this is g w news why for from berlin tonight the virus and the money the leaders of germany and france are trying to walk in step as your prepares for the post pandemic recovery at their 1st face to face talks in 2 months the german chancellor and the french president met today near berlin can they convince the skeptics to say yes to a multibillion euro coronavirus rescue package also coming up tonight a militant attack in the commercial heart of pakistan government targets the stock exchange in the city of karachi at least 7 people were killed including all 4 of

the attack and the vote for change that could change nothing russians are being urged to vote on constitutional amendments that could allow president putin to room for 2 more terms saying it's always she keeping hooted in power for life and defying the rules on physical distancing south african a minibus drivers from clued into up and celebrating the spread of codes with 19. i'm burnt off welcome to our viewers on p.b.s. in our viewers all around the world we begin tonight with the future of europe after the pandemic that was the subject today is german chancellor angela merkel and french president emmanuel. medhat maser berg palace near berlin it was their

1st face to face since the pandemic hit back in march the 2 were eager to show that they stand shoulder to shoulder on their multibillion euro plan that they say is crucial to guaranteeing that you use future the greeting was distanced because of coronavirus but warm nonetheless it is not by chance that the man who is the 1st foreign leader to meet with chancellor merkel since the virus crisis began the pair spearheading a $500000000000.00 euro proposal for rebuilding europe's economy off to the pandemic these are 2 leaders who want to work together and be the driving force for europe. if this gets going on that we understand that year and pays not united merely because germany and france agree but when germany and france disagree it does not look so good for unity in europe so perhaps we can find agreement on many

questions and make a contribution and give a positive impulse to move things in the right direction for europe's future. even as germany prepares to take over the presidency of the e.u. on the 1st of july america is more central than ever to the future of the block the french president for his part wants to be seen to be injecting his own energy and ideas into the tandem he brought with him from paris a proposal for a new environmental levy and he spoke of how european values have prevailed during the pandemic. across europe there has been an open and transparent debate from the stuff i think as citizens should be aware of what that means in many other parts of the world some more severely affected by the virus than us is systems of both individuals and companies has not been as massive far from it and in many places the epidemic has been synonymous with the suspension of democratic life but not here in europe mccarthy. on the.

whole has been weakened by his party's poor results in local elections on sunday macros handling of kobe has support even though the plan to transfer funds to struggling countries in southern europe is a huge new turn which not a party back but as they try to convince some reluctant e.u. members that they have the right recipe for recovery france and germany want to make sure they're pointing in the same direction and for now we want to get our political correspondent hons brought he is at the maze of palace just north of berlin where that meeting took place today good evening to you we know that the german chancellor she is asking for solidarity and support for this rescue fund but not every european union member is on board seeing a possibility of finding a compromise here. well we have to see that this was

a proposal that machall and cole put into the world about 6 weeks ago and their proposal was that there would be 500000000000 euros that would be given to a needy countries as budgetary assistance as grants in other words money that's pushed across the table towards them that was the reaction from the european commission that just like the government of the european union was to add a further 250000000000 euros to that in loans and the question is whether the systems in fact should be grants or should be loans there are some countries in the european union who feel that giving other countries money is not the way or the right way to do it all of this money should be in the form of learns it will be repaid over the years cohen says to today that budgetary direct assistance was the only way in fact to risk who countries that are in need at the moment and he said that he thought that within the next month or so some agreement could be phoned but in the end with likely to end up being some kind of compromise in the european

union. probably some sort of mixture between learn funds and direct grants. and what about climate change and creating a greener economy hans we know that was on the agenda today what are we expecting from germany as it is set to begin to head the e.u. presidency on the 1st of july. but in fact that was a subject that came up very came up very often in the press conference of the 2 leaders today it's something that seems to be very central to their thinking both of them both of them obviously faced green policies at the in their countries of the amount of just the sunday but i'm going to now go to is 5 facing a lot of pressure from the german green party so these issues are important to them at the same time we have to remember that the new commissioner of the new head of the european union commission on it is the former german defense minister and

a very close associate of i'm going to marco who's also been pushing a green agenda for the european union so there is a lot of interest a lot of political pressure on these issues not only in terms of finding a solution for the environment but also i think with some sort of political maneuvering in the background because of the domestic situation in the various countries you know we look at the calendar we know that france is also preparing to take over the e.u. presidency a year and a half from now so how important will the german franco relationship be for europe in the coming to yours. we have to say that cohen has only been president for 3 years he's a young man he's been pushing hans to make things go move to show that he is somebody who could put things into action but i'm obviously a very seasoned politician and he's very very reticent about moving too quickly on things so this kind of cooperation has not been that successful in the past few

years but now under the pressure from the corona crisis but sides have realized that movement is necessary and it is picking up momentum this french german cooperation. brought at the maze a big palace just north of berlin and thank you we are some of the other stories now that are making headlines around the world germany is investigating 30000 suspects as part of a probe into an online pedophile network the latest in a series of child sex abuse scandals in the west of the country cyber crime investigators began the probe last october with the arrest of a suspect near the city of cologne. the u.s. supreme court has dealt a blow to anti-abortion advocates striking down a the wheezy on a state law that's all to place restrictions on doctors who perform the procedure chief justice john roberts voted with his 4 more liberal colleagues in

a ruling that is seen as a blow to the trumpet ministration. india has banned $59.00 chinese mobile apps including popular and we chat citing national security and privacy concerns the move comes just weeks after a border clash between the 2 neighbors which resulted in strained diplomatic relations. well staying in that region pakistani authorities are vowing to wipe out any group found responsible for a deadly terror attack on kharaj stock exchange early on monday police say at least 7 people were killed in the assault including 4 militants. related of. the attack was filmed by an eyewitness from across the road a little bit earlier and. another gunman was captured on closed circuit t.v. in the parking lot of karate stock exchange. pakistani authorities say the 4 gunmen attacked security guards with grenades but were killed before they were

able to gain access to the main building where more than 1000 traders and staff were working. i'd say about the people in this particular but today after 10 o'clock in the morning the gunshots echoed and there was a sound of an explosive just like firecrackers it was already just it was continued for about 20 minutes we locked ourselves inside our offices for safety reasons safety for the safety visa while all the people working inside the stock exchange remained unharmed at least 3 people 2 guards and a police officer were killed in the attack police found large supplies of ammunition explosives and food on the militants they say it's possible the attackers had planned on a long siege. and a 100 little thank god a huge disaster could have occurred which has been averted but life is back to normal markets are open and there's no need for the concern which is now our own

security police enforcement agencies together averted a huge casualty toll today. 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. where we spoke earlier with sean said jelani from w.'s asia desk he told us more about the baluchistan liberation army that has claimed responsibility for the attack. baluchistan liberation army is a militant group fighting to liberate baluchistan province from pakistan they believe that baluchistan has not been receiving its due rights it's a province biggest province in terms of india and pakistan rich in mineral resources like copper and gold and borders of gonna stand 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 issued 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 song and it said the other target was china because china is very active in the province building infrastructure projects and a seaport and these militants see china strengthening the pakistani central government at the expense of. the rights and. activists that was. there from asia. is china committing demographic genocide of its weak muslim minority and investigation by the associated press finds that beijing is forcing ethnic weaker women to undergo sterilizations and

abortions in an effort to reduce the muslim population in the country. 2 months in a detention camp and shin jiang has left scars on the wrist that worked but even once she was released this mother wasn't free along with other we go or women in her area she was forcibly sterilized. why don't the part of our body we lost our identity as women we want never be able to have children again. when they cut out one of our organs it's gone. to. their own merits or a chinese born kazakh narrowly escaped a detention camp leg zoomer that she also has 3 children to avoid prison for the multiple births she was ordered to pay a huge fine. she'd already been forced to accept an i.u.d.

birth control device now she feels one of the lucky ones because they were muslim american the way they did shots andrew foetuses forcefully the wrong approach commute i thought they would ask the spouses permission or anything else but it is. possible if they say it's illegal they make you get an abortion those who didn't have bay was sent to the camps now people are terrified of giving birth control and. while china has relaxed its one child policy across the country according to this investigation in sheen john it's tightened sterilizations among women in the northern province have increased dramatically in 2018243 were officially recorded per 100000 women 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 weak us population start to not grow as quickly and rapidly are easier to control as part of bridging score surf social reengineering strategy in the area china of though has hit back at these revelations. you were made you were told all through the media report is purely for all to hear your motives and baseless. i also want to emphasize that both ethnic minorities and hunt people need to act in accordance with the law. many of those see this investigation as yet more evidence that china is trying to cut its muslim and minority populations by any means necessary. vladimir

putin russian president for life well that is what russians could make possible as they go to the pope they're voting on constitutional amendments that could allow president vladimir putin to remain in power until 2036 voting has been staggered over a week to respect physical distancing critics say the public information campaign to mobilize voters has been anything but neutral a distance. sure one takes a look at the messaging ahead of the poll. for accessible health care for a strong stable russia for family values the flyers read the so-called volunteers for the constitution in the moscow region are working with russia's electoral commission they've been tasked by the author words to inform citizens about what's at stake in the vote including about an amendment that could keep president vladimir putin in power the volunteers insist their messaging is completely neutral and that's. our job is to get people to the ballot box so that they can make

whatever choice they want we want people to come and vote for them to know that their opinion makes a difference rather than thinking this vote has been a daughter decided in advance so why bother i personally think our country is on the right path and that path depends on our garrincha our leader so i think it's important that one of the amendments could give an opportunity to the man who put our country back on its feet. the clinton himself is absent from the information banners around moscow which simply present this as a vote on russia's future. across moscow there's official information about how and where to vote on many apartment buildings and some of the posters even seem to be encouraging people to vote for the constitutional amendments this poster for example reads the russian word for yes. the author already to putin himself have emphasized that the amended. will improve people's lives by enshrining social

guarantees in the constitution means no distance only if the constitutional amendments are passed or they will set the bar much higher for the government demanding a more meaningful and effective social and economic policy and decisions to improve people's following of life and prosperity that was recently. but activists from the no campaign argue the vote is all about keeping putin in power for life the campaign has united several opposition groups who say the system is skewed against them it's a good news but it leaves the procedure isn't fair in the 1st place because putin who holds all the reins of power and his hands has essentially arranged a vote for himself we have no way of presenting our position on a federal level both in newspapers and on state television we're not allowed to be present there that's a barrier we can't pass so we can only campaign online and on the streets.

even though they say the vote is just for show volunteers from the no campaign want to keep fighting against constitutional changes and for a future without putin. you're watching the news still to come in german football the bundesliga season has come to an end and because of the coronavirus pandemic it was one of the strangest ever will be taking a look back. or while the world waits impatiently for a vaccine against the new corona virus it's hard to believe that a disease for which there is a vaccine is still killing thousands of people the world's largest measles outbreak is spreading in the democratic republic of congo while much attention has been paid to curbing you bowl and now the new coronavirus fighting measles has been a lower priority with deadly consequences. kristie is just 3. seeing 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 think 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 only 29000 but the world and many donor organizations have been focused on the covert 1000 threat and 2 separate ebola outbreaks here. if you do nothing it's that stuff if you don't want to is a global threat and that's causing a stir lots of people are interested because it's a bowl of with measles is only a threat to underdeveloped countries in countries dealing with conflicts and that doesn't track the media. the measles outbreak as 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've been. in 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 review. these vaccines are being transported to months to see a region suffering from a fresh wave of fighting between armed groups. undersize interim just noted 2 boxes containing 33000 that will be used in a vaccination campaign and the baron b.s.o. health sounds. awful and i feel that i was wrong to find it or believe that i'm evil. 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 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. fears of the other stories now that are making news this hour airbus 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 these cutbacks 2 statues of george washington in new york's washington square park have been vandalized as activism against racial injustice continues the united states' 1st president george washington owned slaves and has been a target of black lives matter protesters since the death of george floyd in minneapolis. the lockdown of the northwestern germany district of goods is low has been extended for another week the move follows an alp break of the coronavirus

centered at a meat processing plant that's all $1500.00 people infected restrictions in a neighboring district expire at midnight on wednesday. well like a country south africa is trying to gradually relax coronavirus lockdown restrictions some of the country's minibus taxi drivers say the rules are not being eased fast enough one union is taking unilateral action but it is a decision that could jeopardize the health of both drivers and passengers w.'s adrian reports from cape town. for millions of commuters in south africa obeying physical distancing regulations is almost impossible public transport is mainly comprised of minibuses known as texas since the beginning of the pandemic they've been allowed to operate only at 70 percent capacity but on monday the driver's largest union announced it was abandoning that limit. to the government to muslim.

the way we used to because he doesn't want to give us money was always opposed to die with the koran. oh most of the road trying to make a living we still love to defines our waging wars there was still love to play in the worlds the government has offered drivers a one off compensation amounting to 250 euros per bus a total of almost $70000000.00 euros but drivers say that's not enough things are tough for passengers too and this mini bus terminal in cape town people do regularly does infect their hands but no one's checking distance regulations or whether people are wearing masks in a difficult situation they were going to the way to go you need to go. where you keep so you can get really into it see because i fainted if you can you can see the open even that if it's not properly on thing that because you know circumvented

we're loving you know. you can look you know actually you can if you know it's very very dangerous irresponsible. say they shouldn't be packing you're going to get this done this and. my religious in south africa have been warning about the high risk of the spread of the virus inside those mini buses and here this mini bus then the drivers are divided whether it is a good idea to operate at full capacity or not. many drivers wants to stick to the regulations. for many years i would rather die with people. because you don't know will go provided you have to go to your family cape town this center of the pandemic in south africa unions are said to hold talks with the government over the next few days but if regulations don't change the union sworn they'll bring public transport to a standstill i took on these now when possibly the strangest ever bundesliga season

drew to a close over the weekend only one thing remains constant by our new nick one the title the pandemic meant that the campaign ended in empty stadium. the 57th been to sleep a season begun as normal. then came the pandemic and the locked own suddenly distancing and safety were the watchwords empty stadiums must stars given humble send offs. titles. toasted sensibly with beer show or is nowhere to be seen. and instead of players and fans standing together during the relegation battle there were appeals to reason. better than mick now please we're in the middle of a pandemic stage home but football at home on your plate here in the stadium at some point when it's a load again will make up for a toll on the fellas now. when will that be possible. to

next his own you know 90 a world the next season that will run reasonably normally will be $22122.00. so the coming season will likely look similar to the end of this one not the nicest of prospects. you're watching the w. news live from berlin after a short break i'll be back to take you through the big stick around we'll be right back.

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