this is d.w. news live from berlin seeking common ground at the make or break summits european leaders meet in brussels to negotiate a 750000000000 euro package to help economies recover from the coronavirus pandemic but divisions are running deep also coming up. signs of discontent in merge from iran as demonstrators in the city of. protest the government's handling of the economy. and is the tide turning against us president

almost with coronavirus cases surging to new highs on a daily basis now poll suggests that even traditional republican strongholds could be heading for a change of heart. as welcome to the program european union leaders are meeting in brussels to try to bridge their differences over a 750000000000 euro recovery fund which aims to help the bloc rebuild from the coronavirus pandemic germany's chancellor angela merkel chairs the talks as germany currently holds the e.u. cancels 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 as loans the main proponents of lending the money other for so called for. will fall that's sweden finland and the netherlands.

joining me now from our studio in brussels is about is the co-president of the european greens how optimistic are you that leaders will be able to reach an agreement on that we cover a fund at this summit to be done terry honest i don't know i would say shift teach some speak your mind to the sony who being on cruise if you know what i would be going to be included in this month's but frankly speaking i do not know what new element would sort of face change the landscape i mean all the elements are on the table all of her uterus mique of economy consequences and of the need responses are on the table and now is for the european leaders to show that they are leaders able to rise to the occasion and show political courage like chancellor merkel did earlier this month when she decided to make sure you turn and so-called calm on

borrowing by the europeans and seemed to success in german government center if you will still far you said no no no new elements on the table but it appears there are the czech prime minister for example said he wants to be able to use the coronavirus money for the car industry bulgaria wants to spend the money on agriculture in the polls and hungary and don't want any ethical conditions attached so there are new elements if you will and do you think all those new demands are legitimate. i might say that it's maybe ease some of them only need need to be interested in the car industry so movies maybe interested in india. are actually a question nice to do what i mean eat this is to basically sure. this is if this is to help every juncture be going green or to have the car industry be

going green or that why not why not indeed what we need is this funny to say investment so no we are not going to give this money to all member states or to companies we said no strings attached we want this money to be invested in making the european economy moral bus and more resilient and if that is the case or maybe indeed all the industries can become greener and if they want to be going green fine whether green can there's no you mentioned that proby won't be well received in hungary or for example. republic. does this crisis show that the cohesion and solidarity in the e.u. is waning further. well when he shows his. profound lack of trust among european leaders visions of most people in the. global financial crisis what you see centrist is being destroyed in massive

quantities and we need now in an emergency situation to rebuild trust and of course it's better to enter a crisis. we stressed but indeed the level of trust is minimal but then again it's in everyone's interest that we call response and i'm sure that he will he talk about understand because he has been on the receiving end of massive here and friends over the last few decades and i mean i'm sure that if years are a choice between well getting these money flowing to the contrary streams or using the streets and getting no money i have no idea where it is hard who will be. president of the european greenstone you very much for joining us tonight my pleasure and a nice evening and now to some of the other stories making headlines around the world today u.s. supreme court justice ruth bader ginsburg says her liver cancer has returned in a statement the 87 year old judge said she was undergoing chemotherapy and would

continue to carry out her duties on the court it was broadcast on the gong treatment for cancer 4 times since 1990. queen elizabeth has 90 it's captain tom moore of britain's 100 year old war veteran and fund raising hero such home as he has now addressed became a national icon when he raised more than 33000000 pounds for health workers by walking 100 laps of his garden it was one of the queen's 1st official duties since the coronavirus lockdown. after a 5 day manhunt german police have arrested a heavily armed fugitive in the country's black forest authorities launched a search for the 31 year old after he disarmed 4 offices of gunpoint and fled into the woods near the town of open up last sunday. bost areas of china have been inundated by severe floods along the young say river since june heavy rains have forced nearly 15000000 people from their homes officials say they are seeing the

highest average rainfall levels across the young sebastian for 50 years. now which is seeing fresh unrest over economic hardship police fired tear gas on demonstrators gathered in the southwestern city of babylon on thursday according to witnesses several arrests were made videos from other parts of the conflict posted on social media also showed heavy presence of security forces the demonstrations camas iranians take to social media to protest the planned execution of 3 young men who were arrested during unrest last november. and for more on that i'm not joined but. we've seen that iranians have taken to the streets to protest against the government but there have also been protests online that's right so on tuesday the iranian supreme court upheld the death penalty for 3 men

who were accused of vandalism and arson during similar protests that happened late last year and pretty soon after the verdict that decision came out people took to the internet to voice their opposition using the hash tag do not execute now this tweet got massive traction was used over 5000000 times within one day according to twitter and that kind of thing is rare in iran where people are afraid of punishment by authorities for any kind of activism and it's especially exceptional in this case because prominent public figures including actors directors even spoke . it's figures a team member of the iranian national team soccer team got involved so pretty exceptional just as an example let's take a look at what one actress said nazneen boneyard. in a position to put yourself in the shoes of amir hussein maradi muhammad rajavi and say time g.-d. who took to the streets for a better life they demanded their rights they peacefully protest that 3 protestors

from november $21000.00 after forced confessions were sentenced to death the supreme court upheld the sentence and it may be carried out at any moment. so i thought he's reacted to this campaign well there have been internet outages reported across iran which is one tactic that the government often uses when there's civil unrest and that might be related to this outcry but it hasn't really fallen on deaf ears a lot of people are saying that the supreme court listened to them because pretty soon after they issued a statement saying that the men could ask for a review of their case and they also said that they would allow lawyers to review some court documents that they had seen before now this was a trial that was based on very slim evidence mostly on just the confessions of the men after they had allegedly according to amnesty international been tortured so it's unclear what's in those court documents that the lawyers can see though does this have the potential for more on rests with what's happening now right was

unclear when and if these men are going to be executed that might be postponed and it's pretty clear that activists are maintaining some kind of presence online we aren't seeing the same thing that we saw a few days ago when the verdict was announced but people are still active out there now some people have hope that the government the judiciary is listening to them but then again after china iran executes more people than any other country in the world a lot of them are political prisoners i mean thank you thanks. they just falling in the us suggests president all trump is losing ground in his 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 one daily corona virus infections continue to rise the state of arizona has been hit particularly hard by the pandemic and attacks and supporters of democratic candidates in decades

but now and in many some belt states the latest polls give joe biden the edge over trump the w.'s all of us all it 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 that it's now 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.

for decades a rezone know 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 every one in 4 tests 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 cell phone community college it's an hours long way to get tested here with the results coming in a week after that up. and 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 pandemic 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. he did a disservice to the united states we have the power to make it happen but i've seen more of that worried about other things and then this would you should be fine i think they should he did this in january yes when they really knew they trap would not put him in action he said oh it will just go away now oh you know just many steps 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 arizona. police in italy have foiled a plot to smuggle cocaine into the country hidden inside a coffee beans fully said milan apple said the package from colombia attracted their attention because it was marked with the name of a fictional mafia boss inside it worth 500 coffee beans but had been cut open and stuffed with cocaine police tracked the package to florence and arrested intent

it's recipients 1st time smugglers of trying to use coffee to throw police off the scent and january last year italian authorities seized more than 600 kilograms of cocaine hidden in sacks of coffee from us. german well covered with a shell it has quit football at the age of 29 the forward is best remembered for providing the assist that won germany the 2014 world cup final is talent talk a crossroad but injuries startle history show the most recent to play for one of the their sides but was said auckland inset us despite the highest football made him feel very alone. this is the news here's a reminder of our top stories 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 member states are deeply divided over the conditions for handouts from the 750000000000 euro from. watching you know you news from

berlin i'll be back at the top of the hour with an update for us from the other team thanks so much. come bearing the corona pandemic. where does research stand. what are scientists learning. background information and news. in our corona update. covert 19 special next on d w.