bloom's with an occupation is already being administered in britain canada and the us medical workers have reported relatively few side effects following that the use approval of the buy on tech pfizer vaccine many european citizens are eager to be vaccinated we expect that if additional scenes supply us and companies got to get approval this and that the evil be able until the end of summer to reach sufficient exene deal with us and separation immunity if they are in that age of 60 to 70 percent which could tat of us took control of the pandemic before next week when the in $10.00 to $21.00 buy on tech is already planning to expand production capacity currently the vaccine for all of europe is only manufactured at its pfizer plant in the belgian town of poor us many are hoping life will soon return to normal without masks and without fear that should be possible if the goal of

immunizing 60 to 70 percent of the population is attained. a hub in one year joins me for more he is overall it just with lancaster university in england dr mayor welcome back on the program we just heard the bio on tech c.e.o. saying he is confident that their vaccine will work against the new virus variant what do you make of his assessment. yes clark that is pretty true the reason is that event somebody has vaccinated basically the vaccine not only thought of it despite what it seemed like multiple sites but also induce other level of protection as well like our like blood cells which are within our blood also brought him to attack onto the virus and also the complete system t. cell responses and light addie of responses are used so if the antibody related production is a little minimized because of this mutation we have other ad is to work on to add made the vaccine effective so therefore i'm pretty confident that this was. what

protect against this new strain whatsoever as it stands but the problem really is not at this moment the problem is that as we move along this what is we're proper propagate into the human population that really dominant levels at least keep accommodating more and more the mutation that are making it would be to a tipping point at that point we need to what he told the vaccine i think it's about as it stands now i don't really think there would be any problem given that information can really say how dangerous is this variant of the crime. at this moment what we know that this new variant has it on 43 mutations and out of those 23 mutations awed into the spite of the nobody could equal state that is making this flight is more transmissible so it moves from one person to another person from one community to enter the community quite effectively this means that if it carry on increasing infection rates and we do know the hospitalization and the death auto suppose you did with a number of infections for timothy it would have some impact but that is not

because of the highly. ability of this vaccine that ian to cause infection but is just that it will take a high number of people to begin to act and that's all it will translate into high impact on. now the head of germany's national disease control center was asked today whether he thinks the new variant is already in germany let's see if we can take a lesson it might say. the recent studies of a young we know that the variant in the united kingdom was 1st detected in september we also know that it was found in the netherlands and denmark. means there is a likelihood that this variant has already reached germany undetected i think this probability is very very high. either back to you dr nair given that information doesn't make sense for you countries to have blocked travel from britain as many have done. is glad that is very important i think this this particular strain was 1st going to fight in cannes back in september and since then it being propagating

that into the human population i know it sort of has that and why we know that it has been a very limited movement within the countries but that doesn't mean that it was as you know moment so i'm pretty certain that this strain has already reached through multiple countries not within the euro but also across other countries so it's having border closed at this moment doesn't really make a big sense hold over the important thing is that all those country do seek was at the level as we do here in the u.k. different strains of the viruses to be read and if i if that is the case because if that is the case important is that really to emphasize the and i mean lies really the impact of this that you can strain within the population how do you think that there are steps that governments should be taking other than this. well this strain has certainly impact onto the truss miss ability space moving within the population quite fast and and probably in the vaccine would it have really any quibbling with this one and also disease solidity is not really high so what i would like to

emphasize is that particularly coming into the festive season is that do a follows all those public health been simple that we put in place those are no important more than ever to not to allow this widest to penetrate into the psyche and mutate and sort of there right and point where it's there from a 100 year from lancaster university thank you very much thanks for having me. now a historic inoculation program is set to begin in less than a week as europe rolls out a bio on tech pfizer coronavirus vaccine germany france austria and italy are planning to launch their campaigns on sunday right after the christmas holiday in germany elderly residents of retirement homes will be among the 1st to receive a shock that is of course if they want to take it. they run by ambulance although this is hardly an emergency dr lisa marie kayser and her team have come to the retirement home to tell people what's going on with the vaccine. i'm going to

educate you today about the covert vaccinations 95 year old teacher from layer center could be one of the 1st in germany to get a vaccination for the coronavirus probably soon after christmas today has the obligatory doctor's talk about what it means so that when the vaccine is available everything can move faster. i said i'll do it so i'm not resisting. yeah yes that is also important right because we don't want you to die of covert or go into the i.c.u. or be miserable but of course we want you not to get sick from the virus. who gets vaccinated 1st that's a government decision to start with it's mostly people over 80 and health care workers. the government has secured about 56000000 vaccine doses in its initial order that's not enough say the critics adding that the vaccine procurement is a planning disaster the various prime minister marcus theatre wants things to move

quicker. we'll take what comes and we'll vaccinate as many as possible but we need a lot of the vaccine it's good that there was a last minute order again last weekend because it has been established that more vaccine doses are needed the government has now secured 30000000 additional doses directly from the manufacturer but it may take a while before they arrive to meetings must move quickly and according to the ministry of health there will also be more supplies in january so i'm confident that we have enough facts seem to be able to vaccinate as quickly as possible infants of. those who do not live in retirement homes are to be vaccinated in vaccination centers but how many vaccine doses will end up where is still unclear. how the government is responsible for the vaccine procurement and it has signed the contract accordingly in line with the e.u. to some extent our hands are tied because we can only vaccinate with what we have

and also with what gets delivered. only those who have made an appointment at the center will receive the vaccination in the future this will be done through a central system serving the whole of germany via the phone number of the medical on call service in care home staff are making preparations and clarifying who the mobile vaccination team can vaccinate. they meet with family doctors relatives and guardians it's extra work at an already busy time. this is not true there's never a lot of work we have 50 residents and must make sure that we have all the information on time when the vaccination team arrives then we can get started right away but the hope that things are getting better keeps the staff going and means that christmas 2021 might be one without the need for wearing protective suits. now the european commission is advising e.u. member states to discourage unnecessary travel to the united kingdom dozens of nations have banned flights from the u.k.

stranding thousands of passengers at airports brussels says people should be allowed to return to their homes in britain or europe long lines of trucks have built up outside the port of dover in southern england after france closed its ports the u.k. and france are hoping to restart freight traffic on wednesday. well that's across a straight to our correspondent to charlotte charleston pil who is a standing by above a highway in near dover charlotte tell us about the situation where you are. well you can see behind me isn't just an ordinary traffic jam these lorries are at its hotel standstill back to back they haven't moved through for days now that is the situation head lorry drivers getting increasingly frustrated at the lack of information they don't know exactly how long they're going to be here for when

france and the u.k. will reach a decision on when the boat is will be reopened there are talks underway at the moment but no firm decision has as yet been made public one thing that is being speculated on is that the drivers might need to have coronavirus tests before they're allowed into france now that might be very an easy thing to say it could prove to be very difficult to do is you can just get a sense of just from looking behind me there are an awful lot of drivers here that would need to be tested mass testing sites con get set up immediately and then there are big logistical questions about what happens if these drivers test positive way where will they be. to stay will it be in the lorries will they be put up in his house there are a huge amount of on the inside questions here about how the logistics are going to be handled when it comes to making sure that these drivers don't have a current of hours before entering frons a lot of unanswered questions about how this can be handled over the coming days

absolutely and that is quite a line behind you as well anderson you've had the chance to speak to some of those drivers what have they been telling you. we did enjoy it is he to cross through this part of a poor it's rather no strangers to kids but this is very different they don't know how long i'll be there and they tell me that this is the uncertainty that they're really struggling with particularly in the build up to christmas take a listen to what 3 joins us from poland told me just a short time ago. and. first a frustration situation for me now. though this situation today i don't know why not after the new year do something like a stock operation. but we're now waiting. i don't know what. is a very sad. how about a year you can stand that you might not get home for christmas i hope or you come

to business due to my family my 2820 hours and the smoke go away and we have no information why how long what. understandably some very disheartened drivers there show it what comes tensions between the ruling parties have intensified since the last election march. 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. norway's top court has cleared the way for new oil exploration in the arctic judges meeting online rules about new oil drilling would not violate a constitutional guarantee for a healthy environment environmental groups said the outcome would lead in norway to

violating its climate protection men's rooms the top of the fallout over the poisoning of russian opposition leader alexei navalny has intensified osco has now barred officials from germany and other european states that sanction russia for allegedly carrying out the attack last summer this comes a day after of only published a recorded phone call with an alleged russian agent who seems to have unwittingly revealed details about the poisoning. he was going to confront an alleged would be assassin either way alexina bound his lawyer lubow souple 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 want to see yes i've seen you see the show. off the waiting many i was outside his home the police arrive and take all the way. you know it's you know what i'm ready for you it wasn't

a good job of me that's. 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 burly in hospital and recovered. laboratories in europe confirmed that he'd been poisoned with a soviet era military nerve agent nobody took. 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 the barney's underwear and that if the flight had been any longer things would have turned out differently. in response the russian government said novell me is

suffering delusions of persecution i mean if a space of the phone call was a provocation and foreign security services were involved. despite that risk all of the valley says he will proceed legal action against the men who he says tried to kill him. let's get some sports news now and world football's governing body fifa 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 of blatter set up his lawyer says the accusations are baseless letter headed for for 17 years he was suspended in 2015 and later banned by its ethics committee in a separate mismanagement case. organizers of the tokyo olympics will spend $900000000.00 on measures to stop the spread of the coronavirus at next year's

games the tokyo olympics will cost an estimated $15400000000.00 a few 1000000000 more than originally estimated one combining the cost of the postponement and the covert $1000.00 counter-measures these will include a testing infrastructure and a clinic that japan's prime minister yoshihiko suka insists he will host the games at any cost. and the stadiums have become a common sight adjourning the pandemic absence of supporters has changed them actually experience dramatically but for those watching at home technology does offer a substitute w. went behind the scenes at a recent bundesliga match to see and hear the enhanced stadium experience. here. those off hand chance but without actual fans in the stands going 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 with the 20 sound effects at his disposal it's all done on this magic pad it's really really good sound but it's like i follow on with listening soledad fluid taking off in the stadium. tones chances penalties you name it operators like fog are ready for everything even fuck around to a tax write off so called attack we have this last album here i like the one right now it's running across the us approach of the something i then go past for royce and all the schools not the old i guess 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 bicycle audio cockpit and then i would often which be done i the sound is then mixed with the my feed 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 a mischance. i have anything planned down to the smallest detail like my sometimes we have to add resonance to make the sound richer and when a small team plays in a big stadium for example it was missing and so the. sound on i was sound off. 10 noise is not exactly everyone's to. the team.

but the fans watching the bonus he got from home during the penn demick they can choose to bring the match day atmosphere into their living rooms even if it's not quite the real thing. and christmas in the holy land is looking 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 have to adapt like everybody else. center is always on the ball in december so it's the 2nd system here the father christmas of the holy land though israel and the palestinian territories are gripped by coronavirus the jerusalem santa hopes for 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 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 easter is on his way there to visit a family even santa 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 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 i want all of the wire. rog. oh well you are. it's time for isa to return to choose from in the. evening 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.

and phantasm around the world are busy doing their duties as christmas a fast approaches one santa in california was so eager to get his presents out to the kids 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 a safe and sound they said they'll make sure he misses or brainteaser next time. that's all from us for now from the whole team thanks so much for watching soccer action is up next on kick off and don't forget you can always get the latest news and information around the clock on our website e.w. dot com or follow us on social media at. and i richardson in berlin thanks much for joining us.

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story of prejudice and propaganda. they were called the rhineland bastards. their mothers were germans living in the occupied drying land their fathers soldiers from the french colonies. days after the german children had a hard time and because they were reminder of the german defeat. they grew up in a climate of world. national pride and racism if the european population felt that it was important to be might anticipate right. exclusion and contempt culminated in forced sterilization under the nazis. this documentary examines the few traces that remain of their existence.

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