German police have arrested the driver of a car who ploughed into pedestrians killing four people one of them a baby. And an extraordinary story from brazil where a convoy of gunmen pull off a brazen bank robbery, leaving cash behind on the streets. Were keeping an eye on the house of commons. Mps are going to vote on the governments new coronavirus tier system which, if approved, will come into effect in england on wednesday. This is the scene live in the house of commons. Mps havejust wound up a long day of debate. More than 100 mps made their cases either for or against the tier system. The last of which was Health Secretary matt hancock. The mps are in the lobby now as the voting begins. This is whats theyre voting on. If the plans are approved there will be three tiers. 55 Million People will enter tier 2 or tier 3 the two stricter tiers. Most will be in tier 2 they will not be able to mix indoors with anyone outside their household or support bubbles. In tier 3 the strictest up to six people can only meet in public parks, beaches or in the countryside. And pubs and restaurants can only serve takeaway. Heres Prime MinisterBoris Johnson making the case for the new regime. This is not a return to normality. I wish it was so. But it is a bit closer to normality then the current restrictions. And what we cant do is lift all the restrictions that once or move too quickly in such a way that the virus would begin to spread rapidly again. And that will be the surest way of endangering our nhs and forcing us into a new year lockdown with all the cost that that would impose. We know this is going to pass because the labour party and the liberal democrats both in opposition say they are going to abstain. They argue there needs to be more Financial Support for the hospitality industry, but that the planned tier system is better than nothing. Heres the labour leader. We recognise the need for continued restrictions, but its not in the National Interest to vote these restrictions down today. And we will allow those restrictions to pass. But its another wasted. We accept the case for restrictions. We want a plan thats going to work. Were on plan five, and this ones full of holes the Scottish National party is also abstaining for a different reason. These tiers only affect england. In fact, the real focus is on the Prime Ministers conservative mps some are certain to rebel. One is mark harper, who chairs the Covid Research group. I wrote to the Prime Minister, with 70 colleagues, asking for as much information as we can have about the effectiveness of the measures being imposed. Being proposed. And thats notjust, by the way, madame deputy speaker, whether theyre too tough. Its also whether theyll be effective enough. They definitely come with big economic costs, and i want to know if were going to pay those economic costs, those costs on peoples lives and livelihoods i want to know that theyll have the effect on suppressing the virus. And we simply dont have that information. Helen catt is in westminster. Is itfairto is it fair to say they dont have the information . Has the government not provided the detailed reasoning behind the system was yellow with the government did yesterday was publish some analysis on the impact. But a lot of it was stuff that had already been put out by the office of budget response building last week. One of the findings was that it couldnt predict with any a ccu ra cy it couldnt predict with any accuracy the impact of the specific restrictions over a defined time or what would happen if no restrictions we re what would happen if no restrictions were in place. So a lot of conservative mps whove been calling for some sort of analysis to be published have not been satisfied by what was put out. Sir graham brady, the chair of the 1922 committee of conservative backbenchers, a very senior conservative described it as being no serious attempt to answer the questions that they had. So there was lots of dissatisfaction about it. Downing street say they published a lot of data over the course of the pandemic and have put this in the public domain. But its certainly not been quite enough to convince some conservative mps, and many are saying that when it comes to the next vote on these tiered restrictions due early next year, the government needs to do a lot more to get them on side to. What do we think the numbers are here . How many people might rebel . To add to that, what political consequences might there be of a rebellion . Its difficult to call an exact number. We know this will pass, its certain to pass because labour is in voting, there abstaining because the snp are abstaining because its an english system. So it comes down to that conservative split, meaning you would need a huge number of tories to vote against the government to defeat these measures, around 170 plus. So we wont see that. But if you look at previous rebellions, when it came to the national lockdown, there were 35 conservative rebels. So if you look at that number or lower, the government will be pretty relieved. If you get to a0 rebels, thats the equivalent of wiping out Boris Johnsons rebels, thats the equivalent of wiping out borisjohnsons majority, and the biggest rebellion hes had was aa on the 10pm curfew. So anything higher than aa, and youre looking at the biggest rebellion so far. And what it does is it shows the challenge, as i said, because there will be another vote on this early next year it shows the challenge boris will have and keeping his mps on side, and putting pressure on as well see some of those areas move through the tiered system before then. Helen, thank you for the moment. We think thats what will happen in about 15 minutes its happening now, but we will get the results in 15 minutes. Helen will be back with us and we will adjust the numbers. Very likely to go through, the question is, how many of those conservative mps will have rebelled . Many of those conservative mps will have rebelled . We many of those conservative mps will have rebelled . We will find out soon enough. Yesterday, we showed you the us Health Secretary saying he hoped two covid vaccines would be in use before christmas. Well today, the head of the Agency Responsible for giving them clearance has been summoned to the white house to explain why its not moved more quickly on the Pfizer Vaccine the first to request clearance. Xpo says he was being requested to speed ahead of the meeting, fda chief stephen hahn told axios. But there is enormous political pressure, not least from donald trump. He tweeted in october. Theres no evidence theres anything political about the fdas processes. And there are concerns that if vaccines are approved before full safety reviews, it may impact how willing people are to take it. Heres the World Health Organization on that. Many people actually currently are making decisions not based on good information, but based on some information theyve seen on social media or elsewhere. And they believe it because theyve not had access to the right information. Thats prompted scientists to upload their own videos like this one to try to tackle misinformation on apps like tiktok. Our Global Health correspondent, tulip mazumdar, has been looking at this. A number of studies looking at peoples attitudes towards a covid 19 vaccine are under way. Preliminary data from 17 countries suggest that people in ethiopia, india, and saudi arabia feel the most confident about taking one, with at least 85 saying they would be immunised. There was more scepticism in countries including germany, france, the us, and also in the drc, where fewer than 50 of people said they would take a vaccine. Gary odonoghue is in washington, dc. I know the bbc has been trying to find out what was discussed at that meeting between the white house chief of staff and the head of the fda. How are we getting on . No word from the white house or the fda on what was said during that meeting. But i think we can pretty much guess at its contents, cant we . Because the white house and donald trump have been really unhappy with the regulatory bodies like the fda and with pfizer about the speed at which this is going. He made promises about the vaccine and accused pfizer of delaying the news of the vaccine until after the election to damage him. Now there seems to be some annoyance in the white house thatll ta ke annoyance in the white house thatll take from 20 november, when they first applied for this emergency authorisation, until ten december only 20 days, but what the fda has to do is observe all that data that pfizer gathered from its study and make an independent assessment as to its safety before it goes into peoples arms. What are the political norms around these processes . Political norms around these processes . Would we expect political pressure on the fda when it was considering other approval processes . Considering other approval processes . No, i think considering other approval processes . No, ithink generally speaking, the rule here is that you trust the scientists to do things as quickly and safely as they say they need to be done. Clearly these are federal agencies, they operate at the behest of the executive arm in other words, at the behest of the president. But a kind of political pressure to get this thing done quickly or which may compromise safety would be the concern. This is a fast track process already, the you ea is not your normal process. This is an exceptional process and is being done quickly, but not quickly enough as far as the white house is concerned. Thank you very much, gary. Now lets talk aboutjoe biden, because hes been formally unveiling his team of top economic advisers. A first rate team thatll get us through this ongoing economic crisis and help us build the economy back notjust build it back, but build it back better than it was before. A team thats tested and experienced, with Ground Breaking americans who come from different backgrounds and who share my core vision for Economic Relief here in the United States of america. Hes also calling on congress to pass a robust package for Economic Relief. His nominee for treasury secretary is former Federal Reserve chairjanet yellen. President elect biden said, no one is better prepared to deal to deal with these crises. And heres what janet yellen said. Ive spent my career trying to make sure people can work and achieve the dignity, and self worth that comes with it. Mr president elect, i know youve done the same. I saw that understanding during the last Great Recession and the recovery act that followed. And now were facing historic crises again. Lets speak to gary about that in a moment, but quickly, lets listen to the house of commons, because we are getting this vote on the new tier system coming through. Motion number four formally. The question is motion number four as on the order paper. As many as are of the opinion, say aye. To the contrary, no. I opinion, say aye. To the contrary, no. I think the ayes have it, the ayes have it. Thank you. With the leave of the house, i will take motions five, six and seven together. That is exiting for number five, exiting the European Union animals, numbersix, five, exiting the European Union animals, number six, exiting the European Union. As you can see, it matters in the house of commons are moving on from the issue that we we re moving on from the issue that we were focused on, which was the tiered system i heard exactly the same as you did, so before confirming exactly whats been voted through, let me just take a moment or two to be absolutely clear. But as helen was saying earlier, unless something very strange happens, this new system will be approved by the mps. But this is a story, at 78 mps have voted against these measures being promoted by borisjohnson, the conservative Prime Minister. But bearin conservative Prime Minister. But bear in mind, the labour party abstained, and the lib dems abstained. The snp also abstained. So most of these people, if not all these people voting against, will be conservative mps which is extraordinary, well above the a0 that helen advised us to look out for. Helen isjust having that helen advised us to look out for. Helen is just having a that helen advised us to look out for. Helen isjust having a chance to digest the numbers as well as i am. Your reaction . It looks like a sizeable conservative rebellion. It looks like itll be above the aa, which was the previous biggest rebellion under Boris Johnsons Prime Minister ship, if you like. The reason i cant say for certain what the numbers are yet as we need to wait for the breakdown to come in to wait for the breakdown to come in to see how many of those were labour mps. We know a handful of labour mps we re mps. We know a handful of labour mps were planning to break their whip and vote against the restrictions, even though labour is formally abstaining. But the anticipation is that wont be that many of those, so it certainly looks like it will be quite a sizeable rebellion against the government here. And for those of us just the government here. And for those of usjustjoining, those involved ina of usjustjoining, those involved in a sizeable rebellion, particularly for the conservative party what would they like short, her borisjohnson to be doing, rather than his proposed plan . They dont want uniform view. A lot of what weve heard this afternoon is mps standing up and saying that their area has a reasonably low infection rate and its been lumped in with an area with a bigger infection rate. A lot of them were in the old tier system before the lockdown, which was tier 1, which had barely any restrictions. Now theyre coming out and tier 3, the highest level of restrictions. So we will hear from highest level of restrictions. So we will hearfrom a highest level of restrictions. So we will hear from a lot of mps this afternoon that sort of story, saying what they believe the government should be doing is looking at this ona should be doing is looking at this on a much smaller level, on a district or borough level, so its more reflective of the very local infection rates. Thats an argument theyve been making since this new tier system was announced. It hasnt won the day this time. However, borisjohnson was talking about looking at this in a granular level when they review these tears in a couple weeks time. That seems to have raised expectation that we could see some of those lower infection rates split off, if you like, from higher tiers. However, infection rates split off, if you like, from highertiers. However, i think well have to see if that materialises. But that is certainly one of the major objections. And the idea from a lot of conservative mps is that this is a massive infringement on peoples liberties. And if youre going to inflict that level of restriction, then youve got to know your justification level of restriction, then youve got to know yourjustification is absolutely there. Theyre saying they havent seen necessarily the analysis or data to provide a comparison to see what would happen, and also what the impact would be if it wasnt done. So i think thats largely the argument that theyre putting forward. Just so we are absolutely clear on the process from this point on, this has been voted through, so this tier system comes in the place. You mention it will be reviewed in two weeks. But mps wont vote on it, that what comes later on . Thats right. It comes into force at midnight tonight, the areas will go into the tears that were announced last week, so that will happen at midnight tonight. But once promised is that every two weeks, the government will look at where different areas are and which tier they are, and see if that is still appropriate. So there opening the door to the idea that some areas may be able to move down the tier system, and thatll happen every couple of weeks. That will be done at the government level. However there is a sunset clause in this legislation, meaning it only lasts for so long, and it will run out at the very beginning of february next year. So if the government wants to keep the tiered system in place beyond february next year, mps will have to vote once again for it to stay in place, and thats expected to happen at the end ofjanuary or early february next year. Thats the vote they were talking about. Got it. Thanks for taking us through, helen. At least four people have been killed after a car ploughed through a pedestrian area in western germany. A baby is among the dead, and a number of others have been injured. The incident happened in the city of trier, in an area where a Christmas Market is usually held. It was cancelled because of the coronavirus pandemic, but shops in the street were still open. These are pictures from the scene. The suspect drove through the street for around a kilometre before being stopped by the police. A man has been arrested, but his motive is not yet clear. Heres triers mayor. Translation we all see these pictures again and again on television from other countries, and we always think, that cant happen in trier. And now, it has happened in trier. And im standing here as mayor, and im speechless. How can a person get the idea to drive through the centre of the city of trier and kill people . Damian mcguinness is in berlin. What more do we have about the circumstances in which this played out . You can hear the shock and sadness in the mayors voice there. We found out more about the perpetrator, hes a 51 year old german man born in criciuma. He grew up german man born in criciuma. He grew up in the region, so hes a local man. It seems that according to initial assessment, he may have psychiatric problems. So he may have been drunk when you carried out this attack, as its being called by the mayor, and he was living in the car that he used as a weapon. They say he acted with intent maliciously, thats how they put it. It appears he drove right through the beautiful mediaeval city centre of trier, meaning for people as he was going. So it was definitely done with intent, thats what officials have told us this evening. Hes right now being questioned. Officials also say theres no reas