in the headlines today germany is set to celebrate christmas in the lockdown as the country announces the shutdown of shops and schools a little spike in covert cases. that really makes me think the government could have had a lockdown earlier and that business worked for these 2 weeks. elsewhere british children are warned they may not get christmas presents till easter as trucks form 16 kilometer queues trying to get into the country but officials tell people not to stockpile goods said uncertainty with a deadline for a deal with brussels extended. take over parts of. the films at the effects of a sharp rise in drug cases in the german capital. a top british art gallery

admits a vast mural showing a black child with a chain around its neck in their restaurant is and they put a clear offensive and demands to remove it all together than our debate on the issue sparked an angry exchange. to do just. a little friend's article. on the one of. the loneliness and slavery. not to talk about this line of silent good afternoon from oscar this 14th of december my name's kevin owen glad to be with you to take you through the latest world news update for the next 30 minutes starting with this great news for germany ramping up lock down the stretch and the head of the christmas holiday says the number of new coronavirus cases there grows 20000 new cases were registered on

sunday alone the measures come in this week set to stay through till the 2nd week of january. must be and the measures that we took in november have proven insufficient they did allow us to hold the rising numbers temporarily but unfortunately infections are spiking again with a large number of deaths reported we know that the health care system a strained and our aim is to prevent it from being overwhelmed all non-essential retail schools day care head dresses they're all going to be closed because during this new lockdown that's coming in religious services will be able to take place but they'll be no public singing alcohol will be banned from being able to be sold on the streets and fireworks will not be able to be sold for new year's eve as part of these new plans it's not a surprise that we've seen new lockdown measures come in here in germany it is perhaps a surprise that this was agreed to so quickly on sunday between angela merkel and

the leaders of germany 16 states the states had been pretty reticent to give in to the chancellor's requests for stricter lockdown in the past these new measures will be loosened between the 24th and the 26th of december in order to allow some families to come together over the christmas period during those days for adults from 2 different households and as many children under the age of 14 will be allowed to gather however the message from angela merkel is caution. we appeal to families who are inviting relatives to avoid contact for 7 days before doing this since a protective week for new year's eve and new year's day the normal rules will apply no exceptions or the german chancellor wanted a strict a lockdown back in october however the leaders of germany's 16 states they wanted to keep as much of business open as possible that's why we saw the measures that

were put in place that were called lockdown lite it's pretty clear that this announcement on sunday is an acknowledgement that those. previous plans to keep business open well they've pretty much failed after effect really makes me angry the government could have had a lockdown earlier in the tober and that business worked for these 2 weeks. of us prepared for the 2nd knock down i've expanded my own line shop and started selling new products there and honestly i was not surprised by these decision alongside chancellor merkel on sunday was finance minister all our shoulders he said that the federal government is making available between $10.12 euro per month in order to help out businesses and individuals forced to close down their economic activities because of these lockdown measures he said that the majority of those in the bundestag were in support of giving out aid to those that need it you know we

always need to see what will happen in cases should last longer and that's one of told you that we've got a lot of leeway from the german bundestag to help where is necessary there's been a rise in cases and that is state steady across germany with the states of north rhine-westphalia bavaria button voting book worst affected we've also seen the number of people who have died with covert 1000 in germany past 21000 this prompted angle of merkel the leaders of germany 16 states to announce that we will be heading back into a much stricter lockdown until at least the 10th of january next year is the latest from a correspondent there. journalist thomas fassbender thinks although it's lord a ball it won't be easy for authorities to monitor the restrictions. if you read the regulation i read them 3 or 4 times for christmas. you need sort of

a law degree to understand really what is allowed and what is forbidden for christmas but you're a jerk christmas in germany 2020 there will be a lot of. anger and criticism and humorous etc about it. again government wants to restrict is much as possible in context knowing of course all these measures will not be fully implemented and they will not be able to monitor or. there is a certain despair in the government measures that cannot be denied but it is difficult even even with discipline germans to keep 83000000. and under strict control in the situation. of trucks have formed on the british border certainty of the failure to reach a divorce agreement with the e.u. still suppliers increasingly fear new tariffs from

a no deal breck's it with prime minister boris johnson again yesterday extending his deadline to try to find some sort of compromise i say to all the doctors dude we are going to energize the country we're going to get bricks it done on october 31st but in the meantime get ready with confidence generally the 1st trade on w t o terms if we have to and course the tummy is not helping the brakes it panics made worse by the traditional surge in demand of christmas with the government now we've been warning stores to stockpile food as artie to me to polk reports. sunday's talks were supposed to be final but what we got was another cliffhanger i'm afraid we're still very far apart on some key things and despite the fact that deadlines have been missed over and over we both think that it is responsible at this point in time to go the extra mile so what are the remaining sticking points for one fish

specifically the u.k. fishing industry which is tired of having to share its waters with european competitors while abiding by e.u. quotas which they see as unfair we will until basically a for us we just want almost dockside for an ideal for us that's just a slight it won't work so i think it's official life it doesn't work in my day or it will feel as though we got about 40 years old when they were enabled it's when we can go on fish and catch fish have a drink but i've been out a drink for the last. 46 years old because he told. definitely get the wrong mail order and if and boris johnson has vowed to support them he's even ready to send in navy gunships to chase away european fishing vessels in case of a no deal brags that europe's response calm down. i want to say keep cool just because we're at the end of a negotiation doesn't mean we have to lose our temper and go overboard while the situation in the sea heats up the trucks waiting in line hundreds of them stranded

in cannes santa might be late this year as the precursors build up has contributed to an already dire situation at the border his elves are stuck with countless toys and their trucks some of which might not reach the children until easter while barbie dolls might not be a necessity food and medicine certainly are u.k. ministers are even advising stores to start stockpiling food and corporations for no deal which would see prices skyrocket and some products disappearing from shelves altogether the use says if you want tariff free access to our market we need to maintain the same standards for goods labor and the environment but those are all the things the u.k. wants to decide for itself. and then there's the problem of how to resolve disputes which are balance of come up the you lost the power to retaliate if the u.k. doesn't follow the rules with fines and tariffs the u.k. isn't so keen on that and it doesn't want the european court of justice to be the final arbiter were people saying are great at making progress but i think in the

general public you really care. because we course we grossly it's a levy in 2016 so you know i did a great many people would be strictly surprised that our us was not going to look i think we'd have to remember the our e.u. referendum in 2016 was all a question or 2 leading the e.u. it wasn't leaving the e.u. if we had to do so trying to set up a deal yes of course this causes it to try and achieve again my state we're not going to stop a good working relationship with the e.u. what we don't see thoughtless muscular on the front stoop infer very soon be sorted out later on and just be on top of the. rules not. the german capital suffered a massive rise in drug use with entire industry it's now on the dealers control

system channel r.t. german used a hidden camera than to try to capture the disturbing trend. the. the. the intimidated me a well built young man came into my kiosk i told him to get out but he refused to they started grabbing me i called the police but they arrived too late so i gave a statement but nothing has changed.

if you can see them looking out for a potential victim and if somebody is not paying attention they smash their bag or wallets. get a job on me when i go to the station looking for a dealer i tell him what i need he takes a rubbed elbows out of his mouth the standard price for a job just $10.00 to europe's i give him the money and we go our separate ways it. sure is a london anti-racism campaigners have set their sights on a leading art gallery in britain over a colonial era mural showing an enslaved black child take britain know except the work is offensive. the chair of the ethics committee noted that members for unequivocal in their view that the imagery of that work is offensive trustees

discuss the need to acknowledge the strength of feeling around it mural and the harm that imagery has caused so the mural which covers the wall of a gallery restaurant is called the expedition in pursuit of rare meat sits by rex whistler and it shows a hunting expedition but the controversy is characters in the piece include captured black boy being led with a chain around his neck come paid is what the movie are all removed all the restaurant closed another gallery says indeed it is considering how best to respond . were taken this time to consult internally and externally on the future of the room and the mural and we will keep the public informed of future plans certainly polarized opinion between those who want to be able to stay and those who call it an unacceptable carry over from britain's colonial past we put it up for debate. but we need to debate and leave these things where they are so people can

understand history and understand how far we have drawn from these images that they may now find offensive although the current. situation if you're just going to hide things away and you never going to educate people is passive which is also part of black history. what you looking out. deeply offensive work placed in one of the most prodigious practices galleries in the country pulse black lives matter that the whole paradigm shift in thinking is that what was formerly acceptable what used to be acceptable is now no longer except. that you can move the removal rope to some sort of the museum of colonialism or british shaman you can provide the education context that. to have the super soft slavery while you retain your 45 grow up in

a premier arts establishment of the country it can be moved and it can be praised the proper educational context but he said he not in a public space in the credit prestigious art gallery or just a creep saying it's british colonialism is not to mislead an essentially folse because you are misleading people of black history it earned because you are b.l.m. is a left wing matches political party so which should go to your party now so the actual movement for black lives is lost its momentum as being any credibility for less educated people about the entire history of the slaves but don't hide the fact that black african tribes were complicit in it well before europeans got there and it wasn't just british colonialism can we just be absolutely clear because you know no one views to be misled that chattel slave chance atlantic child. it'll sling wasn't a periodic in slaven of warring tribes that could be released in the negotiation

between different villages it was the most brutal that long lasting exploitation probably one of the greatest crimes in cuban history solar 50000000 africans exported from west africa and the interior what we will to do is just create history away so that our friends out on the net chinese are 19. and i want to hide anything away i want to put it into history in a museum of colonialism and slavery that puts it in the proper context and you my friend would be the 1st customer to get educated because your ignorance is so profound as to be absolutely shocking. now the conversation flowed on coming up later in the program after breaking 5 if you can stick around we're talking about morocco becoming the 4th arab nation to normalize ties now with israel but it comes at a price more on how the gift given to morocco in return could in fact destabilize the

entire region. with. the. loss of a sparrow's main sure when you read of those lists initial want to show you just what that also has been. but so far we're sorting wants to draw. you will quote them. when you wash and then you think that it's for

profit anymore so you're in the right at the court on but there were all these walls up on the stage door to new muscles ledgerwood to post and most of them there were still police and you are all done for the child and not all the money. that in this. summer would put in that would know more than the board it's. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics or business i'm show business i'll see you there. well again this is art international war these bring in the western sahara to the us has agreed to recognize the disputed territory as part of morocco in return for

about normalizing ties with israel but the recognition threatens to break a 30 years ceasefire with pro independence supporters in the western sahara warning there they've got little choice they say but to fight back here's r.t. senior correspondent. christmas will well havoc i suppose especially good for israel this year see santa clause that doesn't work donald trump who has become the israeli equivalent of santa claus has managed to convince morocco to establish diplomatic ties with israel and when i say convenes what i mean is bribe the united states believes that an independent serai state is not a realistic option for resolving the conflict in their genuine autonomy under american sovereignty is the only feasible solution western sahara is the world's largest inhabited territory that hasn't managed to achieve self governance largely

because it keeps getting invaded the little people of us are always have had a rough time of it for the past few centuries 1st that was resistance to spanish colonialism then it was invaded by morocco and mauritania who in the locals fought and author all this struggle and all this bloodshed for independence the entire area as far as the united states is concerned has been handed over to morocco by donald trump you see now why the locals are somewhat meath to the polish sorry and serai government condemn in the strongest times the fact that outgoing american president donald trump attributes to morocco something which does not belong to morocco the policies are you front is the un recognized representative body of the serai people they really made a name for themselves by potentially saving thousands of lives in the 1970s when morocco literally bombed serai refugee camps with napalm then bombed long convoys

of refugees as they fled those camps for algeria where hundreds of thousands of them now live in refugee camps and often all that killing the atrocities the tarot serai have just been told to suck it up because they're now part of morocco because . that's good for israel. since the stance of the arab israeli conflict we've been seeing in the observing peace in exchange for peace peace in exchange for security but today we see the consolidation of one occupation in exchange for the consolidation of another. as a whole human the hidden month in which they live. from within the occupied region denounced this reckless statement of president trump which does not necessarily reflect use foreign policy washington's sheer cynicism and disregard for serai is right to self-determination aside this is all but going to cause more bloodshed russia spain and palestine have already condemned the announcement and the

ceasefire that has held for 30 years is already breaking down you can't blame just trumpet this morocco has been a historical ally of the united states and even a bomber wanted the serai is to live under a nation they want no part of. morocco's autonomy plan is serious realistic and credible he represents a potential approach that can satisfy the aspirations of the people in the western sahara to run their own affairs in peace and dignity while it is fascinating to watch how far donald trump will go to please israel it is causing a lot of wear and tear for the old moral compass trading away half a 1000000 people's right to rule themselves and telling them to live under a hostile state where an unelected king calls all the shots but if you're in israel happy hanukkah enjoy this latest little present that father trump has left you on

top of the power of previous gifts. the 60 seconds he had to run the world in brief . the new york police have shot dead a man who fired at them during a christmas choir show the church officers fired 15 rounds into the shooter who was heard shouting kill me the man was rushed to hospital but died of his injuries no where the casualties have been reported to authorities say they're still investigating what his motives could have been. but weather here flights have been canceled and roads blocked in the chilly at best of times city of norilsk above the arctic circle in central russia because of massive snow blizzards at the moment there are reports of cars being buried in the storm and visibilities evilly restricted. elsewhere riot police have blocked thousands of protesters from marching to the home of the head of poland's ruling law and justice party demonstrators chanted slogans demanding the overthrow of the government over further tightening of already restrictive abortion laws they claim it's part of

a wider authoritarian push by officials. health workers are blaming the israeli blockade for severe shortages of coronavirus testing kits and other essential equipment as the number of covert cases there continues to rise. where these ladies see him posing as a stripper has a very bad effect on the call of violence the poverty which is prevailing is one of the main cause effect of the siege on gaza strip and the closure of the borders of course which is preventing medical stops and hateful fishless from outside to come in to help us in gaza strip while we have the israeli continuous illegal to block it we have the coronavirus with. health system and very difficult. conditions while israel says it is providing masks equipment and doctors to gaza it's also reportedly getting ready to provide vaccines to the area

it appeared to try to stop the rising number of cases garza closed all stores except pharmacies at the weekend your own claims one of the most densely populated territories in the world making it increasingly difficult to enforce decent social distancing one local code survivor highlighted the severity of the problem there all that there is she answered i see lack of discipline from the patients they don't wear masks don't keep social distancing sometimes even doctors don't follow this rule they also keep that in their faces and eyes have to treat in the patients spread them really cautious i get infected because they've done who is callous people i hope people do realize that this virus truly exists in here and it killed us. well yeah that's it for now so it's more about all stories we're talking about great features as well in the main site called if you get a minute why not check it out come out to 26 past the hour of reporting from moscow kevin i would starting off the wishing you were of you watching around the world

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