the below. this is deja vu news live from berlin it's been one year since germany recorded its 1st coronavirus case hailed early on for its handling of the pandemic the country has gone on to lose more than 60000 lines to cope with 19 we look back on and on precedented year and ask what's yet to come. as concerns over a mutiny coronavirus variance grow the government considers drastic steps

chancellor merkel says she's against a complete ban on travel but flights into germany could be cut to almost 0. on the 76th anniversary of the liberation of the auschwitz concentration camp a holocaust survivor tells us why it is important to never forget. and football made in germany is in demand in the english premier league thomas total takes the reigns at chelsea joining your clock and hospitals in the top tier. thanks. i'm sumi so much kind of good to have you with us germany recorded over 13200 new coronavirus cases on wednesday a slight drop compared to the same day last week germany's disease control agency says that daily infection numbers are steadily decreasing but the scituate. remains

serious outbreaks are still being reported across the country particularly in nursing and care homes and the death rate remains very high with 982 deaths registered in the last 24 hour period. let's bring in our political correspondent with the very latest on this hi nina as we said the numbers are going down slightly but the government is considering more restrictions that tell us about this. well what we're hearing is that chancellor angela merkel has told fellow party members that she wants to restrict travel even further because of course you have to keep in mind that germany is surrounded by 9 neighboring countries so we're right in the middle of europe and people but also viruses have it easy to cross borders and so apparently she said everyone agrees now is not the time to be traveling it so she is apparently looking into plans put forward by her interior minister hosts the offer to massively reduce travel into germany

potentially and to impose much straights of border controls and has said that israel conservancy an example where of course the main airport has essentially been closed as part of an effort to avoid bringing on bringing in more of those mutations of the virus but chancellor merkel has not said when those new measures would become necessary because of course we have to look at the numbers and the developments and germany today recorded some 13000 new infections that's twice as many as yesterday 982 more people have died the numbers here yes have been going down for a few days now but they remain very high and we always have to keep in mind that during the 1st wave last spring the highest number of new daily infections was a little over 6200 vaccinations yes have started but it's been a very slow rollout ok well we'll talk about those new restrictions a little bit later but as you know nina today marks a one year since the very 1st coronavirus case was detected here in germany let's

take a look back at how the pandemic has unfolded here. jeremy 1st came across 1000 here at the offices of this automotive supplier in bavaria it's where 33 year old employee caught the novel virus from a coworker who had traveled to germany from china he became patient number one. german officials were quick to assure the public the country was taking the virus seriously but that there was also no cause for alarm. health minister younge bond told the public there's no need for exaggerated concern and. if this kind which is the world health organization echoed this with calls for simple measures like more hand washing self protection is still the best possible way we can go about this but infections spread to every region in germany contact tracing became impossible. germany's hold on the virus gave way to the free spread of

covert 19. then just 6 weeks after the 1st case was discovered in germany announced the closing of schools by the end of march a nationwide lockdown meant the workplace and the school day had to compete for attention in homes across the country. the bulk of people in germany seemed to take the restrictions in stride and agree with them with the budding spring germany slowly started opening up again. but by the start of me nearly 7000 people in germany had died. meanwhile elsewhere in europe the numbers range from more than 24000 to over 28000 deaths. in comparison with many european members germany appeared to have weathered the height of the crisis fairly well. many people enjoyed the warm summer months.

but then fall arrived and cases began to rise again. by november the so-called lockdown light was in place despite both calls for stricter measures. as well as protests against them. but the many locked down didn't work cases rosetta larning rates with more and more patients needing intensive care. by the christmas holidays restrictions have been tightened again and after the new year's rules and shops remain shut. the latest extension of germany's lockdown will continue through february 14th. so now we know that the government has been criticized for not having a strategy in place have lawmakers have officials here given any indication that

there is some sort of timeline going forward. it all depends on the developments particularly when it comes to the new mutations of the virus as a scientist herself and she does listen to people who tell her that we simply do not know enough about just how contagious those mutations are but there is a big concern that we're feeling here and in berlin with politicians scrambling to find a strategy that would give people some sort of perspective about when to ease restrictions again but at the same time balancing that against the aim of protecting the society from catching that virus and potentially having severe effects so it is highly unlikely that the current restrictions that are in place until the 14th of february will not that they'll be eased any time soon chancellor merkel and the regional leaders will sit down together again soon to discuss that topic because those new mutations are so contagious the big goal is of course to stop the new mutations

from causing cluster infections there is a lot of pressure that can be felt it is tangible to speed up the vaccination process a big blame game going on here and of course we've been dealing with this pandemic for a year now so people are tired and it is harder and harder for politicians to convince them to be disciplined but what is different to the 1st wave is that everybody knows somebody now who has been affected by covert in one way or another so people are still aware of the seriousness of the situation and there are politicians in a northern state here in germany who have put forward a plan which says just which criteria need to be met for germany to be able to ease restrictions again and in which order that should happen and those policy politicians are saying it is not the time to open up again now but people do need hope and they do need a clear vision to be able to be disciplined now when their freedoms have been limited for such

a long time already. reporting for us thank you. all right let's get some more perspective on one year of coded in germany we can speak to dr come you know who took she's the deputy head of division of infectious diseases and tropical medicine at the university hospital of munich dr hoto welcome to the show you discovered germany's very 1st case one year ago today did you feel back then that the year would turn out the way it has. and new certainly not certainly not the 1st case we discovered really was a big surprise to us in many ways and nevertheless i would would not have thought that we end up in a pandemic. back then we were actually contacted by a company from close by and munich. which we told does an interesting story that they had had. a visitor from china

visiting the week before who had to draw on very intense workshops and she'd fallen ill after her return to shanghai it was then and she says she formed ill with a fever and cough and been diagnosed with a new virus and chipped in film from the company. on the monday that she'd been found with that virus and we were we were flown by a businessman who wanted to be tested for the new virus and luckily we've already established who could do that test for you so we invited him to come and we saw him and this gentleman was actually a very mild deal he'd been ill over the weekend with a few were into cough but was actually already fine when we saw him it was a very big surprise to be that he was found to be diagnosed with a new virus and what interested me a lot was actually how the chinese visited a period during her visit right and whether she had been compromised in any way

what. if i could just jump in there and one of the some really significant things is that you and your team were some of the 1st to document asymptomatic infections and in fact you not only documented it but put it out there for others to read and people even tried to discredit your finding to know there were health officials lawmakers who did not heed your warnings what impact if that half. well actually it was. well. i think was fairly straightforward so this lady had appeared completely well and we'd had the chance later on to speak to on the phone and i think what i had caused confusion was that she she had my jet lag when she visited germany but she said she hadn't felt any up normal from what she knows and for some reason the fact that she'd felt jet leg was

distorted later and to a said well she might have had symptoms and may not just have noted this was however. of no importance if that these had been symptoms they were of no relevance right so if a person that is infected doesn't perceive herself to be infected there's no reason to stay at home or to get to bed to get tested and that was the big difference was sussed to south from 2003 which in which case patients would only be infectious when they were actually quite ill and virus like that was very easy to control you basically just tell anyone with symptoms to stay at home. big news really was that this virus is much more difficult to control and just very quickly if you can you need taishan start being detected now how worried are you about these variants. well i think from a scientific point it's not appropriate to be worried we know who just need to be

alert and be able to monitor the new of variance and to analyze the situation and so important to remain alert whilst at the same time we start vaccinating people and remain alert and remain cautious with the measures that we take until we completely understand the situation remain alert the message there from doctor coming from alum you university hospital in munich thank you so much for joining us. now germany's biggest newspaper is reporting that the government here as we heard it is considering additional more radical steps to slow the spread of coated 19 the daily paper billed a says plans have been drawn up to cut international air traffic to germany to near 0 the arrival of new more infectious variants of the virus in the country is fuelling concerns at a time when the rollout of vaccines is slower than expected germany has reported over 2000000 coronavirus cases since the start of the pandemic more than 52000

people have dined with covenant and we can get some perspective now with patrick sense for he's a member of the german parliament for the christian democrats the c.d.u. good morning mr stanbury so the travel association the german travel association has said here that freedom of movement is a basic right and that the government would actually be better served by concentrating on vaccinating as many people as possible do they have a point. of course is quite understandable opinion and we don't think about reducing our travel to 0 we're just thinking about the possibility that if mutations will come to germany and be called controlled and will fall away from the situation then we have to have options one option is all the controls and the other option is to reduce travel but right now we're just having plans of this we're not taking any measures right now what about the other part of that point from the

travel association that the government should rather focus more on trying to get as many people vaccinated as possible on the vaccination rollout here has been very slow. that's what we do and that's what we tried to be as fast as possible you showed in your. film before about the discussion about. how we have and we have some other possibilities we're talking also before we talk about reducing our travel we talk about more tests when you arrive in germany right now you can come from countries like egypt dubai was out having a test when you were landing in germany this was it measures that come before the discussion reducing our air travel why is that still the case that you can arrive from those countries and you're not getting tested that is a good question so we say we do go into parenting enough for 10 days or you make a test but i think in this situation we have to talk about mandatory tests when you arrive not bringing

a document with you that you have been tested before you had to be tested when you arrive in germany and parents you know should be controlled more but this is a big task because many many people come to germany and to control these people if their own home current you know is quite tricky i want to ask you something that we heard from chancellor merkel yesterday she was quoted in a meeting as saying the situation has slipped away from us and that actions have been taken too slowly why didn't the government act faster even on as you said testing people who are coming in from other countries germany is a federal country we have got 16 states and we have a different situation in the states it's not quite easy for the federal government to bring all the states in one line of the measure so we have some states who are very slow in the measures other states are faster and now we're discussing if we need more measures in at traveling testing when you arrive better control of the home parents you know i think that's a discussion now discussion is not bringing our trouble down to 0 we'll have to

leave it there patrick sanford from the c.d.u. german parliamentarian thank you thank you. well let's get a look now at some other developments in the pandemic the number of coded cases worldwide has now surpassed 100000000 that's according to johns hopkins university the kovacs vaccine sharing platform says it hopes to supply 1800000000 doses to poor countries this year a proof president francisco said gusty has ordered the total lockdown of the capital lima and 9 other regions following a surge in new cases there and a chinese woman has been sentenced to one year in prison for hiding her virus symptoms before boarding a flight from the u.s. to china last march she took medication to suppress a fever. and let's take a look now at some other stories making headlines around the world the netherlands has seen a 4th consecutive night of protests against coronavirus lockdown measures although the latest on rest was more isolated than on previous nights the country's 1st

curfew since world war 2 came into effect on saturday as a precaution against the new virus mutated mutation from the u.k. . the chinese government says it flew warplanes near taiwan last weekend as a warning against foreign interference and separatist forces on the island taiwan scrambled military fighters to monitor chinese aircraft and its air defense identification zone on saturday and sunday. u.s. president joe biden and russian president vladimir putin have reached a deal to extend the new start nuclear arms control treaty the treaty was supposed to expire early next month it limits the nuclear weapons washington and moscow can deploy the trumpet administration refused to extend the pact without concessions from russia. today marks international holocaust remembrance day it commemorates the $6000000.00 jews and the other victims of naziism with every year that passes there are fewer holocaust survivors still alive to tell their

story one man who survived the auschwitz concentration camps spoke to t w about his experience and about the importance of never forgetting. peter johan cardassian had a shelter childhood in a jewish family in transylvania. but it suddenly ended when he was 13 years old and . germans occupied transylvania in 1944 the german army with a short time later we were deported to auschwitz my entire family was murdered there. through various coincidences or i can also say with god's help i stayed alive. with. his sister and mother were immediately killed in the auschwitz gas chambers. in your heart and cardassian pretended he was older and was sent to various concentration camps for forced labor.

i was affected by the whole persecution. and the year it auschwitz and covering might have hardened me emotionally or scolded me up. i was no longer able to react to things as a normal person would. shortly before liberation got off managed to escape he later went to university built a career and started a family. with. my wife and i lived together for 7 years before we got married and i never talked about my past with her niece. sometimes i feel as if it were sunk in concrete in cement. and. now it is important for him to talk about it and about anti semitism today that

worries the 19 year old very much. a store was selling grape fruit from south america and israeli grapefruit from jaffa i thought those from java not out of jewish solidarity because they're better they taste better and the lady behind me said don't buy it from jews. of all regrets that he can no longer go into schools as a contemporary witness due to the pandemic talking to young people brought him much joy. escaped my 90 now. there aren't many survivors of my left i guess there won't be any of us left in 20 years. so it's good if it's recognised in schools and history books. but you can't make the young generation and the next young generation and the one that follows them are responsible for it you can't do that all you can say is never

forget. and we will be following the commemorations for holocaust remembrance day being held after german parliament starting at 11 o'clock central european time. now italy is facing new political turmoil after the resignation of prime minister 2 separate conti he stepped down after a small coalition partner pulled out of his cabinet that left him facing the prospect of a humiliating defeat in parliament this week in a vote on judicial reform but observers believe he may be in position to form a new government with broader political support. just last week does that because this seemed in bullish form as he addressed the senate . on tuesday morning he was being whisked from the queer and all palace having informed the president of his resignation.

the president of the republic so too much to rela has received this morning at the kernel palace the prime minister. resigned as head of government. isn't doing lay in his inability to secure supports for proposed judicial reform. his former coalition partner matteo renzi was the man whistling a different to the party chief has come under intense criticism in italy though he looks the most relaxed manner around concept our modern. probably had good reason to show everyone that this government did not have a sufficient majority i think however that they will find a solution. because it only deserves a good government. but not everyone in room was so sure. of my confidence in the government or not at this point.

especially with all the games being played. out for one extra member of parliament to reach it. this is not the way you going to country a country like italy. well you know no not very confident frankly because i think the behavior particularly of some political parties has been very irresponsible response of the. president could now charged with forming a new government if he can find additional support. whatever the outcome italians must now deal with political of people to add to the turmoil caused by a financial crisis and the pandemic. and we just have one sports item for you english football club shell see have confirmed thomas to hall as their new head coach he signed an 18 month contract with the london club to who is the latest

german coach to try his luck in the premier league so what can she expect from the new era we take a look at his career so far one that has been very much made in germany. thomas took over likes to do things his way the german coaches tactical accu men 1st became apparent said lowney bundesliga side months with his unique football philosophy the nickname long breaker. will still spot the suppression of guns folks we broke up thinking patterns in sports structures very old fashioned thinking paxson thoughts of presents across germany you know off season in the bonus league or we played with different systems. that attention to detail went as far as making the team all eat together. is the 1st and goofy but no one is the up you have to imagine a buffet for abundance really get seen has its from different soups and poultry to grilled fish and 3 kinds of desserts before i could even finish the seed paf the

team would already gone make. a circle cemented mights is placed in the burn is leader before following in the footsteps of yogen clawfoot still friends to lead them to the german cup in 27 gee thanks to his brand of attacking football it's on my clock trickle was unable to win the league with dorman's he was sacks of picked up his career in paris which star studded p.s.g. more trophies followed but the one they really wanted the champions league eluded them that so ultimately cost cold his job now a new challenge of whites in england. let's get a reminder now of our top stories aren't you it has been one year since germany recorded its 1st corona virus case the country was hailed initially for its handling of the pandemic but germany has gone on to lose more than 50000 lives to cope with 19 and is struggling to roll out its vaccination program as quickly as

other countries. and germany's government is considering drastically cutting travel from abroad to reduce cases of coping 19 with more infectious very. so the virus arriving in germany chancellor angela merkel reportedly wants to practically ban the tourism as much as israel has done that's according to members of her cabinet. shop next as our environmental show eco india state your. odds. of the.

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