this is video being used live from berlin no more trump on twitter the social media platform announces that it's permanently suspending the do as president's i kind of the risk of further violence that's as congress moves to try to bring an early end to donald trump's term in office also coming up. alarm in the british capital as coronavirus cases continue to search london's mayor warns the situation is critical and the city's hospitals are on the brink of collapse. and it's down to 2 goals to

bundesliga champions byron unix mentioned sadat stage a blistering comeback the fight for the finish in friday night's bundesliga much. on pablo foley s welcome to the show with less than 2 weeks left of donald trump's time in office twitter has announced it's permanently suspending the president's current saying trump has repeatedly violated policies on glorifying violence it's a huge blow for the president as he's stripped of his favorite communication tool at the same time he faces growing calls to step down or risk impeachment after a week that has left the united states reading. the world watched as hundreds of trump supporters stormed the u.s.

capitol. several arrests have since been made since way these day's events. the man who is pictured sitting at speaker pelosi is desk turned himself in. and a republican lawmaker from virginia is facing a criminal charge after breaking into the building. president donald trump has finally agreed to a peaceful transfer of power but tweeted that he would not be going to the inauguration of his successor. this turned out to be one of his final tweets as twitter pearman at least suspended his account just hours later. this followed president elect joe biden's comment that trump was unfit for office is wrong competent. presidents in the history of the united states from air

indicated he wasn't going to show up at the act in order ish one of the few things he and i ever grew. to good thing i'm not sure of. security at the capitol is being wrapped up ahead of inauguration day which will take place in less than 2 weeks even the national guard has been deployed. well the developments in the united states are being viewed with concern here in europe and germany's foreign minister is now calling for the european union to work with the united states on a marshall plan for democracy now for more on this i'm joined by d.w. political correspondent emmanuelle shah's welcome to the show with manuel how significant is this call from the german foreign minister well this is history going full circle when foreign minister calls for marshall plan to have the u.s. in fact the marshall plan was the u.s.

program that helped germany and other you european countries to economy clearly recover after world war 2 so of course this i'm this is not about economy a quick cover it's about repairing democracy it's about salvaging democracy and how come i say there is no democracy in europe without a democracy in the u.s. so he really highlights. the need for transatlantic ties so the term martial ties this is highly symbolic but not something i come out his nose trencher to right after the elections in november he called for a new do you between europe and the u.s. now it's very telling that those. america condemned in the strongest terms what happened this week in washington was as saying there's no place for the enemies of democracy between the u.s. or india e.u. and i got america remarkably to say as she was sad and serious about what happened a bonus a term was party response. bill for divine and says and again just charmed reactions

here in germany are strongly tied to german history this is a country which is no stranger to to put attempts and i'm referring to did not see time and also in terms of storming into a parliament last august and in november we saw a protestant conspiracy theories trying to storm into the german parliament so does is something that is not only happening in the us well i mean we're out of period now where joe biden is about to take over the presidency briefly what can we expect from the u.s. german relations well they're following a power of the past this is also an election year here in germany so be quite challenging here as well now the things we can look forward to is the u.s. reentering the paris climate agreements smoother ties just move their relations

when it comes for example to nato or to relations. to negotiations for trade that being said what we saw this week is that europe has to be independent from the u.s. and that the u.s. is a giant but a giant with feet of clay well. thanks for that update let's take a look now at some of the other stories making news around the world north korean leader kim jung un is threatening to build more nuclear weapons he said the u.s. is north korea's biggest enemy and that pyongyang's relationship with the united states depends on whether it abandons its hostile policy and threaten presents a tough challenge for the incoming biden administration and commemorations right police in chile have used water cannon and tear gas against protesters who took to the streets for the latest round of demonstrations in the confidence something level protesters have been demanding pension health care and education reforms in

the country. once again germany has registered more than a 1000 coronavirus deaths in 24 hours the country slow vaccine rollout is coming under increasing pressure some predictions in german media claim if the inoculation drive continues at the current pace herd immunity won't be reached in germany until 2027. well the u.k. has recorded its highest number of daily deaths from the krona virus since the start of the pandemic with a new variant that appears to be more transmissible surging across the country or thirty's are particularly alarmed by the situation in london mayor city can says the virus is quote out of control in the capital and hospitals are facing breaking point coronavirus patients are flooding london's hospitals on friday alone there were 800 enough to fill even a large facility almost all intensive care staff are working overtime and other

departments are being converted into intensive care units. one nurse cries tears of desperation things can only go on like this for a week before collapse the hospital see. over the hours and over was not put through or the swivel school coming in so we can call themselves of us on the holidays on this one it's over the course of. a mule and says queue outside the emergency unit. normally they're called out 5 of those in times a day at the moment not number is almost 1000 police and firefighters are being called in to help out as drivers london's mayor has declared a state of emergency i'm afraid this virus. can home. in london is a risk. but the risks were cool.

and they were going to hold until we could run out of. a 3rd vaccine this one from the donor has been approved but the health minister experienced 1st hand the difficulty of administering 2000000 vaccinations a week in one clinic the vaccine was notable by its absence precious time lost in the fight to keep london's hospitals from collapse. well we're joined now by our london correspondent get my ass. britain's national health service says it's made plans to vaccinate all frontline staff against covert 19 in the next few weeks how realistic is that though. well hundreds of thousands of people are being vaccinated so we know the latest figures are that in the last week over 300000 people were vaccinated so the vaccination program here in the u.k. is seen as a success however when it comes to vaccination of frontline stuff of doctors and nurses there are many critics and they say that the government has not

systematically prioritized fraud line stuff that there was an ad hoc approach that was said at the end of last year yes they should come fast but then that was taken back and doctors and nurses have really include the government to put them 1st because if they can go to work if they are sick or they have to be isolating that that is really hindering the whole vaccination after that and and obviously putting enormous strain much more strain on the health service that's already particularly in london we besting say they welcome this new a new approach and hopefully we'll see that this is really in the next weeks of being made happen and indeed there is a lot of pressure in that particular as you said in london now the mayor there so he can says the situation in the city in the city is quote out of control better good can you describe the atmosphere in the city at the moment. i have to

say it's very very quiet i have to be living in the center of the streets are very quiet the restaurants balls obviously closed and the essential shops that supermarkets and pharmacies are open and i hear the sound of sirens much much more now it's a vine's meal in the fast way i live near a very big hospital and you do hear the sirens of the ambulance caused in the days and also in the night so that is something of an eerie remind all of that the crisis. critics are saying government critics are saying that it's actually not enough and there are many doctors also are saying that this even though it does seem to be quite quiet that we need even more measures so nurseries for example 10 people are allowed to go to some religious gatherings that they say that they say with this new virus being so street transmissible that there needs to be even more

of a change of behavior and people who really do need to stay home even more are right well in london thanks for that update. let's take a look now at other developments in the pandemic the united states has sent another daily record for new infections with almost 300000 new cases and more than 3600 deaths reported on friday authorities in china are telling too are telling residents of 2 cities south of beijing to stay at home as they try to contain a new outbreak of the virus more than 300 people have tested positive in the past week there a new study published in the lancet medical journal says most people hospitalized with corona virus still have symptoms after 6 months the most common ones are fatigue and muscle weakness but also sleeping difficulties. moving to sport now and in the bundesliga is friday night game one can gladbach notched up

a surprise 321 win against league leaders byron munich and they have to battle from behind to do it seem to be making a habit of being inhospitable hosts when byron paid them a visit. the last time byron munich came to brucia park over a year ago it was glad who ran out victorious. but when florry annoyed house handled the ball in the box robert levin dosti converted the ensuing penalty to give fire in the lead after 20 minutes. and then a great solo effort from lay on gorecki doubled by huge lead just 6 minutes later and it looked like the visitors were cruising to victory. but wait and us hoffman pulled one back for blood 10 minutes after that off a month cooley slotting it in past manuel neuer and just before half time hoffman found himself one on one against neuer again and once again he won that battle to

all at the interval. and soon after the restart your house made up for his earlier handball by putting blood in front of what a shot from the young germany international to seal a 32 win. once again stand by him back to munich empty handed. now a powerful winter storm is dumping what spain's weather agency is describing as exceptional amounts of snow on large parts of the country storm filomena has grounded planes at madrid's barrage has airport the region has received over 20 centimeters of fresh snow and while the city was unprepared for the biggest snowfall in decades residents has been making the most of it and some are even even welcome the arctic conditions but there has been travel chaos.

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