and that this this video is is truthful and real and just quickly only given this you tube video do you think we could end up seeing a actual investigation into the poisoning well that is still what members of the venue's team are demanding and there has been some movement on that last week now viney was apparently questioned by german public prosecutors in

berlin where he is currently located on the request of russian authorities so we don't know whether there will be an official case opened here in russia but there does seem to be some movement on that front at least and we sure when reporting for us from moscow thank you. sports now and world football's governing body fifo has filed a criminal complaint against its former president sepp blatter and several of his associates fifa says it has found evidence of criminal mismanagement of hundreds of millions of euros for a football museum project the blatter set up his lawyer says the accusations are baseless blatter headed to fever for 17 years he was suspended and later banned by its ethics committee after swiss prosecutors filed criminal charges against him in 2815. now empty stadiums have become

a common sight since the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic 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 one dislike a match to see and share the enhanced stadium experience. here i was those off hand chance but without actual fans in the stands like a g. lewis 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 with the 20 sound effects at his disposal it's all done on this magic pad we have already got so i followed by with whistling soledad taking off the stereo. tones chances penalties you name it operators like fox are ready for everything even for contact

a tax write off so called attack we have this last album here i like the one right now it's running across the across the page if there is something i can go past from roy's it's all in 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 everyone using a team has its own unique sounds in the stadium i was most machines with 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 which 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 life t.v. if i

can't hear the disappointment at in missed chance. i at least think pant down to the smallest detail like my god and all sometimes we have to add resonance to make the sound richer when a small team plays in a big stadium for example. the. sound on i was sound off. hand noise is not exactly everyone's cup of team. but for fans watching the business leader 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. europe's biggest and oldest lottery draw al gore though is starting in madrid today al gore translates as the fat one and it is fat indeed dishing out a total of $2400000000.00 euros and prices this year take it's cost $20.00 euros

and most prices consist of smaller sounds making it very popular across space but due to the covered $1000.00 pandemic this year's draws being held under strict conditions and winners are being told not to celebrate in public. 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 has had to adapt like everyone else santa is always on the cool in december so it's the 2nd system year the father christmas of the holy land though israel and the palestinian territories are gripped by coronavirus the true slim santa hopes for a festive season the work of. the world this is centers house the workplace 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 azeri 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. 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 children try to keep their distance from one another but it isn't always easy. you know who i know. that. your. 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 he says on his way there to visit a family even center must be flexible and take

a detour or to the direct route from jerusalem to beth and this block by the israeli separation barrier and checkpoints. easter visits a family he knows the children antony and andrea's awaiting him though this time he can only go as far as their door not and to their 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 where the record by one of the wire. ho ho. it's time for is so to return to choose. even ing is falling on this city it's time to open the doors of sentence house. in

spite of the pandemic he said because to see it aids to fulfill his duties. he doesn't use time to create reporting there let's get a reminder of our top stories now the head of german drug maker biotech says his company can produce a vaccine tailored to the u.k. coronavirus variant in just 6 weeks but over shocking also told d.w.p. is confident that by attacks existing shots would also work against the grain. and outbound traffic at the british point of dover is paralyzed as the u.k. and european states scramble to reopen severed traded links e.u. countries shut their borders to british traffic to keep up a new more contagious strain of the corona virus that has been spreading across southern england. coming up next our bonus they can show kick off taking

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changing the economy to create something. the economics magazine media in germany. on t.w. . match day 13 of the bundesliga put this season's over achievers firmly in the spotlight when you're in berlin are flying higher than expected as they go from strength to strength because they outmuscled opened and heap more misery on the

fledgling big hitters. postponed and stuttgart have also surprised the season they look tones in a battle for a european qualification. and then there are the under-achievers shall get brought in their old friend hoops steven to fire up their dismal squad against be the felt. while clapped out what i need to smooth out this stuff during start to the season against often high. but 1st let's see how the bundesliga spice profile overachievers lay the cruising gone on sitting pretty in 1st place they face their biggest challenge yet in pa in munich. the. reigning champ s'posed features recently crowned best goalkeeper and best player out bright and wow to reclaim top spot and give leverkusen a wake up call a huge. it had been

almost 10 years since buyer leverkusen last sat top of the table they've always had a big threat up front but there was agents this season is also due to suring up the defense on saturday evening however they faced a team none too happy about being dislodged from their accustomed perch so who would rule the roost in this top of the table clash. by and we're well aware that they've gone behind in their previous 6 games and here too it was their opponents who got off to a more dynamic stance. and often not e.m.i. mary's long distance effort they kept up the pressure a short corner in the 14th minute saw remarry then tee up patrick schick. for a sumptuous volley on the early age. laver couzens offenses as potent as ever despite the departure of chi have and kevin fun and in the summer. that's thanks to new signing schick slotting straight into the

team set up and together with b. and leon bailey providing a variety of attacking options and check out the ball in the back of the net again on the hard foul on mark. only to be coles marginally offside. i don't think you can see that big difference between them and us we. we play with a lot of courage we press them high we we try to build up and play good position. but by and champions of germany and europe are a team who fight back rather than cave in. the heat and they have robot levon dusky my huge huge through the science level just before half time after a breakdown in communication among the hosts. perhaps overeager even

a 10 time both missed his head under the process impeded his own keep up. and after the break by and posed a growing threat as they wrestled back the initiative. their personal style but we knew that a part of stay patient are doing the 1st of and you know 2nd have you know we started talking more and more and i'm happy that we can you know one in again. 11 dusty's teammates also bed their teeth searched gnabry went desperately close in the 67th minute and she among the c.l.o. went even closer in the 79th class buy ins coach knows how to use the extra options at his disposal in this case bringing on leroy senay during the 1st time off and subban him back off session 5 minutes later with the right outcome. that said it might so easily have stayed a stalemate if tom hadn't handed by on

a 2nd season gift in stoppage time my. god which you know who needed no 2nd asking to accept. the towel with his 2nd assist of the game for bion although 11 dusky shot. did take a deflection off edmund taps about unlucky for some but it's the kind of thing that strangely no never happens to find. a. beater and on this is scary at the end of course we should all cells in the lake should have 1st known for naturally good at least a 11. tie and prevailed yet again in the nick of time and at the last minute also secured top spot getting into the winter break and there was no question about the man of the match and indeed of the match day.

man of the year and man of the weekend robert levy on dubs he wasn't even in top form on saturday. but he was still too good for labor cruising as he yet again took care of business . is about to come to a friendly with. the city sometimes platforms he joins it for sure thanks to the many. times the challenge is nothing like the predictions of a problem for the 2nd team back to the top but mostly. live and dusty becomes the 1st buying player to be crowned fief is footballer of the year and is also our best

performer of much day 13. but now we go from the biggest stage in world football to mo modest surroundings in the name of. the additive 1st to hide the pride of footballing berlin. for one half of the city at least. normally the 2nd season for top flight debutantes is just as tough as the 1st. for these guys. already and 6 spot any own hosted dortmund who had to take a coach 18 tent sit at the hound when you know you had a ready held bloodbath and even by an end to a point this time fancy their chances of taking all serene the overachievers of the season so far versus the big underachievers don't want to hoping to get back on track in the title challenge but they were happy not to go one nil down after just

2 minutes when mats hummels foils taiwo one you. so often only on putting the might looking up 9 kilometers more than their opponents and for their part struggled to produce much and in any case schooling against leone rarely comes easy. just weeks ago the stellar likes of marco royce and jayden sanchez who had don't mind riding high but the team has since come crashing back down to us. there is new hope though in the shape of use of for mukoko who in the 1st concert least showed that when ian's defense unlike the woodwork was not impervious. but it was after the break that aiden tests it has problems really big set pieces have been a blind spot for dormant and the belief that when your. so often it was the corner that paved the way for when your a 11 now not the way you don't mind imagine the game progressing. but you really

disappointed because research how to defend set pieces better. you're funny rainer here off the pace as leone set the pace. much said before that set pieces can determine our games out of the current order we're. really well at the moment the moments are good. 3 minutes later there was a bright spark in an otherwise lackluster until the end performance mukoko smashed in the equalizer in doing so smashing the record for the been this league is youngest ever goalscorer he turned 16 less than one months ago. a cause for celebration norman a. pretty good eye on her great lead with pace world a lot of form and we still lost. them for on going to venice. that's because there was something in the air that friday night.

and that something was mobbed in fleet owns had a supremely. because of those dreaded set pieces continues to haunt don't match. the frightening but in a couple months i place the best man in the air and he has to be covered for me but i just don't get how it happened to me the 1st time has. 00. 0. 0. 00. 00 especially the one in the last 5 games we thrown away too much is because of set pieces it's not on or i mean we can't be making things that easy we gave away goals like that in the bonus league and the loose. again to the side they felt were beneath them

all still behind don't mend in the table now might just one point. the traffic moves to. the coming of the match day. which was conjured up in the same stadium where the record. that will take some beating. oh so you say such things not just to make sure those who are watching to see the strip that you've done so in some style this song for you to scott thank you notes from 6 to 610 days old. for the misleading teenage sensation you should from the koko with his 1st goal in the bundesliga. just going to sell sums but not yet but soon he might be turning every bonus they get offended

inside out and are from mars in keeping with the current era let's be careful. might see yourself 16 and he's here because he's good. at sort of putting him in the spotlight after every single thing he does every goal help him in this fight of his. looks. and i'll contact we've got some overachievers and plenty of underachieve as captain lashed into this contract extension with some much needed good news as the folsom spent the entire season outside of the top 4 he delivered more good news from the penalty spot before half time his 8 scold of the season but hoffenheim hit back on trade come rich netting off the fool games without a go after a bomb storming start to the season oftentimes had fallen short of expectations

shortly after marcus to romp spot stephanie halasz and a red card which opened the door for hoffenheim come back. ryan says and don't schooled in the 87th minute to seal the 21 win a boost for the visitors while mark heroes his men just cannot match the all seasons hikes. like i think left back and head leno has been a real overachiever this season scoring 7 goals in all competitions but he couldn't help his team out this time. the underachieving team oho on with towards him time and again to ensure a no no draw for cologne to celebrate securing a 2nd clean sheet of the season. frame and have almost exactly the same record as at this point last season of

a underachieving school and didn't get much better not to have their strikers. but 5 minutes from time yes to everything she came on for his debut and managed to get the winning gold in the 90th minute securing 3 massive points against relegation rivals minds. caps he can be the great new hope for that. movement a shy guy i could say. is not a guy as many words but the best as he speaks was gold it's ok it's a little bit of the game in football nerd. minds are as good as league america overachieving just by being in the top division but it looks ever more likely that that top flight tenure could end saying. it's been a gloomy period for frank 1st without a win says the start of october i got some luck in our book and i'm go getting them the lead in the 53rd minute. the hosts weren't happy bob i have been enjoying

a steady campaign with no relegation worries so far. frank 1st sealed the deal 3 minutes from time. a lovely see move finished off by stephane ill sancha. a 1st win in 10 matches for the. eagles. enough to make hardy who feel the love. can to keep our alexander shore low was back a former club freiburg for the 1st time since his transfer in august having spent 10 years with the club. freiburg overachievers and got the 1st goal a lovely diving header from ben chance of grief to welcome back his former colleagues just 7 minutes and. 7 minutes into the 2nd tough patch a true level there.