respect. this is d.w. news life from. the head of german vaccine maker beyond tech says he's confident his company's drug will work against the new variant coronavirus identified in the u.k. if necessary or shot and he says his company could build a specially tailored vaccine in just 6 weeks also on the program. relief in

sight for truck drivers stranded in southern england by a coronavirus blockade francis said tall crossings once more provided a driver's test negative for covert 19. and united states tops infectious disease expert and. 19 vaccine she is the latest top u.s. official to get the shot live on t.v. . plus fake it till you make it. as football games are played in empty stands because of the pendennis germany's owners leaving the sound effects to include the t.v. experience we have a look and a listen to the artificial atmosphere. i'm aaron tilton welcome to the program german drugmaker biotech says it's confident that it will it's widely approved vaccine will work against the new variant

coronavirus identified in britain the company says that if needed of a version of the vaccine that specifically targets mutation could be ready with in 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 person has sparked concerns though by on tech 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 they know that. the spawns that is induced by c. and this is attacking dispose on multiple sites so that the likelihood is high and that the vaccines. but even get that 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 us medical workers have reported relatively few side effects following the e.u. use approval of the buy on tech pfizer vaccine many european citizens are eager to be vaccinated. expect that if additional exene supply us and companies get approved. and that's even to be able until the end of summer to reach sufficient single with us unselfish and. in the 60 to 70 percent which could have us to control the pandemic before next we in winter 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 as 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. the french government is set to allow truck drivers stranded in southern england by coronavirus blockade to cross into france as long as they test negative for kovan 101st france is also allowing passengers from u. countries to travel from britain thousands of trucks have been stuck on the road leading to britain's channel ports france closed its border on sunday over concerns about the new variant coronavirus that has emerged in the u.k. britain says it will take $2.00 to $3.00 days to process the current backlog of vehicles. john laurenson is covering this story from us or for us rather from paris he told us why french authorities are so anxious about this new coronavirus variant . they've been extremely concerned people here are. very worried about so the sister to 6 they seek amounts 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 to spread that this get. out ringing in front 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 the u.s. has top infectious disease expert has received a covert 1000 vaccine live on t.v. as the mass vaccination program against the corona virus in the u.s. continues dr anthony found she was one of the 1st to get the vaccine developed a u.s. drug maker madonna which was approved last week is the latest in a number of high profile politicians and officials to be vaccinated publicly

including the u.s. president elect joe biden that is as the government tries to bolster public confidence in the vaccines. let's move over to sand in tonio texas where emergency medicine physician dr always drawn he just got his vaccination so 1st off dr drew any thanks for joining us tonight absolutely happy to be with you and 2nd question how do you feel after your vaccination i feel great i was excited already and you know it was an early morning i thought of a more excited and that in my step and got there i feel great you know as easy check in process got my vaccine was observed for about 15 minutes or so and we didn't have any adverse reactions or anything like that besides a minimal arm soreness i feel great all right well that's good to hear so we've been seeing president elect joe biden and also dr anthony fauci getting their vaccinations in front of like t.v. cameras how would you say the u.s.

is vaccination program is actually going right now i think on what we've been up to a great start it's been a transparent process and it's one of the things that has a bit of a culture passionately professionals we've been asking for it's been good to see vice president mike pence and public health professionals like dr g. and president like joe biden get those inspiring confidence that this is a safe vaccine it's an effective vaccine and that once it is available to the general public that we should all be able to get it and want to get it at the 1st opportunity available all right but around the world there is still some skepticism regarding the vaccine what would you say to people who are still wary about getting a shot. yes i think the biggest misconception out there about the backseat is that it was rushed and that is simply not true the technology that the vaccine is built upon the m.r.i. technology has been in development for about 1015 years now tested in different

disease processes we also when it comes to the corona virus family of viruses know a lot about these viruses because there's other variations of these viruses that have been around for decades and decades and then finally the kind of big difference in the production of this vaccine was that we did everything in parallel so even though we were still learning how to vaccine would you know interact with our bodies and if it would offer us protection the production it already began and so once that approvals went through we didn't have to start at 0 and so all those things combined give me confidence and should give anyone staying at home confidence that this is a vaccine that is effective safe and it's going to get us out of this and never make all right dr brownie or have to leave it there but thank you for joining us and stay healthy thank you. all right let's take a look at some other stories making headlines around the world chile's military says the corona virus has reached a research station in antarctica at least 36 people have been infected at the

bernardo o'higgins based following an outbreak earlier this month the announcement means the pandemic has now reached every continent and arctic bases had been under strict quarantine. israel is set to have its 4th election in just 2 years after parliament failed to meet a deadline to pass a budget prime minister benjamin netanyahu formed his current unity government with centers politician benny gantz and may after 3 inconclusive elections. commercial flights between israel and morocco have started after the countries agreed to normalize relations the 1st flight from tel aviv caribbean arrived in robot carrying a delegation including u.s. envoy jared cushion or it's the latest diplomatic deal between the jewish state and an arab nation despite protests from palestinians. russia says it's boring european officials from entering the country in retaliation for e.u.

sanctions over the poisoning of opposition leader alexina volley the latest measures were imposed a day after mr nepali released a video of a russian agent apparently confessing to the attack moscow denies any involvement. romania will soon have a new prime minister fluorine seats to the former banker and outgoing finance minister was designated by the president after securing a coalition of 3 centrist parties after this month's elections romania is struggling with the pandemic and its economic fallout. world football's governing body has filed a criminal complaint against its former president sepp blatter and several of his associates. fisher says it's discovered evidence of the criminal mismanagement of hundreds of millions of euros for a football museum project established by mr blatter lawyer describes his lawyers describe the accusations as baseless said

a letter headed for 17 years he was suspended in 2015 and later banned from the game by its ethics committee in a separate mismanagement case. and seen in football now. hoffenheim have been dumped out of the german cup on penalties by 2nd division go to for firth the 2nd round game ended 22 top flight union berlin also suffered a surprise defeat to 2nd tier part of one shot to forgot their bonus legal woes with a 31 win at 4th division oil i'm bullish your daughter an edge past their 2nd. and life says beat fellow bundesliga side sport their more matches on wednesday while holders by in munich play their cup game in mid january. and the football stadiums have become a common sight during the pandemic and the absence of supporters has dramatically changed match days for people watching at home technology offers a convincing substitute do you want behind the scenes that aris is on the league recent rather bonus league match to see and hear the enhanced stadium experience.

here i was in those offhand chance but without actual fans in the stands like a g. lewis faulkner knows exactly what buttons to push to make the when using that experience from home sound as normal as possible the enhanced audio operator can react to almost every action on the pitch but the 20 sound effect at his disposal it's all down on this magic pad so we have already got somebody i follow by with whistling sold out of taking off in the stadium. cones chances penalties you name it operators like fog are ready for everything even for contact a tax write off so called attack we have this last i got here i like the one right now it's running across the across the page if there is something i then go past

for was the end all in schools not the row i use but the. sky germany had to dig deep into their archives to replicate the noise as. each sound played as a match specific because everybody's either team has its own unique sounds in the stadium i was it was machines which we had to remove the referee whistles any board noises as well as interjections from coaches and players for the bicycle already or cough it and then often when should be done i the sound is then mixed with the my feet coming from the stadium. this is what it told with the fan noise option for example sounds like on life t.v. if i. was and here the disappointment at a mischance. i everything plant down to the smallest detail. sometimes we have to wed resonance to make sound richer when a small team plays in

a big stadium for example it was missing on so they can sound on. i was sound off. hand noise is not exactly everyone's cup of tea. but for fans watching the 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. the top prize in europe's biggest and oldest lottery draw has been handed out one lucky ticket holder in spain's famous gordo has won 4000000 euros. hundreds of other winners celebrated across spain after bagging smaller subs el gordo which translates as the fat one as a total prize pool of $2400000000.00 euros schoolchildren sang out the winning numbers to an empty theater. that's all for now coming up next my

colleague christine mcguire with d.w. news africa don't forget you can get all the latest news and information around the clock on our web site that's dot com i'm erin told merlin for me in the entire news team thanks for watching. where i come from we have to fight for a free press and was born and raised in a military dictatorship with just one t.v. shadow and if your newspapers when official information as a journalist i have worked on the streets of many can trust and they have problems

are always the same point to social inequality a lack of the freedom of the press and corruption we can afford to stay silent when it comes to the fans of the humans and seem right to fold who have decided to put their trust in us. my name is jenny paris and i work at the. this is deja vu news africa on the program today violence in the same for the african republic ahead of the weekend's election. we hear from religious leaders trying to defuse tensions by preaching peace and poured it on politicians to deliver a peaceful vote. and we hear from cattle herders in senegal who say recent

heavy rains have resulted in green of austria's for their animals to take you on to the construction site. that's will meet the engineer designing eco friendly buildings in south africa and the rest of the continent. hello i'm christine wonder it's good to have you any tensions are rising in the central african republic ahead of the presidential election this sunday the u.n. security council has condemned in the strongest terms what it called violence perpetrated by armed groups and militias in the run up to the pole now the incumbent force in to tehran is again running for office but in the last few days there have been reports of an image who attempt by militants loyal to former president francois was easy who was overthrown in 2013 the militants all say to

have seized control of child's outside of the capital bangui randon and russian troops have been deployed to help come to be embraced now will have more on those developments in a moment but 1st a look at how religiously it is addressing the standoff which some are trying to frame as a clash between christians and muslims. was found. it's prayer time in the up 1000000000 able in benghazi it's here we meet him mom was a lady. we muslims we have no right to wage war. our sees the conflict broke out in 2013 but in mom together with other religious leaders has traveled across the country preaching a message of peace he says religion has never been the cause of the fighting in the christian majority country instead it's politics with us here to promote some topic

then the conflict in ca our had been likened to an interlude just conflict. religion had nothing to do with it the main actors are politicians they are the only ones who can give valid reasons for the situation in the central african republic. and groups of controlled large parts of the country seems they're trying to fit into civil war and there's been an increase in violence in the run up to the elections the government has accused the former president. of joining forces with rebels and attempting a coup. meanwhile leaders of appealed for peace urging all parties to stop the violence and secure a peaceful election. the central african people want to go to the elections it is the democratic regime that chooses its leaders to bring light to illuminate the

voice of an entire people the church indicates is through the proclamation of the gospel whenever the mass is celebrated the word of god is also proclaimed. we pray that peace will be restored and that citizens will be able to freely exercise their right to vote. but some members of the opposition has lost faith in prayers they've said they will be boycotting the election because they don't trust that it will be free and fair. and for more on the story we've invited poor many on to the program he's a journalist by profession and this is currently consulting fellow for the africa program at chatham house good to see paul welcome to the program the rwandan and russian troops are in the central african republic at the moment at the request of banky what are we to make of the ass when i think it's really 2 different agendas rwanda has tried to project itself as a major or thora to uncertainty within me african space over the last several

years and it's it's contributed troops to many stabilisation forces and operations around the continent and it would present its operations in those ways russia on the other hand has been recruited by president to udev as a bilateral security. and for some time there been mercenaries from the russian military company which is believed to have close links to the current kremlin operating in the ca are under an agreement with the government because the traditional defense for partner france is the former colonial power and it is probably easier both for paris and bobby for or for that relationship to be more in the background and so the russians are the big sort of outside bilateral player with the capacity to act if you like an aggressive force whereas obviously the un

force in in the cia are is a un peacekeeping operation the devil take is a former president. of crossing a coup how credible are these allegations. well it's very difficult to find hard evidence what we know is that. it was easy it was turned down as a candidate earlier this month by the constitutional court and he was very upset about that but nevertheless indorsed and one of the alternative opposition challenges he's now believed to have then retreated to his hometown. in in the sort of about 300 kilometers north of maliki and in the area to the west of that is where we've seen always rebel activity over recent days but absolute proof isn't in the public domain on the other hand the international community the g 5 plus group of partners the u.s. france russia the u.n.

the e.u. and others who are the main partners to the cia are they have issued a very very public fierce warning naming was easy on sunday and so one wonders whether intelligence sources have more information about those is role than is out in the public space right that's poor maybe thank you. west africa's salvation has been hit by heavy rains and floods in recent months it's rates concent it's stream weather events and the high cost of climate change but the downpours did offer some respect for that is especially in cynical they've suffered for years as temperature has increased and food and water become more difficult to find. life is hard for her to such as far a sound senegal. his existence and that of his life stuck under increasing threat

from drought. over the last 6 years the dry season has become longer and harder. but this year there was an exception that changed the situation. man on oregon and last year during the same period grass was already drawn by and there was not a lot of it now the grass is still green the last train was only a month ago which means this year it's much better than you were. warned. large parts of west africa have been hit by heavy rains in the last few months in some places they cause catastrophic flooding and a fuel to fears about extreme weather and climate change. but one upside for senegal's herders has been the growth of the thickest vegetation in years. the direct one runs in the north sea the heavy rains and allowed certain plants to start flourishing again. and that the cattle and sheep are at their fattest in recent memory. or whatever you see the good body mass due to the high volume of

grazing. but most believe the good fortune will be short lived this year's rains were unusual and the unpredictability of the weather makes it impossible to plan and it's even causing some to rethink their lives as herders. god is making human beings face an existential crisis. we don't know what tomorrow will be made of the fears are real we have not experienced such heavy rainfall in more than 30 years. the more years he has rainy seasons lasted for 2 months which is too short for wintering. but god decides a lot. so while the shia may have offered a brief response for her does the future of this traditional activity remains uncertain. but as we see in that report africa is fading they fix of climate change

more than of the parts of the world and that's despite the fact that the continent contributes the least to the problem but one engineer in south africa say's africa should be working towards building a green future and that's exactly what she's doing. the fancy rosebank area of johannesburg is home to this property development and beersheba oversees the electrical work on 2 floors let me take you to the going to texas site. shabbas company green design is an engineering consulting firm that specializes in green buildings that means using energy efficient materials and smart designs to save a lecture city for example by using efficient airflow and windows instead of air conditioning is. a rather new industry at the moment there is only a handful of similar companies on the continent. with everything that we do we consider it green so that's quite how we do our designs it's not

a line item it actually is integrated in how we've designed it so we've got any idea lights lots of natural lights coming into the space we've got occupancy since . shaba tries her best to live her life in an eco friendly manner the 33 year old sold her car to reduce her greenhouse gas emissions and now takes public transport tomorrow office her staff works from home due to the pandemic when shabazz started her company after university she had a clear target addressing climate change through construction. spending is the greatest source of the problem but also the solution and that's really been modified is how do we change the way that we engineering buildings and how do we ensure that self-sufficient that we have mindful of the planet mindful of people despite a challenging 1st year in the industry as business has picked up since she started in 2016 her company work so far on 15 construction projects she has also given

lectures and held workshops throughout africa. after a long day and workshop meets her business partner over a drink to talk about future plans. she's an iron lady but i think she's a basis to do and i think that says it to be jesus. really so this in the long run that's what creates a death you know what is so she's quite fantastic camera and i think she also a lot of difficult questions that i don't always appreciate. i did reveal our very much i think that the partnerships and raising shelter has a clear vision. more than 60 percent of the people on all continents i move i really just want to see them grow and i really want to see them understand climate in they need just i need all kinds of and forward into the fee to it's a long journey shot but admits but she's willing to take it $1.00 project at a time and there are positives tonight the city of johannesburg is currently drafting folk rebuilding policy. and that's when i'll be sure to check out all of

the stories on deja dot com forward slash africa we're also on facebook and on twitter today we'll leave you with some shots of the landscapes order and glory that make africa and a beautiful have a sash that is at all with for $66.00 time. it's taking live in more areas of society. artificial intelligence. suction. word health. to start to be possible. to see a gigantic future my guess. what are the limits. in germany.

16. w.'s crime fighters are back then africa's most successful radio trade. the series continues through not only preserves are available online course you can share and discuss on w. africa stories for other social media platforms. france prepares to reopen its border with britain for pandemic travel restrictions caused severe disruption to freight traffic supermarkets in england where are bready feeling the effects with french oysters not to be hot for love nor money also coming up. we have time to. superhero it just means

that the science that we do is important for the c.e.o. of germany's vaccine maker biotechs speaks to d.w. about how his company's job could shape the course of the downtime mic. on for years one company has been leading the race towards electric mobility now there's a new kid in town watts could hold entry into the market mean for tesla. this is a business i'm paid for example for joining me. says it will reopen its border with the united kingdom after restrictions imposed because of a new variant of the coronavirus cause a major disruption to freights traffic the news will come as a relief to english supermarkets which had a ready been seeing panic buying shortages of some specialized products like french oysters. shoppers face long waits to enter supermarkets in london britain's largest supermarket groups have warned that gaps could start to appear on shelves

within days if freight deliveries are not quickly restored staff at la pasco lou french food shop in west london say shipments of fresh foods from paris were canceled after the border closure. you know they're going to be born when we were expecting deliveries of oysters specialty meats and some fresh fish so unfortunately none of that will arrive on thursday for many most. shoppers who didn't order early are likely to face a more limited selection of their christmas favorites even if deliveries resume those hoping to buy some french oysters are out of luck for now and would because they've done our customers will have nearly everything if they ordered early in the morning it's mother wise to have to eat english boisterous which are very good as well as products that we start before all this happened. the french ban hasn't prevented trucks from entering britain but many freight companies and drivers from

the continent weren't willing to take the risk of crossing the channel to britain for fear they'd be stranded there for days or even weeks. staying with this issue the c.e.o. of german vaccine maker biotech says he believes his company's job will provide protection against new variants of the corona virus such as the one discovered it in england it was one of several issues detail the reporter conrad who wasn't discussed with. his company's vaccine has recently been approved in europe. well 1st of all if congress relations dr shah in for the approval of your vaccine in the european union what does this step mean for ending the pandemic this is very important step so if this is the 1st approved acoustic scene in new york it means that we now can stop vaccination of. repeating population because or so in the providence of a sudden. stocking of the vaccination be expected of course that we have

a benefit for the vaccine native people and be expect that we can have to get used to hospitalization particularly of the elderly people in the next months expect that if additional vaccine supply us and companies get approved and that he will be able until the end of summer to reach sufficient vaccine doses and suffocation immunity of the 8 and in the range of 60 to 70 percent which could tat us to control the pandemic before next winter in 10 to 21 ok we've seen use of this fast spreading variant the mutation of the virus from what you know is your vaccine effective against this variant we don't know so far. because we did not get a test. in the next 2 weeks of even built this new value and the piece of this that variant and. better immune response against all of it seems

able to inactivate that scientifically the likelihood is high that this is state case because even though this new valiant has multiple mutations only one percent of this protein is changed and that means 99 percent is still the same and we know that our sponsor the sponsor that is induced by a vaccine is say is attacking this protein on multiple sites so that the likelihood . it's high and that the vaccines will stay but we will get to the south into 2 weeks and then we can be sure. what about distribution much has been made of the challenges of distribution all much has been made of the challenges of distributing your vaccine given the ultra low temperatures necessary do you anticipate any complications as you begin shipping the vaccine now into the european union no not

at all so this talk template just nothing new so i asked transportation is known for more than 15 yes it's not cutting edge it's just a box with dry ice and many dry ice provided us which chaps us. to get this done the boxes are transported to the sides and then as a scene and the t.v. the people can take the medical and medical personnel can take out the boxes and put it into the fridge and then it's stable for 5 days and they know that it's the vaccine have high stakes that there's a strong interest to talk to stop vaccination and to to finish finish the virus so that this is no be a challenge and you both are scientific superheroes. yeah we are scientists and and and super hero it just means that that that the science that we did is

important but we were not alone in developing the science so i think the whole scientific community is a superhero yeah and it should be leading to a god that not as a single event but investment into research by so many different scientists or had come to be with that i'm told this is this is accomplished. in many. moving away from the pandemic now over the past few years tesla has been the name associated with electric mobility its c.e.o. elon musk has been credited with spotting a gap in the market long before conventional car makers scotty in on the game now the day off for tesla debuted on the prestigious s. and p. 500 fair are reports that its future and dominance may not be a foregone conclusion a report by the voices news agency suggests that tech giant pole is preparing to enter the electric vehicle and production market the news sent tesla shares sliding

several per cent. let's make sense of all of this with business correspondent yes quarter hi ends look this could be pretty unnerving news for tesla does apple actually have the know how to compete in electric mobility well i mean opel does not necessarily have the greatest experience was manufacturing vehicles but they do have fixed periods with batteries cement also is the vertical integration of software better rees hardware design the question is if it's really going to be a good idea to enter the market it's known for high costs and low margins on the other side there are some rumors that if you actually could work together with an outside to manufacturer like magna international for instance that stock was up by a good 4 percent and actually was the leader of the pick in the dow jones industrial average gaining almost this 3 percent. ok it hasn't been such

a good day for tesla generally tell me it is awful to entry into the electric mobility market the only reason that its shares have been sliding here. oh well i mean 1st of all if it's really going to enter the eview market that wouldn't happen before 2024 or even 25 by then i saw some expectations and actually test local control about a search of the eevee market and i guess one reason why tesla traded to the downside for 2nd consecutive day is because on monday they entered the s. and p. 500 index for the 1st time ever and before that the stock was on fire starting the year at around $90.00 a share and now they're trading above $600.00 so i would say it is some profit taking and well there will be quite some talking before and eventually it might enter the eview market indeed it's

a long road ahead stan scott in new york thank you very much. time now for a quick look at some of the other business stories making news. the u.s. justice department is suing retail giant wal-mart for allegedly unlawfully dispensing controlled drugs through its pharmacies it says wal-mart helped to fuel the opioid crisis in america by filling sizes of prescriptions for opioid drugs its pharmacists quote knew were invalid well marsh operates more than 5000 pharmacies in its stores around the country. european aircraft maker airbus says a debt restructuring scheme of malaysian budget carrier air asia could costed $5000000000.00 in lost orders a dozen lenders are challenging the refinancing plans airbus says it has already built several aircraft whose orders risk being counseled. and finally what have you done during perhaps you've baked some bread or tried your hand at

some home fitness routines well take a look at about the 4 shot a lot sisters in germany have come up with they've invented a board game called corona up to 4 players can compete to buy all the groceries on the shopping list for an elderly neighbor who's staying home to remain safe they face various hurdles along the way as they swap cards and try to deliver the groceries 1st the sisters have already sold to and games. so much for escapism that wraps up our so thank you so much for watching.

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