e.w. dot com. the making of you. could turn. this say as did every news live from berlin europe struggles to stand together amid the coronavirus pandemic you needed to make some progress trying to hammer out a deal to share the cost of recovery from the current lockdowns so-called walpole's for the so-called corrosive bonds have exposed implicit divisions within the broad also coming up. in the 1st case of its kind in the world to syrians suspected of

torture go on trial here in germany campaign this wouldn't be the 1st step towards justice of thousands of victims. and german football's top process and all fun of that to restart the country's beloved one to sneak it made but not everyone is on board with the fresh pickle in the middle of a president. christie want to welcome to the program if he and union leaders have moved closer to an agreement on funding a joint recovery fund for off to the coronavirus pandemic the 27 e.u. leaders snit's in a video conference today diplomatic sources say they agree to osce the european council that's the blocs executive wing to work out the details off the comments of . planned this is the 4th time leaders have met since the virus outbreak in italy.

a new chief was one of one the lion took part in that virtual summit she warned that all e.u. countries need to see a steady recovery or risk deepening divisions within the block by the pandemic no certainly no borders and is blind to nationalities some countries are certainly hit harder than others and unless unless we acted decisively and collectively the recovery will not be symmetric and divergences between member states will increase. more on this it's also announced it only has chief international editor richard walker hello richard so how do you eat it as plan to tackle the problems that had. yes well that question is really pretty world wide open after this afternoon's meeting christine the meeting didn't last as long as many

had feared it was fear that it could run late into the night which actually broke up after just a few hours but in a way that's a sign that they really haven't got they get all that the e.u. leaders of really agreed to is to give was a lot on the line who we just saw in the clip there the task of working out how to put together this so-called recovery fund that everyone agrees that they want to some extent. and how to put that together what it should do and what the modality of its funding is going to be at all not exactly a detail questions that are absolutely fundamental to what this fund will be and what it can achieve and some of the principles of the thinking have been under schooled the principles of things like solidarity and this word symmetry that they're be using a lot this idea that you can't have a deeper impact in one country from covert 19 disaster from what you have in another country and how to actually achieve or fund bridges those gaps is going to

be the big task and there are some very very big sticking points between the 2 kind of big blocks of this debate ok which is so so this fund which is to the tune of some 540000000000 does that take corona buns off the table. ok what we need to be clear about what we're talking about here christine so the 540000000000 euro front you're talking about that's actually something that's already been agreed on a couple of weeks ago by the euro group that's the finance ministers of all of the countries that use the euro zone that's all about much more immediate urgent support for economies that are struggling right now that's been agreed on the big question is how to fund this kind of future fund it's all about rebuilding the economy once the outbreak has begun begun to ease and there are basically kind of big divisions around a couple of questions one question up until now has been about whether the european union will issue was called mutual debt things like corona bonds euro bonds of the

words been floating around it looks like that's off the table because that's firmly opposed by northern european countries like germany unlike the netherlands like austria but the 2nd question is whether there might be a vehicle of some kind that's connected to the e.u. budget which still has to be negotiated also for the next few years by which means the european commission might be able to distribute funds to countries that are suffering and this is a plan that spain has been putting together of the last few days and it's got quite a bit of support for that so it can be interesting to see whether the spanish plan gets the kind of support within the european commission of the next few weeks as they put this together ok that's richard walk in brussels thank you germany's chancellor angela merkel spoke after the e.u. summit is chief political correspondent lyndal crane is following that story for us hello melinda so what are the main points the chancellor angela merkel made. well

the chancellor started out by repeating what she had said this morning earlier on in her statement to the german parliament before she went into this video conference basically that germany will only be able to recover well from the corona crisis if europe as a whole recovers well that the they aren't one union one community and she went on to say and that means that germany will in future be contributing significantly more to the e.u. budget she was later on when she was taking questions asked well exactly how big is this new recovery fund that richard was just explaining exactly how big is that likely to be she said she wasn't going to get pinned down on that likely sized whether it was going to be another 500000000000 or possibly even as much as a trillion euros she said that that had not been the queen this evening and she

said that what was also not agreed as we also heard from richard is whether payouts to countries from this fund would be on the basis of grants or whether they would be loans and she did indicate that corona in her view has been ruled out some of those were the main takeaways from what she had to say to see. a minute what we know that the germans have been strongly opposed to the idea of these current abundance to the chancellor appear to be somewhat on the defensive over the issue. not at all she gave it pretty satisfied impression and when she was directly asked whether there had been a lot of acrimony in this video conference she said no we had a very friendly atmosphere there had been a lot of contact before hand so that and she as we know met with the spanish leaders to talk about trying to find a compromise and i think that her statement this morning to the parliament in which

she said germany would be putting more money on the table and that it would be looking essential before the commission to play a more active role i think in that way she kind of got herself out of the corner that to some degree she had been backed into a right that's been in the crane thank you let's have a look now at a coronavirus news that 19 has now killed over 186000 people worldwide according to the night's biggest compiled by johns hopkins university the number of global cases is approaching 3000000 the w.h.o. say it's up to half of the deaths from the pandemic across europe occurred in nursing homes way of a bit in health with his attend to the elysee pregnancy is testing capacity is growing exponentially and is on track to reach 100000 tests a day the u.k. has faced criticism for its failure to introduce rapid widespread testing the no of

an italian regional film body has begun antibody tests as it seeks data about possible immunity to the corona virus the region hit hard by the virus is preparing to reopen its economy. it's head back sued germany for a different story now the trial of 2 suspected members of syria's secret police has opened in the city of copeland's the men face charges of murder torture and 6 year olds that they allegedly committed in a domestic us prison in sweeny 112012 prosecutors are using universal jurisdiction rules to try the 2 suspects in this country they into germany as asylum seekers reports now on one woman's hope that the trial could bring justice for his son a warning that view is may find some scenes in our next report distressing. mario lives in a berlin suburb it seems it to like but this syrian woman is part of a europe wide hunt to catch criminal secret service agents from her country like

many others mariam son i hum was systematically tortured the young medical student had spoken up for human rights and called for president bashar assad to step down now 8 years after his death his mother is seeking justice. i want the culprits to be brought to justice from the accomplices all the way up to assad these people are responsive will for spilling our children's blood could kill me that. more than 26000 pictures of torture victims were smuggled out of her torn syria by a courageous former police photographer his code name caesar the photos could help convict torturers and murderers. human rights lawyer maz and doubt we survived torture in syria now living in germany he's pressing charges against his former tormentors including anwar as a former senior member of the syrian secret service n y r r is charged with crimes against humanity murder and rape. this is the face of stone

if you will be a player this is the 1st time there is a split the. judge and we have picked a suspect and the size of. the state of florida we don't have it and see it you. bill wiley is investigating syrian torturers he used to hunt war criminals as he went prosecutor and worked on cases from the former yugoslavia and the wanton genocide he knows that without a peeper trail it's difficult to bring culprits to justice. that's why these state documents smuggled out of syria are so valuable. what you have in this room. was generated by the security intelligence structures of syria the military structures of syria and the party or political structures of syria top

level and the governor levels request they also shed light on suspected torturers such as anwar are widely believed at least a dozen former senior remain undetected in europe. and hopes that not only the killers of her son will be brought to justice but also others living in hiding for her the hunt has just begun. now his look at other stories making headlines around the world wide fires have devastated about 10 percent of east and poland's. national parks some 6000 x. has a forest meadows and people have burned since sunday poland is facing its worst drought in the is off to an unusually dry winter and spring cold has been rising to a 7 year high rise as investors just look to a safe haven people in thailand have been among those selling jewelry with the

precious metal briefly trading at more than $750.00 an ounce. concerns are growing for indigenous tribes in brazil's amazon region hit hard by the coronavirus the city of man else's digging mass graves to handle around 100 burials a day that's 3 times the usual number local officials are pleading for federal aid but president nor is government is playing down the threat. honestly the clubs and the german football league have held a virtual meeting and say they hope to officially restart the bundesliga season on may 9th in empty stadiums that's pending government approval it would mark the 1st return of a major european football jaring the coronavirus pandemic. the german football league wants to restart the bundesliga season with games behind closed doors and they have a powerful motive broadcasters have agreed to pay out around 300000000 euros in

t.v. money if the season resumes. for thanks to the agreement the $36.00 1st and 2nd division clubs will be assured the money they need until june the 30th. it would be a lifeline for cash strapped clubs like cologne. as it is wanted to get bored. it was important news today a lot of clubs have money problems and making partial payments now and payments in full when play resumes would send an important message. games without spectators may be the only way to stem the financial damage during the coronavirus pandemic. of the season doesn't resume or it stops again searching mechanisms would ensure the money is repaid. that would threaten the survival of a number of clubs and it would jeopardize the livelihood of around 56000 people who

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