which the corporations hold now rotavirus. to grow every region and that has more people hospital now than they did in the 1st wave in this bank. without trace we forgot or at double the number of patients with them in london admit think the kremlin and a really big hospital every single day whilst having higher numbers of staff from a lot of staff who are off sick or isolating or tested positive themselves i've just finished 10 days of isolation because my wife tested positive she's also a paramedic the person potentially cleared that we were wearing was fallout perspective not quite enough and a number of our friends and colleagues were in the same situation and they've also tested positive over the last few weeks. i think the impact of the. moods it is just. more factious 150 percent more factious where we were at the beginning of the service thinking we had stored suddenly we had

a surge in lovers so huge with the proof of the magic that we've been spared that's feel socially rich spiritualise explicit watch out for this quarter so why surprised the new parent just made it absolutely explode and again you know we waited too long to stand down it is still more to come from this wave of the pandemic if you. look at what we see far more people being admitted seeing intensive care units that are now becoming overwhelmed synopses in the southeast and now canceling a cold 28 day cancer stagings the people he had decided he's counsel and now having to add knowing that he was carrying on for some of them by the time safe again they might not be operable anymore and that they have lost that wind you know so i mean that to me is a kind i have kind of a mental toll chat. told a. lot of people that formed a group told one of my friends had

a he was just helping someone having a panic attack the other day that people are having nightmares about the really hard thing about being stuck a hospital for 5 hours is that over time you that you know that you're here with your colleagues in the control room hosking for ambulances to be available to get there to other imagine seasons of people that need your help and you can't get that constantly in a situation where they know that not doing the best for the patients that are trying to pass but i just know i don't position to be able to do that and that's something that people are wrestling with quite a lot of these you know bit vague they might have better to do some more if they had to ride the other day they might have been able to. change the outcome for a particular patient bunch or it's having a toll walking down the country i don't think we have a choice we just threw up this. grewal that's what the crew were trained to do and the. crucial work is people who feel that way it is hot and it is taking its toll

but we know you would be doing the best we have a 2nd sanctions. if we didn't go out then more people would die and would suffer as a result of not having. people working on the front line. than in the meantime germany has passed the 2000000 mark in recorded coronavirus cases it comes as chancellor angela merkel questions for an even stricter lockdown merkel has told top officials from her party that she wants quick action to stop the spread of warring new coronavirus variants according to reports she wants to bring forward a crisis meeting next week while germany was initially less badly affected than its neighbors a sharp rise in deaths has seen its daily per capita mortality since mid december often exceeding that of the worst hit country the united states. for more let's bring in chief political correspondent melinda crane belinda you know germany is

already under a hard lockdown right now why are the cases still going up. we heard one of the speakers in that very sobering report from the u.k. saying that the country had acted too late and there are many people here who fear that the same thing could be said of germany the fact is yes fairly tough lockdown measures are in place now but they were put into place on a piecemeal basis and basically with the chancellor pushing since mid october for tougher measures and many of the state premiers of the federal states essentially just trying to hold off tougher restrictions for as long as possible so it was only in the middle of december that germany finally decided to close all non-essential shops bars and restaurants to lengthen the normal school vacation for for pupils that would occur anyway at christmas those schools still have not gone back into

session but a recently published study by a german university shows that in comparison to the 1st lockdown in march and april mobility that is to say the number of people who are going to their workplaces who are taking inner city transport or regional trains still is significantly higher than it was back then back then germany did pretty well in keeping the inflation infection rates down at the moment it is not succeeding with that task so then what's the plan going forward because again as you mentioned it's only essential services that are that are open right now what more can really be done. well essential services and workplaces and many people are continuing to go to their workplaces so one of the things that's being talked about by experts is whether germany needs to look at shutting down local inner city and regional transport for example whether it needs to look into requiring more people to go into home office

what we have just heard is that the federal spokesman for the government has said that that crisis meeting that you mentioned earlier between the chancellor and the premiers of the federal states that will be moved up to next tuesday and they will be looking at what kind of tougher measures can be put into effect because the chancellor has said chancellor is said to have told her party colleagues it is a race against time to stop this new mutation from getting germany and sending that some of those the infection rate guy rocketing there by of course putting enormous pressure on the health system melinda what does the public make of this i mean what is the appetite for further measures does the public feel it's justified. well in fact we are now seeing a petition circulating here in germany for 0 kovac this essentially is modeled on a proposal by 3 scientists that was published this week that would essentially call

on germany and also on europe as a whole to emulate the hard lock downs that were put into place in australia and new zealand they're talking for example about absolutely shutting down workplaces not only requiring people to go into a home office as for instance some german politicians would like to see happen but in fact shutting down industry as well if this petition would also call for a restructuring of the health care sector to increase accessibility now we haven't heard any official government reaction so far to that petition but within 24 hours it did give get $17000.00 signature it's here in germany and what we can see from polls is that many many germans support stricter restrictions and say they absolutely are complying with what's in place and they'd be willing to comply with still tighter restrictions chief political correspondent melinda crane thank you.

elsewhere in the pandemic france is to impose a nationwide 6 pm curfew starting on saturday from next week everyone travelling to france from outside of the european union will have to show a negative test and then isolate for 7 days the u.k. has banned travellers from south america and portugal over concerns about a virus variant that has emerged in brazil it comes as brazil's health minister says that hospitals in the amazonian city of man now are running out of oxygen to treat cope with 19 patients. let's have a look at some other stories making news ugandan opposition leader bob wian has claimed victory in the presidential election saying that he had filmed to prove a fraud during voting early results put president yoweri was 70 on 63 percent while wine trails with 28 percent final results are expected on saturday

a government imposed internet blackout makes remains in place until further notice we. need north korea has held a military parade to celebrate the end of the country's party congress it was the 2nd such parade in just a few months and chill case to soldiers marching and artillery pieces reports say that it included ballistic missiles that can be fired from a submarine was. this i mean aryan region of yucca 2 a guy has experienced its longest cold spells 14 years temperatures have stayed below minus 40 degrees for more than a month forecasters say it is due to get even colder many residents were caught off guard due to an unusually mild autumn. a powerful earthquake has killed at least 35 people and injured hundreds more on indonesia's island of slow way see many buildings have been severely damaged rescuers fear more dead and injured are

buried in the rubble authorities are warning that strong aftershocks could also trigger a tsunami. you know what i'm about it. is about the trapped under the rubble this person tells rescue workers she can barely hear the woman next to her breathing was a. powerful quake struck just after midnight causing many to flee in the darkness. in the morning those left in the hardest hit city of my mood you woke up to scenes like these this is what was left of the local hospital where rescue operation is now underway. as you can see behind me from this hospital we have retrieved 2 dead victims we are still trying to find more victims in the rubble but we don't know yet if they are still alive or not. some people have been recovered from the

deputy but it's a vast operation as many as half the buildings in my mood to city have either collapsed or are partially damaged and there are fears that strong aftershocks are still to come. in the last. minute the aftershocks a still happening on the coding to our analysis from local data that we recorded as well as historical data we believe this still potential for more strong aftershocks . just like what happened at midnight. local so but they didn't have you got. for now many fearing the aftershocks are choosing to stay on high ground wondering if they'll have herm's to go back to. and from jakarta i'm joined now by correspondent pierre priyadarshini

to approve. thank you so much for joining us what is the latest right now. yes it is certainly one of the most challenging time here we need a new show because we're still in the middle of a planned cross investigation and now we are freezing a massive earthquake in the eastern part of indonesia so what can i say to you right now is the rescue team is still carry out the rest of her can to find survivors and who are trapped under the rubble and there are 2 worst affected locations in that area which is my jennet district and my would you district and in this 2 location at least 34 people died because of this earthquake so the rescue team has also face a little bit off obstacles because there was also rain in there and electricity is still out and the communication cellar is still also unstable so the

rescue team is to. do their job to really find the survivors as soon as possible. and we're looking at those images right now as you've mentioned that that you know the rain that has been an issue a challenge for for a for authorities as they try and move in there for rescue workers there's also the fear of aftershocks as well given all of those factors how are the rescue operations taking place. yes the head of the metro roger cohen gil physics agence see here in indonesia in a news conference has told us that after sorts is still potentially happening and it could lead to a tsunami so sea urged people to really stay away from air yes that has a lot of buildings and structures that are easily collapsed and also to stay away

from the coastal area to go to the higher ground but still up until now the rescue operation is still doing their job to really find victims and also survivors which are trapped under. rubble because as being reported. dozens of houses are destroyed even the office of the governor himself is also destroyed at this massive earthquake sara thank you so much the timing is pretty hard on me to a poor reporting from jakarta on this earthquake in indonesia we appreciate it thank you for. and intonations neighbor malaysia is also facing a natural disaster floods heavy rainfall in the east of the capital of them poor has forced thousands to be evacuated and turned roads into rivers.

this boat is floating over road is the only way to get to the community of calm pong pyatt could see where even several days after the peak of the flood little more than the roof was some homes are visible the village became a swap after an estuary from the baja river overflowed during heavy storms romley been ahmad is more fortunate than many of his neighbors his home is on higher ground but even here the floodwaters rose to more than 2 meters high and as walls. his children and grandchildren have come to help with the clean up from power washing their hands scrubbing to do it's cleaning day you know all the sludge and all the today is the day we get rid of them of all of it. the family managed to salvage some furniture with a small barge that they tied to a tree they say it's tough to see what happen to their parents' home but this tragedy has only made their family more united is a blessing in disguise i mean it would though it's

a tragedy but it it brings people together and the sense of family who it is always only so much always always their. siblings and what happened makes this crew. many families from the village have been sleeping at a nearby mosque for those whose homes are beginning to dry out the days are spent cleaning up this is one of the worst natural disasters this community has seen in decades the people here tell me they do have major floods every 7 to 10 years so you might wonder why do they still want to live here. is one village is like one family he says. re close to each other they are strong and there is a new people there already starting to bounce back in this village a community that stands together to weather the storms. us president elect joe biden has outlined

a $1.00 trillion dollar coronavirus and economic recovery plan if passed by congress it will include one trillion dollars for households and over $400000000000.00 to combat the pen demick directly including celebrating current vaccine programs and support for businesses he's previously promised a 100000000 vaccines in the 1st 100 days of his presidency now biden acknowledged his plans high price tag but said that the country could not afford to do anything less and it's not hard to see there were in the middle of the once in several generations economic crisis with a once in several generations public health crisis of spring indeed. who has been following all of the developments in the united states for us to peter tell us a little bit more about the plan and some of the challenges in getting it through. right i mean this is by bringing the big bazooka to fight the pandemic and to put this in perspective really we're looking at 2 trillion dollars that's more than

double the stimulus if you will bomb of bite no ministration passon 2900 greatest session one of the big criticisms back then was that they simply did not do enough to help average americans and it seems that joe biden has learned his lesson from that financial crisis which is go big or go home this cold and serious package is this meeting very ambitious plan that's a double squarely abstracting americans were looking at things like $2000.00. to provide an immediate relief for families and also wants to increase jobless benefits prevent landlords from kicking out americans who can't pay their rent and also raise the minimum wage to $15.00 a lot more so in the package one plane really wants to put these measures in place through september so a clear message that the incoming president does not expect this pandemic to end anytime soon exactly and given that you know this economic crisis has been triggered by the coronavirus pandemic indeed peter he has also promising to deliver

americans through the pandemic with a very ambitious code 19 vaccination rollout just walk us through what he plans and whether that is also feasible. right i mean by now said that he hopes to lower a 100000000 back scenes shot in the 1st 100 days that's almost 10 times what america the government has administered change the rollout began a month ago as you know that's a very very ambitious plan that's all destined to be hampered by the outgoing trump and his ration which according to reports really has been stonewalling divina ministration it also requires a level of national where the nation doubted from the administration as actively discouraged it as you hinted out there the big question is whether biden will be able to even get you know congressional support for this democrats will control the senate but biden would like to pass his 1st big bill with bipartisan support and that's a big if because at the same time biden's trying to pass this the senate will also

be busy with you know impeachment trial against trucks and that's all the guarantee to even the partisan divide in washington peter stay with us we want to bring our viewers up to date on another aspect of the story because ahead of joe biden's inauguration next week security in the u.s. capital has been stepped up to unprecedented levels more than 20000 soldiers are being to deployed to prevent a repeat of the kind of violence seen last week in the capitol building carolina chinmoy reports from washington now where the measures are being met with mixed reaction from residents. you shall not pass that seems to be the message all around the capital seoul 2 years from the national guard to cast lead at this. first came the fence then the barricades were expecting our own 20000 soldiers from the national guard in washington d.c. on an operation day sam have a raid lined up behind me the city has never seen something like that and people

they are scared of the city is a completely. on inauguration day it was dangerous too dangerous. scary you're supposed to be you know you know civilization the markers. we've come through this is good stuff like the secrete paper that they've done since wednesday is definitely needed and i do feel better about it but i think that the brightest still there at the count is shaky i just want to make sure that this time that they're actually doing their job to protect the city as opposed to you know being unprepared like lester. behind the fence it's all hands on deck. and soldiers from 11 states have arrived in washington d.c. they're organizing their equipment checking their weapons and getting ready in case violence returns to the city. they still don't know for how long they will stay

deployed here but the ones who spoke to us say that they are proud to be here and to defend their democracy. but it's also a logistical challenge. for now they're waiting this might look like a military base but we're actually in the heart of the capital building the soldiers are resting here they're having lunch and they're getting prepared for generally trying to inauguration day. nobody knows what awaits them. the holds sealed bear signs of last week's riots. not one. or. perpetrator. and now they are here to fix it. peter is back with us peter just

briefly what's the latest on the prospect of further on rust. seen on social media that there has been a lot of planning among the most ardent trump supporters to have war protest ahead of the you know the creation this comes amid reports that a lot of the people that took part in the protests are generous 6 were actually on f.b.i.'s terrorist watch list and a lot of them white supremacist this as a country is just days away from the inauguration of its 1st black vice president or reminder if any was needed of the deep divisions to recenter means that the incoming administration is going to be up against acetate office next week as peter valetta thank you. a court in munich has sentenced a german doctor mark s. to 4 years and 10 months in prison for his role in years of illegal dope ing in stuart a landmark verdict which was read on friday morning concludes the 1st major prosecution

under german anti doping legislation which was brought in 2015 marquez has admitted to administering illegal treatments to numerous athletes including competitors in the 201420162018 olympic games. and with that now you're up to date on t.w. news up next to the point with my colleague melinda kramer asking about donald trump and the inauguration of joe biden thanks for joining us.

to the point. clear position in the international perspectives. after urging on the angry mob the storm's the capital last week donald trump continues to claim he's the victim of a witch hunt how dangerous does he remain that's our topic on to the point.

to coincide with the story up next a lot of jugglers. in good shape. what effect stuff climate change have on our house for me is the g.p.s. it's a very important to real lives. teach in the future and want to balkanize a temperature to the house of bodies. in 60 minutes on d. w. . young moroccan emigrants. they know the police will stop the. the road is no solution. they know their flight could be fatal.

but barack is not an option shattered dreams starts january 18th on t.w. . nico is in germany to learn german. to look beneath. why not learn with him online on the mobile and free to shaft the w e learning course nico speak. the u.s. is preparing for a presidential transition like no other in history after inciting the violence storming of congress donald trump now says that he will break with tradition and stay away from his success. cers inauguration it will be a sober ceremony for president elect biden next week with security services on high alert amidst warnings that right wing groups could be planning to repeat the angry

protests at the capitol congress has responded by the to the storming by initiating a 2nd impeachment against trump who has been banned by social media but the outgoing president continues to claim he is the rightful winner of the election and just supporters believe him our title today joe biden becomes us president but how dangerous does donald trump remain. a. little. hello and welcome to to the point it's a pleasure to welcome our guests marcus kind is foreign policy expert and senior fellow at the s.w. p. institute for international insecurity affairs here in berlin and he says trump might for now leave the political stage but he 74000000 followers won't be going away. and it's great to have with us jamie fly he is a republican who is currently working with the german marshall fund in berlin he

says donald trump's ability to threaten american democracy is fading but his legacy will loom large over the country for years to come. and soraya nelson is a freelance journalist based here in berlin she works with the or it has the podcast common ground and is a former correspondent for the u.s. public radio n.p.r. she says barring conviction in the u.s. senate donald trump will retain his hold on the republican party. so our title asks how dangerous trump will remain and let's begin with the present and the immediate future sariah nelson how her. it is the threat of violent attacks in the coming days i think it's very high mean that's you can see that with 20000 national guard and other troops that are basically deployed to the u.s.

capital i mean that's what is it at this point 5 times as many as you have in afghanistan which is a much more dangerous place just to give you some some point of comparison so it's very dangerous and certainly the authorities there are reacting in that way it's quite the lockout in washington from what i understand people are having really hard time getting back and forth going to work and obviously we saw yesterday at the capitol how people are we saw how people are having a hard time getting into the capitol at all unless they go through metal detectors if they're even if they're members. you said in your opening statement that trump's ability to threaten us democracy is fading but just 2 days ago he held a rally at the southern border of the united states once again denied responsibility for fomenting that attack at the capitol and partridge himself is the victim of a witch hunt doesn't he there by stoke the ongoing anger of his supporters and also their urge to take violent revenge. i think there's some potential for that given

that he still is not embracing the fact that joe biden will be inaugurated as the next president however if you look at his statements including the video he put out yesterday. he is singing a different tune certainly than he was in the weeks running up to january 6th he actually is urging his people not to be violent he never even talked in those terms prior to all of this the reasons for that are unclear whether it's his own personal interest and he's trying to stave off conviction but i don't think he is trying to incite the sort of frenzy that we saw in january 6th at this point and honestly he doesn't have the platform to amplify that message even if he wanted to and so i think all in all we're in a better place than we were on january 6th the key question is you know what groups are going to show up and will law enforcement and the intelligence community be better prepared this time and indications are that they will but we have to say modest crime authorities are now releasing new findings about the storming of the

capital on january 6th as a security expert would you say that these indicate that that was in fact a planned intentional attack or was it rather as spontaneous outburst by a mob that essentially got out of control. but what seems sure to me is that actually we could expect some kind of fun and even think we would be surprised if we would have seen something like political violence in the context of the election process being over with november actually i was expecting some polling stations being burning or something being to do to do something else so i think nobody could prove predict what could happen and what would happen at the capital one week ago but i really would be surprised about the. both the determination of these kind of groups and therefore i'm going to have. if we call it the plan or schedule or whatever

but i think it comes as no surprise given the political polarization and deep division over u.s. society that there are some actors some groups being determined to. perpetrate violent acts against democratic institutions soraya hasn't the f.b.i. indicated that there definitely was some measure of concerted action here we have some very heavily armed individuals who moved toward the capital who came from far away so clearly with intent we also have some indications of very lax security at the capitol and today even reports that apparently there were abnormally high visitor numbers on the day before january 6th indicating perhaps that people were casing the joint and some allegations in fact that certain republican congressman

who have not been named as of the more as of this morning who are giving tours to people sort of recognizance tours if you will to people who were said to have been involved in the attacks on saturday on the following day on wednesday so it's very disturbing i mean it does seem that there was some forethought and some planning that went into it and it's something that i don't think will go away i mean i as mentioned i mean i think there are a lot of very angry people out there on the on that side in particular and right now i'm sure that the anger is being stoked by the fact that the president is stepping back from being fully supportive of what was going on he's no longer saying i love you you know it's now saying i don't condone violence but it's important to know that this is not necessarily orchestrated that every everything is not necessarily orchestrated because look at what's happening at the airports when congressmen are being approached by individuals who are getting in their face or in their all these videos that are being posted now about that sort of aggressive and it runs out for example yeah hi. washington him being called

a traitor here who are on the plane or even more recently was i think congressman korea from from california who was accosted at dulles international airport just a few days ago jimmy fry. just mentioned it to their indications that several state congressional representatives of state parliaments but also possibly 2 members of the house of representatives the federal congress were taking part in this invasion of the capitol for you as a republican how does that make you feel oh it's obviously disgraceful for the republican party but this is the problem after 4 years of donald trump he has brought the friends basically into the mainstream of the republican party you now have republican members of congress who were elected as open supporters of the conspiracy theory q. and on and to the credit of house republican leadership they initially tried to

defeat these people in primaries but when they still won the primaries the house leadership people like kevin mccarthy steve scully's embrace them and said will welcome you as a normal member and so yes you have people inside the capitol members of congress who are very much in line i think ideologically with some of the angry mob that was you know tearing down the windows and doors of the capitol and so it's it's a frightening development i think even for the ability of congress as an institution to move forward when you have so much distrust within the body itself and you even had members on the democratic side accusing republican members of live tweeting the location of nancy pelosi during the riot and when you're at that level when you don't even trust your fellow lawmaker i think it's very difficult to unite the country and to actually move forward together let's take a closer look at the followers who took up trump's call to march on the capitol.

tab. incited by donald trump's accusations of election fraud to supporters blaze a trail of destruction through the capitol insurrection is hitting american democracy right in the heart and in doing so the writers believe that they are well within their rights. to the normal good party going to since. we want our country back we are protesting our freedom right now. facebook and twitter since suspended donald trump's accounts so he can't continue to incite more violence but he and his supporters are here to stay donald trump has already announced that he will open his own media channel. it is not the it's just the beginning. but just how much of a danger do donald trump and his supporters posed to the next u.s.

president joe biden. normal good law abiding citizens time if you see those pictures at least to many people abroad they look a lot like a putsch. i won't call it a put because nobody really intended to to to fight for the political pollard to take back our country isn't that code language for essentially not handing over power to the democrats i'm not sure but i think what has been revealed by the pick is that there's a huge disrespect for democratic institutions and youth is free of disrespect for democratic procedure yes and a huge disrespect for the political opponent would go in terms of political opponent but in us terms has become actually the enemy which has to be excluded from the political discourse and this is not to us specific i think you can make the same i win that political groups here in germany. reflect on the same reflect

with or represent the same ideas this is the revie frightening and concerning issue here that regardless of the specific institutional affiliation of the specific group they belong to day and night this united bond of disrespect and discredit disrespect for the media could be had as well. these united bunch of united but just one of disrespect and my concern is that won't go away for the foreseeable future certainly sariah males and president trump did a great deal to stoke those resentments with language that took political discourse in a new direction over the past 4 years social media platforms have now decided to bar him after doing a lot to enable him over the last 4 years do you think that's necessary and right or is there

a risk that this will only reinforce the myth of his martyrdom i think the latter i think that at least in the in the initial stages here it depends on who else is silenced i mean because certainly his son and other you know his supporters. are talking about the fact that he has been censored and that this is wrong and that he's you know freedom is is now gone and these are all very insightful sort of comments and approaches that i think are just going to fan those flames and reinforce the notion as as marcus mentioned that there is an enemy rather than a political opponent you seem to take a different view on that jamie frye you said a moment ago that barring him from social media would significantly decrease his influence i think that in his particular case he obviously violated the terms of service of these platforms on so many occasions i think the companies actually should have acted much a long time ago and not just with him i mean i think the danger is where this is

headed is i don't know that private companies have the capabilities or are the people that we should have policing our speech and so we have a fundamental problem in democracies as specially the united states where there hasn't been significant regulation and now the fact that he and other conservatives are starting to get their account shut down and it is increasing the sense of victimhood and the term for it on the right is cancel culture and so i don't think we've found the right approach i do think in this interim period it was the right thing to remove his platform because i think he could have done a lot more damage in the run up to the inauguration but the companies ultimately neat and working with the government need to come up with a better solution and it's not just donald trump honestly the more concerning thing are the full of far right and far left groups the extremists the q and on conspiracy theorists and the companies also were very slow to tackle the rise of those groups online and the way that those groups use their platforms for organizing the very sort of gathering that occurred on january so we could clearly

devote the rest of the show and many others to the role of social media but let me take us on to the newly inaugurated impeachment proceedings the 2nd impeachment process. eatings against donald trump mitch mcconnell. who is still the senate majority leader that will change after next week but he says that. he also thinks impeachment actually might be a way to separate the republic can party essentially from donald trump as a harmful influence going forward do you think that's right i think it's potentially right just because of the technicalities of it at least opens a path towards donald trump being barred from running for federal office i think there are some constitutional questions that will probably have to get resolved of a conviction does occur in the senate that may lead more senators to be willing to convict than was the case.