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unless it improves its function within 30 days. from. the. welcome to the program judges are germany's high court. spying on them by germany's foreign intelligence agency. that surveillance of journalists violates the. rights to privacy and freedom of the press the challenge was brought by 6 foreign journalists. and the advocacy group reporters without borders

a court is giving the spy agency unto the end of next year to change the way operates. from on this i'm joined by hans brandt from our parliamentary studio here in berlin hans it was john listen journalist organizations that brought this complaint to the court what does the verdict mean for journalists lawyers and civil rights networks from all over the world basically it means that they have have the same protection under the german constitution as a german journalist in germany or german lawyers in germany would have in other words what the court has ruled is a very fundamental basic principle that the german agencies the german spy agency when it operate in foreign countries and involving foreigners not germans it still has to stick to the basic rights guaranteed by the german constitution to people in general and i was the german spy service has to stick to the rules that are valid

in germany even when it operates in a foreign country what does that mean about the changes that the german intelligence service needs to now bring in what is the court's demanding. the court is basically demanding 2 things on the 100 to saying that the german side of intelligence service has to respect for instance the lawyers of a russian or the rights of a russian lawyer in confidentiality between a russian lawyer and russian client for instance all that the previously rights possibly of somebody who is being suspected of being a terrorist that person in the law has protection of his pretty right supremacy and the german foreign spy service has to respect that as well that's a very very far reaching ruling what the court is saying now is that the german spy service has to institute. more exact rules on how it conducts its spying and these rules have to be controlled more more carefully by independent and in the

independent body all of this still has to be put into some form of law which is going to take a long time and fairly complicated that's why the court has given more than a year's time for these rulings to be put into law meanwhile hans the german foreign intelligence service itself sees that the verdict is a setback in the fight against terrorism is that correct. while on the other hand the german constitutional court did say that this kind of intelligence gathering was legitimate was important that it needed to be done that it was important for protecting the interests of the german state in an international context but it said that and they say that it is possible to do this in a manner that applies to the constitution that comp complies with the constitution but the new rules have to be set up in such a way that in fact they do comply to the constitution so the court is saying the

spying is a legitimate enterprise and in other words fighting terrorism is something that needs to continue but it needs to be put on a different legal basis on brown thank you very much for the. brazil has overtaken britain with the 3rd highest number of korean of us cases in the world more than a quarter of a 1000000 brazilians have been infected and nearly 17000 have died the government is calling in more than 150 doctors from cuba to help cope with the edge. brazil's hospitals are running dangerously close to capacity rio de janeiro's famous maracana football stadium now serving as a makeshift over spill facility for covert 19 patients. shantytowns are among the hotspots residents from one of the biggest in the city of san paolo marched to protest against their plight with no space for social distancing and lacking medical care there especially at risk. president

jaya both scenario has fiercely criticized lockdowns imposed by brazil's regional state governors because of the impact on the economy but they insist there is no alternative. to beat the economic crisis we have to beat the coronavirus the enemy of the economy is not quarantine it is the pandemic and that is why we have to provide all the necessary support for science for medicine for health. many brazilians are angry they say they're the ones suffering because the authorities acted too slowly but i feel bad that brazil is in a bad state and is behind in its response down should have been done a long time back in getting. people into work people need to eat what they're seeing the government playing politics so nobody is

taking it seriously despite the seriousness of the problem. the seriousness of. the government says the worst of the crisis should be over by july and the economy will be able to pick up from oldest not everyone shares that confidence. u.s. president donald trump has threatened to pull the u.s. out of the world health organization and cut off funding in a letter to the director general of the trump demanded improvements within 30 days and accuse the u.n. agency of being too close to china beijing and dunn has called trump's for months a smear campaign it accuses him of shirking america's response abilities to the. final decision and defund the w. even before trump had issued his incendiary letter to the world health organization it was clear he was about to attack. and i think they've done

a. very sad job in the last period of time. and again the united states pays them $450000000.00 a year china pays them $38000000000.00 a year and they're a puppet of china. china centric to put it nicer but they're a puppet of china those comments at a white house event were quickly followed by a trump tweet he links to a letter accusing the w.h.o. of making a series of missteps over its response to the pandemic in it he warns that if the wild health organization does not commit to major substantial improvements within the next 30 days i will make my temporary freeze of united states funding to the w.h.o. permanent and reconsider our membership in the organization trump's ultimatum came just a few hours after the w.h.o.

announced an independent review i will initiate an independent evaluation at the earliest appropriate moment to review experience again and lessons learned and to make recommendations to improve national and global pandemic preparedness and response. but this is about more than just the well tell full going to ization donald trump he's being criticized for his own handling of the pandemic publicly blames china for trying to cover up the outbreak china's foreign ministry has already hit back accusing trump of trying to mislead the public in order to smear china for more i'm joined by the form australian prime minister kevin rudd has got into a president of the asia society policy institute and joins us from sydney mr rudd welcome donald trump says the choice court a puppet of china do you agree. well bottom line is

the world health organization seeks to discharge its mandate under the arrangements set in place back in one in 48 in the way and it does that is through the international health regulations how there is and that has applied to the current crisis concerning covert 19 frankly is still subject to open question inquiry and investigation i think for the president noted strays to simply issue a blanket smear that the w.h.o. is a puppet of one country or another frankly doesn't do justice to what we need yet to establish and i think the bottom line is president trump seems to be very quick to criticize any other institution in the world including that of robin apply that critique to the performance of his own administration in the united states itself

which at a national government level i think most of us would agree is simply being chaotic so what you're saying is that donald trump is playing politics with an eye on the upcoming election. look number one is the world health organization does have questions to answer. china has questions to answer the origin of the virus the nature of transmission within china the notification system between the chinese provincial authorities and the national authorities in beijing and the notification timetable in terms of what apply between beijing and geneva on the w.h.o. and what the w.h.o. then did about it these are legitimate questions for which we need answers however to unilaterally conclude as president trump has concluded that all problems to do with the current code 19 pandemic can be slated back to the world health organization frankly just flies in the face of reality i think president trump

is seeking in part to deflect attention from the performance of his own administration which even on the part of certain republicans has been judged to be chaotic. the president has also threatened to bomb and keep on funding from the shore now you had written an article in the economist earlier where the initial threats have been made for the suspension of u.s. funding what do you say now to what donald trump as. well i think the present united states needs to understand that the united nations system including the world health organization is america's child it was created in the aftermath of the 2nd world war and it came into being because that had a great show in one in 48 and what america has done for 3 quarters of a century is to support and to fund and to provide in many cases policy

direction all these instruments of multilateral governance across the world now for the united states to simply stand back and say we're going to withdraw from the world health organization was draw from the world trade organization withdraw from the human rights council in geneva because his administration can't get instrumentalities the u.n. to simply support comprehensively every aspect the of the u.s. policy is just irresponsible in the case of the we'll hopefully get eyes asian when it comes to poor countries around the world they are critically dependent on the w.h.o. and other instruments of the u.n. system to provide them with the infrastructure they need to deal with this crisis on the ground cutting funding as he now threatens undermines the ability of many poor countries to deal with the crisis your guest said the on the just amid questions to be asked about how china responded to voters and how it worked with

the governor at all or didn't walk with the governor of joe as the pandemic was unfolding but china has now supported a double led inquiry and has also pledged $2000000000.00 in funding for the body over the next 3 years is china being sincere or is this just an effort to prove its international spending. think there's a couple of things to be said about your question the 1st is the world health assembly which has recently met has agreed to. 2 says of recommendations one dealing with an investigation into the w.h.o. discharge of its own responsibilities in the case of cova daunting and the 2nd is if you look at the text of the world health assembly recommendations to devolve an investigation into the ultimate origins of the covert 19. virus to

a series of as it were subsidiaries scientific bodies it is an open question whether these 2 proposed inquiries actually get to the root of the questions which are alive in the mind of the international community for not china saying that the united states has in fact i think played a very poor multilateral diplomatic hand in this crisis has sought to step into the opportunities which have been created by a withdrawal of the fictive u.s. leadership and to provide a whole lot of funding. not just the. other various regional initiatives to deal with the covert 19 crosses i think the chinese leadership recognize they have a series of questions to answer in the eyes of the international community seeking to be now as it were as constructive as possible and helping other countries with

the covert 19 crisis but i don't think in the eyes of international court of public opinion this lets china off the hook in terms of answering these deep questions about with markets and what happened with the original notifications as well as the role. kevin rudd of formosan prime minister leave it there for the time being thank you so much for being with us. thank you and we're wrapping up a news conference at the white house on monday president trump surprised reporters by announcing that he's taking the anti drug drug cyclo queen to protect himself against the. repeatedly talked of the drug as a treatment for covert 19 even though his own government experts say it's not suitable for fighting the virus and despite warnings from medical experts about potentially dangerous side effects here's what trump have to say but i get a lot of tremendously positive hydroxy and i say hey you know the

expression i've used what do you have to lose ok what do you have to lose. take it for about a week for about a week going to have every day at some point every day i take a pill every day. at some point up what i'd like to do is i'd like to have the cure and or the vaccine and that will happen i think 1st. france and germany have announced a half a trillion your plan to help europe weather the worst crisis in decades the proposal calls for a rescue fund to boost the sectors of the economy hit hardest by coronavirus lockdowns it's an about face for german chancellor angela merkel 4 weeks germany had resisted the idea of collective e.u. debt to absolve the pandemic economic shock. it's wishful thinking to help europe's economies could bounce back as easily as these parisian after months under lockdown even before the e.u. commission presents its aid package berlin and paris are rushing through

a joint initiative for economic recovery in a bid to put this crippling face behind them. in a joint news conference with the french president chancellor angela merkel stressed the coronavirus pandemic is in danger in european unity. most that is why the fund has to help ensure that all countries in europe can react appropriately but. this requires an extraordinary one off effort which france and germany are ready to undertake provided it if this is the result of bilateral work in cooperation with our partners i'm convinced that this plan provides the groundwork to revive our lives our economies and our societies. to offset the drastic decline in production transport and tourism across europe this development fund will get an injection of 500000000000 euros e.u. budget funds will be made available to the hardest hit regions and sectors the

overall plan is designed to strengthen the e.u.'s future viability of the in these resources will of course if this purpose if you will invest in digitalisation and the green deal to cope with the climate catastrophe this will inspire a new dynamic for the future am in the field of health we will aim for cooperation to apply all be flown from the crisis together by one tight that sounds like support for the e.u. commission whose economic recovery plan is being drafted the commission's president is expected to present it next week from on the story let's turn to our correspondent in brussels girl mater's how much of a shift in position is this in particular for chancellor angela merkel. biro if you listen to german chancellor angela merkel in the recent weeks closely she mentioned a number of times that germany is ready to provide more financial aid to european

partners now mutual i debt clearly was not on the cards that the ra is age old and germany has been mainly against it but look the idea of this recovery fund using the e.u. budget as a back door if you want to introduce carone up on flight is not entirely new the head of the european commission has enough on the line has aired it a couple of weeks ago saying that it could be a marshall plan and i haven't heard of the german chancellor completely rule out that idea in fact she even mentioned a treaty change in the future if that's what it takes to bring europe back on track after the corona crisis and yesterday she reiterated that position saying that europe needs fundamental change of the european commission has welcomed this initiative but half a trillion euros of joint each year borrowing that's a potential sticky issue i mean what could that mean for the band's viability

well to to put the plan into reality of course you will need a unanimous decision by e.u. leaders so you need all $27.00 on board and so far the frugal for a countries in the north of europe including the netherlands all strive already said their position remains unchanged they are against corona bongs it one way or the other they're against mutual iced debt which in fact if you look at the e.u. treaties it's not legal in any case and so their position hasn't changed whereas spain and italy really welcomed the idea and so will it will have to see how how they will work this out the important message here today is that this is a top a diplomatic push by 2 of the strongest you nations. what are the next steps. well finance ministers are meeting today and they have announced the german finance minister has already said they will discuss these topics today this will be key of

course a risk regards to the legal aspects it will take some creativity from legal experts to find a solution how to put this into reality if you leaders whether you agree the main message from today's meeting but also from the germans and the french finance minister's announcement today is that the power engine if you want the twin engine in europe france and germany are back on track and the french finance minister called this an historical step of the mutual proposal government is in brussels thank you very much for that let's head now to frankfurt about a financial correspondent just to deny any standing by to see how the financial markets reacted to this plan when it was 1st announced there was a bit of a jump in the stock market but we've seen that progress and least lose steam throughout the day investors are a little bit skeptical of this plan even as they have really welcomed it after it

was really looked like these european leaders wouldn't be able to find an agreement so that is welcome but there is a big question about how how big this this is 500500 1000000000 euros is much smaller than the initial calls for a stimulus of around one trillion 1.5 trillion so there's that question and also the question of how this is really going to get passed when there still is a lot of a lot of division among new leaders about what the shape of the of this package should look like so investors are not quite seeing this as in the baghdad thanks for the time being to answer but we'll be coming back to you shortly. sales of new cause of the european union collapsed by more than 76 percent in april. the european automobile manufacturers association blamed the unprecedented drop on coronavirus but 270000 new cars were registered last month compared to more than a 1000000 in 1900. it's just so it's

a dylan is with us in frankfurt again chelsea shares of call because among today's losers have the numbers been worse than expected and that's where we're definitely braced for a very very bad read on sales folks like it for example last week and the kid that sales would fall by about 70 to 80 percent for most of the european markets and that's really what we've seen but it is just unprecedented to climb and what this is probably going to do is underscore just how crucial it is for these automakers to be receiving state support right now in france they've already committed to coming forward with a pledge to support some of these automakers here in germany it's been a little more controversial a lot of automakers want to support but there's a lot of questions about how that would align with germany's climate goals at this point so it's not totally clear how that's going to shape up so it's a villain in frankfurt thank you very much for that. some sports news no and the

quiet times and stunted goal celebrations seen in bundesliga matches in recent days may be strange and unfamiliar but there's nothing new about the goal scoring of liver houston's young star. he didn't have to as they've accused in baton direction on monday night with a full one victory at struggling as van. the closing act of the reopening weekend underneath the visa study on lights there's much about the in the strange times like the sight of teams emerging separately from the tunnel that makes the match day feel like a training exercise and it was with training ground ease that labor queues in breeze through braman defense to net the opener in the 28th minute mussa g.r.b. charge unchallenged to the touchline and picked out an unmarked car i have a guest in from. braman we're back level just 2 minutes later when leo gets imports

corner was turned home by a crafty tiro gabriel selassie back but just 3 minutes after that laver couzens lead had been restored yet another free header for one decade car i have a whose 2 goals gave his side an advantage that they carried into halftime. they drew further in front on the hour mark when mitchell visor profited from some serious confusion in the brain and back line to make it 3 want. and in the 78th minute carrying demi by was able to put the result beyond doubt after a smart through ball from carrying better robbie and an early dive from keeper pavlik. both teams pick up where they left off before the break a dream restart for later cruising and a nightmare walk for him back to break. and out of mind of the top stories we're following for you germany's highest court has rolled into that surveillance of.

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