many of which have been bumped by fact checkers the man who is heading the pandemic task force marshall allen is a health care reporter for the investigative journalism website pro publica and the video had him scratching his head so he's been speaking to the man behind the filmmaking well is this if he could find any answers he joins us from new jersey welcome to d.w. so let's let's talk about the the the biggest claim that this but there is a hidden agenda behind the cover 19 pandemic does the film or did mr willis say what this hidden agenda is well i think that is the biggest question about it and the title of the video itself or the film is called point demick which would imply you just think there's a sort of conspiracy behind coronavirus and demick and so i asked a filmmaker. what is the point of your film i mean i watch the film it's 26 minutes long it has all kinds of very wild conspiracy theory stacked on top of each other and there are so many wild statements in the film that you have a hard time sorting out what the allegations are so i asked the filmmaker if he could just try and

really wanted to have a very biased report good talking to you thank you so much for joining us marshall allen from pro publica thank you. horse racing has resumed across germany after a 2 month hiatus because of the pandemic is the 1st major horse racing country in europe to restart racing to restrictions were eased the races were tightly controlled with riders requests required to wear face masks and spectators bought from the venues. race day at berlin's hopper gotten racecourse the stands empty access to the stables is restricted and the jockeys socially distancing wearing face masks and trash dark areas riding the hot favorite today he already knows what it's like to race on an empty course having won twice in cologne on friday. and we're happy to be back on our horses and riding again and that the horses can race server their usual distances it's important that every business gets the chance to reopen every athlete and every team want to return to action. but despite the coronavirus measures some things remain the same the horses mask free still struck their stuff in the preyed ring even

marshall became very close to the children. two of the boys, in fact, were army officers during world war ii and the youngest, allen was actually killed by a sniper in italy during the war. his step daughter was also married to an army officer who served. although marshall never used his position to influence their careers. he was above all a very honorable man and would never do anything that he thought would tarnish that. marshall serve in a variety of positions throughout the world upon graduation from vmi. before world war i promotions were pretty slow and coming. but marshall did pretty well. when world war i broke out he went to france in the summer of 1917. he was a member of the division staff for the first infantry division. his plan, his job was really planning and training. the draftees and national guardsmen that rounded out the first infantry division. now there were two significant episodes that were pretty risky career-wise but really made a difference for marshall when he was endeared to two very influence men. and the first of those episodes began during world war i. and that's when general john j persian the c