in the sense of i guess starts may 20th on w. . this is d. w. news live from berlin tonight europe struggling to find one voice in its recovery from the economic shock of the pandemic with the crisis hammering europe's economies e.u. leaders have made progress towards establishing a rescue fund but deep divisions remain over a long term strategy also coming up in the 1st case of its kind in the world to syrians accused of torture are going on trial here in germany can justice be

delivered. and that german football's top brass has signed off on a plan to restart the country's pointlessly get in may but not everyone wants a kickoff in the middle of a pandemic. i'm burnt off it's good to have you with us we begin tonight with europe and the pandemics cos european union leaders have moved closer to an agreement on funding a joint recovery fund for after the coronavirus pandemic the 27 e.u. leaders met today in a video conference call diplomatic sources say that they agreed to ask the european council the use executive wing to work out the details of the common support plan of this is the 4th time that leaders have met since the virus outbreak began. in

italy. where you cheever's live and ally and she took part in that virtual somebody and she is warning that all e.u. countries need to see a steady recovery or risk a deepening divisions within your brother pandemic no certainly no borders and is blind to nationalities some countries are certainly hit harder than others and unless unless we act decisively and collectively the recovery will not be symmetric and divergencies between member states will increase. its observed live on the line there speaking let's cross now to brussels i'm joined by chief international of the richard walker good evening to you richard so are we getting a clearer picture here do e.u. leaders now do they have a a plan to tackle these problems. well we are i'll say a little bit wiser brant after today's meeting v there has been

a little bit of forward movement now the leaders have agreed on the very very broad strokes of what is needed here they've agreed that a big fund is needed to power the recovery once the outbreak is beginning to dissipate that it needs to smooth out those inequalities between different countries as they rebound to try and make sure that some countries don't suffer for longer than for others and also that this fund needs to have some kind of relationship with the e.u.'s overall budget which also has to be worked out the budget for the next 7 years the e.u. has not yet agreed to the measly some relationship between those those 2 things but beyond that there's a huge amount of uncertainty how big should this fund be where exactly should the money come from and how should the money be dispersed all of those things around known and they're not exactly kind of little niggly detailed questions they are

fundamental and what's going to happen now is that the european commission has been given the job of working that out getting into the weeds and trying to square some of those circles of just a mixed metaphors there. so although just about every leader of the e.u. came out of that meeting saying that they were happy with the result there's still a lot of uncertainty about whether they're going to come up with something that satisfies everyone and richard what about this controversial idea of debt burden sharing neutralizing. these so-called coorong or bonds do they remain terribly when off the table tonight. well there's not even complete clarity on that all of the different leaders have been giving their press conferences earlier a man will call indicated that that is no longer the kind of battleground he said that the main battleground is is whether money coming out of this fund is in the form of loans or in the form of grants which is obviously also a very important question but this doesn't even seem to be agreement on that

because just simply call to the italian prime minister says he wants grant the austrian prime minister sebastian quotes was extremely clear that he he would only want loans to come out of this fund and he also absolutely clearly said that he didn't want to see any kuroda bonds that those were off the questions off the table but giuseppe conti the italian prime minister left some ambiguity in his statement so we're really trying to get that kind of work out exactly if everyone was on the same page coming out of this meeting or if everyone kind of was in that meeting came out said it was great it has their version of it that they're telling their public that could be a lot of pages here to read richard walker in brussels tonight richard thank you were germany's chancellor angela merkel she has voiced her support for a joint rescue fund for the european union even if that means that germany will have to dig deeper into its own pockets today she stressed that solidarity with europe will benefit germans as well. the figure for germany it means we have to

expect high a country view sions for the e.u.'s next budget with guns it's clear we need some kind of financial instrument recovery plan put on where we carry fund recovery fund and i want to be very clear here a collective response is also in germany's interest. are there was the german chancellor speaking today let's bring in our chief political correspondent belinda crane she is in berlin good evening to you melinda you know we've heard it many times we were talking about these corroded bonds euro bonds germany and the northern european countries they've always been labeled the bad guys by southern european countries did the chancellor good day did she appear to be on the defensive a little. no absolutely not and she spoke in a press conference just after the end of this video conference summit and seemed pretty satisfied and she described the atmosphere as very positive very friendly

and said that there was absolute agreement that together the e.u. member countries must find a way forward i think in part this lack of defensiveness is because this morning to some degree she went on the office if she managed to get herself out of the corner that sometimes germany quiets that getting backed into as a naysayer she said very clearly we know we must port more money on the table germany only does well when the rest of the e.u. does well and then she made this very clear statement in her remarks to the parliament this morning saying we will be increasing our contribution to the e.u. budget significantly until now germany has insisted that the number was one percent of g.d.p. and that's what it would stay at that what they contribute to the budget now she made it very clear it is going to be significantly higher than that and this

essentially is part of this the solution that is not a carone up on solution but that would increase the commission capacity and i think in that way she feels that she is now part of the solution rather than a problem all right our chief political correspondent linda crane well linda thank you. well staying here in germany we're going to go now from economics to justice the trial of 2 suspected members of syria's secret police opened today in the german city of kogut the men face charges of murder torture and sexual assault that they allegedly committed in a damascus prison in 2011 in 2012 prosecutors are using universal jurisdiction laws to try the 2 suspects here in germany they entered germany as asylum seekers' d w reports now on one woman's hope that the trial can bring justice for her son and

a warning viewers may find some of these scenes distress. mario lives in a berlin suburb it seems it illich but this syrian woman is part of a europe wide hunt to catch criminals secret service agents from her country like many others merriam's son i hum was systematically tortured the young medical student had spoken up for human rights and calling 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 responsible for stealing our children's blood could kill me them. more than 26000 pictures of torture victims were smuggled out of her tour in syria by a courageous former police photographer has coated the scenes are the photos could help convict torturers and murderers. human rights lawyer mohsen down we survive 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 and more are is charged with crimes against humanity murder and rape. this is the fate of stone it will be a thorough this is the 1st time it has to speak to them or judge and. and we have picked up on suspect and we saw signs in the north of the state of florida we don't have it in syria. bill wiley is investigating syrian torturers he used to hunt more criminals as he went prosecutor and worked on cases from the former yugoslavia and the rwandan genocide he knows that without a peeper trail it's difficult to bring culprits to justice. that's why the state documents smuggled out of syria are so valuable. what you have in this

room are materials generated by the security intelligence structures of shared the military structures of syria and the party or political structures of syria at the top level and at the government levels at qwest they also shed light on suspected torturers such as anwar are widely believed at least a dozen former senior agents remain undetected in europe. 100 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. or germany this week became the latest country to allow the testing of a vaccine on humans for the corona virus but not everyone supports that step despite the pandemic anti-bacterial sentiment continues to thrive in a minority of people around the world it's

a movement that's been growing in recent years fueled partly by a long discredited study which links the measles vaccine to all tism in children experts warn people's resistance to a code that 19 bags seen when it eventually becomes available that could undermine efforts to eradicate the virus. that would be a poor scenario right there on the screen now to do a report of public polling aliens he's been looking into this story for us going to you pablo so let's get this straight now is the corona virus pandemic is it leading anti vacs or to change their opinion about vaccines. well bred i think what's interesting is if you look at countries that have a particularly we'll say high numbers of people who actually don't trust vaccines and michaelmas a surprise to some people that it in fact is in france but we've actually seen is that the number of people actually willing to say they get

a vaccine for the corona virus has actually increased and the same is the case for the u.k. there's been a slight increase in studies that have been carried out actually recently in the number of people willing to get a vaccine when it does become available in the future but you know experts are still warning that this fight the fact that there is some sort of shift that with regarding the vaccine there are many people who are still adamant that they wouldn't get it in fact there are some well known faces out there even coming out publicly and saying that they wouldn't get a vaccine the most famous will say would be the tennis star novak djokovic also you don't need to look too far online to find groups out there saying that they will not be getting the vaccine for a number of reasons either for health reasons or also because they just simply don't want the vaccine so you know there are plenty of conspiracy theories as well out there over the coronavirus why it started and what that maxie will mean i want all the money that's being pumped into it but you know it's going to be hard for administrations to convince people and when it does eventually happen you know it's

a good point i saw an interview last night with the mayor of los vegas in the u.s. and she said that everyone has the corona virus and she said most people are doing fine so you know you've got to work around that type of thinking as well when we do get a vaccine how our health officials are how are they planning to deal with this type of skepticism. well you know it's really hard to know yet because 1st and foremost let's not forget we don't actually have a coronavirus vaccine at the moment but we can sort of almost 3 am type some countries are going to act at best of course is here in germany where we are at the moment let's not forget that last year our law was introduced here over measles making me feel that the measles vaccine compulsory for children who wanted to attend school and day care centers and so we could perhaps see something similar taking place another interesting quandary to take a look at is actually it's me of course let's not forget the worst hit country in europe and among the worst in the world and they actually have people within their

members their parliament fact who are actually anti factors so you know interesting times to see how it all pans out all right up very on public us on the story for us here in berlin tonight a public thank you you're watching the w. news i'll be back at the top of the hour with more world news followed by the day i hope to see you then. come betting the corona pandemic. where does research stand. what are scientists learning. background information and news of. our corona. 19 special next on d w. i'm doing great big thing in all the

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