he says i'm. the european population felt that it was important to be white and to stay right to black. exclusion and contempt culminated in forced sterilization under the nazis for. this documentary examines the few traces that of their existence. the children. storage january 11th on d w. another day another record coronavirus death toll here in germany and of course around the world today show will take a closer look at the situation here and will meet one of the doctors fus votes influenced america's food and drug administration to approve 2 coronavirus vaccines in record time i'm phil gale and this is the day.

we are in the capsule mouth decisive phase of the fandom. these are difficult times for many people in germany. if you aren't careful germany will become the problem child if you are of that we must take action. is difficult days there is also cause for optimism vaccination is the white house if it's pandemic and we will get bad. we will overcome this crisis we have to succeed and we will succeed. also on the day the human volunteers willing to get infected in the search for new drugs against corona virus . i think for me the benefits of challenge trials so outweigh the risks and i have

to take the risk. quickly. welcome to the day germany has reported its highest day be corona virus death toll figures released by the country's disease control agency on friday show that 962 people died from with the virus within a 24 hour period overall the total number of deaths attributed to the virus now stands at nearly $28000.00 and the take is in the eastern german state of saxony say. reaching capacity. they have been working round the clock at mice incriminatory i'm the coronavirus means they've had to deal with many more bodies this year. and 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 cannot come. here in the state of saxony maximum capacity that half the coffins have a coronavirus 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. 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 to take 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 crowded 19

victims. well as infections increased some parts of germany are affected worse than others the 1st hot spot emerged in the far west of the country in the town of heinz bag that outbreak was attributed to a regional conference celebrations well as the year draws to a close d.w. has been back to hinds back to reflect on the impact the pandemic has had. as a priest marcus plans has guided many people from heinz back through this difficult year. a very exhausting. it took a lot of strength. you can already see how it is weighing on people. opposition folk i think we've really been burdened by all the economic consequences and repercussions by the whole situation. and people have fallen ill and died which is the worst kind of burden not strong is. the situation it's not easy for him

either speck a small almost everyone knows everyone always had to bury people he knew who had died of corona. what's the simferopol all the experience when corona hit us back in february and the numbers begin to rise in the high spec district all the numbers very quickly became names and faces so you know all the families you know the people who are affected that was very challenging and. in february high spec was confronted with one of the 1st major outbreaks of the coronavirus in germany and in fact a couple had attended a kind of a party soon after the high spec became the epicenter of the pandemic. for many residents this was a very difficult time. bomb about from there because one was really very affected and especially since the 1st infected people and when my own acquaintances and we experienced it 1st hand that the virus kind of addressed stick affects us all spoke

we have to feel both. steps and provide cries among our relatives and acquaintances some people have fallen ill and one lady has even died that was an eye opener for us but the drama in the social cohesion and hines back has become much better. but in the beginning the whole situation was really bad because everyone pointed their fingers at us from a all being over to feel all the interest. that time priest marcus pools also witnessed how people from high spec were ostracized people were insulted cos were vandalized. about bashing by it and also the kind spec'd. rushing became an expression and that really hurts because nobody is responsible for it in the 1st place before even the one who was identified as the 1st one who was infected nobody can be blamed for that he just does it in defeats.

that it was stuff in the meantime heinsberg like all of germany isn't locked down again it has not yet reemerged as a hotspot but marcus palms knows that corona is far from over. the united states has announced the purchase of another 100000000 doses of the bound tech pfizer vaccine the consignment should arrive by july and will allow the u.s. to have vaccinate to up to 200000000 people it's currently hoped that $20000000.00 will be vaccinated by the end of this month the u.s. has moved faster than many countries in certifying vaccines a giving the green light to 2 so far from bonn tech 5 and from medan is the government of georgia welcoming the news. before the morning as we are mourning. it is this

fact the easier to do the more you believe you want to. hospitals forms including. they do not really care more for the money when i. go around the world these vaccines have been authorized for using wreck or times that's months instead of years so let's meet dr levy he's director of the precision vaccines program at the boston children's hospital is also a member of the advisory panel that recommended the u.s. food and drug administration approved 2 vaccines from bound tech pfizer and from welcome to d w can you explain to us in layman's terms how it was possible to approve these drugs so quickly without cutting corners. thank you for that you know typically vaccine development across history if we look at all the vaccines that have been developed across human history typically took 10 to 20 years you

know obviously that was not a timeline that was acceptable given this terrible pandemic and the daily death toll that your viewers were just hearing about luckily a technology called messenger r.n.a. or m r n a technology had been maturing has been worked on for 10 years and when the pandemic hit some months ago companies such as pfizer bio and tech and modernity were positioned to leverage this technology and rapidly get clinical studies up and running that said there was a very vigorous process a rigorous process i sat on the approval committee i looked at all the briefing documents that data that safety data and efficacy data for the vaccine were provided and independently analyzed by the united states food and drug administration or f.d.a. and independently analyzed and reviewed by the committee of experts on the vaccine advisory committee that i served on and we voted overwhelmingly in favor of

recommending to f.d.a. to issue these emergency use authorizations given this terrible pandemic i reviewed the safety data it was rigorous and provided all the information we would ask for regarding vaccine safety and you said it was an overwhelming vote but not unanimous well what were the concerns of the holdouts at. thank you for the 1st vote of the 1st of vaccine was pfizer i believe the vote was 17 in favor of versus for those who didn't vote in favor obviously should best speak for themselves but the discussion the concern had been about inclusion of 16 and 17 year olds in the in the recommendation i voted in favor bearing in mind that there was some safety data provided in this age group but some others took the position that since younger individuals are less likely to develop severe. that maybe the benefit risk wasn't as strong but there was no particular safety signal right or safety concerns senior

17 year olds and it's my view as a pediatrician that eventually a potential solution here for the world is to establish safety of these coronavirus vaccines in children i mean most of vaccines in the world are given during childhood most of the world's infrastructure for delivering vaccines is in childhood as parents know and so obviously we need the studies to show safety in the younger age groups studies are now ongoing but i believe in the long run that will be part of the solution here and so the u.s. f.d.a. has now approved these 2 covered vaccines is one more likely to be more suitable for a particular demographic whole situation than the other. thank you for that the pfizer bio and tech got an emergency use authorization or in usa for 16 years and up so for the 16 and 17 year olds the pfizer vaccine will be the one was for 18 years and both companies are now going to do studies in younger individuals for example 5

years to years of age we're going to learn more as you know there are some differences in terms of how these vaccines have to be stored the pfizer vaccine is delicate it needs to be in deep freeze negative 80 degree celcius that's possible but expensive these are expensive freezer systems that exist in sophisticated bio medical centers but don't exist across the globe right the maternal one negative 20 degrees celsius for your viewers that's approximately the temperature of your home freezer that's a little more practical but still neither of these vaccines are great a 95 percent efficacy that's a great number they're safe but they're likely not going to be the global answer in resource poor countries where that kind of freezer infrastructure doesn't exist ok let's talk about the rollout of this vaccination program because as i understand it each state will ogunnaike its own distribution and vaccination program but so does this mean that they will have to compete to full supplies so who will regulate that . right so there is a process through operation warp speed with general perna from the us military who

is leading that effort that federal effort in coordination with the food and drug administration the centers for disease control c.d.c. and as you allude to the local state governments and so vaccines are distributed to each state in the u.s. and then those states will set guidelines in consultation with c.d.c. about priority groups such as high risk health care workers and elderly and long term facilities i mean infectious disease consultant i see patients in the hospital and therefore i received my pfizer vaccine last 30. day and on the 7th of january i'll be receiving my 2nd dose really quick would as well about the situation in britain west scientists have now identified it seems to corona virus variants that are more transmissible than the one we've almost become used to and what's going on in the u.k. i ave unlucky of a cat less so perhaps 2nd don't think better of testing. yes so there's more to be

learned about that i think part of it as you allude to is that the british are probably the best in the world at the genetic testing of the virus they're doing a lot of it and they're doing it well and so they're picking up this nuance that as the virus spreads its genetic material you know changes and so variants have been detected there are reports that these variants may may spread more easily between individuals that suspected i don't think it's quite proven yet but that suspected we don't know yet if they cause more severe disease maybe not and sometimes in general among viruses if they spread better sometimes they cause less disease and then of course the bigger question is will the current crop of coronavirus vaccines protect against these variants of the short answer is we think the answer is yes thankfully but again we have to keep an eye on this and we don't have all the data we want to have we're going to have to keep an eye on coronavirus variance across the globe not just in britain and we're going to have to keep track of vaccine

efficacy how well does the vaccine prevent covert disease in different parts of the globe and match it up with the viral strains that are circulating a very clear thank you for joining us dr dr levy from the f.d.a. advisory panel thank you an honor to be on your show. only because it's been a year since the 1st cases of corona virus were reported and scientists are still trying to work out exactly how the virus behaves the speed of development of vaccines is good news for most of us not so much for researchers who are trying to map the infection process mass immunity of course is going to make they had jobs hada that's why one british research companies hoping to launch a study using human volunteers who willing to get infected w.'s show that chelsea reports. but just 18 years old allister's 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. charles 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 well it's a 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 in rooms like this one we could be about to see a wall 1st volunteers deliberately infected with the virus that causes. well here's what we quarantined here upset with safety measures in place like trace insistence to stop the bars from spreading trial services company h

b they already runs challenge trials in the u.k. but they have to be approved for 19 so you can say we have all the equipment that you'd expect to see jesus christ trawlers a call 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 niners it would offer a unique opportunity to examine the virus in its very early stages because these trolls are 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 that will be plenty and really important to be able to improve axing is an approved therapist but also about the disease course itself a part of our local quickly replicates how quickly can be cleared from the body or

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 milbank's in trials will become harder as more of this or immunized. is that actual 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 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 the decision hinges on key ethical concerns you want a select group of people who are very helpfully 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 they're really not. only 18 to 30 s would be

eligible and volunteers will have to be carefully screened before they are approved but not all risk can be eliminated for the long term consequences way significantly . on my mind definitely definitely something to consider as part of making an informed decision about whether you know i want to participate in the challenge struck but i think for me the benefits of challenge trials so outweigh the risks and i 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. so almost a year since this pandemic began it was at the end of 2019 that china alerted the w.h.o. of a new pneumonia like illness in the city of what followed was an unprecedented

response to contain the deadly outbreak the city and its population of 11000000 was sealed off from the outside world in one of the harshest lockdowns in history new coronavirus claimed more than 4000 lives in blue hand and it spread rapidly and overwhelmed medical staff but china's response was also rapid new hospital sprang up within weeks nearly a year of life in hand has returned to normality in cities outside china can only dream of shops are open people are out and about and confidence in the communist party is high but there are they sent invoices. it is almost as if nothing had ever happened here life is back to normal in the city where the coronavirus 1st emerged at the time the government reacted with one of the most severe lock downs in human history now old and young enjoy outdoor activities children are back in school with their grandparents waiting to pick them up. when i doubt side is might

still have the virus but will hand people don't say oh it's because they governed well during lockdown. china has brought infection rates down to almost 0 in an exuberant exhibition the communist party celebrates victory in what it calls its war on the epidemic with tributes to soldiers and medics who work themselves with source during the outbreak but 1st and foremost the party celebrates self and the general secretary xi jinping was hailed as the man who led the country to victory. canada got to go home i'm very moved by this exhibition i feel that the people who bay province the government and all its organizations have shouldered a lot. of. this is hala china wants people to see its reaction to the disease and how many people do see it indeed but there are other voices in this city. john high is one of them he is on his way to the

municipal government. but isn't this the people's government taking pictures is not allowed. to look like the country music i think they should change their name from the people's government of one hand to the bureaucrats government of on one hand. john hi normally lives in the southern city of shenzhen but returned home to one han in january when his father broke his hip the elderly man received free treatment at a military hospital this was where he caught cold it and later died. john high says his father would still be alive if the authorities in one hand had not covered up the early stages of the outbreak he's trying to file a case in court against the government. i've been very

upset since i came back to 100. years or so i'm sad and angry at the same time you know food that's my current state of mind body. i can't stand all this propaganda about the achievements in the fight against cove it was just what out of all the people who died the innocent people who left this world have never been paid proper respect. so you will go to the war and government has never apologized given. the way you go. the way that i wish it. but few people speak publicly about their grievances many others appear to have put the experience behind them night life is back on the streets especially young people enjoy their newly returned free was. almost like you know what i feel energized we've stored up in a g.

for almost half a year i've been exercising and taking care of my health every day i feel healthier and more alive than ever before or do you. think i don't feel the need to rested all my feelings we had a rest that was way too long there's no excitement a high note email eating only one of many places in the words to struggle with the pen dammit the city where it all began is moving on. the court in turkey has sentenced one of the country's most high profile journalist to more than 27 years in jail on espionage and terror related charges and charges against a john doe and sent on an article. he wrote in 2015 for opposition newspaper job on it when he was editor in chief he presented compelling evidence that turkey's intelligence service illegally sent weapons to syria mr dunbar fled to 4 years ago and is unlikely to serve any sentence. b.t.w.

spoke with him and asked him if he was surprised at the length of the sentence unfortunately not surprising because from the beginning it was the kind of bench attempt by the government it was me at all was promising to. give the most. possible price for this new story which was a true story. so they wanted to punish me because of this true story and at the same time try to intimidate the other journalists into ikey who dare to touch that and that kind of sets the issues i have already spent some time in jail because of this new story i was shattered into a key i came to exile. my efforts were confiscated

and you know i prefer mall most of the prices so. i don't think that that's new one new punishment would change anything in my life so i will keep on reporting from germany towards turkey. underdog i'm not was the day i was ever the conversation continues online you'll find us on twitter at news don't forget use a hash cunt of the day i'm going. to

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of turkey's most high profile journalists is sentenced to 27 years in jail. made by a court sentenced on charges of espionage and aiding a terrorist group will bring you his reaction to not guilty but. i'm sure the program german allied times has flown 80 tons of produce into the u.k. after ground transport was halted amid fears of spreading a new career. in a virus ban and france has not ended its for blockade but lorry drivers are still stuck at ferry ports because they can only cross the channel with a negative coronavirus test truckers say they've already waited too long. knowledge of. those little. frustration and anger in dover as truck

drivers are furious at the delay in getting back to europe. some drivers are transporting cargo but all of them simply want to get home for the holidays if they're stuck on the english coast. any of the last 4 nights you didn't see nobody gives you one if you obviously in the nothing. put me. in his place not we have no food we have no water yesterday. food but it was just something. and we don't know when we. can get home we have 2 days sitting here and then now they say us don't have. because they're stuck on the way. yeah the car is stuck he is blocked they have one way here.

meanwhile the lines of trucks stretch for many many kilometers. the drivers will be eventually allowed to cross but only after testing negative for cold feet 19. the army has been called in to help with the tests at a lorry park on a disused airfield near dover. the blockade doesn't just hurt drivers one 5th of all good spawn for britain pass through dover supermarkets warned of shortages of basic goods if the port remained closed so straight to london where he joined correspondent welcome baguettes let's start with dovo what's the latest you're hearing from that. well the latest what i'm hearing is that some trucks are ready to go and to cross the channel tunnel bods other than that these images of course that you have shown of quite chaotic

scenes at the food a lot of frustration really on the side of the drivers who have been stuck there now and they have been complaining of being not enough food and the government has been ridiculed by some critics saying well when minister goes on television and says that. the virus is out of control in the u.k. then he can't act surprised when when other european countries like france take quick action and close the borders but it looks like the government was not prepared for something like that other people are pointing out that this is a test of what might come off the brakes if there is new trade stock and struck between the u.k. and the you that we would see quite more chaotic scenes like that at the ports under one of our british supermarkets what's the situation.

i have to say that i haven't seen myself that the shelves are empty i've seen enough oranges and to walk to the queue cumbers and possibly a lot of the fresh produce that britain imports from the e.u. but other people have experienced that people i know have told me that their local supermarkets that the shelves are pretty much empty people are of course getting ready for christmas and they're worried that there might not be enough food on the shelves because some supermarket chains have warned that within a few days the u.k. could run out of fresh produce imports of fruit and vegetables a main beef from the continent so people are just not wanting to take the risk of having no brussel sprouts for their turkey dinner at christmas which you mentioned . to go there even if the final deadline britain leaves finally end of this month where the 2 sides on this long awaited post rexy trade deal.

after a lot of speculation it seems really that a trade deal is imminent but nothing. yet puts a lot of reports coming out from from brussels and what i'm hearing also from an e.u. deployment is that a deal is imminent but nothing is confirmed yet that there are still. last minute agreements to be made bots maybe in the next hour during the night or maybe as early as tomorrow that at least is the speculation that the trade deal between the u.k. and the e.u. might after all be computed burgomaster london thank you. germany has reported another record coronavirus death toll just 200000 people died in the last 24 hour recording period even so the national lockdown is to be eased over christmas allowing people to visit their families health officials are warning the

risks taken of the holidays will be reflected in hospitals in the following weeks. i mean all the uncertainty brought by to pandemic one thing is for sure. christmas will be different for everyone not least for germans in a country with over 40000000 christians everyone has had to adapt. father has so has started hosting a daily podcast in his parish in berlin he had to find a new way to reach out to his flock to it is trying times and christmas is no different you're fired whew we will celebrate christmas inside as well as outside the church and will gather 70 people poem asked to see lloyd to go to since it will be full of those will take place inside and a quite a tight schedule and 2 additional masses will take place outside on the church square so hopefully we'll have something for everyone on for years it was the by.

depair issues that are so careful to follow hi jane roose father her so does inspect his hands before giving communion and ensures seats allow social distancing during services here in berlin central station usually pursing was people defects of the pandemic are political authorities are urging people to avoid all unnecessary travel but if you still decided to hit the road. i would put it in i have this in fact and i'm well prepared and we're only celebrating was my son and daughter in law. making it hard for me it's hard my husband died so i don't want to be alone. i'm going to visit my elderly parents i did a test yesterday evening and i was negative otherwise i wouldn't be here that's why i'm travelling now. they are very well you can see normally it's packed here and now it's empty. it's

a bit sad the shops are closed no christmas markets i missed it. from. christmas in germany isn't only a longstanding religious and family tradition he says so a business which has been heavily affected by the lockdown. no more christmas shopping for presence no more christmas markets and normal mulled wine stalls but as many are staying at home more people have decided to invest in a christmas tree this year. let's get more from political correspondent leoni from hummus time welcome what do you think are germans likely to comply with the government's contact restrictions on christmas well phil the majority of germans say they will 83 percent of germans according to a recent pew growth you go off study is said they would abide by the rules so only celebrates in the closest circle of family and friends or stay at home only 9

percent said they would take a train or a flight to see their family and so a lot of people are sticking to the rules germany's police has urged people not to call them immediately if they sink their neighbor is a having a large gathering a crowd that is in violation of the restrictions deputy chairman of the police union has said has encouraged people to just go over there and talk to them their neighbors themselves before calling the police so it's really appealing to the individual responsibility of citizens and they are encouraging encouraging them to spend a different christmas this year not to travel and if they gather with family or friends then to stick to the rules to keep a distance to air the rooms regularly to wear a face and in order to keep numbers down. is the situation in hospitals will health systems cope if we do see a post christmas spike in cases. well the situation is quite bad already more than

5000 people are being treated more than 5000 patients are being treated in i.c.u. units in germany and in some federal states especially in the east of germany where a lot of the hotspots are located and patients have to be transported to hospitals in other regions already so intensive care specialists of warning that not only the number of beds is limited but also the personnel and especially over the christmas period personnel and there's not much medical staff working there short also because frontline workers health care workers contract the virus themselves or have to go into quarantine and so they are really putting their hopes in the vaccine germany will start vaccinating people on the 27th of december just after christmas and those health care workers. with a very high risk of infections are in that 1st priority group and they're hoping that that will make a difference in the coming months thank you for that but we will correspondent how

mr. will take a look now at some of the other stories making headlines a gunman have killed more than 100 people in an attack in ethiopia's that western bearish on gold the moves region according to the state run human rights commission the identity of the attackers are noted the late is the episode of under arrest in ethiopia following a deadly civil conflict in 2 gray. i going u.s. presidents donald trump has a veto down major military spending bill which has been passed by a large majority of republicans and democrats in congress mr trump has previously criticized the $740000000000.00 national defense authorization act saying that it would benefit china congress could not move to overturn his veto. officials in bosnia have blamed migrants for setting fire to a former camper just after it was closed because of a lack of winter facilities no injuries have been reported the u.n. has criticised bosnia for failing to find suitable winter accommodation for

thousands of people. no court in istanbul has sentence one of turkey's best known journalist to 27 years in jail on spying and terrorism charges the case against john donne das centered on an article he wrote that exposed the government wrongdoing and the country's president. fled to 4 years ago and he's unlikely to see any more time in jail campaigners for press freedom say the sentence and a chilling message to his gymnast's. jondo and doris lawyers boycotted the trial and his stamboul saying it was politically motivated and the verdict had already been decided in advance. the decision was handed down without them present 27 years and 6 months in prison for one of turkey's best known journalists. don't doris article and photos in the come hurry it newspaper in 2015 claim to show that turkey

was supplying weapons to islamist groups in syria. are and the paper were charged with betraying state secrets the charges were expanded to include espionage and supporting terrorism president ratchet added one called the journalist a traitor and an agent. of the 59 year old has been living in exile in berlin for the last 4 years the campaign group reporters without borders condemned the proceedings as a farce to end our will now go on trial again along with other journalists in a separate case. and i asked whether he was surprised by the verdict. unfortunately not surprising because from the beginning it was the kind of bench. well government was me at all was promising to. give the most. possible price for this new story which was

a true story. so they wanted to punish me because of this true story and at the same time try to intimidate the other journalists into it he who dared to touch that sense that kind of sense that issues john don't go more world news at the top of the hour up next here on the you can't ferguson has your business. the. best girl who could ever now live. from a dinosaur. in support. of her over. to the river.

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