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she political editor, micheler, christner, joins us now and she is in the bundle. talk. michaela, tell us about what chancellor aloft shoulds a said today in the bonus tag. well, basically, he reiterated how unfortunate was for people to get those booster shots. $30000000.00 more shots is what the government wants to implement by the end of the month, although it's of course uncertain whether they will be able to manage that. and that's why there's so much talk about mandatory vaccinations all have. so it's once reiterated again that he's in favor, but there is no government proposal. and towards that it is left up to individual groups of m. p. 's. it's across the aisle at to find a decision according to their own conscience. so we also heard him to day speak about russia reiterating that something changed when russia and annexed ukraine, that it changing bored as it's simply some a red line that it cannot cross. i'm, let's take a listen. i believe we have a sound bite from the chance such as that all of shorts and she i think, addressed as the proposal of mandator

and let's bring in our chief political editor, michelle christner. she's joining us today from the german parliament time. he said it's good to see you. so chancellor, olaf, charles is going to be facing questions from lawmakers in the buddhist dog for the 1st time today. what can we expect to see from him? well, 1st of all, we'll see a statement from him and we expect him to talk of course, again without the pandemic. and of course about his continuing aim to introduce mandatory vaccinations. not just for health care workers, which had you to come into force by mid february. that's a very active debate here in parliament right now. over the very question of mandatory vaccinations. and with, as you mentioned, that spike, that highest number to date in davy infections above 80000. and we are also seeing here in parliament, the strictest regulations ever ev, relating to the vaccination and testing status, those who are not vaccinated actually the impedes even need a p c r test to actually take part in the democratic process today. so there's an acute a

let's bring in our chief political editor, michelle o. christner. now she's joining us from the german parliament. hi miss ha. do german chancellor, olaf shorts. while we're talking right now, he is actually taking questions from parliament for the 1st time. what can we expect to hear from him? oh, 1st of all, he's going to and make a short statement and that will of course be on the omicron wave that is now hitting germany for real, with 80000. a record number of daily infections recorded just to day. but we also expect him to talk about russia and the ukraine, touching base there with the hot button issue internationally. but no doubt her from what i've been hearing and talking to him. peas, he will face a lot of questions, particularly on the government stance towards mandatory vaccinations. dad, the chance that has been clear yet his own party hasn't put a proposal on the table. so once again, the government is perceived as debating for too long on something that is seen as an issue that needs to be discussed and decided on, sooner rather than l