party he is also the deputy chair of the bundestag parliamentary committee for the scrutiny of elections immunity and rules of procedure welcome to the program thanks for joining us as we've heard 3 members of parliament from governing party is facing corruption allegations what's your reaction to that. and i mean in fact it's also there's also a 4th case that are sufficient to use the geisha is on and the context of receiving benefits far from potentially from john so it's even a fall case but he has not so far to resign and i think this is the really annoying and say you can't call the. cases anymore. in that short period of time so many cases that emerge and i mean the party is shipped off the conservatives is not yet sure whether the list is already released if there are cases will emerge and i do think i do see a big moral have to fall before the whole of parliament people are suspicious of course whether their representatives are acting in line with 'd ethical and legal standards and so there's a big damage in particular for the christian democrats also but appalling as a whole and

ask for similar public assurances from their bundestag members. i think it's good in fact in reality it's going to it's a problem but christian democrats have a spot that they. require requests from all there and peace such a declaration that they did not personally benefit is a political reaction it's that it shows a certain concept of course we have in our profit of course astara members to announce any personal in involvement. as far as if there was any benefit or compensation and that is the expectation we would have our and piece but are not involved in such deals that if they have how. to organize the supply of protective material which is a good thing they have correspond with the members of parliament and not receive any direct or indirect material the material benefits from we. don't have any and any idea any evidence that any of our m.p.'s could have could pass and receive such benefits and notes ok we have to leave it there german opposition lawmaker florian tunker from the f.t.p. party thank you for talking with us on the unions. for t

right now that's the bundestag president showing who's about to introduce the chancellor all here in the studio i have with me our political correspondent crane she's here to break that down for us the chancellor speech we're going to be talking about that in just a moment but 1st of all what can we expect today this is an important moment of important juncture for germany and for chancellor i'm going to when she's under incredible political pressure and pressure to deliver in terms of dealing. with the coronavirus pandemic what it would quote expect of a mill and well yesterday we heard her do something that politicians very rarely do namely say i'm sorry and her apology was repeated in fact by the minister presidents of many of the german federal states all of them essentially taking back a decision that they made on monday after a long marathon meeting to do a hard lockdown over easter so we're going to hear her explaining that apology no doubt once again what i don't think we will hear her do is announce that there will be a vote of no confidence she was under some pressure yeste

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if the foreign policy speak in the german bundestag thank you very much for your time today appreciate it thank you. that was pretty strong the f.t. foreign policy speech of the german bund star joining us here on r.t. international we are back with more. on else seems wrong. but. just. let me. just say that's a. trail. when something find themselves worlds apart. she still looks for common ground. there are tactics that can be used to get innocent people to confess to crimes they didn't commit i don't even think people in the us really get that the police are allowed to lie to the person who falsely fast actually came to believe the lie that they were told about their own behavior once a false confession is taken the case is closed and nobody really can tell the difference between a good confession and one that isn't. this is boom bust one business sure you can't afford to miss i'm rachel blevins in washington coming up president biden is that can find that 1.9 trillion dollar american rescue plan after it passed in the house but will it be enough to help the u.s. economy and how does

state of bavaria one of the contenders potentially to try and be merkel successor following the bundestag elections in september he said that he had respect for the chancellor for fronting up to what she said admitted herself was a mistake that when it came down to it this wasn't legally doable while another one of those contenders for her job. as the leader of the state of north rhine-westphalia pointed out that all of the leaders of the various states in germany were present at that meeting they all agreed to. extend the lockdown for 5 days and that they all had to bear some responsibility as well not so though say the opposition parties not all of them but most of them here in germany the alternative germany party the free democrats and the left party are all calling for a vote of confidence in chancellor merkel from the the free democrats and the vice speaker of the bundestag. saying that there was a question over the viability of the government right now while the leader of the party of the free democrats the pro-business party here in germany liberal party christian linda said the c

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want to the defensive health minister against bond has felt the need to publish the names of all bundestag members who spoke with his ministry about the provision of protective masks. and party leader in lash it in his job for less than 2 months sounds increasingly worried by what's been dubbed the mosque scandal. skeete neil i am focused on modernization over the next few years i don't want to allow this major project to be scuppered by individual members of parliament think about nothing but making money. before modernization could take off the conservatives popular for so long and angela merkel will need to show they retain the voters trust 1st chance to do that will come at t. state elections this sunday. israel has been making swift progress and its covert fascination campaign that currently has the highest vaccination right per person in the world but that's only for its own population and not palestinians living in the occupied west bank and gaza strip this week though the government's about to international criticism and begun immunizing palestinian laborous who work in is well w.'

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enrich himself learnable this line helped him on 3 resignations in 3 days all by members of the bundestag from angela merkel's conservative block in each case claims of corruption have forced them to step down . and line face allegations they lobbied for companies to get supply contracts for coronavirus facemasks little has admitted his firm received 250000 euros for such help their resignations prompted this stern warning from the c.d.u. party leader. i don't know if there are other such cases i couldn't have imagined a case like the one involving liberal but if there are come clean now we will take action. on thursday that call was answered by christian democrat mark helped among according to reports in dish spiegel the accusations against him relate to tourism advertisement for azerbaijan in a newspaper he publishes hauptmann denies receiving money or allowing such business activities to influence his actions as a politician but conservatives are promising they'll clean things up. you know. we need to go a whole step further and make it clear that what is legally possible is not necess

vying to replace angle of merkel as chancellor at least if you believe the rumors at the open coming bundestag elections in september he said he respected what the chancellor had done in fronting up to what she admitted herself was a mistake then we've also heard from another one of those content is to be chancellor come september arm in last the head of the state of north rhine-westphalia who pointed out that all of the other leaders of the 16 states of germany were all present did not say meeting and that they all agreed to the same thing that angle or merkel is now taking the rap for well they were all voices of support there's been some stinging criticism as well for this whole mess happening in the 1st place the logic of the planned individual measures is not revealed and these can no longer be discussed planes to majorca empty outdoor restaurants in germany how can that be justified we need to change our method of governance the last time became disappointed people who can't go on like this m.p. keesters last 15 hours during which the essential decisions are made between $1.00 and 3 o'cl

look into what happened during the pandemic spreading out into a wider look at what outside of the bundestag now if that happens there's the potential for finding more financial skeletons in the closet and not of course doesn't bode well in heading towards that huge bundestag election in september yeah or i think he was posted peter all of a thank you wolf face smiles for profits scandal in germany you go to france for our next story a half of all care home workers there are refusing to get the job despite them to work closely with the elderly the high risk from the disease you may be surprised you may not be surprised have other concerns about the shot safety is one of the issues here as well as mistrust of the government there are they not going to talk more about it bit later in the program. ironic that all the people that are in the big point bubble talk about the other bubbles that the fed is inflated without recognizing that they're in a bubble themselves i mean it's like a bubble is generally in the eye of the beholder nobody can tell their own bubble and so you've got all these peopl

want to the defensive health minister against bonn has felt the need to publish the names of all bundestag members who spoke with his ministry about the provision of protective masks. and party leader in lash it in his job for less than 2 months sounds increasingly worried by what's been dubbed the mosque scandal. skeete neil i am focused on modernization over the next few years i don't want to allow these major projects to be scuppered by individual members of parliament who think about nothing but making money. before modernization could take off the conservatives popular for so long and angela merkel will need to show they retain the voters trust 1st chance to do that will come at t. state elections this sunday. well the scandal comes as the number of coronavirus cases in germany is on the rise as criticism grows of the government's handling of the pandemic health minister again spawn says he expects the pace of vaccination to improve but that still depends on whether enough doses can be delivered fast enough he says 70 percent of germans have now received their 1st dose of the vaccine

and that was chance but i'm going to addressing the bundestag just before an e.u. council summit that you counsel somebody is going to be dealing with turkey digitization and the e.u. and of course the pandemic pandemic took up most of her speech which just went on for a little more than 25 minutes so she did get some applause but you could also hear some criticism coming from the opposition members of parliament particularly when she was talking about the government's handling of the crisis with me in the studio is our chief political correspondent lyndal crane she's been listening to the chancellor's speech and she's going to break it down for us we've also got our political correspondent thomas sparrow he is at the bonus talk will be joining us in just a few moments let's start with you melinda the chancellor of course talked about that european summit digitization and. relations with turkey but obviously the question on everyone's mind is the government's handling of the pandemic here in germany there's been massive criticism of the chancellor of her government

and in bundestag a football fired munich show there are still the ones to beat. they travel to braman on saturday and easily took down the home team coming away with a 31 victory. i'm exposed her welcome to the program there is anger in the united kingdom over the police handling of a vigil in honor of sarah after art the 33 year old woman was kidnapped and murdered allegedly by a police officer while walking home in london on march the 3rd on saturday are gathering to honor her and other victims of male violence was broken up by police citing coronavirus restrictions officers arrested 4 people. but i think. outrage of one police officer becomes anger towards many arrests turned ugly as police attempted to enforce pandemic controls at a banned vigil the offices response drew criticism from london as mayor who said they were not appropriate or proportionate britain his home secretary has demanded an explanation from scotland yard london's metropolitan police said the event had become a public danger we absolutely did not want to be in a position where for some to

learnable know this line helped man 3 resignations in 3 days all by members of the bundestag from angela merkel's conservative bloc in each case claims of corruption have forced them to step down nicolas lubow and line face allegations they lobbied for companies to get supply contracts for coronavirus facemasks liberal has admitted his firm received 250000 euros for such help their resignations prompted this stern warning from the c.d.u. party leader. i don't know if there are other such cases i couldn't have imagined a case like the one involving lobel but if there are come clean now or we will take action. on thursday that call was answered by christian democrat mark helped among according to reports in desh beagle the accusations against him relate to tourism advertisement for azerbaijan in a newspaper he publishes hauptmann denies receiving money or allowing such by.

champions league football for you now and in the round of 16 liverpool have beaten bundestag aside rb leipzig to nail to advance to the quarterfinals after also winning the 1st leg mohamed salah scored liverpool's 1st goal in the 70th minute savio manet netted another 4 minutes later also on wednesday amman drew one all with barcelona a go through to the quarter finals on aggregate after having won their 1st encounter. in the bundesliga braman be held to nil in their rescheduled match on wednesday evening this after their game was called off due to heavy snow last month josh sargent opens the scoring at the start of the 2nd half and deflected past the end of a right at the young americans feet for the easy tap in and half an hour later kevin i'm overhauled and netted braman 2nd to round out the scoreline the wind leaving braman comfortably in mid table i'll be with felt our stock in the relegation zone. up next on news our documentary looking at the history of human trafficking i'm sara kelly in berlin do stay with us if you can for that and a whole lot more thank you so much for watc

learnable this line helped a man 3 resignations in 3 days all by members of the bundestag from angela merkel's conservative block in each case claims of corruption have forced them to step down nicholas and line face allegations they lobbied for companies to get supply contracts for coronavirus facemasks lobel has admitted his firm received 250000 euros for such help their resignations prompted this stern warning from the c.d.u. party leader. i don't know if there are other such cases i couldn't have imagined a case like the one involving lobel but if there are come clean now or we will take action. on thursday that call was answered by christian democrat mark helped among according to reports in desh beagle the accusations against him relate to tourism advertisement for azerbaijan in a newspaper he publishes how to ban denies receiving money or allowing such business activities to influence his actions as a politician but conservatives are promising they'll clean things up. we need to go a whole step further and make it clear that what is legally possible is not necessarily acceptabl

enrich himself learnable this line helped him on 3 resignations in 3 days all by members of the bundestag from angela merkel's conservative block in each case claims of corruption have forced them to step down . and line face allegations they lobbied for companies to get supply contracts for coronavirus facemasks liberal has admitted his firm received 250000 euros for such help their resignations prompted this stern warning from the c.d.u. party leader. i don't know if there are other such cases i couldn't have imagined a case like the one involving liberal but if there are come clean now we will take action. on thursday that call was answered by christian democrat mark helped a month according to reports in dish beagle the accusations against him relate to tourism advertisement for azerbaijan in a newspaper he publishes hauptmann denies receiving money or allowing such business activities to influence his actions as a politician but conservatives are promising they'll clean things up. you know. we need to go a whole step further and make it clear that what is legally possible is not nece

through new technological advances you cannot stay put and hope that everything will be fine the bundestag elections in september are also likely to play a role nobody wants to make a mistake because in the end you may not be elected but this is not about politics not about federal politics or electoral mandates but about our society as a whole especially about the event industry and catering establishment because they are bursting at the seams. tough to see where we are all said to cross the some more great programs and moments so do said tell it to see what's being served up river you are across the world today i mean a real buy for. humanity has never seen such strange natural phenomena before all. this appearing in the peninsula. one after another. for us to get you through but you know whom does. he want to be at. this one appeared in 2020. how often and where will new crisis appeal was i just ask how dangerous own day for human the slum only you. and she joins you one russian scientists came quite close to working out what's going on. they build a full scale 3 d. model of the. world

and in bundestag a football leverkusen sinking deeper into. isis as they fall short against freiburg will bring you all the highlights. and welcome to the program former u.s. president donald trump has returned to the political stage and hinted that he could make another run for the top job in 2024 made his entry at the conservative c pac conference in florida it was his 1st public appearance since leaving office in january trump was banned from twitter and other social media in the last days of his presidency he kept aloof he's kept a low profile since president biden's integration but back in front of an enthusiast a crowd the ex leader was upbeat. you know they kept saying he's going to start a brand new party we have the republican party it's going to my god i never before i am not starting my but who had was. i may even decide to beat them for a 3rd time ok was so we heard donald trump there once again falsely claiming he won the 2020 election d.w. says innes paul was following the speech in orlando she gave us her take away. she kind of

constantine found not who's deputy chair of the bundestag intelligence committee consenting for notts germany's domestic intelligence agency is putting the a of the party under surveillance just how surprised are you the f.t. party is the biggest opposition party here in the bonus track after all well i guess i'm not surprised and. domestic intelligence agency has very good arguments obviously for that step. and as experienced from our history we know that in a democracy. enemies of the democracy can be voted into office. and so it's a good step to to have a strong view and look closely in that corner so nothing evil can happen to germany again. what good does that do it all. from the legal point that intelligence now has more possibilities to collect information. i think here for the parliament. there will be no actual changes but. from the reason of defending for the reason of defending the constitution. the intelligence agency has more instruments to. to collect information that might be relevant to see if this isn't party that is strongly fighting against our constitution the timi

interests it's understandable why the center right block is circling the wagons there's obviously a bundestag election coming up in september but before that just next sunday there's 2. regional elections as well and they want the candidates involved not to be as distant from this particular scandal as possible there's also a want to know more fuel to a fire or frustration to seeing people demonstrate against the way the government has handled the pandemic here in germany and it's not just a german issue we've also seen those protests taking place across europe. with. a level of hope said it will surely only be added to when it starts coming out that m.p.'s that politicians were enriching themselves personally during this pandemic german journalist thomas fassbender says that public anger over the issue will damage the ruling party. i think that definitely the christian democrats as a party at the forthcoming for coming elections will take a hit there's no question there's anger about this the interesting thing here is that mr little bit just last year was the subject of a completely unrelate

just the very start of what's being called the voting here in germany that culminates with the big bundestag elections taking place in september when we know who we will know who will be the successor to angela merkel . it's been 10 years since the outbreak of war in syria hundreds of thousands of people have been killed in the conflict millions of civilians displaced are the country's economy has been ruined according to the u.n. half serious children don't know life without war. young syrians are paid a heavy price almost half of those aged between $18.24 surveyed by the red cross have lost someone in the conflict many suffering injuries themselves to out of 3 of them fled their homes and almost half lost their income most of the young syrians surveyed are still struggling just to meet basic needs such as food or some 1st hand accounts from people who had to leave their homes. these 10 years have been psychologically draining everything was destroyed and we had to rebuild on top of rubble you have experienced many bad things you can't raise your emotional physical damage was nothing compar

one of germany's most respected voices on pandemic a troll across lauterbach is in member of the bundestag for the social democrats that you know partners in the governing coalition and he's also an epidemiologist here's what he had to say about the chancellor's unexpected u. turn. they set out what to make of an adult policy can amount to a turnaround was necessary because the time was not. the time was not available to prepare at this easter break and therefore we basically had to call on our losses here and we have to look at different rules so the different ways of precautions but this was quick this was simply it was needs are well prepared nor would it have worked how damaging is this i have a mac of leadership in this crisis where clearly this is not helpful for and will have a long term impact but on the other hand we have to look at append them a and should not look we should not focus so much on people we should focus on what is actually happening on the ground and that means we are in a massive sort of wave which will not stop was our major measures to be taken in the population

these chances chances in those these elections it currently is the biggest opposition party in the bundestag but of course this news could deter some of the more moderate voters from voting for them those who voted out of protest against the other big parties but many experts are convinced that it's not going to take away if these appeal to most of its core voters because they argue that there have been many cases in public way of the politicians have in the past made racist sexist right wing extremist statements and that all of this never meant that their poll figures slumped considerably. but claims that this move is politically motivated to weaken them in the election campaign is there any merit to this claim . well the timing of this news does raise some eyebrows of course it's an election year so everybody is extremely sensitive so we do need to look at the process what has actually happened and what is going to happen so several parts of the h.d. the report mentioned that the use organization and the right wing faction the wing have already been put under official surveillance and the

from the free democrats member of the german bundestag no one can. let's catch up on some of the other stories making headlines around the world today 10 people including a police officer have been killed in a shooting at a supermarket in the u.s. state of colorado an injured suspect has been detained the attack in the city of boulder is the 2nd deadly mass shooting in the country in a week. the government of new share says 137 people were killed sunday in terrorist attacks gunmen riding motorcycles targeted villages in the towel region the suspected joe hottest massacre is the deadliest yet seen in the west african nation . the united nations and the u.s. have welcomed a new initiative from saudi arabia aimed at ending the civil war in yemen the proposals include a nationwide cease fire and reopening air and sea ports emmons who the rebels say the saudi plan does not go far enough. russia's foreign minister sergey lavrov has said moscow to no longer has relations with the european union only with individual e.u. countries comments came as he met wit

very start of what's being called the super voting here in germany that culminates with the big bundestag elections taking place in september when we know who we will know who will be the successor to run the americans with those there for us live from berlin our correspondent peter all of. it is 10 years since the outbreak of war in syria hundreds of thousands of people have been killed in the conflict millions of civilians have been displaced while the country's economy has been ruined according to the un half a serious children don't even know life without war. young syrians have especially paid a heavy toll almost half of those aged between $18.24 as surveyed by the red cross have lost somebody in the conflict many have suffered injuries themselves 2 out of 3 fled their homes almost half lost their income and most of the young syrian surveyed are still struggling to meet basic needs such as food of some firsthand accounts from people who had to leave their homes. i was annoying for a grade when the problem started everything was relatively normal until the 26th of november 20th 11 the

very start of what's being called the super voting here in germany that culminates with the big bundestag elections taking place in september when we know who we will know who will be the successor to uncle americal. it's been 10 years since the outbreak of war when syria hundreds of thousands of people have been killed in the conflict to millions of civilians displaced the country's economy is also being ruined and according to the u.n. half of syria's children don't know life without war. well here's what the syrian city of homs looks like after 10 years of fighting ok to it in the west of the country it saw some of the fiercest battles and enjoyed a 3 year siege government forces recaptured it in 2014 the city is currently undergoing reconstruction young syrians have also paid a heavy price so most half of those aged between $18.24 surveyed by the red cross have lost someone in the conflict with many suffering injuries and selves 2 out of 3 fled their homes and almost half lost their income most of the young syrians surveyed still struggling to meet basic needs such as food here are so

a member of the german bundestag who has become a voice of caution. about is chancellor merkel leading germany in the right direction in this pandemic. this is a very general question and i'm not giving them. i'm not in a position basically to provide grades for her performance that is not what i would like to do i think that the decisions that we have come upon yesterday have a couple of very strong points for example to show is the change the vaccination strategy so that we have a 1000 delay between the 1st and 2nd fix a nation so that we can provide more oil elderly people with 1st explanation also believe it is correct to use the us as an aircar vaccination for the elderly and also believes there is quick to use a test a national testing strategy an evidence based national testing sergey to let's say irgens or start a wave which we are currently encountering by the general position about what he has what merkel has done and not what we currently do with basically a common performance by the governors of the states and as a federal government and e

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 there couldn't be a worse time to have the whiff of corruption surrounding you peter all over r.t. berlin and it's not only germany's seeing tempers flare after more than a year of tough restrictions our correspondent in paris has been gauging the mood across europe after a weekend of widespread protests. on the street suv you are these all the scenes that have been playing out this country is what's 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 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 in logged we can go

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. early. hotter of the ruling christian democratic union told me people can't take the apparently contradictory law rules anymore. 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 or see a lockdowns 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 of the european countries 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 w

message that we also heard from her last week terri when you and i listened to her statement to the bundestag the parliament she said you know we need to be more optimistic when we look toward the future because the fact is we do have a lot of vaccine now in the pipeline that will soon be available to people i stand by my pledge that we will vaccinate all those who want to be vaccinated by the end of this summer what she didn't do was acknowledged any failings on her on one part or on the part of the federal government when it comes to procure meant of the vaccine and to the logistics of rolling it out and i think that's where a lot of people would have liked to hear a little bit more. linda thank you so much our chief political correspondent melinda crane. here a few other headlines in the coronavirus pandemic worldwide in the philippines some 25000000 people in greater manila and 4 outlying provinces are back in lockdown after a steep rise in cases australia's 3rd largest city brisbane is entering a snap 3 day shutdown on monday evening after several people tested positive for the virus and

corruption just a couple of years ago the council of europe for instance produced a report they said the bundestag needs to do more needs to introduce. a register of interests and links between politicians and businesses and that they were taking too long about doing that particularly it's the sea c.d.u. in c.s. you've been an enthusiastic they make the point that politicians ought to be free in their choice of contacts but i think in the wake of this scandal we're seeing a change of mood and many conservative politicians signalling that they would be interested in particularly a register of. interests in parliament it's under pressure particularly from a musician parties also from the european commission incidentally saying you know it's time to be to have more transparency and more of a legal basis for the transparency of politicians because it's so important for democracy to be political correspondents i mean young with the latest tonight secure environment simon thank you. are this get you up to speed now with some of the other stories that are making headlines around the world russia has sign