let's talk about this with reporter joel dorado at this point what can we say about the control of the senate also if other no official results yet but multiple media outlets are calling at least one of those senate seats for the democrats for raphael warnock he has a very narrow lead however a.p. says that his lead is big enough that the his rival cannot catch up and in the other senate race john also off a democrat he's also claiming victory although this is not been yet officially declared but his count is even now or again he has only 16000 votes ahead of his rival out of 4000000 and that margin is so thin that it means an automatic recount could be triggered so this whole process could drag on for quite some time until we get an official result but if these 2 races have been won by the democrats this is a historic moment it means that the democrats will hold all 3 legislative branches the house of representatives the senate and the white house and it means that the incoming president joe biden will have

a clear path to implementing his agenda plans for joe biden there you said it was a historic election is already it also is a 1st he's also the 1st black senator from georgia what does this say. but does this actually mean for the political landscape of the u.s. it shows the shifting landscape there are more black or latino voters but there's also questions being raised about the role of president donald trump in this election in georgia he has interfered heavily he has obviously been trying to preserve his agenda of having electoral results overturn his loss overturned and many have feared that his his statements might have actually kept some voters away might have discourage people from coming out to the polls and indeed we have seen that in some districts the voter turnout was lower than at the last election so it seems there has been a dampening effect and if these 2 democratic senators have been elected they will no doubt be plenty of people who. will turn on trump himself and say that he was

the one who sabotaged this election we should also say something for the role of stacy abrams now she is a democrat who ran for the position of governor a lost she claimed that was a result of fraud and so forth and she set up a major campaign to enroll more black voters and many are crediting her and that drive to get more black voters on board with this result that we're seeing this potential result that we're seeing now that yes congress at the center is preparing to certify the outcome of the presidential race what can we say about that this is going to be an interesting process because there we don't really know what's going to happen vice president might pence is due to oversee this special session of congress where it's meant to just be a formality however donald trump is leaning heavily on his vice president he tweeted out saying that pence needs to have courage and do his best to send these results back to the state it's not even clear that it whether pence has the power to do that but trump is really putting pressure on his vice president added to that there's another possible upset because several republican congress members are

going to be holding debates on the legitimacy of the votes from their states and these votes could that this we're talking about 3 different states and maybe up to 6 states each of these could have debates lasting 2 hours the whole process could take anywhere from 9 to 24 hours to actually see and at the same time there's going to be a rally taking place in washington approach trump rallies there is a plenty of chance for upsets and interesting outcomes still to come in this whole process. thank you very much was then the u.s. where prosecutors in the state of wisconsin say they will not file criminal charges against the police officer who shot a black man last august in the city of kenosha jacob blake was hit several times in the back as he tried to enter his car civil rights advocates criticize the decision and say they're ready to reignite protests that rocked the city last year.

when the shooting of the resident jacob blake prompted protests in the wisconsin city. police were responding to a domestic dispute when they shot out the 29 year old hitting him 4 times blake was left power 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 offense this is not a case where there will 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. congress it must go to senate we must abide lynch the reg for policemen to be seen on a higher plane. than citizens of the united states you cannot have a bill of rights lees and then have a bill of rights for the people at the height of the protests in august during clashes between protesters and militias teenager col rittenhouse opened fire with an assault rifle killing 2 men and wounding another. now 18 he has pleaded not guilty to all charges including homicide. are thank you very much not guilty pleas to all counts meanwhile the state's governor has mobilized 500 national guard troops while konoha city council has given the may

merge and see powers to deal with potential unrest. police in hong kong said $53.00 pro-democracy activists for allegedly violating the city's new national security lol it's the biggest crackdown since beijing imposed the controversial legislation last yeah the e.u. has called for the activists to be released and says it's eyeing further sanctions on china. the dawn reads mark a sharp escalation of hong kong's crackdown on the opposition dozens of prominent pro-democracy campaigners were arrested at private homes law firms and media outlets. former lawmaker lambchop teen recorded the moment police arrived at his house. the arrests have left some residents stunned. i think one thing just as. with the other countries. i feel

very unhappy and it seems that even during the pandemic the government can still do so many things to terrorize people back up. but beijing denied it was calming down on dissidents. and then sending in the normal rights and freedoms enjoyed by the hong kong people have not been affected what may be effected is the freedom of some external forces and individuals to collude with each other to attempt to undermine china's stability and security or that when the engine that. the detainees stand accused of trying to overthrow the government after they held unofficial primaries last july to field candidates ahead of elections to hong kong's legislative council. under the one country 2 systems policy hong kong was given greater autonomy when it was handed back to china from britain in 1997 the

agreement expires in 2047 but one pro-democracy activist told d.w. that beijing security law has rendered that agreement meaningless. all the arrests and all the crackdowns following the implementation of the law is actually a file ation of the protests saima big time factor ration and the basic law itself so i'd say all the freedoms that i guarantee under the basic law and under international treaties are. activists are calling wednesday's sweeping arrests an attempt to further weaken the opposition had of the legislative elections scheduled for september. he's a politician a social activist in hong kong mistily more than 50 arrests in one day what impact does this have on the pro-democracy movement. is there obvious the regime want to

rule hong kong by fear and how to instill fear the way they do it is to do some very eps serve ridiculous things like charging people at all and i saw a primary election as subversion you know under the definition of subversion and national security is that you have to undertake some illegal activities and then with the purpose of all of throwing the government come on primary election happen everywhere in the world and the purpose of very obvious to get try to get as much says as many see it as possible and you call this the legal activities and to get the majority in order to you. we call for the movie top of the budget so that to put pressure on the government about the veto a budget is something allow and concave in promise under the basic law so afaik it's legal and then suddenly you turn around and said that you know what you

have done you know when 600000 people come up to vote just in a primary just to express the aspiration you called it subversion and it's so absurd that you know it really create. a very a sense of. and like impossible you know something that you cannot imagine that it would be so harsh and i think that would really create a fear and and so that the people in hong kong lose confidence that more told them of. for interrupting you there you were arrested yourself last year are you living in fear and have you considered leaving hong kong. i would definitely stay on to fight because i love this place this is our city we we want this city home called to become democratic and i think there is no crime to us to ask for democracy we even want democracy in china's y.a.y.

that it is a crime and i was arrested for incitement of what they call illegal assembly but it is just to exercise our right to speak out and so we will stay on we will fight on we want to live in truth and not to live in fear and we will continue to fight so that people home call will have confidence that the fight will go on what is your appeal to the outside world to the us and to the e.u. . discretion also is national security law question because any request to the outside they will say that this is collusion or foreign power and again it is this show the f. certainty of the nexus the cuban also stifle freedom of speech you cannot ask for anything and if you are for something then to suffer for some action then

they were charged to have national security law and therefore you know we will fight on on our own and i will hope the world will not just stand by and but stand with hong kong. live. pro-democracy activist from hong kong thank you very much for your time and the julian assange 2 days after blocking his extradition to the u.s. where he's wanted on a spear charges the judge said there were sufficient grounds to believe that his son would not turn up to a to court for a pending u.s. appeal if he were released from prison. lawyers for a woman due to be executed in the u.s. next week have filed a last minute play with president trump asking for clemency they say lisa montgomery was profoundly mentally ill when she committed murder in 2004 on gomery would be the 1st female federal execution in decades. but as well as new parliament has met for its 1st session leader nicolas maduro has united

socialist party claimed it won more than 92 percent of seats a month ago after the opposition parties led by one wide or boycotted the elections they planned to maintain a parallel parliament or. the european men since the agency has given the green light for the covert 900 vaccine produced by a us company medina it's the 2nd vaccine to be cleared for use in the e.u. many hope it will also speed up europe's covert vaccination drives which have gotten off to a sluggish start across many of the $27.00 member countries. to medinah vaccine requires 2 doses $28.00 days apart and was found to be 94 percent effective in clinical trials for us canada and israel have all approved its use and agency workers in california were among the 1st to get the shot.

on the hand you would now like so he was in staffing you know and also patient with too many pieces and if i know. how can this change on the wire. the madonna vaccine and company name of based on modified r.n.a. it contains the genetic instructions to produce proteins with the coronaviruses telltales bikes preparing the immune system for an attack from the real virus. it's the 2nd such m.r. in a vaccine following the german developed by own tech pfizer shows the u.s. company medina is just over 10 years old and hasn't released a single approved product now the company's share value is in the 10s of billions of dollars mcgurn is advantage it can be kept at normal freezer temperature making it easier to distribute than others which need colder storage it's disadvantage it

is expensive costing up to 10 times as much as other covert 19 vaccines. by giving madonna and her gene c. approval the e.u. has unlocked the use of 80000000 doses preordered for its member states further vaccines are under review with the pandemic still raging the news is the shot in the arm that many a desperately waiting for. is in brussels for us the 2nd vaccine approved in europe how fast can this be rolled out. it will get hard that depends on production capacity entirely but i should note that we are also waiting this afternoon for final approval by the european commission the regulators have said they believe it is safe now the european commission is meeting and says that it will make a decision as quickly as possible and only then is the final green light for this for this job to be to begin being sent to europe but you know we really need to

look at 2 different processes here one the approval which we expect today but the other one is production capacity and while individual governments are responsible for their own policies in who should get the 1st vaccinations and how quickly those those can happen you know the companies making the vaccines are having a lot of trouble keeping up with demand and that's going to be the case with some of their vaccine as well. how much will this help. vaccinations across the continent. these policies are the responsibility of individual governments and we have seen such a huge array of plans for example today is the 1st day the netherlands is even starting its vaccination campaign so that's raised a lot of eyebrows because of course other e.u. countries have started with a pfizer biotech. production much quicker much more quickly than the netherlands so that depends on the country itself of course once you have

a 2nd vaccination you're going to be able to reach a lot more people once the drug gets here but moderna has said that in the 1st 3 months of 2021 it is only going to be able to produce $120000000.00 vaccinations shots in total only a fraction of those will leave the u.s. facility only a fraction of those will come to europe. there's been a lot of criticism especially in germany about the role of a slow rollout in this country but also across europe what does it look like. in sort of world rankings if you will in speed events and nations. well i don't have those kind of numbers right on hand here in germany certainly hasn't been the slowest as i just mentioned the then a dutch government is just starting today the french government also has come under a lot of criticism for is a very slow program but you know those governments have to answer for that the questions that can be fairly directed to brussels are why does the european medicines agency takes so much longer than those in the united states in britain in

israel in canada to make decisions on these vaccines when when and initial tests have certainly proven them to be largely safe and effective so those are the questions that are taken on a european level the e.u. has made joint procurement joint purchases and certainly believes that it has ordered enough vaccinations for everybody it's just a matter of getting them here and again as i mentioned that's a lot of that problem is on the ground another thing we should mention about them a during a vaccine that is very promising and was mentioned in that piece is that it does not have to be stored in these ultra cold or transported as well in these ultra cold conditions so that's going to make it a lot easier for countries to store it a lot of the initial slowdown was because countries simply didn't have a system in place to store the pfizer biotech vaccine. in brussels thank you germany is extending its national coronavirus lock down by 3 weeks in an effort to

reduce high infection and death rates chancellor angela merkel and regional leaders also agree to tighten some restrictions including curbs on social contacts and limits on people's movements and the worst affected regions juman been feeling the think to tough a corona restriction since last year but the law is about to get 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. shaphan. 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 shits 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 seems like bees 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 set to be approved but it's expected to be many months before enough people are immunized for now germans face a longer lock down and no clarity about when it might be lifted. now as i look at some of the other developments in the pandemic united states has recorded its highest number of covert fatalities in a single 24 hour period sofa with more than 3900 deaths reported by johns hopkins university on tuesday medical facilities in los angeles are struggling to cope with a surge of cases ambulance workers have been told they should not transport patients to hospitals if their chances of survival of very low here in europe the netherlands has become the last e.u. country to start vaccinating against the virus and china has denied entry to a team from the world health organization trying to investigate the origins of the pandemic. and now it's coming to

a super fan who refuses to miss 51 year old kyoko ishikawa as been to every summer olympic games in the past 30 years and the tokyo resident is determined to tend the one scheduled to come to her hometown this year many japanese believe the eventually not go ahead because of the pandemic kyoko is hoping to keep a record internet. kyoko ishikawa has done her summer games super fan attire every 4 years perch additional outfit in hatchie marquee had been started out at the barcelona games in 1902 and along the way she's collected memorabilia at every game since the tokyo olympics were postponed until this year due to the pandemic just last month tokyo organizers banned cheering in stadiums which means.

go will have to leave for whistle at home even with a muted atmosphere the tokyo games hyo co believes could serve as a symbol of hope. i think i didn't get hung up on that one and despite the difficulties i want the tech games to be a place where people around the world feel that the flame of hope was protected. country how do you want 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. it was indeed news here's a reminder of the top story we're following for you georgia democrat russ all cars one his u.s. senator a syfy think the republican incumbent in a 2nd runoff election democrats also cause claimed victory it after securing

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