ah, ah ah ah, this is the w, those coming to live from berlin. the number of code 19 cases in the u. k. reaches a record high passing 100000 for the 1st time. since the start of the pandemic. also coming up, the united states deployed a new tool in the fight against the pandemic authorities give emergency approval

for an antique coven pill made by pfizer. plus by the gas guards. police ministers survived to helicopter crash and swims for 12 hours before being rescued. my time to die hasn't come yet, he said. and ah, in spain, the prize money is blowing in the country is traditional l. gordo christmas lottery? ah. hello, i'm terry martin. good to have you with us. for the 1st time, the united kingdom has logged 100000 new cases of code 19 in one day. the new record comes as the country struggles with its own fight against army chron. although the hospitalization rate appears to be lower than with previous barriers,

the fresh wave of infections is still dampening. the christmas mode does no christmas rush in london this year. the number of shoppers and tourists down dramatically on even a few weeks ago. all microns rapids spread an a record number of infections, keeping many people at home. britons newspapers summing up the mood but the u. case. health minister gave weary britons a glimmer of hope by announcing the purchase of millions more antiviral pills to combat omicron alongside the booster program, the sup, pharmaceutical defenses. you taken together are a huge new way to defend ourselves against cove it. there's no need for any further restrictions before christmas. we will certainly keep the situation under review. but across the u. k. conditions very while england has reduced the number of days, people with coven have to isolate from 10 down to 7 wales scotland. a northern

ireland are introducing restrictions after christmas. what they do agree on is that vaccine boosters and reducing contacts are the best ways to reduce pressure on a health care system stretched to the brink. so we know there's lots of cases in the community that actually people are not getting say thank but there are still people being admitted to hospital and they are still getting very unwell. he's having to mania. and, and that price decimal for us to be looking after world. i think the much better now that we have more keep meant. most of that. another holiday season overshadowed by the coven, 19 pandemic. another new year on the horizon filled with uncertainty. the united states has authorized an antique cove. it 9 canty coated pill may by the pharmaceutical company, pfizer. the drug approval comes as the u. s. suffers a surge of cases driven by the highly infectious all micron variant visors packs

lovett pill will be the 1st oral treatment for covered 19 researchers hope it will be effective against the new variance trials have shown it to reduce the risk of hospitalizations and deaths among at risk, people by nearly 90 percent, the country's top infectious disease specialist doctor anthony fall, she explained how it will be rolled out when someone comes in with an acute infection and is in a risk group, which is what you want this to be for. since we have a limited supply that we would have a prioritization of what the best approach would be, it almost certainly will be a physician writing a prescription for someone who within the 1st 3 days of notable symptoms of co vid and is in a high risk group to get it. india's covert 19 pack pandemic may be hiding another silent pandemic. a suicide. recently released figures show

a 10 percent increase in people taking their own lives last year. experts believe the economic and personal stress brought on by the pandemic have affected all sections of society. in delhi, d. w met some of those who are trying to help 25 years ago. i am a new truck cool founded a center for a problem really addressed in indian society, a crisis intervention center. so mad she operates a health line for the depressed and society. over the years, the center has helped countless people by providing them emotional support at a time when they felt they had no option left, but to take their lives. to day we'll try taking calls in the center alone. do people talk to us and we listen to them in a non governmental manner. redondo, i read was a good, you disagree, the video going to indian life, re she of their feelings? we don't trivia situation, but we share their feelings. my not as,

as the core with 19 pandemic, has had a huge impact on people's mental health. and that the number of distress caused the receive has almost doubled since the beginning of the crisis. in his experience, emotional and financial troubles are the 2 biggest reasons behind suicidal ports of the corners. according to the n, c i b, or the national crime records bureau data, there has been a sharp rise in the number of debts by suicide in the country in the year 2020. while daily wage laborers meet up, the largest share of the total number of suicide, there's been a significant jump in the debt by suicide among the business people as well. last year's love down to club the spread of forward lead to any konami and humanitarian prices. small businessman and vendors had to shut shop, and many workers lost their employment, triggering a master saunders of migrant laborers back to their towns and villages. economists santos marrow tra said the su sites have increased mostly among those who are the

poorest, who lost their jobs and savings during the pandemic. that is entirely due to economic distress, which has caused mental stress, family dentures. and my suspicion is that you're going to see a repeat of this data in in 2021. marrow tra, says unemployment has only increased, which will lead to a worsening of poverty. with no end to the pandemic in sight, mcwhorter also believes that it will take time for the situation to improve. people have gone through a lot of things like that. loss of job loss. so for this and a doug goody cycle, there won't prove it is going to be impacted on jeremiah forest let the longer day because we're not coming and daily out of it. but no matter how emotionally drained the feel, my hotel believes everybody deep down has the desire to live grandview. that's why they reach out to the crisis center. and he and his fellow warranty is i here to

help you want to pick some going. my can hold on for more. let's talk to dr. anons bon. he's a public health policy researcher and joins us from bo. paul, india, thanks to ring with us. dr. bon, how has the coven 19 pandemic affected the mental health of people in india? so thank you for having me. so as you know, mental health remains and under so media globally and that is true as well there. it's almost a hidden burden. rich, most of the stigma associated with a lot of times people who have mental health issues are probably not identified. they're not being, they're not linked to treatment. and that you mean to challenge you in the band of times. then you live on the challenges of the find the make with anxiety, they leave. and that has meant that that has been a much higher burden, probably of mental health issues which need to be dissolved. so in the absence of,

of our services because it is a shortage of psych after psychologist quantified staff who can provide mentioned support. that means that a lot of people will need support and care might not be getting it. and this is also partly because of the stigma associated with mental health. a lot of people don't come forward and seek help us. that's what i wanted to ask you about. a report suggested that depression and thoughts of self harm that often go along with it, that they're really addressed in india. do you agree with that assessment? yeah, i mean, as i said the, this is linked to both sides of the story with just to say that on, on the side of the providers, there's not enough providers this, but apps not adequate number of services which are available, especially in the front lines of primary health care level, not a lot of providers might be trained in being able to identify those individuals who need help and provide them 1st level of care. and therefore those will need psychiatric or psychological support. at the same time,

when those people who might be facing mental challenges perhaps don't feel comfortable coming forward on this, you know, they're, they're having serious manifestations. so that also means that people with anxiety, stress, depression, etc, might not beat these symptoms. he just the on might not go to a provider for those symptoms. and this would also spoke of the possibility that these become more severe. and they might, in some cases, become suicidal as well. talk to us more about the capacity of the indian health system to address this problem. are there, are there enough facilities? are there enough people in india who could help the country meet its mental health care challenges? yes, so if we go with a model which is focused on specialists, just as i get us in psychology as being the only ones providing mental health care that's actually going to be

a plane because of our population and the relative scarcity of psychologists and you're not going to be able to meet the needs. so what is probably going to, what is the concept by sharing which was training frontline, those who worked in family health care facilities and training them to be able to identify individuals who need help go i 1st level and i for those who need specially scattered especially so that you avoid every single person with a mental health issue going to a specialist and only send those individuals up that every box they really need to be managed by specialists. but a lot of people who need help can actually be held at the primary care level by just retraining, or the training on franklin providers. and it's shown to be successful in many parts of the world, including and sometimes it's done in india. okay. the need at the right now though seems rather a cute. what can the country do under the current circumstances to help deal with

this issue? yeah, one man would hope one that is more sensitive. a ration that is a need for the statement, a vision, a lot of outlets. facilities as well as the government have started helpline. they've started out the services watching. if you do it in the band to make, you also manage to note on services which are largely which will in nature. if you don't, they said you need to travel to the provider. you can do that if you have access to technology or connection, etc. so that, that, that, that is a positive having said that, i think it's important for us to reach out and make sure those people who might be struggling and mental they should be comfortable in reaching our port head. and once they do, they can be put on treatment. they can be provided support as needed. if the mental health issues remain hidden, then you know, unfortunately they have the situations where people continue to suffer and are not related to support that they need and not to bon thank you very much for talking

with us. that was dr. not bon in. bo paul, thank you. and for anyone suffering from serious emotional strain or suicidal thoughts, you should not hesitate to seek professional help no matter where you live, you can find information at befriend or his world wide and the web address for that is on your screen. now as people in the united states rush finish, last do do their last minute christmas shopping. they'll be relieved to find that most store cells or will stop us. president joe biden says an anticipated supply chain crunch failed to materialize. after efforts were made to speed up shipping and delivery is still one crucial christmas ingredient has been in short supply for many americans at christmas. this year may be less sweet than usual. candy

makers like retailers and farmers, are struggling with high commodity prices, labor shortages and supply chain problems, preventing them from fully caching in on the holiday season. the us imports about a quarter of its annual sugar needs, but local production was down this year. thanks to hurricane ida, america's major sugar supply partners also had lower yields. the commodity is in high demand, and prices are up sugar semiconductors, supply chain issues continued to affect us industries. but president biden told the nation that the feared crisis with empty store shelves ahead of christmas will not materialize. packages are movie. gifts are being delivered. shelves are not empty. experts in this field look at to statistics for retail inventories, which is how many goods read to how many good retailers have on hand. and ah, phrase on shelf availability. which measures how many goods are actually on the

shelves they're to be purchased? today? retail inventories are up 3 percent from last year. inventories are healthy and on shelf availability, before the pandemic was about 91 percent. to day it's at 90 percent retail data released last week. why the commerce department appears to back that up? us consumer confidence rose this month as americans shrugged off concerns about rising prices. well, steven beardsley from our business desk is here to talk more about this a. so steve is biden, right. is everything just fine in terms of the supply chain? owens, that everything is just fine, but he is right that when we look at retail, that the situation has ease and that's both in the us and in europe. and in that case, we have seen that shipping containers have become more available worldwide. for example, as some of the strain has been taken off, and we're seeing that inventory is more stores are reporting that their inventories

are up, as he said, there are items on the shelves for shoppers to find. that's the good news, and there's a variety of reasons for this. one is that many companies, as they saw the writing on the wall, they ordered more goods to get their faster when they saw that things were going to be tight. we saw that other companies began to hire smaller ships, for example, that could get through ports a little bit easier than the big container ships that were piling up. and then we even saw large firms like wal mart, for example, hiring their own shipping ships. so a variety of strategies here to get through this. what about biden's policy, specifically, since he's been in office, what have they done to help the country overcome the supply chain crunch it's. it's hard to say, terry, if we look at one of the key supply issues for the u. s. is not so much retail issues, it's energy prices and we look at gasoline. that's been a really big problem for the administration of gas as gasoline prices have risen. and so biden went oil producing nations as at please increase production to lower prices. they didn't do that. he also released some strategic oil reserves from the

u. s. stockpiles in hopes that would also bring prices down. what helped him in the end was actually the threat of the new variance prices have gone down there about a dollar off where they were a month ago. that's good news for the administration, but that's not because of any steps that he took. likewise with the port of los angeles, was a big deal. as container ships backed up, the administration sought to increase operations there. 247. and we are hearing that containers are moving through the port faster, but there just as many big ships waiting outside. so sort of a mixed bag there. course, this is a problem this affecting much of the world, including europe. whoa, when you talk about energy prices, people are feeling that here too. that's for sure. but how is this going to move forward? what, what, what can we expect? is the problem with the supply chain likely to persist? it's absolutely going to persist. and if we look beyond retail, for example, it's going to continue with energy. as you said, that's both for pandemic reasons. and for non pandemic reasons. look here in europe with the tensions with russia that's having a direct bearing on gas applies for example, consumers are going to see the prices rise. labor shortages are going to continue to be a problem. as the pandemic endures and the nature of employment changes itself.

semiconductors was missing from that piece or was mentioned in that piece. that's a huge thing. there's also something to be set for the increased demand that we're seeing in the u. s. because of buying policy is going back to his policies. what we're seeing is because all that stimulus that he's pumped into the economy, it's ramped up demand there that's actually sort of bent supply around the world. so there are less containers going elsewhere because they're all heading to the u. s. c. thanks so much stephen beardsley from d. w. a. business you now to madagascar where a government minister is being hailed as a hero and an example to follow after surviving and helicopter crash at sea sash, gentle swam for some 12 hours before he was rescued. the police minister had been helping search for survivors after a cargo ship a legally carrying 100. 30 passengers sank off not a gas grill, northeastern coast fishermen who sit out before dawn spotted some one in the water

. exhausted and still in his wet uniform, madagascar, police minister recorded the message. i call them hidden, i'm alive and well. in 24 hours. i can be back at work. i'm not injured, but very cold. my doctor, i'm thankful to the people of mumble for saving my life and taking care of me. lending and figure. the fisherman brought the 57 year old, safely back to shore. after he spent 12 hours at sea. and other survivor and enforced mechanic managed to swim the entire way to the beach. the body of one of the men and the helicopter has been recovered, but the pilot remains missing and is presumed dead authority say the cause of the helicopter crash has yet to be established. the minister says something suddenly destabilized the helicopter, potentially causing it to go down and eat and username that he didn't leave you

though my omission was over at it. we saw the accident and we were about to go home . but like all accidents, something unexpected happened. did an al helicopter may have been caught in a gust of wind or something and fell. the helicopter was one of 2, taking part in a search and rescue operation. after a small cargo ship sank on monday, an official said the ship was overloaded from carrying too many people. last weekend chileans elected gabrielle burridge to be their new president. he marks of departure from the past in several ways. it's not just as left as politics and his youth just $35.00 or it will be the countries the youngest ever president. what the former student organizer is turning heads for other reasons, as well, not least is tattoos. when rising political star, gabrielle burridge wanted some tattoos hart as you mel gongora came up with strong

images. a tree standing steadfast in the wind and a lighthouse in a raging c bartch. his body art sets him apart. and the bearded 35 year old leftist is an unconventional figure who represents a break with tradition and chalet. he won the largest majority ever recorded in a chill, an election, where he ran on a platform of ambitious changes in a country reeling from inequality and corruption can go or never taught. she would be inking her country's future president. nor did burridge back then oh, now and then now. well, it's strange to think, remembering the president that moment when i thought that maybe i'm to, to in the future president sort of in fact i asked him. yeah, i don't remember when, but noah birch was already a congressman. i think i asked him something like are you, are you going to run for president uncle? and he said, no, it was too much of responsibility. a lot of things around whatever he i, and which i will say with the economy battered by the pandemic,

a widening gap between rich and poor, and under pressure to rewrite a constitution written during the era of dictator. august opened o'shea for a chest to prove he can face those responsibilities even if it means high. his adorned skin every now and then with pandemic restrictions dampening christmas celebrations for the 2nd year in a row. people in spain are taking heart in a 200 year old tradition. the l gordo lottery, the top price of 4000000 euros is paid out to anyone with this year's top winning number. but there are many other smaller prices to with an overall payout of almost 2 and a half 1000000000 euros. oh. 2 2 tim, this is me kinda what in the yard, so i mean, oh. c 86148 this years, winning number, and go to the as the top prize is known,

was sung by 2 people from madrid. sunny le funds of school, as tradition dictates across the city. the celebrations quickie got underway at madrid's a torture train station. spain's busiest rail hub. the majority of the winning tickets were sold by dis, lottery center o e winnable. if it's a very widely distributed number, i'm pretty sure people from all over spain of board, and i think it's everywhere at a board. policy goes into you from the region of kentoria on the north coast, and under lucy, undecided all the way to the canary islands. with the african coast, and a lot of those sparked celebrations by the lucky winners. and what does a fee like to win $1.00 of the many they prizes. i don't know what the my haven't processed it yet. i was in the mountains with the dogs, and i came here because i received a call. my wife didn't believe it. she began to scream, turned the tv on to look for the number and check that it was correct. we're just

not used to winning anything with that one plan on going to share it. and i'm really happy and how many people have won a prize? well, that's almost impossible to know because of the complexity of the dual. but a total of 2400000000 euros was given away in prizes both big and small in the centuries old and world's richest christmas lottery drove this year. oh, i mean with the german artist anselm keeper has devoted much of his work to the atrocities committed by the nazis during world war 2. and a new exhibition in paris keeper is now focusing on the german language poet, paul, ceylon, and his suffering during the holocaust lines of verse, scribbled in chalk on paintings next to a bunker everywhere. the dedication to paul salon, the poet who used verse to process his memories of the holocaust, is the artist and some key fuzz personal hero. oversized work stand like proud

panels in the sparsely illuminated space. then i was giga. i thought i could write a poem up on the slate up there though. i think the skies like a big, slight county. i think most of all i wanted the audience to concentrate in ceylon. yeah. not the painter to is bargained on that. when nathan, mr. dan is tamala oh, the pieces are dark, but also shed light on war persecution and death. the elements include straw textiles and stones, national socialism and the importance of never forgetting. these are reoccurring themes for kieffer. the show is a wake up call for europe. you mustn't of, we have to be careful because what's in our past or what we think is in our past, it could very easily happen again. can we to so for da, side common ground rather than confrontation,

learning from german history. how does that play out in france? so paul girl says it grabs you. who could be, exhibition is very, very intense. you were so the large scale pieces, the venue, which is really magical and compliments everything very well. i was very moved of all of his eval. it works by an artist who lives in france, but his german here, it shows the strength of the bond between the 2 countries. this is the jumps headphones listed in the store. she estie, i bought a book by the poet. it would have been even more moving if the verse written on the paintings had been translated, the wrongful visitors even get a glimpse of kieffer studio and his materials, ranging from shards to ash paintings are on wheels, easily movable from one place to the next. everything is fluid, including the artist's creative process in a sequence. it, i'm always frantic because my pictures are works in progress. i'm constantly

reworking them. but apart from that, i'm generally cheerful, angleton and whose damage works in progress. they may be, but this exhibition makes a lasting impression. your washing d. w news. just a reminder, the top story we're following for you today. the number of coverage 19 cases in the u. k reaches a record high passing 100000 for the 1st time since the start of the pandemic. coming up next to its focus on europe. i'm terry martin. thanks for watching. mm. with

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