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welcome to the program europe is facing a severe economic shock because of the. 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 all the blocks long term recovery but they're 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 low e.u. member states have 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 won't do much this put into our societies and serious

through their wellbeing of each e.u. member states depends on the will be of the whole of the e.u. we are all in this. michelle 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 found a 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 next budget. it's clear we need some kind of financial instrument recovery

plan now on or recovery fund recovery fund 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 mees 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 yet to come and they don't because on and back and he 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 detail have to be worked out but all leaders stress that they want to show

solidarity but everybody of cause things sort of for his own coffers no more running in the run up to do so meeting called on no bones well 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 commission now has to toss to come up with some model of finding sing and comment that certainly of 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 a message like you 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 event may be talking about that looking at increases in you budgets i mean that is something that was being discussed. most of the member states and you commission of faith. 2 to leverage this loans through the common e.u. budget which is there 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 number of 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 italy so far so it's the question how would this be financed and will the member state 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 the next 7 to be in may and this new recovery fund should kick in next year you have a correspondent band that we get in brussels thank you very much for that. here's a look at some of the latest developments in the coronavirus pandemic the noble death toll from over 1000 has a past 190000 according to johns hopkins university the number of confirmed cases is approaching 3000000 china has 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 reasons indonesia will temporarily banned domestic and international air

and sea travel starting this week it's already banned movement from cities to the provinces during the ramadan holy period and hungary plans sort of place its lockdown which included a blanket curfew on the entire population with more targeted measures from the may the new rules are to focus on those at high risk. people infected with the. should be treated with ultraviolet light and disinfectant . during a white house press briefing following a presentation by a government official suggesting heat and sunlight could weaken the virus. suppose it will hit. with a tremendous whether it's. just a very powerful light and i think you said. supposing it. can which you can do either through the skin or. in some other way

and i think you said you. could see the disinfectant but not. in a minute one minute is there a way we can do something. injection. or. dismissed immediately present at the briefing i had a look at some other stories making headlines around the several 1000 people have attended services. the crowds ignored advice from the government and health officials who. home to prevent the spread of. traffic and. the. measures more than 14 the country's transportation minister.

in order to abide by distancing restrictions. a high profile democracy activist pro-democracy activist i'm sorry bookseller who fled hong kong has been attacked with red paint in taiwan where he's set to launch a new bookstore this weekend. is a formal one off cause we be books north look at what's bad by china. phoebe kong reports the causeway bay book store used to be an iconic location in hong kong famed for selling books critical of chinese leaders now it's feldman when k. is about to bring it to taiwan and should also have 15 that was one of 5 hong kong booksellers 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 i mean why don't you books are my weapon of resistance or that reopening

a bookstore is a revolt against the authoritarian regime. they targeted bookstores in order to suppress freedom of speech why are they so afraid of an armed booksellers. then 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 were arrested just last weekend. and these week lemon pay was attacked with paint in taipei in what he called in the attempts by china to intimidate him alone is not backing down so guns and books about the hong kong protest a prominent in his books but when you have

a horrible. mistake about hong kong because it's ruled by a country which preaches its promises to the people. yeah. 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 on this flag. many people around the world acco his beliefs he raised around $200000.00 in power funding to realize to projects. that when. we leave it let's leave. it. there may be on the path of no return after leaving his home loving family behind in hong kong the boat saw 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. adele liberties have had their price 11 k. believes he made the best decision he could have. some sports news now the president of world of letters sebastian coe has told the doctor that athletes who would have missed the talk out of big sister 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 cleared to take part in 2021 that's because under current rules dopping brands are based on time periods and not events cause said what's fair and what's legally acceptable sometimes difficult i've always believed that athletes that have been caught don't

. damage the school and damage the reputation. and that's why the work of the athletic integrity unit is so important why not try taxing clean athletes this is important only 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 served any time away from competition lately that is extremely difficult and the invites we have taken on that is that i'm afraid it would be in a very litigious world opens a challenge. in the netherlands. steve. go.

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