spiraling situation so let's get more details now and head to berlin to speak with our your own peter oliver good afternoon peter just run through them exactly what merkel wants and why she's facing such criticism. well what chancellor merkel wants is the power to be able to not just say this is what you should be doing across germany but the power to be able to say this is what you will be doing across germany when it comes to covert restrictions because of the way the federal system works here the implementation of what was decided at the national level really falls to the leaders of the 16 states to decide how they're going to put it into practice what i'm going merkel wants to see is changes to the infection protection act that would allow her in the federal government in berlin to say this is what we're doing and we're doing it right across the country angela merkel described it as there being no way around it when it comes to implementing these changes what they would allow to happen would be national curfews put in place in areas where there had been high rates of infection also the c

s medical authorities have yet to approve peter oliver reports of the czech republic could be sent to follow hungry in start using russia's sputnik v. vaccine before it gets approval from the european medicines agency the czech president the man made the announcement he was also critical of the slow pace at which the e.m.e.a. approval for the sputnik v. vaccine has taken if the decision on sputnik the registration is made by our national regulator it will be enough to start using it as happened in hungary as for the european medicines agency it is very slow well new infections in the czech republic have started to relent in recent days that's following the country being gripped by a 3rd wave of the covert 19 pandemic now a recent poll showed that just under half of the czech citizens who were asked the question said that they would take the sputnik the vaccine without a.m.a. approval as long as health authorities from prague had given a green light now just over the border in austria they're a little further along when it comes to getting sputnik into the country negotiations that hav

that's now of course life to peter oliver for the details good morning to you peter bring us up to speed with the place. we as well. isn't going to have all of those local leaders of the 16 german states on side with him the leader of the state of today in jail the male of lynne of both said they're not sure this is the way to go forward and this is ultimately one of the big problems germany faces when it comes to tackling the coronavirus it's not like i'm bill america can say from the very top here's the plan this is what we're going to do now get on with it what happens here is. leaders of the 16 states they all come together they debate over what's going to happen and ultimately what you end up getting is some form of compromise and that's what we've seen in the past now speaking of the past previously arman lost it has been one of those voices saying things need to open up that we need to get rid of lockdowns he's changed his tune now and he's saying 2 to 3 weeks is needed in order to get on top of covert cases here in germany the c.d.u. chairman the christian democratic union party

merkel admitted fundamental failings in the health policy and the need for change but one story is peter oliver. germany is set to receive 30000000 doses of the sputnik very vexing over the summer the c.d.u. leader in the state of saxony michael mann arrived in moscow on thursday to meet with the russian health minister he said that the federal government in berlin is expecting 10000000 russian jobs 3 times in may june and july we will see whether the approval and acceptance of this vaccine is as high everywhere else as it is in saxony and eastern germany maybe we'll even get more then the news about sputnik comes amid reports that from the end of may all adults in germany could be able to get an appointment for a vaccine. has also been discussing the future of health policy across the e.u. saying that the coverts pandemic has highlighted issues that may require a change in treaties i believe that europe needs greater competency in the area of health this will probably also require changes to treaties have always been open to treaty changes if they make sense this is not an end in itself and yo

a 1000000000 euro fraud case of the job and ministers have also been dragged into the scandal peter oliver has the story. well the german government has been answering questions this week about the now defunct and insolvent financial services and payments company why a card on tuesday it was the turn of economics minister peter out to speak to the committee on thursday we heard from finance minister or left scholtz he said the government had absolutely nothing to do with what he called a case of large scale fraud on friday it was the turn of german chancellor angela merkel who was fielding questions about a 2019 trip she took representing the german government to china speaking to the bundestag select committee she said that she wasn't on toward li influenced by lobbyists when she spoke on why a cards behalf now why a card last summer announced that it had a a 1900000000 a year a hole in its accounts and a number of board members as well as senior members of the company currently facing criminal charges. well the chancellor said that the $29.00 team trip to china was to discuss a number of

says it is aware of the red disorder and has now decided to delay the vaccines rollout in europe peter oliver takes us through the developments. johnson and johnson have described this as a proactive delay to their vaccine being rolled out across the european union they had expected that they would be giving vaccines to people 'd by the end of this week however that is not going to happen it follows a move by regulators in the united states to suspend the use of the vaccine there after 6 people who would have the vaccine developed what's called a rare blood clotting disorder out of an abundance of caution the city see an f.d.a. have recommended a pause in the use of our vaccine in addition we've been reviewing these cases with european health authorities we have made the decision to proactively delay the rollout of our vaccine in europe but this news comes after the european continent has passed a grim milestone on monday that $52.00 countries that make up the european landmass passed $1000000.00 deaths in total now in the european union the $27.00 member states there they're paying close att

approval yan's spawn expects deliveries as soon as possible reporting from berlin here's our teaser peter oliver. well what we are seeing is the early stages of talks between germany and the russian direct investment fund for the for berlin buying doses of the sputnik the vaccine these talks are confirmed by health minister yen spon on thursday. the e.u. has said that the sputnik vaccine will not be part of the joint procurement programme for vaccines that system this all for $11.00 for all system of the e.u. commission buys in vaccines and then distributes them so well this is seen is germany take an independent routes in which they're looking to you to buy the sputnik vaccine we've heard time and time again from angola merkel that she was keen to use the sputnik the vaccine once it gets a.m.a. approval and certainly that is what we heard from again spawn again on thursday saying that once the european medicines agency give sputnik the the green light germany is more than happy to use it the announcement from yen spun that germany as a country would be in negotiations to buy sputnik became shor

better than others pace out thank you for those days sounds nice aussies correspondent in berlin peter oliver. when we asked german politicians from 2 different parties for their views on the name bill. i was one of the protest protest kosovo's one of the key speak on the street protests today also warned one of these 250 year m.p.'s who voted against. a quite softly speaking to call it didn't fix the protection act yet it's cold that you fix protection act but it's functor small us like and enabling act yes or no we are very sensitive for him and in germany due to truman history about enabling acts . by which government is crown to such a huge power that he could be a new member or give away any more in the future to be seen when a building act empowers the government to you saw it for the whole ringback of germany were few and all the other pressing measurements looked on and so on without the reach homes. to see the ambulance and in the one the one had to discover that the parliament at least decides all. the all now before it was just a group of. presidents of the federal states and the c

light lash it is now the front runner to replace chancellor merkel after september's elections peter oliver has the story. well it's put to bed what had been weeks months certainly a very tense last few hours of debate and discussion over exactly who would be standing for the chancellorship from the concert of union here in germany that's made up of the christian democratic union party and the christian social union party they're very an outfit we do know now it will be our main lash it is the 60 year old leader of the state of north rhine-westphalia has been put forward by the party and agreed on by the party as their next counterfeit and angela merkel has just given him her blessing in september's election it comes after markets who's the leader of the state of bavaria gave a concession speech on tuesday lunchtime that followed on from they a vote which the top brass of the party gave their backing to unlatch it. had said that he would respect whatever the result of the vote was and he's done just not even if this if i do is cast in last it will be the c.d.u. c.s.u. candidate for chancell

fears that it could lead to tougher policies from some governments here's our europe correspondent peter oliver. this case in fact started long before anybody had ever heard of covert 19 1st time it appeared in the european court of human rights was in 2013 and already been going through the court systems in the czech republic for a long time before that the complaint was brought by families in the czech republic who'd either being fined or their children had been refused entry to early years education kindergartens and nursery schools because they hadn't been vaccinated by their parents and their parents refused to have them vaccinated what the court ruled on thursday was that the finding of those parents on the floor at the compulsory vaccination program in the czech republic was not a breach of the european convention on human rights particularly when it came to article 8 which deals with respect for private life what the court ruled was that vaccinations are necessary in society the court clarified that ultimately the issue to be determined was not whether a different less prescriptive poli

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peter: this is brutal. lemonis: something like this make you want to call it quits? oliver: yes.onis: there's massive devastation... this is a street. ...an entire main street underwater. oh, my goodness. i met the mayor. we toured the city the only way we could, by boat... it's okay. ...roads closed and businesses wiped out... look at this. kim: oh, my god. lemonis: ...a severe burden on the local economy. peter: so i'm on the city council, and so we are gonna have some serious budget problems like never seen before. lemonis: and with relentless rain, well, it's paralyzed this town. man #2: what i was afraid of. lemonis: as for the people who live here, they've had enough. how do you recover from a disaster like this and restore enough hope that people who live here don't abandon everything? ♪♪ ♪♪ the reason that i wanted to come to the mississippi river is, as i think about it, it almost feels like the most important freeway in america, right? it goes from minnesota all the way down to new orleans. it's how farmers transport things. it's how ships get up and down throughout the

so my understanding is that there will be a sort of olive branch but really it's about being big and bold. like peterd, it's about them saying the real worry here is to be too small, not too big. so in the speech you're going to hear a lot of democratic ideals. and that i think a lot of republican talking points and pulling back to say we can go smaller to work with republicans. >> hey, garrett, i know you've got to run. there's a whole bunch of briefings we're getting deluged with today. there is a small group of democratic housemakers that have been trying to get rid of the -- trying to restore the deductions for the so-called salt taxes, the state and local taxes. given everything that this biden administration has rolled out, is the congressional democratic leadership really going to fight then for a tax break for the wealthy? >> i think that is a very tough sell. it is ideologically inconsistent can what they're trying to do on taxes across the board. and republicans will hammer them for it. i think some of this is going to depend on how resolute those mostly northeastern democrats are in fighti