together for europe's economy the motto for the 6 month german presidency which begins on july 1st chance are on the machall there live laying out to the german parliament her vision for the 6 months of the german you council presidency calling it the biggest challenge in the use history she said the e.u. recovery plan tied to the pinned pandemic will be limited in time that it will involve borrowing on international money markets and will respect national party parliaments he also added that the union must work to keep member states from drift drifting apart and that nationalist interests will be working to exploit the crisis to erode europe we're going to be going to our correspondent in the parliament in just a little bit but 1st we want to look at some of the foreign policy priorities that

are going to be existing right now in this. term for the german presidency d.w. as head of politics was earlier romantic has been speaking to germany's foreign minister heiko mass she asked him what sacrifices germany will be willing to make for the sake of e.u. unity will be talking about that in just a bit we're going to go to michelle and now though i understand. oh ok we're live there back at the parliament now with our chief political editor michelle acuff nurul ode to you again michelle a wide ranging speech by the chancellor she touched on a lot of issues the main focus of course being the economy her motto together for europe's economy calling this the biggest crisis in the history of the you.

absolutely corona and the economic fallout is the overarching theme of the upcoming german presidency both tackling the crisis but also looking ahead how your of can emerge from this and there we saw the broad spectrum of challenges that america has identified that europe must tackle interestingly also to not let this crisis become an internal present almost to right wing populists she said that this is something they wait for political crisis to use and abuse at the same time the geopolitical challenges from outside at one point not naming china but clearly meaning china when she spoke about the challenges of finding a common line within the european union and actually find in e.u. voice but she does recognize that that will be a very tall order we will see on friday

a video conference of european leaders and she said that no headway is expected her and on particularly that mid term budget but also the recovery plan and till they can actually need physically this summer. how does the chancellor want to find that you voice as you describe it as you mentioned that there's a lot of centrifuge all forces right now the e.u. member states risk drifting apart. yes and it did sound very much like an appeal to e.u. leaders he said that ideally they would find agreement on how to spend the money who gets how much before the summer so parliaments have time to ratify the budget on the recovery plan and to then emerge from this crisis fast and get going in 2021 so this reads like an appeal but of course also knows that that won't be easy she's been german chancellor for 15 years she's almost legendary for

being able to cope with those late night negotiations in brussels very very well to secure those e.u. deals this is pretty much what the e.u. is about finding a compromise at the same time nobody including the chance of the longest serving elected leader in europe has done this ever under the impression of a pandemic where nobody knows whether it's actually on the way out or whether there might be a 2nd wave so clearly crisis management within the e.u. but also on the outside as we see those tectonic shifts in the global order and that brewing potential trade war between the u.s. and china and if there's one thing mark all of the presidency and actually all states want to avoid is becoming the hot battleground in that economic conflict ok before we get to the foreign policy dimensions you just lined out there for us i

mean let's talk about what she needs to do inside the you she she's making the recovery fund from the pandemic for the pandemic and its effects are top priority could you flesh out a bit illustrate for us what does it look like right now there's a lot of discussion about how much subsidies are going to be how much loans how big is this package going to be. well it's going to be rather big there's more than a trillion years in the next budget coming up and the recovery package is expected to be some $750000000000.00 euro so we're talking almost 2000000000 years that need to be divided but it's not simply budget money germany crossed merkel across her own red line in proposing with france to allow only this $1.00 as a one off she stressed this once again for the european union to actually take out a loan to invest into the future now there's a lot of bickering within the e.u.

there's a frugal group that is so-called frugal zx the nordic countries but also all strata who want to see that happen in the shape and form of loans to countries particularly struck by the crisis it's only spain but those also happen to be the ones who have the biggest budget deficits within the e.u. and there's a concern on the other end. could lead to those countries becoming even more we can to not being able to merge from this crisis so we expect some very very hot debates on whether these loan loans taken out in brussels will be given as loans to member states or whether that is free money to invest into infrastructure on the future and of course on top of that there's a lot of money to be handed out also to simply get those countries particularly it's only through the coming months and stabilize societies so you don't see exactly what she warned of the right wing populists being able to feed on

a political crisis so that's the inside spectrum leaving aside for a moment the challenges from outside the inside spectrum what the chancellor didn't talk a lot about that that was a top priority prior to go over 19 was climate change the green deal she talked about a little bit be taking a back seat in light of the massive costs looking out as a result of the number of shutdowns. well she says it won't she stresses she doesn't want to lose sight of that key green deal the aim of getting the e.u. to become climate neutral by 2050 she also pre-college 19 had on the agenda of the relationship with africa to establish relations towards what she calls a few simple continents and to also recognize that in e.u. policy but having spoken to leading members of her cabinet there's also

a sense that these challenges are too deep and too broad to be tackled at the same time necessarily and nobody at this moment in time can actually say how much capacity the corona crisis will take up simply in political terms and we haven't even started about yet so something might have to give in the end that may well be those who support the aim is for that not to happen but then there's a reality unfolding in brussels and we'll see how much time simply did the vision of money which isn't that simple will take up before the next steps can be taken ok some of the next steps the chancellor said in this address also include digitalisation modern data infrastructure it's also been a top priority for. what's going to happen there where is the chance we're going to take the e.u. in this crucial area if germany and the rest of the european union's going to move

ahead economically with those big challenges out there like the rise of china. well i'm going to macro more than a decade ago here in germany said this is a visitation was something that many need to get geared up towards she doesn't want europe to try and get back to the pre-college 19th status quo she wants to use this crisis as an opportunity to accelerate innovation and also not just digital infrastructure but also the preparedness of societies to build the common economies of the future these are all very lofty aims at the same time she will have 2070 just sitting around the table many of whom are concerned to simply get through the next couple of months and with more and more people getting unemployed simply because of the fallout from the crisis and this is the line she will have to navigate not just convincing leaders in principle but to actually map out and find

ways how to make that happen and her overarching goal of course is maintaining and deepening unity that's where all america wants to take the union did abuse head of politics was all you romani eric has been talking exactly about that germany's foreign minister yeah asked them what sacrifices germany is willing to make for the sake of e.u. unity let's take a listen there were distorts our god i don't think germany has to sacrifice anything to save us europe is a huge benefit to us and a large export nation like germany profits when people prosper in europe. that's why we want to make sure the countries that have been hit hard by the coronavirus like italy and spain will be helped to recover quickly from the crisis that's not only good for those countries in europe it's also good for germany. the enormous financial assistance from germany has surprised many in europe is this a new germany what sort of a role are you taking on yeah. we know we have

a huge responsibility in europe and we have the council presidency in the 2nd half of the year and we've decided to make a contribution to reigning in the conflicts that we've seen between north and south and we want to find a solution to that we've made a proposal with france and i believe it will be the basis for consensus within the european union and that's the direction we want to go during our presidency. presidential viking war i mean it doesn't seem like europe can depend on the united states anymore after the announcement that it is pulling troops out of germany what do you expect from donald trump before the u.s. elections because i like i'm a survivor i think the u.s. election has its own rules but regardless of who's in the white house europeans and americans are united by a shared values namely a liberal democracy and freedom more cartier defy it. that is not the case with

other regions in the world so there is still more that unites us than divides us even if relations are complicated at the moment. in the moment. and i can't imagine that the us in the long term would be interested in us uncoupling our security arrangements for the copper to be before our nation. i mean. when you look at the state of the well do you sleep well at night. come yes i sleep peacefully at night it's not like there isn't enough to do in the world . but when i'm travelling i meet so many responsible people spent. $4.00 for the mention. some are not like that but responsible people are in the majority in politics and that means i can sleep very well. not. i mean mr foreign minister thank you the german foreign minister there speaking to us

earlier michelle what do you what are your thoughts there and what you're hearing from the foreign minister. but if there's one thing also this hans has a formula is that strong germany is good for europe but strong europe is also good for germany in fact it's essential because that is germany's key market germany is an export nation and that's also why i'm going to machall anti-crime us and my colleagues both to that up pretty upbeat that they will get through parliament germany taking also a larger financial say in hue budgets because there's a recognition that that's where germany's wealth also comes from michelle we're going to leave it there thanks so much for that from the german parliament last question we have a couple seconds was this is successful talk for germany from the chancellor. well it was an interesting roadmap as she has

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any information on the chrono laroche or any other science topic you should really check out our podcast you can get it wherever you get your podcast you can also find us at. science. a little bit but the. schools are closed for months all because of the pandemic. kids forced to stay at home and it's usually the mothers who are left to deal with the added burden that i usually have on our and my calendar for not much and you have to do it. through shopping cooking eating cleaning up and so he homework in one hour that's as impossible. as the world struggles with kovan 1000. some women fear that it's

pushing them back into traditional roles. and this is the covert 900 special i'm stephen beardsley in the learn it's good to have you with us the pandemic as a setback for women we'll speak with an expert in just a moment but 1st let's look at the story of one woman forced to put a pause on her career after the local schools closed. instead of spreadsheets normally on a monday would be sitting in the office right now but with schools a nursery school closed due to the pandemic and her husband but she has to stay at home something she never wanted. this is a standstill and it is based on the fact that as a woman i said i'll step back put my own needs on hold and yes that feels like i'm in a type of role right now that doesn't really fit me must have been much i don't need to get past. being a good housewife was never on this intention she just finished

a masters in education when the crisis hit she postponed finding a job to cater for the family now pen cakes often on the menu one of the few things she knows how to cook but even that can get stressful because the line and you can decide anything on your own you're always together. for other people there's not a minute of rest i mean and you can imagine what that does to you as a person and you constantly under pressure constantly caring for someone else pam and then talked it up pam and i'm going. right now we've found them because we took too much and she asked most explains that the coronavirus crisis forces women back into old gender roles after that and bullying research shows there is a backward development in partnerships 26 percent of women have reduced their working hours to organize childcare and the coronavirus crisis but only 16 percent of men have done so and. the end of

a long day and this hospital constantine before the crisis he and his wife were both working and taking care of the kids now he's suddenly the classic walking dead which is not to his taste as. booking. my mum so life as it is not that easy to me because i simply earn more as well that will hopefully change that one day i won't have to work full time but that's in the future. and i think that our society is still promotes gender stereotypes that are no longer appropriate. that doesn't recognise the fact that fathers want to be with their children i'm told by them cannot. i live on. is it about the wood and constantino that have to negotiate this french open and some 2 for one schools for your open they hope to get back to in life with more self-determination for both of them. and i'm joined now by joanna maycock she's secretary general of the european

women's lobby that's an umbrella group of women's advocacy or associations rather in europe and she joins me from brussels welcome joanna now we know that the pandemic has uprooted many families and workers why is it that women are carrying such an especially having load. where women are actually the backbone of our society that they already carry a very heavy load and what this pandemic is done is actually shone a light on and in some cases exacerbate what already very deep rooted inequalities between women and men in europe in fact we've actually stopped progressing on gender equality on equality between women and men in europe we've stopped progressing for 10 years already so there was a great deal to do to really start to fast forward and fast practical a t between women and men and certainly this this pandemic we've seen families really challenge them particularly women bearing the brunt of child care all stepping back from that jokes of going part time or being made redundant overwhelmingly women

have taken on not burden but what we know we're ready is that women already do the vast majority of childcare unpaid care work and domestic work in europe still today and that's partly shifted in the last generation and we saw a report earlier about and in germany stepping back to take care for kids during the pendency can we see that things will go back to normal for her once the schools and daycare centers reopen. yeah i think that story is very very difficult for millions and millions of women and millions of families across europe. we really what we see already is that it's going to be a political choice what happens next and the choices that leaders make right now about the kind of society we want to build post this pandemic the kind of values you want to put at the center of that society is going to be really important with the financial crisis in 2008 what we saw was that was the response the political choice to pursue austerity was really done at the cost of women it was done on the

backs of women in fact we saw that women paid around 75 percent of the costs of the cuts to public services through cutbacks to that jobs to cut back to check care infrastructure which impacted on women's labor market participation so we need to learn from those mistakes we made then and make sure that now as we as leaders make choices about the kind of society we want to rebuild after this and then make that the issues of inequality between women a man are sent to state in the analysis in the policies that put in place and in terms of the budgets that are put in place and in particular the emphasis on care what gives me hope is that actually this pandemic has brought into a public conversation the issues about who's doing that how do we want the care instructed to look how do you want to care for our children older people for each other and and who is going to be doing that so that means we need a really bold new can deal for europe and you want to briefly if you can are you

seeing in the recovery packages that are being laid out right now by individual nations do you see some of these policies being put in there that you want to see events. we've seen in the response to the pandemic some really good measures particularly when it comes to addressing violence against women which we've also seen increased during the pandemic and we've seen a whole political conversation about care elder care child care and catholic disabled persons and the disproportionate impact on women but when it comes to the actual response and when it comes to the money which is where we see how the how the policy is translated into action we absolutely have not seen enough we need to see really a least half of the resources for the recovery package going to women so we're calling the money at least to go to measures which address the inequalities between women and men so no not enough has been done yet all right we're going to leave it there joanna maycock with the european women's lobby in brussels thank you very much thank you. it's time now to answer your questions about covert 19 over

to our science correspondent williams. i read that the virus might have arrived in europe by early november is there evidence it was around earlier than in china at the end of december the working thesis has always been that the 1st 1000 and factions occurred at a wet market and on back in early december but but there's been a lot of suspicion over over whether that's really the whole story especially since a new study that looked at how the virus has evolved said it might have emerged as early as october then another heavily contested report from from harvard researchers which hasn't been peer reviewed yet recently also made a splash it looked at among other things satellite images of parking lots on hospitals and it says visitors to them served as early as last august though the

authors admitted that their evidence was not an airtight argument for for pushing back the origins of the pandemic so while there are some claims the outbreak began long before the 1st official cases appeared in han there are still only supported by by disputed data. germany also working on a fax machine for a colleague 19 this question came in a few weeks ago but now it seems like it's the right time to answer it since the german government just announced that it was sinking 300000000 euros into a german biotech company called cure back you might remember that that's the firm that donald trump allegedly tried to lure to the u.s. back in march it's vaccine platform which uses what's called messenger r.n.a. to provoke an immune. response is currently in testing in animal models and that

and the company says results so far are very promising a rival german firm called by on tech has has also teamed up with with u.s. based company pfizer in pursuit of the same goal but it hasn't received any funding from the german government. i see people jogging in cycling wearing masks is that medically advisable 1st of all i can tell you from from from person who experience that jogging with a mask is no fun at all it gets it gets really hot it gets really humid and it seriously affects your performance that said if you are infectious it will probably make you less of a danger to the to the people around you experts now widely except that the virus is transmitted as an aerosol so so theoretically at least an infected person

panting along in the part is giving off clouds of floating infectious droplets on the other hand almost all of our solid information on erosive all distribution comes from enclosed spaces what we do know is that is that outdoor transmission of the virus appears to be very rare so long and short like pretty much everyone else here in berlin and i stopped jogging with a mask pretty quickly even though there's no real scientific consensus on that. and finally a feast for the eyes thanks to pandemic measures wildlife is reclaiming the tourist freak a lot of those islands ok to the 1000 kilometers off the coast of ecuador sea lions iguanas and many bird species are now moving freely on the archipelago which has been under lockdown for more than 2 months scientists studying the impact of

tourism see a number of key species have returned since travel was halted and they'll compare their observations to measurements taken once tourists return. that's a frost as always thanks washington stay healthy. entered the conflict zone with sarah kelly sweden's unique trust faced approach to tackling the coronavirus pandemic rejecting the strict lockdowns imposed around the world but the policy has come under increasing criticism and pressure my guest this week is sweden's foreign minister and linda with a death toll much higher than its neighbors as sweden made it deadly our conflict zone. in 30 minutes d.w. . an insidious weapon that can have devastating effect sexual

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this is the deputy news live from berlin germany is planned for our europe in crisis a short while ago in the german parliament just wrong americal outlining her goals for the 6 month presidency of the european council her biggest aim spoke aroma virus recovery package and an expanded budget to get the e.u. through what she calls the biggest.