really big problems with russia and with china both speaking to us from berlin journalist or 3rd thomas fassbender thomas thank you thank you will the talks come just the day after a virtual meeting of nato defense ministers now that ended in the military bloc secretary-general unveiling a massively expanded mission in iraq insisting the measure would fight terror. today we decided to expand nato training mission in iraq to support iraq it forces us to fight terrorism and assure that isis just not return the size so a mission will increase from 500 personnel to wrong 4000 and training activities for now include more iraq a security situations areas beyond bugout scott ritter former u.s. marine corps intelligence officer told me who he thinks stands behind nato as ramp up in the middle east when you're beyond baghdad out in the boonies in remote facilities training iraqi security forces that are in constant contact with with with isis or other extremist enemies there will be losses in nato is not configured to do this not prepared politically to do this so then the question is who will provide the

and i'm going to bring and lyme journalist and political commentator thomas fassbender germany's daily infection rate is in a study about slow decline so do you think a walk down extension is justified. well just fine i'd rather say germany is stuck between the wrong and a hard place we certainly did not do our job on the 2nd wave as the chancellor rightly admitted but on the other hand we're not getting our act together when it in terms of vaccination so now we have the slowly starting over slowly starting vaccination program and at the same time we have the new strains the new mutations on the rise not just outside as was discussed for the u.k. but also very pretty much inside germany so right now the mood is worsening among the general public because they see that the vaccination does not go ahead at the necessary speed at the same time we are prolonging the the lockdown which in many respects does not make sense for many people but because why is a had opened in a small shop is not to mention that report earlier saying the interior ministry hired scientists to justify a lockdown po

ministry and a research group dating back to last march german journalist a political commentator thomas fassbender thinks the story highlights the lack of clarity of the way policies are being decided. these revolts concerning the last years decision and obviously to this date the government prefers to be hiding behind scientists and there is a very little willingness and courage on the side of the government as the general perception when it comes to decision making after each year now we have not yet had say a crisis comedy we are not up to dealing with the crisis and this is the responsibility of our top politicians we certainly did not do our job on the 2nd wave as the chancellor rightly admitted the vaccination does not go ahead at the necessary speed at the same time we have prolonging the the lockdown which in many respects does not make sense for many people but because why is it had been in a small shop is not. vcs global t.v. news channels being blocked in china it comes a week after british regulators took china's english language channel c t n offer as he said reports. that announcemen

journalist and author thomas fassbender believes the trafton well definite is at an all time low the west is in a very weak face and it's been it's been growing weaker before the pandemic it will come out of the pandemic much weaker then then it went in relative to china in particular simply because countries outside of the west. deal with the pandemic in a more clever way the trust and the confidence of the population in the western countries is at at a low for dect for decades this is one of the reasons why the western leaders try to prop up support to prop up self-confidence and feel that the best is always to do or look for an external and antagonise i do not want to say enemy but antagonist is probably the right word that's what russia and china are serving as today. spain suffering a fortnight of riots over the jailing of a councillor popular hersel was arrested for quote slandering the crown and glorifying terrorism protest as a rally to across the country to oppose his detention grounding it is a violation of his right to free speech around 80 people have been arrested since

journalist and author thomas fassbender believes the trust in world governance is that at no time no the west is in a very weak face and it's been it's been growing weaker before the pandemic it will come out of the pandemic much weaker than then it went in relative to china in particular simply because countries outside of the west. deal with the damage in the more clever way the trust and the confidence of the population in the western countries is. at a low for decades for decades this is one of the reasons why the western leaders try to prop up support to prop up self-confidence and feel that the best is always to do a look for an external and antagonise i do not want to say enemy but entire going to be the right word that's what russia and china are serving as today. heidi back has become russia's 3rd a corona virus vaccine to be given a seal of approval created by moscow's chima compas scientific center developers believe it will also offer protection against new coronavirus variants let's go live now to our correspondent in moscow don't go to don good to see her tell us more a

more than 90 percent of the project is completed we got the thoughts from political commentator thomas fassbender french member of the european parliament to remarry early on the latest developments in fortunately i think europe won't be. the best suited. 'd for america and. even if french company is involved in this project i see it's not a problem for marco and you know it so it's. european union said every single most people read every single message be more or. go to chic in fact 'd if we stop this project it will be shared guess we sprung from america less independence less security chic it is just me i think europe is muslim schist deny that sort of this isn't i'm convinced that there is a larger political maneuver or intrigue behind this we have a french energy corporation which is owned by the french state to 25 percent of which is owned by the french state as part of the north stream to project so rather here france works against their own economic interests so i would say there is a clear political background no economic background here and nothing that well i would say that is related