bars and restaurants during the pandemic and many are now warning that they may not survive this peter oliver reports. i was whether it's munich's october 1st all colognes carnival plays a role in germany's big celebrations has hit those parties hard as the need to implement coronavirus measures the city council and bars and restaurants closed which in turn has had a knock on effect for brewers who really bad this is situation off the smaller breweries because say they're often selling their beers in restaurants shops and see no pops and restaurants are closed since november so there is no real sales at the moment for them be a sales of actually being declining in germany for a while now understood to be due to health concerns but over the last year they have gone off a cliff 17.3 percent down on a year on year sales for april 14 point one percent down for november some have looked to diversify to move with the times when it caught in bavaria overturned a ruling banning the sale of alcohol in public spaces last month this brewery in munich set up a machine as i mean so we have here the mobile

justice as the appeal process continues reporting next from the hague or europe correspondent peter oliver. it's taken 16 years to get to this point $60000000000.00 are at stake the investors in the former oil and gas giant you coffs claim the russian state illegally expropriated you causes assets in breach of the 1994 energy charter treaty russia did sign the e.c. t. but it was never ratified and it never became law i spoke to the deputy justice minister all of the russian federation because paired and he told me what russia's arguments counted last were the main argument and main issue was the energy charter treaty ratified by russia which means there is room there but equal authority which contains these arbitration agreement under which really russian people russian persons russian japanese try to use international mechanism to see russia opponents try to see you signed there and despite the fact it wasn't certified by the parliament as you know in any democratic and parliamentary you need to parliaments consent on these kind of issues also parliament rejected really rejected to ratify

variant of the coronavirus our europe correspondent peter oliver takes a closer look at the rep or questions of. huge traffic jams tailing back from germany's borders with both the czech republic and austria this is after burley and introduced border checks on sunday evening following outbreaks of mutant coronavirus trains in both the czech republic and in parts of austria in the tirol region in particular they put in place these blocks at seeing the huge traffic jams isn't the only areas that could be happening as well stephens i bear to angola merkel spokes person the german government spokesperson has said that they government it currently reviewing doing the same thing at the borders with france due to outbreaks in that country as well no movement on that decision just yet to close the borders between germany and france it has happened between austria at the czech republic and germany and so far the interior ministry here in berlin have acknowledged that situation is far from ideal skipped. of course that our traffic jams and waits in times have increased at the borders at least that's w

countries are big left empty handed when it comes to any vaccines more details on that next from peter oliver. germany is facing a touch of cognitive dissonance when it comes to covert 19 vaccinations on the one hand politicians on the population are outraged at how slow the process of giving a vaccine to everyone in germany has been on the other hand vaccination centers like this one here in berlin at the old airport which only gives out the astra zeneca job well they've been struggling to get people to take up the offer that some sorts a line unused because not enough people enrolling or just not turning up for their appointment this is an absurd and unbearable situation as of last friday only 10 percent of the vaccines available had been administered the astra zeneca job is only approved for use in under 60 five's in germany due to a lack of data on its effectiveness and older people it's being made available to health care staff but tales of reactions to the vaccine have seen some german states suspend its use. astra zeneca has been criticized because on the one hand it seems to be less e

economies the commission's given the states 10 days to respond with the details of development says peter oliver in berlin. the e.u. commission currently after all do with 6 member states who have unilaterally put in place border restrictions of one type or and other in order to try and stop the spread of covert 19 whether that's the spread of the virus in general or the stop of the spread of mutated versions particularly here in germany that's been a top issue commission buying up though they're not happy with the situation the commission has been clear without a coordinated approach among 27 member states we risk fragmentation and disruptions to free movement into a supply chain is something we have witnessed again in the past 2 weeks so who's on the naughty list belgium germany denmark hungry finland and sweden have all been given 10 days to provide a good reason why they put these restrictions on freedom of movement in place or to relax the restrictions that have been put there the e.u. commission's unlikely to win easily on this one we've heard from the german side who've defended their mov

on monday ok frosty spring in prospect then from brussels towards moscow for now peter oliver in berlin thank you. max the british government appears to be behind a multi-million pound push to quote weaken the russian state leaked documents allege that russia and the london hopes to boost negative coverage of the country by seeking journalists and contractors to infiltrate russian media what i guess to have as the story. the plan was or it is simple enough the british government and its agencies recruit independent media sometimes even desired and direct their programming manage that in order to and i quote weaken the russian state it's all in the leaked papers the foreign and commonwealth office is looking for an implementor or consortium to scope a design deliver an evaluative program of interventions that will enhanced the skills and capacity or for us and journalists this project will support a wider regional her majesty's government program to counter the russian government's narrative and domination of the media and information space so there's even more there since what these pap

or europe correspondent peter oliver has more. the significance are used in order for people to show that they've had a negative test before they get on an airplane or travel anywhere around the european union now what europol the european union's law enforcement agency is saying is that criminals a looking to exploit that and producing these fake negative test results these fake covert certificates they've just posted a forgery ring operating near to shall they call airports in france there's also being the forgery rings broken open the united kingdom similar operations in spain in the netherlands as well the city fits changing hands from anywhere between 40 euros and woods of $300.00 euros a year a poll themselves say that they expect the criminals to keep out they say as long as the city if it gets the necessary for travel. the detection of feet covered $900.00 tests of the kids confirms the criminal sees profitable of chooses once theorized as long as travel restrictions remain in place due to the covered $1000.00 situation it

during his recent visit with more on the atmosphere of that meeting as our europe correspondent peter oliver. bill zones of m e p's had signed a letter calling for high representative for foreign affairs basically the e.u.'s foreign minister yossi burrell to stand down from his post following this trip to moscow they accuse him of being too weak when it comes to dealing with russia. had gone there with the intention of pressuring moscow for the release of alexei no vallone what we've ended up with was the current situation that we find ourselves in yosef perella said he's got no intention of quitting his post we've also heard from his boss as well as live on the line the e.u. commission president she said she's going to stand by her man and has no intention of sacking him saying the high representative has her full support now this plenary session that was held in the european parliament on tuesday was quite a heated affair there was a lot of voices calling for the head of mr burrell certainly some scathing criticism of his trip to moscow and a lot of criticism for russia in general as well

at all peter oliver r.t. berlin. for the news this morning moscow's question the u.s. commitment to free trade after washington bragged about more than a dozen companies quitting russia's nord stream to gas pipeline project following american threats here's our correspondent egos down off them. from the very outset the u.s. has been held burned on do you really ignored stream to so this time the u.s. state department has compiled and submitted a report to u.s. congress kind of detailing the measures they have taken so far in this direction and how effective these measures have been this report by the way also comes at a very sensitive timing because the biden administration has been accused of inaction of not being keen enough on preventing nordstrom too from coming to fruition this report is not yet available to the public but ned price the spokesman for the u.s. state department has revealed or that some 800 companies european companies have decided to pull out of the north stream to a mid u.s. pressure and when i say pressure i mean sanctions so far the united state

administration stand on the issue largely correspondent peter oliver has been following the story and filed this report from berlin. president but same old problems when it comes to north stream to barack obama's policy was to try and make it take as long as possible donald trump sanctioned it into suspension on the joe biden though we have seen construction of the pipeline resume with less than 50 miles away from completion and pipe being currently laid in danish waters at the moment joe biden doesn't like north stream to he never has liked it he's being quite outspoken about that in the past he would see its completion as a win for russia also that it would tie europe far too closely to russia when it came to energy needs something he would find incredibly difficult to sell at home if not almost impossible in fact we've seen some u.s. senators clutching at that pearls and fretting that the north stream to gas pipeline could ultimately put the whole nato alliance at risk might be going a little bit too far booked this brand new pipeline does have the potential for causing headaches f