In moscow recapping the weeks top stories with our weekly program. Write a 2nd whistleblower has emerged in the impeachment probe against donald trump the unnamed intelligence official reportedly has information on the u. S. President s dealings with ukraine meanwhile democrats spearheading the investigation are demanding protection for the informants involved despite their attitude to other whistleblowers in recent years and comments. We are now told that in this dark age of tyranny one heroic individual has spoken up like a voice crying out in the wilderness we dont know his name or his occupation but we know that he is good and i think the whistleblower did the right thing i think he followed the law every step of the way the Inspector General of the Intelligence Community found this whistleblower complaint both credible and urgent i want to say thank you also to the whistleblower for having the courage of the bravery to come forward on behalf of the nation now not only must this ga
broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow this is our t.v. international i m sean thomas certainly glad to have you with us right now german m.p. s are standing it down over claims that they made hundreds of thousands of euros from brokering deals for face masks with more on the scandal here is our europe correspondent. make no bones about it this is a big scandal here in germany pandemic profiteering isn t a look any party wants to be tarnished with and this is part of the ruling coalition here including angela merkel s christian democratic union party the representative of the party nicolas lobel has said he s going to step down at the next election this is after his company allegedly made around a quarter of a 1000000 euro from being the middleman in deals when it came to pee pee and masks during this pandemic may not be good enough for some sort of said he needs to go right now and not wait until the election in the autumn however he said he is sorry for what he
got the situation in iraq you ve got the situation in syria you ve got the situation in yemen and really it s eerie aerated completely beyond the pale situation with alliston in that peace process which the democrats or believe that they re the studio guardians of that process generally but so that how many plates going to be spent and i think the trump administration for all its faults realize that you can only spend so many plates at a time and the situation as of all in the middle east and what the democrats have coming back into power and it s almost like they don t they re not recognizing the fact that things have changed i mean a massive sea change and lo and behold in the last 2 weeks the exact same quagmire presented itself on the iraqi and syrian border there were rocket attacks that provoked suppose of the united states to respond to aggression against. u.s. bases and reveal in iraq and so what do they do they get the high she still xabi people s mobilization units