moves through. her. mood. this is the w. news live from berlin and tougher restrictions look to be on the way for germany amid an already tight block down chancellor merkel bringing forward talks with state leaders over what can be done to stay ahead of war transmissible cope with 19 variants also coming up in washington d.c. preparations for wednesday's inauguration are overshadowed by fears of further

unrest at the capital our correspondents report from behind the security cordon about a city on the edge. being michelin stars how the world's top restaurants guy is bringing cheer to an industry that's been pummeled by the pentagon. i'm sorry kelly welcome to the program german chancellor angela merkel and state leaders have brought forward a meeting to discuss extending coronavirus restrictions in a bid to keep ahead of new more transmissible variants of the virus here's how germany's incidence rate has developed over the past 10 days now it's an important indicator that reflects new infections per 100000 people and as you can see here there is a slight downward trend from 154 on january 9th to 132 today

but there's still a long way to go for that number to drop below 50 which is when the spread of the virus would be considered under control now germany's current measures are due to expire at the end of the month but now an extension and even stricter measures could be on the way. quiet streets in berlin and most who do venture out are wearing masks and it seems to be helping there's been a slight drop in the number of coded 19 infections but the government is preparing to further tighten restrictions until it is say that's a good thing. i think being strict to make sense and i'm hoping this will finally bring it all to an end. i really hope that we realise that we'll have to put up with these restrictions until at least the summer. after the ship where chancellor angela merkel will discuss tougher restrictions with state leaders that made concerns that new virus mutations could cause

a surge in new cases. highly infectious variants of the corona virus have been detected in germany one variant of spray 3 great britain the other through south africa and at the moment we have further warring reports from brazil . some opposition politicians are calling on the government to do more to stop people from going to work. perhaps at least possible for about 40 percent of all office workers to work from home last week only 14 percent did so we did better even during the 1st lock down so there is room for improvement. also on the agenda after varia made f f p 2 must compulsory in shops and on public transport they have higher filtering capabilities and it said the federal government is considering a nationwide adoption of the measure but these masks are more expensive people who

can't afford them will receive faxes. with health officials say in case numbers remain too high tougher restrictions are likely to be announced. and for more i'm joined now by d.w. political correspondent nina hauser so you know as we've been hearing chancellor merkel meeting germany's state premiers later today is a tougher lockdown on the way well what does seem clear is that the existing measures will likely be extended until the 15th of february and they're already quite strict and that would mean that schools for example would remain closed until then but also shops museums the its you name it and the hope is to have more reliable information on those new mutations of the virus to better be able to assess the risks posed by those various by then and other than that there are 3 new measures that are being debated number one in some regions like the very we saw it in the report it's already mandatory to wear more professional medical facemasks on public transport and in supermarkets and the social democrats for example say that

f.p. 2 mosques are too expensive so the compromise now seems to be to make medical mosques compulsory in supermarkets and on public transport and those would include the cheaper doctors mosques we know from hospitals and then to the government wants to force companies to have more people work from home office workers that is and 3 there is a debate about a nightly curfew nationwide but there is some resistance from regional leaders and those people ultimately have to enforce the measures yeah let's talk a little bit more about enforcing the measures on because you mentioned some new measures that would have to be enforced how about better in forcing some of the measures that are already in place nina. well yes a lot of the current restrictions apply to the private sphere and of course it's extremely difficult to enforce them because nobody here in germany wants police people to intrude into people's homes and so there is an attempt to have more regulations enforced in the workplace because of course we have

a bizarre situation at the moment you can only meet one person outside of your own household in private but when you're at work you're together with 10 or so colleagues for 8 plus i was in the office and of course those that risks undermining the exceptions of the measures and the appeals have not worked so no political ends are saying they will go to the last resort and force employers to prove that they really can't have people work from home and if they come prove that people will have to work from home. or with a view from berlin thank you so which lock down measures do work the best look for more on that let's bring in yon browner he is a researcher at oxford university who recently analyzed cove in 1000 data from more than 40 countries to identify the most useful lockdown measures the study was published in the journal science welcome t.w. and thank you so much for joining us to share these insights what did you find what are the top 3 useful lockdown measures. thanks their pleasure to be on the

show so many concerts as yours. though it's not super easy to study so but there are some things that you can still save your certainties so some things that you're pretty sure of is 1st of all a combination of many locked on measures together birth to reduce endemic spread. also it seems that most measures least a little bit. and you probably need like several of those and also like a general theme is that sadly the more drastic more severe measures on average are also more effective so not a person is can we may be fine it's not measures which are quite effective and also don't impose a massive cost on the population. nor very burdensome to the population and so.

measure to be identified in our study is the closure of educational institutions. my view on canada is quite effective at reducing transmission to d.c. because more like all other universities like orders are made it is not extremely high. ok and i mean that that that's a matter that's has really been debated and you know here in germany where we're broadcasting from you know the authorities here have said that they closing schools is actually sort of a last ditch measure although they are currently closed and if these extreme measures which are which are currently in pick place tell us what would your advice be for the authorities in terms of what they should do next especially you know in countries where only essential services are currently open and operating and the virus still isn't under control. so we'll i'm not an

expert on what exactly is happening in germany. is kind of already doing nearly everything that you have on a manual so obviously would be to read the. nation strategy to get its nations i want to as quickly and as actively as possible. so that is one thing of the united kingdom is really is really. that if you need. a combination of many many interventions many measures so you want people to wear masks every birdlike effectively and you want to use the. businesses the high risk of infections such as. bars or sit in restaurants. and i guess you probably want to. or at least.

teaching online is possible how about the kind the kind of mask. think that makes a difference. i think again it is really hard to study things like this and you don't have a ton of data from their way to the data that you have and also with like common sense it definitely seems that yes i have p 2 mosques see more effective than for example cup mosques. what is the a very big point is also not only to title but also how is it warns that war actually correctly or is the north has to be on the mosque obviously the. place is a war so in some countries mosques or you or i might probably consultation in other countries demanded we would never use devil inside of your house. so as a basically you want people to mosques everywhere you want to. the mouse properly

and then i.v. you would have as you said start to go mosques or to mosques rather than mosques really interesting stuff browner researcher at oxford university we thank you so much for joining us here on news to share the insights from your research yeah with the pressure thanks. and elsewhere in the world u.s. president elect joe biden's team says that he will not lift coronavirus travel restrictions for europe the u.k. ireland and brazil the comments coming after outgoing president donald trump announced those carbs would be lifted from january 26th a spokesperson for biden said that his administration plans to further tighten public health measures around international travel to help contain the virus all air passengers bound for the u.s. have to test negative for covert 19 within 3 days before arriving in the country.

meantime the f.b.i. is vetting all 25000 service personnel involved in security for joe biden's inauguration on wednesday officials have expressed concern about a possible insider attack or other potential threat now washington d.c. has become a fortress city of roadblocks and barricades security concerns have gripped the city since a violent mob stormed the capital on january 6th. downtown washington usually buzzing with people and traffic know a ghost town. on the other side it's traffic jams and checkpoints a city split into the center has become a militarized zone. and the u.s. capitol remains under a strict lockdown just days before the presidential inauguration we are just outside the closed perimeter and this is us close as the general public can get to the u.s. capitol which is currently cordoned off by

a 3 meter high fence and razor wire which is currently installed on top of the fence we're going to go inside the perimeter and out to get a glimpse on the preparations that are underway for an inauguration day that will be unlike any other in american history. soldiers instead of visit or as some 25000 members of the national guard us securing the capital grounds there has been some concern about a potential inside threat as not everyone is happy with the new president it's a sticky situation as far as politically and. i have my own i have my own thoughts below but in uniform i you know i can't convey them but i'm here to do a job i'm here to follow the order organization's doing and we're carrying on with that mission. president of the united states joseph jr and on the west side of the u.s. capital some normalcy is coming back rehearsal's and soundchecks where 2 weeks ago

thousands of supporters stormed the symbol of american democracy. the rehearsals for the inauguration ceremony were just completed on on this very long usually thousands gathered to cheer for their new president well this year many things will be different fear of an attack on the president means us. ceremony with hardly any guests the national mall will remain shut down and authorities asked citizens to stay far away for the sake of their own safety. in the area old buildings have been boarded up again after a year of protests and a pandemic these views have become a common sight for many washingtonians but businesses are suffering the business was not from last 8 months because we're in the commercial area and this is the commercial hub of all the offices around us are close and the security is beeves of so much uganda and we're moving over to the revisit this but mostly all the roads

are closed. a life behind fences and roadblocks those who live here can't wait until the new president is sworn in. and for more i'm joined by correspondent clue crossed our william what's expected on inauguration day and how long could these increased security measures last. well as we just saw in that report huge security presence more than double the number of national guard troops at this inauguration than normal inaugurations of course a presidential inauguration a presidential event is always going to be very high security but there's all these extra layers that we've been hearing about the last several days since that attack on the u.s. capitol mostly white fundamentalist mob really and the threat of the the acute threat is being said that it might extend till thursday a day after the inauguration but let's not forget that the far right groups white

supremacist groups these anti-government groups they did not start in this election cycle they're not going to end in this election cycle and while washington has long been a very high security zone especially post 911 it was always looking towards international particularly in islamised threat but if you watch a lot of that video from inside the capital i've watched a lot of it a lot of the language and the religious imagery from these people have professing to be christians very similar to the kind of islamist extremism that we saw that we've been hearing threats about for decades now and that threat is going to going to continue into the by the ministration as f.b.i. and law enforcement officials have long said has long been a threat towards the united states and pretty bleak picture here painting also i'd like to ask you about another aspect here we know that outgoing president donald trump has not been seen in public for a week what does he get up to. well as you mentioned at the top before that report he he made the statement that they were he was going to allow travel especially

from europe again because the united states is going to start requiring negative test proof of negative tests if you're coming into the country the bizarre thing is of course that's going to happen starting january 26th which is 6 days after donald trump ceases being president and joe biden becomes president biden ministry so that's just not going to happen we're going to continue you know keeping the corona dragnet so to speak very much present. it should be noted there's been really mixed signals from the scientific community this entire pandemic whether blanket travel bans even work if they're the most effective way to control the virus but the c.d.c. the centers for disease control has said that by march they're fearing that the dominant strain infecting people and spreading in the united states is going to be this extra extra vi rulon strain that we've seen starting in england in the last several weeks and that's why they're trying to prevent a wm just quickly tom planning to pardon as many as 100 people and his last day in

office according to reports what are you hearing that's right and i think more importantly i'm who might be on that list is who doesn't appear to be on that list which is many of the controversial figures in trump's inner circle members of his family who have not been charged any crimes but could theoretically be preemptively pardoned even donald trump himself preemptively pardon which would be of course a very constitutionally questionable and also his aides are saying don't do that because it would incriminate him it would be basically be an admission of wrongdoing but he still president through noon on wednesday and he can effectively do whatever he wants in that realm of pardoning we'll have to see what actually comes out of his announcements william glue croft reckon it down for us thank you. you're watching d.w. news still to come on the program the party has been postponed on bangkok's world famous backpacker stripped out of pandemic how will local businesses survive without those jurists. the 1st mexico's president under his manuel

lopez obrador has urged the incoming u.s. and ministration under joe biden to make major reforms to its immigration policy now his appeals come as a new caravan of migrants from honduras attempts to make its way through guatemala guatemala's foreign minister has said allowing them to cross through his country and reach a potentially closed border with mexico could create a humanitarian crisis he's asking him to us to help organize for their return. what started as a deterrent soon turned into a real use of force on monday guatemalan security forces despairs thousands of 100 migrants there stranded in the department of cheeky moola but want to continue their journey towards the united states is the 3rd time in recent days that soldiers have clashed with the caravan of migrants which includes women and children. as government accuses the caravan of being infiltrated by criminal gangs and says most of the migrants did not have the negative coronavirus tests required

to enter the country now they're being sent back to honduras even though they insist there is no home for them to return to. i don't want to go back i lost everything in that country. the clashes with guatemalan troops have sparked a new tensions between the 2 central american neighbors hundreds this human rights commissioner large data mallare to treat the migrants on their soil with respect. now all eyes are on mexico and how the government there will react if the caravan manages to cross guatemala and reach its border. so. we should have a dialogue with the migrant. is. destroying. jurors that is and in guatemala. so that they can be looked after.

and they don't enter any country by force. and in mumbai. the migrants are not expected to give up their mission after all it is the incoming u.s. administration that is feeling their who joe biden has just to take office on wednesday promised during his campaign to reform the strict migration poll the seeds imposed by his predecessor donald trump. and let's take a look at some other stories making news at home in prime minister giuseppe content is facing his 2nd confidence vote in as many days he's been addressing the senate where his position is weaker in the lower house of parliament. where he won a confidence vote on monday now his government was plunged into crisis last week after losing the support of a junior coalition partner. kremlin critic alexina vali has called on russians to take to the streets in protest after being jailed for 30 days of only was detained

on his return to moscow on sunday from germany where he had recovered from poisoning with a nerve agent prosecutors say that he violated the parole terms of a suspended sentence of ali called his jailing a mockery of justice. to thailand's now where the pen demick has dealt a severe blow to the tourism industry bangkok's once bustling house and road is now devoid of the usual foreign backpackers and the bars and restaurants who depend on them are struggling to make ends meet. go on other days when bangkok's backpackers street was filled with tourists and party goers today is just an empty strip with a few stalls still operating a year of pandemic has got toy shop keepers like you tom upon tone on the brink of despair. for the norm for me this street was never asleep.

argue now that you can earn a living both during the day and the night there are so many foreign visitors and some local. ordinances depend hit where everything's gone there are no foreign tourists and hardly any ties come here. officially called the council on road the street used to be especially busy in april when thai celebrate their new year a water festival would take place which was cancelled in 2020. copes as slim that it will return this year as thailand still struggles with the surge of coronavirus cases. 2021 does not look promising for the country's tourism. the best year that we can ever hit is about 40000000 a year on the tourism ok i think the best that we can get for this year 2021 maybe 10000000 ok so you have to wait and the other 2 more years

to make the tourism come back as normal. and that's way too long for you tell no one tong he says he might have to move back to the countryside if the situation continues as it is now. but he still hoping that one term wrists would turn to bangkok brighter days will come. on now it's the bible of fine dining the michelin guide its stars are coveted by chefs all over the world and widespread lockdowns and restaurant closures meant compiling the guide this year was especially challenging inspectors had to wait for restrictions to ease before packing in as many restaurants as it's possible but the work has borne fruit and for many and made for some very happy chefs you have to stick. oh. yeah that overcome with emotion after winning

a 3rd michelin star in the midst of to much u.s. times for the gastronomy industry this was a chink of light for chef alexander massiah despite the coronavirus pandemic forcing chefs to close their restaurant doors months the michelin guides annual french edition went ahead with its awards for 2021 and it's reward restaurants who got creative touring looks around. am restaurant was among them during the streets last year with a food truck when the country's gastronomy was forced to shut the him the star as a much needed boost. of the hearts it gives us energy for when we reopen so we're going to prepare ourselves for that prepare ourselves to be at this level you know it's like a top level sportsman has a serious injury you do everything you can to prepare yourself to be able to return to that pitch again. it'll make us even stronger to be able to

bounce back. some other feed lists have cancelled their rankings but michelin widely seen as the world's best on in the bible said they decided to bestow their verdicts to help highlight the industry in what's been a brutal year remember memphis are now more than ever it didn't make sense for our teams to waste the seattle even if we're coming out of a terrible year and even if there are difficulties ahead of us on the contrary we had to be there because not giving out the stars to be unfair to the chefs who worked the struggles who were creative and even in some cases succeeded in taking another step forward. chefs of us and has restaurant flowed to purvey one a michelin star last year. he said that while the lockdown meant his restaurant wasn't able to reap the benefits of winning the star he still welcomed the much needed recognition for the trades. i mean

i think if the michelin guys can help french just drawn to me and chefs who are having a very difficult time right now and put a spotlight on the profession then that's a good thing going into this film with mystic engine but shows with the pandemic raging on foodies will be unlikely to be able to book tables at his or any other restaurant any time soon. and with that now you're up to date on t.w. news fake you for watching.

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