Then move. On that shows that this is a very generous support package. I want to say i think it is absolutely justified he does if youre absolutely. Retailers and consumers not on the 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. And Political Correspondent so when young joins me now simon welcome and almost full lockdown has been an announced as expected what are the main takeaways. Well i think the main thing is that the run up to christmas this year in germany will look very different from previous years and its incredibly drastic measure closing down nonessential retail from the 16th of december the time when a lot of people do their Christmas Shopping and that will mean an enormous amount for many businesses as well as individuals but the government is responding with this huge packages the finance minister said theyre costing between 10 and 12000000000. 00
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Talked with one of them after the murder of some old, but she, i decided not to show them at all because i felt wonderful. I false about my profession was attacked. A very good morning to you from our team here and most go you are watching R T International with me carol, first a heinous assassination. Thats how the United Arab Emirates described trying days killing of a wrong top nuclear scientist, jordan, another key player in the middle east also condemned the death as the u. A. E. Urged all sides to prevent instability and escalation in the region. The attack sparked uproar in a wrongs campus all with rioters burning the flags of israel and its ally the us, as well as torching porter, said donald trump and joe biden will demanding war with america. To run immediately blames the incident on israel, which denies the accusations his want to know about the assault with her on a lady vowing retaliation, it will only aggravate the triangle of tension between the us is well on to run. As
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A coming Vaccination Programs possible treatments and rapid testing. Do you think do you feel that these solutions will be spread out to distribute it in an equitable way. Well i think that as you say these are encouraging news especially on the vaccines i think we still need to look at that they dont we need to rely on more than press releases we need to look at very good publications of the results but in the meantime our regulators here in europe and the United Kingdom and the United States are proceeding with emergency authorization process is and thats important and understandable in terms of i could have the access i think its reasonable to assume that wealthier nations those with those advanced deals with companies will be the 1st to get the vaccine and distribute to their populations followed by resource constrained countries professor how long a way is there still ahead of us i mean people are so encouraged by this use of vaccines now are being approved but realistically are w