this new culture. so you are not to visit her, not a guests. you want to become a citizen. in so migrants your platform for reliable information. ah, ah ah, this is d, w. news lived from berlin. the pandemic overshadows. and now the holiday season. as christmas begins, for many people are faced with a tough choice of taking the risk of seeing their friends and families, or going it alone for a 2nd year in abroad. also coming up,

china is scrambling to maintain its 0 cove at 19 stress, the v as a prepay for the upcoming winter olympics. will the honey infectious on chrome variant forced beijing to change tack? and a white ex police officer is found guilty of manslaughter in a black man killing him. porter said she confused her hand gun with her taser when she shot and killed dante right in february. ah, i'm rebecca writ as welcome to the program. he was airlines have canceled dozens of flights, citing the spread of the army kron corona bar is variant among its staff. united airlines and built are announced to 100 flight cancellations today christmas eve. just as the holiday season approaches its peak travel disruption has left christmas plans for many in disarray for a sec j running. ah,

another covered christmas and another difficult choice as omicron continues to spread millions around the world must now decide between cancelling the travel plans or taking the risk. thousands of new yorkers have lined up for the coven tests, and booster shots as the city braces for a surgeon cases after christmas was important to my family at tacoma, madison's elderly, after school children. so it's not so much support for myself as it is to protect those along across the atlantic. christmas travelers in spain of facing the same tough choices, covered 19 cases, a written old time high. but for many seeing they loved ones is worth the risk. how did noise limit, although this is not the best situation? if any of i have had to evaluate whether to live like last, you know, when i could not do this will take a little risk for there. and i have taken a re,

sorry about what and though maybe i go to visit my family who is also stayed at home. and we will try to enjoy christmas the best we can, but always with caution. the uncertainties persist worldwide for the 2nd straight christmas under the pandemic. meanwhile, china is re dabbling efforts to cape the virus and check ahead of the winter olympics. in february. paging has been pursuing a 0 curve at strategy since the beginning of the pandemic, but it's unclear if this approach will continue to work, given the increased transmit. civility of ami kron. there also concerns that chinese vaccines are ineffective against the variant ah, and this logistics up for the winter games in beijing technology plays a vital role in epidemic prevention. these remotely controlled vehicles reduce human to human contact will be used to deliver goods into the close loop bubble

were athletes and other participants will be locked inside during the event known with regards to logistics, we put a lot of emphasis on academic prevention of delivery goods including the protection of logistic workers as well as the goods or what he told us. even before the emergence of the army crunch variant, china's capital had taken a tougher approach to containing cove at 19 visitors to beijing must show a negative test taken within 48 hours before arriving. many flights from high risk areas in other parts of the country have been cut best been a flare up of local infection clusters for almost 3 months now. and the cost of china, the recovered strategy, has become more evident. but with the winter olympics approaching, the authorities are even further stepping up their efforts to keep the virus under control in an updated playbook of co, at 19 protocols for the games. organizers advising, but not requiring participants to get

a booster dose of ex see more than 10000000 or about half of all people in paging have already had a 3rd ship. people don't seem too concerned about the army kron variant. i think people have strong awareness that, that any prevention and control in beijing, i don't think it will come to beijing any time soon. still army crunch capacity to spread quickly has cast uncertainty over the country and it's 0 cove at pandemic strategy. early studies show the 2 main vaccines use in china made by sign of farm and sign of vic, a for almost 0 protection from on the chrome infection. in one study conducted by a team at the university, hong kong research has said that among a group of 25 people fully vaccinated with a sign of ex corona, vic, none show detectable levels of neutralizing antibodies against a variant. and it is important to continue to monitor the vaccine effectiveness in the field as ro, i'm in our study designed the dest. you generally,

there have been good predictors as to what happens in the field. but i, real ultimate in, via trying to achieve is to protect against severe disease and it, china has yet to approve overseas developed shots and has relied on home grown vaccines to protect its population of 1400000000 people. it now faces the prospect of having to develop more efficient ones before it can shift from its continuous isolation. as go now to correspondent faddie and crouch, my he filed that reported giantess from beijing, having authorities in china, clearly on high alert or just this week china put the entire city of she an under lockdown following a minor outbreak there. what's the situation where you can call it the most severe lockdown since the early days of the pandemic? he and will hon. the city of $30000000.00, and it's basically sealed off. i mean, nowadays people are allowed to leave their homes,

but only every 2nd day. and only one member of every household is chosen to go grocery shopping and that's it. and with that example, you can see that um, of course, if you cut or human contact to a bare minimum, then that strategy works. and in fact, numbers are really low. and even today, there's only 50 cases, mostly in c and the city that is under locked on. so probably they will get it under control, but are clearly the human cost. and also the economic cost is very, very high school that we saw some of the preparations. china is making a head of the winter olympics and beijing that in your report there, what measures is china taking to prevent an ami kron outbreak? yes, the organizers have acknowledged that there will be, am a locker infections during the game, so that's very obvious. and, but they try to minimize it. basically the concept is um they implement a very, very strict covert bubble dream. the olympic games which will be much more strictly

enforced and comp birth than what we had in tokyo during the summer games. so there's literally no contact between the people who are inside of the olympics. so does the journalist there fleets, the volunteers, end of the, the rest of the population, m, i've had a look at the olympic venues. i mean, they are literally fences and different zones. so it's really impossible to have any physical contact with people in the other zone. however window, i am infectious to detect them very early. there will be, am daily testing. so every, every person inside the bubble has to undergo a p c r test every day, m. if someone test positive, then he or she has. so 1st goal in his or her room to isolate, then there will be a medical person to do another test. and if that test positive again, then the athlete will be and carry to our hospital and then has to current in there . and that's of cause for concern for many athletes because they don't really know how many weeks or possibly months they have to stay in, in a chinese hospital,

a lot of precautions there by the sound of things. but what about vaccines? and most people in china at the center of akhil, a sinner van farm, which as you suggest in your report, don't appear to work against army crunch. and does that mean that the chinese are in effect, unvaccinated? what i mean clearly the the recent better, the vaccinations at our approved they dont offer an exit strategy from the 0 cove strategy that the government is implementing. they, they did their drops to vaccines, the domestic ones, but cove it on the cross, the game changer researchers and hong kong said that even 3 shots of the domestic chinese vaccines don't offer enough protection against army crowns. so of course they are developing new of ex scenes, but so far the authorities here have not approved any foreign vaccines. for example, pfizer madrona, that is not available to the population here. and yet it's basically really bad news because for the foreseeable future,

china will not open up its borders and that could last, at least for another year, possibly even longer or i have in thank you correspondent, 5 m catch mount reporting from beijing. or i, let's take you to some other story. it's making headlines. now, south korean president, moon j in has pardoned his disgrace. treat assess at park, and hey, for the sake of national harmony, park has been in prison since 2017. after receiving a 22 year sentence for crimes, including taking bribes from samsung and other conglomerates, she will be released from jail next week. hundreds of women have protested incident following allegations that security forces had sexually attacked, at least a dozen women and girls. several western countries had condemned the troops use of sexual violence as a weapon and demanded an independent investigation. the american author joan didn't,

has died at the age of 87 from the complications from parkinson's disease. the novelist play write an essay. it was best known for her descriptions of american culture during the tumultuous 1960 s. she was one of the pioneers of the new journalism movement which combined reporting with a literary voice, staying in the u. s. and a white police full but police officer has been found guilty of manslaughter in the shooting. death of a black motorist in the city of minneapolis came potter claimed she mistook her gun for her taser when she shot dante wright, the case reopened racial divisions in the same city where george floyd was killed. the mother of dante wright wanted accountability for her son's death. when a jury returned a guilty verdict on 2 charges of manslaughter, katy bryant experienced all kinds of emotions. oh, my gosh, i'm the moment that we heard guilty on the man's letter. one emotions every single emotion that you could imagine just running through your body

at that moment. i kind of let out a yelp because it was built up in the anticipation of what was the calm when while we were waiting for the last few days. police officer came potter pleaded not guilty and the fatal shooting of rice in brooklyn center, a suburb of minneapolis, minnesota. in april. in emotional testimony, she claimed she mistakenly drew her gun instead of a taser and killed a 20 year old during a routine traffic stop and slaughter in the 2nd degree. now we've been able to process it. um we want to thank the entire prosecution team. we wanna thank community support everybody who's been out there that has supported us in this long fight for accountability for our supporters of rights. families celebrated outside the hennepin county courthouse after the verdict was announced. potter $49.00 faces about 7 years in prison under the states sentencing guidelines,

but prosecutors said they would seek a longer term. earlier we asked our washington correspondent oliver's valid whether this verdict was part of a larger shift in how the u. s. justice system deals with police shootings. perhaps not because of this verdict alone, but we have to look at the bigger picture and there has been police reform happening on the local level also on the state level. but it's a slow process and verdicts like this, of course, the more verdict like this come, the more difficult it gets, of course, for similar killings to be repeated in the future. that was impossible, essentially before george floyd or just a few years ago. so again, it's a slow process, but it's raising the question, is this the beginning of a new trend that we're seeing here? and it really raises hopes among many supporters of the black lives matter movement across united states that we're seeing change to the justice system. and it's also for sure a signal to the police that their officers will be held accountable. he

w all of his allot, reporting from washington in brazil, the rio if a villa villa could cider, has welcomed a special seasonal visitor, santa arrive not by slay, but by helicopter, as the great children and distribute food event is organized by c, u. f, a grassroots organization created by young fellow residence to promote development . this year santa was played by a black man for the 1st time the group aiming to present more socially representative santa. the food distribution drive takes place throughout brazil in the final days before christmas. any $400000.00 food, a packages are being handed out. that's your news update this. i will have more headlines at the top of the next one. will be now with a look at how various cities around the world of dressed up for christmas. it's all about lights, lots and lots of them. i'm rebecca written thanks watching. ah,

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