Latin american states to get hundreds of thousands of russian coated shot doses as the head of the un harold the bold but the feat and play in the battle against the pandemic. Good evening am i happy friday to you all this is our 2 International Coming to you straight from the russian capital welcome to the program. We start with some breaking news the European Union is imposing export controls on coronavirus vaccines made in Member States amid a row over supply shortages brussels has also just given the green light to the drug at the heart of the dispute made by british firm astra zeneca we can now cross to our to charlotte n. C. And paris charlotte to major announcements from the European Commission and the European Medicines Agency talk us through whats happened. Well as you mentioned the European Union has confirmed that it is taking this extraordinary step of introducing export controls on vaccines this means that any that scene that is manufactured within the block thats the 27.
To german population and to those businesses and sectors of the economy that are going to be particularly hard but hardly affected by this exactly as you were saying there that therell be a Significant Impact on business and tell us about whether and what type of compensation theyll receive. Yes indeed the finance minister said that compensation is going to be paid its going to be somewhere around 11 or 12000000000. 00 euros every month if that month is a month of locked on thats huge amounts of money but at the same time we have to say this is a time that is critical for retailers especially because this is the most important time of year where they make a large and large part of their turnover the of their profit. What exactly the numbers are going to be what exactly the measures are going to be is not clear yet until now the subsidies have been based on turn over and its turned out that that has been sometimes too generous so theres going to be a new way of calculating the assistanc
After todays selfimposed deadline britain and the e. U. Need a trade deal to prevent chaos on the borders starting on january 1st. On pablo foley s welcome to the Program German chancellor Angela Merkel has set the table for a bleak Holiday Season a short time ago she announced a raft of tough measures saying they were necessary to bring down the spiraling numbers of new covert 19 cases. The measures that we put into place on the 2nd of november have not been sufficient. For a while we were able to stop the exponential growth and how to plateau movements but now were seeing a new rise in infections an exponential growth once again and what that means is that many people are dying you have been following the statistics im sure and we also know that we are close to exceeding the response capacity of our Public Health systems and aim was always to prevent this thing in the end this is why we must act and we must act fast and the results of the decisions that we made today. Well lets break
Im the e. U. Need a trade deal to prevent chaos on the borders starting on january 1st. And public nearly as welcome to the program we start here in germany where the chancellor Angela Merkel has set the table for a bleak Holiday Season earlier today she announced a raft of tough measures saying they were necessary to bring that on the spiraling numbers of new covert 900 cases most known the. November the measures that we put in place on the 2nd of november have not been enough and when instead of back for a while we were able to stop the exponential growth and we had to pretend to do that and even talk but now were seeing a new rise in infections and exponential growth once again. Thats been good to. And what that means is that many people are dying youve been following the statistics im sure. You have this in the finally also know that we are close to exceeding the response capacity of our Public Health systems under aim was always to prevent this and this is why we must act and we m
And then move. On that shows that this is a very generous support package and i want to say i think it is absolutely justified he does if you are absolutely. Retailers and consumers what they are facing in these last couple of weeks of the year it will be an exceptionally quiet Holiday Season but the hope is that that will also be true for hospitals. Well for more on this im joined by our Political Correspondent. As you reported there. State of almost full lockdown has been announced as expected at one of the main takeaways. I think one really has to emphasize how quickly and comparatively smoothly this agreement was reached between chancellor merkel and the 16 regional leaders that is unusual because in the last 2 or 3 months they have met several times and these have been meetings that have been characterized by real infighting by acrimonious exchanges by trying to push through or to encourage strict measures and by the regional leaders refusing to accept those measures and wanting e