but maximum capacity about half the coffins have a coronavirus sticker highly infectious the state premier is warning residents the next 10 weeks will be the most difficult. and. there will be a 3rd wave the question is how high it will be. and everyone who is dealing with this is worried 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 what answers from their late is using they just come to agree 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 carved 19 victims. let's get the latest now with our political correspondent

a man who was shot it's good to see you we know that coronavirus fatalities here in germany they are continuing to rise despite stricter lockdown measures that are in place to tell us what's behind this. well a sunni in fact likely see here is an increasingly diffused transmission was and that means that there are more and more clusters and more and more of those are happening in nursing and care homes where you will find the most vulnerable people the elderly the sick people and also there's more infections happening in community facilities in villages the sense in fact in any of the places where there's still contact between people and added to that is one key factor in trying to cut infections is to be able to trace the infection chain and that is no longer possible the most cases now we're seeing nearly 25000 new infections today oh most a 1000 deaths for a single day you can look at the 7 days incidence rate 2000 also been saying needed 200 cases 400000 inhabitants this is 4 times higher of what is already

a critical critical pressure so it's fair to say that the situation is no longer under control at the moment and public health authorities are saying that tougher restrictions might be necessary if these numbers keep rising so what could that look like. den might be necessary because the goalie's and has always been to prevent the spread of the virus by reducing contacts hand social interactions could be further impacted the head of the institute issued a very stark warning he said he want people not to travel and many scientists in fact fear the effects of christmas on the pandemic with people traveling to meet with their families at that time of the year and some states have already introduced new rules in the very out for example all travelers returning from high risk areas have to undergo a current of iris test any neighboring to vote on the what they will be a quarantine requirement from people who are coming form neighboring countries such

as france and switzerland as oh so a huge debate at the moment here in germany on whether or not churches should cancel christmas service is something that is meant to is a position from some state premier is for example in north rhine-westphalia. we know looking ahead that germany is going to start vaccinating on december 27th that's just 4 days from now in terms of logistics is everything in place to ensure a smooth start. well that would be there was 1st maybe around 150000 doses offered by a tech pfizer vaccine that are due to be delivered in germany on december 26th and a 1st vaccinations would then take place in elderly care homes the following day so on time and further doses of to vaccine will be due later in the week the health ministry has saved out at 3 to 4000000 those is could be given out in january only and up to $13000000.00 by the end of march they will be administered 1st in care and nursing homes then in special vaccination centers which have been set up all

over the country over the past 2 months and vaccines will 1st go to the most vulnerable that includes that includes the elderly and also medical personnel and to the general population and germany has ordered those that buy and take pride back seen and i'm a den of vaccine which is still awaiting approval from the e.u. regulators our political correspondent reporting for us good to talk to you now france has technically lifted its coronavirus blockade and will now allow truck drivers stranded in southern england to cross into the country but they 1st have to test negative for coverage 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 a put dozens of kilometers of zone pulled over into the service stations it's here we meet. gunter from germany. we want to spend christmas at home with our family it will 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 quarter 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 3 big people you see here the whole children and of course. we know how what. the closure of dover didn't just heard drivers one 5th of all goods bound for britain passed through the ports

supermarkets and 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 of that that is something that both the transport secretary his counterpart will be discussing right now so i don't want to speculate in times of you know the nature of the tested 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 will the stranded truckers finally be allowed to head home. let's go right to london. standing by for us there france has now eased its ban on travel from britain on the condition of a negative coronavirus tast how are those plans for testing going. soon

as far as i know it's still in preparation vaults it is supposedly really imminent and the army is supposed to help the n.h.s. workers and clearing up this huge backlog of trucks they're in and around there were pictures of some scuffles between truck drivers would look to be truck drivers and the police because there is obviously frustration with people having been stranded there not having enough food not having enough toilet facilities and they desperately want to go home for christmas as as we've seen and report but it's on the way and hopefully in the next days the backlog will be cleared what about travelers who are stranded in the u.k. we're trying to reach other countries when will they be able to leave. the 1st ferries have been disembarking in france there's a huge relief that the french have now relented it's been

a very stance diplomatic issue there were many commentators newspapers here in the u.k. were blamed the french president and none of them are core and one tabloid paper even called him a covidien it's so quite derogatory. it's a huge relief that now many countries not just france are thinking oil have started opening the borders again we have seen their bull garion government issuing a statement that bulgarian citizens subject to a negative call the test can now return home to slowly the situation and in other countries not just european countries but countries across the world it looks like there might be in the easing of the ban on a new k. travelers and on the phone flights from the u.k. obviously subject to too negative test and this is a practical havel for many people who want to leave the u.k.

and returned home because that needs to be arranged and needs to be done in time so it's still an organisational nightmare for the u.k. government and there have been concerns about the effect of these border closures on food supplies so there in london are you starting to see shortages of essential goods. personally i haven't seen any shortages in the supermarkets i've visited in the last days but they're all pictures of empty shelves and one big supermarket chain has limited. selling off essential goods like for example toilet papers and that obviously reminded people of the days in the coronavirus crisis where the shelves well and you don't people well panic buying bugs with everything hopefully you reach handing to normal soon shortages should be about it it's fresh produce mostly that supermarkets and old school years have been warning could be

short within the next days if the situation isn't clearing in the ports because the u.k. imports most of its fresh produce from the continent from the e.u. fruit and vegetables so this is where will people will be looking at and the shortages would be felt most severely if they really were come to pass. us in london thank you. military says the corona virus has reached a research station in antarctica at least 36 people have been infected at their bernardo o'higgins base following an outbreak earlier this month the announcement means that the pen demick has now which every continent on earth and arctic bases had been under strict quarantine. antarctica one of the last truly pristine places on earth several nations maintain research centers here chile's but now to begin space is permanently staffed and run by its military until now research is on the

continent thought that largely escaped the coronavirus pandemic then chile's military announced the 1st cases. of their p.c. artists showed that 36 men tested positive for covert 19 of which 26 were army personnel and 10 were civilians from a contracting company doing shadowed maintenance work. army officials confirmed another 21 people aboard a navy supply ship had been infected and one more case was detected at the nearby research village where the navy ship had docked surrounded by icebergs and oceans the research stations here are some of the most remote on the planet. the arrival of the virus is concerning doctors they fear it could be much more dangerous in such harsh conditions. what is your thinking we know that exposure to extreme weather affects a person's physiology when we see isolation the change in seasonal lives with that

seasonal sensitivity can also be immunosuppressive we know there are several components that may further affect people and lower their immune systems in extreme conditions especially with the work they do there. but so far none of the infected a said to be experiencing serious complications. and with no other countries having reported any cases there is hope that the outbreak could be containable. let's take a look now at some other developments in the pandemic reports say that drug maker pfizer is close to a deal with the u.s. to supply 100000000 more doses of its vaccine in exchange the government will issue a directive giving it better access to supplies south korea has recorded more than a 1000 new daily cases that's putting the government under pressure over its plans to wait till february to start vaccinating and the united arab emirates highest

islamic authority has ruled that corona virus vaccines are acceptable even if they contain pork gelatin that comes after fears that a muslims would avoid the shot because pigs are considered unclean in islam well spent a year since the 1st cases of the coronavirus were reported and scientists are still trying to figure out exactly how the virus behaves the speedy development of vaccines is being hailed as a major triumph it is hoped that they will help end the pandemic but mass immunity will make it harder to study the infection process that's why one british research company is hoping to launch a study using human volunteers willing to get infected charlotte shell some reports . just 18 years old allister's volunteering to do what many of its 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 frank scenes for covert 19. chiles

have the potential to do an awful lot of good for an awful lot of people with. a not insignificant a minimal risk to myself and well it's a risk the docs and nurses take on pretty much every day life 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 this isn't rooms like this one but we could be about to see a world bust volunteers deliberately infected with the virus the course is that 19 well it is what 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 sheilds in the u.k.

but they have to be approved for cave at 19 but you can see we have all the merchants equipment you'd expect. cross strollers of course 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 nose it would offer a unique opportunity to examine the virus in its very early stages cause these trials being set up primarily to test vaccines but a lot of learning benefits that will come out of these trials as well not just about how the farce interacts with the immune system in the human body that would be the really important to improve things in a proof but also about the disease course itself about of our lives how quickly it replicates how quickly it can be cleared from the body all of these can really help the management of patients going forward with vaccines already being rolled out

h.p.v. this is challenged child and now more important than ever warning that she dish millbank scene trials will become harder as more of us are immunized. excellent vaccine candidates but don't solve all the answers to the world's problem of vaccines so we're going to need a way of testing the next generation roxanne's china studies will still be able to be used to test very effectively what the 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 who 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 long term consequences weigh significantly. on my mind definitely definitely something to consider it's part of making an informed decision about whether you know i want to participate in a challenge struck by i think for made the benefits of challenge trials so outweigh the risks and i'm more than have to take the risks on. for more vaccines more quickly. alister isn't alone tens of thousands around the world have expressed interest in challenge child in the hope that the risk of the few will benefit the many. now to some other stories from around the world a huge fire has broken out in a migrant center housing around 1200 people in bosnia local media reports say the fire began in the section of the camp near the croatian border oriel and generators were also stored it's not yet known whether there are any casualties. a man

suspected of killing 3 police officers and wounding a 4th has been found dead in strength officials say the suspect opened fire rest police arrived at a house in the central asia they were anson at answering a domestic violence call president michael has called the officers curious. u.s. president has announced a wave of pardons including for 4 former government contractors convicted of killing unarmed iraqi civilians trump also pardoned former republican congressman found guilty of corruption and a campaign aide convicted of lying under oath during the investigation into russian meddling in the 26 election. the u.s. justice department is suing walmart accusing the retail giant of fueling the country's opioid crisis the suit alleges that wal-mart filed thousands of invalid prescriptions handled orders or responsibly and failed to report suspicious prescriptions wal-mart has rejected the allegations it is asking

a federal judge to throw out the case. a turkish court has sentenced an exiled journalist to more than 27 years in jail on espionage and terror related charges in connection with a newspaper report. was the editor in chief of the opposition daily before flying to germany 4 years ago the charges centered on a 2015 article that accused turkey's intelligence service of illegally sending weapons to syria. let's get the latest on the story with dorian jones in istanbul hi dorian so the sentence is 27 years in jail what do you make of this. well i think the severity of the sentence will come as a shock in turkey given the fact that this room all. smuggling arms to syria will do already in the public domain has been widely reported in other social media outlets but given the fact the turkish president reject any further want to get a person intervene into the case saying that he expects to do

a john dunbar to be severely punished will lead to the expectation that the severity of the sentence will not be such a surprise and given the fact that we are seeing severe sentences in relations with altering a freedom of speech earlier this month the kurdish member of parliament of the h.t.t.p. party sheikh them was sentenced to 22 years in prison for a speech he made so it is seen now very much room as the norm these severe sentences for want out of me will have a chilling effect on reporting in turkey turkey according to the us based committee to protect journalists this month rule found that turkey was the 2nd worst jail in the world with $37.00 reporters currently in jail so this sentence will only add to the feeling that independent reporting carry severe risks can and will gender and as lawyers appeal the sentence. well yes the option c. of appeal is open to lawyers it's unclear whether they will take up the opportunity

his lawyers will boycotting the airings today saying that the trial was a sham so it is unclear walty lawyers will do going forward. on cross will now step up its efforts to extradite him who is currently in thailand where he's carrying on his independent journalist activities which are very critical of the government in turkey operating a radio station a web page which does have a great deal of following in the country and this will undoubtedly need to further straight between hung from berlin and his very critical of the failure of what it sees as not in for a futile to return many people who have been accused and convicted of terror offenses you mentioned at the strain ties between onkar and berlin how do you think people abroad to countries abroad should see this sentence well certainly this will add just the strains between turkey in the european union e.u. has been increasingly concerned over what it sees as the lack of judicial freedom

in this country in the way that huge issue has been used for political purposes yes today the european court of human rights issued a very damning indictment calling for the immediate release of the leader of turkey's pro kurdish h.t.k. slots in them attached think he's ongoings attention was unacceptable president one today is dismissed so school saying that they are not bound by these decisions on exactly this will lead to further calls in europe for sanctions also between what used against turkey and also pressure from the united states with the president elect joseph biden who's also being very critical of turkey's human rights record so pressure will be building on turkey in this conviction of the end all will only add to those calls for action against iraq daryn jones reporting from istanbul thank you very much. now the top prize in europe's biggest and oldest lottery draw has been handed out one lucky ticket holder in spain's famous al gore though has won 4000000 euros hundreds of other when other winners are celebrated

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