very good morning to you wait 10 am here in moscow and you're watching r t international with minichiello. german politicians are considering a bill to let the government overrule regional powers and force holiday covert restrictions including stopping personal contacts and shutting sports facilities as spock's police clashes with angry demonstrators or earth early. it. was. 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 an

a warm welcome to you you're watching r t international with minichiello. now top story this hour european series growing its apparently contradictory because you sounds knockdowns over a 3rd wave as the pandemic it goes down are reports on rising resistance to measures that some things violate basic rights. businesses shuttered parties banned national holidays canceled social life is in a log down chokehold all across europe as governments struggle to smother the pandemic and while some grit their teeth and the bod others rebel. it's prohibition all over again but with a twist saloons hidden behind false walls are now in vogue as well as guerrilla picnics as police combed through the undergrowth for party partisans europe is just one big speakeasy. fed up in my opinion a moon favor of holding us accountable individual or rather than banning us from doing anything. the lockdown does not correspond to what it should be because people can leave italy freely while we cannot leave our region we can leave the house to visit friends during the day but if i can la