the european parliament so it's clearly that clear that china targets the european institution the only elected democratic institution the parliament and one of these piece is that i had beautiful of a german green a very vocal critic of the communist dictatorship in china he already said here in brussels that these counter measures are ridiculous and annoying into china but only harm itself now where does the e.u. go from here berent in terms of what does it want to achieve with these sanctions it hasn't posted a. but the actual impact on the 4 person sanctioned in china and one entity a minimal because yes it's freezing and travel ban will not in the personal way but it is a signal that the e.u. wants to send to beijing a political sickness after 32 years of no sanction they say this is enough human rights violations have to be punished somehow but on the other hand it's clear that

the u. does not want to endanger the economic ties to china because of these ties much too important for all the common economies here in europe parents every good reporting from brussels thank you for that well let's get you now the perspective from china correspondent is running or is in beijing for you yes a tell us a little bit more about the chinese individuals that have been blacklisted by the european union. you know all of the 4 individuals are high ranking officials in synch young in the region where these policies where this campaign against the weak is that is called a genocide by more and more observers is happening they are individuals. who who are in at the top of security organizations the head of the public security bureau or high ranking officials in the regional government the deputy party

secretary off soon john is on this list and individuals like one form i had off the legal affairs committee and seen john was being exposed by leaks as one of the people who have planned this there is an entity called the scenes young construction and production core this is like a state in this state massive organisation that controls to economy in this region and that runs its own schools and its own prisoner and it has its own police force its own public security department and this public security department is also on the list of is also sanctioned by the e.u. not the whole organization or ever so companies who do business with this institution can continue doing so is not on this list is also very interesting

that's the party secretary of the region the man was considered the architect behind these policies for some reason the e.u. has spared him from the sanctions let's pull out a little bit if we can and talk big picture because all of this comes at a time when a u.s. president biden continues former president trump set a confrontation policy now you've got the e.u. not shying away from imposing sanctions on these individuals 1st time in at 3 decades this is the best way to deal with china what are you hearing. well this is something that we will have to find out until now these policies do not yield any results yet but that would also be surprising i think what we need to see if you're talking about the big picture is that these policies come after 30 years of economic engagement and of. closer ties with china and these 30 years of closer ties have not made china more democratic the economic rise of

china has not led to an opening a social opening on the contrary the human rights situation has been deteriorating since at least 8 years since he's in pain came to power and that was at a time when the obama in his administration in the u.s. was still in power and the obama administration today is accused of being too dovish on china the same is true for this assertive foreign policy the build military buildup in the south china sea for example has started way before trump introduced is more controlled is more confrontational policy and i think there is a growing consensus in the foreign policy communities in the u.s. but also in europe that a tougher response might be the better way to deal with china as the softer policies have failed correspondent matthew severing of reporting from beijing thank

you. a sick a look now at some of the other stories making news around the world a fire has swept through a abraham refugee camp in southern bangladesh thousands have been left homeless and without health facilities deaths and injuries are feared over 1000000 live in camps in the region most fled myanmar in 2017 after an army crackdown. i can french a subsidiary and several of its former executives are on trial accused of illegally spy on spying on employees and job applicants using private detectives and police officers on the french branch of the furniture and home goods multinational could face a 3750000 euro fine some managers risk 10 year prison terms if convicted. the main opposition candidate in elections just held in the republic of congo has died a spokesperson said gave brees supreme court

a last died as he was being transferred to france for treatment for covert 19 he was the main rival of president dennis says so the group so who is expected to extend his 36 year hold on power europe's biggest economy is poised to reintroduce moderate coronavirus so why down measures just weeks after easing them german chancellor angela merkel is meeting with regional leaders to discuss their options and that summit growing evidence that a 3rd wave of the outbreak is already underway on the country has registered almost 8000 daily new cases in autumn last year a steep rise in cases has was brought under rather controlled by a 2nd lockdown mostly targeting school shops and restaurants but since some restrictions were eased at the start of march there has been another spike scientists now fear cases could jump to

a new high. and the exponential rise in cases comes amid growing protests against current restrictions thousands of people rallied in germany and elsewhere in europe over the weekend police say some 20000 people demonstrated in the german city of castle making it one of the largest rallies of its kind so far in germany this year of course broke out between some of the protesters and police resorted to using batons pepper spray and water cannons to disperse the crowds police treat it that there had been quote repeated attacks by protesters against emergency service workers. and our political correspondent thomas sparrow is covering those talks that are set to get under way right now the objective is to evaluate exactly what the situation is like in germany and what the next steps will be to expect if they will pull the hand brake if you will on those reopening steps

cautious reopening steps that they had planned a few weeks ago when they had previously met they had actually elaborated on a plan to reopen germany but the situation is now so complicated germany is now saying again exponential rise in cases and increasing coronavirus hotspots and this is basically leading what authorities including german chancellor angela merkel to think about pulling that hand brake and that the reason behind that is that germany is now beyond a very important threshold the threshold is 100 new infections po 100000 cases in 7 days and germany as i said is now beyond that so that is probably leading authorities to make sure that all those cautious reopening steps are no 9 now being pulled back obviously as you can imagine not everyone in the country is happy about those steps and while that is my next question to you tom is do we expect this meeting to be a contentious why. normally those meetings are very contentious between regional leaders who obviously have regional local priorities and the german chancellor who

has sort of the big picture of all this and this is something that we expect will take a lot of time those meetings are normally not very quick meetings so they could go into the night they could last several hours and the reason behind that is also because they understand that this has real direct quick impact on the lives of many people here in germany on many businesses here in germany as well in fact you wus visited one of those businesses that has been particularly affected by the coronavirus in recent months to hear what the people working there actually had to say about the current situation here in germany. about this homemade chocolate cherry cake is a favorite with customers at the moment if you go limp it can only serve it to go. that doesn't cover her costs at all. by now she's accumulated a debt of around $35000.00 euros if germany were to tighten restrictions again she'd be forced to close. up about a loss of. 10 taps if this did it to 3rd lock down is actually put in place then i

would definitely have to shut down for good. because i'm taking out 2 loans which i'll have to pay back. i just wouldn't know how to go on. many businesses in germany fear for their existence some have already given up meanwhile cases in the country are increasing rapidly just weeks after restrictions were eased and schools and some shops reopened. more people are on the move exposing themselves to the risk of infection. researchers warn germany's vaccination rollout has not progressed enough to counteract this. often gets heated it doesn't get into time even if we've already vaccinated many of the elderly there is still a large proportion of vulnerable people who have not been given the job in fits into it's own we still haven't vaccinated enough that's why the number of patients

in intensive care units will rise again. many people in germany are torn at the prospect of tighter restrictions. or guys that i'm not thrilled to because it's been going on for a year now and at some point you're really done with it all alan dory evil i'd rather we open than just live it's boring it's good to feel good there are many cases now and we have to be careful. for this just so that any so i guess if we keep everything open then infection numbers will go up and that's a problem. but if we close everything that means many businesses will go bust thanks. to avoid bankruptcy she still wants to sell her homemade cakes for many years to come. are to thomas is still with us thomas give us a sense of the level of acceptance for these tighter restrictions among the majority of germans. there was

a recent poll actually last week and around 38 percent of germans said that the measures that were currently in place were ok were acceptable and the rest of those who were asked were actually divided between those who believe measures go too far and those who believe measures don't go far enough so you can clearly see that the german population is very divided on this where the german population is not very divided when it comes to germany's vaccination program and majority of people there are actually against the way the government has actually handled is to return to german society and that is one of the issues obviously of bugging the governing party the c.d.u. in addition to the year corruption scandals that have erupted talk to us about the german health minister because he finds himself in a very hot seat that's correct so you have obviously on the one hand all the rise in numbers one very big problem for german authorities you have a 2nd very big problem the slow vaccination rollout and in particular for the

governing c.d.u. for conservative bloc you have an additional problem which is mosque procurement scandal now what's happened now specifically with the german health minister is that reports have surfaced which show that there was a deal between the health ministry and a company in which the health ministers husband actually works related to mosque procurement both the health ministry and the company involved have denied any wrongdoing saying that there was no preferential treatment involved but this just again shows how much the german health minister is under fire now not only because of this latest case but also because of the other problems affecting germany now when it comes to the coronavirus pandemic thomas sparrow reporting thank you very much for your continued coverage. now 1st it was briggs it was vaccinations that have become the latest source of tension between the e.u.

and the u.k. the european union is now mulling a pretentious ban on exporting covert 19 vaccines to britain saying e.u. manufactured shots need to remain in the block of the u.s. falling way behind britain in its vaccine rollout and is angered over a failure by british swedish firm astra zeneca to meet its delivery pledges to e.u. customers while britain continues to get an unhindered supply of vaccines. it is a hot button issue here and there did a reporter alex forrest widing is on the story for you good to see you alex there is quite around through ing yes there really is temperatures are rising on both sides with the e.u. saying that look vaccines that have been produced in the e.u. should stay in the they should not be exported to the u.k. and britain saying look we're just trying to stop us from vaccinating our population we've done well here and you just better need somebody to blame and

let's just look at some of the headlines in the british papers about this subject the daily star accuses e.u. leaders of vaccine nationalism and terrifying people into an early grave while the daily express and london's metro going for a mix of cheers and g. is off to britain vaccinated nearly 850000 people on sunday alone and even some of the broadsheets have have also been taking a shot at the time says british leader is a warning the e.u. don't start a vaccine war. so it's pretty strong stuff there. are so credit where credit is due obviously i mean the britain has been during a stellar job according to many experts when it comes to vaccinations i mean how does it compare breeze well look in the u.k. now they're looking at one out of every 2nd british now being vaccinated

the u.k. in the e.u. it's one in 10 so there is a huge discrepancy there and i think pretty much the e.u. is frustrated that around 10000000 doses of vaccines actually were exported to the u.k. just since february and they did not stay in the and furthermore i think they're frustrated with london that astra zeneca which has been producing some of these vaccines in a dutch factory still planning to export into the u.k. and that is why these leaders are hunting a meeting on thursday where they are talking about bringing in an export i mean that is serious stuff if they decide to do that and was certainly further tensions between the u.k. and the e.u. post for exit i mean that is a very drastic measure indeed if it comes to pass if the brown were to be put in place what would that mean for the u.k. well already johnson's government a warning that there will then be

a reduction in the number of people who can be vaccinated they say the british newspaper the guardian saying it could be 2 months delay now boris johnson has already spoken to the leaders of germany and of france trying to stop them from putting in place a vaccine but you can see the e.u.'s problem here they're frustrated with astra zeneca in particular who have already slashed supply targets for the e.u. that doesn't make it better though for these leaders across the e.u. as we've seen before populations want to be vaccinated that's not happening and these e.u. leaders need to do something and see they need to be seen to be doing something fast forswearing reporting thank you so very much. and we're going to turn our attention now to australia because it sets to evacuate thousands more people from sydney suburbs as the region grapples with this worst

flooding in decades heavy rains have swollen rivers across new south wales state causing widespread damage and emergency services fear that more than 50000 people could be displaced as forecasts show more rain is on the way. a desperate attempt to save a stranded whorf. to renshaw rain and flush floods in a strangely states of new south wales have cut onus off from that and the move for many creatures help has come too late. at least 18000 people have been evacuated from their homes as rivers and dams overflow. some i try to shore up their houses as best they can ahead of the looming waters. others have already seen their homes ravaged by the flooding. wave rethink and state's tappets cabot's everything's.

gone. but. neither was worse off than i am so i gotta be thankful for this moment it's a bit residents have been warned that the worst may still be to come and told to brace for a difficult week ahead. stralia is being tested once again. the east coast of australia predominantly south wales but i stressed also in south east queensland has faced an extraordinary deluge i have a recent dies. in many places runs are expected for at least the next 24 to 48 hours but i feel worse. the extreme downpours battering astray east have caused the west flooding in half a century having already battles drought bushfires and the ongoing coronavirus pandemic over the past year communities a feeling pushed to breaking point. as

they go football now and a big day for 2 teams hoping to escape relegation birthparents of berlin and mines posts it upsets her to put off the biggest surprise victory over laver cruzan. at the berlin coach paul dyer day knew he had to win lose this one and it would slowly become mission impossible for his team to survive in the big leak so i had to push forward like seldom before totally overwhelming labor crews and right from the start and that paid off they scored in the 4th minute with a rocket of a goal courtesy of de or vice your desire for it with an excellent set up by midfield dynamo matteo gone dizzy and dirty look at one nil for hair. the berliners kept pouring it on and in the 26 minute one back what looked like a last ball to set up much criticised brazilian striker much. and he smelled goal.

too neal for hair to and coutinho was back on the scoreboard after more than a 1000 minutes of play without a goal. and it wasn't over yet just 7 minutes later colombia and john cordova made it 3 no. and that's how it ended with no goals in the 2nd half. of relief for hair but they also know they have a long road ahead and labor crews and have some work to do also. preparations are well underway ahead of the men's football world cup in qatar in 2022 but the host country has come under heavy criticism for the conditions experienced by migrant workers who are helping to build the stadiums now amnesty international has called on football's world governing body fifa to pressure qatar into ensuring better treatment of its workers these are some of the gleaming new stadiums but guitar is to showcase to an international audience when it hosts the world cup in 2022. insight there the last word in luxury

afifa president giani infantile phoned out on a tour last october. but for many of the migrant workers drafted in to build them conditions have been less than comfortable no amnesty international has written to fifa to urge it to pressurize could start to do more to protect those workers human rights are they prepared to speak out and to make sure that the cuts are. and delivers on its reforms with the speaker we've cut or tries reversing reforms is a big question i will they make sure that future torments. are over organize and and the bidding process really needs human rights to make sure that we don't see this. guitar has made reforms in recent years it became the 1st gulf country to introduce a minimum wage that does not discriminate against migrant workers infant teano says that qatar selection is world cup host has inspired change we need to look

a little looser the history of where people countries regions are coming for me to cars in europe how many decades probably centuries to arrive. well we are. other countries in the same grows as in a few years we recognize that we should recognize as well of this bold light of coolish of the world come. no progress without them. several high profile norwegian clubs recently called on their country to boycott the world cup amid concerns over migrant workers treatment but i'm misty says a boycott would only worsen their situation. there watching the darwinians here is our anger of our top story this hour the european union has imposed sanctions on chinese officials accused of human rights abuses against china's weaker minority on there the 1st such sanctions imposed by brussels on china in more than 30 years

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