not to be as neat as we might like it when it's really examined peter oliver r.t. berlin. but it is the us which is being we're on 0 for revising the past the last number of months and now even the country's national anthem is in question i tune for danny hawkins picks up the story. 2020 is a year of change and i'm not talking about coronavirus popular t.v. shows axed statues torn down even food brands updated to meet 21st century criteria of inclusive u.-t. equality justice and tolerance but is it enough can more be done well in the united states protests during the national anthem have been a bone of contention for quite a few years but what about the national anthem itself well now some people are saying enough is enough. i. i. i well that's that's you that just came off the plinth was francis scott key the man behind the lyrics that the star-spangled banner and former slave owner and anti abolitionist so what's the deal with the itself. to do shows war. war. what you can think of all right of course the rarely performed that 3rd verse was directed by key black slaves w

i tip my hat to our to you for doing this for a great story great piece or by peter oliver. illuminating what's really going on inside to an organization called gate stone institute says you do 10193000 attacks occurred i'm christian churches schools cemeteries and monuments all across europe everybody has to be getting a tad it happened to the united states it happens in canada it happens in europe. but to be honest with you rick it's not just christian churches in thailand a buddhist temple attacked in christchurch new zealand we know what happened there with the muslims and sri lanka i'm easter sunday 260 people murdered i mean the list goes on and on and around the world it has to be an attack by an artist's radical feminists as peter oliver pointed out far left and some far left right groups as well it's just push for secularism and i think maybe these churches represent. the traditions of these countries whether it's poland or france of united states the traditions the institutions being attacked here of catholic churches of mosques of you know synagogues all of this y

an effective cure it seems there are plenty of people who won't be queuing up to take it or 2 peter oliver explains the hunt for a coronavirus vaccine is one of if not the great scientific searches of time but there are all those who don't want to see a vaccine found and wouldn't accept one if it was here in germany which was swift to tackle the initial wave of covert 19 coronavirus skeptics have been demonstrating for months. now. the latest polling shows more than a 3rd of june. reject mandatory vaccination against covert knighting these concerns continue to exist despite the mandatory vaccination being on the cards the government here has said again and again that when a vaccine becomes available it won't be compulsory if. the government is accused of secretly plotting to introduce mandatory vaccination i want to repeat the chancery said yesterday it will be no obligatory vaccination against the coronavirus at the same time germany is now facing a lack of u.s. supplies of rendez if you and antiviral drug used to treat coronavirus patients the german health minister has pressed on the ma

southwest of the country picking us through all that peter thanks very much for europe correspondent peter oliver. let's pick up on some of the points peter in fact was going through with martin doul to martin's a politician from germany's an after party at martin good to see you what are the implications of this case if a number of officers did indeed have ties to anneal not secret so. yes if you look at that case that's just a surface we have in germany since the tech on the october festival in the seventy's so last century there have been tyson. for some thoughts the. what you called a circle strip you know i arrived haifa's a seminar in germany they were building right wing groups with. so-called really loyal to people who are in the scene who are led by the secret service and so the left right the people and the how to drive the instructions so that now we see the police chief who resides it's just like one sector for ice you know in the chest going you can put a call in and it supervised and you have to get to the structure of problems and you have a structural problem that in this state th

guard he's been convicted of over 5000 counts of excess right to murder our europe correspondent peter oliver has the details. this 2 year suspended sentence that was handed down to 93 year old bruno d. could well be the last verdict handed down to a perpetrator of crimes a cheering the holocaust he was found guilty of being an accessory to 5232 counts of murder while he was an s.s. guard the tough concentration camp. due to his age 93 years old as i said it was always unlikely that a judge was going to hand down a custodial sentence the 2 year suspended sentence though was greeted with mixed opinion by those representing the victims i understand how they reached the suspended verdict but i can't accept this it's all because they suspended sentence for a mass murder even when the defendant was a teenager juvenile is basically sending the wrong signal says they're also verdigris balance this verdict is also a signal to foreign countries really that these crimes will be punished haven't 70 to 75 years after a mass murder a judge on my a good bring said that bruno de viewed himself as just a mob

peter oliver has been speaking with some of the victims who came forward. decades of abuse carried out by put in a position to protect the most vulnerable in society for 30 years starting in the 1970 s. berlin or thorazine placed children in the care of a convicted paedophile named for its age i spoke to 2 of his victims to protect their right to anonymity they'll be named only as spin and marco. our daily lives were dominated by instructions we were shielded from the outside world like a sect most of the time we faced violence if we wanted to go out or meet someone else we were intimidated and told these people were bad that we should have nothing to do with them if we wanted to go anyway we were forbidden every day was mental and physical mistreatment and we're only realizing this now we were forced to do things we wouldn't normally do because we were threatened that was our life the worst the treatment the more you felt this person was important to you every day with this man was a fight for survival and the fight to preserve yourself what makes this mor

last one in a german court that reaches a full verdict there it is our correspondent in berlin peter oliver. french charities are raising the alarm over a surge in people needing to use food banks the spike has been aggravated by the coronavirus pandemic dubin ski explains. a hive of activity food being sauteed apostles' of being cracked all as the queues are waiting for through date all right many of those now using food banks like this one for doing so well the very 1st time and it's be a lifeline the gesture to mention i am in a precarious situation and coded 9000 has me things tough there was a moment when there was nothing else to do but come here with their restaurants duke or i would be able to survive i had a normal life food an apartment and when i lost everything it was very difficult to ask for help but i had no choice so here i am is through necessity because i need to come here because i am alone with my children and i need help the center was closed at one point and we had difficulties because of that but now they are open so things are better though you would have to start wi

types of workplaces that scott unions on the officials concerned over safety conditions for stuff peter oliver reports. germany was quite rightly praised for how it handled the initial wave of coronavirus now although it's dealing with something a little more tricky isolated localized spikes of covert 19 we're on our way to a meat processing plant in the city of get it's law which has been the epicenter of one of those outbreaks over $1500.00 workers tested positive at this facility the factory is currently closed down with the workforce in quarantine since corona was confirmed a lockdown that was imposed on the local area last week has been extended by a further 7 days and the federal governments in berlin is calling on people to be patient this is fuelling mentioned it's not so hard situation for many people the restrictions cause a burden in the chancel things all people who take the situation with patients and follow the necessary restrictions they are all helping now to prevent the virus from spreading the reason for the extension of this local lock down is 100 cases of corona in the last

and the mayor of warsaw it was a keenly watch campaign too especially from across poland borders peter oliver explains that neighboring germany is being accused of being perhaps a little bit too influential in this. whenever this talk of election interference it never usually takes long for the conversation to tend towards russian sources however in poland they moved away from that stand that stereotype with the foreign ministry in warsaw claiming that german media is trying to influence polling in poland the polish president and they do that has accused the german of polish language newspaper the fact of publishing false claims about him when it comes to presidential pardons the case concerned only a restraining order other punishments were long served the application was supported by polish courts fact is owned by german publishing giant axels playing the polish president and his team say that german media giant is trying to choose who holds poland's top job next year to germany was to choose poland's president is something a concert agreed to mean years achievement and we do not want this

wearing deodorant on the subway in the hope it will encourage people there to cover their faces peter oliver has been sniffing around. masks and face coverings the rostov accessory of 2020 not exactly a decision driven by function of course but as lock downs of being lifted many people ching their masks not so fast says the government here in berlin who are telling people. to keep covered up were the minimum distance cannot be guaranteed in public life masks are an important and from today's perspective still indispensable means to keep the infection numbers low and to protect our fellow human beings and ourselves so whether on the bus in the subway or in retail the obligation to wear masks should remain the chancellor herself is being seen out and about in a mask when she can't socially distance from others one of the issues to rise from this requirement to wear a mask is the number of people who were not wearing them correctly the 2 main culprits seem to be the chin muska which basically defeats the point of having a must go on in the 1st place and. the free nose which scene is a mask to b

development of the controversial infrastructure project which are things over to our correspondent peter oliver in berlin. it may be loathed by politicians across the us but denmark has given the green light to the north stream to gas pipeline project to come to new with all important one to see pipe playing vessels being put to work the danish energy agency has decided that north stream to a.g. also may use pipe playing vessels with anchors in connection with the construction of the north stream 2 pipelines the pipeline is a joint project between russia's gazprom and 5 other european companies when it's finished it will bring an extra 55000000000 cubic meters of gas directly from russia into germany and these particular danish ships are crucial to getting the job completed as we expected the da satisfied our request we will implement the project in accordance with the building permit and environmental impact assessment we continued to consider various options for is key. and in due time we will inform about our plans the reason this specialized equipment is so important is that the pipeline is

fairy tale so what is the best way to remember our history the good and the contentious larches peter oliver explores what germany thinks might be the answer. when it comes to assessing and dealing with difficult periods of history germany has more experience than most but we haven't seen the type of scenes here that have played out in the united states britain belgium. i. i. i. i. but germany isn't without its own controversial statues otto von bismarck has been dogged with red paint in hamburg while as an ongoing campaign to block the renovation of another monument to the eye and chancellor in the port city bismarck wasn't just crucial in german unification he was also a driving force in colonialism and by today's standards and anti semite here in berlin selland of district anime is 1920 s. depiction of a needling a black woman was decapitated last week castleman remains controversial in germany he was a committed nazi and despite that fact his works continue to be displayed across the german capital this particular monument had been slated for removal by city authorities who already deeme

officers before running off into the forest with their weapons here's our europe correspondent peter oliver with the details. he's been dubbed the black forest rambo but in reality it is a major police operation involving special forces and thermal imaging cameras that's being deployed across that vast region right now. the man at the center of this manhunt has been named as eve a 31 year old man is being described as being in an unstable mental state by a former landlord who had a victim after you hadn't paid his rent we also know that he has 4 weapons that he took from the police with around $62.00 rounds of ammunition that were taken from those guns on top of whatever he had to start with so authorities are concerned that there could be some kind of major shootout should he be cornered. what we're seeing from local authorities though is them taking this incredibly seriously in fact a huge lockdown of the area the whole area around where he was last seen has been put in place this is what the local man have to say. this is working here at the sign. the red cross is here and also with fore

racist but an alternative suggested by transport authorities is proving to be no less controversial peter oliver explains . the killing of george floyd by us police and the rise of the black light amounts of movement around the world led to a reckoning from monuments to racism colonialism and slavery. is also wrangling with the names of it strasser plots an alleyway here in the very heart of the german capital is more in strasser more or more in english is seen as a derogatory term for people from north africa while berlin city authorities say it may take a while to change the street name the capitals probably transport provider want to change to the underground stations name quick sharp new transport maps are going to be issued by the end of this year out of understanding and respect to the occasionally controversial debate about the street name the deviancy has now decided not to use it any longer as the name of the underground station the problem is that the name that they going to replace it with is going to strasser which runs nearby the station now this is where things start to get complic

because history has a tendency not to be as neat as we might like it when it's really examined peter oliver r.t. berlin. this was a worry in the we part of spain's kudlow the region is back on the lockdown after a surge in coronavirus cases the the authorities say it was a difficult decision to keep over 200000 people at home just weeks after the nation began easing restrictions. in the last hours in the day we've seen an exponential growth in the number of infections and that's prompted us to take action it's a difficult decision the government must prioritize lives and the health of peoples and we'll take all the necessary measures. lonely as we want to spain's worst affected regions with more than 12000 dead the area now back under restrictions as seen new cases more the double over the past week around 200 police officers to bring to plod to try to help them force the checkpoints locals though say they were braced for the move. us in the back and i thought this is right because we had too many spikes too many infractions and eventually they would have to close out of the region in more

mandatory in all public spaces with more on the fears of a european 2nd wave is peter oliver. the summer sun has encouraged a return to normal in europe when it comes to covert 19 but ask coronavirus restrictions that be lifted or loosened the world health organization is warning about a potential spike in the virus with eastern europe and the fall could and is deemed to be particularly at risk. we still have some worrying trends in southern europe in the balkans so we're not out of the woods just yet in the european environment it requires sustained vigilance just 2 months ago montenegro was declaring itself corona free not anymore it seems 2000 cases of the virus have seen social distancing and lock down measures reintroduced but. you may be forgiven for thinking that western europe would force off the worst the pandemic count to offer but there's also been spikes there as well in spain for example the number of new infections has tripled recently. you know this when measures have been relaxed is where outbreaks happen is not only family reunions or other types of gatherings

competition investigations are actually breaching is employees privacy is our europe correspondent peter oliver. well facebook all suing the e.u. antitrust regulators for what it says are necessary demands for information including personal details of facebook employees it's all part of an ongoing investigation by brussels into facebook marketplace which allows users to buy and sell goods on the platform so far facebook of handed over $300000.00 documents but they say no more will be sent towards brussels from them the exceptionally broad nature of the commission's requests means we would be required to turn over predominantly irrelevant documents that have nothing to do with the commission's investigations including highly sensitive person information such as employees medical information personal financial documents and private information about family members of employees facebook have also said that they will petition the e.u. court it looks emberg to prevent any further data requests until this lawsuit is heard facebook are coming at this breach of employee privacy as they see it anyway re

this continue the cases stretch all the way from what i can sixties to 2003 at the latest party's peter oliver has been speaking with some of the victims who've come forward. decades of abuse carried out by those put in a position to protect the most vulnerable in society for 30 years starting in the 1970 s. berlin off dorothy's place children in the care of a convicted paedophile named for its age i spoke to 2 of his victims to protect their right to anonymity they'll be named only spin and marco. our daily lives are dominated by instructions we were shielded from the outside world like a sect most of the time we faced violence if we wanted to go out or meet someone else we were intimidated and told these people were bad that we should have nothing to do with them if we wanted to go anyway we were forbidden every day was mental and physical mistreatment and we're only realizing this now we were forced to do things we wouldn't normally do because we were threatened that was our life the worse the treatment the more you felt this person was important to you every day with this man was a fight f

plan and also strike a compromise on the block's massive 7 year budget our europe correspondent peter oliver has more than on the elbow bumps and the less than straightforward negotiations to. it's almost back to normal isn't it back in the room in brussels leaders of the meeting for faced meeting face to face for the 1st time since coronavirus put an end to that and they had to take part in these well the times internal online video conferences musk's social distancing and elbow bumps replacing the handshake of the order of the day just about everybody said it hearing to the new rules of social distancing and masks except for those bad boys of social distancing the visit guard for the group made up of poland slovakia czech republic and hungary who twitter feeds have all been awash with photos of masculist handshakes yeah they don't play by anybody's rules there is some business to be taken care of though that's why they're in brussels for this meeting a budget for the next 7 years and a much needed coronavirus stimulus package have to be agreed on angela merkel is in charge pretty much of t

so that women make up half the entire party in the next few years with the details his artie's peter oliver. german conservatives the c.d.u. looking to dramatically shake up the demographics of their party top brass this week approved quotas for women in senior positions with quoters for those standing in elections under consideration this decision was long overdue the quote is a crutch it doesn't solve all problems but it is the 1st important step to better involve women if women continue to be represented in offices and mandate as little as before they can have no influence in shaping the future so how will this work the plan is that in the coming bundestag election 30 percent of the positions in the christian democratic union will be held by women rising to 50 percent by 2025 in order to proceed the equality proposal has to be approved by party membership in december that may not be so easy with critics saying that position should be based on ability not gender shouldn't quality counts instead of a quota or there was a would be for a quota based on various professional qualifications eco

peter: this is brutal. lemonis: something like this make you want to call it quits? oliver: yes.onis: there's massive devastation... this is a street. ...an entire main street underwater. oh, my goodness. i met the mayor. we toured the city the only way we could, by boat... it's okay. ...roads closed and businesses wiped out... look at this. kim: oh, my god. lemonis: ...a severe burden on the local economy. peter: so i'm on the city council, and so we are gonna have some serious budget problems like never seen before. lemonis: and with relentless rain, well, it's paralyzed this town. man #2: what i was afraid of. lemonis: as for the people who live here, they've had enough. how do you recover from a disaster like this and restore enough hope that people who live here don't abandon everything? ♪ ♪ the reason that i wanted to come to the mississippi river is, as i think about it, it almost feels like the most important freeway in america, right? it goes from minnesota all the way down to new orleans. it's how farmers transport things. it's how ships get up and down throughout the c