this is d w news live from berlin angry truckers 2 from police after days of waiting at british ports france listens blockades but says drivers must test negative for corona virus before crossing the channel also on the program. germany announces record numbers of corona virus deaths health experts warn christmas is no reason to stop taking precautions. and one of turkey's most high profile journalist is sentenced to 27 years in jail. was here in berlin when the 14 victims on charges of

espionage and even a terrorist group bringing his reaction to that group the british. plus a tent city was styled. instead of an overseas holidays would be travelers give glencairn a go at singapore's changi airport. i'm aaron sales and welcome to the program german airline lufthansa has flown 80 tons of food and produce into the u.k. after ground transportation was told to due to concerns about spreading a new coronavirus variant france has reopened its border to freight traffic entering from britain and trucks have started boarding ferries at the port of dover but thousands of truckers are still stuck at ferry terminals because they can only cross the channel with a negative coronavirus test and many say they've already waited too long.

knowledge and knowledge not 1 always mean. frustration and anger in dover as truck drivers are furious at that 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 in the english coast could be any of the last 4 nights you can see nobody easy finding it obviously in the nothing. put it to going to go on to be stuck in his place not we have no food we have no water yesterday. food but it was just a hamburger some some some tapes. and we don't know when we. can get home we have to day 15 and day and now they say us don't have. because bad luck on the way. yeah boccardi lucky is blocked

bay we have one way here. meanwhile the lines of trucks stretch for many many kilometers. and 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 goods found for britain pass through dover supermarkets warned of shortages of basic goods if the port remained closed. until joins us from london with more on this story so as we saw there in the report a lot of frustration among drivers what are you hearing about the situation for them on the ground. and while i was there the poor yesterday and there was a huge amount of frustration anger heartbreak among the drive is that the idea that

they could be facing days that many of them most of them in fact likely to miss christmas with their families and you have to think now that it's nights marks the 4th day that many of them will be queued up on the side of the motorway we've been hearing reports of as many saying that they are they don't have enough food the toilet facilities are extremely limited that hygiene facilities showers for example also limited all extremely different difficult things in the best of times but during a pandemic obviously not ideal for those drivers and they are still facing we heard from the government today potentially days of waiting as the current of our math tests gets underway there are thousands of drivers that will need to be tested and of course that is a huge logistical challenge for the government and not one that can happen quickly so it sounds like we're going to be looking at supply chains break down stretching over the next couple of days is that affecting british supermarkets.

well that has been a warning for several days that now that could become an issue for supermarkets now that the question has surrounded fresh produce the u.k. has been stocking up on other produce partly because of christmas partly because the warnings about what could happen in the event of a new. produce is available but is that the fresh stuff we're talking fruits and vegetables the stuff that expires quickly that mine all make it across that they are the concerns now passing i've not seen any of this in the seed markets that i've been to over the last couple of days but there are certainly images on social media swelling of. just a day of tons of cargo flight has been charted to drop some pretty produce into the u.k. so there are contingency plans that have been enacted have but of course it's a huge concern that if this dance dragged on for days then it could see those shortages really materializing off to christmas where you said the magic word there

breck's that people must really be wondering if these scenes will be repeated when britain makes its final exit from the u.n. just over a week has there been any progress on a trade deal we're hearing just tonight our in the negotiators and now in the end game all of those breaks it talks too soon to say white smoke but there are certainly sources on both science and the european union and the u.k. who say a deal could be near certainly what many people have hoped for would know you know unless the negotiators themselves who certainly wants to try and get a deal done on this side of christmas say there are indeed hopes that when the public on both sides of the channel wake up in the morning we could see some progress and whether or not there has been that crucial trade deal just days now until the end of the transition period before the end of the transition period on

december 31st all right charlotte thanks for joining us tonight. germany has reported another record daily coronavirus death toll with 962 people dying from or with the virus a national lockdown has been in force for a week but with many people playing to travel and visit family for christmas health authorities are warning that there could be worse to come. normally billions main train station would be buzzing before christmas this year it's nearly empty but some are still traveling despite government appeals to stay home and stuff like this dr bond has done enough to ensure there is no risk of infection make sure i don't come into close contact with strange is cutting their contact that says that i mean yes i think it's important to see the family. many germans have been taking graphic cards test before the holidays but the experts say they could create

a false sense of security the government is warning that reducing contact with others is the only way to stop infections and relieve pressure on hospitals. if you live in get a lot of people talking about how they're going to celebrate christmas if it's a care is will be a good king not celebrating so my message to you is how you spend your christmas will directly affect what the intensive care ward will look like after the holidays but to reduce social contact even if it's difficult if many christians are also having to make hard choices these here with jim and in fiction number still high there are a growing calls to abandon traditional christmas services some congregations of already cancelled and are offering t.v. or online broadcasts instead here's a look at some more developments in the global pandemic. drug makers biotech and pfizer are to supply the united states with an extra $100000000.00 doses of the corona virus vaccine the u.s. government hopes to immunize $20000000.00 people this month meanwhile canada has

followed the u.s. by approving the moderna covert $1000.00 vaccine 2 weeks after giving the go ahead to the buy on tech pfizer shot and the united arab emirates highest islamic authority has ruled that vaccines are acceptable even if they contain pork gelatin there were some fears that some muslims might avoid the shot because pigs are considered unclean a court in istanbul has sentence one of turkey's best known journalist to 27 years in jail on spine terrorism charges the case against daughter centered on an article he wrote that expose alleged government wrongdoing and angered turkey's president mr dunbar fled to germany 4 years ago and is unlikely to serve any more jail time campaigners for press freedom say the sentence sends a chilling message to turkish journalists. john doe and lawyers boycotted the trial and is 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. turned ours 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 tie a pair to one called the journalist a traitor and an agent. of the 59 year old indoor has been living in exile in berlin for the last 4 years the campaign group reporters without borders condemned the proceedings as a farce too and will now go on trial again along with other journalists in a separate case. earlier we spoke with chandan dot and asked whether he was surprised by today's verdict unfortunately not surprising because from the

beginning it was the kind of bench. government. me. was promising to who. give the most. possible price this news 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 its you who dared to touch that and that kind of sets the issues let's take a look at some other stories making headlines around the world. a russian court has given a 2 year suspended sentence to opposition activists. for violating rules on public gatherings the must all council are held rallies against recent constitutional reforms that benefit president vladimir putin or lawyers of the sentence is designed to prevent her from running for parliament. outgoing u.s.

president donald trump has issued another set of pardons they include charles krishna the father of his son in law charles questioner had spent 2 years in prison for tax evasion and other charges trump also pardon his former campaign chairman paul manna for as well as his longtime confidant roger stone. trump has also vetoed a major military spending bill which had been passed by a large majority of republicans and democrats in congress mr trump had previously criticized the $740000000000.00 national defense authorization act sane it would benefit china congress could now move to overturn the veto. former british supermodel stella tenet has died at the age of 50 and it rose to fame in the 1990 s. representing major fashion houses including chanel the cause of her death has not yet been reported and it had campaigned against fashion industry weight waist rather after retiring from the catwalk singapore's changi airport is often counted

as one of the world's best of light like most airports around the world passenger traffic plummeted this year due to the pandemic this year only around $11000000.00 passengers visited changi through the end of november for comparison sake last year the airport handled more than $6000000.00 passengers and of course that's bad news for the 30000 people who work in the airport now they're hoping a novel offering will were people back to the terminals the key word here is lamping and that share short for glamorous camping take a look. they call it clamping in the clouds but this camp site is a firmly on the ground with the coronavirus putting a stop to nearly all air travel singapore's famed to airport has swapped takeoffs for 10 a much needed reprieve for some of the many families stuck at home this holiday season i mean usually we we go out of the country is the holiday but busy

travel mas is the full all the day so i thought you know why not go do something different what if you're good in that they need to enjoy camping ideal is that they know how that bucket list. ended at the. anyone who's missed a flight knows all about overnighting at the airport but you get to do it in such style as the name suggests these glam has a kid out when he signs beds temperature control and even festive christmas lights put it more than $250.00 u.s. dollars a night it's not for the budget traveler i mean it is really pricey but at the mouth when he was like you know you could have fit for every 30 you went for staycation. tens of booked out until the end of the month but organizers hope that even after the pandemic lapping at the airport will take off. that's all for now

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her. * on december the 24th 1818 the young priest yosef more sent out from all the austria to visit his friend france group. and together they wanted to set his poem which

knocked silent night to music. he needed to him to perform at the christmas mass in his parish that same night. at the time gruber was a teacher organised and sacristan and alms door for a small community north of sound spoke. he was expecting his friends were arrived by the early evening but he knew how long and arduous the journey was in winter.

the 2 friends both musicians did not take long to find the right melody to accompany moore's contemplated what. it is only a simple composition without any special meaning gruber wrote in his diary and.

christmas 1818. on christmas eve $1818.00 a time marked by bitter poverty and neato the original german version of silent night holy night is less 1st song during christmas mass an open door of 2 friends to the sound of a guitar began because of. this road only it was intended to be a song of peace and hope in the difficult years after the napoleonic wars or mass water time fatalities famine epidemics and found harvests had created a mood of despondency with those of more himself or grown up in grinding poverty and had enjoyed much in the years before he penned the poem that would go on to become a world famous carol. coble together with france he created

a song sung today by 2000000000 people across the globe during the christmas season one that has been translated into more than 300 languages and dialects of business to become but it took 117 years and a very long journey via hamburg new york and los angeles before silent night became the most popular christmas carol of all time. the journey takes years to the california desert to palm springs at the time the home of a mccroskey being cross. by then being crosby was already the most successful singer of his day he lived just down signed palm springs in the small away cities of rancho mirage.

his company's offices however were located on hollywood sunset boulevard the building stone exists today. i think was a big drug is on. and we knew it in english from being crosby and we knew it in spanish because those were the 2 languages that were the most famous i would say in america but every schoolchild around the world will sing the song in their language and that's that's how you know the song is just completely transcended popular culture into into world history. but being crosby came to sing silent night by chance one sunday late in the autumn of 1934 he and his brother larry would busy preparing for an annual christmas radio special when a missionary a new came calling. please accept my apology larry this morning for this intrusion oh i have proposal for mr crosby is ian holmes morning. father it's been

a while what can i do for you i have a proposal for you do have a minute could you perhaps sing silent night i thought. sacred songs are a little out of my league for a crooner like myself mr crosby the recording will only be heard at the parish father ran a hand talked bang into recording this. what song has meant in the annals of history to so many people was something i had been

italy didn't know when i 1st recorded the song i was basing my understanding of the song on other artists i heard sing it it was a cover of another christmas song you know i didn't deep dive into the history of it because i was so concerned about how we would make it new i didn't i wasn't thinking so deeply about the old with it and so to learn about its roots in salzburg to learn about its history through the course of the last many generations sends chills down your spine and so it's an incredible. gift that keeps on giving as a singer to know about. a story that deep and that profound and and inspires whenever i sing in the future so it says it's a lovely lovely story. a.

gold. literally my 1st experience outside the u.s. when i was a sophomore in high school we went to vienna that was the very 1st place we went and we literally met in a boys' choir and got to hear them sing and it was so magical i mean you have like

teenagers who aren't generally listening to music like that sobbing like because it was so beautiful an energy something about about the boy singing like that like before they become men when you hear something that moves you and moves you no matter what the languages and there's some songs and i feel like silent night is one of those that when you're seeing it doesn't it doesn't even it's so weird it transcends the lyrics it transcends the music. around 820 life in austria's terrill region was or is hard as it was across the rest of europe and the alpine winters were particularly harsh mountain dwellers only left the house when necessary and it took them hours to get down into the valley the musical reiner siblings lived in the to little valley and it was this family quartet that helped spread silent night.

in the winter of 1822 and preference here was of austria and russia czar alexander the 1st were residing if you can castle on one evening the rhine a siblings were hired to entertain the guests. silent night was among the songs they performed. the illustrators cast was so taken by their performance that bizarre invited them to visit russia. as a result the siblings began a tour across europe. you.

knew. you knew. they performed on recommendation in many european cities up to 839. they even sang for england's king george the 4th in windsor castle. i. am. that same year the rhine a sibling traveled to the united states after what must have been a difficult crossing of the atlantic they arrived in new york just before christmas . relieved to have arrived safely the musical family visited trinity church on broadway to give thanks they sang silent night for the 1st time ever in english in

the united states.

sure. come. home. from school. to ask when did i 1st heard silent night is kind of like me wince too fast breathing. is part of a system that i cannot remember i say that's such

a crazy thought i just kind of. see. the. wrong. i've always been a christmas obsessed so when it gets to the time i even like a little bit close to me. i'm just going for it like i make her come. and i decorate my house and i shall. i mean yes there is a money making thing we mustn't deny this was a you know so's valentine's day but somehow. i don't can't raise much money as you know i'm hoping to i think the irish themselves everyone else i know what christmas marks the birth of jesus christ. if a christmas day follows on december 25th a public holiday is the celebration start the previous evening on christmas eve

again. in them but in most countries where the holiday is marked the christmas season already gets underway november with christmas lights and christmas markets in the house back. so often so that's true insult to where the krista can go market is a tradition that stretches back 525 years that the history of europe's christmas market states to the late middle ages when they exist in many parts of the former roman empire. the super common visitors come to look for gifts to enjoy themselves shop which comes. by next tide size what a christmas time inside sport is simply fantastic i was here for my 1st mozart

weekly public through a new production of the opera lucho seal that was being staged here and i was there for the rehearsals and this is why it's so wonderful so spiritual is it really is something very special. in mexico vi methods in mexico a lot of music is played at christmas had. free music there's a lot of rhythm to that music and these are the christmas songs called d.n.c. cause are important i mean you celebrate with a lot of joy and happiness and light and christmas spent with family and friends of course because i want. full time is an eternity and. many yesterday room from my 1st christmas recollection is of not yet a pos it's a song that just comes when we're all together. as a time to be trying to do what you can i went to a german school in of course i learned there that the original is in german after

which is. to soviet k.g.b. so really this is perhaps the most famous christmas song that there is the escaped us in translated everywhere. if you like my head so perhaps my 1st memory of christmas music is this song. that beginning. on what it is without words it soothes you. to some of that melody and it lets us. has been very good moves us really like like a lullaby. and this is kind of but it isn't a lullaby is it also has something that lets our soul dance. and then again.

these have been written in these movements and the music they build. one down. into this is my finally it opens up like a flower but it's not over yet it's not a heroic song sleet then it goes. and it comes back to earth once more to everyone for us very urgently so it's. i think it starts like a caress that goes on and on and i vibe terrified to bruise your chest opens up the music comes out and then it returns moving inwards again with everything that the message carries that not raised us the big boy to the is had. it comes back to us. in this is you know in that sense silent night is perfect as a title i was

a statement on this steely silent night it's fantastic. the . war. the. oh. the risk was the. the world. heard the. poem. so this is crucial.

in class in smaller cities the atmosphere is very different to that of a christmas capital such as london or new york or new york that you certainly don't feel that it's a silent time of year in sight this year house just about it's wonderful all the same in its am black. play play.

play play play christmas is a little colder little daca in england. christmas is for the most traditional. that's what they make you could they make a lot of effort here on the close of christmas feeling and possibly some people around but i've. got things like i do like christmas miracles for stuff christmas. play. a. player.

played her for a song is actually very intimate he knows about the people close to surrounding me feel. a connection with them on a holiday spirit you know he was so beautiful because it's a chance to start again to wipe the slate and install a fresh. and. obviously just don't always come from religious ideas but i think it's been adopted by the secular civil rights by let's be together and be around people and give people gifts because it doesn't. play.

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celebrate christmas in our very beautiful way with all the lights it's a very it's one of my favorite time of the year. all. the. silent night is. deeply linked with christianity. but to me this song belongs to humanity it belongs to a lot of people to every single person regardless your religion or in what you believe.

i'm from indonesia so engine is just the biggest muslim country in the world so i'm from a muslim family but my father. was an author who is a book writer he wanted his children to have a very open mind and they're super tolerant and he prefers and that's why he put us in a catholic school so i did all my education with the nuns. the

young.

i think dad this song has nothing to do with a place or time. it has something to do with spirit and with connecting people together because i think that everyone in the world as we see now in this song in silent night there's plenty of versions in all kind of languages all over the world and it connects people and i think that's the purpose of this song and that's what's great about it that it connects people together and it brings everyone together. sontag. oh.

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