Also coming up, the u. N. Calls it the shadow pandemic. Rising reports of Sexual Violence against women and girls under lockdown. We need a woman in kenya who they are working to shed the social stigma around survivors and helps heal each other. And the world gets to know us president elect joe bidens 1st cabinet choices. Its a team that reflects the fact that america is back ready to lead the world. Not retreat from biden is moving quickly to fill all key positions in his administration. Now that donald trump has stopped blocking the transition. Im sorry, kelly, welcome to the program. We have some breaking news coming in here in the german capitol of car has been seen crashing into the gates of german chancellor Angela Merkels office complex. Just a short distance from our studios. Youre looking at pictures there where there have been no reports of casualties. Police say that they have taken the driver into custody now. Merkel was scheduled today to host a Video Conference with 16 st
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A surgeon cove of 19 deaths in germany is alarming offguard hes in stoking calls for a stricter lock down nearly 500 deaths and 28000 new infections have been reported over a single day chancellor im going to medical and regional leaders will concede it tougher restrictions in emergency talks on sunday. The 1st International Aid convoy has arrived in ethiopias to grad region since fighting broke out almost 6 weeks ago the mission includes 7 red cross trucks carrying medicines and supplies for hospitals and about 1000. 00 families who were displaced by the conflict. This is d. W. News from berlin follow us on twitter and instagram at d w news or visit to d w dot com. Last. Week on the world stories. Russian Funeral Homes at capacity. German clinics search for volunteers but we begin in sudan the african country is a haven for thousands of refugees fleeing the war torn ethiopia the fight over the t. V. Grey region has torn families apart and half of those seeking safety are children. As.
Union and britain need a trade deal to prevent chaos at the borders in 2021 negotiators have given themselves until busy evening to resolve their differences but not about deadlines appears to be wobbling. Pablo folios welcome to the Program German chancellor Angela Merkel has set the table for a belief 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 here in germany so 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 did 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 being in the end this is why we must act a
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