大象传媒

German authorities are expected to extend strict lockdown measures to the end of January. We get reaction from some small businesses that will be affected. Also in the programme the World Bank has said that any recovery in the global economy is dependent on the roll out of successful vaccines and has predicted 4% growth in the coming year - we hear from the 大象传媒's Andrew Walker who's been talking to the World Bank. We examine the run-off Senate elections today in the US state of Georgia, which are set to determine whether Democrats or Republicans are in control of the upper house of Congress. We hear from Anita Kumar, Washington DC correspondent at Politico, Aaron Morrison, who writes about race and ethnicity for the Associated Press, and Alexa Bankert, a political science professor at Georgia University. Plus, Moscow's underground Metro has hired its first female train drivers since the 1980s. The profession had been added to a list of jobs considered too physically demanding or dangerous for women to undertake, as the 大象传媒's Olga Ivshina explains.

(Picture: Two women speak outside a closed Berlin department store. Picture credit: Getty Images.)