germany imposes get another lockdown after a surge in infections while the health minister is caught up in a scandal over the lucrative supply deal. the stations boil over in france britain and beyond over a relentless pandemic restrictions with many saying enough is enough. we are fed up we no longer know which food to stand we are a little lost it's all a blur if you call on the streets life so much we are here in castle today because all the measures that are being taken here in germany no longer serve the people. and the russian foreign minister says moscow is no longer able to maintain meaningful relations with the e.u. as an organization after a series of snubs from brussels. there

were 247 news and analysis from moscow this is the international monitors calling bright welcome to the program 1st the german chancellor angela merkel has announced yet another brand of tough nationwide restrictions through to mid april describing the situation as very serious the new measures include a ban on gatherings and the closure of shops and made in effect of shutdown of public activity over easter the even use it we are in a situation which is very serious the number of cases is rising exponentially and intensive care of bad safin up again. comes after a german research institute confirmed the countries and a 3rd wave of infections last week saw the highest number of daily coronavirus cases in 2 months and a massive corruption scandal over facemasks has now reached the top with the health

minister facing questions our europe correspondent has the latest the federal government here in berlin has extended kovac 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 dish bagel claimed again spawn 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 1st and do what a media that the board of hooper birds and media over the health ministry of justice systems mask procurement 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. i can only repeat that according to bird mrs ponce 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 for and 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 birds are publishing house owns papers like been 10 bird houses deals nascar half a 1000000 went to spawn's health ministry burgess beilin representative in spawn's husband birth like to attend bird of parties because somehow the villain has to be paid what does one actually 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 of call for tenders is under considerable suspicion in view of the corruption scandals to a ruling coalition politicians of already fall in jutes of 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 and we discussed the situation in germany with a member of the ruling party which is a broiled in the mouse scandal he told us the country's more divided than ever and to make things worse people are fed up with contradictory lockdown bolz. 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

nationalist and patriotic people are fed up with see a 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 and 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. administer of all those 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 and it's not only germany saying tempers flare after more than a year of tough restrictions correspondent in paris has been gauging the mood across europe after a weekend of widespread protests. on

the streets of europe these are all the scenes that have been playing out those countries once again are announcing a fresh wave of restrictions as the 3rd wave hit 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 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 we want as long as we have our certificate 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 the recent reversal of the easing the destruction was a threat to freedoms. 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 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 cameron said pepper spray we used to disperse protest is the tactic was also used in the netherlands protesters were left wet but they were made. undeterred across in the u.k.

in the capital of london protesters to fight a current baron on public demonstrations days demanded the rules change a pool echoed by more than 60 news they've written to the whom seche trees say criminalizing people for protesting was not acceptable at all q. believe was no proof dozens were arrested as tempers freight. in must different turku was taken in defiance of health regulations houseless pop the street scored on declared callable a party atmosphere shut down by officials as it descended into destruction.

nothing justifies destroying collective halfords to contain the virus nothing justifies desecrating the side of the route to 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 very thought for. 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 expenses they learn to read sick of it but i think that. is the most important thing is that 0 reason new consent to said european little i think we have learned some and we took action. the thing is you can't 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 damned if they do damned if they don't so let's. see paris. europeans batten down the hatches the picture elsewhere is a very different artie's launched a covert 900 freedom index ranking the restriction levels by country and territories report a few surprises among the data as well if you take a look you can find it now at r.t. dot com. the russian foreign minister says relations with the e.u. as an institution have essentially ground to a halt at a news conference with his chinese counterpart sergey lavrov said the brussels has killed off all cooperation. so you want to show you some good we 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 2044 minutes. specified because that's when all these 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 and china shares much the same opinion. against china and russia but they know it's a lie under invented pretenses and attempt to interfere in the internal affairs of china russia a long gone result to uphold international justice remains undiminished. 'd 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 or 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. is 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 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 clips 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 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 objective 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 is 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 the. united states is struggling with an unprecedented migrant crisis on its southwestern border fabrics along with a record $5000.00 on a company children are reportedly being held in border patrol custody investigative journalism group project various houses released shocking images from a migrant facility in the city of donna in texas 3000 immigrants are being held in severely overcrowded paul most of them without beds or proper sanitation 50 refugees have reportedly tested positive for cove it in the last few days alone the editor of project veritas told us mall there is a major influx of illegal immigrants and that is according to the source might you

50 of them are coded. that sexual assaults you 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. democratic party lawmakers also released images from the same border city in texas migrants including youngsters are being held in overflow facilities in cramped conditions under it's of children who've allegedly been stranded in patrol custody across the area for more than 10 days breaking the guidelines border crossings from mexico were also at a 20 year high that's 2 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 at this 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 i 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 had 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 are are not permanent places for children and 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. plus the final hour for israelis to cause their ballots in yet another parliamentary election so far turnout at its lowest since 2009 despite almost all coronavirus restrictions being lifted local media are saying that could be down to voter fatigue off the 3 elections in the past 2 years. reports next 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

a different one piece recent track record has been patchy at based 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 did for the so-called good of israel could soon be slipping through his fingers biden calling bibi almost one month off his inauguration prompting rumors 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 well be very big the political so the leader. must be there it is possible to take him to the other asian the fact that the little people. isn't good either good to go to stations. this one's ability to build a coalition on the everybody. should or 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 we are people under occupation and usually under. the occupying forces should be responsible for the heads in

spite of the fact that we have authority but. the is under occupation and even if we are going to buy our own vaccine 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 they don't know what to do with it there should be a. pressure on israel to donate to the palestinians. i spoke with former israeli ambassador danny down on that he thinks that despite all the public that 7 netanyahu is the likely winner. the way to looks now it seems that there would be a maturity for the prime minister class votes for him look very good but he will have that slim majority of the women one senior folks so we can tell you already before we got to that the majority of the aliments will be concerned with how to

give you good shifted to the right but within the conservative movement you have an adult it's more about eve that are not willing to cooperate with the 5 in this so the question is what they would do right after the election when they put their best amount of thought aside and join the government or that we stay in a position of the left obviously netanyahu has already been in power longer than any other leader in israeli history and italy so some would say he has been a polarizing figure we have seen $38.00 weeks of protests against him so is it perhaps a time to change would another leader perhaps have a better chance of i don't know striking a deal with the other parties to form a coalition that's an amazing question and that's exactly what the citing today going to the polls more than 70 percent of it where do they call these 5 go read and they will decide about that whether they want the prime minister to continue after the feat he used in office or they want to change and i think we should

accept the words even those who don't like the by mr demonstrated if they lose this will be expected with gods and not allowed to continue. in the next few years well as i said another half hour or so i was voting in israel after that and we'll bring you reaction also some of the results and the ramifications of what's happening and not in the form of parliamentary elections for now let's stand by for unique look at a key driver of racial inequality in the u.s. and the struggle just to get a roof over your head is up next on our. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy foundation let it be an arms race off and spearing dramatic development only personally i'm going

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