starts june 27th. this is deja vu news live from berlin european leaders trying to bridge deep divisions over a corona recovery plan being for an e.u. summit at this hour in brussels where there's a deep divide over a 750000000000 euro package to help the economy he's hard hit by the pandemic we'll go live to our correspondent. also coming up a new low for german turkish relations a turkish court sentences

a german turkish journalist who almost 3 years in prison for spreading what it calls terrorist propaganda berlin says the sentence sends the wrong signal for human rights in turkey. and this town and germany's black worst is the base for a man down its 5th day and is of police are searching for a man who disarmed 4 officers and escaped into the mountains with their weapons. i'm brian thomas good to have you with us today the e.u. is at a crossroads with member states looking for leadership and cash to bolster economies that have been hard hit by the covert pandemic and lock downs chancellor merkel is chairing talks in brussels that have brought leaders face to face for the 1st. i'm

in months she wants to persuade the block's richer nations to issue direct grants to countries like italy spain and portugal to help them overcome the worst of the pandemic but well off members like austria and the netherlands want to see tightly controlled loans instead the 750000000000 euro rescue package is topping the sum as agenda there's more german press have called him a difficult neighbor dutch prime minister moscow to a vocal opponent of the proposed e.u. recovery plan is set for a face off with berlin at the e.u. council summit that's critical to our there would be some very strict conditions and i am pessimistic that these would be accepted at the moment for the dutch prime minister is talking about a controversial part of the financial package e.u. leaders are said to debate the e.u. recovery fund 750000000000 euros proposed to help e.u. economies bounce back from the huge blow dealt by covert 1000.

according to council president shuffler shows proposal the you would borrow money in financial markets and directed toward countries had hardest by the crisis such as spain italy and greece what's driving a wedge between leaders is where the money should be shared as grants the so-called frugal for austria the netherlands finland and sweden insist on prioritizing loans . the entire financial package on the table includes the next 7 year e.u. budget of more than a trillion euros and the $750000000000.00 euro recovery fund with $500000000000.00 in grants and control is another hot topic for presidential. with many raising concerns over hungary and poland he wants to add a rule of law conditions to e.u. funds but this is likely to be sacrificed with polish president andre duda and hungary and prime minister viktor orban likely to mount resistance. all eyes are

now on the head of the e.u.'s largest economy german chancellor uncle america she's pushing for a quick deal but hasn't gone further than expressing cautious optimism given the today show germany will go to brussels with a certain readiness to compromise a quick result would be preferable but it is not certain as the least one thing is clear no one country can afford to just walk away when the a canonic future of the u.k. rests on striking this steel. did of years barbara vessel joins us now live for more from brussels a very crucial summit barbara can you outline for us the competing views on this massive fund that's dividing the. all the fault lines front have now become relieved visible on leaders arriving here in brussels what we have is countries that say we need more money for agriculture others like poland don't want to fulfill the climate goals hungary doesn't want to have any ties between money and

rule of law and so on and so for us lots of detail bought at the core is this cultural war between the south countries of spain portugal and italy say we urgently need help we need a lot of money and we need it quickly and we need this money as grants because we can't burden ourselves was for the loans and we cannot don't want to really full full type of league ations we don't want this money to be controlled by somebody else northern countries aren't our parents in the north however they say we don't like the idea of communal debt at all if we have to give money to the south we want to give it as grants as we saw and in the end if we then have to agree to grants at all we want total control over we want to tell the dozen countries how to spend it and which goals they have to fulfill there so this is such a huge divide no wonder that merkel was sort of reticent in the prep for it

talks only running up to the summit and arriving here today in brussels she is even less optimistic. she did i have to say that there are still major differences so i can't predict whether we will come to an agreement this time it would be desirable but we have to acknowledge reality that we are the tetons always in it will take a tremendous willingness to compromise for us to achieve something that is good for europe and good for the people of europe in light of this pandemic and also to find an appropriate response to the economic challenges we face so i expect very very difficult negotiations. not only are they difficult negotiations barbara did tell you and prime ministers come out so that he thinks this summit to decide the future of the you are the stakes really that high. his spend clearly came out now and even

sort of up to the end to and said this is a historical summit so no small thing here it is really the future more or less the sort of holding together the economy the single market off the european union is at stake here because if the southern countries fall off the cliff edge economically and that's a really drift away from your they've become poor they become beggars there they won't be partners anymore in the european market the single market will sort of implode and that is something that nobody can want in the north because they all depend on this working they exporting their working there was was the enterprise and so this feeling of togetherness that this is for the common good that is something that seems to be lacking here at the morning of the summit ok could that could change over the next couple days barbara and could we see some kind of

compromise what do you think one might look like the come from these compromises are extremely difficult because the problem is that every one of these heads of state in government we see here they go home to their voters and they have to sort of justify what they do and what they have to pay into the pot and what they bring home so the trick is to sort of give something to everybody everybody needs a bit of goodies some chocolates to go home and say this is what i fought hard for and this is what i got trum them and this is what they offer to us and which which is something that is good for our national is sort of builds and that is the big problem the european good is not what rains these summit it is sort of the national the national idea off we need to win this and that makes those compromises extremely difficult and we'll see if they can come up with even at the end of it all barbara thanks so much for that well much more from barbara vessel as the summit moves forward. let's get you briefed on some of the other stories making the

news at this hour the u.s. the u.k. and canada are accusing russian agents of carrying out cyber attacks to steal information on potential covert vaccines the 3 nations have warned scientists and pharmaceutical companies to be on the alert they say the cyber taxies cost of malware to target coronavirus research centers russia denies he allegations. protesters have taken to the streets of bowl gary as capital sofia for the 8th day in a row now calling for the resignation of the government headed by prime minister boyko boris off and for the chief prosecutor to stand down. vast areas of china have been inundated by severe flooding along the young sea river since june heavy rains of forced nearly 15000000 people to be back you waited from their homes officials say they're seeing the highest average rainfall levels across young sea basin or 50 years. while relations between turkey

and germany look set to worsen after a verdict by a court in istanbul sentenced the german turkish journalist denis you chel to almost 3 years in prison for articles he wrote for a german newspaper he now lives here in germany and was not to try. for the best preparing for the worst. has long represented dennis you jel outside court he had to break bad news to his client you joe was convicted of spreading terrorist propaganda in absentia. this is just we will appeal today's verdict and. today's ruling shows that turkish law is not about justice. and is temple local court found that you joe breached turkish law by interviewing the outlawed kurdish leader in one of he's awfully close but you joel in his defense argue it's an unfair ruling because the high court had already found all these articles will and

the turkeys constitution which guarantees press freedom that's good reached out 6 days court ruling is in breach of the constitution because it ignores the earlier ruling. you jill has already served a year in a turkish prison he says he was tortured there though ankara denies that. years will after years of release one of germany's best known turkey correspondents soon left the country he says he couldn't expect just to stand because the president had already condemned him. to the. president tied and one had already publicly declared me a terrorist in a suit by so if i had found me in that sense that would have meant that he himself breaks the law by condemning me. that which is a friendship will quote i look. triggered a crisis in germany's relations with turkey when he was jailed in his already criticized the slightest court ruling saying it sends

a false signal for rights in turkey. here in germany police have been combing a mountainous region in the south of the country for an armed fugitive whose abated capture 4 days authorities were alerted to a suspicious person living in someone else's forest hot the suspect then disarmed the 4 police officers who want to question him and escape into the mountains with their weapons open now in germany's black forest population 4800 known for its picturesque streets battling brooks and mountain views and now this behind me are dozens of police vans with scores of heavily armed officers there's also sniffer dogs and helicopters there hunting a local man they say disarmed for police officers then made off with their weapons and disappeared into the woods around here police are calling eve roush dangerous and the weapons fanatic authorities here close schools the day after he fled and

asked people to stay indoors open now as mayor says the police presence is appropriate even if some residents think roush is harmless. the fact is his prior convictions are relevant it's also a fact that he now committed a serious crime. that makes him a threat to people here. we have quite a few scared residents public officials and the police have to make them the priority as he put it we can't leave them on their own with their fears it could be lloyd immediately on the line dawson for many here even though she isn't only a fugitive on the run he's also a neighbor who slipped through society's cracks put his carpentry skills to use at this popular restaurant helping the owners with repair and renovation of a house or who runs the business with his wife melanie on saw house 2 days before

he fled he describes a complicated man who's had difficulty fitting in. nice friendly courteous helpful but always a little bit strange when it came to weapons not his and those sorts of things but i never got the sense he would use a weapon against someone in a mine down context. in another context you see a man in army fatigues and an axe on his belt that might be scary but not in the context i know him in the top i think snitched. around town and on line there's sympathy for gosh and an ease with the prolonged police presence there's also recognition that he needs to answer for his alleged wrongdoing as police keep searching for him some told us they fear things can only end badly police and those who know him say even is most at home here in the thick wilderness of the black

forest authorities say they have the resources and the patience to keep on searching for him but so far they haven't turned up anything yet and they get more on these and other stories that are website where our social media feeds were now though from me brian thomas in the entire team have agreed to get away. from. that. i'm neal and i'm good welcome to the 2nd season of only true friends on the planet on the brink of disaster we did long in-depth interviews with experts for that one question how to change it up like a good morning or a sense of.