the few traces that remain of their existence. the. storage january 11th on d. w. . this is news coming to you live from berlin germany reports its highest daily death toll from the credit since the start of the pandemic in one of the worst affected parts of the country the eastern state of saxony it's not just hospitals that are working to. also struggling to keep up with the surge into it's also coming up relief in sight for truck drivers stranded in southern england as france lifts its

coronavirus blockade france will now allow truckers to cross provided they test negative copas 19 and looking for volunteers willing to get infected with the coronavirus in the name of science british researchers hope human trials will help them better understand how the pirates spread. alone terry martin good to have you with us germany has reported its highest daily coronavirus death toll since the start of the pandemic 962 people have died from or with the buyers in the past 24 hour period that's according to germany's national disease control agency let me show you just how quickly these numbers have been rising over the past few weeks on november 4th 7 weeks ago today 151

covert related fatalities were registered here in germany sri weeks later that number had risen to 4. 10 and now today the latest record high the overall number of deaths attributed to the virus stands at almost 28000 we'll talk to our correspondent about the rising death toll in a moment but 1st this report from one of germany's most hard hit regions saxony worst not just hospitals that are struggling to cope. they have been working round the clock and mice incriminatory i'm the coronavirus means have had to deal with many more bodies this year. this year old coffins have covered 19 victims inside with a safety precautions in place it's nearly impossible to have direct contact with the dead and cannot come. here in the state of saxony

maximum capacity that half the coffins have a coronavirus tica highly infectious the state premier is warning residents the next 10 weeks will be the most difficult. and it. will be a 3rd wave the question is how high the baby and everyone who is dealing with this is war and about how much higher than the current peak it will climb. the number of new infections might last be leveling out to people in mice and one at ces from their late as you can see they just kind of gray there were no clear rules no one is going outside anymore people are infecting their own families some people are following all the rules and others a coming up with their own theories they say there is no corona virus. but every day there are more coffins in the criminal containing the bodies of private 19 victims. let's bring in our political correspondent and meant to show.

the coronavirus fatalities in germany are continuing to rise despite strict measures do we know why. well terri there's an increasingly diffused transmission which means more and more clusters and more and more of those happen in nursing and care homes where you will find the most vulnerable people the elderly sick people and also there's more infections happening in community facilities you know religious events in any place places where there's contact between people and added to dots one key point is really trying to curb infections in trying to cut those infections is really to trace and infection chain and in most cases this is no longer possible there's nearly 25000 new infections today 962 deaths if you look at the 7 days incidence rates has been skyrocketing nearly 200 cases for 100 has an average tense that's 4 times higher than what is already

a critical try shelter that's fair to say that the situation is not under control that the moment the head of germany's infectious diseases institute says that if case numbers keep rising even stricter measures may become necessary what sort of measures are we talking about. well the goalie's and has always been to prevent the spread of the virus by reducing contacts hence social interactions would behave thought of and out ahead of institutes and issued a stock warning he said to not travel and many sciences feed the effects that christmas will have on the pandemic us people travel to meet with their families and some states have already introduced new rules in the very act for example all travelers returning from high risk areas will have to undergo a corner virus test and in about an event and back there will be a quarantine requirement for people coming from neighboring france and switzerland there's a so there's also a huge debate here in germany on whether or not churches while this should cancel

christmas service is something that has been met was open and from some state premiers for example in north rhine-westphalia. now germany like much of europe is expected to start rolling out its backs a nation program on december 20th 27th that's just 4 days from now is everything in place to assure a smooth start well 1st there will be around 850000 doses off the biotech pies a vaccine that are going to be delivered on december 26th and the fast vaccinations should take place in elderly care homes the following day and then found that those will be due later in the week and the house ministry say that there's around 3 to 4000000 doses that could be given out in january only and 13000000 up to so to 1000000 by the end of march they will be administered in care and nursing homes 1st then there will be a special vaccination centers that have been set up already all over the country and vaccines we 1st go to the most vulnerable and i think it's the elderly and

medical personnel and the general population and germany has a debt to buy and take pride so i vaccine but also to modena a vaccine which it which is still awaiting approval from the regulators and with thanks for bringing us up to date there is a political correspondent and medical shots its friends as technically lifted its coronavirus or hate and will now allow truck drivers stranded in southern england to cross into the country but they 1st have to test negative for covert 19 france is also allowing passengers from other e.u. countries to travel from britain borders were closed to travelers from the u.k. on sunday after a fast spreading coronavirus variant was identified there britain says it will take $2.00 to $3.00 days to process the current backlog of vehicles. what a way to spend the last days before christmas hundreds of trucks queued on the road to dover in a line that stretches on and on and on for dozens of kilometers some pulled over

into the service stations it's here we made a bad choice not my guns are from germany we've got if we want to spend christmas at home with our family it would be very bad if we can't. my wife has been really upset since she found out about all this but what can i do often. these drivers couldn't have known the french border would suddenly slam shut on sunday since they've been stranded here some forced to literally live life on the road their anger growing as the hours pass. away and near the base people near the mall children. while we watch. the closure of dover didn't just heard drivers one 5th of all goods bound for britain pass through the ports supermarkets had warned of shortages of basic goods if the port had remained closed much longer a key demand from france before reopening its border was testing the drivers

getting those tests up and running and you know it can happen relatively quickly but in terms of the details on that that is something that both the transport sector in his counterpart will be discussing right now so i don't want to speculate in sounds of you know the nature of the tests it and how soon that could be up and running all truckers will now be tested but that is said to be a huge logistical challenge with thousands stuck in various roads and time is of the essence only when test results come back negative with a stranded truckers finally be allowed to head home. it's been a year now since the 1st cases of corona virus were reported and scientists are still trying to figure out exactly how the virus behaves the speedy development of back scenes is being hailed as a major triumph it's hoped they will help end the pandemic but mass immunity will make it harder to study the infection process and that's why one british research company is hoping to launch a study using human volunteers willing to give in fact if you know you charlotte

sell some pill reports but just 18 years old alice does volunteering to do what many of his would find unimaginable he wants to be deliberately infected with the coronavirus he's campaigning to take part in a human challenge trial to test facts seems to cope with 19. times charles have the potential to do an awful lot of good for an awful lot of people with. a significant a minimal risk to myself and my health it's the risk the docs and nurses take on pretty much every day like on the on the front lines of the pandemic and have been doing for quite a while now in traditional vaccine trials volunteers may never be exposed to the virus in a challenge trial scientists hope to study infected volunteers in clinical condition was there isn't room for like this one but we could be about to see a wall of bust volunteers deliberately infected with the virus that causes. well

it's had we quarantined here for up to 2 weeks with safety measures in place like awful trace insistence to stop the bharath from spreading. child services company h b they already runs challenge charles in the u.k. but they have to be approved for cave at 19 so you can say we have all the moon secret and i expect here it's injuries cross troller support to make the trial as safe as possible scientists would 1st establish the smallest dose of the virus it takes to become infected. and the pet will be put just inside the nostril and very slowly just putting small droplets of of forests into the ninety's it would offer a unique opportunity to examine the virus in its very early stages because these trials being set up primarily to test vaccines but there be a lot of learning benefits that will come out of these trials as well not just

about how the force interacts with the immune system in the human body therapy clearly and really important to be able to improve things and improve therapies but also about the disease course itself about of oral out how quickly it replicates how quickly can be clear from the body all of these can really help the management of patients going forward with vaccines already being rolled out h.p.v. says challenge child and now more important than ever warning that she dish will vaccine trials will become harder as more of this or immunized. is that actual vaccine candidates but don't solve all of the answers to the world's problem of vaccines so we're going to need a way of testing the next generation vaccines challenge studies will be able to still be able to be used to test very effectively with a vaccine is working because they can be conducted irrespective of how much is going on the community. these trials need ethical and regulatory approval with a decision hinges on key ethical concerns you want a select group of people who are very healthy they are low risk group they are true

volunteers so there's no pressure put on them or no. rivalry in terms. of people to do something that really are. only $18.00 to $30.00 it would be eligible and volunteers will have to be carefully screened before they are approved but not all risk can be eliminated but the laws have consequences way significantly . oh my mind that definitely definitely something to consider as part of making an informed decision about whether you know i want to participate in a challenge but i think for me the benefits of challenge trials so outweigh the risks in a moment if you take the risks on. the more vaccines more quickly. allister is into letting tens of thousands around the won't it expressed interest in challenge child in the hope that the risk of the few will benefit the many sick look at

some of the other stories making headlines today a turkish court has sentenced exiled journalist john dunbar to 27 years in jail on charges of aiding a terror group and espionage was tried in absentia the former editor of the opposition daily. fled to germany 4 years ago the trial centered around the paper's coverage of turkish arms shipments to syria. israel is set to have its 4th election in 2 years after parliament failed to meet a deadline to pass a budget prime minister binyamin netanyahu formed his current unity government with centrist politician benny guns in may after 3 inconclusive elections. and finally the top prize in europe's biggest and oldest law 3 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 sums of gordo which translates as the fat one has a total prize pool of $2400000000.00 euros schoolchildren sang out the winning numbers to an empty theater. you're watching news live from berlin coming up next is our documentary film will be taking a look at how maya farmers are winning back their freedom in guatemala i'm terry martin thanks for watching. on the cream pie i'm neal and i'm game did you know that 70000000 land animals are killed worldwide here but it's not just the animals that will suffering it's the environment if you want to know how it went to the priest and the huntress changed us as anything to listen to our.