Wake-up call 25/12: Christmas speech king • Quarantine rule Austria entered

• The Dutch will also celebrate Christmas in corona time this year. On Christmas Day and Boxing Day, people are allowed a maximum of four guests.
• King Willem-Alexander delivers his annual Christmas speech from Huis ten Bosch Palace. It is the third time that he brings his message to the people from his residential palace.
• Pope Francis holds the traditional Urbi et Orbi blessing from St. Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City. He pronounces this blessing annually at Christmas and Easter.
• From today, Dutch people without a booster shot must be quarantined for ten days after arrival in Austria. The country has introduced the new rules to slow down the spread of omikron as much as possible. Just who already does has had a booster shot, in combination with a negative PCR test, you can go on the slopes without going into quarantine first.
• The new James Webb space telescope is going into space. He should be the successor to the famous Hubble.

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What did you miss?

On NPO Radio 2 the Top 2000 has started, the list of the best songs of all time according to the station’s listeners. The Top 2000 is broadcast from Sound and Vision in Hilversum.

The list of lists can be heard until midnight on New Year’s Eve. Just like last year, the program is without an audience.

The Top 2000 was opened by musician and DJ Bart Arens with a show on the roof of Sound and Vision in Hilversum, with a mash-up of well-known songs from the list:

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