experience outstanding shopping and dining offers. enjoy our services. be our guest at frankfurt. airport city managed by frappe, bought, ah ah, ah, ah, this is debbie news live from berlin under pressure pandemic batters, britain. a country brakes and other co record as cases surge to wait daily. hi. passing 100000 in a single day for the 1st time. but it's not all bad news. as new studies suggest

armor crohn is less severe than delta. also coming up, fighting word, se combative russian president vladimir putin. answers questions from the press. we ask ordinary russians what they think of their long term leader plus profound dark and monumental just some of the words being used to describe a new exhibit in pairs. i. one of germany's most celebrated artists ah, i'm lilac. thank you so much for joining us. new studies from the united kingdom suggest that the armor chron corona virus variant may be milder than the previous versions, like dealt up. but scientists say their findings must be treated with caution because hospitals could still be overwhelmed by the sheer number of cases. the news comes as the u. k. records more than 100000 new daily cases for the 1st time.

there's no christmas rush in london this year. the number of shoppers and taurus down dramatically on even a few weeks ago on 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 anti viral pills to combat amik wrong. alongside the booster program. these so 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 cov would 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. stretch to the brink. so we know there's lots of cases in the community that actually people are not getting say fake, but there are still people being admitted to hospital and they are still getting very unwell into private pneumonia. and, and that's testable for us to be looking after all that i think the much better now that we have more caitlin most alpha, another holiday season, overshadowed by the cobra. 19 pandemic. another new year on the horizon filled with uncertainty. then taking out to london to dig up your correspondence a charlotte shall sum that bill. charlotte a very a grim record. there are 100000 cases in just 24 hours time. how strained is the national health service absolutely learn just to set that into a bit of

a context for you. that is a record, as you say, since math testing began, essentially since the start of the pandemic that said that infections are fact higher than those confirmed case numbers. so it could be far more severe than the numbers reflect. we know as well, that confirmed cases are up 59 percent weak on weak. so a big big ride that now there is a lot of consent by the health service that has been a slight uptake in hospitalizations. but the main issue here in now is the number of stock shortages or stock who, off isolating there is real concern didn't already stretch already tied how service could really struggle in the day. the head is more and more people catch this virus and all sick evidence from the u. k. so just at the all mccaul, variants may not produce as severe symptoms as delta, but they're still concerns about it being highly transmissible. right, so these 2 new studies that have come out from the u. k, one from scotland, one from england,

both of them suggesting that the on the cross variance is less severe results and few hospitalizations than the delta variance. so to give you the, the study that's come out of england, it found that $40.00 to $45.00, there was a 40 to 45 percent reduction in hospitalization is lasting, one light or longer. when compared to delta? so quite a market reduction mass scientists, experts here are saying it's encouraging, but the rules i really stressing caution. hey, this is very, very early data that is still emerging at that i'm lot still isn't known. and crucially, even if this is less to via the shit, number of infections of cases could still mean that the health services on the very intense pressure and how much pressure is the embattled prime minister boards johnson feeling for mom across that. so currently gripping great britain, well, he's resistant, more restrictions coming into place said that he doesn't scotland, northern ireland and wales have all announced for the measures off to christmas.

the prime minister here is rule that out over the christmas period. he says that needs to be more information on the severity of on the crown, on those cruise that crucial hospital data. he's instead relying very heavily on the u. k boosted program. here in england, they promised to offer every adults that boost a job by the end of the year time, clearly running out that they have massively stepped up the number of jobs that are being given a almost a 1000000 on tuesday. we're given and it's not that the u. k. government is redefining its heights on 32nd charlotte to how challenging a time is this for people in the u. k. very challenging. i think the staff shortages is the biggest concern at the moment, particularly in hospitals emergency services, as well as we know just a couple of days till christmas, people here in the u. k. and around the world facing some very difficult decisions on how they best both celebrate christmas and loved ones. return times. and you did

every correspondence or charlottesville, simple reporting from london. thank you very much. and germany has reported its 1st death from the arm across variance. the country's top public health body, so the person was between 60 and 79. so far, germany has confirmed over 3000 cases of the new variant health minister carl larva said he expects armstrong to become the dominant variance in the coming weeks. meanwhile, in germany, millions of people are preparing to celebrate the christmas holidays. against a backdrop of the coven 19 pandemic. stricter rules on social gatherings will come into place next week with the country bracing for a 5th wave of infections. fueled by the rapidly spreading alma kron variant, we gave the mood among people and asked how it's impacting their plans. the bags are packed. there are presents to wrap and trains to catch at berlin's

main station. the christmas get a we is on. and travelers are reckoning with looming restrictions and household headaches. reforming prov, i'm looking forward to celebrating with the kids. i just have to sort out our christmas tree stand. it can only hold trees up to 2 meters, but our tree is 3 meters. i have to figure that out now that music is not lose is cloud, i think you're alluding to whether the corona situation is a burn and of course, as, as a depressing situation. but there are plenty of other world events that don't make you feel happy. the i madness furnished unless the highly contagious omicron variant has cast a shadow over the sheer celebrations and made the journey home on busy trains. fraught with risk at the lexia christmas market, nearby corona continues to loom large,

but it appears to be no match for glue vine and festive spirit until he feel like it when i show this one, feel free to like put him up. how hard to contend with the threat of consolation as markets were shut down elsewhere in germany. deborah, that one is very popular death. also another version of you. and then this is in for that. we are glad that we were allowed to be open, that we were allowed to sell. i can complain. everything is great spot for this. jen maker. the market caps off a rocky year. problems and global supply chains forced him to rethink his business . oh, yeah, we had to change the last were we now we manufacture in germany completely. um and we do some, a craft men's work on our own. so we, we manufacture goods on our own completely now to make sure that we can deliver all

goods all over the market. stories of people making the best of the situation. be good on the anger, good. the children and grandchildren are far away. of course, that's a bit sod. that's why we came to the christmas market. the silk of the atmosphere was real enough. not say it was 2 of us at christmas before the family is quite large, but all far away. and so we make ourselves comfortable at home in the leash as germany and the world hedge into another year of uncertainty. one thing seems indisputable. no one knows when the corbet 19 journey will end. some news in brief now for you, the united states health authorities have approved the use of an anti coven 19 bill made by the pharmaceutical company. pfizer. the pax lavette pill will be the 1st oral treatment for cove at 19 trial show. it reduces the risk of hospitalization and death by nearly 90 percent for high risk patients. china has law

down the city if she on home of actually 13000000 people in response to just over 200 cove. at 19 cases. china has pursued a 0 case strategy. it measures come just weeks before beijing will host the winter olympics. the government is urging olympians to get booster jobs and you get the un security council has adopted a resolution to enable sending humanitarian aid of gone astonishing the u. s proposed resolution allows funding and goods to flow without violating sanctions on the toner bod. i've got a son plunged into deep economic crisis since the total loss went back into power earlier this year. and germany has reaffirmed its commitment to resettle $25000.00 local off gone staff staff and their families. foreign minister on

a lena bear box said all applications have been approved, but acknowledged only a fraction of that number have so far been evacuated from the country around. 15000 remaining danger waiting to come to germany did 2 or 2 and 4 situation on the ground has not improved quite the opposite. him and many people, if and daily fear, especially those who have worked with us for a better future and have galveston afghanistan's. and we have the responsibility, particularly for the many women and girls not to leave them in the lurch. i would like to say at this point, there about 15000 people whom we firmly promised to take in, in, who are still in afghanistan, who name vita in, in afghanistan's didn't. russian president vladimir putin held his annual end of the year press conference. this year's event marks the 17th time president putin has rounded off the year by speaking to the media, covering a broad range of issues from the corona virus to rising tensions with the west. it

comes against the bad drop of weeks of international concern over rushes to build up on its border with ukraine. the news conference also marks and mir record, lo and domestic approval for the long serving president doors in the movement of the my do from yeah. let's get you more on that the end of the year address. so moscow bureau chief, your shadow, a joyce as now from moscow. i understand. all right, cheery. what did president putin have to say about the tensions between moscow and nato over ukraine? i le le, yes. vladimir putin has surprisingly, spoken about a potential new military operation, which is allegedly, or apparently, obviously being prepared in ukraine. that was his impression, at least he said, because everybody in the west would be talking about the new potential war. also he had the impression that as the russian speaking people in easton ukraine were being

pushed out of their historical territories in dunbar center, that moscow was being warned not to interfere ukraine. i cannot say whether this is statement by russian president is a hidden indication of russian plans to attack ukraine. but when it comes to ukraine, vladimir putin has to explain in a very, very convincing way, here to his vote as to his compatriots and russia. r y moscow would ever attack if ordinary russians consider ukrainians to be friends and not enemies. and we can't compare today's situation with annexation of crimea in 2014. the gremlins narrative, beg then was, we will take back what, who has always belonged to us, and do they consider crimea to be russian lent to day? everybody would see the invasion in ukraine. what it is, an attack on a southern country, and what were some of the other topics that came up while his press conference lasted exactly 4 hours later. and as always, his russian president presented himself as

a kind of father of the nation who has everything under control and is as well informed i from the vaccination campaign against the grown of iris to energy security in europe. the problems of more bio complications in crimea. and finally, yes. the nato's expansion expansion. a topic that said put in, sees as a clear red line. but overall i would say that this press conference was primarily attended, intended for the domestic audience. it was very much about social problems. he and russia, the incomes of the russians about the support for people and so on and so on. as for foreign policy issues, put in quite often complaint about near to almost every answers on russia's foreign policy suggested that the west wanted a week and not as strong russia. this means that put in obviously assumes more confrontation and not corporation with the best you the future. right. so what did you make of his combative tone when he came to him addressing at the west? i.