Germany set to extend coronavirus lockdown

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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, and hear about the likely economic impact of the move from Carsten Brzeski, chief economist at ING in Germany. Also in the programme, 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 BBC's Olga Ivshina explains. (Picture: Two women speak outside a closed Berlin department store. Picture credit: Getty Images.)