well 1st of all no valleys as you're off in the fight of democracy and rule of law in russia and and what we can do is to show to vladimir putin and to his whole system how high the price could be if things went in will be go in a wrong direction that is what we have to show and that's why for me it's clear if . really hopefully not but if this really will happen that he will die then i think for example that north stream you cannot be finished can it be finalized as approach we have to tell putin the price is high please respect international obligations and rules so that is the leverage that you intend to use but i'm just warning does that you have any influence over the russian president because i mean he seems to frankly openly scorn the block and prefers to deal with individual you member states individually. that's always

a precondition for european strength to be united and generally speaking when it is about the question to activate sanctions against russia like we did in the previous years europe was capable to do so so as you crane policy and the defending of ukraine as a partner of europe and in supporting the democratic opposition in russia for the moment i must say that you're a voice cried quite united against sanctions on the base but i must say i was a little bit disappointed when i saw the latest development on council site on monday the foreign affairs minister met and they were not ready they were not capable to tell putin the price for further provoke asians and that's why for the moment we see again a signal of weakness i as a member of european parliament can tell you that in the european parliament we are strongly united in being being strong and firm against the put in a christian so i mean it is evident that the government in russia clearly

distinguishes between its political relationships and investments so should the e.u. hurt russia where it hurts most i.e. investments. all tools are on the table all options must be on the table because next to the never new case which is at the moment in these hours the most the most important one next to these things we have the troops next to the ukraine border so we see a cli escalation and frankly speaking that has obviously also a lot to do with the growing opposition in russia so the system can only on this demand of citizens in russia the demonstrations out in history to few weeks ago the people who are now running for the local and regional almonds and also for the for the national column and they only can answer this demand of a modern more critic and the more rule of law plays the russia this is strengthened vis authoritarian power and that is very very so many see this development now in

russia again for. europe there is no alternative view of the region of rule of law we are the region of democracy we believe in the european way of life and that's why all the use on the global level who fight for our values must have europe with their side my friend raber a leader of the center right to in the e.u. krol uncertainty for a time. thank you so much. well here in germany the parliament house passed a new law that would force coronavirus lockdowns on areas with high infection rates recent polls show that the majority of germans approved the step on the measure approved by lawmakers just moments ago would end a patchwork approach by german states to try to tackle the pandemic infection rates remain stubbornly high across germany and hospitals are strach stretched rather to their limit there were protests in berlin ahead of the voters around a 1000 people gathered in the capital to show their opposition to what they feel is

an unjustified crackdown on their personal freedoms police broke up the demonstration after many participants ignored social distancing rules and didn't wear face masks. did obvious political correspondent simon young is joining me now simon at what will now change in germany with this new law. well as you said up to now the 16 regional states in germany have coordinated their approach to kobe 19 but they've pretty much done their own thing this new legal regime that will impose the plan of essentially nation wide so it will trigger specific measures when local areas get above certain thresholds and particular when our an area is above 100000 new infections over 7 days that that rate is reached for 3 consecutive

days then the new things will be triggered such as limits on personal contacts one household plus one other person or for instance night time curfews between 10 pm and 5 am people will only be able to go out alone for for a jog or for a walk but they are essential have to stay home and also shopping will be restrictive people won't be allowed into shops unless they've got a negative test that they can show in various other measures too and if the infections rise hisor there could even be a school closures so some pretty serious measures that the regional states are in quite required to impose and i should say a lot of these things might kick in fairly soon because currently many parts of germany already are well over 100 the incidence rates of 100 and the national average and these are 160 right now let's talk about this this incidence number

because critics of this law this new bill say focusing on incidence and numbers alone is just too simplistic what are the experts telling you is it the right tool for keeping the virus in check. well a lot of experts say it's very important to to impose stricter measures because the 3rd wave is in is in full flow and they point out that a lot of pressure hospitals are on the pressure some on spittles already saying they're deferring all nonessential operations and so on on the other hand other experts say that this doesn't really go far enough and indeed they also criticize this concentration on this 17 day infection number it doesn't take into account for instance vaccination levels or indeed the question of hospital capacity which could also really make a big difference to if you like how serious the pandemic ease in any local region.

now we've seen the protests against the corona measures outside the parliament building taking place earlier today how were presented it is this movement if we can call it a movement for the population in germany yes will that demonstration about 8000 people or some of them not wearing last still distancing has been broken up by police i'd say there is there are noisy vocal minority. 2 thirds of germans when asked say they support tougher measures cause that could change if some people begin to feel the effects of these these new stricter lockdowns did his political correspondent simon young reporting thank you. all right let's take a look now at some of the other stories making headlines around the world. syria has been stripped of its voting rights at the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons syria's forces were found to have repeatedly used poison gas

during the civil war the country will be unable to vote or hold offices at the you global or watchdogs h.q. damascus said denies it using chemical weapons during its civil war. at least 4 people have been injured in a suicide bombing that targeted a convoy of security forces in afghanistan's capital kabul no one has yet claimed responsibility the blast came hours before turkey announced the delay of a conference aimed at ending decades of war and i've got to stop. are we want to pivot now to the u.s. where many are breathing a collective sigh of relief after a jury in minneapolis has found former police officer derek chauvin guilty of 2nd degree murder and manslaughter in the death of george floyd last year he was filmed killing mr floyd a black man by pressing his knee on mr floyd's neck for more than 9 minutes the

murder sparked global outrage and protests against racism and police violence people in minneapolis celebrate at the heart. we the jury in the above entitled matter as to count one unintentional 2nd degree murder while committing a felony find the defendant guilty to the words so many have been hoping and waiting for their guilty on all counts derek chauvin now a convicted murderer at the end of a tense 3 week trial. justice for george floyd what began as a rallying cry has become reality. thanks just crowds who had gathered at george floyd square the site where he was murdered were overcome by emotion. overwhelmed i'm grateful and relieved so i'm i feel grounded i can feel my feet on the concrete i'm super grateful that this is the verdict and that we can now move to the next faith. george floyd slow death has now been seen by millions. while

attempting to arrest him last may show been pinned to handcuff floyd to the ground kneeling on his neck for 9 minutes 29 seconds. i can't breathe were some of his final words. floyd's killing on lease one of the biggest waves of protests in u.s. history against systemically racism and police brutality. president joe biden hailed the decision as an important step toward police reform it was a murder in full light of day and to rip the blinders off for the whole world to see the systemic racism vice president just referred to there are systemic raises this day nation's soul but it's not enough we can't stop here. in order to live or real change reform we kid and we must do more to reduce the

likelihood that tragedies like this will never happen courage again. show been handcuffed and led away will be sentenced 8 weeks from now he could be facing decades in prison where during. our let's get you more now on this story i'd like to welcome and zach smith a legal fellow at the center for legal and judicial studies and pensacola florida sorry very warm welcome to the show oh the trial took 3 weeks it took the jury less than a day to reach a verdict was that surprising to you a little bit and thank you so much for having me on you know any time a jury comes that so quickly with a verdict especially in a case that is amount of evidence that took this amount of time to try it's rarely a good sign for a criminal defendant and so i think when many of us saw the verdict come in that

weekly we certainly anticipated a guilty verdict on it nice some of the charges how significant is this case in the american or justice system in the history of american justice system unintentional 2nd degree murder as well as think this case certainly showed that the justice system is process is allowed to play it out fundamentally works and so we saw in this case you know we've all seen the video of police officer kneeling on george for usenet you know i think in this case the system worked in sac lee as it should the officer received a trial by jury of his peers and after reviewing the evidence the jury decided that he was in fact guilty of killing george foreman now when it comes to confronting systemic racism and police violence in the united states i'm wondering can a single criminal case bring about systemic change.

well you know that's a very difficult question you know i would push back on the idea that there is systemic racism in policing in america but again i think it's important because it shows that our justice system worked in that you know this officer. was accused of violating the law this officers conduct caused the death of george and at the end of the day after hearing that the evidence a jury of his peers ultimately found him criminally liable for work for instead. of just this worked in this case was at but as you know there are many many other cases and it is evident that trust is broken between police and some of the communities that they serve how likely is it that reforms now will be introduced to change how police conducts itself was a very important conversation happening right now and i think it's important to focus on the types of reforms that are being put forward 'd you know there's

a bill currently making its way through congress a call to george boyd justice in d.c. act of fortunately that bill contains many provisions that will not help police officers our communities and in many ways will make their job more difficult as i think it's important to focus on smart reforms like increasing training for police officers encouraging police departments to wear body cameras to use use of force deescalation techniques and things like that rather than a whole selves fundamental reforms of police departments saxe meths from the meese center for legal and judicial studies in pensacola florida sir thank you for your time of course thank you for having me on. chad's deceased leader edris debbie will be succeeded by his son as head of state mohamad to be takes over

as the rebel fighters blamed for killing his father close in on the capital and vowed to depose the new leader government troops have been deployed to the streets of the capital and gemma not at the military council says the security situation there is serious mistake has debbie was regarded as a western ally in the fight against extremism pressure presidents and what i call says he'll attend mr davies funeral. people flee the child in capital in jemima as uncertainty looms in ny 10 curfew has been imposed chad's military council has named the late president's son as interim leader but that's done little to ease the tension. mendosa going to what we are waiting for is the moment of transition we don't want another military representative in power during this transition because there will be problems again as civilian is needed to be done not at all this is not on i think the head of the

transitional government should be a neutral person a child ian who is not from the military he should be a civilian as it is if i allow my uncle. the army values that civilian rule will return to chad. yes you know we want to reassure the public that the members of the transitional military council will hand over power to a civilian government after free and democratic elections within 18 months. the plan rejected by the opposition and rebel forces who say they're advancing on to mena to restore democracy after years of authoritarian rule. debbie was among the world's longest serving leaders. news of his death

came just hours after it was announced he won a 6th term in office. debbie was an ally of western states in the fight against extremism in the region. because that's the thing that chad offered was stability i mean this is a a very volatile region you've got libya for being a part of both you've got sudan which broke in half you've got a war in central african republic you've got to. go. nigeria so what you just been offered was stability. and that's why for 3 decades the west supported. his death could herald a new period of uncertainty in the troubled region. sports news now for you the brand new european football super league that was announced on sunday has crashed and burned all 6 english clubs abandoned their

plans to join the breakaway league last night and other clubs from spain and italy have followed today only way i'm underage and barcelona remain officially involved in this controversial project. ah chelsea fans hearing that their club had backed out of the super league. the. a stunning backlash to the super league had worked to reverse an attempted radical shift in the european power structure to take a new competition at a small alkie paneling where you can get relegated from a city's no court case and solidity no point just craziness in it taken away would only for a screen we know get nothing from it i mean stay collapsing we love it inside the stadium players for brighton chelsea's opponents on tuesday night showed what they thought of chelsea's earlier super league ambitions u.k.

prime minister boris johnson celebrated the withdrawals this is because i welcome the decision taken by the 6 english football teams not to join the european super league the announcement was the right result the football fans the clubs and for communities across the country all 6 of the powerful english clubs had pulled out of the super league 48 hours after it had been announced i want to apologize to all the fancy supporters of liverpool football club for the disruption i caused to past 48 hours goes without saying but it should be said. the project put forward was never going to stand without the support of the fans super league clubs learning a lesson that it's never a good look to have fans coaches and players rooting against club bosses and owners . all right let's hear more now from the fans perspective on the super league from the executive director of the group called football supporters europe rone and

ronan so good to see you again thank you for coming on you may have heard in the piece that we just played that the owner of liverpool saying basically the super league was never going to stand without the support of the fans that these club owners conveniently forget that tiny fact. that certain parts of the law i think especially for the ones that obeys overseas day of fame very badly advised by . the sherm send the investment banks that were supporting them so the if there's a lesson to learn from this is that if you want to know what defense wants you've got to ask them directly and you've got to ask their legitimate representatives and in the case of the english club sorry day areas there's a structured dialogue in place the club's management the ownership decided to ignore it now the top clubs like chelsea or where ya madrid barcelona the 2 in manchester they all wield huge power so why didn't this work.

well it didn't work because you need 2 units to 2 together all day you know the sticklers of the game to hundreds and the fans but also the players the stuff working and the clubs the communities the cities behind them of all been left left out to discovered this. in a statement released on twitter at midnight on sunday so it was never going to work that people should betray to feel that they have trials was taken away from taken away from them so there was no way they were going to get behind it and i think if people are promoted to super league they difficult without the local fans without the local communities football is just a sport like any other and it's a lot less entertaining and and it's not a great product to sell to did to did to the t.v. channels so fan power why not what would you like your way for the governing body of european football to do were guarding these former breakaway clubs right now it seems those clubs will you know basically simply be welcome back should there be

repetitions. well if some power worked collective action work i think it's because all of the stakeholders of taking the stand a clear stand against the super league that there was a such a such a rocky did move from the promoters now what's next. we've heard talks about banning the clubs from the competitions but but banning the cost of the competition means punishing the players and the players have been in the same situation done to fund state they don't have anything to do is this the one something to pay for there is the ones that need to be held accountable for the club owners that have been promoting does so i don't have i don't have a solution ready in terms of disciplinary action for those clubs but what we know is that they cannot be returned to normal tomorrow again they need to be held accountable and the sanctions needs to be fair in the way that they need to target the club owners the ones that are responsible for this mess right now 30 seconds ronan where does this leave european football today. i think we have

a great opportunity to make sure it can feel better that that's offers a fantastic opportunity we everybody in european football now realized how completely how. the governance of the game is not working so we need to proper. governing bodies sorry proper regulation and that put an end to this to this imbalance between the power of the of the big clubs and the rest of the games so we need the regulation and we need that european. government and the you've been a situation to step in and protect the game at lot so work ahead head of the football supporters europe and rona thank you so much. thank you. that's so remind you know the top stories that we're tracking for you this hour vladimir putin has warned other states against quote crossing russia's red lines and pledged the response would be asymmetrical swift and harsh mr putin made the

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