we're going to russia this is r.t. with me kevin now in fact check in with us as to take you through those monday morning headlines in a bit more detail them 1st then a lawmaker at germany's ruling christian democrats is stepping down over revelations that his company owned a quarter of a 1000000 euro for brokering a facemask deal and a senior pay at the sister christine social the union party is being investigated too for allegedly profiting from an even bigger contract to provide protective equipment in the pandemic has got across all this for your correspondent peter all of a morning paper what more do you know about this unfolding scandal stroger scandals the smalling the. yes pandemic profiteering it's been breaking over the weekend in the christian democratic union crystal christian social union ruling alliance here in germany. basically 2 politicians caught up in allegations claims that they they profited personally from the global pandemic and the that they were involved in deals to get mosques and other p.p. and they made money off it nicholas lobo from the christian democratic union he's accused of having made around a quarter of a 1000000 euro for being the middleman in deals for p.p. and mosques he's said he won't run in september's oped coming election also he's resigned with immediate effect from the christian democratic union party said he isn't the only want your canoe sly and also caught up in the scandal he's from the christian social union that's based in bavaria he has said he's got not going to run in september's election also and has stood down from a pretty senior position as the deputy leader of the union parliamentary group however he claims he's done nothing wrong in this scandal however we have heard from mr lobel who says that he's deeply sorry for what he got into as a member of the bundestag i should have acted more sensitively in my business activities especially during a pandemic i blame myself for this mistake. apologies not enough to save his political career though he's well quit from the party with immediate effect standing down at the next election and well senior figures within the center right block have been lining up to say this type of actions well they're just not appropriate whatsoever. those who fill their own pockets with essential goods such as masks do not represent the people but the lowest interests to collect a commission that is to gain in money through mediation in emergency situations is not possible that destroys trust in our democracy while this is all fuel to the fire for skeptics here in germany and across europe as well the over the weekend we've seen more protests here in berlin by those that are on happy with the way the german government has handled the pandemic those type of scenes have been repeated elsewhere in europe as well in the czech republic net the netherlands austria and france people coming out to say darrow unhappy with the way european governments have been handling the pandemic these type of scandals we've seen in germany with politicians profiting it would seem from the pandemic from handing out of contracts during it that's hardly going to calm things down when tensions are running pretty high here friday of all of this is proved to be true if not go down well with the public thanks for talking to which the journalist sort of thomas fassbender told us public inferi over the issue is going to damage the ruling party for a start there. i think that definitely the christian democrats as a party at the forthcoming forthcoming elections it will take a hit there's no question there is anger about this the interesting thing here is that mr little bit. just last year was the subject of a completely unrelated correctional misbehavior commercial misbehavior case within his own party about red paying for the party office in the house that he owns some of a company of his own so it's a big man has been known for sort of potentially shady behavior is there where allegations and nevertheless the party sort of shut their eyes and that is of course 'd the dangerous thing it's not just a matter of the law as such of the letter of the law but also. 'd about the way it is applied and that is address has to be addressed to the parties themselves how what how strict they are with their parliament areas with their representatives how well do they control their own people. downing street has been criticized for spending millions of pounds on a white house style media briefing room it comes as the country's foremost standards are called prime minister boris johnson's alleged use of a charity for a 6 figure innovation of his official probably an abuse of his position and some appointed to stand in stark contrast to the media pay rise offer to health workers on the front line of the covert fight. millions spend on a media briefing room 3 and a half pounds a week for nurses make no mistake this is a political choice by the tories it sums up boris johnson's warped priorities that he can find millions for vanity projects while picking the pockets of n.h.s. tough our n.h.s. heroes deserve a fair pay rise after all they have done for us the conservatives are wasting $2600000.00 pounds on a vanity media sense of boris johnson while denying n.h.s. workers a fair pay rise the conservatives priorities are not the british people's priorities while they are side of it the u.k. government insists difficult economic circumstances mean it can only afford a one percent pay hike for n.h.s. staff but with inflation predicted to reach one and a half percent this year that would likely result in a real term pay cut the nurses union says they deserve more on the preparing for strikes political commentator anthony webber told us the government's approach reasonable wrong. this sun media center is just part of a wider. aspects or. the way the government started with the media and it is very much since we have become a bit 19 situation in the last down back in the last large we've had the government should be trying to control the media and be to grow successful bassam the media companies don't need these facilities one those are sure to cheer for a fine or the government's prepared to spend money on promoting its own interests are not prepared to spend money on people like the n.h.s. converts or even nurses and sound government i think 1st of all we should be apologizing basically saying oh it's cool fall sort of verity county and because of that because we've had to pass through this moment to use the stats crags have to pay for our mistakes well our i think those are drivers who are for police to chase the government's mistaken me the tax question sucker. the government's also extended to september its so-called furlough scheme to pay 80 percent of people's wages for hours like our work in the pandemic but in the latest episode of arties going underground show with afshin rattansi british economic historian robert skidelsky questions the calculations. do you think also that there is 00 pounds budgeted for the effect of the pandemic come the next fiscal year well this is a very very serious point as if it is going to go on until until september he's an r. and that says going to extra $60000000000.00 but what they're expecting is that the furlough money will tail off as the economy recovers so as the end the forecast is that we'll be back to where we were before the bye bye by the middle of next year why do they think the economy's going to recover so quickly because they think there's a lot of pent up demand that there are a lot of savings that people haven't been able to spend and that as the shops and entertainment places reopened people will flock to these places with a straw spending power and that'll make the whole thing revived but if you look at it realistically i'm very skeptical about this because national income has fallen it's fallen by 10 percent cent in 2020 that means savings of more there are you know some people will have extra savings but what about all those whose incomes have fall they're not going to have extra spending power we're talking about people who are being made on employed because small businesses are closing going bankrupt and or cutting down on their staff and rather than keeping that population on 1st. i would try and provide work for them and especially young people. if you watch in the caucus time past the hour now will next italy central region of last year has asked the government to consider producing russia's sputnik very vexing region plans to purchase a 1000000 doses of the vaccine and the country's health minister says he's optimistic. opinion if the vaccine works in to safe i do not really care about the nationality of the scientists who developed it therefore i am open to sputnik the as well as to other vaccines should the european medicines agency in the italian medicines agency give their approval we are ready to cooperate with russia even very soon. as already been approved in 2 e.u. countries that's hungary and slovakia it comes as the blocks being criticised for the slow pace of coronavirus inoculation in member states brussels as introduced export controls on vaccines after the rollout was hit by those supply problems and delays of late earlier in another move italy blocked a shipment of 250000 doses of the astra zeneca vaccine to australia the health chief of italy central a c. region told us about the approval process force vino from russia. it's necessary to produce vaccines in house in order to be self-reliant and avoid the problems we've recently faced including the difficulties with job supplies and on time deliveries autonomy will benefit everyone in this case we've always treated the sputnik vaccine with great respect paying particular attention to the scientific evidence behind it therefore we had no reservations about it off we saw the in the explanations of its validity in the medical journal the lancet and by the last there are small and the only national institute for infectious diseases in row we've always said that the efficacy and safety of vaccines are the main thing whereas the origin doesn't matter to us. once thought gently we can't take decisions absolutely independently and always have to wait for the approval by regulators will so hope for a fast track process that it doesn't get bogged down in excessive red tape because we're in emergency and in great need of doses in italy we don't expect to see any disputes around the sputnik vaccine because we believe it will contribute to the common good and protect the health of our citizens. joe biden is covert relief bills finally passed the senate after amendment vote last minute ago ca sions $1.00 trillion dollars of aid that may seem a lot but a saskia taylor explains next people may end up getting even less than under donald trump. bungler in america especially for children has soared to historic levels unexpected medical bills have created a surge of families desperate for in america the richest country in all the world we have incredible hunger what ours is possible as the u.s. continues its brutal battle with one invisible enemy an old one house of ram just poverty but for those one in 10 americans who lost that job and fame never recover all those 3 in 10 low income families who worry whether the next meal is coming from good news joe biden promised you a helping hand no one should work 40 hours a week you live in poverty and it wasn't just higher wages no buy do was also going to rip open the governments want it and hand out those support checks were. still really junior for small business owners to be concerned about how that changes and with control of the house of representatives the senate and the white house the only trinity nothing could stop the democrats puffing that kind of bill no out of touch little greedy republicans not even trump no it was a done deal right but we obviously are now alternately send the. money to less people in the administration this is not the promise that we need. conservative democrats have thoughtful divide in the admin sense fewer and less generous relief checks than the transfer of men did so not a done deal biden promised one thing with his $1.00 trillion dollars aid package the house then took a stab at it and the senate's now taken a not the stab at it in its wounded form almost $12000000.00 fewer adults will get the relief biden pledged unemployment benefits are finishing a month earlier than planned and as for raising minimum wage to $15.00 well courtesy of some democrat senators who vetoed it that won't be happening and if you're wondering what an elected official laughing in the face of the people they saw it looks like well hey you go. to cinema cinema. no i'm sure though it's a big thumbs up from howard for $174000.00 annual salary but if you thought biden himself was brain child this bill was as devastated by this well think again he is comfortable with where the negotiations stand he is controversial and knows there will be tweaks at the margin so if these tweaks mean that american struggling to stay afloat amid the biggest recession in the u.s. in decades on getting the money who is what national democrats particularly nancy pelosi and chuck schumer have chosen to do is crimes through a 1.9 trillion package that includes things like funding on the national endowment for the arts and national endowment of humanities and the subway in silicon valley to help nancy pelosi constituents and while the washington elite did eventually realize that splashing $100000000.00 on a subway in the richest town in america wouldn't sit well with those people standing in line to food banks when will it realize that it works for we the people and not me myself and i. well various opinions all of mainstream media were delighted by the bill with the washington post calling it a defining move by biden but the claim was immediately met by an online backlash to forcing changes from the outlet. shall waste money on americans could washington post exaggerate by density humans in the market desk way probably not shameful creepy had line worthy of north korea jeff bezos washington post letting us know always well keep taking a so watching netflix and ordering from amazon because biden is showing us with money who make a train with a check of the still doesn't come home my friend soak up all of the money showers my fellow poor's the amounts are being paid are just a drop of the bucket the payments are proof that their faith and they bite administration was well founded and the reality is of course that much more of the covert relief bill is going to other causes another interest groups in the us you know we have a constitution and the government has grown by leaps and bounds beyond what the original intentions were at this point the number in the duties of the american federal government have. the number of tourists arguments over laughable you know the last coded stimulus package had billions and billions being sent to foreign countries this one has everything from money for amtrak which is a perennial loser of public money. 3000000000 in aid to aircraft manufacturers almost 300000000 for the national government for the arts and all while people are suffering and i would add that while there are clear signs that the global appetite for u.s. treasuries which is u.s. debt seems to be waning this is a heck of a time to be incurring a lot more debt. brazil's president called on people to stop quote whining about the covert outbreak in the country but it comes as brazil said grim that new records in the pandemic. sure going to for a score to do me going over the pretentiousness enough with the wind how long are people going to carry on crying for you for we have to confront the problems obviously we need to respect the elderly those with conditions but where is brazil heading to if we live in fear. brazil is one of the country's worst hit by the coronavirus it has the 2nd highest death toll in the world with more than 260000 victims last week brazil registered its highest daily cova death rate and more than $80000.00 new cases were reported on sunday brazilian hospitals are struggling to find room for the sick therefore amid an overloaded health system and check out this container placed outside a clinic in the north of the country the whole victims of the disease residents get their reaction to the move but i think people are panicking and this container shouldn't be out in the open here this doesn't help. that it has a huge impact i think it makes you more careful more inclined to protect yourself it's only when you actually see it that it has any impact when you realise that it will in their lost loved ones where all to blame people but also the government because they should set the example. sorry picture is now the editor of a brazilian news agency told us the president must take the blame for the worsening situation. i think it's. distracted she both all the time trying to prove to the brazilian book palatial that he has this situation under control over the situation is completely out of control brasilia said reach kountry because he's not a poor country in that you talk of poor nation and was not able to put the concrete to fight against the new guy who's also not a met her never had a national plan to beat the current virus i don't feel that brazil is going to have that the situation before may or june because we have a very. old busted nation we don't have any more. to protect people. to stay and 'd i think the next 30. days i going to be even wharfs than the situation we have a levy through at this moment. as desperation and anger in lebanon as the country's economic downturn pushes more people to the brink their lost weight the lebanese currency hit a new low fuel and nationwide protests reporting from that is local journalist linda tom him. and downtown the return testers have blocked the roads they blocked them with burning tires trash trash bins they set trash bins on fire basically everybody is angry at the further collapse of the lebanese to the dollar the lebanese pound reached $10800.00 lebanese the rest to a dollar which is very much unprecedented the protesters are very angry at the government for being so inefficient for not being able to form a cabinet that would unlock the billions others promised by the i.m.f. should the reforms be finally implemented it's been close to 7 months now that lebanon has been without a proper functioning government because situations that is very very. very law. because this road because this is our land our country and we have become poor our pain is not we have endured so much that's why we're closing the rocks again and won't let anyone pass. on we are starving we are here at martyr square setting tires on fire because the price of a loaf of bread has risen to $3000.00 lebanese pounds and that's a kilogram of rice to $7000.00 all while the dollar keeps rising there seems to be no end in sight a lot of people a lot of lebanese people are thrown deeper into poverty and a lot of people are desperate they're fleeing the country they're now jobless they're left with absolutely no hope and this is why they're expressing their anger and frustration out on the streets of beirut. documentary speaks to russian paralympic athlete national sailing team member you can watch his inspiring story it's in full later here about international. of the benoit you're in a good idea and then i. heard you are the one. who. was. at the hospital i asked my dad to bring weights on this building expanded its one i was training i've watched the olympic games and i was like i want to be like them. and i'd like to see the perception of people with disabilities change well i want all this to see our personality not just our disability pain or suffering but if we ask anyone here to name 5 famous people but