this. poses yet another. infections while the health minister is caught up in a. boil over and. over the road. with many people simply saying enough is enough. we no longer. on the streets so much we're here in castle today because all the measures being taken here in germany no longer serve the people.

to maintain a meaningful relations with the e.u. as an organization is. welcome to. the international. the german chancellor merkel has announced yet. tough nationwide restrictions running into mid april describing the situation as very serious and you measures include a ban on gathering the closure of shops meaning an effective shut down of public activity. even you that we are in a situation which is very serious the number of cases is rising exponentially and intensive care beds of filling up again well it comes after a german research institute confirmed the country has entered a 3rd wave of infections last week saw the highest number of daily coronavirus

cases in 2 months and now a massive corruption scandal over facemasks has reached the very top with the health minister himself facing questions in europe our correspondent peter all of 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 old line version of news magazine claimed that again spawned authorize 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 had nothing to do with this transaction that no commission was paid and denies any wrongdoing whatsoever and 1st on do what i media and the board of birds and media over the health ministry of justice systems mask

perhaps you are mad when the german government wants an urgent need for this the c.e.o. of 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 bird mrs pons husband was not informed or involved in the transaction at any time but early a version of the article had claimed the bird it was owned by the health ministers husband that was later corrected to reflect mr frewen his role as an employee about how to stop 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 end dependent 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 opa zation parties are circling and can smell blood the bird a publishing house owns papers like been 10 bird houses deals in mass chaos half a 1000000 went to spawn's health ministry burgess beilin representative in spawn's husband birth like to attend bird parties because somehow the villain has to be paid what does one extra they have to do in the merkel kevin and to be dismissed. of course procurement had to be done quickly during the crisis but the wording of $4600000000.00 euro swap out a call for tenders is under considerable suspicion in view of the corruption scandals to ruling coalition politicians of already fall into 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 were merged as a real potential challenger in this september's bundestag elections in what's being called the super election year here in germany that couldn't be a worse time to have the whiff of corruption surrounding you peter all over r.t. berlin. we discussed the situation in germany with a member of the ruling party which is in broiled in the mosque scandal he told us the country is more divided than ever and to make things worse people i thought really fed up with contradictory lockdown. germany has never been as polarized as

this in this post-war history we have a gap between rich and on rich and poor country and city young and old left and right nationalist and patriotic people are fed up with c.l. lockdowns i've just had 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's 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 oddly 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 are all of the requisite and bred conclusions in the right numbers that this government

has failed. it's not only germany seeing tempers flare after more than a year of tough restrictions our correspondent in paris he gave the mood in europe after a weekend of wide spread anti lockdown protests. on the streets of europe these are all the scenes that have been playing out as countries once again are announcing a fresh wave of restrictions as the 3rd wave hits rallies protesting against what they've branded health dictatorships were held from austria to sweden serbia to switzerland from poland to fronts deming's. strange to say they simply have had

enough we don't know enough we're fed up we no longer know which foot 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 significant so should we change the restrictions maybe. in germany more than 20000 troops to the streets in the city of care so one must protest is to cry to recent reversal of the easing the destruction was a threat to freedoms. to here and we are here in castle today because all the measures that are being taken here in germany no longer serve the people yet i consider coronavirus 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. we want 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 protesters to fight a current ban on public demonstrations they demanded the rules change a cool echoed by more than 60 piece they've written to the whom secretaries say criminalizing people for protesting was no to acceptable at all q. believe was no proof dozens were arrested as tempers freight. in must see

a different tack was to. you can in defiance of health but you patients houses pop the streets for you because all of all apart yet the state is shut down by officials as it descended into destruction. nothing justifies destroying collective half months to contain the virus nothing justifies desecrating the side of the root of bind building collapse nothing justifies attacking children's games and public facilities while the e.u. is trying to tackle vaccine shortages it's admitted to making mistakes during the pandemic but have lessons been learned and i think decisions are still being made on the go ahead no a very thought free. i think they're not doing a very good job at it i mean it's working but by luck not really by design i think

that. in some extent is a lens and very sick of it but i think that. is the most important thing is that 0 is a new concern to you said european little i think we have learned some and we took action. the thing is you call districts life so much easier citizens a once again feeling the pain of tightening restrictions but often more than a year of living by the rules it seems now that more and more people believe that they are if they do damned if they don't show it to. paris. and while the europeans backing down the hatches the picture elsewhere believe it or not can be very very different he has launched a covert 19 at freedom index ranking the restriction levels by country and territory there are lots of surprises of data for yourselves.

now in the program russia's foreign minister has said relations with the e.u. as an institution have essentially ground to a halt speaking at a news conference with his chinese counterpart sergey lavrov said that brussels has killed off old cooperation. so you don't have any relations with the european union as an organization the infrastructure of further relations was destroyed by unilateral decisions from brussels well it certainly isn't business as usual business as usual has been dead since 2014 foreign minister sergey lavrov specified because that's when all these admiral meetings annual consultations summits between senior our profile russian officials and european commissioners and leaders that is when they ended ever since then it's been a steep it wasn't a gradual it's been a steep decline but it is important to draw the distinction he said the relations

between the european union as a as a huge bureaucratic machine soulless bureaucratic machine those are dead the relations between various european states and russia there are a lot of it in some cases very healthy but sergey lavrov did say there are there is hope because if the european union changes its outlook changes its approach decides that it wants to improve mend relations russia russia will be there but that has to happen as equals on equal footing to mutual benefit so russia isn't about to bend over backwards to do something that europe wants especially not after not after everything that has happened in china shares much the same opinion. which european powers are making accusations against china and russia but they know it's the invented pretends it is an attempt to interfere in the internal affairs of china russia a long gone result to uphold international justice remains undiminished. was in

beijing making a statement as he was talking to his chinese counterpart let's talk for a minute then about russia chinese relations where is that going to becoming closer and closer and they're being driven closer and closer because look at the. european union's policy towards russia for the better half of a decade the united states to it was sanctioned everything that they feasibly could it was to try and contain russia to coerce it into doing into behaving in a way that europe wants that suits european or american interest and hours of work nothing's changed i mean they're the 1st to admit it that it hasn't worked so far but they believe it will work for some reason in the future and that is the approach they're increasingly taking towards china because we've heard multiple times in recent years that from european from american officials that it's china not russia that's the potential big threat of the future china's g.d.p.

its economy its military spending its population all eclipse that of russia and lately the biggest scandal was that the european union has now put into effect sanctions against china for its treatment of the wee good people who are violating apparently their rights the chinese have protested this they have summoned the european ambassador told him in writing in word but nevertheless there is little or hope that europe will change its attitude in the immediate future and to say lavrov commenting on russian sino russian relations he says there's a whole lot more chance an opportunity in the east than there is in the west. the european union destroyed all mechanisms to re have been trying to build over many years we have us partners individual european countries guided by their national interests and that objectively leads to the fact that our relations with

china are developing faster than what is left of relations with european countries both countries of course insist on loosening getting rid of this sanctions regime that has blown up in europe in the united states over the last decade or so but they also. said that you know looking looking into the future when in the future some european commission drafts yet another report about potential threats in the future and says it's incredibly worried about russia and china growing very close politically militarily that it should look back to this moment to this moment when it sanctioned both countries and drew them together it was a model because the talking of my colleague kevin owen a bit earlier in the day. so the u.s. is struggling with an unprecedented migrant crisis on the southwest border families along with a record $5000.00 unaccompanied children are reportedly being held in border patrol

custody investigative journalism group project veritas has released shocking images from them i can facilitate and donna texas 3000 immigrants are being held in severely overcrowded paul does most of them without beds or proper sanitation we understand 50 refugees are reportedly tested positive for covert in just a few days alone the managing editor of project veritas told us more. there is a major influx of illegal immigrants and that is according to the source might you 50 of them are coded posit that sexual assaults he does it will salt 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 care and it seems gearing up one democratic party of all america has also released images from the same set against excess migrants including youngsters are being held in overflow facilities and cramped conditions hundreds of children have allegedly been stranded and patrol custody across the area for more than 10 days ultimately breaking guidelines and border crossings from mexico are at a 20 year high presenting a huge challenge for the biden administration but so far the white house has 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 we'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 urging the administration to get back to reality take their share of the blame for the policies that seem to have mentioned 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 a bush a bomb and trump but now 0. access is 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 kazuo 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 centers that are at that aren't 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 trans parent sick 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. a senior u.s. federal judge has accused practically the country's entire media from t.v. to newspapers and radio of being puppets of the democratic party and the public appears to agree with most now saying outlets support political positions rather than inform. 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 a virtually democratic party broadsheets nearly all television network and cable is a democratic party trumpet a democratic party trumpet i mean what to make saturation it's not like they treated his inauguration as the 2nd coming of christ well they were just excited once i was actually in the white house they started throwing the tough questions at him. not to my corn crisis that me just not all that but they did go wild of those weird c.g.i. hands or maybe they were just expecting the other president and president harrison i took a virtual tour of vaccination centers on a i will admit though that seldom is what great in times 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 investigated to scrutinize ballots as in she would find dishonesty there. you will notice that establishment media errors missions mistakes and outright lies always 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 unbalanced and anyway trump at 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 newsmax but maybe they 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 tarion or 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 twice 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 while i'm sure it was for a good reason and as the censoring content yes that was the 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 could've i don't know sladen. lection and anyway there are all the hard hitting stories to report on. some media pundits one that could trigger an assassination attempt so anyway it's a total mystery to me why faith in the u.s. media is an all time low. right now israelis are casting their ballots in the country's 4th parliamentary election in just 2 years fall asleep reports from tel aviv. once again his ratings are heading to the polls to on so one simple question b.b. or no b.p.

and if there's no straight on such just like they wasn't in the last 3 elections they'll be another round of 50 election in short succession yeah most definitely definitely there will be you know maybe we'll win again for sadly i think you say he's too many years we've been prime minister and he's it's affecting him and not sell like him or dislike him just i want of a different form is recent track record has been patchy at best he might be counting on israel's high vaccination rate pushing him over the line but the prime minister's overall handling of the covert crisis has been hugely unpopular so response one of the world's worst infection rates per capita and measures that have been questioned by locals for a long time. what

small and noble allies all the work he and film american president donald trump dutiful the so-called good of israel could soon be slipping through his fingers biden calling bibi almost one month off his inauguration prompting lumas of sniping israel's leader he's likely to be forced to make a coalition with as many as 12 posties making the incoming government if there is one unstable and short term in the last 1520 years there are more and more little more parties were clearly a very big the political map so the leader. missed this time be the latest principle to take you to the regime and the fact that the little people. good deal good good stations. this one's

ability to build a coalition on the everybody. should should be should be able to make compromise this is the 1st israeli election in the throes of corona watching from the sidelines of the palestinians who despite the oversupply effects of nations in israel have seen precious little of it themselves. and usually the end of the international the occupying forces should be responsible for the has inspired of the fact that we have authority but. the is under occupation and even if we are going to buy our own effects scene we need to consider through the israeli airports or through. borders anyway and they are going to check it and. even now it we know that they have more than $1000000.00. left over. there should be a. pressure on israel to access to the palestinians just

a bit earlier in the program i spoke with danny donilon the former israeli ambassador to the united nations the things that despite all the public doubts over netanyahu does no other likely win. the way to looks now it seems that there would be a maturity for the prime minister if the class votes for him look very good but he would have us slim majority in the parliament one single photo we can tell you already before we got to that the majority of the palin meant to be concerned with the public could be a good ship that to the right by the within the conservative movement you have an adult it's more about the evils that are not willing to cooperate with the prime minister so the question is what they will do right after the election when they put their best amount of thought aside and join the government although we stay in the position of the left obviously netanyahu has already been in power longer than any other leader in israeli history and.