this is the wus live from berlin the e.u. doubles its order for the biotech pfizer vaccine brussel secures an extra 300000000 doses taken up in the heart of the drugmakers global. also coming up for those doing gauging the acts of violence and destruction you do not represent our country . donald trump now comes the dems the rioters who stormed the capitol but it's too little too late for the democrats they want the president to alex now before joe biden

a small. number of migrants struggling for survival on europe's border we hear the stories of desperate people left fending for themselves off the shelves of burnt down in mid-winter in boston. welcome to the program europe's bosses have struck a deal with drug companies pfizer and biotech for an extra $300000000.00 doses of their covert $900.00 vaccine the agreement means the e.u. will buy nearly half of the 2 companies production brussels has come under fire for not securing enough stocks off and the slow rollout of immunizations across the e.u. european commission president also a funnel and says the new order is a welcome boost. with the new agreement we could purchase

a total of up to an additional $300000000.00 doses of the biotech pfizer vaccine in other words this will allow us to double the amount of those as of biotech pfizer. e.u. correspondent teri schultz is standing by in brussels terry what will this agreement mean for the e.u. wide rollout certainly gearhart this is it's hoped that once the vaccinations are received this can speed up the rollout countries are coming under significant criticism for being too slow to get people vaccinated so 600000000 is obviously much better than 300000000 the european commission was accused of acting too slowly and ordering insufficient numbers with this 300000000 initial order from biotech pfizer now of course buying them is only part of the problem you also have to ship them and store them and with this vaccine in

particular this is been a problem because of course it has to be shipped and stored in ultra cold conditions so that has created some problems and back ups in getting the shots from the initial purchase into the arms of the public european union the regulators have also allow doctors to draw up to 6 doses from each single vial of the vaccine made by bone type why is this important. that's right a this just came out today that the european medicines agency says that 6 doses are available in each vial now i looked into this before coming on the air and it would of course be immediately very dramatic if we thought we could be vaccinating 6 times the number of people but it turns out that the people minister in the vaccine already knew that 5 doses were available in each vial so in fact what the e.m.e.a. is saying is that there is actually most likely

a 6 available dose in each bottle if you use a very specific syringe and needle combination so while every additional dose is of course a very significant this does not mean that we can. increase by 6 the number of doses available but it does mean that there may be an additional single dose available in each of these vials. has been called the vaccination process how is it going in general. well as we've just mentioned in this single. session it has come under a lot of criticism for being too slow to buy an insufficient number of doses and then too slow to actually get these vaccinations in hand not all of that can be blamed on the european commission the production facilities of course need to step up and they are doing this as fast as they can but there is a new controversy coming up and that is specifically related to germany it emerges

that while germany was president of the european council the 2nd half of last year and urging all countries to negotiate their purchases through the european commission and all of them did agree to do that on the side germany went ahead and purchased additional vaccines just for germans and this is something that we've now spent hours discussing here in brussels this week whether germany broke the rules that it in fact was responsible for for negotiating and the european commission and ursula vanderlei and her herself have been quite tight lipped about this vanderlei and reinforced today that all e.u. governments should go through the european commission in precursor for curing their vaccines so this is something we haven't heard the end of yet socials in brussels thank you well that's deaths from the corona virus have reached a new one day high here in germany despite an ongoing nationwide lockdown data from

the country's public health agency so 1188 related deaths in the past 24 hours and almost 32019 cases it's a little less than the previous peak in mid december but health officials want actual numbers behind. now let's bring in to be escort he's the director of the institute for public health at the famous charlotte a hospital here in the berlin these ever increasing record figures in terms of deaths and infections how are the playing out at your hospital at the sorry. well the charity hospitals is pretty occupied by cope with patients and patients that we normally have at the show it is so the hospital is really fall and these numbers are alarming unfortunately where expected because of the holiday or handling of the holidays that this is the expected holiday peak and i'm afraid that the numbers will maintain high for the next weeks and because of the lack of infection rate

them people get sick and then eventually end up in a hospital and some unfortunately also die from coverage 19 but if we look at the bigger picture is it that just single hospitals are near capacity or is the whole system nationwide nearing a crisis point the certainly regional differences so some ospital still may have some capacities but many of the hospitals are really at over their limit since many weeks and so the situation is really really alarming if you say the situation is alarming what is needed to ease the pressure in the hospitals right now. well we need urgently need real lock down where people reduce the number of people they see to an absolute minimum and so far and comparison to other countries germany never had a real strict lockdown certainly some are affected more than others but if you were

out before the holidays certainly you did not have the feeling that it was a lockdown so we need to really have a strict lockdown to get these numbers dow it down it's urgently needed but mr corvet we have a lock down right now in germany is tightening corona measures why we're not seeing positive results in in the lock down. well we were allowed to see up to 5 people out of different households during the holiday season and we were allowed to travel and some people did travel a so yes we do have a lockdown but it's not a strict lockdown where we actually are forced to stay home to work from how many people are still going to the offices so whenever possible people should work from home that should be an incentive to work from home obviously in some professions that's difficult to do and so hopefully with the title measures beginning on on monday we will see a relief of the numbers but i'm not expecting them to see them soon. well we just heard the e.u. has just secured more vaccines from biotech pfizer are you hopeful to see

a turnaround in the pandemic soon and if yes when i'm expecting to see it turn around but not soon it will take time to really grow louder vaccination and as you all know the numbers of people who are vaccinated in germany or in other countries are not enormous so we need several weeks to months before we see a turnaround in the number of infections because of the vaccination. dr to be a quarter of the show it's a institute institute for public health here in berlin thank you for the time. you for having me. and coming up later in the show how doctors are improvising in order to save lives in south africa very deadly 2nd wave of covert 19 is raging out of control. but 1st let's take a look at some of the other stories making headlines around the world this hour this is spectate mastermind of the 2002 bali bombings that killed more than 200

people has been released from an indonesian prison authorities say kerrick i will become bashir will no enter a deep radicalization program he was jailed in 2011 for his links to a militant training camp. raging floodwaters have turned roads into rivers in central malaysia local media said these 4 people have died tens of thousands leave their homes the hymn urgency response has been hampered by malaysia's soaring coronavirus a slow. playmaker boeing will pay $2.00 and a half $1000000000.00 to settle a u.s. justice department probe into 2 crashes of its 737 max the accidents in indonesia and ethiopia killed $346.00 people and led to the aircraft being grounded globally the settlement includes compensation to airlines money for victims' families and a fine. to the u.s.

now where president obama trump has finally acknowledged that he will be handing over power to joe biden the outgoing office holder conceded after an attempted insurrection 2 months from the presidential election in a twitter video trump condemned the rioters who stormed the campus all this week calling it a heinous attack a police officer has died of his injuries following clashes with the pro trump mall . couple of days too late french fortifications around the u.s. capitol building after an angry mob invaded the altar of american democracy. those who attacked journalists. and police and now being attacked by their leader who himself is under intense fire the demonstrators who infiltrated the capital have defiled the seat of american

democracy to those who engage in the acts of violence and destruction you do not represent our country and to those who broke the law you ok we have just been through an intense election and emotions are high but now tempers must be cooled and calm we store truck stop short of actually conceding defeat his statement contrast it with those prior to the storming where he urged attendees to fight to overturn the election results doing we will never give up we will never concede it doesn't happen. shortly afterwards hundreds of people were marching through the halls of the capitol for protesters died in the chaos one of them of gunshot wounds and a police officer died from injuries inflicted in the. america's next president joe biden lays the ugly insurrection squarely at trump's feet you know

unleashed. and all out assault on our institutions of our democracy from the outset and yesterday was about the culmination of that on relented attack while some normalcy has returned to washington d.c. the city is clearly shaken even trump supporters in the capital were shocked by the violence what happened yesterday is just. i mean i am a trump supporter but they did. it with a cap that was definitely. we don't support that rid of them that we don't support that that is you know they they. overcame police and they overcame barricades that's not a lot order and for some members of trump's cabinet wednesday's events also went too far several have since resigned including the transportation secretary and most recently education secretary. well for more on the fallout

of all this that's brilliant piece of others from all u.s. elections to several members of the ministries resigning what do we make of this right so we're not least a dozen members have resigned ranging from former white house chief of staff current and would in northern ireland mick mulvaney the 1st lady's chief of staff is also resigned in protest the transportation secretary and also most notably the education secretary device that we heard about there in that report in her resignation letter she really late the blame squarely at donald trump's feet saying there's no mistaking the impact trump's rhetoric had on the situation she then goes on to say that impressionable children are watching this and that we have a moral obligation to model the behavior that we hope that they would emulate you know for a lot of people these words do sound pretty hollow though i mean for the past 4 years we've seen trump and his administration frankly walk all over a lot of these norms deval still chose to stay in office when mike and children

were locked in cages when you know trump refused is this insult from right wing extremist or when he's been calling well for terri and so many see this really as a last ditch attempt to you know abandon the sinking ship and try to save face you know in the days of their careers maybe for they're out looking for new jobs exactly. outside the white house pressure is mounting for the to remove the president from office how realistic is that right so we're hearing you know a growing number on both sides of the frankly who said that they simply deem trump staying in office is it's too dangerous to leave him in office for even you know just a few more minutes so we're looking at 2 scenarios one that is the most likely to happen is.