some uncovered, i'm now joined by our correspondence, christine montoya in amsterdam. hello, christine your experience in the 1st day of lockdown and the netherlands capitol, amsterdam. what's the atmosphere like? well i you wouldn't really know. there is a locked, how near? judging by all the activity that is happening outside people are out and about or this is about as much as they can do i. but when you drive through the city, you see all the shops, the bars and restaurants that are close, and then you really get to understand what is actually happening here a day like today, people would be doing their last minute christmas shopping and going into the school is getting all the gifts at that kind of thing is not happening. so people are just out taking a walk, riding bicycles, kicking footballs are in the outside. that is about as much as they can do, but it's really damp in disparity or the lockdown. i swear to some people at what would have been a christmas market that was being packed up essentially a lot of frustration, especially among business owners. this is

the w correspondent, christine montoya, reports from amsterdam. oh, christmas is already over at this local markets in amsterdam. so this was supposed to be a christmas market. people spending the day here buying also. christmas passivity treats like lu via and cetera, but as you can see within hours, everything's been taken down. one gentleman i spoke c, fact he's right behind me. he wouldn't come on camera, but he's fuming, he's raging. or he spent the last 2 weeks preparing for this. and basically the celebrations are over before they've even begun after the holidays were canceled. last year, this christmas was supposed to be different. but the new restrictions, which mean no shopping or restaurant training or the surprise gift nobody wanted and even the outdoor national favorite pos time has been put on ice. yeah, the restrictions makes it again impossible to, to operate of the ring for this year. last year we close. so for this year we finally had the opportunity to open up again and to to make the losses of last year to, to make it a little