ok let's get the views now of thomas fassbender he's a journalist and author based in berlin you're very welcome thank you time tonight thomas are you surprised that angle merkel has made this appeal to parliament given all the resistance she has seen to not dance in the past now not surprised because she decided to take that huge turn or a couple of days was a deal we could do or go after she failed with her trying to impose restrictions increased restrictions via the 16 prime ministers of the federal states of germany that did not work she believes in the necessity of increased risk and a stricter lockdown curfew measures etc and she decided it wholeheartedly i should say to take this way of centralizing her powers against existing opposition yes if you think it's an attack on democracy as people are betraying it to resist just simply a logical move to try and counter the covert crisis but 1st of all it is it is a logical move do not assume angle america has any idea of attacking the democratic call in germany but it is a test of the democratic all in german no question under a crisis

german journalist thomas fassbender believes angler merkel's move makes sense despite criticism from the opposition. she believes in the necessity of increased risk and a strict a lockdown curfew measures etc and she decided to wholeheartedly i should say take this way of centralizing her powers against existing opposition do not assume anglo-american has any idea of attacking the democratic order in germany but it is a test of the democratic order in germany no question under crisis situation which we have for the 1st time in this country and some people are very much a fundamental lies in what is going on and driving it up to philosophical heights i'd say the majority in germany sees this as an anti effect measure and not nothing more. a pretty seismic event coming out of cuba today where the head of the communist party or old cuss true is officially to step down it brings to an end more than 6 decades of the castro family's political dominance over the car of being an island nation the united front came the opening of the party's congress 3 years ago when he stepped down from the

get it all over to construe god will journalist and author thomas fassbender believes uncle or miraclesmove mixed sense the spike criticism from the opposition. she believes in the necessity of increased risk and a strict a lockdown curfew measures etc and she decided to wholeheartedly i should say to take this way of centralizing her powers against existing opposition i do not assume angela merkel has any idea of attacking the democratic order in germany but it is a test of the democratic all in german no question under crisis situation which we have for the 1st time in this country and some people are very much a fundamental lies in what is going on and driving it up to philosophical heights i'd say the majority in germany sees this as a an end to effect measure and not the nothing more. another story we're closely following today twitter has been the founder of investigative journalist group project veritas for alleged violations of its policies now it comes just after the group published another under cover sting video involving a c.n.n. director. a strain of using research at work.

decision well we appreciate you coming on to the program and sharing your views with us that was thomas fassbender child lest an author good to see one of the news we spoken to a tough i want you professor who traveled to china with the world health organization to probe the origins of the pandemic dominic quiet told r.t. is going on the ground it's been hard to get to the truth for many reasons you can watch the full interview here throughout the day all go to our dot com. what did you find because as far as where we've seen in the media it's kind of inconclusive you can't even conclude it came from china clearly it's inconclusive the minute it was easy we wouldn't have had to go there in the 1st place of course this is terribly complex of the science is complex the politics is complex but look we went through a large amount of data provided by the chinese you know a number of different areas and made a number of conclusions really about what further work needed to be done clearly we can't figure out a patient 0 if you like or 'd virus ciro but we've got to go a long way to planning what needs to

journalist and author thomas fassbender believes i'm going to move make same as this white criticism from your position. she believes in the necessity of increased risk rick chance and a strict a lockdown curfew measures etc and she decided to wholeheartedly i should say to take this way of centralizing her powers against existing opposition i do not assume angle america has any idea of attacking the democratic order in germany but it is a test of the democratic all in german no question under crisis situation which we have for the 1st time in this country and some people are very much a fundamental lies in what is going on and driving it up to philosophical heights i'd say the majority in germany sees this as a an end to a faction measure and not the nothing more. they are pretty says make event coming out of cuba today where the head of the communist party a role castro is officially this that bell. that really nothing obliges me to take this decision but i certainly believe in the strength and value of example and the understanding of my fellow countrymen and let no one doubt that

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