on vaccine staff could be shut out or even fired time to go to the w chief. political editor, mikaela christner, mckayla, german lawmakers discussing a possible blanket mandate today. is that a departure? well, it is a departure in a process that appears to be continuing for at least a couple of weeks. if not months. germany is expected to hit the peak of the omicron wave within days. here in germany, as you mentioned, we are seeing reco advises in numbers. at the same time it was more than a month ago. now that the now new chancellor last saw it said he would stand in for mandatory vaccinations. also when you look at the polling over 60 percent of germans are in favor at the same time, there is no party line that impedes are expected to tow. and that is why today we'll see 3 hours of debate for m p 's to basically shape an opinion which way they want to go, but not which way they want to go today this week or even this month. but potentially at the end of february, either potentially at the end of february help us understand mikaela. how could a vaccine mandate once it's enforced, how once it'

c. political editor, mikaela christner, joyce is now and she is in the bundle. talk. mikella tell us about what chancellor loft shoulds a set 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 they crossed 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 in 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 all of shorts and she, i think addressed as the proposal of mandatory of v

ago or less for the reach out to our chief political editor, michaela christner, as she happened to be at the press conference. mikaela is this an attempt by 2 major you countries to present a united front? absolutely, and it's of course very much needed with their indeed being different positions within the european union when it comes to relations with russia. at the same time, we heard him on my call, the french president who off. so as a token to this evening fest out what is meant by ross's threat in much more detail when it comes to hybrid threads that russia was developing into a force of instability here in europe. and that this was a very disconcerting situation, which hadn't reached an end position. so a lot of worries that over what the future of european stability could be. and also both him on my call, but particularly bullet saw it, the german sansa pointing out those decades old documents that set out what that security order was supposed to be, which russia has signed off on, including the joint commitment never to change european borders. once again, well, this has happened in ukraine already with the