for more on this i'm joined by our correspondent julia sound delhi julia hello what's been the reaction to mikkel speech. it was a very emotional strong speech from chance of america yesterday and that has really resonated in germany time and time again before she had already encouraged people to follow the rules and called on the public and on the state leaders to take the coronavirus seriously but her speeches have never been as and passion does the one we saw yesterday and now some state leaders are following her call for tougher restrictions even those who were previously skeptical and didn't see the need for them so definitely a speech that has made waves. germany introduced a push along down in november the idea of course was to get the numbers down before christmas so what went terribly well it appears that the partial lockdown did not go far enough in trying to bring the number of cases down that in part has to do with germany's federal political system that means that the federal government cannot impose restrictions like lockdowns or curfews on the individual states the states

delhi julia what has been the reaction to their goals. it was a very emotional intense speech from america yesterday and that was felt strongly also here in germany numerous times she has already called on people to follow the rules to limit their contacts never as in passionately as this time and people have felt it it has also been felt by politicians by experts by fire oh just many are echoing her calls now and also states local federal states that were not really convinced by going ahead with tougher restrictions are now following. as you well know germany introduced a partial lockdown in november the idea was to get the numbers down before christmas so what went wrong. it appears that the partial lockdown has not gone far enough the measures weren't tough enough that is in part has to do with germany's federal political system that means that the federal government cannot impose lockdowns are curfews or other measures on the individual states the states have to decide for themselves now the approach in the last few months has been to

julia for delhi thank you. let's check in on some of the stories making news around the world farmers in india are staging a one day nationwide strike to protest the government's new market friendly agriculture laws tens of thousands of farmers have been camped on the outskirts of the capital delhi since the end of november demanding a repeal of the law us president elect joe biden will nominate retired general lloyd austin to be a secretary of defense according to a number of us media reports austin would be the 1st african-american to leave the pentagon after a 41 year army career austin is now on the board of raytheon one of america's biggest weapons for. a new zealand an inquiry into last year's christ church mosques attack found that security services had not focused enough on the threat from rightwing terror the 800 page report said spy agencies have place and inappropriate focus on islamic extremism before the attack but it stopped short of saying authorities could have prevented the massacre vote counti

political correspondent julia south delhi is with me in the studio julia put this into some context for us just how bad or things in germany is hospitals things are certainly concerning here in germany what right now but not yet dramatic what we see is that some smaller hospitals and hospitals in rural areas are struggling and are almost at full capacity we've seen one of the biggest hospitals in germany here in berlin last week start considering to stop the admission of emergency patients but what we have to keep in mind is that germany is one of the countries in europe with the highest number of intensive care beds and that means that obviously when they are filling up it is worrying but it also means they do have a bigger capacity at the moment of the $27.00 about $27000.00 beds in total $5000.00 or are still free and that means there is still some capacity to be filled up what is concerning is the lack of health care professionals and specifically specialized nurses who can care for people in intensive care that has been a worry for quite some while and it remains so now that many a

political correspondent julia so delhi is with me for more julia stricter measures in bavaria could this set a precedent for the rest of the country. or the state premier in bavaria has been a proponent of stricter restrictions already before during the pandemic and has done just that now implementing stricter restrictions as those we see nationwide now the last meeting between the federal government and america and the state premiers have been just 10 days ago and then they decided on what would happen over christmas and those rules were supposed to hold through the whole christmas period and currently a new meeting is scheduled for january 4th but said today that he thinks a new meeting is necessary before the christmas holidays to evaluate whether the current restrictions nationwide are working or whether state leaders and americans should follow his lead and implement stricter ones despite these measures that are already in place germany hasn't been able to significantly reduce infection rates how serious is the situation here in germany if you look at the numbers overall and compare

reported julia sell delhi joins me now julia give us some perspective here how worrying are these latest numbers. they're definitely concerning just even if specially if we consider that there are measures in place to try to contain the spread of the virus and just yesterday the head of germany's disease control agency said the situation is worrying we could even see a spiraling of of cases again going into exponential growth. the virus is widespread across the country and what is most worrying is that we see an increase in cases in older age group these are the groups that are at higher risk from called 19 and that's why we've seen an increase in intensive care beds and in deaths recently and even if we compare germany to other countries for example the us which is not seen as a beacon of. responsibility in dealing with the pandemic and not a successful example necessarily we see that the incidence of call in 19 in the u.s. is 63 cases per 100000 inhabitants over 7 days in germany that number stands at $149.00. julie as you well know germany introduced a partial lockdown at the start of

julia so delhi reporting thank you and let's get some more perspective now with dr toby escorts he is an epidemiologist and the director of the charity tate institute of public health here in berlin good to have you back on the show 1st of all what do you make of these numbers the numbers are alarming as we have already discussed yesterday the numbers are higher since days and weeks and we have to decide now to go into a hard lockdown now we cannot afford to wait after christmas people are seeing family members if you travel across the country you see your family members members you put people at risk you put people at risk to get sick you put people at risk eventually dying we cannot afford this the numbers are far too high the hospitals are for and we know that 3 to 4 weeks after the cases that are infected now will appear in the hospital so there is even the rise in numbers in the hospitals this is dramatically high we have to act now when we spoke yesterday the head of the robert cock institute warned that we could see exponential growth again have we already reached that point. t

political correspondent julia so delhi is with me for more julia stricter measures in the very i could this set a precedent for the rest of the country well. premier in bavaria has been a proponent of stricter restrictions already before during the pandemic and he's done just that now implementing stricter restrictions as those we see nationwide now at the last meeting between the federal government an america and the state premiers happened just 10 days ago and then they decided on what would happen over christmas and those rules were supposed to hold for the whole christmas period and currently a new meeting is scheduled for january 4th but others said today that he thinks a new meeting is necessary before the christmas holidays to evaluate whether the current restrictions nationwide are working or whether state leaders and america should follow his lead and implement stricter ones despite these measures that are already in place germany has been able to significantly reduce infection rates how serious is the situation here in germany if you look at the numbers overall and compare th

holidays should be extended with no exceptions for the christmas holiday season and correspondent julia so delhi is following the latest on the story for us hi julia we should say that this is the german government's leading scientific advisory body that sending a very clear message here will politicians listen and so the is germany's academy of sciences it brings together a number of experts and academics from different fields from medicine to politics to economics and it advisors government institutions on and recommends what they think the appropriate action should be and. herself the german chancellor has said that she follows the recommendations as her source of information source that informs her decision making and it is a very well respected institution in germany and now there seems to be more calls among germany's state leaders and politicians for tougher restrictions maybe not as tough as what the d.n.i. is recommending but there seems to be some consensus building as to the importance now of further restrictions as the numbers here in germany are not going down so we know where the c

political correspondent julie or south delhi is with me here in the studio julia now stronger measures in bavaria could this be in fact a model for the rest of the nation. of the various state premier has always been one for pushing for stronger measures already in the 1st wave of the pandemic has been doing it now again alongside with. and last just 10 days ago. and the state premiers have met and decided on the status quo nationwide of the restrictions currently and on a loosening over christmas and these measures were meant to hold over the christmas period and the next meeting is currently planned for january 4th and today's said that he thinks a meeting is necessary before christmas to already now reevaluate whether the measures currently in place nationwide are working or whether the other states and the federal government should follow his lead and decide on harsher restrictions seeing that the numbers aren't really dropping significantly as you know nationwide intensive care units at some hospitals are reaching full capacity with covert 1000 patients just put this into some sor

julia delhi for us thank you. and let's get some more perspective now with dr toby escorts he is an epidemiologist and the director of the cherry tate institute of public health here in berlin good to have you back on the show 1st of all what do you make of these numbers. the numbers are alarming as we have already discussed yesterday the numbers are high since days and weeks and we have to decide now to go into a hard lockdown now we cannot afford to wait after christmas people are seeing family members if you travel across the country see your family members members you put people at risk you put people at risk to get sick you could people at risk eventually dying we cannot afford this the numbers are far too high the hospitals are full and we know that 3 to 4 weeks after the cases that are infected now will appear in the hospitals so there is even a rise in numbers in the hospitals this is dramatically high we have to act now when we spoke yesterday the head of the robert cock institute warned that we could see

political correspondent julia so delhi is with me for more julia stricter measures in the variac at this set a precedent for the rest of the country. premier in bavaria has been a proponent of stricter restrictions already before during the pandemic and has done just that now implementing stricter restrictions as those we see nationwide now in the last meeting between the federal government an america and the state premiers have been just 10 days ago and then they decided on what would happen over christmas and those rules were supposed to hold for the whole christmas period and currently a new meeting is scheduled for january 4th but the said today that he sings a new meeting is necessary before the christmas holidays to evaluate whether the current restrictions nationwide are working or whether state leaders and americans should follow his lead and implement stricter ones despite these measures that are already in place germany hasn't been able to significantly reduce and faction rates how serious is the situation here. in germany if you look at the numbers overall and compare them wit

correspondent julia so delhi thank you jim. germany and poland today marking the 50th anniversary of a historic agreement the treaty of warsaw was a cold war non-aggression pact that guaranteed germany's acceptance of poland's post-war borders west germany's chancellor at the time villa brandt's traveled to communist poland to sign the agreement but his visit became known for an even more historic moment at the memorial for the warsaw ghetto uprising against the nazis were on went down on his knees a deeply symbolic gesture seen as a mark of atonement for the 6000000 poles killed by germany's nazi regime during world war 2. faced with the abyss of german history and the burden of the millions who have been murdered i did what we humans do when words fail us. that's how willy brandt described the moment that's come to be known as the genuflection of warsaw. it was an act of atonement for the sins of the nazis of the nearly half a 1000000 jews and present in the war so ghetto most were killed in total nearly $6000000.00 poles per

political correspondent julia so delhi is with me for more julia stricter measures and a very i could this set a precedent for the rest of the country. or the state premier in bavaria has been a proponent of stricter restrictions already before during the pandemic and he's done just that now implementing stricter restrictions as those we see nationwide now the last meeting between the federal government and america and the state premiers happened just 10 days ago and then they decided on what would happen over christmas and those rules were supposed to hold through the whole christmas period and currently a new meeting is scheduled for january 4th but others said today that he thinks a new meeting is necessary before the christmas holidays to evaluate whether the current restrictions nationwide are working or whether state leaders and americans should follow his lead and implement stricter ones despite these measures that are already in place germany has been able to significantly reduce infection rates how serious is the situation here in germany if you look at the numbers overall an

julia so delhi good to talk to you. to ethiopia now we're fighting is reportedly continuing in the northern region aid agencies are warning that the insecurity there is holding up aid needed by hundreds of thousands of people the recent clashes between government forces and the people's liberation front has sparked a mass exodus from the region with many fleeing into neighboring sudan thousands of people are believed to have died but one has also been born. has been and fled their home and to grow as soon as they had the sound of explosions and gunfire just a week before one for months they set out and fought. and i was frightened and running away so that's when the pain started right in the middle of the street beating. someone was lucky in a small village in ethiopia she found a hospital where a doctor hope to deliver a baby after that the family of 3 made their way to a un refugee camp in sudan salaams husband at security said she feared for his life in tikrit i. could have taken me. so if i die i will die with her a

julia so delhi reporting thank you and let's get some more perspective now with dr toby escorts he is an epidemiologist and the director of the cherry tape institute of public health here in berlin good to have you back on the show 1st of all what do you make of these numbers the numbers are alarming as we have already discussed yesterday the numbers are high since days and weeks and we have to decide now to go into a hard lockdown now we cannot afford to wait after christmas people are saying family members if you travel across the country see your family members members you put people at risk you put people at risk to get sick you could people at risk eventually dying we cannot afford this the numbers are far too high the hospitals all for and we know that 3 to 4 weeks after the cases that are infected now will appear in the hospital so there is even the rise in numbers in the hospitals this is dramatically high we have to act now when we spoke yesterday the head of the robert clark institute warned that we could see exponential growth again have we already reached that point. the p

correspondent julia so delhi thank you jim. most times us says that by the end of this year we'll of const $29000.00 jobs that's a 5th of its workforce the german airline says it's also planning to slice another $10000.00 jobs in 2021 although demand for flights has risen somewhat towards the end of the year. worldwide mean much of its fleet remains grounded the company has received substantial state this year due to the crisis by the end of the 3rd quarter it had recorded losses of 5600000000 euros. now let's bring in our financial correspondent in frankfurt chose to delay the chelsea that's worse than the funds i was previously announced right it is tons i have previously been saying it was going to cut about 22000 jobs by the end of the year that's obviously been increased quite a bit now in part that's because the house decided to sell its catering unit which accounted for about $7500.00 jobs but they also are cutting about $20000.00 jobs abroad and as you mentioned they plan to now cut another $10000.00 jobs within germany

political correspondent julie or sound delhi is with me here in the studio julia now stronger measures in bavaria could this be in fact a model for the rest of the nation. of the various state premier has always been one for pushing for stronger measures already in the 1st wave of the pandemic has been doing it now again alongside with i'm going to america and last just 10 days ago. and the state premiers have met and decided on the status quo nationwide of the restrictions currently and on a loosening over christmas and these measures were meant to hold over the christmas period and the next meeting is currently planned for january 4th and today's said that he thinks a meeting is necessary before christmas to already now re-evaluate whether the measures currently in place nationwide are working or whether. the other states and the federal government should follow his lead and decide on harsher restrictions seeing that the numbers aren't really dropping significantly as you know nationwide intensive care units at some hospitals are reaching full capacity with covert 1000 patients to pu