if you could use mona lisa starts to want her to g.w. . this is g.w. news live from berlin getting europe back on its feet in the wake of the corona crisis leaders meet for a virtual summit today france and germany hope to rally behind plans for a 750000000000 euro recovery fun but there are deep divisions over whether the funds should consist of loans grants or a combination of bolt also coming up as cape town graces for corona virus infections at the peak of the month that we will be asking why the south african

city has been has seen more cases and deaths than the rest of the country. i'm sorry kelly welcome to the program a leaders are holding a video conference at this hour on a financial plan to help the bloc emerge intact from the worst economic crisis in its history the virtual summit is the 1st step in what are expected to be difficult negotiations they are discussing an unprecedented $750000000000.00 euro carona recovery fund leaders will meet face to face next month for the 1st time since the coronavirus crisis began in february. and let's head live now to brussels where. this is following the talks for us and there are certainly big political

fault lines in these negotiations so where are those lines drawn. absolutely sarah leaders being glued to their t.v. screens now as this virtual meeting has started and you have a number of counties that are formed ever since the german chancellor and the french president stepped forward and said mutual debt is an option it's a must if you want and for this recovery fund now they support this idea of handing out grounds rather than loans as you have mentioned on the other side you have the frugal 4 countries in the north of europe predominantly austria sweden denmark the netherlands who say look rather hand out no less than grounds and also let's look very closely at the strings attached when we give that money away and then there are all sorts of issues about conditionality who gets how much and what and that is where you have a number of eastern european countries who have to estimate their claims of what money they would like to see so many challenges and in fact i'm gay arc our

colleague richard walker has been having a closer look at some of those so we just have a quick look at what richard prepared and then we'll get your reaction there after . the corona pandemic isn't just a health crisis for europe it's had a massive impact on the economy today and just like the virus itself the economic and social aftereffects hitting some countries harder than others here opinion thinks easily greece and spain will suffer the most so in the last video meeting here members agreed to set up a special recovery fund to kick start the economy because the money borrowed centrally on the financial markets that's being seen as a big step for europe but there is still a lot of details to work out and some of them are huge and very very complicated so we've broken them down for you into 4 main things 1st of all signs how big should

the fund be the numbers in play range from 502750 1000000000 euros next. fandom's which countries should get funding and how much and should he be given out his grants loads that have to be paid back. then focus what should the money be spent on the e.u. would like to see lots of green digital vestment but there are some questions about how quickly such projects can get off the ground. and finally how should the fund be paid back to lenders by when and by whom with so much to discuss everyone's warning that it's going to be a while before they can find agreement but the pressure is on to prove that europe can stick together when the going gets tough. the pressure certainly on will they find a compromise georg oh look there i think richard made a really important point here is how the money should be paid back and that is

where a lot of state leaders have different ideas speed of digital tax be it an environmental tax how that money should be brought back into through the pockets of the european commission also a conditionality is another tricky issue and of course the issue of what are the criteria for the funding should countries that have overspent for years and currently italy and spain are the ones that really receive the biggest chunk of money from the recovery fund there should they be really be rewarded for not seeing through enough structural change that is what critics of the current commission proposal say or should we rather focus on the actual damage that corona the grown up and demick has done tricolor me so a lot of questions on the table or overall there is agreement that solidarity is important and that this crisis will need requires an adequate answer and as e.u. leaders discuss as we mentioned they're discussing this right now they're doing so virtually to talk with us a little bit about you know how big

a factor that could potentially be because usually they'd be doing this up close in person. well i was surprised at 1st that we already had a an all nighter where which which is a this is the term we call when the summit goes through all night through because the meetings were interrupted all the time all over our all i would say we have reached the limits of what you can achieve with a virtual conference a deal like this takes close personal contacts it takes leaders to get up from the table walk over to a colleague have a bilateral meeting on the sidelines of a summit the personal contact is what it takes for this recovery from to get over the line i would say. correspondent matters but the view from brussels thank you. and let's bring you a roundup now of the developments in the corona virus pandemic results of a study of sewage in italy it suggests that the virus was president in milan and to

remain back in december this could mean that the virus arrived in northern italy before china officially reported its 1st case india has recorded its highest one day spike in infections confirming more than 13000 new cases the country now has the 4th highest number of cases after the u.s. brazil and russia and officials in germany say that a contact tracing app has now been downloaded by just over 11 percent of the population the app was launched this week on a voluntary basis officials in the south african city of cape town are bracing for infections to peak there at the end of june or beginning of july the city has been especially hard hit by the virus with more than half of the country's 83000 confirmed cases located in the western cape region and south africa correspondent adrienne creech reports now from cape town. the cape town international convention center is now a field hospital with around $1000.00 beds cape town the a.p.

center of the coronavirus pandemic in south africa is preparing for the worst and additional $5000.00 jobs for nurses and doctors have been advertised for cape town and the surrounding area fire alleges was done plies and his team have massive lead increased testing one 3rd of those tested here have been infected with the virus and there aren't enough testing kits available. point leaving. one problem is clearly the international supply situation that's something we really notice in the laboratory that we're ultimately at the back of the line when it comes to supply it it's all produced internationally i'm not despondent but i must admit there are some very bad 2 weeks ahead of us triple what it was before st the health sector could be overloaded as early as next month city councillors 8 dean is normally responsible for health care now he's also overseeing preparation work in local

graveyards this huge area has been cleared for victims of covert 92000 people will be buried in this cemetery alone in the coming weeks. with a crowd and it's the mason and projections that we have modeled at the moment we will see about 7000 deaths all the way up 210000 it's being projected in the city we're likely to use in the next few weeks the same amount of good waves that have been since the side for use in one year only a few mourners are allowed to attend funerals the ceremony itself is limited to 30 minutes maximum for deaths due to coronavirus it is actually a very scary thought that in a few weeks hundreds of people will be buried but with the way the pandemic unfolds this is going to be the reality. and joining me now from the city of durban is professor salim abdul karim a prominent epidemiologist who is leading south africa's covert 19 advisory team

thank you so much for taking the time to join us this afternoon it's a great pleasure now we just heard a little bit more about south africa easing lockdown restrictions even as the coronavirus cases are starting to rise rapidly how whisky is that. well because south africa acted very early we imposed restrictions and the lockdown when we had only $402.00 cases we are now in week 40 in off the lockdown and it's no longer sustainable for us to continue along this path and so we having to make the very difficulty decision of easing the destruction so that people him start accessing health care accessing food and so on while we institute now a prevention measures that individuals will need to take up such as social

distancing and washing and so on why do you think so many of the countries case more than half of the total have been concentrated in capetown specifically. well when we look at the beginning ology of the way in which the vi this has spread in the western cape it actually started spreading at the tail end of our very strict lock down and it started spreading in those. supermarkets and grocery stores that had to operate at the time and so it was the start getting infected passing it on to the customers and so what happened as a result is that before we actually even knew there was an outbreak in these closing stores it had already spread into the community so we were always came catch up in the western cape trying to find pieces and stop the transmission to looking at contact or using an isolation and it leads to stage

a pretty big deal where all our efforts were actually in now just trying to get to a point of some level of containment and in fact we have slowed transmission in the western cape but that slowing doesn't stop the continue or laurie's of new cases as we see them and we heard some so much about you know that effort to get the transmission of the virus to slow how important testing is in all of that we saw in our report one of the scientists saying that he feels that south africa and i'm quoting here it is at the back of the line when it comes to the supply of test kits do you agree and why do you think that. this is really most frustrating for all of us the country is now doing somewhere between $25.30 tests per day so it's not made we doing you know only a handful we're doing a lot of tests but our need is much much greater we really would like to be able to

do you know twice or thrice that and we have the capacity that capacity to do you know $70010.00. may 2000 to sydney we have the capability because that keep lutie was a boost you know order to do testing for a change and also be so because we have the capacity we have the machines and everything we just can't get hold of the kids and the fact that the supply is just not able to supply the numbers we need is a little problem because it's not a money issue it's just an international supplies through a very very challenging situation and we appreciate you joining us here on the program taking the time to tell us how you are coping with the professor sally abdul karim chair of south africa covert 1000 advisory committee we appreciate it. and now we're going to head to some breaking news just coming in marcus braun

the c.e.o. of german electronics payment company the fin tech wire card has resigned as after 1900000000 euros in cash balances went missing yesterday the fin tech firm delayed releasing its $29000.00 results it now faces a regulatory deadline to publish them today earlier this month german prosecutors searched the docks listed firms offices as part of an investigation into market manipulation the stock dramatically selling off in the past 2 days. also in some other news the spanish best selling novelist carlos ruiz stuff on has died at the age of 55 he was one of the world's most popular modern spanish language writers the award winning author of the shadow of the wind and the labyrinth of spirits was born in barcelona but spent much of his last 3 decades of his life in the united states as

a phone who had been battling cancer passed away in los angeles where he was working on hollywood screenplay. you're watching news i'm sorry kelly in orlando forgot this was more on our website dot com you can also follow us on instagram and twitter at news thank you so much for joining us do you hope that all of you take care and see. combating the corona pandemic. where does research stand. what are scientists learning. background information and. our corona up to. 19 special next on d w.