so you should be seen here and a whole lot more than you're saying if you don't take that advice easy going to dig yourself. 23rd of march in the headlines germany imposes yet another round of harsh anti covert restrictions as a huge scandal over political profiteering from facemasks sales hits the top now with the health minister itself in the firing line. protesters hit the streets across europe meantime against painful new anti covert measures people tell us just why they have now. we no longer know which fruit to stand on we are a little lost it's all a blur the thing is you can restrict life so much we are here in castle today because all the measures that are being taken here in germany are no longer serve the people it. is the whites to play down the crisis near which is

a merger of child overflow facilities of the country grapples with the biggest surge of refugees southwest of the border in decades. good morning live from moscow this tuesday without international with me kevin now in 30 minutes of the latest from us 1st the german chancellor angela merkel's warn the code situation the country's very serious as she announced a new round of harsh nationwide restrictions till mid april that includes a ban on gatherings in the closure of shops effectively shutting down public activity than over easter. i have even used that word where in the situation which is very serious the number of cases is rising exponentially and intensive care bears are filling up again. when it comes after a german research institute confirmed the country had entered

a 3rd wave of infections no last week saw the highest daily number of coronavirus cases in 2 months and a massive corruption scandal to over face mass is no reach the top with the health minister himself facing questions wrap it up this morning our europe correspondent with the latest for you from berlin then. the federal government here in berlin has extended covert 19 restrictions across the whole country but that is amid a mask crisis which is in snit a new face the german health minister a report over the weekend in the online version of news magazine dish bagle claimed that again spawn authorized the purchase of more than half a 1000000 masks from a company called bird bird as berlin boss mr spawn's husband himself down your phone care the company insists mr frewen care had nothing to do with this transaction that no commission was paid and denies any wrongdoing whatsoever and

1st on to order media that the board of hooper birds of media over the health ministry to assist with mask meant when the german government was an urgent need for this the c.e.o. approached the minister directing that kind of act and the minister of defense but that means that the board a representative in berlin mr phone was not informed about the mask business neither by his company nor his husband who had been the direct contact person that contradicts common sense. and i can only repeat that according to birthday mr spawn's husband was not informed or involved in the transaction at any time and earlier version of the article had claimed the bird it was owned by the health ministers husband that was later corrected to reflect to mr frewen his role as an employee but that hasn't stopped lawmakers from seeking clarification from the health minister this salami tactic with the bit by bit information from the ministry of health about the procurement of masks undermines the trust in the

institutions of our democracy it has to stop we now need an independent transparency officer to shed light on what is going on the health minister himself is biased mr spawn's allies have dismissed the article as thin soup but op. zation parties are circling and can smell blood the blood a publishing house owns papers like the dow also deals in masks half a 1000000 went to spawn's health ministry has been representative this spawns husband both like to attend buddha parties because somehow the villar has to be paid what does one actually have to do in the merkel cabinet to be dismissed of course procurement had to be done quickly during the crisis but the wording of 4600000000 euro suave out a call for tenders is under considerable suspicion in view of the corruption scandal to a ruling coalition politicians of already fallen jew to personal business dealings

in mosques for profit scandals but what started out as a probe into a pandemic profiteering now morphed into a wider investigation into what money german politicians have been making aside from their ministerial salaries the scandal has caused real damage to the ruling conservative union's reputation they suffered for huge historic losses in recent local elections with the green party taking up the slack in one of those areas and nationally when it comes to polling they are emerging as a real potential challenger in this september's bundestag elections in what's being called the super election year here in germany there couldn't be a worse time to have the whiff of corruption surrounding you peter all over r.t. earlier i spoke to max autor of the ruling christian democratic union he told me it's all over the country more polarized than ever. germany has never been as

polarized as this and in post-war history we have a gap between rich and rich and poor country and city young and old left and right nationalists and patriots people are fed up with see a lockdown as i've just heard reports from from a different source from russia that pretty much life is back to normal it's it's tough it's one of the toughest countries in germany some other european countries too but germany politicians are basically toppling over each other to raise the bar to make it even more difficult for people plus the vaccination council germans if they used to one thing are used to an orderly state orderly administrative procedures and we don't see any of this and we see contradictory. administered orders we see contradictory and failing state policies so germans are fed up but they don't or all of the requisite and appropriate conclusions in the right numbers that this government has failed. here but germans are the only ones in europe

increasingly frustrated with the handling of the pandemic and protests are sweeping across the moment with growing numbers warning they'll no longer take the economically damaging restrictions. on the streets of europe these are all the scenes that have been playing out those countries what's again are announcing a fresh wave of restrictions as the 3rd wave hits rallies protesting against what they branded health dictatorships were held from austria to sweden serbia to switzerland from poland to france demonstrators say they simply have enough we don't know enough we are fed up we no longer know which flew to stand on

a little lost the soul of blur we have the impression of being muzzled we're not free. we no longer have a social life this restrictions are totally useless i don't feel like i'm a log we can go out like you want as long as we have our certificate so should we change the restrictions may be coming in germany more than 20000 troops to the streets in the city of care so one must protest just to cry the recent reversal of the easing the destruction was a threat to freedom. here and we are here in castle today because all the measures that are being taken here in germany no longer serve the people but i consider corona virus to be a serious disease just like the flu which can also be very serious but to make a pandemic out of it as we are experiencing now with many restrictions on our basic rights i don't think that is justified. to cannons and pepper spray we used

to disperse protest is the tactic was also used in the netherlands protesters were left wet but they remained undeterred across in the u.k. in the capital of london approach. justice defied a current ban on public demonstrations they demanded the rules change a cool echoed by more than 60 and he's they've written to the whom circuitries saying quote malloy saying people protesting was no to acceptable or if you believe it was no proof dozens were arrested as tempers for 8. in must see a different tack was taken in defiance 8 of health regulations thousands packed the streets for the undeclared coachable

a party atmosphere shut down by officials as it descended into destruction. nothing justifies destroying collective efforts to contain the virus nothing justifies desecrating the side of the route by and building collapse nothing justifies attacking children's games and public facilities. while the evil is trying to tackle vaccine shortages it's admitted to making mistakes during the pandemic but have lessons been learned and i think this is a still being made on the go and not very thought free. i think they're not doing a very good job at it even if it's working but by luck not really by design i think that. in some extent is a land of very sick of it but i think that. is the most important thing to ease as exit ari's and new consent to say you're at a little i think we have learned some and we took action. the thing is you can

restrict life so much easier citizens are once again feeling the pain of tightening restrictions but after more than a year of living by the rules it seems now that more and more people believe that they are definitely do damned if they don't. see paris. meantime former top european officials are calling on brussels to stop caving into u.s. pressure when it comes to sanctions including those against iran and russia a move published open letter demanding countermeasures is nick here and with more on this morning. well this opalescent which has been jointly penned by a former french diplomat pierre vermont's alongside 3 institutes in paris berlin and brussels calls for insurance europe to stand up to washington now the letter suggests that europe europeans have grown weary of the domineering pressure coming from the us and encourages the block to consider acquiring the means of countering

these extra territorial sanctions now one of the authors of the letter has been very open about this in the past. we must gradually convince europeans that when we don't agree with washington's political line we must be able to see no and continue political dialogue with them so the note goes on to propose a series of tit for tat counter measures all on a par with the kind of sanctions that the u.s. is placing on european countries companies i should say now such counter measures would include airplane hitting access to european territories to the. perpetrators of such sanctions also take into consideration particular banks from countries issuing extraterritorial sanctions when it comes to them asking for loans from the european central bank and national banks there's a series of other council measures as well let's take a listen we could suspend the financial pass putting system which would prevent banks of this ancient country from operating in europe we could freeze the assets

on european territory or certain public entities of countries see shewing sanctions we have to show that we can retaliate if we want to be listened to so this bold call from europe clearly comes as the block has grown dissatisfied with this pressure coming from the u.s. with europe really finding itself not on the same page as the u.s. on a number of issues recently be it the iran nuclear deal being the u.s. pulling out of the climate change accord under donald trump and then of course there's ongoing disagreements over the stream to gas pipeline projects so what is seems like we're seeing here is really europe calling for it to come together and to stand up against this external pressure but of course in a way that is fair on the par with those sanctions coming from the u.s. in a way that would ensure this ongoing friendly dialogue between the 2 sides the nuclear and the presidents of the 2 a political thing turned euro continent told us that he thinks the e.u.

needs to form its own alliances without interference from washington. it's a good idea now or 2 to try to put new i.d.'s to have more european strategic autonomy is excess exactly what you should do to retaliate against extraterritorial measures from the united states was done with g.'s european or companies but also saw the autonomy and the. ability to europeans to decide to use sovereign way about we've loom viduka mers we would say exchange treaties where hit by. the united states strategy is to fragment eurasia and to prevent too much cooperation between european union under rush hour in order to slow down murty put our rechy and to prevent europeans to be too much independent from united

states as wrong as e.u. doesn't fink itself as in not unknown was powell or and doesn't decide in a more sovereign way it is going to be difficult for. us immigration officials involved have an unprecedented migrant crisis on the southwestern border a record $5000.00 unaccompanied children alone reportedly being held in border patrol custody authorities of run of a space right now with youngsters being held an overflow facilities in cramped conditions democratic party lawmaker released these images are saying only screams from the texas city of dawn are hundreds of children of allegedly been stranded in patrol custody there for more than 10 days border crossings from mexico and a 20 year high presenting huge challenges for the by administration but it played down the emergency. children presenting at our border who are

fleeing violence or fleeing prosecution who are fleeing terrible situations is not a crisis well it does point we've got washington d.c. officials going back and forth about whether or not what's happening at the border is really a crisis you've got biden promising that he will visit the border meanwhile we've got the border officials and leaders of the democratic party in congress for urging the administration to get back to reality take their share of the blame for the policies that seem to have the momentum this crisis and really get a grip on what is happening you have a breach on national security levels that have never before been seen in modern history it just blows my mind how disconnected from reality they are or maybe they do know maybe they just don't want to call a spade a spade you know because it's uncomfortable it's a slap in the face i think they're you just want to let you know what's going on we need to get a handle on this before against out of hand even within

a week i was already calling the white house to say hey guys you've got to take a look at it when you create a system that incentivizes people to come across and they're released that immediately sends a message to central america that if you come across you can stay while there are big calls for the administration to get things under control and start responding to what many are calling a crisis it seems like the biden administration does not want there to be media access to what is happening on the border and the u.s. facilities that have been set up one journalist was quite outraged about the fact that he had to go to another country just to take photographs of what was happening here in the united states you have to stand on one side of the border i respectfully ask u.s. customs and border protection to stop blocking media access to their border operations i have photographed c.b.p. under bush a bomb and trump but now 0 x. . has granted to media these long lens images taken from the mexican site until now

u.s. faces journalists have needed to stand in another country to photograph what's happening in the united states how many will recall that while donald trump was president so to graps of children held in facilities detention facilities that were set up during the obama administration were widely circulated and there was mass discussion and outrage about you know what they referred to in the media as huge as in cages and there was widespread does that ing of the facilities your recall congresswoman alexandria because you know cortez had a well publicized visit to the detention facility and there was widespread coverage but the biden administration seems to be rather adamant that it is simply not appropriate to give the media access and to publicize what is going on at the u.s. borders i don't necessarily think that it's appropriate for a journalist to be inside out of centers that are at that are and are not permanent place places for children that children are not placed there permanently now white

house spokesperson jen psaki says that the biden ministration is very committed to what she calls transparency but it seems like when it comes to the situation at the border it's much better to divert people's eyes and change the subject and try to avoid bringing attention to something that is to resolve a situation that many are referring to as a crisis. while this is making a lot of headlines around the world this morning investigative journalism group project veritas has also released shocking images from a migrant facility in dawna texas 3000 immigrants and kept in tight spaces and wrapped in space blankets 50 of the refugees had tested positive to fork over the last 3 days alone the money to get into a project veritas told us more. there is a major influx of illegal immigrants and that is according to the source of my view 50 of them are coded positive that sexual assaults he does ical assaults take place

daily our sources told us that there is many as 3000 migrants in this facility and donna texas at one time they're very cramped from the photographs you can see it's very spartan living there's not a lot of mats or beds or cots they are living in a difficult very tight spot it looks like a nightmare it looks like like something out of a fiction novel you can look back as far as comments from this administration encouraging people to rush to the border encouraging people to climb any barriers just any way you can over it under it get in and we will take care of you a plain and simple people are coming over sick or not legal or not and they're being processed and it's being done in an awful matter now that we've uncovered the conditions here but it just seems like mass chaos and yes there is again other caravan it seems gearing up. a city u.s. federal judges accused practically the country's entire made from t.v.

to newspapers and radio of being puppets of a democratic they cover that a smaller. the increased power of the press is so dangerous today because with very close to one party control of these institutions the new york times and washington post virtually democratic party broadsheets nearly all television network in cable is a democratic party trumpet a democratic party trumpet i mean what an exaggeration it's not like they treated his inauguration as the 2nd coming of christ in the inaugural address the beginning had a little bit of soaring rhetoric a teeny bit at the end in the middle it sounded almost like a homily like a priest explaining something from the bible while they were just excited once it was actually in the white house they saw this throwing the tough questions at him. out of them although not to my current crisis the media is not about that but they did go wild of those weird c.g.i.

hands or maybe they were just expecting the other president and our president harrison i took a virtual tour of vaccination centers on and i will admit though that seldom is what great in terms of timing because remember that bombshell recording with donald trump pressuring elections investigated georgia to find him ballots he wouldn't have to move out of the white house while the recording revealed that the post misquoted trump's comments on the cool based on information provided by a source did not tell the investigator to find the frauds or say she would be a national hero if she did so instead trump urged the investigators to scrutinize ballots as in she would find dishonesty there. you will notice that establishment media errors admissions mistakes and outright lie so we slanted one way against me and against republicans meanwhile stories that heard democrats or undermined their narratives are buried ignored or delayed until they can do the least harm media

outlets should be regarded as political entities not journalistic enterprise yes but that's just an exception because when it came to trump the washington post was very sad and honest and objective and balanced and anyway trump had fox news on his side always share leading yes i have heard how some democrats want cable companies to drop fox news one american news network on news max but maybe you shouldn't spread conspiracy theories no i'm not interested in what silberman said he should be borne in mind that the 1st step taken by any potential for terri in all dictatorial regime has to gain control of communications particularly the delivery of news it is fair to conclude therefore that one party control of the press and media is a threat to a viable democracy well that's a huge saturation no one watches the news anymore anyway it's all about social media just that one twitter not a democrat party trump it to be seen silicon valley also has an enormous influence

over the distribution of news and it simply filters news delivery in ways favorable to the democratic party and although upstart conservative networks have emerged in recent years their visibility has been decidedly tailed by social media he that by direct bans or content based censorship well that's not true what about paula what do you mean apple amazon and google i'm sure it was for a good reason and as the censoring content yes there was that one time that twitter brought that one link to the new york post article about hunter biden's business dealings but it's a little like it was a big story that kind of i don't know swayed in. and anyway there are other hard hitting stories to report on or. some media pundits warn that that could trigger an assassination attempt so anyway

it's a total mystery to me why faith in the us media is at an all time low whenever you look at it the media's alleged democratic bias it seems as failed to protect some of the party's biggest names case in point joe biden now saying new york governor andrew cuomo should resign if a probe confirms allegations of sexual harassment 7 accusers averse for cold food in a matter of weeks governor cuomo of new york if the investigation confirms the claims of the women should he resign yes i think you probably are not being prosecuted to a woman should be presumed telling the truth and should not be scapegoated and become victimized by her coming forward. and faces similar accusations of his own tara reid who worked as his staff assistant 30 years ago has tried to have her sexual misconduct allegations against him publicized but the new york times and other leading media to insist there's no evidence to support her claims while the

white house has also denied the allegations we discussed with her directs the apparent double standards in the handling of the case. but what happens with powerful people like joe biden he spent $2200000.00 according to f.e.c. records on public relations to squelch stories that would be just favorable to him i see the same tactics being used towards russia with anti russian propaganda that our political system is being influenced by capitalism and it's kind of reach the empires kind of coming to a halt unless we focus inward and look at infrastructure so you have these corporate entities that own the media so the only information. and i find it stunning when i see them criticize other nations about propaganda when actually we need to look inward and clean our own house. like animals to be slaughtered that the e.u.

farmers chief says the blokes knew agriculture policies left them he told us why but the european commission that has not given him comprehensive assessment what the impact of the green deal. for stickler would have in europe and agriculture and i believe that this is quite important in order to assess what we are up against european hang like any agricultural sector in any part of the world is very much an integrated sector so you can't extract one sex for out of it without being a comprehensive in traverse textures and there's of course it's missing and we would like to see the overall impact in a in a in a sense that we could actually make a missile system and what needs to be done and what the risks are and this is what we have been pushing european commission to come forward with. so the e.u.'s 2030 farm to fork strategy aims to slash pesticide use by 50 percent so-called nutrient

losses and use of anti microbe drugs should also be cut by the same amount your crowds hope that that's going to allow the block's organic sector to flourish the user culture commissioner told the cern the impact assessment has been carried out and insisted more comprehensive reviews would also take place he admitted there would be a quote short term negative impact from the policies though the farmers representative again says they're simply going to lose market share insurer we are very much interested in maintaining our competitiveness and this means that in the ice the consumers we need to be competitive in both the price and what the product sense it's basically a price and quality ratio and what we feel that this person that you into our own market they're serious that we lose our competitiveness if their objectives and the principle that the european agriculture have to accept as art of the green deal and

the farm to fork are not followed to the same letter and that's also here are a big question what would be the crumbling impact of the sustainability initiatives of the european union in our training efforts to our trading partners except the same approach or do where do they have a somewhat different if it's different that means that we would most probably face unfair competition in the worst case here and europe but certainly internationally . what a year of ups and downs as people talking of which theme parks in the u.s. state of california will be allowed to reopen next week well after a year long shutdown but there are plenty of do's and don'ts of course in these covert times including strict rules but how to behave on those rollercoasters to me to power explained. remember having fun like a theme parks roller coasters. well apparently they're coming back but 8 maybe not quite as fun as you might remember that bella fornia has

announced it will reopen its theme parks but on the condition that people will stay dead silence while sipping through the air on their favorite roller coasters so basically defeating the whole point of the ride if you're having trouble imagining just how depressing boring and sad a silent roller coaster ride could be while japan introduced a similar rule last summer and it was about as fun as you could expect. well much fun and keeping in line with the whole covert thing a bunch of other measures were also introduced such as how many people can be on a ride seating patter the amount of household.