comes straight from the heart. and from birth to death starts june 18th w. . this is day to live from broadway an unprecedented porch to help europe recover from the economic impact of the coronavirus. must be to invest together in our common good. by raising unprecedented amounts of funding and european. commission president. unveils a 750000000000. fund to help the block bounce back from the recession and speaks to

me also on the program my place in hong kong to stifle protests the government to. make it a crime to insult the chinese national anthem. on president trump threatens to shut down social media networks like twitter after it casts doubts on the credibility of one of his tweets. i'm still go welcome to the program european commission president joseph on the line has unveiled a 750000000000 euro plan to help member states bounce back from the recession triggered by be corona virus pandemic much of it will be funded by common e.u. debt a new approach proposed by germany and france to fund the line described the fund

as. the challenge and said the european union face the choice of member states going it alone or responding to go. the aim 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 m.f.f. of 1 point one trillion this sums up to 1.85 trillion general in today's proposal. brussels correspondent matters spoke with us in a fog to live after news conference. madam president you have the big member states

france and germany on your side for your recovery fund how are you going to convince the smaller member states particularly in the north that this is the right plan to move forward i spoke to every head of state or 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 memory mainly we're friendship and so what's your message to those who have been critical or skeptical of the idea or 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 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 mission 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

a good solution to pay that money partly back to new own resources now it's a matter of negotiations with the different member states but i think as we have in a completely new situation it is worse to go new ways thanks very much attention. now to hong kong where police are fired the pepper pallets of pro-democracy protesters and arrested more than $300.00 people in the city center demonstrators were opposing a bill criminalizing disrespect for china's national anthem lawmakers are currently debating the change. thousands of hong kong residents defied police orders and took to the streets demonstrating for their independence and against china's efforts to tighten its 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 concerned

a bill threatening anyone who disrespect 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 prostitutes 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. protesters want to 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. among kong security chief defended the measures on chinese state television. when 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 the state level 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 they are meant to remain in place for at least another 2 decades beijing brands the matter and internal chinese the. there 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 call 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. you can take a look now at some of the other stories making news around the world a ceasefire between afghan forces and the taliban has ended with reports of renewed fighting truce ended after hundreds of taliban prisoners were released as part of a deal with the united states the taliban and us a cease fire for the ied celebrations and the end of ramadan. advances by forces aligned with libya's interim government have halted the a year long offensive on tripoli by rival a military commander before hafter a turkey provided support in pushing back after his army various factions are vying for control of libya since 2014 in a war that's drawn in foreign powers the us president donald trump started to shut down social media platforms that after twitter labeled one of his tweets

potentially misleading mr trump responded by accusing social media platforms of silencing conservative voices and tweeted that republicans will strongly regulate or close them down before we can ever allow this to happen the president has more than 80000000 twitter followers. well the w. reporter joel dill really has been following this story a welcome 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 a 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 the what the president is saying and that the cost of 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 follow ok so the president has used to 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 what has been quite lenient with the president here all of done is put one little link at the bottom of one of his many many tweets ok so but he often threatens to show. things down there how worried should twitter be right well it's also ironic that chump 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 a 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. for just a few hours the united states will launch a fresh bed for dominance in space with its 1st private it builds 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 rides into space and the arrangement the trumpet ministration 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 can one 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 iran 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 it's . better than i would have imagined and so many. 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 end of a test flight early because of a software problem 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 names in the same sentences as the folks who have come before us. it seems premature until until 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. happily 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 nights 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 a new era in space travel will be riding with them. that's it you're up to date i'll have more for you at the top of the hour in the meantime as always the web site w dot com of good. combating . corona pandemic. where does research stand. what are scientists learning. background information and news. hour carona update. covert 19 special next on d w. i'm going crazy thing in all the

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