this is do you have any news live from bergen machall mates and back home for their 1st face to face talks in months the german chancellor hosts the french president for discussions on how to get the skeptics on board with a multi-billion euro coronavirus rescue plan we'll have live coverage to hear what comes out of those talks also coming up. a terror attack in the commercial heart of pakistan come under attack a stock exchange in the city of karachi they say at least 10 people have been killed including 4 of the asylum. plants the muslim women who say chinese

authorities are forcing birth control on them in an apparent effort to reduce their population inching gang problems. as the democratic republic of congo's a silent killer and outbreak of measles is proving more deadly day and then a ball of thought there is a vaccine for it so why isn't it thank you just. i'm rebecca ritter's welcome to the program i'm going to a manual on my call i have arrived at schloss maze about a german government retreat where the 2 latest have been meeting to discuss a rescue plan for the pandemic stricken a year the german chancellor and the french president want to promote their proposal for a multi 1000000000 euro rescue fund for approval from of a. remembers the talks come just 2 days before germany is set to take over the e.u.

presidency merkel last opportunity to define her european legacy before she retires next year. and standing by for us in may is a book where the meeting is tanking places correspondent hands beyond huns merkel and i quote have been meeting what has been the main topic on the agenda. well obviously these 2 meet regularly although the most recent meetings have been by video so this is the 1st time that meeting again face to face which i think you could interpret as a sign of trust and a sign of closeness and of course they coordinate all sorts of things regarding the european union especially now that germany is about to take over the european union presidency presidency but in focus really is the development that recovery fund which is meant to help your the european union european countries recover from the

effects of the corona virus and that is a fund that america and michael have proposed and that they in fact have to push through in the european union. and of course it's a huge sum of money that we're talking about $500000000000.00 euros how are they suggesting this should be dispersed. well in fact on top of those 500000000000 euro said michael and mark or proposing come another 250000000000 which have been proposed by the as it were the central government of the european union the european commission what's special about these 500000000000 that american people and bank or proposing is that they are to be disbursed as grown some other words kind of to be given away to various european countries in need and that is something that is meeting some resistance within the european union countries they are 4 countries especially who call themselves the frugal for sweden denmark the netherlands and all strata who are saying that it's no good giving away money in

this way that it should be created as well that this money should be repaid at some time in the future that's what markers on my call have to push through against the world of some of their colleagues in the european union definitely sounds like a difficult task how do they hope to achieve it. but i think what we see here is the big cloud 1st of all of germany as obviously the konami key most powerful country in the european union which is now taking over the presidency which gives it further weight in the european union and then france this tandem this called the motor of the reappearing union and that is really running pretty well at the moment because of this crisis situation so i think in the end what's likely to happen is some sort of usual european union compromise some of what merkel and michael have proposed will be accepted i imagine but there will be some concessions made to the more frugal members of the union. it's been 2 years since mackerel i might call announced

a declaration in that very building behind you that they're now meeting in now and to reinvigorate the european project what's come of that. well you have to say that there is 2 very different protrusions 2 very different leaders who are meeting here marco is a fairly young man it's his 1st term as president and he wants to present himself as someone who can take action who can make things happen on the other hand has been in this business for a very very much longer time and her character is to be a lot more reticent about these things in the past 2 years these 2 different characters have been pushing and pulling at each other and not very much has happened. under the i suspect of this crisis that's happening things do need to happen and suddenly there's a new vigor in this relationship that it hasn't had for quite a while. perhaps i know we'll be coming back to you later in the hour so until then thank you very much pakistani police

say at least 10 people have died in the terror attack that targeted the stock exchange in the commercial hub kharaj shame the for silence was shot dead by security forces a group linked to the baluchistan liberation army said it was responsible for the attack. looking for clues where the attack began officials say the 4 gunman drove the car to the pakistan stock exchange for an grenades at a security post they then open fired with automatic weapons trying to fight their way in it didn't last long all 4 gunmen were killed by security forces before they could enter the stock exchange. of the. good. and the. i mean just. saw the law enforcement agency is there bulletin that inures played a very very large

a role in combating this. the gunman killed at least 3 people 2 guards and a police officer police found large supplies of ammunition explosives and food on the militants and say it's possible they had planned for a long siege the assault was later claimed by the baluchistan liberation army the separatist group has been responsible for a string of attacks in recent years demanding independence from pakistan for the resource rich baluchistan province the stock exchange is pakistan's largest located in a high security zone bomb disposal teams were called to clear the building of any remaining explosives. i'm now joined by calling from asia desk what more can you tell us about this group have claimed claimed this attack. well as the name suggests baluchistan liberation army is a militant group fighting to liberate baluchistan province from pakistan they

believe that but just on has not been receiving its due rights it's a large province biggest province in terms of india and pakistan rich in mineral resources like copper and gold it borders of ghana stan and iran but the army believes that this group has the backing of india that india is supporting them sheltering them providing them support. and this group should a statement earlier today saying that they carried out this attack and they said the target was pakistan's economy because the stock exchange is a symbol of investment and so on so forth and it said the other target was china because china is very active in the province building infrastructure projects and a seaport and these below which militants see china strengthening the pakistani central government at the expense of. those rights and. activists

in karachi has in the past been linked to extremist violence what what's behind that. well in the past the violence in karachi was more of a political at times it was driven by al qaeda and taliban militants islamist militants if you will. but the pakistani security forces carried out a massive operation in pakistan's northwest and essentially claire many of these groups and that's why in the last 3 or 4 years we've seen the relative calm i mean we don't see suicide bombings and these kind of attacks so this is happened after a long time and despite all this the be concerning for pakistani security agencies to make sure that this doesn't happen again. and now is the attack on the financial hama stock exchange itself likely to shake confidence in pakistan's financial health. pastimes financial health was already quite bad even before the

grown up and then new pandemic came along. recovery has hit rock bottom. projected growth economic growth for next year could go into negative it is already in an i.m.f. program employment is growing so economy is sinking and this attack on the stock exchange will be varying because it built concern foreign investors as domestic investors about the state of affairs overall chance of healing from asia desk thank you very much an analysis. now to some of the other stories making news this hour the u.s. supreme court has dealt a blow to anti abortion advocates striking down a louisiana state law that sought to place restrictions on doctors who perform the procedure and chief justice john roberts voted with his 4 more liberal colleagues in a ruling the same as a blow to the trumpet ministration. at least 28 people have died in the

bangladeshi capital dhaka when a ferry capsized after a collision the boat was reportedly carrying around 100 passages when it was hit by a larger vessel rescuers are continuing to search the river for victims. the lockdown of the northwest and german city of good is low has been extended for another week the move follows an outbreak of the corona virus centered in a meat processing plant that sold 1500 people infected by contrast the restrictions in the neighboring district of one veyron doff expire at midnight on wednesday as well as for the state of north rhine-westphalia. an investigation by the associated press news agency has found that the chinese government is forcing ethnic minority women to undergo various forms of birth control in a bid to reduce the muslim population says it has evidence that women in the far

west region of have been subjected to sterilization and even abortion to come threats. 2 months in a detention camp in jan yang has left scars on darwood but even once she was released this mother wasn't free along with other we go women in her area she was forcibly sterilized and a lot of the law well also part of our body we lost our identity as women we will never be able to have children again when they cut out one of our organs it's gone . to. go on our own mazak narrowly escaped a detention camp like them or it she also has 3 children to avoid prison for the multiple births she was ordered to pay

a huge fine if she'd already been forced to accept an i.u.d. birth control device now she feels one of the lucky ones because they will most americans if they give shots andrew fetuses forcefully the wrong approach they won't ask the spouses permission or anything else for it it will. cause if they say it's illegal they make you get an abortion the reason we didn't have bay was sent to the camps now people are terrified of giving birth wasn't long until. march china has relaxed its one child policy across the country according to this investigation in zhang yang it's tightened sterilise ations among women in the northern province of increase dramatically in 28243 were officially recorded but in the rest of the country there were just 32. experts say

this is all about beijing exerting control. as part of its policy to try to control the widows' populations that do not grow as quickly and rapidly or easier to control as part of beijing's course of social reengineering strategy in the area china though has hit back at these revelations. you are going with you are told all crucial the media report is purely for all tyria motives and baseless i also want to emphasize that both ethnic minorities and han people need to act in accordance with the law ali eva human. many though see this investigation as yet more evidence that china is trying to cut its muslim and minority populations by any means necessary.

and german investigate is working to identify at least 30000 people involved in a huge child sex abuse network or found thousands of names and connections while tracing internet chat room activity think to a child sex abuse suspect in the western state of north rhine-westphalia they've already charged 7 other people as a result and today they have revealed their researching tens of thousands of other digital identities from the internet based networks. klaver has been following this story for us today and this number is massive 30000 incredible really. the only the only thing to we need to do about this number apart from the fact that it's huge is that we're not necessarily talking about 30000 suspects i spoke earlier on today with the regional justice

ministry and the spokeswoman there said what we're looking at is $30000.00 probably plus digital identity so these a log in names of these in the names that people are using on these networks some of them in person may have multiple or so it's not exactly depending on which network they might be looking into or even if they vajra phone or a different computer they might have different identities but even so it's still a shocking number of identities of potentially of people who are involved in this awful awful stuff. how did this approach one guy was being investigated for potential as a suspect in a child abuse sex abuse case and when investigators were searching his flat they found what they said was manton's of evidence which they have since then this is last october so they spent 9 months or so tracking through following through these networks trying to get in to see who's doing what where i'm going in and out of the

dark web some of it was very well hidden and they've been tracking it through until until now and i was still working on it obviously and i had to ask about we you know we have to wonder what about the victims some have been identified by authorities they're not saying anything other than that rightly so but in general the feeling is and i've been reading things today from victims who say that when they have not only been abused as children sexually abused as children but they know that there's image. isn't that video is available on the internet that's like another layer that's not the nother level of trauma for them to have to work through and eventually live with knowing that other people may well continue to see images of them being sexually abused as children even if their abuser has been locked up her ific what's next in the investigation and the process well the people i spoke to who were involved they saying that they assume that this is not just

limited to germany this will become an international investigation and the authorities are ready and and waiting to get in touch with partner authorities in different countries they can follow these networks through but it's very difficult and particularly within germany there are very strong data protection rules provide gap that has been criticized by many people saying you know that they have exemptions to these laws for hackers and for terrorists but not yet for child sex abuse suspects so there's increasing calls for those to be the last to be changed so that these people are easy to find but it will be difficult and they the people who working on it. experiencing problems themselves it's very traumatic you know you don't want to think about having to watch this stuff and evaluate it victims their families the whole thing until it's you know terribly reffing right and some of the investigators are having a difficult time for 2 several who are already off sick because of the stress the

lady i spoke to the justice ministry said the investigators were all being offered psychological counseling to help them continue their work however thanks very much for bringing us up to speed on what is a very horrific story you're welcome. oh of the world waits impatiently for a vaccine to be developed for covert 9 tain it's hard to believe that a disease for which there is a vaccine is still killing thousands of people the world's largest maisons outbreak is spreading in the democratic republic of congo but while much attention has been paid to bola and now the new coronavirus fighting measles has been a lower priority with very deadly consequences. christie is just receiving her measles vaccination she's not happy about the shots but her mother now feels reassured that her child is safe from the disease and i'd like to know why do we know about the importance of prevention if there is an

outbreak my child is protected. a little christie v is safe measles has killed more than 6800 people since the beginning of the outbreak and early 29000 but the world and many donor organizations have been focused on the covert 1000 threat and 2 separate ebola outbreaks here. if you can enough or if that's of it if your own it is a global threat and that's causing a stir lots of people are interested because it's a bolo with measles is only a threat to underdeveloped countries in countries dealing with conflicts and that doesn't track the media. the measles outbreak is silently spreading as shadow of ebola and covert 19 humanitarian groups say it was neglected from the start supplying clinics with medicine has been problematic and vaccination campaigns have been delayed. we believe. the country has been experiencing many security

incidents which has resulted in population displacement so there are thousands of children who are not being vaccinated on a regular basis to get. these vaccines are being transported to musty see a region suffering from a fresh wave of fighting between armed groups. they're no longer size and we just loaded 2 boxes containing 33000 vaccines that will be used in a vaccination campaign and the baron b.s.o. helped sell it. back when i feel that i've only defended the baby i believe that. efforts continue despite major logistical and security challenges such as entire cities in regions being placed under lockdown to fight the spread of covert 19 the consequence children are missing out on routine vaccinations. the roof musical seems to have been forgotten even though it's the most contagious disease more so than in dollar over 19. but one of those diseases attract interest is

ignored for example in 2019 there were more deaths from measles than from. the more do you know. the death toll from measles is more than 3 times that of ebola the local population knows too well the threat of silent killer such as malaria malnutrition or measles. and quick look now at some of the other stories making news this hour is cutting production by 40 percent for 2 years in reaction to the coronavirus pandemic with air travel at a standstill airlines around the world have stopped taking delivery of new planes tens of thousands of jobs are threatened by the comebacks. hundreds of demonstrators marched in the spanish capital madrid to demand more rights and protection for the l.g. being taken munity the official gay pride events have been canceled because of covert 19 concerns but that did not stop algae activists turning up to protest

discrimination. more make his in the u.s. state of mississippi cheered after they voted to remove a confederate symbol from the state flag the blue cross and white stars emblem was used by generations used for generations rather by southern states that supported slavery in the us civil war it's the latest symbol of racism to be removed after a month of protests to demand an end to racial injustice. well staying with the u.s. and germany's foreign minister has said the frosty relations between berlin and washington are unlikely to thaw even if someone else takes over as u.s. president in november mass said the relationship i'm going undergone structural changes. and in its current form no longer met the demands of either side the latest bone of contention is president trump's announcement that he'll substantially reduce the number of u.s.

troops stationed in germany in one small town in the southern bavarian southern state of varia that could have serious rip repercussions. almost all of them were throwing the eggs bar in the small bavarian town of gaffney everyone is welcome. many of the regulars here are u.s. soldiers from the nearby army base. here to lay out who has been standing behind this bar for 27 years taking care of soldiers when they're happy and they're angry and they're promoting a person to those who come here this is more than just a bar and give sure it's more than just its owner. didn't meet them alone for an instant and they don't call me by my 1st name they just call me mom you know a lot of them say this is their home away from home sometimes they come here and they might be in low spirits so when i see that i try to talk to them about it is even i can say they're like my own children but they come here so often it's like

my family here you know. it's bar named after their chins late husband himself a g.i. is a fixture and often. it's a quiet town. that's home to the largest overseas u.s. army base in the world and to 12000 soldiers and their families talk of use to patrol gives rise to uncertainty the base is the backbone of this otherwise economically weak region it generates some $660000000.00 euros in revenue a year 60 to $70000000.00 euros of which is money that the soldiers spend in local stores and restaurants some $3000.00 civilian jobs for germans are directly tied to the base that's almost half full staff and last overall population impossible to replace in a remote region like this one. but dawson was mayor tells me for him economic considerations are only one part of the equation albeit stiff and it's as if we

were celebrating 75 years of living together with the americans in a small town with 6 and a half 1000 residents. it's always been a nice and friendly relationship and i think it has benefited both nations we hope that it remains that way to her the roots of this is a good. american soldiers have shaped since the end of world war 2. even he was here back in 1958 it was president spent a few weeks in crawford and even though it violated the terms of his record deal he played one small concert in a local strip club on this very. story they're proud of here but u.s. troops don't only enrich coffee where they also get something in return. over it it's bar crystal is one of the regulars here with the originally from texas she's been a casting vote for for years not as military but as a civilian working at the base she believes living here is

a unique experience for her and the soldiers alike. it's not just another duty station it's getting it chance to experience culture and other culture within the confines of that country a soldier sometimes they don't get to see much other than their work because there's good things that they can see and then there's you know the bad. and i think that coming to germany coming as a cold case they do see the good. lots of good and sometimes that's that's what's needed that it is already a hope that no troops will be withdrawn from class and. you're convinced it would be a loss not only for the town and its people but for soldiers here as well. returning to our top story now in just 2 days germany will take over the presidency of the 27 member european union chancellor angela merkel and french president emmanuel my call have been meeting to discuss the transition

a news conference is expected any moment now and we'll bring you that live because it changes in the rotating presidency maybe retain but this time it's merkel's last opportunity to define her european legacy before she retires next year she's expected to take firm control of pushing through the e.u.'s multi-billion euro coronaviruses rescue plan. some call them the driving force of europe and now that a pandemic is taking the e.u. to the core german chancellor angela merkel and french president emanuel seem to be closer than ever and that attend them didn't see eye to eye of the beginning of the pandemic now they are standing more united. for the corporation than the friendship between france and germany calls on the us to send a signal even if we know that they are $27.00 even member states i believe that if germany and france give an impulse it is something that will promote the formation

of opinion in europe. they must act we must actually and so that we come out of this crisis well and stronger back in may france and germany propose an unprecedented you recovery fund of 500000000000 euros now they must clarify details and gain support from the e.u.'s $27.00 member states the e.u. commission backs the franco german plan for both leaders this is also a chance to be a european they can see a common goal was a notable difference angle america's approval ratings at home are skyrocketing while a man my colleagues faced with criticism over his management of the car enough i was quite as is. now political correspondent thomas aspera joins us from our parliamentary studio thomas let's talk a bit more about that legacy michael's legacy shall be under a lot of pressure over the next 6 months. i'm going to have a legacy obviously will not be only mocked by whatever happens in the next few

months by what she manages to achieve but to a certain degree it will because obviously germany will be leading that rotating presidency of the e.u. council at a time when the e.u. is facing a very big challenge in fact i'm going to call herself described the coronavirus as the biggest challenge that the e.u. has faced in its history and as such germany will play a very important role in trying to push that e.u. economic recovery plan we saw some of the details in our report and at the same time i'm going to merkel and her government will be playing a very important role that other topics that are of particular importance to the e.u. i'll just give you one name rank states in the next few months will have very important negotiations when it comes to that future relationship between the e.u. and the u.k. .