good. player. this is due to the news live from berlin some 6000000000 euros more pledged for the fight against the corona virus in high risk countries. the european union kicks off a virtual pandemic fundraiser to help develop vaccines for tests and treatments worldwide organizers are hoping a star studded concert will encourage more people to open their wallets. and jewel demonstrations united in the fight against injustice thousands of people take to the streets of berlin to protest against both racism and help and c l g

t thing. and goals goal or on the bundesliga final match day teams fighting for survival and for champions league qualification we have the highlights and analysis cleaves last games. unexposed are welcome to the program. more than 6000000000 euros more to help vulnerable countries battle the coronavirus pandemic and money is being raised at a summit organized by the e.u. and the international aid group global citizen the goal is to make potential vaccines tests and treatments affordable and accessible worldwide. a short while ago european commission president ursula vander line talked about the need to expand access to potential vaccines we need to invest in producing vaccines at unprecedented speed and scale and

a task of this size can only happen if the world unites we need our best scientists to work together we need all global health organizations to join forces and we need governments business and financial faced to step in and provide funding tens of billions are required and chief international editor richard walker joins us now from brussels with more on the e.u. coronavirus fund raiser richard before we get to the money what's the political significance of this event. yeah well of course i mean the money in itself does have significance in fact the total just over 6000000000 euros has been raised with 5000000000 coming from the european commission and sums of money coming from other donors to germany pledging just under 400000000 or so and you know going to a variety of different aspects of this attempt to coordinate internationally in the fight against the pandemic but if you do step back and look at this from a political point of view i think it's really the instance essentially of the

europeans trying to step in and fill what emerges is this void that the united states might have filled in other times i mean looking back at previous health emergencies for instance you know the last really large ebola pandemic a few years ago the united states really a leading role in leading the international coordination there together with institutions like the world health organization well this year the united states has pulled out of the world health organization there's a president donald trump who is very explicitly less interested in multilateralism as an as an approach to solving problems. and also you have the pandemic in the united states seeming to come back with a vengeance with the number of cases day by day now hitting record levels so you have the united states really out of action on this international level and the

europeans trying to fill that void to do this crucial work. and if we could just sort of drill down into the numbers 5000000000 euros used to sound like a lot of money but it is that a lot these days. well yeah it's true what used to impress us maybe doesn't impress us so much anymore and certainly the few 1000000000 euros are not going to solve the problem to be fair was love underlined the president the european commission is quite open about that i mean she has said many times that you know this is a step by step process and tens of billions will be needed over time. but still i mean here in brussels in a couple of weeks' time there's going to be a summit of e.u. nations trying to find agreement on a recovery fund to get e.u. economies moving after the pandemic as they as they emerge from it and they're

talking of raising 750000000000 euros so more than 100 times what has been raised today so i think many of our viewers watching perhaps from poor countries in the global south might be watching this and thinking will also leave you know the west you have rich countries that are more interested in helping out other rich countries than than helping more vulnerable countries so i think it is going to be a really interesting test in the next few months if the pandemic really continues to get more severe in the global south how far richer western countries are going to be prepared to go to really step up their one wonders if they won't suddenly become more generous richard walker in brussels thanks so much. now to some of the other stories making news this hour. authorities in germany have closed roads to popular baltic coast resorts as summer holidays begin in many parts of the country it's an effort to enable social distancing at the beach crowds of people have

streamed to north only to find the sand more crowded in the cities. and there were long lines of traffic backed up at the german de mint danish border on the 1st day of eased travel between the 2 countries denmark easing of restrictions applies only to travelers from countries to low number of code 19 infections all the countries and europe's visa free shipping area are on track to reopen their borders to each other by july the 1st. the british embassy in moscow has raised a rainbow flag to celebrate. defying russia's log banning so-called gay propaganda the embassy issued a statement saying it rejects all forms of discrimination including those based on sexual orientation and gender identity as follows the american embassy flying the rainbow flag in the russian capital 2 days ago. the african union is reporting progress in 3 way negotiations to build one of the world's largest dams

it says over 90 percent of the issues between egypt ethiopia and sudan have been resolved the a huge has been trying to broker a deal to end a dispute about the dam which was begun on the blue nile river in ethiopia in 2011 the ethiopian government said it would start filling the reservoir in a few weeks to have few weeks to produce hydroelectric power sudan hopes to benefit from the dam as well but egypt fears it could face massive water shortages. the project has triggered a decades long dispute ethiopia began construction of africa's largest dam 9 years ago it will cost more than $4000000000.00 euros now the grand ethiopian renaissance dam is almost completed and ethiopia hopes to benefit from huge amounts of cheap electricity but egypt insists its water supplies must be protected you have paid for the construction of the dam from the flesh and blood of their own citizens and

. egypt is their own life 90 percent of egypt's water comes from the nile if the renaissance dance reservoirs filled too quickly 30 percent of the country's fertile land could be threatened by a lack of water triggering disaster for egypt's already struggling economy the talks between egypt ethiopia and sudan had dragged on for years but top negotiators reached a breakthrough early saturday morning during a virtual meeting the talks are to be concluded within 3 weeks according to a tweet by ethiopia's water minister and so then the renaissance dance reservoir will not be filled in contrast to the ethiopian government's original plans for egypt that would dramatically raise tensions the 3 countries are relieved to have avoided a major escalation for now. people here in berlin have staged 2 separate protests against 2 forms of bigotry about 1000 rally to support the black lives matter

movement and draw attention to racism here in germany nearby thousands more gathered to highlight discrimination against the l g b t community joel del roy has more. apparently in private much unlike any other smaller but still strident political instead of commercial with the official parade cancelled due to the coronavirus some activists still sole cause to demonstrate. just because the. pandemic we don't have a break for transport beyond homophobia and that's reason why we all the nice upright today rights groups say the number of attacks against the queer community and barely increased in the past year same sex public affection is still sometimes met with violence even and girl in this many crimes against gay people here and so we are here today to say that we want to live if you look around the world countries like poland but also russia. or saudi arabia where he

writes are non-existent in some areas and that's why it's very very important to stand up even in these times where do you get to write the most participants for mosques some little else yet police ordered the march to end early citing overcrowding. nearby a different rally with another urgent message over a 1000 gathered under the black lives matter bana to call for an end to every day racism. what connects these 2 demonstrations is a concern that intolerance is continuing even in the middle of a pandemic these communities have come out despite the difficulties of demonstrating under strict hygiene rules to make sure their voices continue to be heard. even after a waiver anti-racism demonstrations globally in recent weeks participants say little has changed. and there's no other trend is not something that last time

you know is going to be solved like for them it's a problem that always been and we've always been fighting for because he's given more with us that this one in one or you hear something happen again with a black person i don't know so it's not really helping businesses that's very it's a big part of my life this injustice in the world racism discrimination we're constantly confronted with it all. even when you grow up in germany it doesn't matter where you grow up police violence is everywhere racism and injustice are everywhere and i'm here to add my voice calling for change the vents on the floor and. mosques of not not full to demand for equality and justice. time for sports and it was the bundesliga final match day of the season today and talking me through the action is max merril from t.v.

sports to max what was left to play for on match day 34 well by and have been crowned champion a few weeks ago so that wasn't any mystery regards to who would take the title but there was still a few key battles left namely the one for 4th place the final champions league spot that was glad and live accusing both vying for that and further down the table relegation was still a bit of a hot issue because although possible and have been relegated already at the bottom the other 2 teams there was still vying for that 3rd from bottom spot which gives you a relegation playoff to try and save the season after the season ok so how did the relegation saga play out then well it was quite dramatic to say the least 10 goals across those 2 matches and you can have a look at those goals actually braman hosted cologne who had nothing left to play for and despite off posted i went to a new one believe that nothing left to play for and brave and got off the mark rights away scoring early on and then berlin did them

a favor by scoring against us will go off and in the end this will go off how torrid afternoon it didn't really look like they were still playing for their survival and meanwhile braman have had this very very bad season defensively but also in their attack the joint worst attack in the league with disallowed off actually suddenly look at this playing fantastic football little bit of luck then you've got to add that. all big rivals of just a little so perhaps they had an ulterior motive here and were quite happy. you to lose. you can see here another fantastic go on your own berlin wall that's in the distant off matching the coach not looking very impressed with his side meanwhile braman just kept on scoring 61 their biggest win of the season they've only won one home game before this in the whole season so it's really out of character they suddenly found the spot and that's exactly what this will do often turn lacked they just didn't have that fight in them to try and get them over the line and now braman are going to be contesting for that relegation play off and that means the

3rd. from top side in the 2nd which will be determined on sunday they're going to be playing against braman to fight it out who gets to go up or who gets to stay up ok let's go up to the top of the table what about the top 4 who gets to move on to the champions league a little less dramatic. they did win but it wasn't enough they needed got back to lose and strode to a 21 victory so glad i'm going to be going to the champions league as well as well as leipzig dortmund and byron representing germany on that big international stage and just very briefly the bonus thing was a 1st international sports they to start playing during a pandemic how did it go well actually they did rather well i have to say in terms of the health aspects now a lot of people have been a fan of not having fans in the stadium and of course that does make it very eerie and not very atmospheric but overall they've been safe it's a real model for other sports leagues that are starting out now it's been a success and now it's all done and dusted ok thank you max merrill.

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