ah, what is true? what's vague? it doesn't matter. the only criteria is worked. we'll hook people. we shed light on the opaque world who's behind benefits. and why are they a threat to whistle open equals this week on d, w ah ah, busy w news live from berlin. as the u. s. tops a 1000000 new corona virus infections in a single day. president joe biden makes another appeal. please, please,

please. it vaccinated now the surgeon cases is raising concerns over disruption to public life. biden says be all micron barrier poses the biggest threat to the unvaccinated. also coming up a man shops with setting fire to south africa. parliament building appears in court, but his lawyer says police have the wrong man and that the accused is only a scapegoat, tennis star, novak joker, which is granted special permission to play at the australian open, even though he hasn't revealed whether or not he is vaccinated against the cove 90 . ah i'm to have it as well come to the program. the united states recorded more than 1000000 new cove. it attendance sections on monday. that's

a world record for confirmed daily cases though it's partly due to a reporting backlog. after the new year's holiday confirmed infections have doubled in the past week as the omicron variance spreads, but hospitalization and death rates have been lower than in previous years. meanwhile, the u. s center for disease control has recommended shortening the wait for booster jobs to 5 months. that with more than a quarter of the population still completely unvaccinated, president joe biden addressed the nation urging people to get vaccinated, unvaccinated, taking up hospital beds, and crowding emergency rooms and intensive care unit as displaced other people need access to those hospitals. so please, please, please get vaccinated. now there's no excuse no shoot for anyone been on vaccinated. this continues to be a panoramic of the unvaccinated. so we gotta make more progress. and for patients

who still haven't gotten your kids vaccinated, please get them vaccinated. look out for their interest. here is the best way to protect them. folks, i know we're all tired and frustrated about the pandemic is coming weeks are going to be challenging. please where your mask can palmer to protect yourself and others . really get through this. we're going to get through it together. just present joe biden speaking. there. i'm now join for dr. peter chin. hong is an infectious disease specialist at the university of california in san francisco. at the number sounds massive, 1000000 new infections in a single day, but will only con, reportedly less dangerous than previous various. how worried are you really? well get hard. we're still very worried because we haven't even hit our search yet . remember we had 3 holidays thanksgiving christmas and new year's. we're still waiting for the repercussions from new years. so, you know,

a smaller proportion folks do get hosp lies. a small proportion, a large number is still streaming many hospital systems. but if you asked me, my biggest worry, it's about a workforce. you know, we pod sick health care worker is sick restaurant workers, sick teachers. i, it's really disrupting all of our ways of life and that's leading to burn out. 40 percent of nurses and 20 percent of physicians in say that they intend to quit within a year. so that's to tell you the scope of what we're talking about. so, joe biden just said that it would, it needs to get vaccinated. what else can a needs to be done? i was vaccination. the only remedy here? well, i think out the vaccinations are the 1st 2nd and 3rd most important thing we can do with boosters. but i think the biden ministration historically and currently have been critique for not diversifying enough of the mitigation strategies, putting all the eggs in the vaccine basket. because after all,

vaccines are so politicized. and you asked that if joe biden is seeing good get vaccinated and you're in red, said you, you're probably not going to do that. i think what we're seeing is that people who are not wanting to be vaccinated probably feel less queasy about getting monoclonal antibodies or getting pills or maybe doing testing. so i think these are all strategies that need to be, you know, are really ramped up. they didn't do it in time for omicron, but hopefully for the next variance. so the new variance up here regularly, just a week ago the, there were new cases of new variant in france and some say we ought to get used to corona learn to live with it. what, what's the mood there in the us among scientists and policymakers? well, i think today's news of the i h u variance from france, which doesn't stand for, i hate you very. and which, you know, we all feel at this point. i was read with

a lot of anxiety and people. i think that's what you're going to get. you're going to get a lot of anxiety every time. there's a new variance. at the end of the day, will this be the one that everyone gets some sort of community immunity from is the question, but again, the variance keep on popping up that a more resistant than the previous variance, which the population gained immunity. i, you know, at some point we need to probably change our goal posts that talk radio. not focusing on numbers of cases going up dramatically by 1000 percent or 5000 percent like in puerto rico, but rather hospital capacity. you know, at the end of the day, hopefully we won't see a headline like hugh jackman has gotten a cold, which is essentially what i'm hoping cove it will devolve into eventually after all the time that makes due and like the 1918 flu kind of the ray of hope that delta pita chin, hong professor of medicine athene of us, t of california. thank you very much for your time. thanks. care. hot.

now let's have a look at some other stories making headlines around the world. japan says, no korea has launched what appeared to be a ballistic missile into the sea of japan. from minister from yorkie, sheeta expressed regret that north korea continues to launch missiles in the direction of his country. united nations resolutions ban pyongyang from the ballistic missile to somebody. if you couldn't, wouldn't unplug. demonstrators have taken to the streets of kazakhstan for a 3rd day over soaring fuel prices. please say they have to paint more than 200 testers. the central asian countries cabinet has been sacked in a bid to head off the unrest. a judge in the us says he will decide soon whether to dismiss a civil successful case against britons, prince andrew, the prince. his lawyer say he is protected by a 2009 settlement between his accuser, virginia, fray and sex offender. jeffrey epstein, jeffrey says prince andrew sexually assaulted her when she was only 17. a

palestinian prisoner has ended his nearly 5 month hunger strike after israeli authorities agreed to release him next week. next month. rather he shall. i will have washed families said he had achieved a victory for all palestinians. he began his hunger strike in september to protest his detention without charges being made. a man accused of setting fire to south africa's parliament has appeared in court fifa to say that finally brought the blaze under control. after to day battle, the defendant has plate pleaded not guilty to charges of arson and possession of an explosive device. the suspect denied all charges when he appeared in court and faced the assembled press. the 49 year old who lives in the township southeast of the city center was the only

person arrested in connection with the fire. his lawyer said the wrong person had been detained and that his client was being made escaped goat. he advocated for a release on bail, but the prosecution seems certain they have their man and trying him on 5 charges. for those judges include, how's breaking we intend to steal and vent to kind of assume it was the scene of an explosive device, empty section of essential infrastructure. the case has been closed, gone to the 11th or january. an explosion could have made an already chaotic situation. worse, firefighters 1st tended to the blaze on sunday. hampered by the fact that the building sprinkler system had malfunctioned, then it flared up again on monday evening after high winds and was eventually extinguished late at night. no one was injured with parliament still closed for the holidays. the building is expected to be out of use for several months. over the

next 7 days, police will continue their investigations gathering additional evidence. the accused will remain in custody until his next court appearance. some sports use now . tennis star, norfolk joke of it has confirmed he will defend his australian open title in melbourne this month after being granted an exemption to play this after his continually refused to reveal his vaccination status against the corona virus. the well number one applied for a medical exemption according to tournament official, and it was granted after a quote, rigorous review process. the victoria state government has mandated that old place staff and attending attendant fence fans be fully vaccinated unless there is a genuine reason for an exemption. now to talk us through this are my joined by tennis commentators, steve piers in melbourne. steve,

australia's of the liberals, toughest pandemic restrictions and still joke, which has been given a medical exemption on what grounds? well, that's a very good question. and one which i think about 5000000 people in melbourne would like to know the answer to because it hasn't gone down particularly well as you would imagine, given some of the restrictions and lock downs and vaccination push that's been particularly the case in melbourne. the tenants, stria, and military and government outlined 4 or 5 ways, fairly acute what you recall acute medical conditions as to how you can get a medical exemption. and they range from anything from a bad reaction like n alexis to a kind of makes a nation or having recently had major surgery or even maybe a mental health condition that you might react badly to, to a vaccination. but one of the key ones in there and there weren't many others, was a recent case, a positive proved case of coven 19 in the last 6 months. and,

you know, reading through the exemptions and no one's revealed. and no one can in fairness reveal apart from the man himself, what his particular medical condition is. you would think, although we don't know that that's probably the loophole that's been he, he's been able to exploit. there's no proof whatsoever in the public domain that neither job just to make until it does this indicate that he may have slipped through the net, if you will, because he previously had a covey. the infection has recovered from it, but doesn't want to share that information. well, that might well be the case. so tennis destroyer is, has spoken publicly about this is you would imagine that they can't really avoid the government both governments victorian government, federal government has spoken and they are very cane for now back to reveal when he gets here. what exactly the reason is that said that he's been able to as you put it said through the net get

a medical exemption where everyone else pretty much is had to had to be jad but it, that's the only solution we can think of july, i think that june 2020, when he had a publicly confirmed case of kind of whether that's whether he's had another case in the last 6 months. that seems to jump out from the list as to how he could possibly have received a medical exemption to come and play in the australian, and it is bewildering at face value. so how is this going down briefly? if you can, in, in the australian public it's not going down well at all. i don't think i've seen any positive comments around it. people have been through the wringer as they have been around the world with, with karen of ours. but there's been an enormous push here to get vaccinated and there's been really, really strong statements from all levels of government about how important it is that you get vaccinated, that there will be no special cases for tennis players. and then neither jock of it, the public and t vax, a person who, who really has advocated against it,

held those, you know, prominent tournaments last summer with picked up kevin himself. he's the one that gets medical exemption it's, it's not gone down well at all condo to force trillion open radio. steve fierce. thank you very must've pleasure. gap. oh no. this is all over the world. are coming up with creative campaigns to encourage vaccination in germany and entrepreneur teamed up with the shepherds for unique stanton. the pushed to achieve human, heard immunity, 700 sheep and goats were lined up to former 100 meter long syringe. pieces of bread were laid out to coax the animals into position the stunts organizers said, he hoped to reach the emotions of vaccine hesitant people where scientific reasoning had failed. you ought to dw news his reminder of the top stories we are following for you. you,

as president joe biden has urged unvaccinated americans to get the job after more than 1000000 new cove. it's 19 infections were reported in the us. within a 24 hour period, confirmed infections have doubled in the past week. asti, ami con varian spreads, but also the hospitalization and death rates are lower than in previous wipes. and that's it for now, from me in the early team here in berlin, don't go way up. next is business. i'm going out office in a berlin from me of the team. thanks a lot with we got some hot tips for your bucket list. romantic corner chat.