RT News - March 08 2021 (17:00 MSK)

Profiting from the pandemic: two senior German politicians are quitting in a major scandal for allegedly earning hundreds of thousands of euros after brokering deals for face masks. Meanwhile the UK government faces claims of financial mismanagement during the pandemic. After offering frontline health workers a pay rise of just 1 percent while it spends millions on a new media briefing room. As President Biden's long-awaited covid relief bill passes the senate, people face getting less than they did under Donald Trump.