all right let's get some insight into what all of this means we have mohamed with us he's a viral legist that lancaster university in england muhammad good to see you a good to have you back on the 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 oh yes absolutely one of the prime reason is that this new variant would not really jump or date the vaccine i think is it is that the mutation that we have seen within the spiteful routine that the one that make the co-ownership structured onto the surface of the virus those are very few compared to the total length of the protein so that antibody response is already against the entire length of the protein so the air force even wanted to mutations or could that's not going to completely made 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 about 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 spike protein that make the surface of this widest and any mutation that come into the spite of genes is of critical importance mainly for the transmissive transmitted transmission of this wires so if we look onto those specific mutation 2 of those mutations ordered critical side that allow the widest to bind to oversell and turning to other body so that is making the virus more infectious more trust missable 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 if you just use of all 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 from the i think the probability of this is a very very high horse. 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 one china move to other countries to travel 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 a dummy there so chances for people to specifically break up that strain and then having the possibility to escape the test that is conducted only it would and that it would 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 little to having this at newbury and the infection rate would increase and 1st couple of weeks in general he said he would be very hard to to to to have the height and weight off infections

but i can only be really to have his eyes is that a vaccine is. on the way to their efforts that we've built 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 year from lancaster university joining us thank you so much we have correspondents across europe monitoring just how vaccines will be rolled out let's get the view 1st of all from lanuf on how much time here in berlin lanny 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 the 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 are hoping to yes start the roll out on the 27th of december all right let's cross over to paris now where g.w. sonia fowler cars that end by for us the sonia what is the plan there in france the role 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 on 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 all the misses a week whitman things like 7 inches 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 staff in the countries 10000 most 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 in london 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 the philip 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 there will be quite optimistic about the spend his health minister says that she 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 'd across spain and the population will be divided into trish gene try oritsé groups next anation will be voluntary and will be tree. the government will register the reasons of those who refuse to be vaccinated 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 from 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 the 1000 sima got the standing by for a stare sima what is italy's plan. well the prime minister decepticon day 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 the 1st person that is expected to be vaccinated will happen here in rome at its least for most 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 receives initially 1800000 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 beware the they've

been there dawned with primrose flock a symbol they say that is supposed to symbolize regeneration the hope is that people will come forward and get the vaccination italy's health minister welcome the news of the approval of the vaccine and said that it marked a new phase in the fight against this pandemic. correspondent seem a good speaking to us from rome there earlier we also heard there from the john philip schultz in spain a son have found a car in paris and lanuf and how much time here in berlin thanks to them. at a country where the new more contagious strain of the corona virus was 1st detected britain is becoming increasingly isolated other nations have been banning flights to the u.k. stranding passengers that airports but they'll be some respite for the long lines of trucks stuck waiting to leave britain the u.k. and france are reported to be oh we're starting straight traffic are starting on wednesday trucks have been backed up for several kilometers at the english port of dover after france barred their entry. let's get

a round of now of some other headlines from around the world israel is heading for its 4th election in 2 years the coalition governments 2 main parties have voted against a proposal to postpone a budget that line if the government doesn't pass a budget by midnight on tuesday it will trigger snap elections. at least 5 doctors and health workers have been killed in a roadside bomb blast in afghanistan's capital kabul people gathered at the site where prison staff had been on the way to work the taliban say they were not involved in the attack. stargazers have been treated to a once in a lifetime spectacle after jupiter and saturn appeared closer together in the night sky and they have been in centuries there are aligning orbits meant the giant gas planets appear closer and brighter than at any point in the last 800 years. of all

cannick eruption on hawaii's big island has created a new lava lake within the crater lava from killer way 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 has soared into the atmosphere. thrush a has hit officials from germany and other european states with entry bans that is in response to the european union sanctions of the poisoning of russian opposition leader alexina volley last summer that comes a day after novell they published a recorded phone call with a russian agent alleged to be involved in the poisoning the kremlin has dismissed the recording as a fake but an associate of the valise try to confront the alleged assassin and was detained by police. he was going to confront an alleged would be assassin either way alexina bounty's lawyer lubow soup all arrived at an apartment

block in moscow according to know valmy a man who lives on this street he's one of the security service agents who tried to kill him if you want to see yes i've seen you see the shell. after waiting many hours outside his home police arrive and take all the way. you know it's you know i don't really want you it wasn't a good job of me actually on. 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 berlin 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 newtown his underwear and that of the flight had been any longer things would have turned out differently. in response the russian government said no bellamy is suffering delusions of persecution i mean if this piece of the phone call was a provocation and foreign security services were involved. despite that risk involved he says he will pursue legal action against the men who he says tried to kill him. so. let's get the latest on the story now d.w. correspondent emily sure win is in moscow for us hi emily how is the kremlin responding to this interview that involve the record it 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 vitally 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 underwear he said that there should be a friday and analysis about why he is so obsessed with his own cross 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 asking 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 and of all these 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 these team and 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 alleged 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 emily what do we know about this you tube video from the volley 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 can a 100 percent confirm that that assassin was really the the alleged assassin of viney now in the video itself viney 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 given this you tube video do you think we could end up seeing an actual investigation into the poisoning. well that is still what members of the news 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. switching gears to some sports news now and a world football's governing body fifa has filed a criminal complaint against its former president sepp blatter and several of his associates the 1st says it has found evidence of criminal mismanagement of hundreds of millions of euros for a football museum project that blatter himself set up his lawyer says the accusations are baseless daughter headed fever for 17 years he was suspended and later banned by its ethics committee after swiss prosecutors filed criminal charges against him in 2015. now europe's biggest and

oldest lottery draw has started calling out the winning numbers winners celebrated after bagging prizes in spain's el gordo which translates as the fact one and it is fat indeed dishing out a total of 2400000000 euros and prizes this year tickets cost 20 euros and most prizes are modest to sounds making it very popular winners are being told to tone down celebrations because of coronavirus restrictions. for 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 just had to adapt like everyone else. is always on the cool in december seriously the circus is to you the father christmas of the holy land though israel and the palestinian territories are gripped by coronavirus the 2 slim santa hopes

for a festive season. before this is sent to house the workplace of jerusalem saint nick and also isas family home it's december the busiest time of the year for santa and yet in 2020 the pandemic has changed everything. to 0. hard for us with this crazy situation what we have would govern 19 i try my best to have a 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 children 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 he says 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. he served visits a family he knows the children antony and andrea is guilty of waiting him though this time he can only go as far as their door not enter 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 why the record by one or the wire. roag.

where. 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 centaurus house. in spite of the kind of demick the circus to see you ain't to prove this to you to. your kramer reporting there meanwhile centers around the world are busy doing their duty cess christmas fast approaches one santa and 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 and they said they'll make sure he uses reindeer next time.

let's get a reminder of our top stories now i had a german drugmaker by on tech says his company can produce a vaccine tailored to the u.k. coronavirus variant in just 6 weeks back over shaheen also told e.w. he is confident that biotechs existing shots would also work against a new take. new out found traffic at the british court of dover is paralyzed as the u.k. and european states scramble to reopen several trade links e.u. countries shut their borders to british traffic to keep out the more contagious strain of the current corona virus that's been spreading in southern england. and russian opposition leader alexei in a volley says he tricked us by allegedly involved in his poison last august into revealing details about the attack of all these lawyer who was then detained by russian police when she tried to confront the man. coming up next on news asia waiting for them. it seems we follow

a frontline health worker in india facing the daily risk of infection. and how communities on china's against river are adapting to a 10 year ban on fishing. your spawning she has those stories coming up next on t.w. news asia for all of us here in berlin and thank you for watching. the odds.

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