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this is dated news live from president excuse me president to push to help recover from the economic impact of coronavirus. by raising unprecedented amounts of funding. european commission president. unveils a 750000000000 refund to help the. recession and she's been speaking. also
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on the program. protesters the island's a government that would make it a crime to insult the chinese national anthem. is a fresh. face with the 1st man from the u.s. since the space shuttle 90 years ago. dortmund needed a win to survive so the bow with the title slipped through. i'm unique are celebrating after scoring. victory. i'm so welcome to the program european commission president. has unveiled a plan worth 750000000000 euros to help the member states bounce back from the recession triggered by the coronavirus pandemic much of it. will be funded by
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common e.u. debts a new approach proposed by germany and france talked of on the line described the fund as an ambitious answer to the challenge and said the european union face the choice of member states going it alone or responding to go the a must be to invest together in our common good we will be bold by raising unprecedented amounts of funding at european level we will be focused by channeling the funding to the new priorities that will shape the future and to achieve this we're setting up next generation e.u. worth 750000000000 euro together with a core and if of 1 point one trillion this sums up to 1.85 trillion general in today's proposal of the dublin brussels correspondent girl matters spoke with us you have on the line after the news
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conference launching the rescue package though she has the backing of france and germany asked how confident she was of winning the support of smaller members especially those opposed to the sharing of debt. i spoke to every head of state of government during the last weeks and it is important that we should keep in mind every member state is affected by the economic crisis so it's in our common interest that we rapidly come out of the crisis and that we invest in our european priorities and for that next generation e.u. the recovery fund is important. but with money that's where mainly we're friendship allan's so what's your message to those who have been critical or skeptical of the idea to hand out grounds i think during the crisis we saw how easy the the single market can be heavily hampered and damaged. when for example the different economies shut down. so the opposite is necessary for our single market that we
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open up again and that we recover fast and that we have the integration of the single market repaired rapidly. no member state is able to do that on on its own they are all integrated and dependent on each other which is good because it increased the living standards in the prosperity of all member states and therefore it's in our common interest to get the economy back on its feet we need for that grants because the european budget consists of grants but there will also be a share of loans now you have a number of ideas how to get the money back in trading or digital tax but to put it mildly these are ideas that haven't been exactly popular with member states. the fact that we have an unprecedented situation and that the commission is raising money at the market that has to be indeed paid back over a long period. increases the awareness that it is
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a good solution to pay that money partly back to new own resources now it's a matter of negotiations with him. the different member states but seeing as we have a completely new situation it is worse to go new ways thanks very much attention. one of the 1st european leaders to react to the commission's proposal was joe chancellor angela merkel the commons would have forced the commission has made a proposal and i'm not surprised that it is not identical with the one germany and france of mate is of course this proposal contains elements of both what was discussed between germany and france as well as elements of the guarantees and loans that were mentioned by 4 other countries. and now we start negotiating it's the 400 so let's get more from the w.'s chief political editor mckay that could throw welcome michela a lot of responsibility falling on germany shoulders over the next 6 months
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absolutely germany will head the european union to a certain degree and i'm going to machall will become pretty much the chief negotiator there when it comes to matching that proposal we saw from the commission today with what those individual poll parliaments because all states will have to agree are willing to pass in their own parliaments so it will be a very delicate balancing act i'm going to machall in her final term also balancing the interests of europe her wanting to position herself as a european leader and germany's own core interests i'm so what will be the key challenges facing the chancellor. well it will be getting everybody to the table she herself over ready dropped a red line by agreeing with france to their own proposal of 500000000000 euros seeing the e.u. take on joint debt that was an absolute no go until
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a couple of months ago and have hope is by germany being willing to put money into that basket to agreeing to cross its own red line several times that others will too having said that that doesn't mean that her own party which doesn't really have to unite behind the next chancellor angela merkel once again because it is her final term will definitely play ball her ball there so we will see some very tense negotiations in brussels and also there were 2 other big issues in the green deal and breck's it corona will be the focus but somehow we will have to find some space in some agreement to push those issues forward as well. chief political editor thank you now to hong kong where police have 5 pallets of pro-democracy protesters and arrested more than 300 people in the city center the demonstrators were opposing a bill criminalizing disrespect for china's national anthem on call lawmakers are
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currently debating those changes. thousands of hong kong residents defied police orders and took to the streets demonstrating for their independence and against china's efforts to technics grip on the semi autonomous region the protesters were met by a strong police force which fired pellets filled with pepper to disperse the crowds and arrested hundreds one of the residents concerns a bill threatening anyone who disrespects the chinese national anthem with up to 3 years in prison. i'm worried about the national anthem law i know it will pass in the legislative council because pro stablished that lawmakers have a majority there. i came to hong kong from mainland china when i was young so i know about the darkness of china i'm worried china will impose its standards and its system on hong kong the. protesters want to
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express their outrage not only against the national anthem law but also against the new national security law imposed by the chinese government the full text of the legislation has yet to be published but it has raised international alarm over freedoms in the city. bangkok security chief defended the measures on chinese state television. and it is necessary and important to establish a legal framework and enforcement mechanism for safeguarding national security and the hong kong special administrative region at state level and this will be conducive to the long term stability and prosperity of hong kong and also helpful in safeguarding the legitimate rights and freedoms of hong kong residents young and call for action. but that's exactly what the protesters fear hong kong will loose the freedoms and civil liberties secured when the former british colony was handed back to china in 1997 there are meant to remain in place for at least another 2
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decades beijing brands the matter and internal china. s. affair but the leader of hong kong's pro-democracy civic party is calling on the international community for help. your party has long be a member of the free world we share the same values we share the same liberty and freedom and now when china is trying to take this away from hong kong we expect the rest of the world was speak up for us despite social distancing rules resistance against beijing's attempt to tighten its grip on hong kong this growing fiercer protests are likely to continue in the coming days. and let's take a look now at some of the other stories making news around the world protesters have taken to the streets in the united states in the u.s. state of minnesota after a black man died while being detained by police the death of george floyd has drawn outrage after a video emerged showing a white officer kneeling on his neck as he cried out but he couldn't bring.
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announces by forces aligned with libya's interim government of hold him to a year long offensive on tripoli by rival military command for hafta turkey provided support in pushing back after his army of various factions are vying for control of libya since 2014 in a war that has drawn in foreign powers. a cease fire to between afghanistan afghan forces and the taliban has ended with reports of renewed fighting to send it after hundreds of taliban prisoners were released as part of a deal with the united states and taliban announced the a cease fire for the ied celebrations at the end of ramadan. for u.s. president donald trump a threat to shut down social media platforms a day after twitter labeled one of his tweets but tension misleading mr trump responded by accusing social media platforms of silencing conservative voices and tweet it that republicans will strongly regulate or close them down before we can
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ever allow this to happen the president has more than 80000000 twitter followers. the reporter joel dill really has been following this story out welcome to joe tell us more about what twitter did to so enraged the president this all started on shoes they were in for the 1st time ever twitter clamp down on misinformation spread by the u.s. president it label 2 of his tweets as potentially misleading so the background to all of this is that trump is angry with the u.s. state of california which ones to introduce postal voting or mail in ballots now trump believes that would unfairly advantages rivals the democrats we can have a look now at the tweet that started this all off in which he claimed that mail in ballots would result in electoral strode now we can see what twitter did in response at the bottom they out of this little link that says get the facts about mail in ballots that link leads to a web page which presents article stating that there's no evidence to back up that
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what the president is saying and that the postal voting is not prone to fraud well today trump is hit back he says that republicans will regulate or shut down social media platforms if they continue as he says to stifle conservative voices and in more recent hours he's come out again saying that there will be big action to followed ok so the president has used twitter before to spread dubious claim so why is twitter only acting now well twitter is getting ready for the 2020 presidential elections that wants to clamp down on misinformation and specifically does has updated its policies to say that users cannot spread misinformation relating to participating in the electoral process so they're applying their own rules here however they are targeting all of trump's problematic tweets for example right now they're refusing to take down another one of his tweets in which he indirectly accuses a liberal t.v. host of being involved in a murder so you could actually say that twit has been quite lenient with the
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president here all have done is put one little link at the bottom of one of his many many tweets ok so but he often happens to show. things down so how worried should twitter be right well it's also ironic that trump here has accused twitter of stifling free speech and then has threatened to shut it down which of course would stifle free speech now trump loves twitter he uses it all the time and it seems very unlikely that he's going to shut off his one direct channel he has right to talk to his base without having to be filtered by the media that he hates much we should also point out that calls to regulate social media have come from the other side of politics the former u.s. democratic presidential candidate elizabeth warren calls a social media platforms to be regulated so with both parties angry it seems possible that after the coming elections that social media platforms could face some kind of regulation if they don't regulate themselves in the meantime joe thank you. in
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a few hours the united states will launch a fresh bin for dominance in space when its 1st privately build a rocket will take off from home soil with u.s. astronauts on board since it stopped its own launches in 2011 the u.s. has relied on russia for dives into space and the arrangement the trump administration is eager to change. if all goes to plan it will be the dawning of a new era in space travel that the launch of the full k'naan rocket with its manned dragon capsule will end america's dependence on russia for access to space the joint operation between nasa and space x. led by the pay pal and tesla founder ellen musk should open up much cheaper space travel. you would have never thought you know after we landed atlantis back in 2011 that you know 9 years later we would be where we are in some ways and
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it's. better than i would have imagined in so many of. the space shuttles used in the past were enormous complex and massively expensive every flight swallowed up half a $1000000000.00 with space x. the cost should be somewhere between $60.00 and $90000000.00 the track and capsule is much smaller than a space shuttle and the interior is more sophisticated than this tesla car sent up as dummy cargo joining an earlier test. a successful launch could give space x. a head start in commercial space and travel tourism its rival the boeing starliner ended a test flight early because of a software problem so space x.'s crew being careful not to raise expectations there are just so many technical factors and things that we need to focus on to make sure that we pull this off that our place and history or you know even trying to put our
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names in the same sentence as the folks who have come before us. it seems premature until and till we until we've pulled it off and. if there are problems with the launch rocket the capsule can detach itself and make an emergency landing extensive testing has so far yielded positive results. are believe the only negative results have been the astronauts tests for covert 19. there's always issues space is hard obviously but we want to hit all the hit all the boxes do everything we need to do to demonstrate that this vehicle is capable of taking ash not up from us well. as often as nasa will allow us to do sell. after a 19 hour flight the astronauts will stay in orbit for a month to back up the international space station hopes for
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a new era in space travel will be riding with them. we can get more on this from science writer keith cowing who also happens to be a former rocket scientist welcome to you a missile very exciting what is this this new era in space travel likely to look like. well it's interesting for me i was at the very 1st space shuttle launch in the very last one and we've waited a long time for this once the excitement is the same but how they're going to do this is very different as mentioned in your introduction this is a private company that has contracted for services not unlike an airliner although this one goes straight up and so that's it's a market change and how america's going to gain access to space again. and v.m. pick ations for that and a private company doing this rather than i country one of a. well 1st of all it's sort of. interesting to look at the history of this this
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actually this commercial space thing started back in the latter years of george bush and then continued through obama and then now is coming to its fruition here with the trump and if nasa had developed this rocket our own government has estimated you know what it cost $20.00 to $30000000000.00 more than it did to have a private company do it and of course the person developing this is an entrepreneur but he's also a businessman and he's looking at this is a commercial product so the net result is you have a consumer oriented approach to this that nasa has never had before hopefully to answer your question it will be cheaper and the cheaper the flights the more than you can afford to do right but the program has already suffered that delays out and sat and sat back so how confident are not on space x. that it will happen this time well the only thing that's standing in the lead now is the weather there's a tropical storm that just came onshore siller the launch opportunity is probably
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50 percent today and it's anybody's guess as to whether it will clear up but it's been a long road to get here but. you know we have a success that tends to drive more successes and i think everybody is expecting that once it does finally launch a soundtrack to kate carol thank you. back to the reality of life on earth now and to kenya where a record 123 new coronavirus cases have been confirmed in the most recent 24 hour recording period that's a big figure for the country which the health minister has described as staggering almost 5800 cases of covered 19 have been recorded with the 55 deaths so far as with everywhere else caught up in this pandemic it's a poor and homeless who suffer most if you monitor reports from nairobi. every day at around 1 pm at least 14 men and boys gather here in kenya's capital nairobi all of them are homeless including 19 year old brian de cuba and they're
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all here for lunch delivered daily by a nonprofit working in the city called homeless of nairobi. despite a covert 1000 outbreak most of them have no masks and when lunch is over they had offer some banter before leaving in different directions in this reality social distancing and staying home and not realistic options. to model does not exist doesn't exist or doesn't exist so coverage blah blah blah all those things a little bit it's there and even if it comes and he's one of them and they die. the kids are used to people dying. to. death was the catalyst to brian's life on the streets he never met his father and when his mother died he left home on the back of a cargo truck which brought him to the city since then this has been his life walking greeting and wishing. i asked him how if i told the covert 1900.
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5. minute tell me don't come near me are you concerned about the virus and we are scared but we just press on that. brian is one out of an estimated 20000 people living on the streets in kenya. but each night the country's curfew comes into effect the homeless seem to disappear thanks they retreat into these dark corners hidden from police officers and p.s. we meet a mother with her 6 month old baby when you see a mood god is. only one keeping us alive she says because even if we are afraid of the virus it's not like we can stay indoors only as a libra new member brian considers himself lucky to have
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a roof over his head the organization that provides lunch has rented 2 rooms in this slum for the boys brian sleeps in this corner and the army as he calls his group of friends from the streets take whatever spaces left. my shop on the left is good it's better than on the streets i was really free when i was out there nothing to cover myself but here is something. with no prospect of dinner the boys take the chance to show us a river where they wash. it said daring undertaking. somehow death feels like it's always right around the corner here. it's no wonder that the next morning when we meet brian he's having a cocktail of blue and jet fuel for breakfast the blue keeps the hunger way and the jet fuel keeps reality at bay. and so another day begins as the last one
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ended walking wilting. wishing. this estate. in football the biggest game in any bond as they go season is broster dorman the games by munich and with other major leagues still on hold because of the pandemic sports fans around the world tuned in to watch us don't want to come by or needing a winter kit bessie is no life but it wasn't to be held that to take home the way. the biggest game of the season had arrived at the best fallen star the buy in munich took on the closest challenges for the title in a stadium that would usually be rocking but was instead empty. the match kicked into top gear in the very 1st minute a mix up in the by and defense handed early holland a chance to score passing the norwegian striker a big money well neuer only for jerome bowen saying to clear off the line. by i
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responded to that wake up call at the other end says can operate when just as close to cash piece check the man in the right place at the right time. it would take something special to break the deadlock and yours you like to make provided exactly that. at breathtaking chit from the midfielder outfoxed dortmund keeper roman burkey who got a hand to the shots but couldn't keep it out of. a disappointing end to the half for him and dortmund who brought on jane sun shone in search of inspiration but it was holland who went close next whenever the flashlight replays showed the shot that flicked it off but things that are no penalty was given and dortmund's hunt for an equaliser continue not made to who tested noir but there was a sense it wasn't so big that day robert leavened almost settled the time when he
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slammed a shot against the post. by an inches away from securing a massive win the nerves of the club officials present when jangling. but not for much longer when the referee blew for full time it was clear that both teams knew how decisive this result the. problem was not have to be realistic by a 7 points ahead as long as nothing goes wrong they'll bring the title home and all the bring it was a match that came down to the finest of margins. but the outcome is that 10 days after it restarted the bundlers late title race is old but are. just times a reminder of our top stories the president of the european commission has lied about the block strategy for dealing with the economic forecast for the coronavirus crisis sort of on the line unveiled a 750000000000 euro cup refund to help member states overcome the recession.
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brought police in hong kong have used pepper pallets to break of pro-democracy protests in the city's financial center the protests come as the island's lawmakers debate a bill that would make the crimes are pretty chill the chinese national. mall world news of the top of the hour there's always the web site e.w. dot com but. for many there considered and deadpanned washington's poor neighborhoods. crimes shootings abyss is. used and has almost behind him and today in his messages sports not murder. she is spreading hope and it is
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beethoven is for every non. beethoven 2020. the 50th anniversary on d w. of the global corona crisis you can find more information online at e.w. dot com and on t.w. social media channels. what do they dream of at night. as cleaners they see the face of horror. their job censoring for the social media industry. in manila there are thousands of
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