has reacted harshly to any criticism of its handling of the coronavirus outbreak it appears determined to stop journalists like john from muddying the official message that its response was both swift and effective. let's turn to some other stories making headlines right now bangladesh is relocating a 2nd group of rindge of muslims from an overcrowded refugee camp to an isolated island in the bay of bengal about 1500 people who fled persecution in me and maher are expected on the island on tuesday the facility can hold up to 100000 people. thousands of people protested in montenegro over the new government's plans to alter a divisive religious law the laws meant to turn hundreds of serbian orthodox churches and monasteries into state property protesters say the government is undermining montenegro split from serbia. newly released security camera footage shows the moment a christmas morning bomb exploded in the u.s.

city of nashville authorities have identified the suspected bomber as a 63 year old local man who died in the blast they have not established a motive at least 3 people were injured the european union's 27 member states have given unanimous approval to the block's post trade deal with the united kingdom member ambassadors met in brussels to greenlight what they call a provisional application of the agreement to come into effect on january 1st it's provisional because the treaty was hammered out last minute and the european parliament has refused to rush reviewing it but at the same time lawmakers say they don't want to risk disruption to trade the u.k. parliament expects to ok the deal by the end of the year. so that means the new u.k. trade relationship begins in just a few days our correspondents have been travelling the e.u.

to hear what that might mean for ordinary people brussels bureau chief alexander phenomena joins us now from amsterdam welcome alexandra what have you found there in the dutch capital. well we are announcing down because this city is becoming increasingly popular as a destination for brics is impacted companies companies who move here open a new office here to be able to all for their services to european customers in the future and this city is also becoming increasingly popular for young professionals from the u.k. who want to work in the european union and one of them is with me here. thank you for being with us so you decided to move to amsterdam 2016 after the breakfast referendum was dat the reason for you to move to the european union it wasn't the solve removing but it definitely contributed to boy i wanted to leave

and i didn't know when i would get another opportunity to experience start being abroad and now it will be more difficult for people who want to live to work in the european union so what do you think about that i mean i certainly take away a lot of opportunities for young people who want to experience everything being abroad can give me the times that i've mindedness and experiences and the friendships. and yeah i feel sorry for the british if you know one gets experience out especially with the putting out of the erasmus program as well you are so far from a british from breakfast bricks it's hard louella and so are you still feeling connected to your friends and maybe colleagues there i mean yes i guess i don't think so in terms of. my values now and i think the ongoing content because of sequels to rifts as well you know being able to visit each other and box so yeah pretty much to

contributing factors that made me feel like i. feel more dutch the british now let's say that i guess and what do you think watch this decision to depart from the european union it will mean for the united kingdom in the future well i don't know how you fit into it you know it does kind of for the country because yeah i mean i don't want it to be about experience but i don't see how it could be a good experience going forward you know it's taken so long to sort out really know is more it's going to happen i think there's just a relief that there's some sort of deal on the table now from both sides thank you very much so this is our 1st station on our bricks it goodbye tour he announced today and tomorrow we will be in chantilly and friends to report to more about what the consequences of this and of the period of the transition period will have on people living there. alright that's our time to fund naaman our brussels

correspondent there with british national to be alone in amsterdam still looking quite festive for the holidays now d.w. has much more on the european union trade deal with the u.k. in our special program titled breck's it going forward where we identify brics it's likely winners and losers that's right here at 7 30 pm central european time or any time including right now on our you tube channel. now let's turn to news of the corona virus pandemic and thousands of people have received the beyond tech pfizer vaccine across the e.u. after a coordinated vaccine rollout started on sunday but supplies are limited and member states are prioritizing medical staff nursing home workers and the elderly that has pressure growing on the german government to ensure quicker production of the vaccine the country will receive 1300000 doses of the vaccine before year's end according to the german health ministry but it's minister again sean says mass

production can't happen overnight he would let me know but i know i'm in the just that some people have the impression that vaccine production one of the most complicated and challenging fields in the pharmaceutical industry could just simply be wrapped up and will in the coming weeks just stop producing extra vaccine doses elsewhere in germany or europe to do this preparations need to be made those paper actions are under way this goal is to soon be producing additional vaccine in coordination with my own site in my book. so for more i'm joined by dr since he's the head of germany's critical care and emergency medicine association. what do you see the vaccine doing in the role it's playing to relieve some of the strain that hospitals are under. at the moment we have very happy nations started yesterday in germany but at this time we

must. to do next nation will not solve the problem for i see you rousseau all over germany so the effects of the vaccination we hope we will see. it of $221.00 so for at the moment we are happy that the vaccination. system has started the ice use and they also will not. get released at this time so going off of that can you give us an idea of what is it like right now for hospitals and i see use in particular all across germany yes very high infection raids all over the november and december and in the end we have a lot of a few patients with cope with $910.00 without covenant and where some areas in german like sex and all sex in the nodes. are above 6070 percent

of the eyes you patients. with 19 patients this is a very heavy strain for the eyes use and you as you know. we have to treat other persons people patients with. which are quite sick for instance patients with my colleague in fog or severe infections lie except as so covered nights and it is that on on the train ice use usually have in the winter time. how do you view germany's vaccination plan as giving people over 80 a same priority as frontline medical workers. because they decided to do this this is a very has been a long process and they decided to give the vaccine 1st to the very old people that makes in. a sense that makes sense because these are the vulnerable population

and besides that also the people they have to work is in the old people's home they have the next and so on and we hope that through this 1st wave of vaccinations that the people at the highest wrist when they get covert 9000 will be saved and will be secure from getting infected so this may be a good strategy and all over europe and i saw pictures from great britain then the other countries that old people are getting the flu is to to get b. vaccine and with the biotech of exxon. what more would you like to see from the government regarding support for hospitals and health workers and guidelines for the public. at the moment i think i have recognize that the strategy of from october to do a slide locked on wasn't the right way what i hope that they will go

on with this tragedy in general this start a strategy and that tell the people in germany that this is not the end at the moment everybody is happy about the vaccination but the vaccination will not help us in the 1st 2 to 3 months in 21 so i hope they will have a very good strategy for all the whole germany and not for parts of germany and that the locked on in some way would be continued that we have. that the the infection rates will not spread again and the myth of generally when they lose and perhaps there's. the lockdown. doctor and of germany's critical care in emergency medicine association thank you for joining us and thank you for your work i thank you. let's take

a look now at some of the other developments going on in the pandemic the u.k. has reported over 40000 new coronavirus cases setting a new daily record a more contagious variant of the virus has been increasing infection rates israel has entered its 3rd national lockdown prime minister binyamin netanyahu says it will last 2 weeks but may be extended if infection rates don't fall moscow was started offering the russian sputnik 5 vaccine to people over 60 previously was only being offered to people between 18 and 60 as it's still in late testing. sports now football and manchester city's premier league game with everton has been called off just hours before kick off because of a corona virus outbreak in manchester city squad the club had previously reported cases on christmas day but now acknowledge more players are affected the premier league says further testing will take place on tuesday and the game will be played at a later date. quick reminder of the top story we're following for you

a chinese citizen journalist who reported on the corona virus outbreak and has been sentenced to 4 years in prison. as it was detained after making videos critical of the government's early response to the outbreak. this is your news up next to regular coronavirus special i'll be back with more news at the top of the hour. thanks for watching. the fight against the corona virus 10 damage. has the rate of infection been developing what does the latest research say. information and contacts. 19. w. . or not to whom.

what about a sharing economy instead. of a change in thinking is changing the economy to create something that. the economics magazine germany. d.w. . homeless during a pandemic. in the french capital paris healthcare workers deliver mosques sanitizer and food to rough sleepers. in rome volunteers conduct temperature checks to test for

a fever. scenes like these are playing out over the world. whether living on the streets or in close knit communal shelters homeless people are especially vulnerable to cope with 19. cold weather bites in some parts of the world they face a double threat. many homeless people are older and have underlying medical conditions which leave them increase risk for severe illness. homelessness organizations say social distancing and hygiene measures are often all but impossible to maintain. this is the 1900 special i'm kate ferguson thanks for joining me an estimated 150000000 people around the world don't have a home lack of affordable accommodation unemployment a family breakdown and addiction are some of the major causes now during the pandemic homeless people have been pushed into

a more precarious situation than ever and our next report will meet lukey a homeless man in the german city of cologne. business used to be better here in cologne city center every day lookee redditch sits here and hopes for the goodwill of the passes by but since start of the pandemic the tourist crowds have dissipated and most of the people keep their distance. it will be when they go there are fewer people around them and fewer people who approach me because they're scared of corona i guess because i'm homeless on live on the street on good days lukey used to make up to 30 euros in 3 hours enough to feed himself and his dogs but in recent months has had to sit here for an entire day. look he spends his nights under a bridge he's 35 and came to germany from slovakia to find work. he's been homeless on and off for the past 5 years he lost his last home in august because his

landlord didn't allow dogs. before pulling them out of i always have to dogs with me i'm going to look for work employers want to see where i'm registered but without a home i have no registered address without an address i can't get a job without a job i can't get a flat on the money. a vicious circle. at least twice a day look he makes a stop at the khalifa a cafe for homeless people near cologne central station he comes here to eat shower and charges phone. but even here things have changed only 8 people are nowadays allowed to sit in the cafe. before corona the host of 30 to 40 people at once. for many here this place is a lifeline and despite the new lockdown measures it's allowed to stay open. that's one of the main problems for homeless people which will probably get even worse

during the winter months is that there are fewer day shelters and indoor spaces for them to spend time in and we're not the only institution which is have to restrict its numbers others have also been affected. sleeping rough through the winter will definitely be challenging for looky and he's also worried about corona especially because he can do so little to protect himself. because i want to stay healthy and are trying to be careful but how can i take all the necessary precautions when i live on the street i'm always in town with my dogs i meet other homeless people i can always get infected and i'm always at more risk than other people with. a roof over his head that's lukey biggest wish during the current crisis then he can look for job again and no longer has to rely on help from others. for more on this issue let's talk to frank skinner then director of the european federation of the national organizations working with the homeless mr speight event welcome what do

we know about how the homeless community is experiencing this pandemic. well i think it's important to note that most homeless people are homeless people in general are more vulnerable to 19 than the general population basically for one reason is because they have beat existing health conditions that make them more vulnerable and also because their situation the situation they leaf in make the move and the like most homeless people live in shelters i don't have to explain to you without following the guidelines imposed by the government such as staying at home social. plane social distancing is extremely difficult when you're in a shelter so i think the homeless population is really movable or there are groups of society for the 1000 problem i with all those factors in mind what can you tell

us about covert 19 right among the homophile to getting access to testing and treatment. when i read it it's difficult to see because it is very if you compare countries are actually quite like they thought the infections amongst the homeless people but what we know is that that he's a bit of a difference between the 1st wave and 2nd beef but we're currently experiencing in the 1st wave the echoes we get from the homeless shelters is that the have to be able to contain the spread of the disease in the home as shut the system now in the 2nd we've got seems to be different and we hear from countries like france for instance where a study was get it out. to see so many bodies in the bodies lesion and they found that in all the shelters that they investigated the over 50 percent of the book relation who was actually infected by 1000 so we think it took

a little bit of fine for the vitus to end that into the shelter system into shelters but that is currently the case in quite a few countries and when the fight is these circulating in the shelter system it's but it's very quickly because so many people live together there are many shelters are overcrowded. what our government's doing to protect the whole mystery if either any best practices that you know a lot. well governments are many governments are doing things certainly emergency measures it has been quite remarkable how creepy many governments have been able to get people street homeless people you could say off the streets as a public had measure they were new shout the bets were created as were used to accommodate homeless people don't belief even some countries used. a b. and b.

flats to find accommodation for homeless people on the sea so. as as emergency response many countries did actually quite well if i can give you one example of a concealed a seat on the particular whether it is dublin really house managed to keep the infection rates anybody if anybody knew it was so. that's one thing in terms of the long term solutions it's already few countries that actually use the 1000 bomb they make to change the way they dress fulness is because it's obvious that a shell that bad is not a solution to homelessness homeless people meet housing often with supports housing is important but that he some countries not use the 1000 pound they make as a lever to actually change the way they address homelessness and the netherlands would be a good example the government there has just decided to invest 50000000 euro in housing solutions for homeless people in order to get as groups they seem to use

the abundant make to say what ok we can not we have to go beyond the emergency response and actually think providing sustainable housing solutions we've supported necessary for homeless people. and you think that anything we can learn from the find and make that might actually help tackle home if in the future. well what we need are is a it is over but it is important it is the housing is the best protection against good 1000 and gets any damage and actually against orders or vision for the health problem so putting people into shelters as an emergency measure is fine it's probably progress but it's not a safe place for homeless people to be so you actually need housing housing is the best pull that shit against the pond they make and i hope that that will sink in with with the governments with the decision makers stop in the future they will put more emphasis on. the people homeless people as quickly as possible to housing and provide the support necessary housing is probably one of the most stark the social

determinants of health and i think that has now become quite obvious for expanded and from the european federation of national organizations working with the whole mess thank you so much thank you very. time now to answer one of your questions over to our science correspondent derrick williams. how long does it typically take in europe to approve a vaccine after phase 3 trial results are published. under ordinary circumstances and not in the midst of a public health emergency the scientific evaluation carried out after phase 3 trials by the e m a the european medicines agency it takes time developers 1st have to submit testing data and what's called a marketing authorization application that governs general approvals for medicinal products throughout the e.u.

a board at the agency called the committee for medicinal products for human use is required to submit a scientific verdict on the application within $210.00 days then passes that opinion on to the european commission which makes a decision on whether or not to grant an approval within $67.00 more days so all in all the process can take between 9 and 10 months. but that's under ordinary circumstances in the midst of this pandemic the e m a has set up a special task force to help fast track covert 19 treatments and therapies it allows for accelerated action in a number of ways for vaccines a key change is that developers don't have to wait until all of their data is final before submitting it for approval but have been able to submit it instead in batches while the trials are still ongoing a process called

a rolling review so in the end the formal assessment will take much less time for covert $1000.00 vaccines that have proven safe and effective in trials because the e m a has cleared the way for what's called conditional. marketing authorisation. you can submit your questions for derek fi are huge of channel for all the nations on the pandemic go to g.w. dot com slash kovac 19 until next time for me in the team it's back and take.

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