political correspondent nina hoss welcome nina talk us through the main measures and indeed sticking points on today's agenda. well before before i do that i think it's important to recap where germany's standing at the moment so we've been in a nationwide lockdown essentially for 2 months so that means public life has come to a standstill schools are closed gardens are closed and of course the infection numbers have gone down over the recent weeks because of those measures say scientists so there is a lot of pressure lot of people calling for the restrictions to be lifted again but at the same time politicians are extremely scared by the news from the corona virus mutations that are of course a lot more infectious so there is a big fear of a sudden spike in new numbers again which is why i'm going back on the state premiers seem to agree that now is not the time to lift the restrictions yet which is why the draft paper that we've seen that is the basis for those talks going on in the chancery and via video conference says that the current restrictions will probably be extended until