this is life. saving europe's economies from the. e.u. approved a gigantic emergency rescue package to protect jobs and businesses. discussions on a long recovery plan. on the u.s. economy we need some of the 26000000 americans to lose their work and income over the past 5 weeks. china.

taiwan. welcome to the program europe is facing a severe economic shock because of the last night e.u. leaders signed off on an emergency rescue package to help countries deal with the economic fallout of the crisis they also agreed in principle to set up a fund to secure the blocks long term recovery but they are still divided on how this should be financed. the video conference was the 4th such meeting since the virus hit e.u. countries and expectations were lower e.u. member states of so far failed to agree on how to help those economies hit hardest by the pandemic but after just

a few hours the council president emerged emphasizing the country's common interests this toned image this putting out of sight is and serious through there will be of each e.u. member states depends on the will be of the whole of the e.u. we are all in this together michel said leaders have agreed to task the e.u. commission with linking a recovery plan to the use next long term budget a u commission president on the line called for unity unless we acted decisively and collectively the recovery will not be symmetric and divergence between member states will increase. speaking to the press and berlin after the meeting german chancellor angela merkel also stressed what this meant for europe's biggest economy . that's what i had to figure out for germany it means we have to expect higher

contributions for the e.u. so next budget. it's clear we need some kind of financial instrument or recovery plan. or recovery fund recovery fun and i want to be very clear here a collective response is also in germany's interest in. berlin has expressed a willingness and recent days to offer more aid to other struggling a euro khana means and eurozone finance ministers had already agreed on the principle of an e.u. recovery fund the big problem the size and nature of this new debt instrument has yet to be decided but after thursday's meeting italian prime minister just sepic on to hailed the progress being made. the most important thing is that this urgent and necessary instrument has been confirmed it led to calls for our initiative and the letter signed by the countries was very important an instrument like this was absolutely unthinkable until now.

despite the price details on the planet spots and many suspect the e.u. commission's toughest negotiations are yet to come and they don't because on and band joins me from brussels now for more band what exactly have european leaders agreed to. by their leaders decided to have this emergency fund 500000000000 euros which consists of loans the member states can get from the european institutions they also agreed on 3 trillion euros that are pledged by the national member states for their own national economies and on top of that they want to establish a recovery fund worth around one trillion to $1.00 trillion but it is not decided how this recovery fund will be financed and who will at the end get the money

lots of details have to be worked out but all leaders stress that they want to show solidarity but everybody of course things sort of for his old coffers no more running in the run up to do so meeting corona bones were being touted as a possible way to fund this long term recovery fund so is this idea effectively dead. yes and no there is still the concept of common debt that somehow has to be taken to to finance this endeavor but this will not be named corona bonds anymore because many countries like germany say this concept is that in the vault but the commission now has the top that you commissioner has to come up with some model of finding thing and common debt certainly be a player owes you commission may take some loans get some loans on the financial

markets and hand them to the member states but this is not decided the member states and the states likely to leave on grounds not loans about other member states like say only loans in the making you can't get grants just money for free but even those norms or grants whatever the case may be need to be secured against something and even when you talking about that are you looking at increases in you budgets i mean that is something that was being discussed. most of the member states and you commission no faith. 2 to leverage this loans through the common e.u. budget which is that which is trusted and the budget is but the budget is too small for that right now so they have to increase this common budget and that means that member states also have to pay more into this coming budget you commission wants to

double this budget in the next 2 or 3 years that means 300000000000 euros have to come from them estates 25 percent of that from germany but also 13 percent by italy so far so it's the question how would this be financed and with the member states in the south actually do that and also the member states in the east have to pay more than they do now and they are not willing to do that as of now so lots of work that excited to be in may and this new recovery fund shall kick in next year you have a correspondent band or you get in brussels thank you very much for that let's go to frankfurt now to see how the markets are looking at this of financial correspondent just a delaney joins me on the line now. brussels wants to extend economic help in the long term but there is no clarity yet on what form that would take our markets seeing this. well expectations going into this meeting were already pretty low

but investors i've talked to are pretty disappointed by how far apart e.u. leaders still seem to be on this issue you know the didn't and at the meeting with complete loggerheads they agreed in principle to this recovery they also agreed on the 500000000000 euro package that will help plug some gaps in the economy particularly for countries like italy that don't have as much room in their their national budget to respond to the coronavirus impacts but it's still very unclear how they're really going to proceed with this bigger one trillion dollar stimulus package and at the same time all of this economic damage is continuing to pile up in the euro zone that you commission is saying the economy could contract by 15 percent this year so there's really a lot of urgency to make some sort of decision on a broader longer term recovery package of investors are just not very optimistic

right now their sympathy with the past few days as stabilized from their drive to close as well to you're going. i think it's too early to call this the long term recovery of the dax opened up here in frankfurt down about 2 percent so there's still a lot of volatility we've had fleeting moments of optimism about central bank stimulus and recovery efforts but every week we just seem to see an unprecedented decline and business activity or oil and negative territory things like unemployment. unemployment it claims in the u.s. of 202030 1000000 so there's still a lot of volatility ahead for global markets jones to delineate thank you very much for the. here's a look now at some of the latest developments in the corner of us spend democrat on the wild the global death toll from over 1000 has a bust 100 in 1000 according to johns hopkins university the number of confirmed

cases is approaching 3000000 john as reported no new coronavirus deaths for the 9th straight day and just 6 new cases 2 of those were brought from overseas with for domestic cases indonesia will temporarily ban domestic and international and see troubles daunting this week it's already banned movement from cities to the provinces during the ramadan holiday period and hungary plans to replace its logged on with. that's imposed a blanket go for you on the entire population with more targeted measures from only may the new rules are to focus on those at high risk this pandemic is a pushing us jobless numbers too high is not seen since the great depression of the 1930 s. the most recent figures show one in 6 american workers has been thrown out of a job in the past 5 weeks that's 26000000 people of washington correspondent all of us as more. when montelena eliot looks at her old

construction site she still struggles to comprehend what happened 3 weeks ago the immigrant architect from poland was working on one of washington's biggest apartment buildings then she lost her job in just a blink of an eye so very challenging it was a hard time saying actually to even an intro for unemployment it took me 2 weeks of nonstop calling sometimes i was on the hold for 56 hours in her 20 years in america delano was able to build a life she owns her own home. and raises 2 sons. you know for the 1st time she is fighting to make ends meet she can't afford the mortgage and she has been forced to learn new skills like home schooling the kids. tell. can recount i have 6 who have. her savings will last for another few weeks she says she is trying not to think about

what comes after that. all. the right now the main thing gets to. be able to provide them with food and to have a shelter and we don't have that than we are in there only. only a few miles away in washington sean neighborhood bar that was shut down has reopened as a food bank catering to some of those who are hit the hardest is. laid off workers from the hospitality business get one hot meal per day has been tough is day by day but all you can do is just be optimistic and you know be glad that you're healthy you have my wife. and was well aware for your restaurant and we are now working it's very hard these are great people and i appreciate everything they do it like it's helped me through some type of tours they could have been

a lot so for. the bar's owner and had to furlough 70 off or $85.00 employees she collected some 300000 u.s. dollars in donations and is now trying to keep the community afloat. here in d.c. one in 7 workers is actually in the hospitality industry so you're talking about a huge number of people who are suddenly hitting the the public safety net programs and so there have just been a lot of delays in them receiving the aid that they're applying for it. how much of my delina l u 2 is still waiting for her unemployment 8 as a skilled worker she hopes to find a new job once the crisis is over but she knows that many americans will not be that lucky a month and i says you know look at some of the stories making headlines around the world u.s. president donald trump is being criticized by medical experts for suggesting that

injections of disinfectant or the use of ultraviolet light may have to cure all caught on about a special truck made the comments altered an official outlined research on the effects of sunlight and household disinfectants on the virus and its. 4 portuguese mark and center has been evacuated off of the vast majority of the $175.00 residents tested positive for the new coronavirus authorities ordered moss testing of all residents of the lisbon facility after one of them was found to be carrying the virus. the world's longest undeceive tunnel has officially open to traffic in norway the country's transportation minister got to set a morning on a ribbon for the. tunnel during a video call in order to abide by its worth of distancing restrictions. a high profile pro-democracy activist and bookseller who fled hong kong has been attacked with red paint in taiwan where he set to launch a new bookstore this weekend lumbering t.

is the former owner of hong kong scolds me baby books known for getting works banned by china. phoebe kong reports the causeway bay but still used to be an iconic location in hong kong famed for selling books critical of tiny city that is now its feldman when kate is about to bring it to taiwan and 2015 level 500 sell those detained by chinese agents and forced to confess on t.v. . that his calling in life has much more meaning now than 5 years ago by one of the books are my weapon of resistance or that reopening a bookstore is a revolt against the authoritarian regime. but they targeted bookstores in order to suppress freedom of speech why are they so afraid of unarmed booksellers. lem could only realize his point after he fled to taiwan and they probably last

year that was after the hong kong government was pushing ahead with an extradition bill that could send him back to china for trial soon after he left hong kong to send in 2 months of mass protests. the unrest is far from over 15 living opposition figures where arrested just last weekend. and these week lemon k was attacked with paint in taipei in what he caught in the attempt by china to intimidate him alone he's not backing down so guns and books about the hong kong protest a prominent in his book stop. or you know what i'm pessimistic about hong kong because it's ruled by a country which preaches its promises to the people. through old china tightened hong kong's freedoms over the past 20 years but my bookstore says no to totalitarianism. we call for liberties just as it's written here on this flag.

many people around the world acco his beliefs he raised around $200000.00 in pounds funding to realize the project. 5 years when he would. make it look like. other. men may be on the path of no return after leaving his home of the family behind in hong kong the boat store in taipei has now become his home. i don't expect the situation to improve soon maybe in a decade or more nevertheless we shouldn't give up i boycott all chinese products revolts doesn't necessarily mean throwing a petrol bomb it's all the little things in our everyday lives. again upon home by more. i don't liberties have had their price 11 k.

believes he made the best decision he could have. but there are those who remain in hong kong fighting for the very liberties denied to me joining me on the line from hong kong or is mata ne but from pro-democracy campaign and founder of on kong's democratic body a man mr lee alon king we said in our report that he's court pessimistic about hong kong because it is deluded by a country which breaches its promises to the people are you pessimistic as well. i do think anybody can be optimistic say but really believe the way forward is to hold china to her promises made to the british nation if you for the sake of british joint declaration will introduce ridge to the united nations. future lies in those promises made is of course neither british nor to the chinese

good with the booty homecoming for those 50 years from decision to either tonight or sit on call of people. who come. in foreign affairs so say that your declaration. which is our constitution. hong kong joy a high degree of economy that was the fundamental is made to us but now beijing is changing its mind. 6 years ago in june to 48 the chinese government published a white paper instead of the different languages including seeing that the central government has complete administrative power over. the dish stewart peace process that hong kong people with ministers come with

a high degree of kind of it on its head now china's is this which is complete initiative power over there is a breach of mentor breach of promise and i did see how cost future lies in our system that turned to the british women in that whole china to do prevent and i call on the international community right in germany. china to her own agreed. not by just a sudden drop in recently but then just lost me there beating stop official in hong kong said that the government should enact national security legislation as soon as possible and also you were arrested you were among 15 people arrested who were involved with pro-democracy protests in this city i'm just wondering are these further examples of beijing's tightening grip on hong kong and if you think the government is using the cover of the coronavirus ben demick to become increasingly authoritarian. yeah they're taking advantage as it goes of the situation because

every gun is too busy winding minding its own business trying to do something of this terrible violence but the way forward is for people to continue our fight for democracy we have nobody to peacefully not be no tourist now in the past year resisted those people who we saw to some degree of force and they arrested we believe in the 1000 struck him up and see the osu prosecuted to the riffle with the only way for us is to insist that china right by her congress is right we are not asking for anything but if you're just there congress. i understand that you use use you speak about a peaceful way of protesting and apologise for interrupting that again but then just on that particular point i mean before the corner what has been damaged at the

world and hong kong protests were anything but peaceful but the crown about to spend them it put paid to those protests for the time being do you think it's just a matter of time before we see these protests in the streets again. i don't know no better now and china is going to rule hong kong with a really strong fish no doubt about that they will not tolerate any force being used i think the police will resort to shooting at the buddhist. you can see change of attitude who. they change that to hit the head of their home call me a so they sent to get the leaders of this chain. they had a. face off this is authentic and who these guys are no hawks so they would use force and they use oppression on home cause it is in their free will which

supported the showpiece wanted to consistent with sheika and hope china homes there is no other. religion there for the time being not to me founder of hong kong as democratic party many thanks for that. critics of lockdown say some governments are using them to curtail civil liberties and in some cases violate human rights as part of an ongoing series or the double. around the world look at the situation in the countries they are covering. with turkey having now one of the world's highest infection rates for cove it 19 people are increasingly turning to the last few remaining independent newspaper outlets for news but president urged one has declared war not only on the epidemic but also on what he called media and political viruses new legislation has been introduced on reporting on the epidemic which is even saw a local newspaper editor from a nearby city track from his home in the middle of the night despite such pressures

critical journalism is continuing even though it runs a risk of a knock on the door from the police see go through. queues of human rights violations against citizens while enforcing the law down according to nigeria's national human rights commission. people have been killed by security. that's almost the same. self here in beijing life here is quite normal and at the same time it feels like you're stuck in a big fortress normal because you can go on about your daily life you can go to a barber shop and cut your hair you go to a restaurant you can go shopping this all comes with restrictions and for example when i enter a supermarket there's always a camera that scans my body temperature and also i have to show is q.r. code for my smartphone to prove that i'm healthy the big prescription however counts when you leave beijing because once you return you have to parenting for 14

days no matter what however the chinese are really disciplined when it comes to complying with the restrictions and i really respect them for that. some sports news now the president of world athletics sebastian coe has told the double that athletes who would have missed of tokyo lympics this year because of doping bans shouldn't be allowed to compete next year the postponement of the games means athletes who have served bans for doping offenses this year will be declared to take part will be cleared to take part in 2021 that's because under current rules doping bans are based on time periods and not the vents court said what's fair and what's legally acceptable sometimes differ i've always believed that athletes. hurt being caught don't. damage the school it damages the ready. and that's why the work of the absolute integrity unit is so important why not try to take simply an athlete this is as important as really getting rid. of the cheats and

yes i would rather not be in a position where those athletes are able to compete again having not really said if i'm away from competition lately that is extremely difficult and their advice we have taken on that is i'm afraid it would be in a very good sieges world opens a challenge street art gets a corona make over a mural by the anonymous british street artist banksy girl with the pierced your drum has been given a vitus related facelift of sorts the morality conduct artist your highness femi as a girl with a pearl getting on a homicide giving bristol in west england in 2014 it's not clear if the mosque was added by the artist himself the covert 19 update did not appear on the artist's instagram page where banksy normally unveils new work. and of mind of the following for you the e.u.

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