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2 from the end may come one solution. challengers valley this week on t.w. . thanks. this is the news live from berlin getting europe back on its feet in the wake of the corona of christ leader hold a virtual summit city based plans for a 750000000000 euro recall but there are deep divisions of who pays who receives and whether the farm should consist of loans or grants or a combination of both also on the program. the coronavirus may have brought much of
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the world to a standstill but millions continue to be on the move fleeing conflict persecution and discrimination. commissioner for refugees tells d.w. it's time the international community acts before it's too late. august cape town braces focus on a virus infections to pick up at the end of the month with ask why the city has seen more places than tents and the rest of something. as welcome to the program even leaders have wrapped up a video conference to agree on a financial plan to help the block emerge intact from the worst economic crisis in its history their actual summit was the 1st step in what are expected to be difficult negotiations on us. 750000000000 euro corona recovered from the
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leaders will meet face to face next month for the 1st time since february here's what the german chancellor angela merkel have to say after today's meeting you don't have standing exactly each of us spoke about the positive aspects and also brought up the criticism we have probie it wouldn't even if there are still big bridges that need to be built that's clear but it was a very constructive discussion and there was a constructive not most here for. constructive talks on north the big bridges need to be built and they have to be paved with gold or other tech spam money i'm joined by golly a fella my he's the president of the kiel institute for the world economy a leading german think tank mr who's going to pay the most for this well it's very clear it's going to be germany who's going to bring both the largest economy in europe and good the really high degree of it.
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will go to germany also participate can germany will german companies be able to participate from this money yes so that this is the year problem it will go to charity and to other richer northern countries with the program is going to be structured such there helps those countries most who suffer most right the 3rd crisis and this is the right thing to solve to retreat italy but also greece france probably orderable spain countries ha very strongly here by the growers crisis and also by their decision. and many are now demanding a piece of the pie how should the money be spent where should the money go which sectors of the economy. so they get is very important that we do not get into a discussion discussion about transfers you know every year polygyny just look at
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their next contribution towards the your budget and its rise to a very acrimonious debate that's not good for europe that's why i think really need to think very hard about projects that have it and visible and obvious and did so this would be good for church a project for chapel this could be investment into research why not just say our common european universities will do all citizens of those could then be placed somewhere in the periphery where. most of from those initiatives are strongest we need to make sure that there is some method for it but many are saying that most of the money should go into projects that are sustainable like climate change projects or comparable sustainable projects what's your opinion on that so the and germany a couple of days ago there was a proposal of further missed you heavily into the high speed rail system connecting
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paris to berlin new for our. connection that would be very good point $500.00 it would also. be very good for the future productivity to the government in europe so nervous could be both heavy invest heavy investment heavy in the growth of action and also part of the new treaty or your colleague claimants foods from the evil institute told the w today that the money should be allocated as grants and not as we payable loans what's your position. and the crucial devoid of this discussion if we really spend the money on common projects on things the economists would coal european public goods then we can't escape this notion of either giving. you free loans because they do with a sense of common european interest and it should never matter for those things to executive pay for it and what exactly goes to the things i've done the best example
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for this would be to invest into the common border protection this is good for that refinery because that's where the borders of the european. union are and it will help those regions to get some you know help they get some help from europe and on the same time it would make the whole of europe secure in that area in that events of people should benefit from the edison treaty. the president of the key institute for the world economy thank you very much. you're welcome. one european economy that is in desperate need of financial life support is italy a country was already facing a recession before it was hit by the coronavirus and became europe's 1st epicenter of the crisis roman posed a strict lockdown for almost 3 months non-essential businesses hard to close supply chains were interrupted but slowly but surely business is resume. no car can run without these parts here it n.t.a.
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in northern italy components are made for co makers across the world including b.m.w. in germany and tata in india that's why. katty was worried about the operation after the coronavirus began hitting the region hard in march the supply chain is something perfect it has to work day by day hour by hour and. how our customers can not to find the same. we supply them from another supplier. after a brief interruption the machines are now back up and running and most workers have returned to the plant that is not all back to normal yet sales are down by 50 percent. filippo back those company was also hit by the crisis he's now back in his showroom in may down the furniture maker got lucky 2 decades ago his company was already marketing online during the corona crisis it went even further
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using video calls to advise customers steering lock down. it was. a test a very hard task and we had the opportunity to shore up our people our customer that we. were able to resist and give europe right to do very very bad situation for everyone in this counter. going digital has proven to be the solution to get through the crisis. their primary. is able to survive we have many interpret nurse now are. looking for new products new market new business models. but despite the opportunities italy was on the brink of recession even before the coronavirus struck now the economy is facing a slump of at least 8 percent money a $5.00 k. t. says m.t.a. has put the lessons learned from the corona crisis into practice they've also
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prepared for a possible 2nd wave but for many businesses in italy another lockdown could mean the end. to some of the other stories making headlines this hour in rome a cleanup is underway after until racism protesters for to paint over the bust of an italian colonial era general pasted over a street sign supported the black lives matter movement in the u.s. . british prime minister boris johnson has said he hopes the time of national coronavirus lockdowns is now over comes after the u.k.'s chief medical officer agreed that the coronavirus threat level should be lowered one notch to epidemic in general circulation has been a steady decrease in cases across the u.k. . thing. europe remains a top destination for refugees and other migrants struggling to violence and
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poverty or the people trying to come here represents just a small fraction of those who are fleeing their homes worldwide more than 80 percent of migrants crossing national borders are taken in by developing countries that are themselves for the next reports takes us to book enough ah so much smaller company that is still a destination for many refugees simply for its geographical location. this is the good refugee camp in northern kenya faso thousands of people from mallee sought refuge here when islamists took over the north of their country a few years ago the camp was safe at 1st but in march the refugees had to leave after attacks and threats by armed groups terrifying people who are already traumatized by violence. these are the same problems that drove us out of mali the children heard shots while they were sleeping people were killed the same problems have come here. this man and his family fled mali 8 years ago
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he says that since 2017 every year the security situation in burkina faso gets worse with deadly and heartbreaking results. they took my cattle they even took my son to this day i have not heard from him. here in northern. refugees are caught in the chaos and violence of the sahara region and it's getting worse islamist terrorist groups self-defense militias bandits ethnic conflicts weak state structures and army violence all add to the problems of ordinary people. so hundreds of thousands of locals have been refugees for some time now the united nations refugee agency says the covert pandemic has made everything even more difficult.
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than in those of you. before. coming. out. for the. rest of them. and experts say that the terror and violence could spread from bric enough to other countries if things continue to get worse. and secure. the possibility of chaos during the forthcoming elections because we can clearly see that the situation is deteriorating that the state is losing control. that means little prospect that life will improve for refugees here it's a desperate situation for this 62 year old man and his family. if there is peace i'll go back to mali. but if there is no peace.
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he does not want much just safety security and enough for his family to get by. earlier we spoke to the u.n. high commissioner for refugees philippa grundy about the additional hardship refugees are facing because of the coronavirus. the pandemic has hopefully finally brought home to everybody this fundamental message that we live in a world in which many things are global whether we like it or not including challenges i'm not just talking about the pandemic was everybody understands that but what about climate change what about migration and refugees what about in security terrorism and if we don't work together we won't be able to overcome them dependent he's teaching us this lesson every day not that we're learning very much but it is teaching us this lesson and i do hope that this starts filtering in and across to the leadership send if we move away from this dangerous discourse me 1st
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we 1st my country 1st and lead truly cooperate philip around this because you have officials in the south african city of cape town bracing for infections to peak there at the end of june or beginning of july the city has been hit especially hard by the coronavirus with more than half of the country's 83000 confirmed cases located in the western cape region if you don't use south africa correspondent john cleese reports now from cape town. the cape town international convention center is now a field hospital with around $1000.00 beds cape town the 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 or just was done prize and his team have massively increased testing one 3rd of those tested here have been infected with the virus and there aren't enough
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testing kits available. probably even see. 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 weeks ahead of us triple volumes before surely the health sector could be overloaded as early as next month city councillors 8 or 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 our part and it's the mission and projections that we have modeled at the moment we will see about 7000 deaths all the way up 210000 deaths being projected in the city we are likely to use in
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the next few weeks the same amount of good waves that have been since the site 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 here but with the way the pandemic unfolds this is going to be the reality. we spoke to professor. a limb a dog karim the easy epidemiologist leading south africa's covert 900 visor a team he told us about the problems the country is having securing covert 900 test kids 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 like we doing you know only a handful we're doing a lot of tests but our need is much much greater that we really would like to be
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able to do you know twice or thrice that and we have the capacity that capacity to do you know 70000 tests may 2000 tests a day we have that capability because that capability was blurred you know order to do testing for hiv and also for tb so because we have the capacity at 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 real problem because it's not a money issue it's just an international supply. and we stay on the subject china has reported $25.00 new cases of the coronavirus in the capital beijing saying that it now has the latest outbreak under control authorities are to be added to strict lockdown measures after the virus was spread out of food market earlier this week
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but critics aren't recently questioning how beijing is dealing with the crisis and how it still suppressing any dissent about its policies with few in china have felt the economic impact of the coronavirus as much as migrant workers. hujan she is a day laborer who usually works on construction sites but the building sector took a hit from the corona virus outbreak and then was. finding a job is harder now than it was. there are more protective regulations like social distancing rules. but we have survived the worst months of the pandemic threat even quite sure that she was. at private job centers postings on the windows show how much the job market has taken a hit wages are declining the equivalent of around 20 u.s. dollars per day instead of 30. but who you know she says he doesn't want to criticize china in front of the international media. she junie is one of the few
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people in china willing to speak out he's a human rights lawyer and authorities have been watching him more closely since the pandemic began. when many chinese took to social media to call for freedom of speech he participated by signing a petition. with the police told me that if i didn't cooperate with them and delete what i had written if i continued to speak my mind there would be consequences for my family and me. she worries that the government will use the pandemic to tighten its control over chinese citizens a number of journalists have already felt the pressure. now leads a war was a news anchor for state controlled media when the pandemic kid he quit his job to report independently from. a classified ad called for
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night shift workers at a funeral home lead took the job hoping to find out the true number of people who had succumbed to the virus. he was broadcasting live when plainclothes police entered his apartment and arrested him he disappeared for 2 months. in april he appeared in a single video explaining that he was simply in quarantine that many of his viewers say he had been forced to lie. or. china's critics say state propaganda has been ramped up since the pandemic began state t.v. partridge's china as a global savior sending health care supplies by the ton to countries in need national pride is on the rise china's handling of the crisis has been a model for the world that's the opinion of many here at the great wall. this is how china works 1st our leaders come up with a plan and the people should follow without raising too many objections and
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benefits everyone you know title offending began the way back to hama. so here you see the difference between socialism and capitalism you should probably take a lesson from china china believed it had the coronavirus pandemic under control the economy was once again up and running but the new outbreak threatens to draw the country back into a crisis. well china presented itself as using best practices for containing the virus but how much of this messaging is tied to the international pressure to open up for an independent investigation into the initial outbreak that's a question we put to our correspondent. in beijing this very beginning this initial cover up that led to let the virus spread that far that brought so many so much suffering and death to was something that got people here really really angry in the beginning of february probably the communist party was facing its worst legitimacy crisis in many many years and the fact that they were able to bring the
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numbers down somehow recall siloed some people or part of the population with what the government did and the government of course pushed everything propaganda wise to bring over this message to bring it also to other countries china does not want to be questioned by other countries it does not want anybody to bring up the idea of an independent in. investigation and it punishes countries that do so so this is really important is a major it's a message to the international community but it's also a message to the people in china and china wants people to believe that it's more powerful it's responses more powerful than that in western countries and it works sometimes i hear it sometimes myself people are telling me well it's good that you are now in china not in europe here you are safe and this is why it's critical for the chinese government to bring this outbreak now in beijing that as far as we know
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is much smaller than what we've seen before and one hand quickly under control to maintain this narrative that china is powerful in detecting and suppressing outbreaks across on him and he has 1000000000 of them turnover for her granddaughter of other developments in the corona virus pandemic results of a study of sewage in italy suggest the virus was present in milan and to reign in december this could mean the virus arrived in northern italy before china officially reported its 1st case india 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 officials and germany's contacts tracing up has now been downloaded by 9600000 people just over 11 percent of germany's population the app was launched this week on a voluntary basis china has denied detaining any indian
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soldiers following monday's border clash in the himalayas that left at least 20 indian troops dead after india media reports claimed on friday that china had freed 10 indian soldiers but both sides have been working to reduce tensions after the violence which was the deadliest clash in the disputed himalayan border region in 45 years. saying goodbye to her father. family members and the community attend the funeral of saturn and seeing the indian soldier was one of at least 20 who died this week in a violent faceoff with chinese soldiers in the disputed darwin valley. indian officials say the soldiers were killed in hand to hand combat in the dark only with rocks some planting to their deaths in subzero temperatures. firearms
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have been banned in the region since a $996.00 bilateral agreement that aimed to deter escalation india blames beijing for the flare up accusing chinese soldiers of an incursion response. we expect. china disagrees it says blame for the collapse rests with india china has acknowledged his forces suffered casualties but its release no figures. for 2 sides are currently engaged in dialogue to resolve the issues on the ground through diplomatic and military channels nothing else to offer. to fight erupted in a region of the himalayas where an exact border has never been defined infrastructure projects on both sides of the disputed line of control have increased tension in recent months. that tension has now spread across india
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sparking protests calling for a boycott of chinese goods. as i'm not calling for the chinese president to be hanging out at the chinese army brutally killed our troops our movement will continue to protest and demand that consumers shun all chinese products sold in our country. experts say the 2 nations are unlikely to head to war but easing tensions quickly will be difficult. some football news now was. has indicated he wants to leave manchester city after rejecting a contract extension the german international looked set to return to germany with by munich last summer but a bad injury ended his chance hopes the 24 year old has a year left on his current deal city coach pep guardiola come from to that he can leave if county found and it couldn't hide his repressed saudis
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decision. and that's it for me and the news team of that small news on our website dot com and also you could follow us of course on instagram and twitter at d w news. i'm galveston berlin thanks so much. india
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