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
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Is that is the new normal successive governments of welcome russian oligarchs and their money without in homes and there is a lot of russians with very close links to. Putin who are now very well integrated into but both u. K. Business political and social see what we refer to as lending as it london ground yet few if any questions of the National Guard the problems of considerable wealth. This open door approach has provided an ideal mechanism by which illicit finance could be recycled through the london laundromat Patrick Diamond is an associate professor of Public Policy at Queen Mary University of london he says the report shows the u. K. Has been ill prepared to deal with russian interference. The report itself doesnt really contain a smoking gun in terms of highlighting incompetence or nefarious practice on the part of any particular individual or agency it really highlights in a sense systemic use use which is to do with the front of the British Government the British Intelligen
1948 the state of israel was proclaimed. Palestine was lost. 16 years later in 1964 the Palestine Liberation Organization or the p. L. O. Was founded. Made up of different factions the p. L. O. Has been at the heart of the struggle to regain palestine ever since. Setting up an independent Palestinian Organization was not easy. The 1st challenge the palestinians faced was to wrest control of their own destiny from the at abrasions. In early 1965 a series of attacks were carried out against israeli civilians and infrastructure. A previously unknown Palestinian Group calling itself a loss if i meaning the storm seen here in training claimed responsibility for the times. And also if i was started by a small group of palestinian activists in the diaspora they believed Armed Struggle was the only way to end back their last homeland. Breeze eames did not share this view they feared being drawn into a conflict with israel for which they did not feel prepared. Palestine had been an area of conf
Workers are being infected. A number of doctors and nurses have been putting messages on social media complaining about the fact that they dont have adequate protective clothing so i think its fair to assume that those who have become infected those who have died have so because they havent had the correct protective gear now chinas government concedes there is a shortage of this protective clothing and of course it underscores just how vulnerable frontline medical workers are in china right now the World Health Organization has got more experts arriving at the epicenter today and over the weekend to supplement the team that arrived there a few days ago the w. H. O. Is also saying and this is i guess a grain of good news that the rate of infections outside of who by province dont appear to be rising as dramatically as they were during the past few weeks when president xi jinping urged transparency in mid january suddenly it was gangbusters with the state controlled media they were all