The nordic countries . Quiet success and the proview in women, demanding justice after they were abused . 2 thirds of women there say theyve been victims of violence and now theyre accusing the courts of failing to protect them. On my heart. Thank you so much for your company. Everyone. German chancellor americal and regional leaders are meeting right now Via Video Conference to consider changes to the partial lockdown that went into effect at the start of november. All theyre looking into were theyre looking rather for an approach that could allow the country to ease restrictions ahead of the coming holiday season. The number of new covert infections has leveled off this month. But Health Departments have reported a record 410 covert related deaths. In the last 24 hours, the reports indicated the words could extend the partial lockdown until just before christmas. Were expecting an announcement firm chasse, americal any moment now will be for that one to go to where my colleague, hans bronson Political Correspondent who is closely following developments for us. Hans, why do restrictions need to be tightened now . Well, restrictions were tightened a couple weeks ago, and the effect has not been the effect that people had hoped for. We have had a leveling off of the number of cases, but at a very, very high level. So we have a kind of play on the is not in fact descending, so something needs to be done to make the number of cases actually much, much lower than they are at the moment. Because what we have at the moment is a huge amount of pressure on the hospitals, on the Health Systems on intensive care units. And that is expressed in the fact that the number of deaths is still rising. Will the chancellor chancellor merkel find Common Ground today with regional leaders . Thats been a big problem between chancellor merkel and the regional leaders. Theres been a back and forth between those 2 sides for months now. The medical tends to be someone who pushes for much tighter restrictions than do the regional leaders in their various areas as lots of disputes between the regional leader it leaders about whether in their region certain measures are necessary or not. So theres been a lot of attempts, a lot of talking in the last couple of weeks for the regional leaders to find a common, a Common Ground. They have fallen to come a position, but theyre still not satisfied with that. So thats going to be the core of the discussion thats going on at the moment. Well, hansei, you remember at the, at the outbreak at the outset of the pandemic worldwide, germany was hailed for its approach. What went wrong . I think what went wrong was. So what went wrong elsewhere in the world as well, that during the summer, things were relaxed, people felt more relaxed about it, and the discipline simply became more relaxed. And now that the restrictions are being reimposed, the option of being reimposed with the kind of severity that we had in march or april. There is an attempt knowledge to do this in smaller steps and with slightly more controlled way. And that has been successful to the extent that life continues as the economy has not been shot on the same way that it was 6 months ago. But at the same time, the results of the restrictions of have not been that good. And i think in the end, what you have to say is that people in germany have not been disciplined enough. What will christmas and the new years a look like here in germany . We dont know yet. Thats part of this caution thats going on. Everyone is pushing for christmas and new year to be slightly more relaxed for people to be able to meet in slightly larger groups for people not to be faced with the prospect of suffering from the loneliness of being isolated in what in germany is the most important family festival of the year. There is a possibility that if people do stick well to these restrictions that are going to be decided by christmas, the numbers that for christmas and the news of the restrictions will be slightly less listened to. And i was, while i have you here, want to ask you to weigh in on, on a different topic. Today we saw that a car drove into the chancellery, can you give us an update . What happened is that was a car that drove into a gate at the chancery. In fact, this is someone who has done this before a few years ago in protest against the policies at the time you had slogans written on the side of his car, protesting against the corona measures calling of the government, a murderer of old people and children. Something like that, the best seemed to be some sort of political background, but at the same time its quite possibly a person who is mentally confused. I Political Correspondent, thank you. Good to have you here. Now among european countries, finland is top of the class. When it comes to corona virus containment on managing to keep its new infection rates under reasonable control. Restaurants of bars are open for business and stores never closed, but there are fairly tight rules aimed at keeping the virus outside its borders. How has finland managed to keep the coronavirus said, during the 2nd wave, its not due to harsh restrictions on citizens because there arent any masks are recommended, but not required. In most places. All stores are open. Restaurants and bars are 2 orders for alcohol and at 11 pm is director of the National Coronavirus strategy. He explains. It relies on a sense of personal responsibility. Near recommendations wouldnt work everywhere, but here they do. Parents are quite obedient in the sense that they are suggested to maintain distance and avoid a lot of gathering as a lot of parties. Many people into and through work with the way says many finns are working from home and surveys show in person. Social contacts have been cut by 2 thirds. So while the situation in finland is very good at the moment compared with the rest of europe, Health Authorities warn that this requires constant vigilance. So while they are not making mass wearing mandatory, they put out friendly reminders like this one on city hall. Its a very good idea if pins want to maintain this way of life. But the number of new cases has started to rise. So now the government has ordered students over 12 to wear masks in school, and limited the size of social gatherings in the helsinki area to 20 people. It also extended until at least mid december, a ban on all nonessential travel into the country. Finnish Officials Say in the summer, half of new Coronavirus Infections came from abroad, thats dropped to 6 percent. Now that tourists arent allowed in. The European Union is pressing governments to restore open borders as soon as possible. Push hillis says finland is grappling with whether it can do that and stay safe. And its something that looking a little bit worried, a little bit terrified or thought out that we have to have very good model to work with the border you through and through to maintain the situation here. And one government proposal is the travel restrictions could be eased by making it mandatory to be tested on a rival. It is deputy mayor of where the airport is located and hes responsible for security there. He says his city doesnt have enough medical professionals to carry this out, communicated to the government. If you lift restrictions and if you make the law that forces our staff to move over to the airport. The situation is so that we cannot treat our finished people any more. So well that like difficult decisions lie ahead for finland as it tries to figure out how to continue blocking the virus, but not visitors. Lets have a look now at the other developments in the corona virus pandemic. Francis is relaxing its restrictions following a drop, a new infections, not a social shops. Movie theaters and museums will gradually reopen, but large gatherings will remain bad. And in australias most populous state, new south wales, it has eased social distancing measures and allowed companies to bring employees, back to work. And in the u. S. , a restaurant dining ban comes into effect today in los angeles, the 3 week order comes as the state of california faces a Record Number of new infections. Youre watching news a still ahead. The lethal leftovers of war an International Coalition trying to ban and clear land mines, meets today to report on progress. But for many civilians, the damage is already done. But 1st. So these are the other stories making headlines this hour. Hong kongs chief executive has offended a crackdown on dissent by her administration and beijing in her annual policy address carry lampreys a strict new National Security law as quote, a walk away effective in restoring stability after mass protests last year. While she vowed to restore order to the citys legislator legislature, which recently saw the mass resignation of opposition lawmakers. Prodemocracy demonstrators are rallying in the thai capital of bangkok in defiance of a government crackdown on opposition. A protest outside a bank in which the thai king is a major shareholder. It was despite the revival of a harsh law against criticizing the monarchy. Several activist face charges and sentences of up to 15 years in prison. And ethiopian Rights Organization says that a local youth group, aided by police and militia killed at least 600. 00 people in a rampage in the region. Earlier this month, the Ethiopian Human Rights Commission said members of a group called summary, carried out the massacre in the town of my drum. Us media reports reports say President Donald Trump plans to abandon his former National Security advisor. Pardon, rather, his former National Security advisor, michael flynn, of flynn twice pleaded guilty to lying to the f. B. I. During the investigation into russian meddling in the 2016 president ial election. President trump reportedly wants to issue numerous pardons before he leaves. Office scotland has become the worlds 1st nation to make mistral ration products freely available to all its parliament, unanimously approved legislation that makes free access to items such as tampons and sanitary pads, a legal right to end womens socalled period poverty. The inability to pay for basic sanitary products on a monthly basis today marks the uns International Day for the elimination of violence against women. And amid the coronavirus pandemic, reports of Domestic Violence are surging. A un data shows there has been a 30 percent rise in reported instances of abuse in countries like france, cyprus, and singapore. As lockdown measures forced people to stay home. Or even before covert 9 hit statistics showed that one in 3 women had experienced physical or Sexual Violence from an intimate partner at some time during their life. Violence against women is also a human rights violation. Well, the un is calling it the shadow pandemic, a global increase in violence against women and girls in peru. Thats been a problem for years, but just one percent of the views cases reported there last year. Let 2 convictions. Women say the countrys Justice System is failing them. When mikaela, performer and teacher was 20 years old, she was raped by a theatre instructor using the excuse of helping her to explore art. He made her remove her clothing and then assaulted her. He did the same with 16 other students for 3 years. The group has been fighting to have the man prosecuted. Despite the allegations, the peruvian Justice System concluded there was not enough evidence get a letter saying that your case of sexual abuse was closed due to lack of evidence. That makes you listen again and this and believe what you were told the 1st time. You made the accusation that youre lying, that youre doing it to get attention and that your life is not worth it in peru, gender violence affects all social classes. Equally. Viruss experience inspired these 2 books. Shes a Television Presenter and also a victim of gender violence. Her attacker was her former partner, her case is still waiting to be resolved this. Impunity is like a cancer that eats you up and kills you. Because it doesnt allow things to change, its not enough to punish only violence the ends in death. We have to focus on that slap that we have to focus on psychological aggression. Because if we are only going to react when women are dead, its too late. In peru, 66 percent of women have reported being victims of violence are not to contreras is pushing the parliament to address the issue today, a member of congress. She was brutally attacked by her exboyfriend. Now she promotes an agenda to end the violence inflicted by the state itself, institutional violence, situational violence, violence perpetrated by state agents through the Justice System. For example, police officers, prosecutors, judges, and medical examiners. There are many cases of people who report violence means that at the time of reporting there re, victimized blamed and then some