Gets a little taller after himalayan nations agreed on new measurements. Im rebecca it has welcome to the program here in germany the countrys regional governments are considering imposing a total lockdown over the christmas and new year period the countrys National Academy of sciences is recommending the Holiday Season be used for a to wake full lockdown to rein in high infection rates the eastern state of saxony has already taken steps in this direction and bavaria is expected to follow the various state premier monk assert it has asked lawmakers to approve strict measures including the closing of stores from christmas to january 10th mating between the federal and state. Governments last week concluded that individual states can unilaterally impose stricter measures. And the new political reporter is with me from our parliamentary studio 3 a thanks for joining me hard luck to definitely looking inevitable in germany do we know when the country is likely to do a full shutdown we dont
Up on the other side of the atlantic anticipation grows for about saying roll out the outgoing u. S. President touts Americas Group Speed Development but how much cooperation has trump offered to his successor will be rolling out the actual vaccination program. Im Rebecca Ritters welcome to the Program German chancellor Angela Merkel has pushed for tougher restrictions to bring down stubbornly high coronavirus numbers this is germanys death toll from covert 9 tain has hit a record daily high of 590 state as a considering a Strict Lockdown over the holidays to curb infection right addressing the German Parliament just moments ago merkel urged the public to recognize the seriousness of germany situation. Well this right now isnt does not fill us in and 14 days until Christmas Day and we must do everything we can to ensure that we get away from exponential growth and we have set the teachers and to everyone all of the contact that isnt necessary must be restricted and as hard as that is a
And also for the European Union how much the european fissures will get in the future to u. K. Watchers and this is one of this restocking points here if theres no deal before the end of the deadline what happens. Well i think its fair to assume that we are going to see a lot of chaos because both sides dont seem to be heard for such a worst Case Scenario then of course if there is no trade deal we are going to see tariffs on imports from the exports to the we are going to see customs checks and that could mean delays in even delivery of medicines for example we can see lanes of florries way to to cross the border and bury a lot of issues would be affected if there is no trade deal from i. V. Asian traveling in general to even you know transporting your pets from from the u. K. To the European Union. Thank you. In venezuela socialist president Nicolas Maduro has hailed a gigantic election win that hands him control of the National Assembly and cements is position and but there are soci
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Well the use of the term novacek when it comes to the nerve agent that the german side say this alex in a valley was poisoned with or casts a spark to march of 2018 in the case of. His daughter a year earlier in sols period in the United Kingdom where not a truck was talked about then we saw hazmat suits places being cordoned off a lot of people on the scene testing the the locations that had visited we havent seen that with Alexei Novelli of course hes been under an incredible mount of medical attention since he was transported here to burlington but we havent seen the same type of of scenes we saw in souls perea couple of years ago. Peter youve given us the background on this story and broken down the German Response for us but what about the russian official reaction. Officially so far all weve heard from kremlin spokesperson to me to the press corps is the early one hasnt been in touch with with moscow on this issue or expecting that to change because what we did hear from us as we