if you look at the number of people in intensive care in bell and house hospitals 34 percent of intensive care hospital beds are taken up by covert patients right now just one month ago that was 24 percent so that's a very significant jump just during the course of this past month and of course what german politicians are really worried about is the german health care system getting the kind of situation that we saw in italy and spain in the early part of last year where in regions of those countries the health system couldn't cope any longer and then they had to start turning away some patients from the care that they needed that would be. that no politician here i think wants to get the blame for so i think that is driving this kind of sense the politicians likely to are on the side of caution when they next meet the cautionary tale that staring over all the thinking here would also this 2nd lockdown affect schools in kindergartens where there is debate around that so there is a lot of pressure for schools to reopen at least partially so that children can get

back into education because you know there's a growing awareness of the psychological impact on children of being cut off from from really good quality teaching in schools. but there's also a growing when the schools do play a role in infection so you know one suggestion has come up is for example to allow younger children back into school but for the children to be still at home the children being both more independent and capable of working from during their studies from home and also potentially pairing up posing a higher risk if they did going to school so you can expect some debate around that this week that's for sure richard briefly germany started its mass vaccination program on december 27th of course i think it's safe to say it hasn't gone very smoothly that's right i mean there's a huge debate opening up around this you know there was a lot of excitement just before christmas when these facts. started getting

approved you know this the biotech vaccine that was also develops in germany getting approval these huge vaccination center is being opened up in constant holes in airports around the country. but these don't have enough vaccines to actually get properly to work. and the head of that company the c.e.o. of that company biotech has actually come out and said why didn't your opinion order more of a vaccine they could have done and this kind of goes to the heart of this debate because the european union has taken on a very central role within europe of ordering vaccines now they say of course they had to divide up that among different companies too because they didn't know which one would come through 1st. but they are facing accusations of not ordering and off i think one thing we have to emphasize that when discussing this is the the e.u. is in the fortunate position of being able to afford these vaccines which of course many countries around the global south simply can't at this stage jackley. richard

walker thanks as always richard india is testing its nationwide coverage $1000.00 vaccine distribution systems as it prepares to roll out or not program the trial includes the entry of data into an online platform that will monitor vaccine delivery to dry run comes a day after regulators met to review the potential vaccine candidates including developed by astra zeneca and oxford university in the hopes are not 300000000 people in the 1st 6 to 8 months of the year. for more i'm joined now by our correspondent in delhi. india has reported over 10000000 covert cases 2nd only to the united states it says it hopes to inoculate some 300000000 indians by summer is there any concern about whether the government can actually pull this off. well this is definitely

a massive logistical challenge michel and the government has laid out of a very detailed plan on haiti it follows that to target 13000000 people who will be considered for. this includes has no aggressive cost and that's admission alyson's a charge but the true challenge will emerge when we then move to the other $270000000.00 people that india will to lacson aid by the someone which includes everybody a lot of the age of 50 as well as those below what the age of 50 who have been it is now this is not data that's got to be a or did in an organized manner and the number is in the country so now the priority lists are being built across the country people will have the option to enjoy on the digital platform or in the golden apple they would be given a pre-designated slot to show up and get their pre-booked vaccine but of course tracking this data to be true should step in and this and each vaccines and us will

fight it seems that it will only get you out a 100 vaccinations but did it which means that thousands of sites and doesn't be needed across the country looking at proficiency to have this dog. in years health care budget is only a small proportion of its g.d.p. yet millions of people have to be reached including some in remote and rural areas as you know what are the challenges here. well michael india out and you know who else to draw on experiences and has had the bust even though nothing of disk has been batted out india has a robust your last even aviation program which backs needs which gives out hundreds of millions of dollars is all back to nations doing junk models as well it's intense and this has been jumped up significantly over the last decade which has improved india as one of the sheen infrastructure which is basically how alexina's dnsbl it is from the delivery point still actually inoculation with the base and in addition it has also battery light on its mostyn elections begin to spend millions

what in a single day is a similar wanted in a fashion but of course the out significant challenges the quantity in storage and mentioned is useful but i'm not one of accessing that people through a vaccine which is quite a step as it would do and 8 degrees but then you look at something that provides that act seem to quite as temperatures of minus 70 degrees this is do you think it's because this is too massive which and in a country like india and wouldn't that be much more difficult to pull off that is also consulted on the timeline it's meant making sure that if you come back for the 2nd law wasn't following up on the observations of the people who get the vaccinations and of course the ending was an. correspondent mission for us there in delhi really appreciate it misha thank you. let's briefly take a look at some other international stories japan is considering declaring a new covert 19 emergency after a record surge in cases the governors of tokyo in 3 nearby prefectures urged the

national government to call a state of emergency to stem the spread of the virus the government says it must 1st consult with health experts. french police have been recording the details of revelers leaving an illegal new year's eve party in the western region of brittany some 2 and a half 1000 people from france and abroad attended the grave it was held in violation of the nationwide curfew and ban on gatherings and continued into saturday morning. ruling party candidate mohamed zuma has won the 1st round of presidential elections in the west african nation. but the electoral commission says he will have to face the country's former president in a one off on february 20th this vote could mark the very 1st peaceful transfer of power in the country since in the pants. the republican controlled u.s. senate has voted to override president donald trump's veto of

a major defense still with just weeks before he leaves office it's the 1st time congress has rejected a trump veto the vote unlocks more than $700000000000.00 worth of military spending this year's holiday season was cut short for u.s. senators as the body convened for a rare new year's day session. of the final push to pass a coronavirus aid bill fell through and senators voted to override president veto of the sweeping defense bill majority leader we pass this legislation. in a row. lieut . president trump opposed the bill because it includes provisions allowing military bases named after confederate military commanders to be renamed. he also objected to the bill because it calls for the withdrawal of u.s.

troops from germany to be reconsidered. in a rare show of bipartisan unity the u.s. senate delivered the president a stinging rebuke just weeks before his due to leave office 81 republican and democrat votes were far more than the 2 thirds majority needed to override the presidential veto the objections of the president in response trump turned to twitter saying the senate had missed an opportunity he said not passing the coronavirus aid bill was unfair and not smart. to football now and germany's shako will be hoping to end a run of $29.00 games without a win when they face her to berlin later today they're on target to set an unwanted record the longest winless streak in the bundesliga the current holders of that title or berlin team called has manya who set the record back in the 1960 s. and despite the negative connotations tasmania are not keen to relinquish their

place in history i lean on known throughout germany for one thing that disastrous 196566 season the cup went 31 matches without a win in the campaign up in this league a record they also hold the record for the fewest goals scored in a season and the most goals conceded i thought form a player that's a beca says the small club is still proud to this day of competing for that one season in the bundesliga. cond i can say that we were of course proud to play at least one season in the honestly. sometimes just to meet the expectations of you but also to never disappoint and to eventually realise when the opponent was simply better than us. and in doing this all of our. but now their winless record is in danger of falling current bundesliga side shall cut doing their best to use up. they haven't won in 21 matches for the 7 time german champions it's an

embarrassing predicaments. it's a threat to their identity to become surprisingly attached to this undesirable record and don't want taking make laurie. maybe it would be poor through the tried to break this record but i can't imagine that we did it one season and tried to do it over the truth season so there's a throw me if not competitive for us through no. shall have just 2 games to save their reputation with a victory bizarrely their biggest cheerleader will be. they want their record as the bundesliga worst ever tain to stand i and a reminder of the top story we're following for you at this hour german chancellor angela merkel is due to hold talks on tuesday with leaders from germany 16 states to discuss extending the country's lockdown as after more than half of all deaths

in the entire pandemic were recorded in december. this is to use a lie from berlin up next. young moroccan emigrants. we know the police will stop but i. think that the roots of the solution. to their flights could be fatal. but. not an option shattered dreams starts january 18th on t.w. . plane antarctica a continent of mystery and natural wonders claim

covered with ice 4 kilometers deep place temperatures can drop to minus $93.00 degrees celsius. 75 percent of our planet's fresh water is locked up in its ice sheet and yet it's classified as the largest desert on earth lead this could be the only place in the world where diverse countries have rallied together in the name of peace and science to protect the environment least the part about the ice and the temperatures sure but the part about peace and the environment it's hard to believe lead not just because i'm concerned about nature. but also because i live in syria in 2009. so i don't have much faith left in peace. corps and the international community.

but i'd love to be proven wrong place. like. crap. we've come to point to i mean us where the polar research vessel is picking up a group of spanish scientists to take them to antarctica. and we're going to already nervous you'll get used to it or them so it's no big deal. you know but i get your stuff down off. the coast of the it's amazing i mean i've even got a window over the certificate of bank of the us is that it's the feet last night was rough we went to bed early but i had a hard time falling asleep but i must have slept just 4 hours because i was so nervous about the trip ticket. but i don't know that.

i am barked on this journey to explore the myths of antarctica. after one day at sea we reached the end of the world. at the southernmost tip of argentina candidates way go is still a 1000 kilometers from the continent of antarctica this is the drake passage eddies and wind sheer and free the here looking up violence seas and one of the earth's roughest waterways. but this island then the worst storm to date it is this year it was our 2nd trip back from antarctica if you say the feel for about 18 hours from south america when a severe weather system hit us from the star board side of it we faced 7 metre high waves and winds of up to 50 knots one in the think when the last. every

time the crew sails into the drake passage they have their mobile phones camera ready the next what is the point comes a monster wave. could be told. these are the outlines of cape horn a notorious maritime graveyard that harbors the sunken wrecks of hundreds of ships even today the drake passage commands respect everyone batten down the hatches it wasn't so dramatic on our trip though. or for that one of them which luckily technology has improved a lot today before setting sail we can check the weather forecast to find the best went over crossing the drake passage this. adventure may not be as wild as it once was. but it's still beautiful.

antarctica has been subject to territorial disputes for centuries the passage was 1st sailed by spaniard francisco the arsis in 152550 years later it was discovered by the english explore sir francis drake and bears his name to this day . in the early 20th century 7 countries laid territorial claims to parts of antarctica the overlapping claims of the united kingdom argentina and chile cause tensions that erupted into armed conflict between britain and argentina in 1952 as the cold war set and the last thing the world

needed was a new geopolitical flashpoint it was that realisation that gave rise to the antarctic treaty. many scientists looking for where is took. their history international chief physical year in $195758.00. worked out so well but there was this idea that there could be cooperation. they felt that there was a way and it's shown that article 4 of the treaty to set aside the claims and say go through would be a demilitarization but it's also as you may know one of the 1st arms control treaties so it was focused on keeping the peace in that respect as well.

but none of that was the result of good will alone the extreme climate made it difficult to exploit the region economically and the u.s. and soviet union staked their territorial claims quite late in the game. 4 days after leaving punta arenas the reaches antarctica. everyone is excited we got up at 5 in the morning to catch our 1st glimpse of the coastline. what we hadn't expected was the fog. going 2 and a half miles away and you can't see anything. a few hours later the fog lifts and at last we can see antarctica.

the s.p.d. does 1st stop is king george island the spanish team is delivering supplies to the world why and station. antarctic cooperation is running smoothly. in one. of the antarctic treaty is very effective on under its terms this location is devoted solely to science or slade a key role in getting all countries to set aside their other interests. at least publicly and it's been that way for a very long time and those are not. going fortunately the same is not true in other parts of the world where usually economic interests take precedence over scientific cooperation with other service and other envelope you come up with the most of this model be exported beyond antarctica. in a system that will now it's

a good question it's something many on the planet would support and which of those there was a lot of them. because king george island after is the easiest access to antarctica it has the greatest concentration of stations on the entire continent. there are facilities here belonging to europe why russia chile argentina brazil china poland peru ecuador the czech republic south korea and bulgaria the end arctic treaty regulates how many new stations can open so that it doesn't get too crowded. it's always better to co-exist peacefully with your neighbors and get along the 1st thing we did was to establish good relations with all our neighbors cooperation is vital in antarctica. when there are tensions between the united states and russia that it affected competition in antarctica i wouldn't say there's no effect but by and large the cooperation has continued and. that doesn't mean that those tensions are

in some respects in the background somewhere but at least in terms of the antarctic programs in the arctic programs and the work of the scientists together by a large that that continues. in 2004 russia imported wood from siberian pines its national tree to construct a small orthodox church here in antarctica. critics say it's a sly way to stake a territorial claim with. the chilean station has its own church too it also has a school for the children of soldiers stationed on the base year round. it's the closest thing you'll find to a settlement in antarctica. in the 1970 s.

argentina's military dictatorship sent pregnant women to give birth in antarctica to underscore its territorial claims to land dictator augusto pinochet copy the tactic but it was widely viewed as provocative and after the birth of 8 argentinians and 3 chileans both countries ended the policy today more subtle strategies are used to cement territorial claims as seen on chalayan television. dryland will be overcast with cloudy skies whereas and i talk to. clients and i talk to be mostly sunny. what are chileans think about their country's claims to antarctica. i read up on a search. is to be honest there isn't much public debate on the topic your when i was little people did talk about it. but later on the political discourse subsided . today people primarily associate it with environmental protection. that's the

trend i've observed especially among young people who really really suck in this in a corner but look you have said about i me by julian's my hardly discuss the issues . with russet simple we sing and talk to us a place where many nations come together they don't know there's no reason why we should be more entitle to it than anyone else so they get a grip on what do you think we can save antarctica if we fail to do the same in other places. i think it's exactly because we made so many mistakes in other places that we have a shot to saving antarctica. spain

has 2 stations in antarctica its national research center operates the one catalyst the 1st station on livingston island it was built in the late 1980 s. and remodeled in 2008 into a modern facility that looks a bit like a space station. this station is used it doesn't need to withstand the harsh conditions you'd expect to encounter in antarctica. today there is hardly any wind but 2 days ago we had cost $714.00. 80 kilometers an hour which drives the wind chill factor down to minus 15 or 20 degrees celsius.

i don't even know best and his team studied the continents geology which they say is essential importance to the rest of the planet and arctic are facts the whole world's climate doesn't follow together for your know if the planets called factorial for you know a lot of it's really cold in the arctic too but not to the same extent that there's a lot more ice in antarctica than in the architect of. the antarctic deep sea water because as far as the iberian peninsula and continues to circulate around the northern hemisphere these waters sometimes flow all the way up to the arctic where they call back down again a motor driving the circulation is that arctic or. one of the most important projects at the one carlos the 1st station is its study of the herd and johnson glaciers. and. the reason is moving valuate at the stage of the mass balance of the antarctic ice sheet and

found the gains of us have been greater than the losses of a similar place was but it's just out of the proverbial today that the exact opposite is the so is it getting colder in antarctica. then for the end of yes it is getting colder but our measurements and emitted to the last 15 years following. the real scientific studies need to examine a punitive at least 30 is if we'll close so we can see that it was a gradual temperature increase for 15 years and the temperature dropped in the subsequent.