amendments they will not be added to the constitution or the german politician from the ruling c.d.u. party even even though it does believe that critics of the amendments do have an agenda. this. for the past decade or even more one can say that western media do not give a fair judgment of russia they've retreated into their shells and spin venom and biol towards russia unfortunately this is the development that we could not imagine but judging from the current reality in our media it will remain on the same course they will not say a good word about a president or constitutional change but that has nothing to do with reality but rather with the intentions of the western press when you hear some voices from moscow in the western media but then look closely you can see that those are russians who are on the payroll of the western think tanks this is not allowed in any other part of the world but unfortunately this is the strategy against russia and that poisons the international relationships i'm hopeful that a lively parliament with more responsibilities and influences in making decisions

c.d.u. the coalition partners. as being of course the sister party c.s.u. a more money in many ways than have been expected because there was a lot of talk that it was only going to be around 18000000000 euros it turned out to be 50000000000 euros more so quite a lot more and let's not forget as well that germany from the indicators that arrived there several are saying that the economy may shrink at over 6 percent this year so it is very worrying and they really want to make sure that they deal with this quickly and germany of course in previous years. quite a lot of money will say saved so they can and reinvest in the economy and one very important factor of course next year is an election year here in germany so of course both parties both parties really want to make sure that they're appealing to their accurate public fully alias in a berliner thank you so much for your analysis as. well in the u.s. the police man arrested over the killing of george floyd it will now face an upgraded charge of 2nd degree murder 3 other officers who helped him to fly down last week will now also face charges on wednesday floyd'

testing shows merkel's conservatives retaining a substantial lead over the other parties if no action were held on sunday merkel c.d.u. c.s.u. bloc would get 38 percent of their social democrat coalition partners are polling at 15 percent. well let's bring in our political correspondent kate brady kate michelman or conservative party are both riding high in the polls at the moment how has the government's handling of the pandemic played into this popularity this is played a huge role without doubt especially the economic response some way so further steps taken this week just on wednesday the german government announced its latest stimulus package of 130000000000 euros to reinvigorate the german economy and that's very much needed right now the german economy is set to contract by some 6.6 percent this year and german voters as well particularly convinced with the state of the german economy right now so that package definitely came at the right time. ok stick with us we're going to look at some other numbers here and get back to germany began relaxing the restrictions on public life at the end of april and states ar