is walked, will people should light on the opaque world? who's behind it? why are they a threat to whistle oak creek wolves? storks january 5th on d w. ah, ah ah, this is d deputies live from berlin authorities in europe extend corona virus restrictions in the hope of limiting the spread of the army. chrome variant to the netherlands calls a snap christmas lockdown with pops and non essential shops close for business.

london declares or major incident offer it sees and dramatic rise in cases. they're also coming up. hong kong holds a vote under new election roles, but only candidates beijing considered to be patriots are allowed to rot. ah, i'm rebecca route as welcome to the program. governments across europe a baffling to stem the huge increasing karone of ours cases. due to the only convent the netherlands has just become the 1st country in europe to reinstate a lockdown, which will last until at least mid january or non essential shops as well as restaurants, bars, cinemas, and theaters are closed as of sunday. meanwhile, the situation in the british capital london is also concerning. the cities mer has declared a major incident health authorities there reported their highest ever single daily

tally of chron of ours cases. at more than 26000. germany has declared the u. k. an area of high risk and implemented a 14 day quarantine for all arrivals. regardless of vaccination status. a city in crisis mode. lumniss being hit hard by the omi chron variant of the corona virus. it is already overtaken delta, as the dominant strain here, driving up infections and forcing them may of london to react hostile emissions are going up, but also stop absences. i got up by massive level, so i've taken the fission in consultation with our panos to declare a major incident today. the measure was last taken in january and allows local government to work more closely with emergency services. it's not just a capital that's in crisis for several days now. the u. k. has witnessed record case numbers in response. the government has stepped up its vaccination campaign

over 3000 locations across england. what turn into makeshift vaccination centers on saturday the world health organization says omicron has already been detected in 89 countries. more and more are responding to the new threat. now, dutch prime minister mac rota and saturday announced locked on that will limit gatherings of christmas and coast shops. restaurants and cultural venues. shop has rushed both them last minute purchased before the measures came into effect lockdown. oh none the w h o expects omicron to become dominant in the countries where it has taken hold. scientists won the surgeon, cases could further burden overstretch health systems and lead to staff shortages across many sectors. oh, earlier we spoke to john campbell, a health analyst and asked for his assessment on the situation in london. my big hope is because on the currently spreading so quickly, i think basically everyone in europe is going to be exposed to roma. crohn in the

next few weeks, that might be a few remote people that don't, everyone's going to be exposed to it. and we're hoping that most people are going to be protected against severe illness because of the large level of vaccination in the community. and because of the immunity that we have from people that already had the infection that is going to protect against severe disease. so we're really hopeful that is going to cause common cold type symptoms. now in london, at the moment, the most common features that people are getting are runny nose, headache, fatigue, sore throat and sneezing, is common cold type features. because every time someone has these features, that's going to give them a big boost to their immune system is going to protect the morgan stanley quantum to hopefully against the variance as well. so i'm really hoping that this, this wave could be a form of natural vaccination health analyst john campbell, speaking to us a little earlier. that's 10 now to some other stories making headlines around the world. the philippines disaster agency says the death toll from typhoon roy has risen to at least 80 people with officials warning many people remain missing. the

storm swept across the country on friday, leaving a trail of destruction and forcing 300000 people to evacuate. it's been called one of the most powerful storms to hit the philippines in recent years. you case brakes . it minister david frost has resigned due to disillusionment with prime minister barak johnston's government. it comes on for disastrous week for the prime minister with a bi election defeat and rebellion from his own. m. p. 's over the introduction of additional covert restrictions in hong kong polls have opened in the 1st parliamentary elections since the crackdown on the pro democracy movement by beijing voters. q to enter this pulling station when it opened. although overall turnout is expected to be load, it's the 1st legislative council election since beijing imposed a sweeping national security law and reformed the electoral system. under the new rules, only candidates considered hatred. i'll take to china can run any opposition.

candidates have been silenced child or have fled hong kong on kong later kerry lamb was one of the 1st to cast her vote. she denied that the government had said any voter turnout rights, but i do have sarah kia targets for this general election of the legislative council. one is to ensure patriots administering hong kong. and i think that objective has been met through the design of the kennedy eligibility review committees. database correspond, vitti can't pay. the hong is covering those elections for us in hong kong. phoebe only so called patriots are allowed to run in this election. how does a candidate prove to the election committee? he or she is a patriot? yes, so monopole a new stretch hold has been set up under a new electro rules to screen candidates why not deemed as patriotic according to

official standards? so essentially, a new batting body had by hong kong senior officials are, will be in charge or is in charge of screening the candidates that every single candidate to was around for the elections. moby assessed by these panel to determine whether they're patriotic or not, according to the requirements laid out in the national security and the basic law and audit on that. kennedy is also have to secure our nomination. take us from a panel which a stack of po beijing spec us, so on these kind of frat shows will essentially light up far too many also tow democracy candidates to run for the election. according to many critics in a society. what avenue do pro democracy activists have left to show their opposition? while the, on the election, they only a few activists from the opposition group are protested against on that you are the new elections. but are the majority of the opposition?

psychos are have shown that indifference to the new like game rules that they are most of the major opposition parties didn't send any members to run for the election, which is a very different from what they have done in the past. and our like our, the turnout rate is at the core issue of these election that many see this as a reflection of the legitimacy and a representative nurse off the new election act. over the 1st few hours of the election, lay around 10 percent of the algebra voters have cast that folds, which is a slightly lower figure compared to 2 attorneys, texting legislative action. and the government has done a lot to step up at those 2 are boost their turnout rate, including setting our polling stations at the border and also on to our even the offer free rights for public transport to attract people to cast that vote. and that government has also laid out new measures to deter people from protesting to

our blank votes. and boy caught up the elections that at least 14 people happy in the rest it, according to the new rules of the b, is the pro democracy movement still alive, or has been successfully squashed by the government. while the movement have been our last d a suppressed, i'll say that the imposition off the national security law on dozens of the leading factors are from the opposition. cam has now been detained or jailed of why under the national security law, and also for auto charges relating to the 2019 anti government tow test. so all many up to lee. there is an out light absent from the cbo society. and we have seen in many, steve o groups, many important organizations out from now position cam, happening to spend after the past year. so on, this is our, of course, the major blow today position movement, and the movement is now resorting to ada path outside the institution to continue

the momentum. hopefully favey. thank you. did have any correspondent fitting he becomes speaking to us from hong kong. i commemoration event is being held in berlin to day to mock 5 years since the islamist terror attack on a busy christmas market. the attacker 1st hijacked a truck killing the driver in and drove it into crowns at the bright, shiny plants, christmas market and central burden killing 11 more people. another man died a few weeks ago from injury sustained that night, bringing the death toll to 13. the attacker and his amory was a failed to nisan asylum seeker who was known to authorities. a few days later, he was shot dead by police while on the run in italy. the christmas lights are on and the moon is festive at the market in berlin's bright plots. at 1st glance it's hard to see any trace of the terror attack 5 years ago. but market trader, mux miller will never forget that day. he barely escaped with his life when

a truck plowed on to the site and destroyed his stand. page is far my knowledge. i was at work and heard a loud noise. it sounded like a dumpster being rolled away. there was a humming noise in the background. i turned around and saw the truck and what happened? then my wife and i ran to safety. the most pussy, it is all been to me for one awful finished of 13 people were killed in the attack and more than 60 it, the horror is not forgotten. despite this month's miller has opened a new stand at the christmas market, he prefers not to show us because he doesn't want publicity. how did he find the courage to return to the scene? football was good. i would say this is the best way of dealing with trauma. i was in therapy and learned how to cope with my feelings,

but it will be with me for the rest of my life. and when my children asked me, daddy, what was it like on that day, i will probably stutter a little before i can tell them the story. many visitors have mixed feelings about being at the christmas market. there is a holiday atmosphere, but also a sense of grief. especially at the memorial to the victims is have been la sheila chill running down my spine. i can't put it into words monday when you see the lights and smell the hot ducks, then you can forget the bad things for a little while. i guess when my court it was horrible that you can't change what happened men and by giving into the terrorists was never an option, says traitor max miller and his colleagues agree. and then as, as of atlanta, it will always be with us. oh, you can't forget something like that as well,

but we all said we have to keep going and not look back. that's what it was. and by dominant who was the only the memory of the attack will never go away. but to day, the christmas spirit has returned to berlin's bright plots. since for now and in bonus, they have football. don't mend, closed out their game with a shock last to her to berlin. and with that last, they have all the dash, the title hopes falling a whopping 9 points behind by munich. for lynch olympic stadium was lit up for the last match of the year with a sparse crowd of hats, a fancy enjoying the spectacle. and with their site hosting tournament, the match was set to be blue flashing hair to fighting to avoid the relegation battle came out, fires miss yon melita burst ahead adornments defense and tapped home just 15 minutes in. but after b a r check, she made a shock, belford ill, was world to be

a hair off side on the play. no go! the visitors didn't squandered their good fortune with julian bun summoning its spectacular tight ankle finish 60 minutes later. one mill dort men and their hopes of chasing by and still alive. but here to return from the half time break, reinvigorated both it'll make good on his early infraction racing past his opponents to equalize with the strong so record in the 51st minute 6 minutes later here to double their score motivation. a screamer lift workman's stunned with 20 minutes to play these, the twisted the knife, making a tree one hat stiffened tickets, cut dorkins deficit with the late header. but it was already too late. dorman,

were dealt their 2nd last and 4 matches. the serious blow to any realistic title hopes. while heritage celebrated the holiday gift of a massive step towards mid table safety and watching the date. evelyn, is that so uptake this hour, but don't go away. coming up or a short break life on the border of the russia ukraine crisis and i show world stories the we can reports, we'll have more headlines for you at the top of the hour. and until then that it weighs out website. that's d w dot com. i'm rebecca recessed in berlin from 8 and the entire team here. thanks very much for watching. i did is pulling those 1st girls to put a piano to soon a good in the model interposed. what's ab,

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