Bayerischer Rundfunk

Union politicians and several businessmen are alleged to have received several million euros as commission for brokering protective masks to ministries. The affair has been exposed - now the Munich Public Prosecutor's Office has applied for an arrest warrant against one of the accused. This was reported by several news agencies and the Bayerischer Rundfunk.

The accused was arrested on Thursday, the investigating authority announced. The investigators did not give a name.

An evaluation of 700,000 police press reports by the Bavarian Broadcasting Corporation (BR) and the North German Broadcasting Corporation (NDR) showed that the state police deal with the naming of the perpetrators' nationalities very differently.

As a result, nationality is given in only 5% of the reports, in the most frequent cases in the case of theft and the naming of refugees. This contradicts the police crime statistics, where Germans are mentioned five times more often.

In Germany and the U.K., public TV stations now broadcast educational shows for schoolchildren.

German education channel ARD-alpha, as well as children's channel KiKa and broadcaster BR, are expanding their learning and school shows.

In the UK, too, the public broadcaster BBC will be broadcasting several hours of lessons every day from the start of next week. Starting this Monday, the children's channel CBBC and the BBC Two channel are to focus on content for schoolgirls. The initiative is intended to support both schools and families during the new lockdown.