and effective the w.'s clifford coonan has reported from china for many years and can tell us will welcome cliff tell us more about what john john did that got her into service trouble well basically what happened was after the pandemic broke out there was. there was one narrative which is the official government narrative saying that everything was under control that china had been timely in issuing information and in starting the lockdown which wasn't in the evidence that was seen on the ground in some cases and so she reported on this and so by challenging this narrative she she she brought attention to some deficits and the response even though was a you know very effective response in many ways so that's what she's being punished for now well despite the attention johns case is getting she's no the only citizen journalist a full fall of the authorities no i mean does 3 others on trial around rouhani there is that change is that true she should fund the end leads. but we also have

found a bloomberg journalist she's been arrested accused of endangering national security and it's part of a broader picture of a crackdown on journalists with china had $47.00 journalists in jail this year which is one less than last year which puts a very near the top of the or at the top of the number of journalists in jail so it's part of a broader picture of china keeping a very very tight control on the media particularly in relation to stories about the pandemic so given the. security given that china now has the virus largely under control why have feel forces gone after these people well in some ways it seems counterproductive because they have done such a good job and actually maintaining keeping the pandemic under control and they had a tough lockdown but it was very popular in china and people are happy now that they can operate and normally i think what's what we're seeing here is very much a power play that it's a reminder that china is. it's very keen to keep

a lid on the media freedoms and it's also the time of year around christmas for some reason does you see a lot of legal activity in china we also have because then they know that the west is not going to be really watching as closely you know so you have people like the the hong kong used to try to escape to taiwan who were arrested they're going on trial 10 of them are going on trial today in change as well so it's part of a broader picture i think of of china showing particularly now as it's coming out of the pandemic and there's a new president coming in in the u.s. the china is showing its strength. it could and thank you for that 1st let's take a look at some of the other stories making headlines now are saudi court to sentence prominent women's rights activist john flew to 5 years and 8 months in prison according to local media the flu has been held since 28 taken along with other activists who campaigned for women to be allowed to drive but part of

a sentence has been suspended meaning she could be released in february police in cameroon say at least 37 people were killed when the bus they were traveling in hit a truck and plunged into a ravine 10 women and 4 children are among the dead the bus was on its way to the capital you know one day from the west of the country. european union member states have given provisional approval to the post trade agreement with the united kingdom allowing tariff free trade with britain to continue when it leaves the single market on january the 1st the deal still needs to be ratified by the european parliament which is expected to happen in february. newly released security camera footage shows the moment a christmas morning bomb exploded in the u.s. city of nashville well thor's is have identified the suspected bomber as a 63 year old local man who died in the blast and if not established a motive at least 3 people were injured. according to

a coordinated mass vaccination drive against coverage 19 has begun across the e.u. thousands of people have not received the biotech pfizer vaccine limited supplies of the drug me member states are prioritizing medical staff nursing home workers of the elderly the shortage has sparked a debate within germany live in a growing calls for the government to step in and ensure quicker production of the mass of the vaccine to every health minister a young band says the government is working with biotech 5 to provide additional production capacity but stressed the process can't be rushed he let me know by now i'm amazed that some people have the impression that vaccine production is one of the most complicated and challenging fields in the pharmaceutical industry could just simply be ramped up at will in the coming weeks to start producing extra vaccine doses elsewhere in germany or europe to do this preparations need to be made those preparations are underway and our goal is to soon be producing additional vaccine in coordination with my own site in my book so that's the sort

of i don't see it as take a look at some of the other developments in this pandemic indonesia says it will ban foreigners from entering the country for 14 days from the 1st of january the country is hoping to contain the new more infectious variant of coverage 19 israel's and its 3rd national lockdown prime minister benjamin netanyahu says it will last 2 weeks but may be extended if your faction rates don't fall moscow has started offering the russians but nick 5 say to people over 60 previously only those aged between 18 and 60 had been allowed to be vaccinated as the drug is still in late testing. u.s. president to donald trump has ended days of drama for americans struggling financially from the pandemic has reversed course and signed a $900000000000.00 relief package that will deliver money directly to businesses and individuals the president to back down from his threat to veto the bill one

from his demand that congress increased interest checks from $600.00 i don't to 2000 use for driving resulted in a lapse in unemployment benefits for millions threatened a government shutdown in the midst of a pandemic the deal also provides more than trillion dollars to fund federal agencies. and u.s. policies policy analyst and list show k. is a form of bomb a campaign official she joins us from berlin and welcome to day w. why has president trump changed his mind you think when trump launched his candidate opposition to signing this bill into the stands at this huge $1000.00. he both wanted to garner all the attention in the rio as well we really thought he had the backing it frankly just was not there and republicans on the hill are signaling they are tired of this political theater there's incredible

pressure from folks at home say this is not the time some polly politics back in for it is time to bring real relief to real families and so i think rather than kind of getting in the fray risky he saw they didn't have the support and had to back down from his stance right so $2.00 trillion dollars is sounds like a lot of money do you think this is going to be end of it or will there be further relief missions. well justify you're going to vote on a standalone bill that provides an additional. 1400000 folks to to bring it back up to that 2000 and it's going to be in the house with democratic who are it's to be determined how the republicans rely on it i think throughout the process this is then how much work measure and rather than looking at this is a long pandemic and even with the vaccines rolling out the impact on the economy is going to be thought for years so i think it's undeniable there is going to be

further measures down the line to prop up small business is extend unemployment and help struggling local governments and this is been a biden commitment as it. biden has talked about that this is it the end that he's going to come in strong he's going to focus on working families and i think a lot of democrats have already signaled the most recent code it really had nothing for student loans had not been for a local governments and a and felt that it was really under certain small businesses and so i think they see a lot of gaps that can still be there double doable it's been said that one of the reasons that donald trump objected to this was because he's perhaps eyeing a campaign in 2024 i do believe think republican party would welcome such a campaign from him. that's an interesting question and one i think the republican party is craftily with i would not be surprised to see a trump campaign in 2024 i'm not sure it would be done i don't himself or perhaps

a trance except where i think the republican party has 4 years to really look in the mirror and decide yes this got them a lot of attention and there are lot of i mean trump is an incredible political operative so it guarded them a lot of things that they wanted but also an incredible cost any incredible risk to american democracy so i think there are a lot of people who have been buying your time in the republican party who are going to step up and say that nearly cost us everything we can back out. talking to thank you for joining us and us policy analyst and michelle come and go having me. during germany's 1st lockdown in spring before young sisters from viens barton decided to make the most of the situation by developing a or k. which has become a bestseller well started off as a quirky idea to kill time as quickly turned into a flourishing family business. a common pastime and their lock

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is joe biden getting in the way off and china investment deal after years of negotiations a deal look didn't but now talks have stalled we go to sing the fulfillment also coming up italy launches a lot to revisit a difference to fight tax evasion. but come to the view business i want to get johnson the end good to have you with us and was starting with the christmas trade deal between the e.u. and britain of course fishing was the final sticking point because it. carries a lot of political weight and regaining control over the u.k. waters was a big part of the leave campaign but it's worth remembering that fishing is actually just a tiny part of the overall economy accounting for around north point 12 percent of

g.d.p. that is it unlike britain's financial services sector which at $126000000000.00 pounds accounts for 10 percent of g.d.p. but financial services is not part of the trade deal which means the city of london will lose access to the european market come january the 1st brussels wants to hinge market access on how far britain diverges from e.u. standards british finance minister rashid su not meanwhile tried to reassure financial players in the city of london that a deal is on the cards this deal also provides reassurance because there's a stable regulatory crosser framework mentioned in the deal which i think will give people that reassurance that we were remaining close down a lot with our european partners when it comes to things like equivalence decisions for example so i think that will give people rich surance. well for more let's bring in our financial market correspondent pandey was in

a frankfurt and going by germany's dax today there seems to be some reassurance after all ashutosh. it seems so yes want to definitely there is some reassurance at least you won't be seeing the key also that we could have seen had it not been for the free trade agreement but you mentioned that the financial services that are there are not part of the deal and there's a specific reason for that because the 2 sides are really finding it difficult to bridge the differences that they have as far as a financial services concerned or what have the demands of very difficult to meet from either side and that's the reason why they're not part of the current deal at this point of time even earlier they were being dealt separately not part of the negotiations that led to the fleeted agreement they were part of a separate the negotiation process process that was to do with the system which actually ensures that the rules which are governing the british banks who were big

business in europe similar to those in the e.u. . given the long talks it took in order to reach the agreement that we have right now that's still the last of 5. what's what's in store for us when it comes to financial services i mean how important is it for the u.k. and for the e.u. to actually reach a deal. well there is a lot at stake for both sides. shouldn't confuse that it's only a u.k. shoe and not an e.u. issue there are a lot many e.u. financial institutions who are actually working in london they're making use of the talent available in london and also the size and scale there but there is more at stake for the for the u.k. companies. e.u. is clearly the biggest financial services market for them and that's the reason why they stand to lose a lot and boss over even the city of london which could lose much more than what it has already lost into the thousands of jobs that have already moved and also it

could lose more if the e.u. decides that look the rules governing the british banks are not equivalent to those governing the e.u. bands all right so there's still a lot to talk about there. but very very briefly the dax has reached a record high today due to breaks it. that's part of it definitely because it happened over the weekend and this was the 1st time when the traders got an opportunity to trade on that it's a major belief you got to keep in mind because we were looking at a lot of chaotic scenes at the border and we didn't know what we didn't have clarity of how to make trades which companies are going to get dad of which are not going to get now there is some clarity on that and there's a reason why that's one of the reason and the other is of course the u.s. president. signing that stimulus package that was important the markets were actually no worse u.s.

with recovery was losing steam and that could have been disastrous all right. thank you. now the talks between the european union and china on a major investment deal appears to have stalled in the final stretch to know whether insists that they're still going as planned and i want to go to singapore for more but 1st a look at what's at stake. the search for an e.u. china investment agreement has been 7 years in the making it would guarantee a level playing field for european companies operating in china a pact would likewise safeguard chinese companies access to european markets germany was confident of a deal by year end but then barriers began to emerge china denied a report it was raising additional demands in the sensitive area of nuclear energy . as far as i know you negotiations are currently proceeding smoothly the so-called news that china proposed to invest in e.u. nuclear power plants which cause a deadlock in the china e.u.

investment talks is fake news. the e.u. is china's 2nd largest trading partner with bilateral trade amounting to $650000000000.00 china's human rights record is complication the talks there have been reports france was refusing to support the pact if china didn't agree to stop forced labor on the modern term and have mostly muslim weaker is inching jiang the pact could also strain relations between europe and the u.s. advisers to president elect joe biden of called on the e.u. to hit the brakes on the deal until after the new administration takes office and put forward the common let's bring in the andreea hang in singapore and now under this does seem to be so many obstacles all of a sudden does this in china deal still have a chance at all. well monica if they can into $35.00 rounds of negotiations off the 7 what's a $36.00 with jokes aside the deal is almost completely necessary given especially

the reality of breaks it now and also not forgetting the coronavirus which probably paid a big role in pushing that year and it might even further but he has some good news china is looking to extend those talks those discussions and this is a good sign. rissa got the human rights met may not be a make or break a big enough make or break issue as many would make it seem at least not for it to weaken a deal that's already come so close to the finish line biden's influence also on the other hand is also not a strong effect as many think particularly to china that's a very big important thing to note and while biden has reached out to brussels and snotty if europe will take the chance or the time to have that talk. just a cap is all you know even european observers themselves out there like to the end of the tunnel they're even admitting that while the deal is far from it is still

a deal and it is a huge accomplishment all right but i mean we've just heard also that the lateral trade already amounts to $650000000000.00 what additional benefit would this investment agreement actually house. well i think it gives china a chance to revisit some of those terms with the remaining 2726 not in the member states given that treaty is now out of the picture now my doubt it will is that it has no right to sister invest oh but in any event i. must have got my message of the year and if the euro and brainwave if i was that it will involve paving the way for european businesses to invest and buy in and chill services telecommunications equals even and others like those that are gradually being opened up full foreign investment particularly in china and other benefit especially for china as the strong intellectual property protection european companies and that's a very big stake in the arm for china especially across not just europe but the

u.s. as well and it's going to be a nice step for china to rectify all right hang there in singapore and guess what it's still 27 member states without britain but autos ok thank you very much. and he has won the lottery that's definitely worth a gamble italy is launching a lottery with a difference on the 1st of january it's called the till receipt a lottery for which you don't have to buy a ticket all you have to do is show a proof of purchase and you stand to win $5000000.00 euros but what's the idea fighting tex invasion lawrence and reports from children out of beijing have them benefit from really a contact nobs this shop full of delicacies from 2 rings piedmont region. italians like using cash 15 percent of people don't even have a bank card and shopkeepers often don't give 2 receipts no trace no tax but

that's changing that i don't know numbers have been for here italian state has devised it is out so if we pay with a credit card that is linked to the out we can get a refund of 10 percent and soon there's going to be a notorious sort of raffle our receipts will be extracted and if i'm lucky or if anyone is stuck it can win the some different prizes. 6000000 people have already downloaded in europe that italian experts hope will help regular runs a shadow economy that is huge. thanks to vision need only as a very large scale to make it in about 11010 being years of europe or you know. more or less the entire public health care expenditure in one year there are several studies in the show that the market cares left transaction and you are.

less. of the economy. many shopkeepers will end up paying more taxes but some are in favor nevertheless. i don't know if they were going to i don't know if more people are using cards now the government is pushing them to go cashless. mom told me not on time unless caution the chill means a lower risk of being robbed some may notice. and if someone wins a lot through with a receipt from her story she wins the prize too. and we all know the goal not just how about a golden hamburger a restaurant in the colombian capital bogota is off. a juicy $24.00 karat gold topped burger for a whopping 211000 pieces that's 50 euros each sandwich contains double beef patties bacon on young cheese and 5 pieces of edible gold leaves

imported from the u.s. the owner hopes to bring new cool in their experiences to colombians unable to travel due to the coronavirus. and that's your business up thank you andy w. from in the team thanks for watching.

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