the procedure of this possible vote is still fluid so it's really not quite 100 percent predictable what is going to happen next ok so this will be the 2nd time but president trump has been impeached he wasn't convicted the 1st time if he if the impeachment happens a 2nd time is he any more likely to be found guilty especially given this timeline . well it really depends on the outcome of the investigations i think we see over the next days and then it's off for all also a number game if there will be enough republicans really to wellwood for the impeachment so all of this is still in the air but yes there is a possibility. ok so what reaction then from donald trump now banned from twitter it's hard to know what's going on inside the president's mind. absolutely if you haven't heard anything from him his wife melania just put out

some message describing how hard it was for her silence. which we heard from donald trump we hear nothing maybe he travels down to texas today to visit the wall this project which he seemed sees as one of his biggest successes in his presidency but as for now he hasn't commented at all of what we have seen on this generates 6 that he had 2021 i thank you for that or in this poll in washington will donald trump's a legit role in fueling those riots lead twitter to ban him from the platform permanently but german chancellor angela merkel says not move raises concerns about freedom of speech and here's what the chancellor's the chief spokesman had to say about the ban. school english of the basic right to freedom of speech is of

fundamental importance it is possible to infringe on that right not only in accordance with the law and within the framework defined by the legislature not by the management of social media platforms other that aspect the chancellor considers it problematic that the accounts of the u.s. president have now been permanently blocked. when hans zimmer is a member of the german parliament for the s.p.d. which is in coalition with chancellor merkel's conservatives is also a member of the parliament's committee on the digital agenda welcome to day w do you find they trump banned from twitter problematic. yes 1st of all i think in the 1st place we be all of felt relief that that moved but i agree it is problematic because we have to ask on which faces on which loss and what does it mean for thoughtful future actions off social media platforms

why do you care what does it matter to you or to anyone what a private company does about letting people go on office platforms. yeah the i mean the thing is we have talking about the hat off state over democratic country and obviously you don't trump boston webby populi in germany but nevertheless i mean this could happen to somebody else who was elected. and one won an election and it is problematic eve maybe one person the c.e.o. of private company stops a head of state reaching out to 80000000 people that's really a problem it's not quite true though is it because twitter is a private company and if they once they can ban who it live if donald trump chooses to go to a different company and get 18000000 view is that followers then that's his business again why is this problematic why and why world leaders speaking up about this.

because. we have talking about the role of social media i mean you as a t.v. station you have to follow very strict rules and a track follow like like trigger off facebook has a much lighter regulation and we are talking a couple of years now whether there needs to be more regulation on the social networks and this is i think now a situation where we need to rule decide which possibly want to follow and i want to really stress out the problem is not really donald trump the problem the millions of his follow us who also have very strong language on these platforms and they are not blocked because the platforms don't care about these people and i think this is a much much broader problem let me put this to you the problem is not donald trump

and the problem is not traits of the problem is politicians like yourselves who have allowed to twitter to carry on in the way that it has. yeah it's i mean as the chancellor mentioned the freedom of expression is a fundamental rights and. the platforms also all. gif also people in opposition the possibility to reach out to many people to buy buy pos state media which isn't free so it's i think it's really a complex thing but we need to to come up with regulation and we also need to be very careful what the what the power of these platforms is i think it's no surprise that twitter came up with that solution 12th days to go until donald trump leaves office and the same applies to facebook we're talking to

you thank you for joining us a young sim about from the german payments committee on the digital agenda quick look at some of the other stories making news around the world the us president elect joe biden has named veteran diplomat william burns as his cia director mr burns as i former boss of the to russia and jordan and later became deputy secretary of state retarding 24 to you to run the contiki endowment for international peace. police in the fall have a clashed with thousands of protesters demanding to be in statement of the motorcade the country has seen numerous protests since a prime minister failed to want a pledge to split is to these co-leader the polls money he was abolished more than a decade ago the country turned into a democratic republic. a strict lockdown restrictions have come into force across germany as the country struggles with a 2nd wave of corona virus infections the german company 1000 death toll past 40000

at the weekend when 80 percent of the country's intensive care beds and how occupied. at this crematorium signs of the high number of corona virus deaths in germany it hasn't yet reached its limit but the number of coffins arriving here has increased the daily death toll now far exceeds what it was during the 1st wave of the pandemic just last week germany saw a new record number of daily deaths over 1000. that the situation remained serious was confirmed on monday by the german government spokesman. very high daily death figures the very high rate of people in intensive care units 5 and a half 1000 people who currently have to be treated in intensive care. this all shows that we are in

a very very difficult phase and there can be no doubt about that. to further curb the spread of the virus tougher coronavirus restrictions came into effect on monday across germany but with some regional variations schools will mostly remain closed until the end of january people can only meet with one other person from another household in hotspots with the higher incidence of coronavirus people cannot travel further than 15 kilometers from their home questions have been raised regarding the off towards ability to win for such roles berlin police say enforcement will continue as usual. we will be on patrol within the city both with special police units but also as part of our routine duties. we will act proportionately but if we see people disregarding the rules we will respond accordingly and take appropriate steps. for.

the current restrictions are meant to stay in place until the end of january when germany's federal and state governments will meet again to evaluate the situation and the side on the way forward. to talk about this with the political correspondent. he told me how germans are taking the. increased infections and deaths and the tougher restrictions. well i of course feel as in many places there is real corona for team game germany people just want this to be over and i think in response to these bad numbers new a new record of deaths. people are not in panic but there's a sense of urgency that something needs to be done new restrictive rules are being introduced from today around germany the federal states imposing restrictions on how many people can meet and think for instance travel restrictions on people

arriving in germany and some people places people are only being allowed to go up to 15 kilometers from their hometown in places where infections are high so new ideas are also on the on the horizon people saying that the free market should be handed out to everybody or they want more pressure on employers to allow people to work from home and there's a lot of ideas there's a sense of urgency and surveys also show that the number of people willing to follow the rules on unmask wearing and distancing is well over 90 percent so that doesn't seem to be the problem but of course all of that is just what we already have in place and that doesn't seem to be working fast enough simon here divers have been searching the seabed off indonesian island of java looking for the flight recorders from the passenger jet that crashed into the sea on saturday with artists hope information on the records will clarify why the boeing 737 came down minutes

after takeoff from jakarta with 62 people on board. it's a delicate operation for these divers dodging sharp debris to find vital clues. this underwater robot was deployed to help them search the seabed the. authorities are amping up their efforts to recover the plane and its passengers thousands of rescue personnel are taking part in the operation. to protect here anything that we can retrieve debris the victims and whatever else we will try to access the quicker we can find the victims the better. hospitals are now examining d.n.a. given by family members of the victims to identify remains. the story we jaya air flight left jakarta airport on saturday bound for

a 90 minute journey to pontiac. contact was broken just minutes after takeoff during heavy rain the aircraft lost altitude and plunged into the java sea. it's the 3rd major plane crash in indonesia since 2014 it could take months before relatives of the victims find out why their lives were cut short. that's up to date i'll have more at the top of the hour the w.'s covered 19th special this next of the day. the phones and the coronavirus pandemic. has the rate of infection been developing what does the latest research say. information and context around a virus update 19 special. on t.w. . young walken emigrants. the police will

stop that isn't the solution down there flight could be fatal but going back is not an option. i'm on and are stuck in the spanish border area they're there waiting for a chance that will probably never come shattered dreams starts january 18th on t.w. . 'd over a year after the 1st coronavirus cases some early patients are still suffering. long covert refers to symptoms that can last for months all that return after recovery i was only in the hospital for a week and yet months later i'm still can't go back to work. when you study from

one hand china has found 3 quarters of hospitalized patients still experience at least one symptom half a year later. when yet to discover is just how long long covert can last. in the mean time doctors say get the vaccine regardless of whether you've had the virus or not survivors know all too well how damaging the sickness can be even after they get better the road to recovery can be long and difficult. peggy green is battling the long term effects of covert 19 when she became sick in march she had few sometimes but it's now devastated her life. pretty confident. i only became really ill months later and. at the time i thought that everything would eventually be fine but things didn't improve i was extremely ill for many many weeks which turned into months without getting better. and.

peggy is 48 years old and suffers from long term effects after coated. she sought treatment at a rehabilitation center on germany's baltic sea coast after the virus peggy felt. she suffered from dizzy spells and chronic pain. in some cases i also had cognitive difficulties like my head wasn't functioning properly i couldn't hear had poor vision and couldn't follow conversations well. i'm not afraid but i still wonder if i'll ever be the same again. as a covert survivor peggy has officially recovered from the illness but she says it feels

like coronavirus has stolen her healthy body and left her with a sick one in its place. peggy spent 5 weeks here her main goal is to get her life back on track. you live your life 5 days out work a week and so on my life might be more intense than it was before. i would like it to be as it once was at the moment life is dramatically different for everyone else and maybe i can still manage to get a lot done i'm sure that my recovery will allow me to i think i will be a different person than i was before but that's ok. this is. peggy green has since gone back to her normal routine but she still feels the lingering effects of illness she often feels weak and her muscles hurt but even if the road to recovery is slow she's glad to be on it. dr david

strain heads up the british medical associations work on the long term impact of covert and he's also a survivor we'll get to that in a moment 1st david is there any way of speeding up recovery for long term sufferers like the woman in that report. that's a really interesting question because we don't really know what the natural history of covert itself is something that is so i get many reports of people who for example it's a multi vitamins or it's other health supplements and swear that has made a dramatic difference for them but i also get reports from people who don't know intervention have got dramatically better off and the apparent reason whereas in all cases we get people who don't get better so at this moment in time in the absence of randomized control trials we don't have a definitive answer as to what will or won't work well take us back to the beginning what causes long coded in the 1st place. that in

itself is a huge question that may help us identify what the treatments are but at the moment we don't fully understand there are 2 or 3 different hypotheses of being run the test and the one the research that i'm researching into is looking at the mitochondria that is the powerhouse of the cells i mean actively if you want to think of them as the battery that powers your body basically we know covert the disease does attack that battery and what we believe is happening is that there's a many individuals who that battery just isn't recharging at the diseases it's like having the old i phone it doesn't matter how long you plug it in for it will not get the charge that it requires and we think that's what's going on. and that's the theory we're working on there are others that think that this is an old swimmin disease the antibodies you create to the virus then turn on the host and effectively become like rheumatoid arthritis or s.l.a.

and trigger and also immune disease that there are some that think they're all permanent scarring that take place in the lung and the blood vessels that occur as a result of the virus the bottom line is at the moment we don't know when reality is it's likely to be a combination of multiple different causes what about just how many people this actually affects but what do you make of the chinese study that shows 2 thirds of hard hit patients suffer long term effects. when you looking at the hard hit it's no surprise at all if you look at people who've been on ai to you for other reasons many of those will still have long term effects 6 or even 12 months later i think what's more interesting in a long coat it is a number of people like was described that only got relatively mild disease i mean for me personally i only have one day that i needed any additional therapy yeah i've been left with symptoms and 12 weeks later there are actually worse than the

initial disease and these are the ones that are causing more issues from the oh and that's the office of national statistics in the u.k. they estimate that 20 percent of people who had any symptoms at all with some debilitating illness at 6 weeks and 10 percent of people even though they didn't require hospitalization or any additional care at the outset 10 percent of people who ever tested positive will have symptoms of long code of it at 3 months and you've said this is happening to younger people more women than men those suggested to be at lower risk. exactly and that's part of the thing that we're seeing particularly in the health care setting that. the risk of dying from code it is much lower in females it's much lower in the youngsters and therefore in many health care settings these are the people that we get to work for a long time because if they catch it the consequences won't be as severe but now what we're seeing as an after effect is that these are exactly the people that are

more at risk of lung covidien in all study we've identified that even though women are more likely to suffer presents itself participates in study even after we adjust for that 86 percent of the long covert that we're seeing is in young fitter ladies and and it does appear to be very similar that all of the people who are coming presenting with symptoms of lot of it were previously very fit they were very active we're not sure if that represents that they have a higher base light and therefore they they realize a lot more if they've been left with some weakness or it may just be that these are people who are actually noticing it because while most of us around the world are in some form of lockdown where we don't have the same freedoms that we have normally that we just don't notice how much that they set out impacts on us just briefly you've also said this isn't just a respiratory infection it's a multi-system disease other steps that can be taken to prevent long code from

setting in. but we don't really know what the cause is so it's very difficult to say assess of but one thing that we are trialing and not having a good response of with is making sure that way you've got the illness you stay with a your exercise envelope or your energy envelope we call it for many other people training if you're training for a marathon or creature going for a race you want to push yourself every single time you train with long coated what we believe is if you stay well within your energy window then the window itself will get bigger over time rather than trying to push because one of the kick key things that all of us are saying is the harder you push yourself the longer it takes to recover after each episode so stay within your energy envelope at every available opportunity that it's right thank you very much for being honest. you're

welcome. officials are distributing madonna's coronavirus vaccine in germany it's being administered from tuesday and is the 2nd vaccine available here still people won't have a choice they'll have to take whatever comes germany is facing criticism for a slow start to its execution program code infection rates remain high despite an ongoing. time for your questions now over to our science correspondent derrick williams. what's the difference between quarantine and isolation and what are the correct way through observed. in the course of this pandemic these 2 terms have been used interchangeably quite often although they actually mean different things and the confusion arises because both are protective measures for stopping potential covert 19 spreaders from transmitting the disease to others so the finish is 1st isolation is defined as

a measure for keeping people known to be sick with a contagious disease away from people who don't have it quarantine on the other hand is restricting the movement of people who might have been exposed to an infectious disease for a while to find out whether they've been infected or not so so both are waiting games the big difference is that if you have covert 19 you're in isolation if you only might have gotten that you're in quarantine when it comes to the right ways to observe then things get a little trickier because different health authorities in different countries regulate the 2 in different ways here in germany for example if you've tested positive for covert 19 and are recovering at home you have to isolate for at least 10 days from either the day you tested positive or the day you begin to show symptoms though you can also only leave isolation if the. dr determines that your

symptoms have really improved and remain that way for at least 48 hours those who have been directly exposed to someone with the disease for example family members they're what are called category one contacts and they have to quarantine and germany's health authority says they should do so after their last contact with the sick person for 24 weeks although they can also leave quarantine if they test negative for covert 19 after 10 days i for now.

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