we are working tirelessly to see if you would reform go over where. we are only in this if you're going to get. to see everybody. stay safe. to say. this is g.w. news and these are out top stories british prime minister boris johnson has left a critical breaks it means saying in brussels with european commission president jose love underly and both sides have agreed to decide by sunday if the talks on of course breaks it try to cram an hour with continuing disagreements over fishing rights and business competition rules and policing up locking until the brics a transition period ends on december 31st. poland and

hungary have reportedly come to a preliminary agreement with germany on future in houston ending to eastern member states had launched the e.u.'s long term budget and coronavirus recovery fund with a total of $1.00 trillion euros they had opposed the provision that funding could be withheld these member states did not respect democratic standards something both nations have been accused of. german chancellor angela merkel has made an impassioned plea for tougher restrictions as coronavirus says failed to drop germany's 10th toll from cove of 19 has hit a record daily high of 519 state leaders are considering stricter lockdowns through the holiday season this is d.w. news from both in follow us on twitter and instagram it t w news all visit our website w dot com. for months we reported on germany as a role model for how the. keep the pandemic under control tonight germany is in

crisis the corona virus is spreading almost out of control 6 weeks of a partial lockdown and still covert 19 deaths are at an all time high today german chancellor angela merkel put it bluntly is up to us either we protect the ones we love or we don't either we ensure that our grandparents lived to see another christmas or this christmas may be their last i'm going golfing berlin this is the day. be going to be on a decisive perhaps the to science that famous supplying the pandemic and then besides the number of people requiring intensive medical treatment and the number of people dying from the fires is growing. that it. becomes truth and the conclusion is simply that the number of contacts is too high. up. but if we have to

pay the price at the $590.00 people dying every day and that's just not acceptable in my eyes and we must take action. against this. also coming up with the truth about turkey and the pandemic in a major switch the government is now reporting all positive coronavirus to us and the numbers there confirming the worst fears but now the authorities have stopped answering states on the number of new insights and every day and many are realizing turkey is one of the worst affected countries in the world. and to our viewers on p.b.s. in the united states and all of our viewers around the world welcomes we begin the day with an emotional heartfelt appeal from a leader known more for her raw. cerebral state of mind today german chancellor

angela merkel stood before parliament and made an impassioned plea to the nation to finally go all the way with a walk down a 6 week partial lockdown has not worked on tuesday germany's daily death toll from covert 19 hit a record high 598 there were 20000 new infections reported yesterday now there will most likely be no easing of restrictions over christmas as had been planned for the chancellor the aim can no longer partly be about saving christmas it is now all about saving lives and hoping that everyone will make it to the next christmas uncle americal has spoken in parliament on countless occasions but this time was different she framed the decisions now facing germany as a matter of life and death in one of the most impassioned speeches of her life there are 14 days to go on to christmas 14 days we have to give

a role to ensure that we don't end up back in exponential growth if we have too much contact with others before christmas and then it turns out to be the very last christmas without grandparents bendis will be a terrible failure. medical's message it's time to act shops is still open and even some traditional christmas stands a serving mulled wine out on the streets medical says this has to change. so how does just as hot as this is i know how much love gets poured into those christmas stands and i'm sorry from the bottom of my heart but if we have to pay the price of 590 people dying every day that's just not acceptable in my eyes and we must take oxfam accept our best player has decided this is a. magical also condemned the protest movements casting doubt on the science behind the so-called lockdown light currently in place she made an unusually personal

reference to her background as a scientist and her earlier years living under a regime with no respect for the truth thanks to that university nice gemini i decided to study physics i probably would not have done that if i had lived in the west i did it because i realized that many things could be undermined but not gravity or to speed of light and other scientific thank you thank you for medical the facts are clear a title locked down is needed right now next challenge is to persuade not only parliament but also the german people and the only important leaders of each german state without their consent tougher actions won't be possible but if today's speech is anything to go by merkel is ready to put all her political power on the line. my 1st guest tonight is helga live a member of the german parliament he also sits on the committee for interior your

fears and homeland security mr linden's good to have you on the day with us this evening you are a key advocate of legislation designed to promote strengthen democracy here in germany why does the country need a lot to do that well i think we are in a. intense crisis of democracy it's not a fundamental crisis but we have a lot of enemies strong anime's during the corona pandemic and also there's the structural problem of racism and extremism from the right wing partially from the left and islamism jet has been so we have a multidimensional at tack on democracy and we have not only to defend democracy but to promote democracy and to to strengthen the people fighting for democratic measures you say that democracy is under attack in

germany what about the countries democratic institutions it's checks and balances do you think that there are too weak or can they not resist these attacks i think it's good that they are not too strong to be honest because it's the quality of our democracy that it's vulnerable it's its quality but we know that. we were not strong enough we were not a really well fortified state against extremism especially extremism from the right wing and so we have to find ways to reload to make a upload of democracy but not to lose our ground but to regain the democrats' ground talk to me

a little bit. of the effects of this endemic defect that they've had. on democracy in germany you know people watching us around the world they've all been through this pandemic what has happened here. that has made democracy weaker. i think we have to accept the doubt many people not the majority maybe 20 percent of the german population who are critical about the corona covert 900 study our government and of all parliament and they have the right to be critical and they are not extremists they are not enemies of the democracy because of being critical and we have to defer them from the real enemies and from the people from the question comes from the people from right and parties who want to instrument tile these feel

this. essential problems of our economy of people having fear being an angel to use them and they are free to weaken our democracies so we have to be smart and we have to be rational. is that your biggest fear that the groups are going to take the fear and the insecurity that people feel with this pandemic and use it to chip away their trust in democracy in the government and to tear it down. yeah i think it's exactly the problem we have we we need the people to rely on democracy and we need population supporting our government and having the feeling that we are willing to discuss about strategies and we see that some of the old school conspiracy theorists the

thinkers of conspiracy myths they take this chance and they want to use this climate for their negative ideas for their extremist targets and what about support for this legislation that you're backing to protect democracy how much support or are you sensing who are. well it's one method one measure is to explain explain even better our decisions about corona and our limitations even infringement of fundamental rights we have to see at the moment we are while ating fundamental rights and the people are allowed to be critical on the other hand we we need to support projects n.g.o.s fighting for democracy

fighting against neo nazis fighting against right wing populists and they need our support and they need legislation once the vaccine has been given to everyone in the country and that once the pandemic has subsided. what do you think will happen to all of these extremists these conspiracy theorists will they will they simply go away that. no i think they are there's a certain amount of additional conspiracy myth and they just kind of weeded out at state at the very moment and they will find new topics fold their targets. once upon a time it was live migration crisis now it's corona on day vale find new topics so it's not corona it's just reinforcing these. structural

problem of racism and extremism in germany mr helgeland member of the german parliament's those who sits on the committee for interior affairs and homeland security is through and we appreciate your time and your insights tonight thank you thank you. we're here in germany the coronavirus crisis has given fresh impetus to many groups who were already as we heard skeptical of the state and the role that he plays in their lives many of them have been turning out at protests like the one you see behind me with no mask no social distancing the umbrella movement which is called clear dinka attracts many from the far right so much so that it is now being observed by germany's domestic security agency. freedom instead of corona virus that's a wish that millions of people what probably sign up to in this pandemic but most

don't share the rejection of politicians and firearm legist that germany's fandango movement does the word means someone who thinks outside of the box in this case the box they're protesting is germany's state ordered coronavirus restrictions. than dacres are a minority here but a very loud one a swiss study found that they were mostly supporters of the greens or the post communist left party or the far right alternative for germany. coronavirus deniers concerning middle class families followers of conspiracy theories anti vacs or occultists peace activists they all demonstrate alongside the far right neo nazis and so-called citizens of the right to reject the modern germany and its constitution and it is from this corner analysts fear that the entire crowd danka movement is being radicalized more and more from the right. it began under the name fat dank and 711 and stuttgart in april founder michelle ball

that never tires of distancing the movement from the far right saying this is all about defending important aspects of democracy like the right to demonstrate yet recently he met a leading light of the citizens of the movement pay to fit 2nd a man who has declared himself the king of germany the office for the protection of the constitution and the region where caddick and $711.00 began thinks the degree of radicalization is enough to put the group under observation so soon there may be some moles from the local secret service alongside the rest of the fandango. and now for the truth about turkey and the pandemic the country has reported more than $33000.00 gays in the past 24 hours the. it's the highest since the start of the pandemic after months of pressure by health experts and opposition politicians

the turkish government has finally changed the way the decals corona virus infections now that's brought to light a much worse situation than previously thought our correspondent julia hahn filed this report recently. either as a celebrating her birthday she turns a today or to be this wish is a harry potter cake and meeting her best friends. the latter is more difficult to organize since trick to coronavirus measures have come into force in turkey young people under the age of 20 are only allowed to leave their homes for 3 hours a day. i know that like i used to be able to go outside whenever i wanted it that was much better but i also miss school now everything is done why assume and it's so annoying. make a. good theatre says mothers trying to organize life as best as she can between

work and curfew she's often surprised how quickly the children have adapted to the difficult situation. to declare musky don't mourn the kids wear their masks without complaining even when they're playing they got used to it only when we look at old photos do we notice that masts weren't always that in your make believe only you're going to go all the. curfews for children are not the only new anti coronavirus rule in tokyo those older than 65 can also only go outside at certain times public transportation is forbidden for young and old people and on weekends everyone with few exceptions has to stay at home. it looks pretty bleak these days in istanbul's usually. very busy neighborhoods restaurants bars many shops closed. until recently the turkish government only publish the number of call that 19

patients showing clear symptoms and that's why many people here thought turkey was surviving the crisis relatively well but now the authorities have started to release data on the number of all new infections every day and many are realizing turkey is one of the worst affected countries in the world. the government now reports about $30000.00 new infections per day. a ridiculous many of us are angry about how the government is managing the crisis but there's nothing we can do. the government is concerned with its reputation they want to look good that is why there is no transparency almost publishing the need to but they should have informed people much better right from the beginning then everyone would have known what to expect and how to act if you could read it. and record in their deals with many covered 19 patients he's

a family doctor and belongs to the turkish medical association he says the authorities are still hiding the true extent of the crisis. we still have a lot more cases then the government says according to our estimates we have about 50260000 new infections per day while our doctors and hospitals are at the absolute limit we have to urgently take radical countermeasures. he of us thinks the current restrictions are already plenty tough the party's over the kids have to go back inside next year she hopes for a birthday without the coronavirus. there. could be trouble between germany and the united states in the pipeline yet again the u.s. house of representatives on tuesday approved

a pentagon budget bill that also expands sanctions against companies building the german russian nord stream to pipeline and the bill passed with an overwhelming majority of both democrats and republicans far exceeding the 2 thirds supermajority of you have would be needed to override a presidential veto a bill must now go to the u.s. senate where it is expected to easily panels. us opposition to the pipeline it goes back to president obama's 2nd term president trump surprisingly agreed with this foreign policy position that he inherited from the obama administration now work on the pipeline stopped a year ago under pressure from the u.s. but it's due to restart any day now germany has rejected u.s. calls for a stop just as it has rejected any notion of sanctions yet is the this can't you know what our position is on north stream 2 and possible sanctions that we reject

them because we do not consider extraterritorial sanctions to be compatible with international law and. this is not changed and. my next guest says that russia is trying to sell nord stream to you as a done deal which it is not i'm happy to welcome benjamin schmitz to the show benjamin served at the u.s. state department as a european energy security advisor he's now a research fellow at harvard university benjamin is good to have you back on the program before we talk about what's happening in washington and in congress tell me what you mean about russia trying to convince the world that there is no stopping of nord stream to. hi brant it's always a pleasure to be on deutsche of l a great to be back let's start with the situation at hand right now today i just wrote a piece for the center for european policy analysis in washington this morning and

i i'm i'm looking at this situation as gas problem reprising it's december 21000 disinfo playbook in order to make nordstrom to look unstoppable with the intent of dissuading passage of these targeted congressional sanctions after all if the project can't be stopped why even bother passing them well that's not true we've seen gas prominent allies over the past few weeks in the media that the project is moving along a pace companies are fully committed in spite of sanctions but just 24 hours after some of those headlines came out the biggest certifier for the pipeline d.m.v. g.-l. a major. technical provider that would be needed for this project to be completed left the project and this was followed by an announcement last week that project construction would start in german waters on december 5th last saturday but there's a little detail there this is only 2.6 kilometers of the pipeline and it's at a shallow depth that's not even targeted by the n.b.a. sanctions so with all of that russian vessels including fortuna and academic the

which have been reported on have headed back to at least in terms of the charity to kaliningrad in russia so good are you saying then that that's all propaganda that it's not true that construction is restarted. well one of the biggest stories was that the chairs the economic chairs he would be the main pipe player and that nestle never even made it to german waters it sat in the polish exclusive economic zone over the weekend well a lot of media reported on this and then it headed back to russia just just yesterday now the fortuna is making some motion this morning in the. outside of the port of the smart germany but it hasn't really started this this pipe playing that was supposed to start several days ago now and we ask about the u.s. opposition to this project we know we dates back to the obama administration then vice president joe biden he was vocal with his opposition he is now about to become president congress stands with him do you think all of this this monolith of

opposition is it going to be enough to ensure that this pipeline never goes online . i think it is i mean i think this project my colleague tom o'donnell spoke on your own news this week and said the project was that i think it's close to death to be honest if if these pass and they look like they will but you know let's let's just step back for a 2nd let's be thankful for the opportunity that the end of the trump administration has provided to improve trans-atlantic ties especially with berlin and i have no doubt that the biden team will be committed on this front both biden and congress have been spoken i've spoken out against from spurious trade disputes and threats of pulling troops out of germany in particular but this is separate this is about energy influence projection from authoritarian nations we look at this from a trans-atlantic security standpoint that russia and china are using technology in large scale critical infrastructure to do things like elite capture we see their hard schroeder working for this in germany we see

a number of other nations working on you know this sort of front so we need to stop this repeated corruptions what role does the change in the white house play here or will it be easier or more difficult for a german chancellor angela merkel to tell a president job i know she knows she's not running for reelection next years and she has nothing to lose here and you know you and i have talked about this before she has tried to separate nord stream to business from geopolitics. well unfortunately the russians haven't haven't separated their state owned enterprise projects like north rim from their own geopolitics when you and i last talked it was in the wake of the no volley poisoning and that the position of berlin of the government was to to back off of this project should russia not come through and actually help on that well they certainly did but yet we're having this conversation just a few weeks later so i really think that it is possible that that merkel will make this sort of pitch but i think there are bigger things that need to be fixed in the

transatlantic relationship that will be easier certainly under the bided inspiration yet and that a minute minutes of this pipeline we know that it bypasses ukraine. if you were to take ukraine out of the equation here european economies also are turning to renewable energies put if you put that together this pipeline that really does seem to be that needed it's not as threatening as it may be if it would have seemed 5 or even 10 years ago do you do you agree with that. i think that it's not needed because it's not aimed at bringing new gas to germany or points west only 9900000000 cubic meters of that 55000000000 cubic meter project are built to do that so it's not about this energy venda transition to renewables that some project supporters are trying to say this is a massive hydrocarbon pipeline it's something that. the. environmental n.g.o.s

spoken out against at length it specially in the past few few weeks so this is something where we see upstream in the russian federation european space agency satellites seeing nothing plumes from the the upstream in the mid stream pipelines that feed. into so this is really not about you know climate change in climate change that it's going to. unfortunately we're out of time always good to talk with you i think this story will have some longer legs on it than we thought originally and come back and talk with this again good seeing you sound good anytime thanks so much. for the days almost on the conversation continues online every member no matter what happens between now and then tomorrow is another day we'll see you then ever.

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