time in the headlines this lunchtime germany set to celebrate christmas in the locked in as the country announces the shutdown of shops and schools and. the cases . that really needs to be the government could have had a lockdown earlier and that business were released 2 weeks. british children a warm day may not get christmas presents still easter trucks form 16 kilometer queues trying to get into the country but officials tell people not to stockpile goods and play bricks of uncertainty with a deadline for a deal with brussels extended again. take over parts of our films under cover the effects of a sharp rise in drugs cases in the german capital. and coming up to fewer top

british art gallery admits a vast mural showing a black child with a chain around his neck in the restaurant is quickly offensive but now mulling demands for him to remove it altogether a debate on the issue sparked an angry exchange. to do we just. saw with our friends article. now if you. want to call it. in the museum of colonialism and slavery. there are going to have to do not talk about this 14th of december money kevin 0 in here for the next half hour with the latest world news from r.t. international. and not good news to start to talk about for germany ramping up lock down restrictions ahead of the christmas holidays as the number of new coronavirus

cases grows 20000 new cases were registered on sunday alone the measures come in this weekend i said to stay through till the 2nd week of january. 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 'd will be banned from being able to be sold on the streets on 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 to it's a protective week 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 light 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 but if there really makes me angry the government could have had a lockdown earlier in intel bear and that business worked for these 2 weeks and others 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 those one has 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 he goes on and on doesn't it but bertalan journalist thomas fassbender thinks it's not going to be easy for authorities to actually monitor these latest 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 in 2020 there will be a lot of. anger and criticism and humourous scepter 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 this situation. huge queues of trucks are formed on the british border amid uncertainty over the failure to reach a divorce agreement with the e.u. still supply is increasingly fear new terrorist from a no deal breck said with prime minister boris johnson again yesterday extending

his deadline to try to reach a 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 at the general the 1st trade on w t o terms if we have to but it's all coming together they breck's it panics made worse by the traditional surge in demand this tommy christmas with the government now even warning stores to stockpile food as r.t. to me true 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 want to know until basically for for us we just want all those 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 want my deal it will feel as though we've got about 40 years old when they walk in able to when we can down fish and catch fish have a drink but i've been out a drink for the last. 46 years old military told. definitely get the wrong mail order and if and boris johnson has vowed to support them he's even ready to send the 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 the trucks waiting in line hundreds of them stranded in kent

santa might be late this year as the pre-christian is build up has contributed to an already dire situation at the border as elves are stuck with countless toys in 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 corporation for no deal which would see prices skyrocket and some products disappearing from shelves altogether the u. 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 are great at making progress but i think in the general

public you really care it's good you find out because we course we proceeded to leave the e.u. in 2016 so you know i don't agree we can really be strictly surprised that our yes we're not going to look i think we have to remember the our e.u. referendum in 2016 well the question you're going to leave during 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 suffer you go to working relationship with the e.u. what we don't see thoughtless muscular on the front stoop infer are they so be sorted out later on and just move on top of the. rules now. the german capital suffered a massive rise in drug use with entire berlin districts no and the deal is control

system channel r.t. germany used a hidden camera than to capture the disturbing new trend. the move. was. intimidated me a well built young man came into my kiosk i told him to get out but he refused and then she started grabbing me i called the police but they arrived too late so i gave a statement but nothing is changed. it's

nothing you can see them looking out for a potential victim and if somebody is not paying attention they smash their bag or wallets. get back up on you when i go to the station looking for a dealer and i tell him what i need he takes a rubbed elbows out of his mouth the standard price for a job was just 10 a year or so i give him the money and we go our separate ways. and the racism campaign this have set their sights on the leading art gallery in britain over a colonial era mural showing him in slave to black child tate britain now 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 in your world and the harm that imagery has caused so the mural which covers the wall of a gallery restaurants called the expedition in pursuit of rare meat by rex whistler and it shows a hunting expedition but controversially characters in the piece include a captured black boy being led with a chain around his neck campaigners want the mural removed all the restaurant closed and the gallery says it is considering now how best to respond but we're taking 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. it's polarized opinion between those who want the meal to stay and those who call it an acceptable curry over from britain's colonial past we put it all up for debate. we need to debate and leave these things where they are so people can understand

history and understand how far we have come from from these images they may now from defensive well know 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 blackish. what you're looking out. deeply offensive work placed in one of the most prodigious predecessors or is in a country post black lives matter that the whole paradigm shift in thinking is that what was formerly acceptable used to be acceptable is now no longer except. that you can move through. 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 grew up in a premier arts establishment of the country it can be moved and it can be praised

the proper educational context but he certainly not in a public space in the pretty prestigious art gallery or just a creep saying it's british colonialism is not to mislead an essentially folse because you misleading people of black history it earned because you are the l n b l n is a left wing mouches political party said which should go to your party now so the actual movement for black lives is lost it's momentum as being any credibility or less thank you kate people about the entire history of the slave don't how the fuck up 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 no longer be used to be misled that chattel slavery chance atlantic. honestly 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 or 50000000 africans exported from west africa and the interior what we will to do is just create history away so sell your friends out on the net shines a 19th century i'm not one to hide anything away i want to put it in a 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. coming up later in the program this monday if you stick around with me from moscow more rocco becomes the 4th of the nation to normalize ties with israel but it was. more on how the gift given for morocco in return for the whole could destabilize the entire region.

and she sure moving into those that are doing just that it just means that. you don't mind that just by commision under. the shining was all. because of the my space you know along today my country not in the established at the map. and you. have the economy to have more than a last step is that. you will slow down the muscle to get the knuckles i mean that i'm so. proud to go out without i don't want to use the term no but i'm not going well i'm going to. look at what's going to become the long point out of the muslim land going to come up thinking i come up each time she comes home to go missing

obviously you know the i mean people are really happy that you're going to be. the world is driven by dream shaped by one person. thinks. we. dear to ask. again thanks choosing our team today next war is brewing in the western sahara

after the u.s. has agreed to recognize the disputed territory as part of morocco in return for a robot normalizing ties with israel but the recognition threatens to break a 30 years ceasefire with pro dependent supporters in the western sahara warning they now have little choice but to fight back is the senior correspondent. christmas will well spose 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 conflicts and 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 whom the locals fort and off the wall 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. 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 the robbery's 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 real estate and credible hebrew presents 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. develops take 60 seconds out now to go around the world a brief showing this monday 1st in new york city police have shot dead a man who fired at them during a christmas choir show church officers 515 rounds into the shooter who was shouting kill me the man was rushed to hospital but died of his injuries no other casualties have been reported authorities are still investigating but his motives could have been. bad weather flights being canceled and roads blocked in the normally chilly anyway city of norilsk above the arctic circle in central russia because of massive snow blizzards there are reports of fish by officials. garza 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 court on the violence the poverty which is prevailing is one of the main cause effects of the siege on gaza strip and the closure of the borders of course which is preventing medical staffs and hateful fresheners from outside to come to help us in gaza strip while we have the israeli continuous illegal the blockade we have the coronavirus with the. health system and very difficult. conditions but israel says it is providing masks equipment and doctors to guard certain it's also reportedly getting ready to provide vaccines to the area in a bid to try to stop the rising number of cases garza recently closed all stores except pharmacies that happen this weekend the claim is one of the most densely populated territories in the world making it really hard to enforce decent social distancing one local code survivor highlighted the severity of the problem there.

all i had that is stands up at that 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 roofs they also keep touching their faces and eyes after treating the patients despite them really cautious i get infected because i don't know who's callous people i hope people do realize that this virus truly exists in here and it's kill us. bus it for now so much more about the other stories we're talking about today if you get a minute check and often don't call but from our reporting from moscow at exactly 26 minutes past the hour covered i was starting off and have a great day. it's

not over yet folks the latest on breaks that we tell you what you need to know also what should we make of all this talk of the session in the united states is a divorce in the car. show seemed wrong why don't we all just don't have all. the world yet to shape out this day become educated and gain from it because the trail. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground.

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time after time here we're going on the run 24 hours ahead of international passengers arriving in england being given the option to pay for a private test in a class ridden britain still with $1.00 of the worst because of the death rates from corona virus in the world coming up on the show as netflix arguably rebukes the british government over a fiction warning for the crown is the true cost of the award winning show british identity itself we speak to the crown's historical consultant and author of a new book about royal feuds a bid for the heart of so-called british democracy from william to harry and from kate to meghan cause more coming up in today's going underground 1st as netflix rejects calls from u.k. culture secretary all of a dowden over claims to a disclaimer warning viewers it's a work of fiction has the british public's imagination been irrevocably harmed after a year of valuable coronavirus misinformation and political spin joining me now is netflix's the crown's historical consultant and whose new book battle of brothers

william harry and the inside story of a family untold reveals how in the heart of the british establishment sometimes truth is stranger than fiction robert lacey joins me now from london thanks so much for coming on i'm going to ask you given that you have such a name in journalism for the fact that everyone in this country knows used by sell by dates on supermarket food for your work at the sunday times insight team why even writing about william and harry out of interest you're going way back into my u.c. and i asked yes i was an investigative journalist alton stewart matches and back in the sixty's there were these strange codes on the bottoms of your guts and i said what does that mean and that's it that's when it's going to go moldy that's what i like to know when it gets moldy and so ran a campaign and sell by dates you. and thank me for i mean when i die they're going to talk about my expiring date anyway that's another matter i felt that it was important that the british monarchy should be analyzed with the same degree of

scrutiny that we apply to anything else in our lives i i admire the british want to keep it i don't think we have to worship it it just should not be treated as a religion we are not servants of the british monarchy they are our servants we pay them our taxes and so it seemed to me right that we should look at how they're behaving how well they're handing out trust and to come up to the present day there was incredible mistreated.