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 gatherings as 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 differences the 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 versus as modern isna, 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. of wallet. being indeed only the chief political correspondent, melinda, cried. melinda, there's been a lot of criticism today that the measures are coming much too late. a little earlier, the federal minister of health come out to bass, spoke out with the president of the r k i. that's germany's center for disease control. did they have anything to say about that? but without addressing that critique directly, they certainly defended their decision to proceed. as they have with the health minister is saying, look,

nothing will stop federal states from putting measures into place sooner if they wish to do so. and in fact, at least one of the german federal states has said that it will institute these new measures as of the 24th of december and with the head of the country center for disease control. saying, look beyond these rules themselves. we're also making a strong appeal to every single individual, not to let the holidays become the sparks that turns only chron into a can flag conflagration, as he put it. and, and the fact is that the health minister said they have chosen this timing because they have seen that people tend to get infected on the weekend, often after visiting clubs and disco texts. and therefore, they are making sure that such venues will be shut over new years. the health minister also gave an indication though,

of the kind of dilemma that the politicians are facing saying fact is at the moment case numbers have been going down in fetching rates have been falling as germany essentially sees the 4th wave caused by the delta variant recede. and is yet to see a micron really get going. but he said, make no mistake about it. we must expect a 5th wave on the kron is here and it's spreading all the state and federal aid is in germany. have disagreed on the best way to fight the pandemic in the past east. they're more consensus this time there was a consensus at least in terms of, of how it was projected after this very important meeting. but at the same time, during the press conference, at least 2 of the federal straits states indicated that they are not satisfied with the current situation. not least because they say that the legislative framework is

no longer in place to ensure that germany can quickly adopt uniform measures across all of the federal states. there was such a legal structure in place during the, the latter part of the last government. but in fact, the new government chose not to continue that, saying that they wanted the boon to start the parliament to have a stronger role. but several federal states felt that that is not yet where it needs to be, in terms of being able to react quickly. if on the chronic goes, what gets worse? or i'm going into thank you for that melinda crane, political correspondent, and he's 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 she on is the capital of the shunt she province in central china. israel has announced that we'll begin offering a 4th dose of vaccine to medical personnel and people over the age of 60. and you,

as president joe biden has introduced new measures to battle, a surgeon current of ours cases, including providing 500000000 free rapid tests on micron is driving infections. they're causing 73 percent of all new cases, but and also called on the unvaccinated, to get their shots. south korea has introduced some of its strictest cov admissions . so far to cope with the army, kron waive. and while the public has largely co operated with restrictions so far more, more voices a calling for the freedom to go about life is normal and say no to vaccines, including young people. frank smith has this report from sol, south korean high school, student yang, de rim, and his friends don't want to get vaccinated. neither do many of the 23000 followers of his youtube channel. his live streams emphasize risks associated with vaccination, while downplaying, the benefits and argue the government's vaccine pass violates they're human rights

. all good things, no one knows what the future side effects will be. questions about whether it is effective or growing because there are many cases of infection with delta variance and omicron variance even after being vaccinated. so individuals should decide whether or not to get the vaccine, which i don't think it's right to be disadvantaged for not being vaccinated woozy again. oh, even tell you that we see that oh pick from february 1st, teenagers will have to prove vaccination or a recent negative covey 19 test to inter libraries, private academies, cafes, and other facilities. yang argues that the government should be focusing its efforts on the elderly and not the young girl kwoana. the high mortality rate of the elderly can explain the justification for the vaccination of the elderly. but the fatality rate for young people is low or young and yet the side effects vaccines are many. so i don't know why young people are vaccinated picking up an

appeal somewhere in swoon some. so the green parents have also mobilized together with support from some doctors to protest against the vaccine pass. a mother of 5 children, kim. so jen is even taking the case to the countries courts. well, i don't, i think the vaccine pos policy is against constitutional law. it's a serious violation of children's right to land and violates their right to my education because they can't go to the library or private academies because of the vaccine passes within the company that as south korea scrambles to provide care for the record number of serious cases each plus young g hospitals, $34.00, coven, i see you beds are full. infectious disease department head e g young says that well, vaccines may cause some side effects. he supports the vaccine pass and stresses that the risks of infection for the in vaccinated are far greater.

the picture about this it's, i'm, it's explanation prevents 60 to 90 percent of infection. and when a breakthrough infection occurs, that person is 90 percent less likely to die or require severe treatment. the media should not spread fake news or insignificant news, but the liver, the voice of medical professionals with the public lawn, could also seem to get on this and get demand for most so the greens, the medical communities message on vaccines and the vaccine pass seems to be thinking in home was he, i think that it's fair because individual freedoms are guaranteed only so long as they are not infringing upon social safety. so i believe that people should get vaccinated as soon as possible to use public places with vaccine pass. the vaccine pass was introduced for adults december 6th. so 3 is now dealing with its highest surge of the coven 19 pandemic. with more than $5000.00 new cases per day for weeks

. as the debate over vaccines and a vaccine pass for the nation's youth continues beyond micron variant may cause those numbers to rise. ok, let's take a look now at some of the stories making headlines around the world. maybe 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 paul to the 24th of january. the election was part of un led, processed to bring peace to the country. european commission says its taking legal action against poland for undermining a you law and the independence of its national judiciary. the move comes amid an ongoing spat between brussels and walsall. over the rule of law that began when poland, ruling nationalist and euro, skeptic, p. i. s potty took power in 2015 in the u. s. to travel as face charges following a rule inside the terminal in miami international airport,

where a police officer responded by pointing his gun and a crowd of passengers. a spike in u. s. passenger violence has led to penalties of up to $37000.00. flight pants and the possibility of fret, federal prosecution. americans at stake and busiest port in long beach, california is working at full capacity. but even a 24 seventh's schedule hasn't been enough to keep up with consumer demand. this christmas, long beach is far from alone. shipping bottlenecks have led to delayed deliveries, surging prices and empty shelves around the world that also sparked coals for a rethink of immensely complex global supply chains. our reporter jeff on simon's investigates. ah, nothing absolutely nothing is beginning to look like christmas here at the los angeles and long beach ports in california. these trade helps of the world's 5th

largest economy or anything. but in the holidays, both ports are battling supply chain crisis. they are working on a 247 schedule now. however, it's too little too late for the hungry american market. an issue here in southern california is that every major container gateway in this globalized world. here the aftermath of the 2020, cool, with condemning looks like this. at any given day, in average of almost a 100 ships, most of them from asia are forced to line up and wait, anchoring off shore for weeks wasting time until they can finally dock and offload the cargo onto american soil. as you are aware, the epicenter manufacturing of the world is asia, more specifically china. so obviously, when we talk about the cobra, 1900 buyers. if at any point in the supply chain, it's impacted by the buyers because of the impact on labor and the impact in terms

of closures of factories and manufacture centers. this is a domino effect. americans want to buy things. however, they often face surprise and disappointment when strolling through the aisles of the store or when browsing online. this is the top house in san marino bike and plan shop. and here is where the logistics challenge and the supply chain problem hits actually home. how with those hits bikes, for example, there's just about a dozen here. normally, this shop has many, many, many boxes of those keys twice ready for consumers to grab for christmas or any other time. now, that's all they have. it's not just customers effective for businesses big end, especially small across the country. to do that for the pandemic, you would just go to a brand website. he would buy everything on a b to b, which is, which is the back end where retailers go to buy things and you a disorder. i will now we take deposits for a sometimes over a year out for

a bicycle blade is deeds. find a majority of americans regard the so called supply chain crisis as a big concern. there seems to be no easy fix. the underlying reason for the supply chain disruption and shortage is a multi dimensional and complex example. the trucking business, the american trucking industry says it is 80000 truckers, ford. not enough people want to become professional truck drivers anymore. energy nursing tino started this trucking driving academy just 3 years ago or mission training. a new generation of truckers and bringing real change to the industry. so when you talk to companies, especially larger companies who are trying to recruit a large volumes of divers, they are recognizing that they recognizing that they were not with the flow of a people's demands. and sell their recognizing that work life balances are

important, benefits are important. besides those new reform efforts, tina things, the entire logistics industry must change more fundamentally, sentiment echoed by many experts. oh to what we became. we're used to or last 30 years, is taking manufacturing across the globe and pinning everything under one node, one country, one, continent. and we created this long string supply chain. and we've really lost the true supply chain resiliency, which is to diversify your network and not put all your eggs in one basket back to the los angeles and engage ports processing around 20000000 containers a year now. and with more to town will be a major challenge. it will take the rethinking and reforming of every aspect of the global supply chain. and united nations has again called on both belarus and poland to address what it calls the appalling situation of migrants on their joint

border. hundreds of people mainly from iraq and syria, remained stranded there. poland and the a you accused belarus in later, alexander lucas shanker. of encourage an encouraging them to travel to belarus, to try and gain entry into the european union. belarus denies this and says the e you is to blame for the humanitarian crisis. villa will soon authority say almost 600 people remain at this warehouse on the better side of the border. despite the cold weather and the terrible conditions, they swear they can't go home and they have to move forward to have a future work with her or not. and her go, we came here too close to europe. we want to go to german. does what

we need to will, but that path is blocked, and many migrant say, so to is the way back to minsk, the united nations human rights office accuses both poland and fellers of pushing migrants back and forth across the border. it refers to statements made by migrants interviewed by a u. n. team in early december describing human rights abuses on both sides of the frontier. the majority said that while in bedrooms they had been beaten or threatened by security forces, and also alleged the bell. russian security forces force them to cross the border. our team also had numerous reports of people being immediately and automatically return to the roost from polar the human rights office is calling on both ways to address the crisis in laws with their obligations to international human rights and refugee law. now person will weld headlines. the world food program has war,

but millions of people in yemen will face hunger after it was forced to cut aid to the war torn country view and agency has received only half of the funding and requested in march to keep up food supplies to yemen. prosecutors and the netherlands have demanded life sentences for 4 suspects, accused of shooting down malaysia airlines flight mh 17 of a ukraine in 2014, almost 300 people died when rushing back separatists down the aircraft over the disputed don best region. most of the victims were dutch. so what will it be? the red pill all the blue pill that was the choice facing keanu reeves more than 20 years ago when the groundbreaking science fiction epic, the matrix the film add, it's 2 sequels depicted. dystopian future in which humans a trapped by machines inside a simulated reality. now matrix for has hit cinema's grains and a premier delayed several times by the pandemic. but does it measure up to the

original his hour of you? fast forward to decade since the matrix revolutions tell me what happen, thomas anderson, aka neo, is living an ordinary life in san francisco. when events take your turn for the weird my, chris, why don't you somewhere in there? 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 assumed rebel lovers, neo. and trinity. we may, i think it's everything that you can hope for in a matrix film. and, and then some, i think, hopefully can be inspiring, you know, help us always sort of a matrix films as a tool your income. and that help us see the world direct to

lana, which chowsky is back at the helm for the full 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 a 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 re animation of a film franchise that maybe should have been allowed to die with dignity will a 4th one. then why do you think direct a line of chowsky felt the need to return to the matrix? yeah, 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 she couldn't bring them back, that maybe she could resurrect her 2 most famous, fictional characters, neo and trinity. i'm the production of the film itself was, was, was plague 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 his here played by jonathan roth, and there's another switch. oh, where? um, yeah, he or a girl might. martine, the 2nd plays aversion of morphia. the character may fear famous vide laurence fishburne. in the ritual films, i think you can see a matrix resurrections as an attempt by which hosty to sort of rewrite her own fictional path, which is kind of interesting. but if for me, it has a slight problem because the matrix was so influential culturally, i mean the term like red pilling 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. you said that there were problems where the production because of the pandemic, the pandemic also delayed the release. now it finally is being released just at a time when we're saying current of ice case, a surge 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 will see a spire maintenance experimental did 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 and 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 string 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. all right, got runs for thanks very much. and as just a couple of days before christmas and guess who's coming to town now you probably recognize him straight away with his bright red outfit and fluffy white beard. and of course the sack full of presence. he's joined by his fastest brain deer and has another one in reserve. in case rudolf gets tired, he speeding across the snowy wilds of lapland on his way to ben presence and joy to

children around the world. so you better watch out for this guy over the next few days. that the news update. this albert, i go way up. next is news. asia with a look at how los grief and financial hardship and taking an emotional toll. amid the pandemic in india, as always more news and analysis on our website, that's d w dot com. i'm rebecca written for me on the whole team. thanks very much for watching. ah ah ah

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