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Greens boss Habeck considers stricter corona measures to be inevitable
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8.16 a.m.: Söder calls for football games without spectators before federal-state consultations
Bavaria’s Prime Minister Markus Söder (CSU) has called for ghost games in all German football stadiums before today’s federal-state consultations on the corona pandemic. “It makes no sense to allow viewers again in the foreseeable future,” said Söder on Bayerischer Rundfunk. “It is an important demand that we decide today that we will not make any more spectators in the future. If that doesn’t work at the federal level, we would do it for Bavaria alone.”
8.15 a.m.: According to the Ifo survey, delivery problems in retail have worsened
According to a survey by the Ifo Institute, the delivery problems in the retail sector have worsened significantly a few weeks before Christmas. More than three quarters of retailers (77.8 percent) complained in November that not all goods ordered could be delivered, as the economic research institute announced in Munich on Tuesday. In October it was 60 percent, in September 74 percent. “Some places on the shelf will probably remain empty for Christmas,” said the head of the Ifo surveys, Klaus Wohlrabe. “Consumers need some flexibility with Christmas gifts,” he added. There is still “sand in the gears of global logistics” and many ship deliveries have been delayed.
7.37 a.m.: Greens boss Habeck considers stricter corona measures to be inevitable
Before the federal and state consultations on the corona situation, Greens boss Robert Habeck believes that stricter measures are inevitable. “It is completely clear what has to happen: The contacts have to be reduced, 2G has to be implemented nationwide in a binding manner for all public institutions except for the needs that one has in supermarkets or pharmacies,” said Habeck in the ZDF “Morgenmagazin”. “We will have to contest the winter with further uniform measures.” Already now there is a “bundle of possibilities” on the table for the federal states in order to react to the emergency, according to Habeck an expansion of the 2G rules. “That is – it has to be said so hard – a lockdown for the unvaccinated.”
7.24 a.m.: Winter weather causes several accidents in the south
Several traffic accidents have occurred in southern Germany due to snow and slippery conditions. On Monday evening and on Tuesday night, the police in Bavaria reported numerous accidents in snow and slippery conditions. A woman was seriously injured in Selb on the Czech border. She skidded her vehicle due to the slippery snow and came into oncoming traffic. In Heidelberg, a bus slipped off a slippery road and had to be recovered. The German Meteorological Service continues to expect winter weather, with widespread snowfall in the southern half.
7.00 a.m.: New investigation into civilian casualties in 2019 US air strike in Syria initiated
The Pentagon has opened a new investigation following a report on dozens of civilian casualties in a 2019 US air strike in Syria. US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin instructed General Michael Garrett to review the results of the investigation and “further investigate the facts and circumstances,” as Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said. The investigation should provide clarity about the number of civilians killed as well as compliance with martial law, correct documentation and compliance with the reporting channels. The “New York Times” published research in mid-November, according to which the US armed forces had dropped three bombs near the city of Baghus in March 2019. 70 people, including many women and children, were killed.
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6.37 a.m.: 2700 people protests against Corona measures in Thuringia
Several thousand people took part in unannounced protests against the Corona measures in Thuringia. A police spokesman said a total of 2,700 people demonstrated at 20 different locations on Monday evening. At the largest gathering in Erfurt, 650 people took to the streets, in Arnstadt in the Ilm district and in Bad Salzungen in the Wartburg district, 400 and 280 people gathered. In all other demonstrations, the number of participants would have moved in the double-digit range. Because of the corona pandemic, only fixed gatherings of up to 35 people are currently allowed in Thuringia.
5.57 a.m.: Vaccination debate about Kimmich: Hecking sees social responsibility
In the vaccination debate about national soccer player Joshua Kimmich, the Nuremberg sports director Dieter Hecking also emphasized the responsibility for the community. “We have a social responsibility when it comes to vaccination. I am tolerant and understand anyone who gives me valid arguments against it,” said Hecking of the German press agency in an interview. “But I don’t understand the people who, for flimsy reasons, don’t get vaccinated and thus endanger their fellow human beings. In the end, everyone has to decide for themselves.”
4.48 a.m.: Prosecutor moves to the Supreme Court after the judgment against Bill Cosby has been overturned
Five months after the overturning of former US television star Bill Cosby’s conviction of sexual abuse, prosecutors have moved the case to be examined by the US Supreme Court. The Supreme Court could correct a “serious injustice”, said on Monday the responsible prosecutor for the Montgomery district in the state of Pennsylvania, Kevin Steele. Cosby was released from prison on June 30 after the Pennsylvania Supreme Court overturned the verdict against the 84-year-old. The justification given by the judges was that Cosby had been denied a fair trial.
4.06 a.m.: Risk from Omikron – cities in Brazil cancel New Year’s Eve parties
Because of the corona pandemic, more than half a dozen major Brazilian cities have not planned or canceled traditional New Year’s parties. This was reported by the news portal “G1”, citing the mayors of cities such as Salvador, Fortaleza, Belo Horizonte and Florianópolis. Accordingly, the possibility that the new Corona variant Omikron (B.1.1.529) could increase the number of corona infected and deaths in connection with Covid-19 contributed to the decision. The World Health Organization (WHO) classified the Corona variant, which first appeared in southern Africa, as “worrying” on Friday.
1:31 a.m.: Man arrested in the US for killing his four children
A father is said to have killed his four children and their grandmother in the United States. The 29-year-old was arrested after the fatal shooting near Los Angeles, the police said. All five victims had been shot in the upper body on Sunday evening in the small town of Lancaster. According to a report in the Los Angeles Times, the alleged perpetrator is a former security guard whose gun license was confiscated.
0.16 a.m.: Right-wing extremist Zemmour apparently wants to announce presidential candidacy
The right-wing extremist publicist Eric Zemmour apparently wants to announce his candidacy for the presidential election in France on Tuesday. The 63-year-old will spread a “message to the French” around noon, the AFP news agency learned on Monday evening from Zemmour’s surroundings. On Tuesday evening, the publicist is then a guest in the news journal of the TV station TF1. The former journalist, who comes from an Algerian-Jewish family, had temporarily overtaken the right-wing populist Marine Le Pen in the polls, but had fallen behind again in the past few days.
0.03 a.m.: Guests can leave the snowed in pub
After three nights in a snow-covered pub in the north of England, the around 60 guests left their involuntary quarters. The snow plow “finally got through” on Monday, said Nicola Townsend, landlady of the Tan Hill Inn, of the PA agency late on Monday evening. 59 of the 61 guests left. The two remaining guests wanted to hang on for another day and then leave on Tuesday. The 61 guests were stranded after an Oasis cover band performed on Friday night. The autumn storm Arwen had also caused traffic chaos in other parts of Great Britain and caused the electricity to fail in many households.