it's the new restrictions will only be compulsory from the 28th of december. new year is said to be unusually quiet with sports events played in empty stadiums and dance menus closed the sisters. so this is not the time for parties and social evenings in large groups, goes under. the government is putting hopes on continuing the high rate of vaccination through the christmas period. they hoped to deliver millions more japs by the end of the year and $30000000.00 in january in berlin. many people seem unfazed by the prospect of tougher measures. shut it in. i hadn't planned anything big anyway, just a small family gathering that is best they ran as a thin, lighter aunt. we're 10 people and of course we would like to celebrate christmas together. the adults are all boosted that and i get a p, c, r test. every other day i go to. so we feel we are on the safe side who in the unsolved as this happens, i to the tiffany,

6 of us will get together with friends. unfortunately, without family there in stuttgart munich, we don't want to get on the train of driving to stressful, so we'll visit them next year stresses. as mahogany nicea, the chancellor says though infections are currently falling, it's only a matter of time before armor. crohn is the dominant cove it very into germany. corona has not stolen christmas, but the strain it is putting on the public and the politicians is not over yet. what i have talk now to tina rudolf, a doctor and member of the governing social democratic chisels on the cross party parliamentary health committee. method of welcome to day w. germany appears to be slightly ahead of army kron for now bought the rabbit cock in city. germany's center for disease control just yesterday recommended stricter and immediate measures. why is the government waiting another week? well, the recommendation and the appeal clearly is chevy,

us to act most carefully from the on. so it's a lot to meet people over christmas. we want people to have a merry christmas with their families, but we highly recommend a pill that the people most carefully getting tested when they meet in a group of people. and that they're restrict context as far as cost goes and at all people who are not already resonated, gets of explanation and get there was an explanation. it's a risk though, isn't it? i'm a week ago the r k. i said they were around a 112 confirmed cases of omicron here in germany. now those cases double in 2 days as is thought that would made around a 1000000 cases by january 10th. i mean is appealing to people really enough. that is true. this is what we face and what we fear for didn't really that the numbers will double the train every 2 or 3 days. that's what you can see in other

countries. and this is what we have to prevent. so yeah, the strong appeal is that people are acting most carefully. but on the other hand, it's the 2nd christmas. oh rich, where people are required to be careful where people are required to agree, choose context, and rethink that. it's best that people have the chance to meet each other that it's possible for a family's parents to see their children that they are capping me. and i think the people understood people who are understanding that we are in the crucial situation and read. yes, we have it that all people are most carefully. all right, let's talk about the critical infrastructure. we're looking at a breakdown of that critical infrastructure and not just hospitals. we're talking police fire fight is teaches garbage collectors. does the government have a plan? yeah, so we have an emergency plans are actually actually

nice and we will do the best we can to prevent that. so right now we are taking actions right now. we think about the situation we are going to face in january and what we can do to act as best as we can. so for now, germany is buying time by reducing contacts, but does germany to make vaccinations mandatory? do think not just the k workers, but everyone in the population. so yeah, as you mentioned, we already made the next nation mandatory for care workers. so for people who work in health situations, which was necessary resolve, the vaccination rate differ widely in this area. and so, yeah, as you know already know, there were some of the outbreaks, for example, nursing homes, explanation rage, rus russell, just approximately 50 percent. and this is not enough and we have to make sure that

the people are protected. and so this is what we already did and generally, and also a debate, and we will discuss the general mandatory of explanation fall. or if we have to leave it there, a bit of a doctor and member of the governing social democrat, thanks very much for your time. is a round up of some of the other developments in the pandemic. authorities in china have ordered 13000000 residents in the city of shyanne to stay at home after a cove at 19 outbreak was detected. there he on is the capital of some cheap province in central central china. israel has announced it will began offering a false dose of access to medical personnel and people over the age of 60. and you, as president joe biden introduced new measures to battle a surgeon corona virus cases, including providing 500000000 free rapid tests on micron is driving infections. they're causing 73 percent of new cases. button is also called on the unvaccinated

to get the shots. now to the humanitarian crisis unfolding in afghanistan, after western troops withdrew in late august, many governments halted shipments of humanitarian aid. now the country's economy and taxes and the taliban are unable to feed their own people. with more than $20000000.00 afghans estimated to be at risk of malnutrition, the ide organization. unicef has stepped in to fill the gap though, getting deliveries to those in need is a major challenge. the only road leading into this remote area along the border to pakistan has been partially destroyed by mines. we're driving to an area where the afghani army and the taliban font. for decades. the people who live in this village were caught between the 2 sides. now they suffer from extreme poverty. women and children have been especially hard hit by the situation midwives sent by

unicef are trying to help the desperate mothers. oh, i need medicine, but the streets are blocked and there has been a drought for years. there has been no rain. our children are suffering before. i hope they give us something. i need food for my 2 grandchildren. they are sick and don't have enough to eat. we have a better for the tele been used to shoot at the aid workers. but now the women are allowed to enter the village. how you most of these a hawaii has to bring more medicine here because every day more patients come get us a leverage is more, we're having problems getting supplies. but i thought of the i teach at the problem or had come with be deco law coming out of the fact that women speak openly with us . anger's, the taliban. i could, one of us love of them on our women must cover their faces almost to the upper did that duty was. they push us back up and we have to stop filming only after we are joined by the unicef communications team and their accompanying taliban. does the

situation calm down? they drive with us to the next village. it went to think this woman is pregnant. the mobile units have health team examines her. the next hospital is 2 hours away. her children are malnourished. a woman wants to show us how she lives and invites us into her house. her family has many children and little space, no heating and nearly nothing to eat. but this is what i will cook today. i will give it to the little ones so they can have something warm to eat. it's a small bowl of corn meal. that's all we have. oh, i can work more and more people crowd around the unicef aid workers. they don't have enough of anything including food. the needs are so immense. and because we're

not only providing basic humanitarian assistance, we are also having to support a system from collapse the taliban riding with the unicef workers are heavily armed . they repeatedly make it clear that in afghanistan, the un organization can only help people in need if they allow it for more on this, let's bring an afghan born nadeem and she's not on social media. she and her family fled the country when she was still a baby, but she decided to return as an adult and as founded and n g o cold dream voice act which works to support afghan women. not a my welcome to d w and tell us a little bit about your daily experience since the taliban took control in august. how is it being for your organization there? well, thank you for having me, rebecca. thanks to all your team. and every once 30, my sure to low one is some are not random that could you how do i do?

like i said, you know, they say you think, i think it's us since august 15. you know, i am, like you said, i'm a political social media manager influence. sure enough, one is done. i've been in a one for 2 years. and what i do is i create content on media about healthy eating, create awareness about education, ugly culture, and encourage both men and women to get into for nurse ship. because as you know, that once we have financial independence, we're not asking anyone for basic rights in a want. it's dawn. i've been there for 2 years. and what i've witnessed is what is already happening, that finally the world's paying attention to the basic needs of the people that are honest, that they've been deprived for 21 years or 21 years. everything was under the rub. it was an image shown above the so called democracy, which was never there was, i think more of a teacher ship i. so now what's happening in my reality,

i've been providing aides to provinces a trying to get the world's attention and to support organization. so we can provide the support to the winning the children, and the men in different parts of, of grandson. so for me, i have been encouraged to continue my work as a woman in a one is done, i've been applaud by the new government to do the work i've been doing. i've been encouraged to go into media and treat positive influence that i'm experiencing. i've been going in the media, as you can see in social media, facebook, youtube, instagram, all the channels that i can access. i've been telling the world that there's 2 situation that's happening. there's one, the world not wanting to recognize the government and the other. the who, many charities eyes and organization government and the public dealer. so my question to the international committee is, why are they not paying attention to women like myself, that

a willing and able to just connect with different people? so that's what i want to know is my 6th, i'm sorry to interrupt you there, but we are running out of time and i just want to say, well, you know, i mean it's, it's an interesting perspective and not one that we, we hear often from afghanistan at the moment it sounds sounds to me that you're saying that the taliban coming in to power has been a positive thing for the country. but is that representative of you perhaps speaking from a position of privileged or lays that representative of other women in afghanistan? i don't understand what you mean currently i'm a woman that's doing working against everyone does an image that's shown, like i said earlier, that i'm not saying anything positive or negative of just plain and simple. that if anyone wants to help your department, even your radio station, even yourself, how are we going to help me as a woman to help these women? we talk about empowering women. let's focus of the basic needs in which really wanted for women anywhere in the world. this give them the basic needs or they

don't have to prostitute themself or bank of the street. so in a one is done, if we want to power women, then in 21 years there's been women making on the street. and then when i came to years ago and is still there. so when to tell the bundle there or not, my work is continue, it will continue. yes, i see this a shortness from the government, the new taliban saying do your work? yes. my more my intention here. a world to realize that the way the image is big trade about the women and all of a lot of stuff is not true for my in my life. right. critically important work that you do that in a dilemma. and it really interesting perspective for us to hear on this program. unfortunately, i have to cut it shortly because it's simply run out of time. but really lovely to talk to you love you to have a lovely to have you on the program act on women's rights activists. now the my joining us today from kata. thank you. thank you for having me.

let's take a look now at some of the other stories making headlines around the world may be as long awaited presidential election has been cancelled. a parliamentary committee said, holding the vote scheduled for this friday would be impossible. maybe as election board has proposed postponing the pole to the 24th of january, the election was part of a u. n. lead process to bring peace to the country. the world food program has warned that millions of people in yemen will face hunger after it was forced to cut aid to the war torn country for you and agency has received only half of the funding it requested in march to keep up food supplies to yemen, that a gasket minister of police says he survived a helicopter crash at sea by swimming for 12 hours to reach the shore. so gala was inspecting a shipwreck off the coast of madagascar on monday when his aircraft crashed. he's one of 2 survivors. well when the abernathy hope family in

english city of bristol, lost their son billy in a motorcycle accident, they started a project to help homeless people in his memory. some people are reluctant to give harmless people money in case they spend it on alcohol or other drugs, but with so called billie chips. the homeless can buy food and hot drinks in local businesses. they w bigot mouse reports. not simply to walk on by but to help others. that's one thing meghan abernethy hope learned from her brother biddy. right. is there anything that i can get you she often stops in bristol says she said to talk to homeless people like laura, i think you need a bit of courage and a bit of humanity because it's just like having a chat with anybody. arrows and i think that fair and worry of approaching people is what stops that love and that transaction. and i'm hard for megan and her father john, it's the way of channeling their love for billy to all of us who needed he was

only 21. he was killed in a motorcycle accident, but he was already concerned about those with no were to call home really said, why don't they just invent a token that you could buy and then exchange for food and drink. and i think he saw that that would reduce the barriers because people would know it was a safe, secure thing to do. and then people would also, you know, communicate more with homeless people. after billy died, john and megan decided to go ahead with a project creating tokens which can be exchanged and cafes for food and drink for the homeless. the chips with q r code on a window sticker is while dozens of outlets in and around bristol, have joined the scheme using the tokens known as billy chips. they cost $2.00 pounds each enough for a hot drink. that often changes mostly. and i think it does something about the reassurance of how a woman spent,

which is good as well. the right of the over charity say the number of homeless people in england has doubled in recent years. many of them in bristol have come across megan and john and the billy chips. yeah, they're really good. what do you like about them getting free coffee? is absolutely vital to have a warm drink through the cold night. if you're on a visa. mm hm. phenom, why would you even though the economy, those people will still give money? but john and megan hope the billy chips will reassure homeless people that they to a part of the community. we poured our love that was our grief. we could no longer pour into billions and we put it into the billy chip. we created a legacy. we've in a way immortalized the key values that billy had as

a human being. his father and sister know that if billy was still alive, he will be proud of his scheme named after him. alright, what will it be? the red pill or the blue pill that was the choice? i think keanu reeves more than 20 years ago in the groundbreaking science fiction epic, the matrix, the film and it's tuesday cool, depicted dystopian future in which humans are trapped by machines inside a simulated reality. now matrix for has hit cinema's grades in a premier, delayed several times by the pandemic, but doesn't measure up to the originals. his are review. i thomas boss who would to decade print the matrix revolutions. tell me what happened, thomas anderson, a neo is living an ordinary life in san francisco when event take your turn for the weird. am i crazy?

we don't use that word in here. and he finds himself mixed up again in a war between humanity and robots. the matrix resurrection sees keanu reeves and carrie, anne moss, reprise their roles as deemed rebel lovers, neo. and trinity, we may, i think it's everything that you can hope for in a matrix. drill and, and then so on. i think hopefully you can be inspiring, you know, help us always sort of a matrix films as a tool. you kind of in that help pursue the world direct to learn. we chowsky is back at the helm of for the 4th outing of the science fiction action thriller. filming began in february 2020. but it was interrupted by the pandemic that set the release date back 7 months. but the wait was worth it.

anticipation has reached fever pitch and the matrix resurrection is expected to be one of the most successful cinema leases of the year. after all these years, to be going back to where it all started. back to the matrix, ah, back to the matrix, let's go back to our master of movies at scott roxborough, who joins us from cologne. scott, you've seen the movie? i have a bit of a confession. i haven't seen 12 or 3, but you've seen all for now. how does the 4th one shape up of the addresses here? are you sick of the film? because i think how you respond to this movie. a depends a lot on whether you, how you felt about the 1st movies of because this film is a real nostalgic callback to the earlier films, particularly the 1st movie. i mean, in some ways, it's almost

a rewrite of that 1st movie. it's almost the same plot. again, we have this character neo, um, who's a programmer and he's uncertain if the world around him is real or actually just the computer simulation of this new film adds another metal level to that in a way that allows the director of which ascii to comment on the original 3 matrix films and the fans response to them, which is kind of interesting. i'm and this film like his predecessors is a big action of blockbuster. and there's where i have a few problems with this new movie. because the 1st matrix film is really groundbreaking in its action, i mean a bullet time sequences. sort of made film history of this time around. i found the action a bit more of a retread. it's almost as atlanta which housekeepers are own cover band here. and she just sort of playing the hits for the fans, and it is great to see canneries and carrie anne moss return playing a neo and trinity in this new movie. but for me, this resurrections was less of

a 2nd coming and more of a reanimation of a film franchise that maybe should have been allowed to die with dignity will a 4th one. then why do you think direct, elena? for chowsky felt the need to return to the matrix yet that actually is a quite interesting and quite touching story. she says it was because of it was in response to the death of her parents a few years ago where she felt that if she couldn't bring them back, that maybe she could resurrect her 2 most famous, fictional characters, neo and trinity. and the production of the film itself was, was, was played with problems and had to shut down a drink cove it and through a lot of changes made, and hugo weaving, who played the original villain agent smith. in the 1st films he was supposed to reprise his role with this movie. i'm but he had a scheduling conflict us the role was rewritten and is your played by dropping for often? there's another switch where, um, yeah, he or a girl might mateen the 2nd plays aversion of morphia. the character may fear famous, vide laurence fishburne. in the original films, i think you can see a matrix resurrections as an attempt by which hosty to sort rewrite her own

fictional path, which is kind of interesting, but it's me, it has a slight problem because the matrix was so influential culturally, i mean a term like read telling that comes from the films, went directly into the pop culture vernacular. it makes it very, very difficult for this movie to really feel original. we, you said that there were problems where the production, because of the pandemic, the pandemic also delayed the release. now it finally ease being released just at a time when we're saying current of ours case, a search at kiana rapes might have been able to fight off an army of killer robots . but can the matrix survive the pandemic? and the box office i will see a spire maintenance experimented very well at the box office or recently. um and so people will obviously come out to see a movie. they really want to see, but you're right on the chrome. it's starting to close theaters we're seeing close theaters close in a lot of areas in europe already that might follow in the united states. it could be that this matrix summarized just as a theaters are shutting down again. i'm but there is hope for true matrix fans

because warner brothers is releasing this film simultaneously on its stream platform each b o max. look, you have access to that. you will be able to drop that red bill from the safety and comfort of your own couch at home. laura scott ross, but thanks very much for that. not your news update this out, but i go way made and germany is up. next. you can always get more news and analysis on our website as well. that's d, w dot com. i'm rebecca written for me on the entire team here in bold and thanks for watching. ah ah, with

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