to the chief and blindfolding the time for them to regain control of their lives is when the boys returned prison live inside and out. with corona virus infections at an all time high e.u. leaders are struggling to agree an $857000000000.00 rescue package. logan p.t.w. here in doha you're watching al-jazeera also this half hour on a visit to baghdad iran's foreign minister denounces the killing of the revolutionary guard general by the u.s. as a criminal act. was. thousands of protesters demand political change in the democratic republic of congo. also

this half hour how could with 19 will mean higher costs and longer production times for the movie business. who begin in brussels where e.u. leaders are meeting for an extended day to hammer out their budgets and a coronavirus bailout package the budget is an unprecedented amount of money about $2.00 trillion u.s. dollars look at all those zeros that includes 857000000000 to help countries recover from the pandemic but the leaders can also agree on how the funds should be distributed to countries who need them the most live now to any barker who is following that story for us this half hour so neve is it beginning to look as if no one's going to blink 1st and say yeah we can all get go with this and get on to the

same page. well i mean that's the hope. in the last 20 minutes or so the austrian chancellor suggested that he did feel that some progress was being made and the possibly by the end of the day this the 3rd day of talks they might well be in agreement but all of that is very much to be seen because of course the e.u. countries are divided between some of the biggest net contributors to the e.u. budget that include the likes of austria the netherlands sweden and denmark but it is the frugal 4 who are wary about this money being distributed in the form of grants that don't need to be repaid they're also deeply worried about huge borrowing from financial institutions in the e.u. some attempt to be made to reach a compromise with the frugal for as they're known to reduce the amount of money available in the form of these grants but sweden has hit back and said no it won't

even greater cuts to the grant levels meanwhile some of the countries that are likely to benefit from 'd this financial support the likes of spain and italy their economies hit hard by the pandemic have accused the frugal 4 of blackmailing of the e.u. so here we are in a stalemate and when i'm glad merkel the german chancellor arrived at e.u. headquarters 1st thing in the morning she was a little bit wary about the possibility of any lasting progress. in indian today we are entering the 3rd day of negotiations and it is certainly the decisive one the various issues the size of the fund the way it is managed and also the issues of the rule of law have now been well dealt with whether they'll be a solution i still can't say there's a lot of goodwill but there are also a lot of positions so i will join in working for it but there may also be no result today. well as well as the ins and outs of the financial distribution of all of these this huge tranche of money there are

a growing tensions between the dutch prime minister viktor orbán the prime minister of hungary rato wanted a mechanism included in any agreement that would force countries to prove exactly whether or not they were up holding e.u. standards when it comes to the rule of law viktor or ban has been under an awful lot of scrutiny in recent years accused of rolling back reforms of introducing undemocratic legislation in the country viktor orban has basically said we're well if you include this mechanism in any agreement we'll we'll we'll lower veto it so we may well find the dispute the dispute between router and victor or the railing as a separate side problem the entire agreement but as the austrian chancellor suggested he is at least hopeful we'll wait to see neve thank you very much neal

barker our correspondent there in london china's xinjiang region has declared quote a wartime state after a small increase in cases there $28.00 new infections have been reported since friday the city of a routine suspended large gatherings of people mass mass weenies are being carried out china is facing international scrutiny over its treatment of ethnic minorities in jan including ethnic we. muslims. on kong has reported a record daily high of more than 100 new virus infections the territories leader carry lambs as the bios is now spreading out of control from monday all non-essential public employees will work from home masks will be mandatory in public buildings. iran's foreign minister zarif has been visiting the iraqi capital baghdad he held talks with the iraqi foreign minister and discussed bilateral relations or have says neighboring nations have to cooperate for the good of the region without interfering in each other's affairs and he denounced the killing of

the iranian revolutionary guard commander customs to the money after he visited the site of his death i regret to say that the assassination of custom so the money was a criminal act it's a loss while country and into the entire region and it undermines the international if it's for combating eisel and terrorism in the region again we reiterate that we canin maintaining the sovereignty and territorial integrity of iraq some on a small from baghdad on the importance of this trip. well it very much is a diplomatic balancing act because iran and iraq are mutually codependent iraq is heavily reliant on gas importance on imports of consumer goods in general so iraq very much must maintain good ties with iran on the one hand but iraq also needs relations with for example the gulf countries as well as the united states so this is

a 1st visit by in iraq is very much an effort to try to reestablish and perhaps heal a little bit their relations with iran and have gone through a router turbulent period piece over the past few months. the new prime minister is somebody who was very close ties to the united states and he's somebody who is seen as being closer to the united states compared to his predecessor. the he's somebody who has vowed that he will restrain the weapons in the hands of the states and very recently he has made a move to try to curtail the influence of iranian backed armed groups in iran to certainly on the part of the iranian government or maybe a feeling that their influence in iraq is pretty perhaps not as strong as it was during the previous administration and this visit is very much aimed at restabilizing those relations and ensuring that the mutual interests of both

countries are secured not just in the security side but also on the economy side iran's judiciary has suspended the death sentences of 3 protesters according to one of the lawyers the mobile big sit in connection with last government protests more than 7000000 tweets using do not execute were posted after they received. protest by black lives matter supporters took place in the u.s. city of portland again on saturday night they've been rallying for 6 weeks now without a break on friday the state of oregon sued federal law enforcement agencies accusing them of a mostly detaining demonstrates dozens have been arrested the state's attorney general is asking for a restraining order to stop federal agencies making more arrests. u.s. president donald trump has blamed democratic party leaders for a recent surge in violent crime across many american cities mr trump made those comments on the fox news sunday show which is in the couple of past hours that

we've had here it's the president's 1st sunday show interview since june of last year we've seen gas up in new york douse up in chicago shooting. how do you explain it and what are you going to do about it i explained it very simply by saying it's the democrat run cities they're liberally run they're stupidly ron liberal democrats have been running cities in this country for decades surely why is it so bad right now they've run a poorly it was always bad but now it's gotten totally out of control and it's really because they want to fund the police and biden wants to fund the fact that he does not. a joiner with bernie sanders and he said you're not going about the funding oh really it's there is abolish it says of let's go all right what do you get me that you're out of all right. to washington and my colleague mike hanna so my course the feeling there how did that go for mr trump.

well as you heard there in that interview segment president trump made an allegation that he was unable to back up the interview was done a couple of days ago the fox news reports that they went to for a subsequent follow up to the white house to produce details. support president trump's allegation that they did not come up simply because it is a false joe biden at no stage asked or suggested defunding the police very much the opposite in fact so certainly that was one element of the interview that people are going to be looking at there were a number of other points within the interview where president try to put it bluntly may have stretched the truth if not told and outright false would certainly it's one of the more tough interviews that president trump has sat down for with the interviewer actually pushing back on a number of issues what was your reading of mr trump's performance you know he seemed to be sitting there determined to come out as being and being very very

robust in his quick reaction to what he was being interviewed. well yes indeed one must point out as well that the interviewer wanted to do the interview indoors that is close to 35 degrees celsius 100 degrees fahrenheit here's certainly it would have been sweltering outside where they did the interview but president doing it outside according to the interviewer but president perhaps a slightly more restrained he did not hit back sharply at the interview as he is want to do. very difficult questions regarding coronavirus regarding the recent book that has been written by his niece which is deeply critical of the president so certainly the president throughout that are of interview did respond to a number of the questions directly however he also did respond with some false words

which were picked up on for the most part by the interviewer ok mike we'll leave it there many thanks mike correspondent there in washington. the israeli authorities have arrested the palestinian governor of jerusalem. with more. you know from his lawyer that he has been arrested that his lawyer believes once again to do with. allegations political activities in occupied east jerusalem the israeli police and authorities say that any such activities. legal under the oslo accords from $9.00 to $93.00 onwards and the activities of olding israeli that is something that his lawyer does reject saying that these are attempts to humiliate and harass his client this is something that is very frequent in terms of

mr gates since his appointment as the p.a.'s governor of jerusalem since in september 28th seen in the 1st year of his occupying not really he was arrested some 7 times he's been arrested several times since then he was arrested back in april for instance when he was accused of carrying out political activities on behalf of the palestinian authority for his activities in trying to. coordinate and run a virus measures in occupied east jerusalem of course is jerusalem under international law is occupied israel sees it as sovereign territory having annexed it in 1907 and that is a large part of the area here between the p.a. and israel and mr gates is the one who often gets arrested usually these arrests last 24 hours these detentions the last 24 hours judges tend to release him pretty quickly after asking for any evidence from the police and authorities to

substantiate along going to tension still to come here on al jazeera syrians voting in parliamentary elections in areas that were once on the opposition controlled. international media recommendations to diffuse mollies political crisis. hello it's been raining heavily in the yellow river basin and on the yangtze there's a bit of a ko in this is you can say and seasonal rain so over the next few hours it's let's go out to the yellow sea and produced some fairly heavy rain in north korea to some degree in south korea as well and then it drops for the science so daily tasks are showing you are not in daylight hours during monday the rays sas the yanks it's all gone fairly quiet and for japan there are few showers around it doesn't look particularly heavy weather i have to say except maybe later on tuesday as the rain

comes across see if you pan to that northern shore of both hampshire and her car the western shore carder there is it'll develop and back in the yangtze and moving north again this time the you should see the rain moving north so it's just pulsing just thinking about it it's taking away a lot of the energy from further south but there's a mass of showers over the philippines west papua as well some overconcentration there are showers but not everyone's over so away sea and of borneo peninsula malaysia yeah they like to be fairly heavy ones but fairly well isolated not such good news for the southwest monsoon of india pakistan and bangladesh you see the crowd is gathering here that's heavy rain for the next few days.

you're watching al-jazeera live from doha your top stories the leaders are meeting for a 3rd day to discuss a multi-billion dollar package to deal with the economic fallout and the german chancellor says it's possible they won't agree on some conditions. foreign ministers of iran and iraq of held talks in baghdad they discussed relations were to be constrained by foreign powers over recent months. the us president donald trump has blamed democratic party leaders for a recent surge in violent crime last many american cities for strong made the unfrozen comments on the fox news sunday program it is the president's 1st sunday show interview since june of last year. international mediators in mali have outlined recommendations to ease tensions between the opposition parties

a delegation from the west african regional bloc ecowas issued a statement after days of discussions with the governing party and the opposition its proposed plan was rejected by the opposition alliance led by the cleric. you didn't mention that they call i've made it very clear and indeed where it is very clear that as long as there why was there. nobody will. be elected democratically elected president has to lose these are the laws of the land. because hark is following those developments in neighboring summit girl he says the recommendations ignored key opposition demands. eko oss recommends a new constitutional courts with judges appointed by the president half of the other judges appointed by what they describe as a neutral independent body to set up

a core of 5 judges that would decide on the $31.00 contested parliamentary seats after the much contested parliamentary elections that took place in april many of those seats went to close members of the family of the president. or allies of him and so for the for the echo us body it seems that this political crisis is a constitutional crisis he did mention that there will be no dissolution of the national assembly nor will we work our kate resigned he's been democratically elected and therefore he is illegitimate ruler of mali so none of that but those were the demands made by the protesters during the protest movement that we've seen the last couple of months the opposition want seats in government the cleric. wants to see a different type of government that address the security concerns in the north in the center of the country so it'll be difficult for for these recommendation to

satisfy all of the members of the opposition now echo oss has said that it will have a delegation that will stay in mali it gives a deadline until the end of the month for this constitutional court to to nominate a new judges so that they can the so that mali can find an end to this political crisis. hundreds of protesters demanding the dissolution of parliament in the democratic republic of congo. the demonstrations in the capital kinshasa have been organized by the catholic church which wants them to become regular some day protest churches parliament is blocking meaningful reform which has been following those developments from the kenyan capital nairobi. calling for the dissolution of parliament and for electoral reforms and they say that the parliament isn't legitimate because it was elected in an election one and

a half years ago that they say was rigged and under an electoral commission which they say was partisan and biased in favor of former president joseph kabila this could be less step down at the time of the election he couldn't run again because it already reached his constitutional limits of terms but according to leaked documents the opposition were rigged out of their victory and felix the security the current president was announced the winner now to security and could be entered a fragile coalition after that which is widely seen to be an arrangement that was meant to keep joseph kabila in power but from behind the scenes that coalition has been on the quite some tension in recent months and these calls come at a time which is he carries trying to assert his authority and joseph kabila seems to be trying to push back e.u. countries are threatening sanctions against foreign governments interfering in the conflict in libya in a joint statement the leaders of france germany and italy want to call for an

actors to respect the u.n. arms embargo and also added that it breaches continue would see on land or in the air sanctions will be considered. syria is holding its parliamentary elections since the uprising against president bashar al assad began 9 years ago but candidates are either in the past party or the loyal to his regime is in a harder reports. syrians will elect a new parliament it's the 3rd such vote since the start of the uprising in 2011 the last time large parts of the country were outside government control president bashar al assad's forces have since recaptured nearly 70 percent of territory they had lost to the opposition as in previous elections candidates need to be vetted by security and the credibility of the election has been further questioned by the exclusion of millions of syrians who left their country or have been displaced by the conflict. in 1000000 people in the north of the country for example won't have any representation in the next parliament and the deputies who are supposed to

represent regime held areas are not real representatives they won't stand by the people they are beholden to the regime which has absolute power and control. but president bashar is facing challenges results of previous elections were not recognized by the international community the syrian leader will need to agree to political reforms in order to receive western aid to rescue the economy devastated by hears of war and corruption. and the election. process. after much delay the un announced the creation of a committee to rewrite the constitution ahead of internationally monitored elections there hasn't been any progress elections contradict the political

transition agreed on by the international community but assad seems to have different objectives many say syria's president is ensuring the incoming parliament whose job is to ratify a new constitution will reject any changes to the president's powers and tenure in office. old war lords. all my we learned. who fought with his horses on so he knows. this people who would be voting for the constitution. they know they would be. changing the constitution when you talk about. transitional justice the syrian president showed little willingness to agree to political concessions even when he was losing the war he now believes he's won largely thanks to the help of his russian and iranian allies for many this latest election shows how little has changed in our side syria

. beirut supporters of brazil's president are back on the streets rallying in his favor. who tested positive for covert 19 continues to criticize long term measures he says restrictions would lead to even more deaths with jobless people dying of hunger brazil has reported in the 2000000 infections the 2nd highest anywhere in the world days of heavy rain for the new system china prompted officials to raise a flood alert the highest level possible that at least 14 people have died as the young sea river distributor is nearby communities the authorities of also opened 3 flood gates on the 3 gorges dam in an effort to reduce water levels. nearly 4000000 people in india's northeastern state of and neighboring the power have been forced from their homes because of flooding more than 100 people have been killed after heavy monsoon rains caused rivers to break their banks reports.

foreign war and the 6 other members of her family flooding is only the latest disaster to hit 2 hectares of land and the crops they till are still under water. but every day she returns to her flooded home to feed the cows and check to see if levels have subsided. nobody has even come to ask how we are doing our livelihood is gone we can't buy or sell anything we can go fishing we're in so much trouble. the area is also under lockdown to stop the spread of the coronavirus and war and other residents are unable to sell whatever harvest they managed to salvage unable to travel elsewhere for work the muslim majority area park had done lower a psalm is one of the worst affected most villagers who stayed remain on the river embankment while thousands have moved to government relief camps where it's hard to follow help guidelines when 30 people are crammed into a room coke or no i don't think the government has not given us any mosques we've got our own mosques we are poor people but we all following. us are full hussein is

a resident of goma village helping villagers get masks he says the government has failed them forcing some to go billets to village in search of 8 so silverstone single issue social distancing is an issue for us because of corona virus it's spreading dangerously when people have no space to live all sleep because of the floods coronavirus is a small issue in comparison the state's disaster management authority says it's heard the complaints and is working to reach every person in need you brought up and that's what we see that you know we should have all space so that you know i really could be sent to see the distance into government and in those gaps echoing you that this takes the fear class and told to people who want to believe. associate distance number of gas have increased but the residents tell us that

elaborate government plans and new standard operating procedures are not helping them as they grapple with the natural disaster on top of a pandemic and are schapelle al-jazeera. now familiar. all those movies and t.v. have been an escape from the stress and the boredom of law however covert 19 managed to stop the entertainment industry in its tracks with some films forced to lay release states thousands of actors and crews to find themselves out of work while movie directors are trying to find alternative ways to continue production from los angeles. veteran actor ray a brute so has had a long career on stage in movies and television including the acclaimed series the sopranos and i know my old man could be a tough nut to crack and i want to know he says with the pandemic work has dried up it's basically nonexistent covert 19 put in abrupt end to movie making which is uniquely unsuited to social distancing the nature of filming and such and such an

intimate thing i mean you have the wardrobe people addressing you have hair people you have makeup people you have sound guys wiring you everybody and then there are the scenes that you play with another rock there where you're always in close proximity that's just the nature of what we do. before the pandemic the u.s. film and sound recording industry employed 456000 people now producers in locations scouts are scrambling to find relatively safe places where they can film but at the moment is almost completely shut down that some things are opening up so you see some places ceilidh iceland some places in europe they're starting to be opened most of it at the moment is still local production producer jogia near runs capital arts productions a vast space with 20 standing sets where movie and t.v. production companies shoot scenes there before crews are departments you know grip

aleck trick coming and cameras going this way that way all production things that would happen in t.v. and film happen out stage and now it's all quiet. it's very quiet now he says the industry and its unions have been developing new safety protocols you need to outline you know where p.p. is being distributed the testing and testing is a big part of all of it you know your disinfectant protocol your cleaning protocol where is your when does your hygiene crew come in still to be worked out are issues including how does shoot romantic scenes with social distancing all of these new safety protocols are absolutely necessary for the movie business to revive but they will also mean that film productions will take longer and become much more expensive there's going to be a big line item and pretty much everyone's budget about what has to be spent for people to feel safe going back to work well it's definitely going to be different

and everything's going to be different i do think aventura will come back it may take some time but to paraphrase hollywood's favorite saying the show must go on even in a pandemic robert oulds al-jazeera los angeles to check out the websites the address as ever al jazeera dot com the headlines right now. this is al jazeera let's update your top stories e.u. leaders are meeting for days and go see it's a multi $1000000000.00 package to deal with the economic fallout of the pandemic the german chancellor says it's possible they will not agree on some conditions invited to indian today we're entering the 3rd day of negotiations i had to set leave the decisive one the various issues the size of the fund the way it is managed and also the issues of the rule of law have now been well dealt with

whether they'll be a solution i still can say there's a lot of goodwill but there are also a lot of positions so i will join in working for it but there may also be no result today. the foreign ministers of iran and iraq of held talks in baghdad they discussed relations which have been strained by foreign powers over recent months the us president donald trump has blamed democratic party leaders for a recent surge in violent crime across many american cities mr trump made the unproven allegations on the fox news sunday show china xinjiang region has declared a wartime state quotes after a small increase in cases 28 new infections have been reported since friday the city of a room she has suspended big gatherings of people hong kong has reported a record daily high of more than $100.00 virus infections the territories leader carry the virus is now spreading out of control from monday all non-essential public employees will work from home syria's holding its 3rd parliamentary

elections since the uprising began against president bashar al assad 9 years ago people are voting in some former rebel strongholds for the 1st time in years opposition groups have been boycotting the elections calling it neither fair nor credible hundreds of protesters are demanding the dissolution of parliament in the democratic republic of congo the demonstrations in the capital kinshasa organized by the catholic church which is accusing the parliament of blocking meaningful reforms nearly 4000000 people in state in india and neighboring the pile of being forced from their homes because of flooding well 100 died you are right up to speed with all the top stories kamala's here from 15 g. i'll see you from 10 g. tomorrow up next it's the listening post. there. is the government in this area actually to really address some of the structural issues we

listen i still think that travel is the safest mode of travel and we meet with global news makers the stories the. 0. under. the tree. hello i'm richard quest virgin you're watching the listening post working from home here are some of the media stories we're covering this week poland reelect president after the government turns back the clock to the good old days of state controlled television he won the nobel peace prize last year but now the ethiopian prime minister has shut down.