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anthony lincoln and his russian counterparts. a live row of holding talks in iceland on the sidelines of the arctic council meeting is the highest level in person discussions between the 2 countries. since joe biden became president in january, the us and russia discussing setting up a summit between biden and of, let me tell me, hundreds of migrants are trying to reach the spanish and claim of the utah. despite tightened to security, spain, the spelling 1000 of migrants swung or climbed over the border from a rocket. this week, thousands more have gathered near the border on the moroccan side, where scuffles have taken place. this is dw news from berlin. you can find much more a website that is on d, w dot com the. oh, it was in the early weeks of the pandemic on march 17th, 2020,

when the european union closed his external borders for the 1st time ever. shutting out the rest of the world, hoping to shut out at least some of the corona virus. since then, coming to europe has been almost impossible. that is about to change. today the european union agreed to reopen its borders to visitors who have been fully vaccinated. it could take effect as early as next week, just in time for what is being called a hot vax summer. i'm brick gulf in berlin. this is the day the out and about and see people. it's pretty and stuffing. those are missing their friends, i think will just be human interaction with us. and it's wonderful to go on, hold again to father, just freedom after

a year and a half. just not been afraid of having a great time and it feels good sort of all person. we have to make sure the virus doesn't spread against the middle of the world, keeping all fingers crossed, but that's been going to get better for him. well, we're alive. the also coming up in us foreign policy president biden is making it clear ties with germany are more important than a disagreement over a pipeline from russia, and when he comes to the pipeline and us ties to russia. well, the story there gets a little complicate when the freedom with apparently a u. s. decision has to be made to promote stable, predictable ties with russia. but if they include constant and predictable sanctions, that's not what we need. the most of us to our viewers on p b. s in the united states and to all of you around the world. welcome. we begin the

day with europe preparing to reopen its borders. just in time for summer. today, the eve agreed that the time has come to make it possible again for tourists to visit the borders are expected to open as early as next week, but only to those who have been fully vaccinated against the corona virus. with the vaccines approved for years here in europe. currently, there are 5 astrazeneca johnson johnson madana by and take pfizer and the chinese vaccine sign of form. the decision to re open borders would not have been possible without science. if we go back to march 2020, when the boarders were closed, the world looked different and darker. there were no approved vaccines in the death rates and hospitalizations from cobra 19 were just beginning to skyrocket. the summer of 2021 promises to be an important phase in europe's attempt to return to normality. there were hints today in france after 6 months of corona virus

restrictions in lockdown. france is now reopening public life. outdoor dining is now permitted to cafes, restaurants, and bars, but not at full capacity. sentiments, theaters, museums are also vacuum busy. this comes as, for instance, vaccination dry picks up speed. the number of new infections is falling, the case loads in some areas remain high. france is not alone. austria is also restarting public life. after 200 days, a walk downs, austrians, you see them here in vienna. they begun flocking once again to cafes and beer garden in the office. really able to go, for instance, again somewhere where it's especially good to meet people, chat with friends, see people's faces, everything we haven't been able to do for the past 7 or 8 months. we'll now hopefully be possible again. and hopefully this time forever on total. if the system or fema is shown, then it feels a bit like getting back to normal. and i think it's very positive for the

restaurant that they're finally able to reopen again. the offspring. i hope they also have good weather so that the people can eat out doors. it's great that the restaurants are open again. i'm really happy about it. yeah. i today feel great. i feel like back to like back to life and to the people in the street. happy. yeah. just like no, no more than the coming back to natural or things. i mean a lot to that, to me and you know, the, the covet 19 to start to finish, you know, when it's opening the, this and all the museums and all the public areas. that's good for us. you know, we feel more freedom. you know, it's good, i'm happy with friends and all street are not the only countries taking steps out of lockdown earlier this week. britain also lifted some restrictions, allowing indoor dining and trips to the cinema for the 1st time in months. but all

is not well. the spread of a new more contagious varying 1st identified in india is causing concern. cases of cobra, 19 calls by this various to have more than doubled within a week in the u. k. the english town of bolt has been hardest hit. the w charlotte chelsea until picks up the story from the as both from q person weights. such vaccinations are on the way in the northern english town to combat the rapid rising cases if the curve at 19 variant best identified in india. it's already the dominant strain here and is likely to become dominant nation warrant. what we've noticed is with our inflection rates in bolton, the transmission has been happening in the younger age groups. i've been putting a lot of pressure on since the government, especially to make sure that we can relate the vaccination as quickly as possible.

and essentially what i've been saying in recent days, to fax and a whole also before the end of may, this is a delicate moment till the u. k. is fight against the 19, well, thousands have been vaccinated here in the last few days alone. these measures are unlikely to contain the spread with the same variance already detected in dozens of areas in england. u. k. has had a successful vaccination campaigns. they fall, some 70 percent of adults have had at least one dose. but that still leaves a considerable number, who are unvaccinated, no authorities here are wanting is among that population. this strain could spread like wildfire. this variance is considered more transmissible from the you can use dominant can string. what isn't known is by how much a significant increase could see hospitalization surge. but there is reason for hope in bolton. the majority of those in hospital haven't been vaccinated despite being eligible assigned vaccines. a working information that we've seen the j. c. b

on suggests that our current vaccines do confer immunity again. stephen, this new variance, we're picking up novel virus infections, but we're not seeing severe disease emerging in a fearful way. so so i think it's quite likely that over be able to vaccination with this one. as some remain cautious. others are enjoying new found freedom, socializing and doors returned across the country this week with all restrictions due to be lifted in just over a month. but the government says the next few days will be key data wrong case numbers and trans miss ability will help determine whether england continues down its parts of freedom. open the brakes on its road maps out of lockdown, where the w charlie chelsea until she filed the report. she joins me now from

london. good evening to you. charlotte's another lot of concern there about this so called india variance. what do we know tonight? what it is, i'm sure you can imagine all watching case numbers extremely closely giving the public regular update. what we've had today is that now 2967 cases of this indian variance have been identified. that is up 28 percent since monday through a considerable rise in just the last couple of days alone. and for anyone who can remember back in january here in the u. k. when the, the tenants burying the varying that went on to become dominant. he has started to spread. there are echoes is that it could send some alarm bells ringing, bump we on to the same position here in the u. k as we was back in december and january when the ken barron right. and that is because of the case successful

vaccination campaign. we know today that 7 out of 10 adults here who had at least one dose full out of 10 of now had 2 doses and authority, the prime minister boris johnson, saying that there is a high degree of confidence that the vaccine will be able to hold off the spread of this new variance, indeed, in bolton hospitalizations, have gone up the town that we saw in that report that but the majority of those in hospital still those who are eligible for vaccines but, but didn't accept the vaccines, didn't take them up so that seems to suggest already, so authorities is suggesting that, that evidence that the vaccines are working. and if you look at the picture across england hospitalizations at the moment are still stable. indeed, they're very, very low. if you look at the number of people in hospital now, it's less than a 1000 compared to the january peak when you were looking at almost 40000 people in

hospital. in charlotte, we know that england is supposed to relax all restrictions in about a month's time. is that still on the car? that's very much up in the air at the moment. all the, all the moment that we've had in the evening of these restrictions. indeed, it's been staggered, have gone smoothly, no delays so far, but that final evening of restrictions when all legal limits on facial distances will be listed as looking. everybody's currently in jeopardy at the moment. and what it really depends on is just how transmissible this variance is found to be, and we're being told we should hear a lot more on that in the coming days and into next week. if it is considerably more transmissible, the warnings are projections suggest you will say, see a big surge and hope, hope that hospitalizations, excuse me, and it is then that you may well see delayed that final lifting of restrictions. so

what is the strategy going forward? there are more and more people as you know, counting on what is being called, europe's hot, vax, summer of 20. 21 is a very delicate balance here. i think for authorities they all gradually opening up the box. the strategy is to try and back need as many people as possible as quickly as possible. now, the u. k is, is that's amazing. people according to age and now on the 35 and they're, and they all really vaccinating people in those books. bolton, for example, as we saw that report, they're doing testing in these hot spots and checking for these new variance with what they're calling a very advanced valence system. they say that this is a method that proved successful earlier this year. in casting down cases of the south african variance which right then flies in south london. but what you have to bear in mind now is so many restrictions and now lifted compared to them. so it is,

it is going to be a tricky balance spot in the was of the health minister today, mat hancock. he said that they're replacing the shield of restrictions with the stores of the vaccination programs. so that will be the strategy going forward, trying to win the race essentially between the new variance and vaccine fingers crossed for every one the w charlotte chelsea until reporting tonight from london. charlotte, thank you. the well, it is one position in u. s. foreign policy that has remained unchanged from the obama to the trump, and now to the biden administration. and talking about us opposition to the natural gas pipeline leaking, russia in germany, which is known as north stream to washington. this is the project as a threat to ukraine, as well as europe's energy security. although the pipeline is almost finished,

the u. s. wanted to slap sanctions on companies involved in its construction. but the sanctions were apparently becoming too much of a risk to the u. s. german relationship actually she's reporting that the u. s. will is was planning to wave sanctions on the german firms connected to nord street to of this is what nord stream to looks like when i give you kind of an image, a picture of that. it runs parallel to the 1st nord stream pipeline connects russia in germany via the baltic sea starting and via borg and leading to an already completed terminal in the german state of mecklenburg, western pomeranian, the u. s. is always claimed that the pipeline would make europe to dependent on russian energy. now, according to the axial report, sanctions will not be waived against the russian ships involved in the project. today, the german foreign minister had words of praise for the biden administration's decision. this is and is actually there were sanctions on non stream

to you or i don't see, but they were lifted because of a presidential wave on oscar gordon's. and we think that is a constructive stat and still keeping should we not have 3 months to discuss it with those responsible in washington francois listen in washington, that's the question. and to help us understand what the buyer whitehouse is doing and what it means i'm joined by benjamin schmidt. benjamin served as european energy security advisor at the us state department. he's now a fellow with harvard university join me tonight from washington. d. c. benjamin. it's good to have you back here on the day. is the decision to waive sanctions? is it a sign that the by the administration is making it about face? are the sanctions becoming more of a risk than a safe guard? hi brain. great to be back and let's just step back for a 2nd and look at what is actually happened to be. and there's been

a lot of churn in the media about depressed reports in terms of headlines that suggest the budget ministration as effectively thrown in the towel. when it comes to opposition and work to stop gas problems north spring to pipeline. but for the moment the analysis of what is taking place does show a different picture. first of all, according to reports, including the actual report, as well as politico and others that have been mentioned the by the ministry in fact is planning. and in, as i understand today, has issued sanctions on an array of firms entities and vessels that are actively engaged in construction of the pipeline with administration, official speaking and background in other outlets, pointing out that their aim is to still make sure the project never comes into operation, so this notion that there is no sanction coming on nor 32 is not the case. in fact that a, they have gone, but they are the, are these russian entities and german entities. i mean, what we heard earlier today is that it was just going to be russian entities that

were going to face these sanctions. i, it's unclear yet because they haven't actually released the list. but these very likely are russian owned and operated entities and vessel simply because open source reporting show that russian ownership in those vessels are the ones that are actually engaging in that work, not german firms. and in fact, most of the firms involved in this project or not german, at this point, they are russian. and so that's why we see this kind of cognitive dissonance when there is also this report that the administration for the time being will acknowledge that both the project parent company, north streaming to a g, which i'll remind the viewers as well physically located in switzerland, 100 percent owned and operated by crime control gas from as well as ceo that they're involved. they're going to say yes, they're involved in sexual activity, but they're wave those sanctions for the time being. going to resolve that role out . there's been some well deserved public confusion, as well as criticism against the administration and statements from both democrats and republicans on capitol hill that stems from the fact that the bible

ministration is vowed to push back against russian malign, influencing global pro, cryptography, and vectors of strategic corruption, but now it's seen as issuing a statement that is somehow quote in the us national interest not to enforce sanctions on both the kremlin back project company as well as in c, o mathias bombing, who we've talked before. you and i, on the day about has, who is an extra the officer and the long time putting crony who is named in russian opposition leader alexis, of all these widely circulated anti corruption be over the keep your important orbit of corruption. so that's a step that i think that your congress is going to push back on. what about what we heard today that the sanctions against german firms are being waived for 3 months and then everything can be reconsidered? do we know why 3 months? it's 3 months because every 90 days a new report needs to be issued to congress. so that's why that that timeline was, was reference. so really to see what's, what's going to happen on this friday. we heard the statement from michael moss,

the prominent also welcome this step, which is of course concerning to be on. but you also see that the, the political landscape in germany is rapidly changing b, c, b, northridge, to including the green parties on bowed to stop the project if they prevail in the bonus dive elections next autumn. so it is failing to take action against nordstrom to really a step that will benefit trans atlantic security. i think not only for the us german relationship in the long term. i'm not so sure yet i want to pick up on that . you know, there is a national election here in germany and september the greens are leading in the polls right now. and we know that the greens are against nord stream to me these 3 month waivers that we're talking about. you know, this is, this allows the bind administration to basically preserve the german us relationship and then after the election, take advantage of the green's position if they're elected and finally killed the project. or do you agree with that? yeah, very possibly could be the case. of course it's up to the german voters to decide

and that's, that's something that i'm really concerned about because green party chancellor candidate on the lena bear block has been cyber attacked in the last week by russia for her statement. boeing to stop nord string, to and have germany take a tougher line to stand up against student crony capitalism and aggressive actions that long nato's eastern playing. so if nothing else, it's yet another clear act that shows this project of not just the commercial deal that the russian state views it. it's so important that it will metal in german, germany is own electoral process itself to promote that malign influence project that it wants to use to harm european security. so i think on this front brand, the german government really need to step up in the short term to take responsibility and make it clear to the kremlin that no pipeline project is more important european security. and certainly not more important than russia's own meddling in the german democratic process itself. and i think that that's got to be made very clear, very quickly. yeah, and it is also interesting that how energy security, geo politics and election integrity can all come together, which as you say,

we are seeing and may actually come together in september and that election commitment. joining us tonight from washington, which is always good to talk with you, we appreciate your time and your insight. thank you. thanks so much, brent. the. well, here on the day we reported on the legal jeopardy facing former us president donald trump and his family on many fronts. his business dealings are currently under investigation by prosecutors, manhattan and in new york state. the new york probe into possible tax evasion, insurance and bank fraud has been a civil case, but now it is also part of a criminal investigation. the manhattan in new york district attorney say that there cooperating on this case, donald trump, has always denied any wrong doing. he issued a statement today saying that there was nothing more corrupt than an investigation that is in desperate search of a crime. when pulling now mister nick ackerman, he's

a former federal prosecutor in the southern district of new york where when a trans investigations are taking place. mister archman was also a member of the watergate prosecution team. it's good to see you again. good to have you back on the program working. so we're going from a civil now and now we've got a criminal investigation. what does that really mean or what is changing about the investigation? and i guess people want to know was donald trump now in real jeopardy of maybe having to go to prison? well, i think what's changing is that this has been going on for a while. they've had the attorney general new york investigating on the civil side, the manhattan district attorney's office investigating the criminal side, but they've always been cooperating. they've been doing that for the past year. and now the fact that they're actually announcing that the attorney general and new york is also working on the criminal side of the angle. i think it means that donald trump is in big trouble on that. it's very likely that there will be an

indictment within the year. mean you have to understand there's a difference between the civil and the criminal. the civil simply means that the government can then go ask you for money for tax fraud, for not paying your taxes. and there are penalties and that's about it. but the criminal side is much more serious because that means jail time. and in order to convict on a criminal side, you've got to do it beyond a reasonable doubt to a jury of 12 people who have to be unanimous tax crimes are a lot different than most ordinary crimes. because you have to show that the individual who committed the tax fraud did so with the purpose of cheating on his taxes. so the challenge here are for both the da's office and the attorney general's office is showing that trump acted knowingly and wilfully. and that he

did so in order to cheat on his taxes, this is precisely what we have to do back in watergate, when i was dealing with the nixon tax case. most of our time was taken up, actually gathering evidence to show that nixon knew that the deed that was backdated for his gifted papers, the united states, which gave him a huge tax deduction that he knew that it was false. and that he approved it. mister archman, we're talking about the possible crimes that would have been committed before donald trump was president. correct. and so this, this notion of presidential immunity, which a lot of our viewers will be familiar with. it does not apply here, right? of course not. and it wouldn't apply, even if he was a tax cheat while he was president. i mean, just because you're a president, you're not immunized from committing a crime. and certainly when you leave office, at least the department of justice guidelines that don't permit

a sitting president to be criminally prosecuted. do not apply once donald trump left office. so either way, whether he committed tax fraud prior to being present and whether he continued it after being present, either way, he can be prosecuted if he committed those crimes, drums, former lawyer, michael cohen, he's cooperating with investigators. we know that how much pressure is there now on other trump organization, insiders to flip oh, i think the, the pressure here is huge. particularly on the mr. weisel burger, who is the accountant for the trump organization? and the accountant for donald trump, i mean the typical defense in a criminal tax case is to blame the lawyers and blame the accountants. but if, as a prosecutor, you can get the accountants and the lawyers who handle the returns to come clean

and testify. then you've got a really good case, and if anybody should know where all the bodies are buried, i should know where all the shenanigans took place. it ought to be mister rice. i mean, even michael cohen and his testimony for congress. pretty much made that clear that whenever donald trump didn't want to pay a lot of taxes, he, he basically showed lesser income when he wanted to get a bank loan show more income, basically committing banks. right. right. mr. nick aka minister argument is always we appreciate your valuable insights into this story. i think it's going to be a hot summer for some people. thank you. no question. thank you. well, today's almost done, the conversation continues online. your find is going to be news. you can follow the print, got tv, and remember whatever happens between now and then tomorrow is another day. we'll see you then everybody who's who's

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