this is news coming from the democratic party steps closer to controlling the u.s. senate. wins the election through the chamber seating his republican rival george. is still neck and neck democrats need to win. seats in the senate to gain a majority there and support president elect. also coming up with

extends its coronavirus lockdown until the end of january. and regional leaders also announced new tougher restrictions including limits on movement in its. crackdown on dissent in hong kong police arrest dozens of pro-democracy activists before lawmakers this week is the biggest operation yet under the tough new security law. plus a sports fan of a limb picked to mention. all the summer olympic games for the last 30 years and she's hoping to continue her spectating streak this year in tokyo. hello i'm terry martin good to have you with us. we begin in the u.s.

state of georgia where u.s. media are projecting a democratic win in one of 2 closely watched senate runoff elections the races have yet to be called surely but projections put democratic challenger raphael warnock head of incumbent kelly look the other contest between republican david produce and democrat john also remains neck and neck democrats need to win both scenes to take control of the senate and help president elect joe biden and bends his legislative agenda. well if the result is confirmed democrat rafael one would become the 1st black senator in georgia's history here's what he said just a little while ago. so i come before you tonight as a man who knows that the improbable journey that led me to this place in this is stuart moment in america. could only happen here. we were told that we

couldn't win this election. but tonight. we've proved that with hope. hard work and the people by our side. anything. is possible. well to reporters stacey bivins is with us here she's from she's part of our u.s. election team an extremely close race to see which of the results that we have so far tell us about who's going to control the senate well. if things go the way they seem it looks like it will be easier for joe biden to have to achieve his agenda. but aside from that i would just like to just take a moment and say that this is a very historic moment of raphael warnock the son of poor parents who grew up in the projects. is now the reverend of the church that was the spiritual home of

martin luther king jr and civil rights icon john lewis is now the 1st black senator to represent a southern state that was once a part of the confederacy and it's just really amazing when you look at the past in the present and you see the historical connections and something that's really powerful and mentioning john lewis the other candidate and the race the democrat. he was a protege of john lewis and and so now he might also when he's leading and his race so there's just it's just a really historic moment and it's just shows the trajectory of georgia and that biden winning georgia wasn't a fluke and that the ground game was very important and they're still just one of those races so far has been been called so we still have to see if that 2nd seat is really going to go to the democrats or not it's so incredibly close what about the voters in georgia in terms of who's supporting the democrats who's supporting the

republicans give us a breakdown of how the demographics are involved and so you know in terms of of. distribution of votes right well there's definitely a shift in georgia is a it's a red state or it has red state d.n.a. but there's been a lot yeah republican d.n.a. but there is a lot of shifts people from the north and other more progressive states have moved in to pop it more populous areas in georgia and you saw this when the. votes were coming in how all of a sudden there was a huge shift and more in act one and then there was another huge shift and. john also off with in the lead so it's because of these demographic shifts but also the biggest thing the biggest contributor was donald trump just his antics it turned off those suburban voters who live in big places like atlanta and it depressed

the republican vote because he told people that you can't trust it so he was the biggest contributor definitely a factor in this senate race that's not the only story of course this these 2 senate races from georgia right now we've got something happening in washington because there is the vote in georgia happen just as congress is meeting to validate the results of the presidential election what can we expect their electoral college it's supposed to be ceremonial thing and donald trump has tried to push the vice president to keep the 2 not to allow this vote to continue which would be unconstitutional so there are $104.00 representatives and about a dozen senators that are protesting this vote and while that's happening on the floor and there's nothing that's going to happen this does the vote is going to be codified it's going to happen but out on the streets there is going to be

protesters and people who are pro tromp who are saying you know stop stealing the vote so big in the unit in united states politics actually been there but you have the leisure same thank you so much you're welcome. well staying in the u.s. prosecutors in the state of wisconsin say they won't file criminal charges against the police officer who shot a black man last august in the city of. jacob blake was hit several times in the back as he tried to enter his vehicle civil rights advocates criticize the decision and say they are ready to reignite protests that rocked the city last year. in the oldest when the shooting of a resident jacob blake prompted protests in the wisconsin city. police were responding to a domestic dispute when they shot up the 29 year old hitting him 4 times blake was left power lies from the waist down. this week smaller demonstrations preceded the

prosecutor's announcement. that. after months of reviewing the evidence prosecutors will not meet the demands of protests as. no law enforcement officer in this case will be charged with a cruel this is not a case where there would be any dispute about the factual circumstances of this case except for one piece of the law and that is self-defense police say blake had a knife and fired the shots as they feared he would use it his lawyer says he was attempting to break up a fight between 2 women and his family now aim to seek justice in washington d.c. . battle. groups. senate we've. the right for a policeman to be seen on

a. citizen. you cannot have a bill of rights lees and then have a bill of rights. at the height of the protests and oldest during clashes between protesters and militias teenager col recent house opened fire with an assault rifle killing 2 men and wounding another. now 18 he has pleaded not guilty to charges including homicide. thanks very much. meanwhile the state's governor has mobilized 500 national guard troops while connections city council has given the emergency powers to deal with potential unrest germany is extending its national coronavirus law by 3 weeks in an effort to reduce stubbornly high infection and death rates. and regional leaders also agreed to tighten some restrictions including curbs on social contacts and

limits on people's movements in the worst affected regions germany's latest official figures show over $21000.00 new infections and a 1000 deaths underscoring the urgency of the situation jim and have been feeling the effect of tough a corona restraints in since last year but the lockdown is about to get tighter still. we're going to extend the measures which we agreed in december until the 31st of january and in some areas we will have to introduce even tougher measures. shelf than. infection numbers have not dropped as sharply as hoped and there is a new fear of the faster spreading variant of the virus which could put massive strain on the health care system if it takes hold in germany. in some context there is really major concern about the virus mutation if it's true that mutated viruses

tend to displace the existing strains of the more aggressive we could be facing difficult times ahead what's happened in great britain shows we must not underestimate this kind frontal shots and so the chancellor and state premiers have agreed an extended lockdown private meetings will be limited to the members of a household and only one other person where infections are high people will be told to stay within 15 kilometers of their home schools and many shops will remain closed and people arriving from outside germany will need a corona test and have to spend at least 5 days in quarantine restricting movement infection hotspots could prevent a repeat of scenes like these at the weekend when hundreds of people ignored police warnings and headed for ski slopes but so far it's not clear how all the new rules will be enforced. hopes for progress in rolling back the pandemic now rests on vaccination new vaccines are sent to be approved but it's expected to be many

months before enough people are immunized for now jim and space alone the lock down and no clarity about when it might be lifted. off more joined by younger saddam and his doctor and also a member of the german parliament for the green party do you support the new coronavirus restrictions announced by the german government today or yesterday rather good morning my opinion that resolutions are definitely necessary but also they are not sufficient and i am very concerned as a doctor that we don't have a long lasting crisis already and when i look on the resolutions from yesterday there are 3 devastating gaps in the political action which i think are really definitely necessary 1st hand we urgently need to wreck the testing as

a health test for it working public health screening 2nd we need to get out of there with the next nation and 3rd we really need it working strategy with contact tracing which still is a lack of sufficient strategy over here in germany. let's talk at the end just a moment about the vaccination strategy because many are criticised the government's policies as being too slow the rollout of the vaccine what do you think could have been done better if there. well if we look at the numbers germany has only vaccinated about 24 percent of all bailable vaccination units at the moment and this is not enough we really need to use those scale up this numbers and the most important part is to vaccinate still more older people and if we sink about our own grandparents we know they are yeah they

have to restrict and movement they have difficulties to get an employee and and it would be much more sufficient to bring back the nation to the older people by. using general practitioners as tired of vaccination teens for example and then bringing those old people to the vaccination sent those which doesn't work unfortunately at the moment in terms of testing what do you make of the government's strategy you say you post testing would be a good idea but in this in a case where you have 20000 new infections on a daily basis is it even possible that does testing help in that situation. of course because testing is our only chance to interrupt infection chains and at the moment we only test basically people who wistrom symptoms but we don't test

those people who did have. only mild symptoms or even our just like contact person to a symptomatic co with 1000 patients so basically we need to scale this part and with a new record and eugene tests there would be a possibility for everyone to do such tests on their own but this is not allowed to german law it's a moment and read needs to be changed to have a sufficient public health screening you say that german government should impose even tougher restrictions what sort of restrictions are you talking about. well i certainly don't understand why we on the one hand side send. people from school home and they're not allowed to enter those schools but on the other hand i see on daily bases like a crowded big offices where people are forced to work even with. sufficient occupational occupational safety measures to work there instead of

a standard off yeah home office work which should be yeah not just like a possibility but the standard up work over here in germany. most dominant dr don thank you very much for talking with us that was youngish dumb and from germany's green party and he's a member of the german parliament that one has to thank you so much so to look at some of the other developments in the pandemic china has denied entry to a team from the world health organization trying to investigate the origins of the virus in wu han meanwhile chinese authorities have stepped up code restrictions around the capital beijing following an increase in corona virus cases in a province south korea is rolling out mass testing for 70000 prisoners and stuff after a recent prison outbreak in seoul and as medical facilities in the u.s. city of los angeles struggled to cope with

a surge of cases ambulance workers have been told they should not transport patients to hospitals if their chances of survival are very low. millions of children are back in the classroom in kenya for the purse time since last march when the government closed schools in response to the pandemic students in grades 48 and 12 returned in october so they could prepare for exams now all primary and high school students have returned visited one school in nairobi on the 1st day back. to barrows one of the largest low income areas in nairobi here thousands of people live close together interacting on a daily basis social distancing is almost impossible now that schools have reopened pupils are waiting in line to get in you can hear it as one of the last countries in east africa to fully reopen its schools according to the world health organization prolonged school closures close risks children from poor backgrounds

like here to bear out for example higher rates of teen pregnancies born attrition and dropouts some of the reasons why the kenyan government said it was time to finally fully reopen schools. janet ones yet is excited to finally bring her daughter virginia back to school yet she is very aware of the risk. many changing. when displayed child. not to have been. even a common cause. because the many many called age from the about. after they arrived to have the temperature measured and abortion senate ties the hands that's the new normal at kibera primary school for girls $347.00 girls are expected the next few days divided into classes of roughly 20 pupils a distance of one meter can be maintained but still there are challenges. to their

wedding on their masts which is no it's easy for them because they have to be on their must go to the holy day. so inflamed them like that we need to create. this school as well place to deal with covert restrictions as it can provide the water space and masks to their pupils for free many other schools in kenya cannot it's possible because it belongs to shuffle an international organization that's funded mainly by private american dollars teach us year we're trained by health officials some classes even have 2 teachers parents feel that children are safer here than at home we have utah and i would say we have a toll on the children up people that are able to social descent that able to least get medical treatment tweak she's not come on to everybody who lives out on the flop was fair there was despite the measures virginia is just happy to be back at school i was.

there reporting from nairobi check on some other stories making headlines around the world today north korean leader kim jong un has opened his 1st ruling party congress in 5 years and admitted that his economic plan has failed kim said his country faces huge challenges including the coronavirus pandemic but he promised new policies would achieve what he called a radical leap forward. venezuela's new parliament has met for its 1st session with president nicolas maduro as party in almost complete control of the national assembly his united socialist party won more than 92 percent of seats a month ago after the opposition parties led by one goh i don't know boycotted the elections they planned to maintain a parallel parliament. for migrants have been found dead after their boat reached the spanish linda of 10 a riff about 40 others survived the journey from north africa or the 1100 people died last year trying to reach your. authorities in hong kong has

staged their biggest crackdown against the pro-democracy camp since beijing imposed controversial security legislation last year more than 50 leading opposition activists were arrested in early morning police raids a government minister said they were detained for planning to quote paralyze and overthrow the city government among those arrested was former lawmaker team. i'm joined now by glacier qualms she's a pro-democracy activist in hamburg thank you for being with us this morning ms kwan 50 arrests in one day is this an attempt to wipe out hong kong as pro-democracy movement once and for all. i think this is a friendship be understood as hong kong's version of events or the checkers of slack you know trying to $77.00 kind of similar event i think the government is trying to create

a chilling effect amount they have also society and of course trying to silence the opposition that has been trying to. fight against china's and hong kong government while asian of human rights and hindering that process of democracy and how come and i think 50 something reza is a huge number is the largest largescale of the rest since the movement has started last year and actually the whole arrested. at a reasonable level were you expecting this was this were these arrests anticipated . as a retaliation of a primary election being held in 2900 july yes this is expected but it still came very worrying and very concerning as the number of her vest is so high how do you think this will affect the opposition in hong kong in the run up to the to the elections that are scheduled later this year i think this defense actually implies

that the legislative council will be nothing more than about their stamp from now on because i sense the disqualification of actress later senate candidates the election that was supposed to be held last year we can see that beijing doesn't even want to tolerate the existence of so-called lie opposition what beijing wants us to compliance to its regime so i do not think that even if there is an election this year it would be a democratic one and a genuine democracy election. what's left of the democratic freedoms and basic rights that people in hong kong used to enjoy. from my perspective i'd say nothing so left the promise of one country 2 system of high autonomy has been broken since the national security law has been implemented all the arrests and all the crackdowns following the implementation of the off the law is actually nation at that purchased at that time over the time factor ration and

the basic law itself so i'd say all the freedoms that are guaranteed under the basic law and under international treaties are god. the incoming administration in washington will be reevaluating foreign policy also with respect to china and hong kong what are you expecting from the biden administration i am expecting more action that against china's foundation of human rights vs economic sanctions individual sanctions or have more laws and bills you get up to surrounding issues of home come i think other foreign countries should also follow suit the free will has to react with pinotage measures against china's foulis violation of human rights to demonstrate that they're actually resolving consequences of his action to file a to human rights. closure call pro-democracy activists based in hong kong based in hamburg rather thank you very much for talking with us thank you. now to the world

of sports and a super fan who refuses to miss out 51 year old kid ishikawa has been to every summer olympic games in the past 30 years and the tokyo resident is determined to attend the one scheduled to come to her hometown this year many japanese believe the event should not go ahead because of the pandemic but kyoko is hoping to keep her record unbroken. kyoko ishikawa has done her summer games superfan attire every 4 years hurts or dismantle outfit and hace maki headband started out at the barcelona games in 1902 and along the way she's collected memorabilia at every game since the tokyo lympics were postponed until this year due to the pandemic and just last month tokyo organizers banned cheering in stadiums which means.

we'll have to leave her whistle at home even with the muted atmosphere of the tokyo games kyoko believes could serve as a symbol of hope i think i didn't get on that could of them and despite the difficulties i want to tell games to be a place where people around the world feel that the flame of hope was protected. come to do with that humanity kept to the life. that i know. plans to take part in the rescheduled torch relay she's also looking forward to adding to her collection of memorabilia the tokyo games are set to open in under 200 days. streamliner the top story we're following for you here today on d w news georgia democrat rafael warnock has won a seat in the u.s.

senate defeating republican incumbent kelly loffler george's other set of bridge between democrats and also often republican david purdue to still neck and neck. you're watching g.w. news live from berlin coming up we've got eco india for you the environment magazine course you can always get all the latest news and information around the clock on our website at www dot com don cherry more thanks watched. the for.

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