our chief political correspondent linda crane is at the bundestag following this debate for us hi melinda we saw transamerica making her case there earlier are we going to see german lawmakers today finally taking the steps that public health officials and doctors are really pleading for. yes indeed it was quite an enthusiastic case that she made but certainly this law will not get passed today and in fact it is not on track to meet the schedule that the government had originally hoped to namely to possibly even to see passage in this week policymakers are talking about getting agreement on the law at the earliest by the and next week and even then it is possible that the opposition may challenge some measures including those curfew restrictions referred to in the report in front of in the courts so it will indeed take some time and of course we are already in the midst of the 3rd wave with surging infections so the law alone is not going to be enough to get this under control and we're already more than one year and a pandemic so well into why is there still no clear consensus among germ

in the bundestag and he's a member of that investigative committee looking into why are hard for him thank you for joining us on the show what is it that you want to hear from chancellor merkel today. well we were very surprised together at a point in time in september 2091 that many people familiar with financial matters cost of a balance sheet of wipeout both correct or incorrect then of all manual collation or even criminal activity that she at this point in time actively promoted white accounts market entry in china against the chinese government the market entry in china also a key product for why i started what's one of the success stories the company so desperately needed in 2092 can win says shareholders and investors and so i think not deliberately not intentionally but in fact the chancellor supported it helped in effect at least the continuation of balance sheet and i knew palatial and this is of course published politically a mistake now yesterday finance minister all of scholtz who oversees botham the financial regulator the failed in this case said that the government b

well as many other different options now during announcing this and putting this forward in the bundestag the chancellor was heckled by some opposition politicians this got to the stage whereby the president of the bundestag going shoeblack had to intervene and tell everybody to calm down before the chancellor content mute or merkel says these changes are needed for germany's fight against covert 19. were slamming on the brakes nationwide i'm convinced a nationwide emergency stop is overdue you and urgently need it all imagist have a single girl to lead our country out of this terrible face of mounting infections but there are those that disagree there was a small but vocal demonstration outside of the bundestag on friday as the meeting was taking place inside also opposition politicians have said that they feel the changes that the chancellor is asking for go too far that the powers already exist in should be wielded by those who currently have them. so fixing the infection protection act is an alarming document all sorts here in thinking never before has a federal government dare to inc

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questions about a 2019 trip she took representing the german government to china speaking to the bundestag select committee she said that she wasn't on toward li influenced by lobbyists when she spoke on why a cards behalf now why a card last summer announced that it had a a 1900000000 a year a hole in its accounts and a number of board members as well as senior members of the company currently facing criminal charges. well the chancellor said that the $29.00 team trip to china was to discuss a number of political issues with chinese president xi being but she has come in for criticism from some members of the bundestag you are part of this investigative committee saying that the chancellor went above and beyond for a company that has since found itself accused of serious financial crime. for the success of the lobby machine is running wire cart between the lobbying of the chancellor when she actively supported a criminal organization like wire cart during her trip to china. despite internal warnings and public reports angela merkel lobbied for wire card in china the support to wild card f

language the language of determination for deputy political correspondent linda crane is at the bundestag. where are we likely to see today germany making finally the steps that public health officials and doctors have been requesting. well the chancellor made quite a passionate case for the draft law in its current form of the government had initially hoped for action by the end of this week but there will not be a vote here today we're almost certainly going to see revisions proposed to the current draft politicians here are saying it will take at least another week for it to pass both houses of parliament and even then some of the provisions including those curfew restrictions could wind up facing challenges in the courts coming in fact from one of the opposition parties so still some time to get this law passed where one year into this why do things stand right now when it comes to consensus among the country's leaders with how to proceed. there are still a lot of differences of opinion 1st of all just because of german federalism as we heard in the report until now the country's infe

and have them for herself well as you can imagine not everybody is happy with that outside of the bundestag there was a small but vocal demonstration against what the chancellor is trying to do and inside the chamber there was well hackles from the opposition when the chancellor was speaking it got to the point where by president of the bundestag 4 of going to stop things and say everybody calm down and let anger merkel proceed the opposition from the alternative for germany party though making the argument that these powers already exist that they don't need to be given to the to the federal government and that the chancellor should let the states decide what's best for the states. this effect on the infection protection act is an alarming document or sort here in thinking never before has a federal government dared to include so many attacks on the basic freedoms of citizens on the rule of law and a democratic principles in so few sentences as in this traffic law or as we've been here before though with anglo merkel's saying she wanted to implement national measures national lockdowns and

managed to hide an almost 2000000000 euro hole and its finances a world leader arrives to testify the bundestag committee investigating the wild card scandal wants to know why i. spoke on behalf of the company during a trip to china in 2019. the no insolvent payments processor committed fraud worth billions merkel has defended promoting one card saying it's common practice for the german government to do so abroad despite all the press reports there was no reason to assume seriously regularities card the german chancellor told the committee. however there were already indications that something was very wrong of white card in september 29000 when angela merkel met chinese president xi still neither the german government nor the financial regulator bothin were suspicious opposition politicians find that troubling. market entry in china also a key product for why i started what i want to access storage companies so desperately needed in 90. shareholders and investors and so i think not deliberately not intentionally in fact supported how you fact at least the continuation. sheet i knew palatial a

program follow me today as she is a hedge fund manager and short seller who appeared before the bundestag y. caught investigation committee herself thank you very much for joining us on day w. business you had your suspicions about why long before the scandal broke why. well we began researching wired card back in 2017 the head of the launch of my fund sac capital and the issue with wire card is that over the entirety of its existence it's faced very credible allegations from a variety of stakeholders beginning with its own shareholders various news outlets whether in germany's or domestic media but also foreign media and then we also had various short selling reports so there was a consistency to these allegations there was history there and most times when this happens it's not as though these allegations are being made for fun that there's genuinely some reason that that's driving these sorts of suspicions so very early on anyone could put those pieces together and use that as a reason to investigate further from what you're saying it sounds like everyone was aware that there was somet

the bundestag stop was completed early on and has already been used as a setting for movies and opera. was on the. particular detail that sets this station apart is one of the architects called lights capitals here you have. up above you can walk across the glass discs but of course it's also combined with auto official light that falls downward from these columns ready. then you have these spotlights in assuming that remind you of it's got something cosmic even supernatural about it that i think you perceive subconsciously. because here we see the sky lights from above. the others those are the columns of . the extension of the you 5 to 10 years 500000000 euros and added 2.2 kilometers and fun fact it's the 1st line to reach berlin central station. the new line also takes us to another recent addition to berlin city center the home for a museum that connects culture and. its facade is a partial reconstruction of the former berlin palace seat of the pression which was destroyed in the allied bombing of world war 2 it's been a very controversial project from the get go. if you define l

over the course of the bundestag a season so far as 11 dusky scored almost half of byron's total goal count leipsic have spread the scoring out. in this lemon dusky less match up between the top 2 clubs the 2nd place team on paper have an edge i. you're watching news coming up next arts and culture with david levitz don't forget you can stay up to date with all the latest headlines on our web site t w dot com and do follow us on twitter and instagram i'm like looking thanks for watching when you say at the top of the hour. people in trucks injured while trying to keep the city center more and more refugees are being turned away. from the task seems to. be coming. down the street. people sleeping next to.

you know the move has to be voted through the bundestag parliament here in germany there's no exact time frame set for that just yet but those in the know talking about it happening before the end of this week. peter all over there well with the suspension then of the johnson and johnson jabot europe's already faltering vaccine rollout has suffered another major blow and even before the announcement was made the mayors of 2 italian towns had decided to take matters into their own hands they've written to the neighboring republic of san marino asking it to provide their residents with russia's vaccine the micro state which isn't an e.u. member and doesn't need the european medical agency's approval has been using the jab since late feb some arena officials hope to reach herd immunity by the end of may with the vaccine well the mayor of san. told us they can't afford to wait for approval and need to do what is best for their residents. and leo somebody or certainly you and some merino brother towns that have been friends for more than a families and years we wrote this letter because many

theorists and then right wing extremists and even neo nazi groups that march alongside them in the bundestag the german parliament they've got support from the biggest opposition party the right wing populist 15. so why have they been put under surveillance now it's not the whole movement that's under surveillance is it. i know there's certain groups amongst the movement that have been put under surveillance we don't know exactly which groups they are but some german states had already had already put some of the movement under surveillance that's bought inverting back for example humber going also bavaria and the bavarian state leader mark. called for them to be put under national surveillance as early as november last year and now that is now happened and of course you should always sort of listen up when a government national intelligence service puts a group under surveillance who are protesting against government measures and but the intelligence services stated that that the that group the fed and guy using what are legitimate demonstrations and concerns against. government measures fo

issues she soon became a member of parliament 1st at regional level then in 2013 she entered the bundestag the german parliament at the age of only 32 she quickly earned respect for her thoroughness and knowledge of detail from day one she radiated confidence. i'd be present but you know. you can be have a skip and such a colleague will you take a question and it's yours as a new suit yes yes go ahead but not in the fest beach sure. yet. since 2018 she has been the co-leader of the green party at the national level alongside robert habeck they have breathed new life into the party it's more popular than ever with ana lane of germany would get a chancellor who speaks fluent english a useful tool in international diplomacy she wants to make europe an important global player you have and especially on foreign policy and security issues already the obama administration called in the past for europe to engage share more and i think your briley has to face this challenge. there buck was long seen as the number 2 behind robert habeck so her nomination as the green party candidate came as a surpri

brent: for more, i am joint by a member -- joined by a member of the german bundestag, the parliamente greens, as well as a medical doctor. good to have you on the program. there is massive testing in germany, the vaccination rollout is gaining speed, but the last 24 hours showed the highest number of new cases in more than three months. why is that? >> as we look to the measures which are taken to action in germany, they are too late and too little. if we look at the numbers, the total numbers are rising at a very, very rapid rate, especially as we look to our hospitals. we have a rising number of people who need intensive care treatment, especially younger people. and coming through the second wave, they are more sick and they need longer treatment. and all this puts pressure to our health care system. and as a doctor, i am very, very concerned about the situation at the moment. brent: you have worked as a medical doctor for the covid-19 emergency team here in berlin. how do you assess the situation? how bad are things right now? >> they are very bad. at the moment, about 90% of our

the central government more powers for pandemic management is currently playing out in the german bundestag earlier chancellor merkel made her case to the members of parliament them enough that i've seen more if we've learned a lesson 13 months into the pandemic it's this. that's a virus doesn't forgive any half heartedness it only makes things worse. the virus doesn't forgive hesitation it just makes everything last longer. the virus doesn't accept any negotiations it understands only one language the language of determination and for more i'm joined now by since he is general secretary of the german society of medical intensive and emergency medicine and chief of internal medicine at the st antonia hospital in the city of thank you so much for joining us this afternoon what is the situation right now in your hospital compared to say 6 months ago and how is your staff coping. it's the same with 6 months we've flora's 8 months before we are all rooting on a higher level of trust. because we have to treat overnighted patients but also we have to treat patients without covenants and with quit

the german government's coordinator of trans atlantic corp and a member of the german bundestag mr buyer there have been high hopes for a reset of german u.s. relations on the biden you said this time it's time to build the so-called new west what do you mean by that yeah. i think these window of opportunity to build a new west to reassure the transatlantic alliance is already there in the middle of it all in the 1st part of that what do i mean concretely i think it's now the chance and also the responsibility more than ever before that we over here in europe together with the american friends on the other side of the atlantic have to define politics where can we do jointly things together for example when it comes to a joint transatlantic china policy joint transatlantic politics. towards russia that is something that we should address rather sooner than later you mentioned russia there's north stream to the gas pipeline is being constructed right now between russia and germany the u.s. is opposed to it germany is still pushing forward with it is there any compromise inside. you know i

and what we don't have to do that's very very scary for me the move has to be voted through the bundestag parliament here in germany there's no exact time frame set for that just yet but those in the know talking about it happening before the end of this week. i mean time but seem to resume is on the rise amid faltering rollouts distrust in certain shots we follow one frenchman strip all the way so moscow to get the sputnik job that is a head later in the program. a 2nd day of race riots in the u.s. state of minnesota has seen national guard troops deployed to the city of brooklyn center. thank you i don't know how. i. gathered outside the local police station in violation of a curfew which had been imposed as the demonstrations violent several areas where. protesters threw concrete blocks at officers reportedly leaving at least one injured police dispersed the crowd firing tear gas and flush grenades the state of emergency has also been to people in new york washington d.c. and portland on monday. just this don't tase right he was fatally shot by police on sunday after attempting to flee

lookin at the results of a 27th match day of the bundestag a season with just 7 more to go now again there is a droll in the burn and dobby step godspeed braman and saturday's big match day sold by in defeat 2nd place. frankfurt beats dortmund and was a winner as was and mention god defeated. so a look now at the standings now by munich have moved 7 points clear of 2nd place sick all spared and france fish are sitting at 3rd and 4th when you are berlin is 7th in the 2nd half of the table you see has have been near the bottom at 14th that's 2 points above relegation trouble it's. racing now and the dave you all electric vehicle series called extreme and as he moaned impost by its formula one champion nicole rosebud took the inaugural title is the driving do including australia ready champ in more detail that helped defeat a team by the prison for me to one champion known as hamilton extreme ease 5 race series aims to highlight climate change and promote sustainability by racing in remote parts of the that are suffering environmental damage. and a reminder of all top story news this ho

to a full bundestag of medication in the otherwise proud history for cancer 1st is a disaster and hard to understand that we won't be involved next year it's tough. even before kick off the team didn't exactly exude confidence. and the game itself would be yet another dispirited performance in a nightmare season for shaka their goal difference of minus $58.00 is the 2nd lowest ever by match day session only the infamous has money i believe fed. 13 points and then lose here in villa felt too despite playing a rubbish game against freiburg previously than it expects us to show responses from important a decent final showing finish. finish. that was full previous this is this season coach demetrius grandma says was unable to get that response even against fellow strugglers been a fed shocker we're always on the. fight for their hosts it was a chance to put some distance between themselves and the drop zone especially with cologne having won the early tuesday game. shot that had 2 women to stave off relegation for at least another few days and they have a top performer of the woeful season

believes there are quite a lot of local policy associations and activists and also members of the bundestag even on the cd you take it who would support him the reason being that he's much more popular in the polls with the country at large and also with conservative voters in particular than lash eighty's he thinks he can do a better job than as he said in his press conference even a difference of 2 or 3 percent at the polls in september would mean a difference of how many quite a significant difference of how many conservative candidates gets into parliament that's something the members of the bun the struggles are worried about simon i only got 20 seconds with you what is behind the popularity of mr serger i think it's that image of dynamism these try to cultivate particularly in the corona crisis sees he's positioned himself as somebody who has been tough willing to get things done willing to take unpopular decisions and by contrast is sometimes been a bit king that see you and locked down so that maybe one of the key differences between them is every simon young reporting thank you. we

on wednesday the bundestag the german parliament voted through amendments to the infection protection act which would essentially take powers to impose covert restrictions away from the 16 states of germany and give that power to the federal government here in berlin now this is being called an emergency brake what it will do is it will give uniformity to what is essentially being a year's worth of a patchwork of covert measures that have differed from state to state across germany this will allow the federal government and angle of merkel's government here in berlin to impose things like a curfew from 10 pm until 5 am also restrictions on meeting with other households there will be the closure of sports facilities and leisure facilities also restrictions and perhaps closures or non essential retail when it comes to schools they'll be a separate market put aside if it reaches $165.00 new infections per 100000 of the population then schools will close their doors to students and revert back to distance learning now it's fair to say that these new measures of resulted in a mixed opinion

and what we don't have to do that's very very scary for me the move has to be voted through the bundestag parliament here in germany there's no exact time frame set for that just yet but those in the know are talking about it happening before the end of this week we spoke to dr an author of markham kendrick who sees a vaccine supply still isn't keeping up with demand in europe. i don't think there's any doubt there's there is on lack are seen as if you really wanted to use all of them were there's not enough. and so supply is going to catch up with the moment figures as you probably know that yourself and i think everyone has or almost impossible to did to make sense of you know how many people have already been infected initially have been noted around 60 to 70 percent of people have to. in order to create herd immunity then we should be getting quite close and i want a country so i think yes we're clearly mean and within a few thing was good in europe well vaccinated enough and enough it will be infected to put a lid on lists current when the correct. meantime faxing tourism is on the r

there's also right wing extremists and even neo nazi groups that that march alongside them in the bundestag the german parliament they've got support from the biggest opposition party the right wing populist a.f.p. . so why have they been put under surveillance now it's not the whole movement that's on the surveillance is it. i know this certain groups amongst the movement that i've been put under surveillance we don't know exactly which groups they are but some german states had already had already put some of the movement under surveillance that's bought in for them back for example hamburg and also bavaria and the bavarian state leader michael sudha called for them to be put under national surveillance as early as november last year and now that is now happened and of course you should always sort of listen up when a government national intelligence service puts a group under surveillance who are protesting against government measures and but the intelligence services stated that that the that group that fed anger are using what are legitimate demonstrations and concerns against. governm

vote in parliament there we expect to see a safe majority and then it would most likely go to the bundestag which is the upper house and that's where the 16 federal states too would have to agree to this and what it is is actually legally binding and it would limit the your source of the most regional cities small communities councils once that magic number of $100.00 the incidence rate is hit so what is hoped in berlin is that that also creates an incentive to be more proactive to keep that incidence rate low as germany heads ever deeper into that way if you move by the british mutant be 117 yeah they're looking at a number of measures michel or one of them could be mandatory testing at companies can you tell us more about what is behind this is that is something in particular social democrats who are also in government are pushing for it would mean that those people who still have to come to work would have to be offered at least 2 tests per week by their employer there's also talk of curfews which is rather contentious so there's still quite a bit of debate going on and the issue of whet

were demonstrating against a so-called infection prevention act which has now been passed by the bundestag it will give the central government the right to impose nationwide lock down rules overruling the regional authorities 342 lawmakers voted in favor and 250 opposed to the bill which now a needs to go through the upper house of germany's parliament assuming that happens the central government will have the power to impose nightly curfews if covert in faction the rate spike along with various other measures we heard from politicians from both sides of the german political spectrum for their views on the new bill. i was one of their protest protest over what one of the key speaker on the street protests today also warned one of these 250 year m.p.'s who voted against. a quite softly speaking to callie didn't fix the protection act yet it's cold that you fix protection act but it's funky small ass like an enabling act yes you know we are very sensitive film in germany due to truman history about enabling acts. by which government is granted such a huge power that it could be a new it will

the german government coordinator of trans atlantic corporation and a member of the german bundestag mr buyer that have been the high hopes for a reset of germany u.s. relations on the buy you've said this time it's time to build the so-called new west what do you mean by that. yeah. i think these window of opportunity to build and new west to reassure the transatlantic alliance is already there in the middle of it all may be in the 1st part of that what do i mean concretely i think it's now the chance and also the responsibility more than ever before that we over here in europe together with the american friends on the other side of the atlantic have to define politics where can we do jointly things together for example when it comes to a joint transatlantic china policy joint transatlantic politics. towards russia that is something that we should address rather sooner than later you mentioned russia there's north stream to the gas pipeline as being constructed right now between russia and germany the u.s. is opposed to it germany is still pushing forward with it is there any compro

were demonstrating against the so-called infection protection act which has now been passed by the bundestag gives the central government the right to impose nationwide law banning rules overruling the regional authorities we spoke to martin dulls a number of the hamburg parliament from the left party he thinks both police and demonstrators need to show more restraint. don't like police brutality as well but i don't like the brutality of demonstrators in parts and so i think if you do demonstration it should be peaceful and it should be in respect of each other and times all apologetic you can have security measures through trash out there all the people all organized and assembly there right. now nice like we who want to make and prove some kind of aggression as well that's just wrong to general straight so i think of course in some cases the police. overreacted as well in other cases look at the whole street just sort of to violence what i don't like and appreciate it on it so we have to have a balance between not the right of assembly but those who are certainly should take . respectful m

and have them for herself well as you can imagine not everybody is happy with that outside of the bundestag there was a small but vocal demonstration against what the chancellor is trying to do in the opposition from the alternative to germany partly though as making the argument that these powers already exist that they don't need to be given to the to the federal government and that the chancellor should let the states decide what's best for the states this effect to introduce the infection protection act as an alarm and document of authoritarian thinking never before has a federal government dared to include so many attacks on the basic freedoms of citizens and the rule of law and on democratic principles and so few sentences as in this draft the more we've been here before though with anglo merkel's saying she wanted to implement national measures national lockdowns and things like curfews when it comes to the fight against covert 19 just before. easter we heard the chancellor announce this was going to happen over the easter break only for her to have to make one of the biggest u. turn

and what we don't have to do that's a very very scary for me the move has to be voted through the bundestag parliament here in germany there's no exact time frame set for that just yet but those in the know are talking about it happening before the end of this week. the johnson and johnson jump suspension europe's already faltering vaccine rollout suffered another major blow things are already bad enough that the bears of 2 italian towns want to take matters into their own hands they've written to the neighboring republic of some arena asking it to provide their residents with brushless but the bank saying the microstate which isn't an e.u. member doesn't need the european medical agency's approval when using that jab says late february san marino officials hope to reach herd immunity by the end of may with the vaccine the bears of and cody are no told as they can't wait for the a.m.a. to act and need to do what is best for their residents. you know somebody's son leo and san marino are brother towns that have been friends for more than a 1000 years we wrote this letter because many italian

on the bundestag of byron munich travel to mines on saturday now i know when what seal the league championship but the hosts have come out fighting in recent weeks as they bid to avoid relegation and they served up a shock here that put byron's title champagne on ice. when his league of fans had seen this movie before byron the main feature. of the star turn another title would be inevitable happy ending. points were cast as the fall guy but they hadn't read the script a 6 game unbeaten run has breathed new life into their ability to speak with a geisha and and they showed their renewed confidence when you're not on work hard you could vantage of and kind of touristic the generous goalkeeping from manuel neuer to put them one no up after just 3 minutes. and they weren't finished there. was a. drop in price on scored on 37 minutes to double binds his lead. the battle scarred hosts went into the break to know up against by on for the 2nd time this season last time they shipped 5 without reply in the 2nd half but this time they held firm propelling bines onslaught as the champions threw on attack

to go yet between now and that election on the 24th of september we heard from peter biased and a bundestag man before. any party he thinks the army lushness nomination could prove a fatal blow for charming conservatives in the long run. this is quite normal and this pontiff today don't care what the people want america even don't care was what they on members were on the party that isn't reaching this awful. system because even now we have a chancellor who as not to make jory t.-o. of the people behind her you know angle america was elected just with some 5536 percent and the riad going to have again the chancellor who will have just some 30 percent then he has. he must look for a top notch and now it's going to be most probably a coalition between. the conservative party and the greens and of course of course it is this is on a long distance that short to c.d.u. c.s.u. because they used to be conservative but with this politics they are not conservative anymore. that's all from us for this hour for the whole team thanks for joining us we. have got to. russia u.s. relations are in tatters

over the course of the bundestag a season so far as 11 dusky scored almost half of byron's total goal count leipsic have spread the scoring out. in this leavened off the last match up between the top 2 clubs the 2nd place team on paper have an edge was. and a reminder of the top story at this hour investigations are underway in taiwan after the country's worst rail disaster in decades $51.00 people were killed when a train smashed into a construction truck that had slid onto the tracks the country has entered a 3 day period of mourning. you're watching t.v. news coming up next shift living in the digital age with a look at digital new tracking don't forget you can stay up to date with all the latest headlines and our website that's the w dot com i'm like a local from me and the rest of the team here in berlin thanks for watching. i was issued when i arrived here i slept with 6 people in a room and. it was hard i was for. i even got white hair in. my language head. this keeps me and maybe to this truck was the site you want to know their story from my friends are fighting and reliable

were demonstrating against a so-called infection protection act which has now been passed by the bundestag and gives the central government the right to impose a nationwide lockdown rules over ruling the regional authorities now police moved in though to break up the rally as many of the attendants want wearing face masks or abiding by the hold up social distancing rules let's take this a little bit further we can speak with. a member of the parliament from the left party thanks for coming on today this whole new law allowing tough restrictions to be enforced across germany well it does appear to be rather popular why is the government resorting to this do you think. yes i think we have to see the ambulance and in the one we want to have it is that at least decides on. a law now before it was just a group of presidents of the federal states and the chances are now it's a parliament that is good about the measures that it says they are contradictionary and in itself you have on the one hand reasonable things that for example you have to. measure since you have reasonable things like. that i

market here in germany of course we've got a big election coming up in september election for the bundestag however the french foreign minister did say that he wouldn't rule out taking any vaccine based on where it come from saying that if it's a vaccine it's good it's a vaccine that's good when it comes to this all important european medicines agency approval for sputnik v. well the process is on the way it started on march the 4th it's expected to run through until the end of may when we should get an answer once that approval comes through of course we may well see a slew of e.u. nations jumping on board deals to get support that v.t. handouts to their citizens thanks for the update peter that's our correspondent live from berlin peter all about the. divisions in the u.s. republican party are deepening as witnessed in arkansas where the republican governor's bid to veto a transgender bill was overturned by party members the law forbids transgender treatment for under-age people it's been called the strictest anti trans youth measure in the country journalist won't reverse his sex change