examines the few traces that remain of their existence. living on g.w. . there's no doubt the news live out from berlin should germany extend its 2nd lockdown talks nations are underway but more than 2 weeks of stringent restrictions have failed to curb new infections and medical experts are raising the alarm also coming up on the show french police shut down in a legal new year's race that they fear it could be a superstructure the fact that some 2500 people to fight

a current virus curfew to parties through the night. and india gets ready to vaccinate its huge population against coke at night with a nationwide dry run with vaccine approval expected in a few days the country needs to immunize 300000000 people in my. oh i'm clarify welcome to the show here in a germany there has been a surge in covert 19 deaths over the past month more than half of all the deaths in the entire pandemic were recorded in just a number calls are now growing louder for germany to extend its current lockdown chancellor angela merkel is due to hold talks on tuesday with leaders from germany's 16 states to discuss that walk down which is currently set to and. on

january 10th the doctors union is urging for an extension say the health system is in desperate as reveries. and for more i'm joined by professor toby escargots he is an epidemiologist and the director of the institute of public health at the sheraton a hospital here in berlin and dr carter calls for the lockdown being extended are growing louder are they justified. unfortunately yes we could expect that the numbers are not going down over the christmas holidays and in new years the hospitals are full use of full and because we have a high rate of infection still going on these numbers won't go down so unfortunately there's no other chance but to extend the lockdown as we're going into this new year what about schools and kindergartens the should they be allowed to reopen. it's very difficult really to make this disease but i think with the constant infection rate and the hospitals being full that opening schools

for a normal school days not possible so we definitely have to find different solutions for that so what would be the way forward that there that is remote learning going to be the foreseeable future of schooling or is there another way that they could safely reopen. well it's a combination of things the vaccination has started as you have reported and we hope to number of people getting vaccinated are substantially increasing over the next weeks we have to learn to really that the lockdown is is is working all to lead and we have to maintain to see as minimal people as possible so that the lockdown actually is working and we get the numbers down we need to get these numbers down otherwise you will not see any relief for the hospital staff and any relief for the i.c.u. use let's talk about that mass vaccination program because it's no secret that germany has had a bumpy start there distribution of the vaccine is falling behind what was planned so how concerned are you about that situation. well we know since weeks to the

number of scenes available normally in the beginning of the end of exactly what's happening and i do not know all the details but for sure you could have organized in a different way in other countries is certainly better other countries are worse so we definitely have to continue to think about how to improve the situation and to vaccine as many people as possible and what specifically do you think needs to be done there to make sure that as many people as possible can get the vaccine as soon as possible. well have enough vaccines available 1st of all i think the tests and those are ready to stuff it's ready and as soon as enough vaccines are available hopefully we will see that more people or people get vaccinated and what are germany's locked out exit plans i mean why is the way out of this in the end there's been now multiple lockdowns here it seems like they haven't worked we're now talking about an extension is there an end in sight. well in germany we have to

understand with that we didn't really have a hard lock down where we have to stay whole what is called a few at 6 pm or so and we really cannot leave the homes in many of the states in germany so and we decided to leave christmas open a new us open to see friends and family up to 5 people from different households so that was in my opinion not a good decision so we definitely have to understand that we need to work together now to get these numbers down and then we can discuss what we can do to open public life hopefully as soon as possible a strong call there for a continued lockdown until a pandemic is brought under control epidemiologist and the director of the institute of public health at the sheraton hospital thank you very much. it was a party to ring in the new year and to let out frustrations about the pandemic and it was illegal it's always a western friends are now investigating how thousands of young people were able to join in these 3 day rates as the number of coronavirus cases that there reached

a new high. as the sun rose on saturday the police moved in hundreds of party goers were aidid and fined for breaching francis coronavirus restrictions. in the cavernous warehouses near the city of grain the party was finally over. to dissolve the police moved in to restore public order. they could please do surest officer security area in an operation when. largely without incident. we then issued a number of citations to people found to be in file ation of the low. hours earlier the race had still been in full swing around 2500 mostly young people had gathered on new year's eve defying police efforts to stop the event.

could listen to a sion got out of hand very quickly 3 officers were injured and so i made the decision to withdraw all forces and while this run the risk of letting the situation get even worse removing police from the scene allowed them to pursue a strategy of containment. was doing. with the police holding back the party continued for a 2nd night the organizers defended their decision to stage the event. and. i think there was a real desire to come together. most of us are in our twenty's and we feel we're losing our youth in this again demick. and many of us are also struggling against depression. friends has the highest number of covert 1000 cases in western europe to contain the fires bars and restaurants have been closed and 8 pm curfew is being

extended to many parts of the country. knew the risks but we wanted to come together and party the whole world of culture is shut down since the crisis began we had to come and support the organizers. fearing a super spreader event author and he said urge everyone who attended to self isolate when they get home. meanwhile india is testing its nationwide. distribution systems as it prepares to. graham the trial includes the entry of data into an online platform that will monitor a vaccine to livery at its dry run it comes a day after regulators maje to review the potential vaccine candidates including copa shields developed by astra zeneca and oxford university in the hopes to inoculate 300000000 people in the 1st 6 to 8 months of the year. earlier we talked about this with our correspondent and. we asked her whether there

are concerns about how the government can inoculate 300000000 people by summer. and the government. plan on haiti if plus not to document $30000000.00 people will be considered front line. and it will goods cost and then sat listening to talk it won't know the creature i'm in a limb orangemen be then moved to be 70000000 people that india will be 2 racks in a diaper some of which includes everybody your mom the age of $50.00 and $1.00 of those below the age of 50 who have these now this is the one day job that has got to be aborted in all the night. and you know he's in the country so now the priority lists are being built across the country to be really have the option to enjoy on the digital platform point when actually they would be given to be designated school up to show up and get their pre-booked vaccine but of course tracking this data. shoots down and this and each vaccines and us will find it

seems that the only guy got a 100 vaccinations but did which means that thousands of sites and does would be needed across the country looking at her should be to get this dog. on it while there a look at some of the other developments in the pandemic britain registered over 57000 new coke at 1000 tases on saturday its biggest a daily increase to date just a 5th consecutive day with new cases above 850000 more infectious virus variants was recently discovered in the u.k. meanwhile japan is considering a declaring a new coke in 1000 american city after a record a surge in cases of there the governors of tokyo and 3 nearby prefecture urged the national government to call a state of emergency to stem the spread of the virus and nightlife in thailand has gone quiet as a ban on bars nightclubs and restaurants alcohol sales came into effect the government announced a rock of measures aimed at curbing

a recent rise in infections linked to an outbreak at a seafood markets. we turn our attention now to some other international stories for the 1st time since donald trump took office republican and democrat senators have over a presidential veto more than 2 thirds of the chamber passed a major defense bill which would jump trump objected but that means the bill will now pass into law a market of more than $700000000000.00 worth of military spending. party candidate mohamed abuzz whom has won the 1st round of presidential elections in the west african nation of sharon but the electoral commission has says he will have to face the country's former president in a runoff on february 20th for the vote could mark the 1st peaceful transfer of power in the country since independence. police in norway say the death toll has risen to 3 following a landslide in the southern community of ass several people are still missing the

landslide it tore in task early on wednesday it collapsed homes and forced more than a 1000 people to be taken to safety. iran says it plans to start enriching uranium to 20 percent at one of its nuclear facilities the move would exceed the threshold set by iran nuclear deal tensions between teheran and washington have mounted since u.s. president donald tumble pulls out of the international to go and turned into. to yemen now where the latest victims in a grinding 6 year long war are 5 women who were killed when a shell exploded at a wedding party in the port city of data both a saudi backed government and iran back to rebels blame each other for the attack the conflict has been called a forgotten war that has left more than a 100000 people dead and many more starving. saeed is just a year and

a half old and he's fighting for his life his parents brought him to this hospital in yemen's capital sanaa dozens of starving children arrive every day but in many cases the doctors a powerless to help. the don't go at it but don't how others they don't to see it on being paid we have no medicine for the sick children there's no food for them i don't even though don't know nourished some of the mothers are really desperate they can't breastfeed their children because they too a starving my vision is less than enough said and as one of the 5000000 children in yemen don't have enough to eat the u.n. figures show that many have to go to work instead of to school. and their plight is only worsening the country's been at war since 2015 leaving its economy in ruins and now yemen is being hit by the coronavirus. charity say this is the world's

worst humanitarian crisis. the situation in yemen is very serious we are very close to the stage of the clearing of famine in yemen because of the deteriorating food security situation for millions of people across the country i'd like to say some 1500000000 euro is needed to help give many survive the winter with money running out as the situation worsens. as change gears and get some sports news now and soccer friendship champions of previous suns i'ma have confirmed. as their new coach you know took the english side tottenham hotspur to the champions world in 2019 but was sacked after a core run of results shortly after and has not coached a team. of the argentine replaces it thomas to a german coach who was recently fired by p.s.g. despite having won the domestic league and cup. susan. and the band as late as early saturday games are now over so let's take

a look at all the results from match day 14 so far frankfurt a dented labor couzens title hopes when you're on a bear and then a bit to bremen gladbach and down below fells freiburg of you to huff and hi i'm cologne lost at 2 al's bar and the clash between head to berlin and shaka is underway mr carr host lives in saturday's later game and on sunday dortmund player will spark and minds travel to byron is if he doesn't use them from berlin i'm clear it's a dent thanks so much for joining us. lee di yes it is on its way to bring you more conservation. how do we make super screen or how can we pretend to have a chance we can make a difference to the engineers the mental series again maybe. do you don't

mind. children to come to lead one giant problems and we're nearly in no mood to see the peak year you. mean by reading the change in the late count. how will climate change affect us and our children. e.w. dot com slash water. come on corona. great opera with an orchestra son who is and who cry in the time of the pandemic i. the starts to enter in court course is taking quite

a risk. but what about the audience. we have to protect people but also our friends believe in if we have to sing like this it's better than not singing at all and. starting from the overture we're rather the whole piece they're cutting wherever courses and singers in question are not here. saying anything so let's begin reform for now november mario van zandt takes up the baton. as we're still scaled down or less reduced because after making more subtle the other goods here. when the renaissance freak out germany was under a semi lockdown businesses were open schools as well other theatres were closed

rehearsals were allowed back of a corona version of short the same opera common the orchestra for it is only half the usual songs which. allow find. the sun waists don't wear masks they seen from behind can see grass to prevent transmission of the virus singing is thought to be especially infectious. thank you cover everything is a bit too heavy and especially for 10 in the morning trial lighter version ok i've got a fossil to look into. the singer cast for the role of calm and is prevented from travelling by the corona. ours so here the understudy sings how our years of love and passion subject to the

current hygiene regulations. man. was. the thing to dance all it can to ensure rehearsals can go on. it does this and this is an air purifier. i don't know what the professionals call it. this cure of the air is that we can sing god bless risk. without wearing masks muskets as well i mean is that what's my assessment mustn't we mostly were hers with masks on anyway. and we don't know yet for sure how it'll be when we eventually sing on the stage with masks on fun vehement mustn't sing you know we won't have the purifier that we can get ourselves tested before the performance and it doesn't solve the problem it's just an extra precaution that we'll be working with masks and distancing anyway but we don't know which passages will be doing it

. this is. a suspended food is a terrible situation of ice if you and i john a lot yes of course i'm afraid it would be and i protect myself the best i can sophie and i get tested as often as i can. but it weighs on your soul of the city it weighs like a black dog or yourself as you need of. yes . even subjecting themselves to bear. but this time the performance was still hoping they'd be able to play to an audience in december. they had no intention of being upstaged by the virus some click to shorten it lee i already had grown up a few months ago not to want my doctors say i've still got the antibodies but of course you always have to be careful and out. of it but i know what you go through

with this virus. how was it for you awful i'm still tired. at least she's content voice back. straight is relatively small some of the. instruments have the potential to blow the virus into the air others don't. know if there is a brass players pose the least danger because we blow in here and the air goes through 2 meters of tubes before it comes out back here no aerosols come out. exponent so tested this and confirmed that the brass bands are the cleanest members of the orchestra. this group the real problem is with the singers they really

project and it is not worse. the. an entirely different kind of problem is that many of the orchestra members at the subsidized chance to compost are under contract but others are not their freelance musicians many of whom haven't performed in months. then did it do you want to if the government of the phasers don't support those freelance performers we might just wind up living under a bridge by the time the pandemics over cook in a sort of ethnic and we're going to be around because we have to survive somehow when done via the not quite a if you want to keep having opera you're going to have to help us now who screwed up. the 2 managers in coppers know that tune. the whispered down signal become louder voices of concern. and.

this. is probably so he's only i don't believe it in a stage anyway to be honest but you never know what's coming how does it make you feel when you say the production might not make it on stage and there's foam. this in give on fun i used to toss it out our plans from one day to the next and make a new of us and you know it's a feeling that we are pieces that might never be performed or will get done differently or the on the stuff. if it is then a gun is an enormous challenge for the. make no mistake this is an occupational therapy the small every time we are completely committed to the concept only for it to be overturned by events existing so we're all season by all his people and adapting ourselves our imaginations to something different every time than corrupt and still for believing and it turns out that a few hours afterwards came the next sent back the entire opera choir was supposed

to rehearse together but the latest figures for new infections are alarming the choir had to be cancelled for today it puts money opens argo and director of staff on mackie in a difficult situation coordinating the. image as the figures rise so do the individual fears and questions we have to deal with on a daily basis that. i take those fears quite seriously and i believe we should take them seriously because it's hard to rehearse with fear they wouldn't convict on that's why we said ok not today. or tomorrow we'll discuss how we can deal with it here in the middle income instead of acquiring a mass commons pot by itself. very tenderly. but that's missing is there a lesson to be too trivial closeness so klein. said in phrase death musically can

cause. death when some ask it's the only way the dancer winston ricardo amon can bring common under his spell. written. i. i. i. now the choreography is set but the big question remains this. when is the premier . yeah well that's a really difficult question. to weeks later than ready for a dress rehearsal the singer cast in the role of carmen has finally been able to

make the trip. but the audience has not with cases of covert 19 rising in court forced the lockdown was extended and the theaters remain closed. guarded it's up to the theaters to make things happen in the film because there's no shortage of reasons not to do something in these carona times. if all goes well they can hold a real premiere how once the pandemics over whenever that maybe even in the face of all these some sudden tears they giving it their all. this is that this is the job we have to deal for a musician since you are singers sing for the entire theater and everyone involved is. sent by the so they can perform to the best of their ability and with the greatest dedication and that. this may be one of the most important jobs in my life minus they've been so. eventually they even rehearsed with the choir.

to help calm the singers fears the director didn't stand them shoulder to shoulder on the stage but well spaced throughout the gallery. and then would stop with one leg down of course is that we're not allowed to dance you can't put the choreography on the stage the way they worked it out and over. the years. i feel like a nixon i didn't mother waiting for her baby to arrive but not allowed to give birth. the. common and one love and don't force a will never even get to that point.

was the. regulations prohibit so much as in light case it might be heartless but at least it's i'll phone. common doesn't die of the pandemic but of a crime of passion. at a distance mario do you have anything. against i think you've all said i sample for how to make music in spite of home and all of it all and much more i thank you for it and wish you all the best and most importantly that you stay healthy because of thank

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