this is the w.'s line from the head of german vaccine. companies drug will work against the new variant coronavirus identified in the u.k. if necessary. says his company could build a specially type of vaccine in just 6 weeks also on the program. relief in sight for truck drivers stranded in southern england by

a coronavirus blockade the french government says they will be allowed to cross into france provide a test negative for 19. tensions between the e.u. and russia increase again you know the poisoning of russian opposition leader alexei the way the kremlin hits back towards european sanctions with travel. time for tea in india for the government says help is on the way of the country's pot into robots are seen next year lease or front line workers called much more. welcome to the program. 3rd the drugs wreck a bio on tech says it's confident that it's widely approved vaccine will work against the new variant corona virus identified in britain the company says that if

necessary a version of the vaccine that specifically targets the mutation could be ready within weeks. the vaccine is about to be rolled out across the european union but the rapid spread of a new variant of the corona virus and britain has sparked concerns though by on track and pfizer researchers are confident their vaccine will also prove effective against the new variant. has. only been percent of this protein is changed and that means 99 percent is still the same and we know that. the spawns that is induced by seeing this is attacking this protein on multiple sites so that the likelihood is high and that the vaccines. but the evil get them into 2 weeks and then we can be sure. so far there haven't been any major problems with an occupation is already being administered in britain canada and the u.s. medical workers have reported relatively few side effects following that the use

approval of the bio on tech pfizer vaccine many european citizens are eager to be vaccinated. expect that if they seen supply us and companies get approval and that the would be able. to reach sufficient unselfish and. in the 60 to 70 percent which could have us to. make before next we in winter in $10.00 to $21.00 by 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.

looking very optimistic let's say for dr peter change reigns on this parade he's an infectious disease specialist from san francisco welcome to day w. let's start with this new coated variants that have been discovered in the u.k. and indeed in south africa how worried are you there in the u.s. about these. i think we'll be looking at the information but at this time personally speaking i'm not very worried i know 3 things about the variant and again they've been many variants described over the course of the pandemic that have also been proven to be potentially increased transmissibility potential so the 3 things i know is that. the protections still work. it's not likely to be associated with an increase in mortality and the 3rd most important reason is that i do not think that it will have any impact on the efficacy of the

of the vaccine because immune system is very redundant and they have multiple. antibodies to produce a repertoire so to speak right ok so that's the good news continues that in the u.s. we've seen the president elect joe biden and dr anthony fauci receive that jobs in front of the congress how is the u.s. vaccination program proceeding well i think it's proceeding pretty well considering that we don't have a national payer or a national health information system but we got about i think about half a 1000000 individuals vaccinated last week with the pfizer biotech vaccine and with the approval of the modernity and marni back seeing we expect that effort to double so that by the end of february we hope that 100000000 americans would be immunized primarily in the health care field worker of front lines the nursing home

population and population of essential workers right so that's your 1st wave of the central what because what we have seen the riots and nazis against just wearing masks in the united states how are you going to persuade the general population to take these new injections. well i think it's going to be a very tough road phil for some members of the population as you mention science has been politicized during much of the pandemic here in the united states but we think with new leadership with the formation of the cove it task force and with individuals even on the other political and president trumps you know members of his inner circle mike pence and i others getting that immunization that that would send a signal to others who might have been skeptical but i think a lot of work still needs to be done there's been a lot of mistrust of the government during that pandemic there has been the fear

that the vaccines have had undue political influence in an election year so i think all of that needs to be you know dealt with for most of the population embraces it and just a quick word on that the 2 vaccines that this you mention that have been authorized for use in the united states are health services talking to either particular demographics yes i have to the health care worker force and the nursing home population which is a balance between keeping the people. healthy who can take care of this immense surgery seen on us and those who have increased mortality or deaths then the next group will be those above 75 who are have more of it conditions perhaps but above $75.00 as a nod to not going down lower like above $65.00 was one option they could have

taken together with essential workers so those in the agricultural business those who are teachers they would be all in that 2nd wave often nursing home and health care providers talking to you thank you so much for joining us dr thinks a change. thanks bill. countries of the european union begin coronavirus inoculation programs in less than a week germany france austria and it's they will roll out the vaccine on sunday after the christmas holiday in germany elderly residents of retirement homes will be amongst the 1st to be seen if the shelter if they want it. they arrive by ambulance although this is hardly an emergency dr lisa marie case her 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 he has the obligatory doctors 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 but 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 things 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 an effect seem to be able to vaccinate as quickly as possible and if. 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 for 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 these nets are 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. the french government says truck drivers and other travelers who have been stranded in southern england by a coronavirus blockade will be allowed to cross back into france so long as they test negative for covered 90 thousands of lara's have been stuck on the roads leading up to britain's channel ports affronts closed its border on sunday over

concerns about this new variant of the virus which has emerged in the u.k. britain says it will take 2 to 3 days to process the car of lawyers. just get the latest from journalist john laurenson who joins us from paris welcome john this has been a complete nightmare for both countries yes it as it has not been i think you know food for some of the very numerous french nationals who who've made britain their home very good news from france tonight and according to the french embassy in london about 50000 french nationals are traveling. christmas usually those people are now going to be able to return home. and so clearly the french authorities have been very worried about this mutation. that yes there being no externally concerned they've been extremely concerned that people here are. very worried about

some of the statistics they see coming out of the u.k. the extremely rapid spread of this disease even if there is a reassuring side to the story is you know. what we're seeing is that people are not. having worse consequences for their medical conditions when they do contract device just far easier to contract this case is that the repetitive the spread that this is getting alarm bells ringing in france as in other places in in europe because they they imagine that we could go go back to the situation that we saw in march in france where our hospitals in the east of the country in particular were being overwhelmed by the number of cases now that this this ban was was originated as a 48 hour ban and it does it is quite interesting that there has been a face a level of cooperation and a good well on both sides despite major differences of

a practice it. yes it is yes it is true it seems you know when when you know when it comes down to it you know the french and the british are capable of reaching a decision which which is sort of mutually advantageous this having been said. then they'd be some people in the united kingdom or today with i'm sure there will be very many people in the united kingdom say saying well they're letting the french nationals into france after having this test want letting us in after having a test you know is this this is obviously a big national preference that has been decided by many in mexico and his government. but we hope that later on deceiving we're going to be seeing yet another gesture of good will we i suppose you might call this coming from the french and so far as. we were hoping that so the hole is the transport workers the lorry drivers will or will be allowed finally to start moving back and forth over

the overall under the channel in the way they were up to last. the world is that they will get the green light and that they will be allowed to start travelling and using the rather more rapid and and. testing of the the. test which is known as the natural flow test if that is the p.c.r. test that the french nationals were to in houma going to have we're taking a done larsen and paris i think. take a look at some of the other stories making headlines now 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 a prison staff and been on the way to work the taliban say they were not involved. no i stopped courses cleared the way for new oil exploration in the arctic and meeting online judges ruled that new oil drilling would not violate

a constitutional guarantee of a healthy environment environmental groups and said the ruling would lead to the country violating its climate protection commitments from the arctic the fallout over the poisoning of russian opposition leader alexei in the valley has intensified moscow has now retaliated against european countries that imposed sanctions after accusing moscow of trying to kill most in the valley he's now recovered and has published a recording in which he claimed to have duped a russian security agent into revealing details of the attack. the russian government reacted swiftly. just a day after the alleged phone call was released it called in the ambassadors of sweden france and germany and barred several of their representatives. continues to reject all accusations that its secret service poisoned alexei navalny . back in august opposition leader he was dealt a deadly nerve agent on

a flight in russia he was later transferred to the shanty to a hospital in berlin where he recovered western sources say russia's domestic intelligence agency the f.s.b. was responsible whom. they now claims he posed as a government employee and called one of the agents involved with and supposedly revealed details about what happened. the plane made an emergency landing the situation didn't develop to our advantage had the plane been able to fly for longer everything would have turned out differently. officials in your going to heart of germany's c.d.u. c.s.u. conservative parliamentary group is not surprised moscow has retaliated here as simply not willing to do so it's not. the same. because russia is not cooperating. and investigating. now.

for now the blame game continues as the kremlin denounces in of all its claims as fake and insists its accusers have not produced any evidence that it was involved. but then india aims to begin coronavirus vaccinations. on 300000000 people by august. will be elderly people and exhausted health cadwell. 21 year old has not taken a single day off leave from work in over 5 months now. he says he loves what he does but he had never thought it would put him on the frontline of fighting the pandemic one day. on a boat was a lapdog mission working in a private but ology. his main job is to. test.

test to determine whether someone is. every day he was it's how those of potentially infected people to collect this. and he understands that every day his work so much risk of getting infected himself. in the beginning when i started doing this test i used to be quite scared. there was a lot of fear but then slowly i got used to this if i let fear take over. i think. the mood in modern thing i have to take care of is that i should not get infected with and if i am infected i should not be to anyone that is why the whole process involves proper sanitation from start to finish. on evolvers one of the thousands of frontline health workers in delhi struggling to control the spread of divides. as india work towards developing the covered

$1000.00 vaccine these health workers are likely to receive it on a friday basis as the eye to higher risk of contracting the widest due to regular exposure. did governments are preparing lists of people across the country identifying the health workers who will be the 1st ones to get the. an above says he is not sure when he will get the vaccine as it needs to take months to come. so he has to ensure that he protects himself at all time. like me get the vaccine we will be less worried by doing our job. it would also help us keep our family safe and one of the things i do love understands the importance of his job he says he is more to aided by his desire to do his bit to help deal with the pandemic writing at my new man one gets quite dieting i start my day at 8 in the morning and the world goes on to meet i don't even get the time to have a sip of want to be on sundays as i have back to back sample collections i have

been suffering from dehydration for the past 3 months because of that but then if you don't work regularly boards and the need. of the patients won't get. their treatment. while on a vote on his timely hope there will be a vaccine soon he says he knows he may be carrying out these tests for a long time to come. well to sports and world football's governing body pfieffer has filed a criminal complaint against its former president sepp blatter and several of his associates fifa says it's discovered evidence of the criminal mismanagement of hundreds of millions of euros for a football museum project to establish by mr blatter his lawyer describes the accusations as baseless that blatter headed favre for 17 years you suspended him 2015 later banned from the game by its ethics committee in a separate mismanagement case. m t football stadiums have become

a common sight during the pandemic the absence of supporters has dramatically changed much days but for people watching at home technology offers a convincing substitute i d w went behind the scenes at the recent burns's league and match to see and hear the enhanced stadium experience. here i was those off hand chance but without actual fans in the stands like jean louis 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 i see we have already got somebody i follow by with whistling soledad taking off in the stadium. tones chances penalties you name it operators like fox are ready for everything even for content attacks they know so

called attack we have this last album here i like the one right now it's running across the across the page if there is something i can go past from royce and all the schools not the gold i think the spots in. 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 in these machines which we had to remove the referee whistles any board noises as well as interjections from coaches and players for the bicycle audio copy it 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 it told with the fan noise option for example sounds like on life t.v. if i

can't hear the disappointment at a missed chance. i get anything planned down to the smallest detail like sometimes we have to add resonance to make the sound richer when a small team plays in a big stadium for example. it was missing and for the. sound on i was sound off. hand noise is not exactly everyone's cup of tea. but for fans watching the good news he got 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 a pandemic means no tourists and minimal social contact but santa claus is still making his rounds. center is always on the cool 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 true slim santa hopes for a festive season. 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 a 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 children try to keep their distance from one another but it isn't always easy. you know who i know.

that busy. 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 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 remember secretive and organized labor record while with the wire. rog. crow go whoa whoa there you are. it's time for is so to return to choose love or. even ng is falling on this city it's time to open the doors of center house. in spite of the pandemic he said because this year aims to fulfill his duties. especially. on your up to date we'll have more world news up the top of the hour i'll be back in just a moment to take you through the day. the good.

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