[000:00:00;00] ah m ah, ah ah, this is news life from berlin. this bramble to stop arm across european health regulators approve a new corona virus backseat. the u. s. made novak's job use this conventional technology. the biotech firm hopes it will reduce vaccine hesitancy,

deliveries to europe. it start as soon as next couple of weeks also coming up, shift to the left chile, a legs. it's the youngest ever president. gabrielle burridge, a left wing, former student protest leader defeats his far right arrival after a bruising campaign and vows to re make the country and the fighting has moved on. but the people are still suffering. news visits, a town in ethiopia wrecked by the countries bloody conflict. and bethlehem tries to find some christmas share in a 2nd holiday season marked by the pandemic. ah, well, all right, thank you so much for joining us. or we start, we're breaking developments moments ago. the european union's medicines regulator has approved

a new corona virus vaccine made by us biotech company novak's. it's the 5th job to get the green light for use within the european union. for those 18 and above. the regulator said trial data showed the nova vax jap had no sir. yes, side effects it requires, it requires 2 doses, 3 weeks apart. it showed high effectiveness against older corona, virus variance but it is unclear how it will perform against i'm a chron. novak's uses an older protein based technology raising hopes that it can convince people who are hesitant about taking the newer m r and a vaccines like to bring in now dr. deep to were dasani and epidemiologist at queen mary university in london. doctor, thank you so much for your time. 5 vaccines are now approved in europe. what does

this latest novak's a shot to bring to the table that the others are not? i think it brings and other vaccine, which is always a good thing, given the supply shortages that we have across multiple countries. it's also a vaccine that doesn't require the sort of cold storage that the amount of vaccines do. it's potentially affecting that can be used much more widely across no, what made it come countries where cold chains may not be quite in the same rate or get acquired with m r. any vaccines? having said that, of course we don't know what the effectiveness is against on the crime, you know whether boosting is required in the same way as like other vaccines and when. so i think those are questions that need to be urgency on such as we understand its value overall in terms of global vaccine equity isn't what we need right now, vaccine. that is specifically a targeting alma kron so i don't think that in itself is sufficient. i mean, the thing is we've had about a new weight in every 3 to 6 months. and unless we able to slow down the evolution

devised by containing transmission, it's very, very likely that will be faced with a new variant in another 6 months or so. so what we need is monte valence vaccines that hit multiple radians, as well as other measures to slow down transmission so that we can actually slow down the rate of evolution of the virus to we're not faced with a new rating. every time we develop and other vaccine against a previous variant. so do you then and visit your situation where it will have to get vaccinated more often every couple of months whenever a new variance, well manifest itself. i think that's way like and i don't think that's something novel. i mean, we need to remember that, you know, we get vaccinated for flu with whatever strain of flu is circulating every single year. so i don't think that in itself, you know, is, is massively problematic, but i do think that given it takes a 6 month period or so to approve when you vaccine and test it out. we do need to

still slow the spread. the virus boost does will help even boost as against previously, because they provide very, very high levels of unity which can override that sort of escape that we're seeing even with all microns. so getting boost, as is vitally important, but it's also important to take other measures alongside to reduce transmission so that the virus is not constantly ahead of vaccine development and tension. so, but what is the most important metric right now? i mean, we're talking about a micron being very contagious, and spreads very easily. should we be paying attention to the number of infections or the number of hospitalizations. what do you look at? so i have to wait a spread is going to be the most important determining factor for you for impact when you have a beta that spreading or doubling every 2 days. that's faster than any beta we've seen so far. it doesn't matter in some ways how severe it is because the impact would mostly be determined by the number of people infected. so even if a big aunt is less of yeah, that just buys you a few days given cases,

a doubling every 2 days. so, you know, given on the crown is spreading very, very rapidly, it has very, very high potential for population in fact, and overwhelming health care services. so we need to really act early because we are on that sort of curve of exponential spread. and we already see what's happening the you can denmark and we need to preempt that in other parts of europe . and dr. a final thought from you, of course, a lot of people are hoping to she loved ones during this festive season. what's your message for even to those people? for those people? i think my message would be, we are in a crisis. i think there's a real possibility that many people across europe will not have an emergency care available to them in january. the way things are headed and the on the kron bade will spread in other parts of europe as it has been in denmark and, and the u. k. and we'll see similar crisis. so if you can't just hunker down for christmas, and you can have social contact with people later on, because this is sort of an on precedent prices, most of us can't, can't even save what the predicted anti impact is going to be. but it's not worth

taking the risk, dr. deep to your good assign the epidemiologist at the queen mary university and london. doctor, thank you so much for answering our questions. while the levers of the new were novak's vaccine are expected to start within weeks. just as your battles of serge infections from the arm across variant or many countries are tightening. travel restrictions than islands has imposed a strict lockdown closing non essential shops, restaurants, and public places until at least mid january. it's a big blow for businesses hoping for a christmas boost. d. w. corresponded christine would run. our reports from amsterdam. christmas is already over. at this local markets in amsterdam. so this was supposed to be a christmas market, people spinning the day here, buying. also, christmas festivity treats like lu via etc. but as you can see within hours

everything's been taken down. one gentleman, i spoke to the fact he's right behind me. he wouldn't come on camera, but he's fuming, he's raging. and he spent the last 2 weeks preparing after this. and basically the celebrations are over before they've even begun after the holidays were canceled. last year, this christmas was supposed to be different, but the new restrictions which mean no shopping or restaurant dining. on the surprise gift nobody wanted. and even the outdoor national favorite pastime has been put on ice. yet the restrictions makes its again unbelievable to through operates of the ring for this year. last year we close. so for this year we finally had the opportunity to open up again and to, to make the losses of last year to, to make it a little bit more profitable. hopefully, we don't have much to look forward to now. the next couple of weeks is we can't really go ice skating for her. it's not just the locals, the cities,

visitors. i'll also losing out on amsterdam, massey and do favorites. we are here from florida. and we were going to go to the van, go museum, we're going to go the and frank house. unfortunately, it's all closed. so is sept, improvising walker? i'm a look at everything. so the dutch government said the measures were an avoidable as cove at 19 infections. so among the population, the new variant omicron, which was 1st reported he had 3 weeks ago, is expected to be the dominant variant before the end of this yet. oh, oblique outlook that some are still trying to keep the festive chair. it's dark times at the moment here and hold on to enter. what i'm trying to do is to tear people a little bit up. i wish them a merry christmas, and i make though it makes them lawful the faces.

ah. that report that christine owned lot from amsterdam. well, let's take a look now at the, at the other developments in the pandemic, israel has band travel to the united states, germany and 8 other countries due to the spread of the army con variant on the measures will come into force at midnight on tuesday. and the world economic form, the annual gathering of business and political elites in the swiss mountain resort of davos, has been postponed until summer and south african presence there rem, oppose a has returned to work after testing positive for the virus and completing a week of isolation we turn our attention now to latin america. chili has elected a former student activist to become it's next president left us, gabrielle burridge, who's just 35 years old. defeated his far right rival. jose antonio cast by

a wider margin than expected. while i'm mister boris said, show victory promises a shift toward more progressive policies and a generational change ah, historic and jubilant victory. with 35 year old gabrielle. but it's chilly now, has its youngest ever president. he was helped to vote the barricade to take to the stage and recognize the people who have put him in power. the left wing, former student leader, had tapped into their anger at the country's economic model, and the inequality it is brought to when 56 percent of the vote. what do you see? again, my guarantee that i will be a president who cares for democracy and does not risk it. who listens more than he speaks, seeks unity and attends to the needs of the people daily. i will firmly fight against the privileges of a few and i will work every day for the quality of the chile and family will likely they'll get up. um, you know,

his promises range from protecting the environment to tackling chiles, private pension system. and his followers are full of hope. a nameless can wait any moment they feel ego anyway, none of them are not is no placed in in the history of chile. surely emotional more, something always makes so much progress. now we will move forward with social rights and continue to advance and fight against the far right. unlike them. c with a high voter turnout, borage squarely beat the far right candidate. jose antonio cast, but cast was dignified in his the seat. ah, the middle you get or said a courtesy. the 1st thing i want to do is congratulate gabrielle borage. he deserves all of our respect. you unfairly many children's trust him and we hope he will lead a good government going and in the ways we can with our legitimate differences. we

want to hound our nation and will say when i bought the battle about the the night though, belongs to burridge, who harolds a new political dawn for chile like to reach out now to do a reporter benjamin alvarez gruber. he joins us from santia with the chile where he is, of course, covering this story for you. we're so good to see benjamin what is chile going to look like under president bridge? good afternoon, layla. he promised to continue with the path off this constitutional assembly distracting and your constitution, including the indigenous population, strengthening a women brought women's rights also. and that's why you see a start, a really, really big difference to his fall right candidate to the forehead candidate. jose antonio cast that we just saw in the report there. he was indeed a protest lead us student protest, ledia and 2011 and in 2014 with other colleagues. he made it into parliament from there,

he pushed also with air the politics and continued when he was then announced that he would be the presidential in candidate. also off the left when a party from the right wing, they always accused him of being far left. referring to the fact that he won also with the support of the communist party in the antique communism. not only in chile, but in latin, america's pretty strong will. back to the last presidential election, it was said that if the left wing candidate wins, chile would be sheila sweller. so all was referring to nicaragua and venezuela. but governor boris has a clear stand when it comes to the human rights abuses in his will. and also in nicaragua, and of course the human rights crisis, not only during the past years of their presidency, of the conservative a president of us, the opinion, but also during that dictatorship played a huge role in this vote. and in conclusion,

benjamin how polarized is chilly at the moment and can't president elect were, it's unify the country. it will be a very big task, not only because he will be the youngest ever president at this country, have to be at least 35 years old to be a president. and he has no clear majority in congress and parliament. so they will have to try to find agreement with a right when talking and it's different between being a candidate and being a president. and that's one of the advisors that are going president. the conservative a outgoing presidency gave gabriel board. so he has a lot of ideas, he wants to tackle it problems when it comes to education, when it comes to inequality when it comes to the pension system. so he will have to see also specially when it comes to the economy of chile that has seen also severe problems during the course $900.00 condemning over the past year. if you will be able, he said he will be difficult yesterday when he approach tens of thousands who joined