this is deja vu news live from berlin the european union rolls out its mass vaccination program against covert 19th. it's a shot of hope as a shoot coordinated effort gets underway to start in the us in society's most vulnerable members also the program. plastic sheeting and blankets are their only protection against the elements hundreds of migrants have spent a 4th night in freezing conditions in northwestern boston a group safe people could die if they don't get proper shelter soon.

unexposed are welcome to the program it's being called an historic day in the fight against the coronavirus covert 19 vaccinations have begun in countries across the european union the vaccine is seen as the 1st significant step forward in a crisis that has elevated health workers and scientists to the status of heroes now it's the turn of a new type of hero to roll up their sleeves with europe's most elderly lining up for the vaccine. celebration as spain vaccinates its 1st person against the coronavirus is a moment of hope in one of the countries hardest hit by the pandemic. in italy medical staff were the 1st to give a job their country to ravaged by the 1st wave of the virus.

autocad a one man having been on the frontline since the beginning of the pandemic i have felt with my hands and seen with my eyes how difficult it is to fight this fire us . it has been painful to witness the defeats this virus has cost margaret today as an important and decisive day planted this is. can be czech republic prime minister and j bobbish led the way and he was followed by a world war 2 veteran who took it all in her stride. it pricked a little that was all. of her. while in sweden the 1st was a 91 year old retirement home resident. supply of a vaccine is limited but demand is huge with most e.u. countries receiving an initial batch of no more than 10000 doses each member state

is prioritizing who gets. supplies are expected in the new year but officials warn of us a long way to go before everyone can be vaccinated. and for more on the situation i am joined by. an associate professor at the director school of public health and joins me from pav here in italy dr the italy was one of the countries that was hardest hit in europe is getting all the vaccinations it needs. well very good afternoon today in italy as in the whole of europe it's a day of hopes to celebrate devalue off collective health and public health but we do have a long path and a long journey towards everybody's get so that sinks we received 1st doses received the 1st 1750 doses and was targeted by health care workers we do have a plan. that prioritize health care workers and all of our populations and we

expect pending on the distribution and availability of vaccines to reach the target of 70 percent of the population being vaccinated by the full next year to reach the traditional of herd immunity in our country. and our italians willing to get vaccinated in france for instance there is some skepticism is that the case and in italy when we do have truly not a dart at a cow as dead to the resists share of the population who cares to be has it tends towards vaccine drowned 40 percent of the population which is huge and tell us debt we need to work on the demand side of immunize ation we always said that talking about immunization is not talking about vaccines for talk about immunization we need to take care of people getting the right information being

a ware of the value of vaccination and be willing to get vaccinated so it's a huge word on how promotion and communication by our it is and how it's experts i believe and could you give us a little dumbbell sketch of italy's covert 1000 situation at this time. well italy is getting much better we have those so-called 2nd wave almost behind as you said we were to 1st in europe to get heat by declan a virus and we know and we still holds the record of highest number of that's in in in europe the. new cases per day are decreasing we are and have been sending paths and also deaths coby deaths are decreasing apart from selected regions and so. we do have great hopes of getting away from

the 2nd waves together with the united nations campaign immunization the next marks ok we share those hopes don't associate professor of the director school of public health and thanks so much. and here in germany where infections and numbers of code deaths have reached record highs in recent weeks one care home decided it didn't want to waste any time after taking delivery of the vaccine it 101 year old woman in the state of saxony on hold was the 1st to get the shots a day earlier than scheduled those in the highest priority group include people over 80 as well as residents and staff of care. and kate martyr is standing by for us at the largest retirement home in the cologne germany of course kate what's happening right now where you are. i'm sorry just behind me is the foss woman who got vaccinated here today she is

a 9092 year old lady named so mrs fogle and yet she was vaccinated today the fuss of a 110 residents here at colognes largest cow home where there's 1100 residents so she was the fast many and everyone here who will get vaccinated everyone here who wants to get vaccinated at will be able to do so in the coming days but just today they'll be 110 residents here paxson ated and a number of stuff as well and it can you tell us a little bit more about how people are reacting to this news and having you know i guess the media there in this event and rolling in their own care home. yes everyone was really really excited today and are proud for who misspoken has south was also really happy as soon as she had the vaccination she pulled down her face i asked like my one he asked and he did a lot smile and everyone was very very happy about that and i spoke to the woman

ahead of pat her hair as well and she said that she was very excited that her in the 1st one chosen for these vaccinations to happen and she said that and lot of what had gone into preparing the vaccine and making sure all the preparations were right and that took place through christmas but she couldn't and early christmas present yeah and we can well imagine why thanks for that kate martin reporting for us from cologne time now to take a look at some of the other stories making headlines around the world. hundreds of british tourists have flooded coronavirus quarantine in this whiskey resort of. they were vacationing there when the government demanded that they self isolate following the discovery of a new variant of the virus in the united kingdom with no flights between switzerland in the u.k. it's not clear where the holidaymakers went. japan is effectively closing its borders for at least

a month in an effort to contain the new coronavirus variant originally texted in the u.k. the foreign ministry says it will bar all nonresident foreign nationals starting on monday japanese residents will be allowed to return home. voting is underway in a potentially historic election in asia the vote could produce the west african countries 1st peaceful transfer of power between democratically elected presidents that's despite a continuing insurgency by jihadist militants and extreme poverty according to the u.n. nice hair is the world's poorest country. 10 people are dead in iran after avalanches hit a mountain range north of the capital tehran rescue teams are searching for a number of people still believed to be missing the avalanches struck 4 different areas in the outdoors a mountain range which is popular for hiking and climbing. hundreds of migrant stranded in northwestern bosnia have spent

a 4th night in freezing temperatures and squalid conditions after the camp that house them burned down the u.n. and other international aid groups are urgently appealing to the authorities in bosnia herzegovina to provide alternative shelter for the migrants they say people could die if they don't act soon. they were already living in misery. then things got worse. freezing temperatures no heat in a big tent and just plastic sheeting for a roof one that threatens to cave in from snow piling up on top some people here say they aren't even being regularly fed. who it is the winter cold can't sleep when he. only thing for example no. child or no food without food flipping here with. about 1200 refugees were

relocated because their former camp down a few days ago the fire allegedly set by frustrated occupants located near bosnia's border with croatia the u.n. camp at lipa was scheduled to be closed because bosnian authorities allegedly ignored its appeals to help restore basic services the cold weather for showers and toilets weeks ago. bosnia has become a bottleneck for thousands of migrants hoping to reach western europe those here try to get into the nearest e.u. country croatia though croatian authorities have been loath to allow them entry and usually push back. the. police beating. police to give them everything through photo of our life. for now there's still no solution in sight for these migrants who are in dire need of help. and for more insight on this we are joined by peter

there in the western balkans coordinator of the international organization for migration here thanks for speaking to us we've seen the misery these people are ensuring is anyone doing anything to help them. well what we're seeing really is a political did look we have been asking as i women other international organizations and also that you for the majority still identify not 3rd location for the people that you just so in lipa but also for us to end of $1500.00 people that were already sleeping outside in the forest cams and in abandoned buildings and unfortunately despite i think our base it for it's not a legal agreement has been released and today i don't expect any progress eater and it's really a political issue because unlike you know there's a military and crisis we actually have sufficient resources to immediately help all

the people the only thing that we need these for the authorities to identify where these people can be properly housed if you're ready to deploy but in the next half an hour. before. and you know we've seen this in other places like lesbos greece where once again that camp was apparently burnt down by the people living in it in a gesture of desperation. is there is a european union to blame there for than for not taking action should. no i don't believe the fire started after about we had decided to block the camp because it was unsafe and there were no basic services we didn't ask him for months from the authorities to go to camp to greet in the water system so that we could we could be location the markets would stay during the winter. and then a few migrants who were disgruntled because they had to leave without any alternative solutions in the fire to do things but in this particular case i do

believe that they used to blame us be providing all the functions of course to go see or to go to not take care of the markets and nor 3 let's not forget there don't need total $8000.00 that it will be a problem for a computer 3500000 to deal with the european union i think on everything they can to provide financial resources but we need critical positions where the smart migrants get the house and the programs like. that was the iowans peter founder our speaking to me from sari able. now to some sports news well sort of a football game in bolivia was interrupted when a pitch invader ran onto the field and took possession of a player's footwear but i don't know you this is a dog stall issue and the show at a 1st of his notch outfoxing opponents and interrupting play for about 3 minutes the curious canine took a dive to avoid getting sent off 1st to do that and team member took matters into

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