look at. the state over you news life from berlin a make or break summit gets underway in brussels european leaders meet face to face for the 1st time in months they're seeking unity on a 715000000000 euro package to help economies recover from the coronavirus and to make that division plenty also coming up. in spain barcelona as presidents are urged to stay at home again as authorities move to curb a new outbreak of coal bit and the cadillac tap it all. and is the tide is turning

against u.s. president dollar trump with coronavirus case the surging to new daily highs all suggest that traditional republican strongholds could be heading for among ventus change of heart. on the whole fairly welcome to the program. european union leaders are meeting at a key summit and brussels to try to bridge their differences over a 750000000000 euro recovery fund it aims to help the bloc rebuild from the coronavirus endemic german chancellor angela merkel chairs the talks as germany currently holds the e.u. council's rotating presidency and she's admitted that finding a compromise won't be easy the key sticking point is whether the money should be given to countries as grants or loans the main proponents of lending the money are the so-called frugal for austria sweden finland and the netherlands.

much as following the meeting and brussels for us welcome a clear statement from chancellor merkel they're going into this crucial in u. summit can you tell us a bit more about the competing views on this massive fund that is dividing the union or the gulf between the positions is is really is wide and huge you have those on the one hand who would like to see rather long stem grants given to the countries in the south of europe those that have been hardest hit by the corona crisis and then you have countries in the north the so-called frugal countries including the netherlands denmark but also sweden to some extent also finland who have said look we rather like to see loans with conditions with strings attached different 2 countries one particular person to look out for tonight is the dutch prime minister mark whitaker who has made very clear when he arrived today

that he wants to see conditions and guarantees that this money that is different potentially to countries in the south south is put to good use so the big question today in some sense to some extent is how deep this cultural frugality if you want to call it a run for instance the dutch society might my colleague bob a visual traveled to the netherlands to find out. in the last days they have all been beating a path to michael it is still 1st came the italian prime minister. then his spanish counterpart. and finally the portuguese it was a concerted lobby effort to convince the dutchman to loosen his purse strings but so far no luck. getting it all begins to move in our direction and it's already looking better. the netherlands are the 5th largest economy in the european union big in trade and experts the wealthy country where people are mostly

happy but sharing this wealth is not their cup of tea when going out with friends they often prefer to go dutch split the bill and that's what they expect from their government to some kind of regulations because it's a lot of money and i'm not going for my money but. yeah it's it's not i think it's necessary to have something you just can't if you just give out money people are just going to spend it like oh yeah well we just got the money so let's just do whatever to question what the europe should screw free money at the economic fire is it really really moves that people even the popular comedian are you luba picked up on this. so i want to extinguish your fire but i don't want to take over your mortgage. i think partly some some of it has to do with also with being greedy i was sorry to say that about that but we have that tendency to like.

the more you have the more it makes you want to keep it all to yourself socialists politician young flume and however things the dutch government is being embarrassingly tight everyone wants to work in their own best interest and they stand for what's important to the netherlands however the message is not to the audience you are not doing what you should do the message should be we are all in solidarity we need to come out of this crisis together. that's also what stefano from italy hopes for he enjoys living partying and working with dutch people but for the one little difference the relationship that the reason between people and their money. and way of dealing with money and i mean of course i've been dealing with. this and yeah i can see that they are very.

sharp. these. the future of. the euro is going to be the printer so the big question is whether the dutch are prepared to share the european bill after the corona crisis. the difference over money goes so deep that the italian prime minister thinks this summit could determine the future of the e.u. are the stakes really that high i would say germany and france when they started this initiative for this huge rescue package really acknowledge that the risk is pretty high for the entire project they are the countries that profit most from the internal market and they have realized that countries in the south of europe do profit less and there is a feeling amongst the population that they are losing out from the european project unless they see some solidarity so there is this clearly this idea that they do

want to help however since we have singled out the dutch prime minister one also needs to say that clearly drawn the also one strings attached and that a number of other countries see that the same way and that a lot of countries are rather happy that market is now pushing forward and they do not have to stand in the limelight if you want asking for those tough conditions. quick assessment will we see an agreement at the end of the summit. very hard to say i think we are quite likely to see another summit the big advantage this time and one high diplomat pointed that out to me today is that he said look at least they're meeting in person that makes such a huge difference from those video conferences so a glimmer of hope on the horizon get mad at them press us thank you very much. and now to some of the other stories making news around the world that's areas of china have been inundated by severe floods along the young say river since june the

heavy rains have forced nearly 15000000 people to be evacuated from their homes officials saying they're seeing the highest average rainfall levels across the young save basin for 50 years. after a 5 day manhunt german police have arrested a heavily armed fugitive and the country's black forest authorities launched a search for the 31 year old after he disarmed 4 officers at gunpoint and fled into the woods near the town of open now last sunday. anti-government protesters have staged a rally in the iranian city of babylon they're angry about the state of the country's economy which is being hit hard by u.s. sanctions police later disperse the crowds and authorities cut internet access in the region as videos of the rally spread online. spain's 2nd largest city barcelona is returning to stringent coronavirus restrictions this weekend the regional catalog government has urged residents to

stay home and gatherings of more than 10 people have been back and authorities have also ordered theaters gyms and nightclubs to close the region seeing a spike in corona virus infections thursday spain recorded its highest numbers of daily cases since early may. for more on this let's bring in richard fitzpatrick he's a journalist based in barcelona thanks for joining us the regional government is recommending citizens not to leave their homes is this the 1st step towards a new lockdown. yeah the government cut the lunette which is a region in the northeast of spain went to 17 regions and like you say barcelona's up in city where these restrictions have been brought in and the government to being quite clear they said. this is the last chance before drastic measures are brought in and they brought in certain restrictions like you can't so that people

can't leave for their summer homes. the kind of gatherings more than 10 people and you're asked to not leave your dwelling or your house or your apartment only for essential activities. the night clubs have been closed so it's kind of activities so it is very concerning for people in the city. health authorities call the situation in barcelona horribly complex do they know what's behind this latest spike in cases. yeah they have pretty good idea what they're saying is that there's a couple of factors and there's a problem with seasonal workers there's a lot of agriculture in spain like fruit picking those kind of activities and those seasonal workers have been returning to the region and then they move from region to region depending on their own the crop and so they've identified outbreaks and as a result that's kind of like a tree movement also a big big problem is and it's rooters into worrisome and to social life in the city

and the bars and nightclubs in particular and people haven't been observing social distancing and there's been different cases reported in the press and people in germany would be familiar with the new york and there's 2 of their strips were closed down last week because of drunken behavior from british tourists so that lack of social distancing in the bars and. the nightlife and is is a problem. fitzpatrick in barcelona thank you very much and stay safe thank you. polls in the u.s. suggest president is losing ground and has former republican strongholds with less than 4 months to go until the u.s. election his approval ratings have fallen as the number of new daily coronavirus infections continues to rise the state of arizona has been hit particularly hard by

the pandemic and it hasn't supported a democratic candidate and decades but now as and many sunbelt states the latest polls give joe biden the edge over trump oliver salat went to find out more. in the arizona desert linda rawls is a thorn in the side of president donald trump. a white suburban woman she belongs to the very group that helped him win in 2016 but there is no offending him she can look back at a life dedicated to the republican party she ran for congress in 1904 but her assessment of trump is devastating. he has become worse than we could have ever imagined no one really realized that he was psychologically disturbed i don't think people realized how much he really would not follow the constitution and how much he would change the whole party from the party of freedom into a party that. worships dictators and destroys the rule of law

$34.00 decades a result no used to be a republican stronghold but it is now becoming a battleground and the spread of the coronavirus is playing a crucial role at phoenix's largest testing site everyone in fortis is coming back positive. voters in arizona are turning away from trump for many reasons but one can be found right here behind me at the community college it's an hours long way to get tested here with the results coming in a week after that at best and the experts say this is exactly where the united states is. failing in stopping the spread of the virus. here on the outskirts of phoenix where many voted trump in 2016 people are now frustrated at the government's response to the pun demick i certainly don't think he protected the united states taking measures that he needed to take and you know informing the

american public and giving guidance properly so he did a disservice to the united states has the power to make it happen but i'm seeing more of that worried about other things and then this would be should be i think they should he get this in january yes when they really knew where traffic would not put it in action he said oh it would just go away no you don't just ban and stuff like that. linda role still holds republican values but she plans to vote democrat this year and she might not be the only one here in their resume no. you're watching t w news here's a reminder of our top story at this hour germany's chancellor angela merkel is chairing an e.u. summit in brussels aimed at bridging differences over a corona recovery plan and member states are deeply divided over the conditions for handouts from the 750000000000 euro fund. the news will be

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