this is deja vu news live from berlin waiting on a deal in brussels e.u. leaders are haggling over new proposals on how to divvy up a 750000000000 euro coronavirus recovery fund there's agreement on the need for relief but some leaders are warning against handing out a free lunch please also coming up get your troops out of portland that's the message from the u.s. city's mayor to president trump after anti-racism protesters clashed with federal law enforcement officers.

timely and good welcome to the program eva leaders are meeting for a 2nd day to break a deadlock on a contentious economic recovery plan european council president charlotte michaud offered a revised proposal for the package aimed at helping countries worst affected by the coronavirus pandemic german chancellor angela merkel is chairing the summit tensions are running high between leaders whose home countries have been hit hard by the virus friday's negotiations ended earlier than expected when agreement looks unlikely the talks are hung up over the packages mix of loans and grants and who controls how countries spend the money. i'm joined now by our correspondent barbara valle who's in brussels monitoring the situation barbara there's a new proposal from the european council president it's on the table will this be

any more acceptable to the more frugal members there. at this it's getting there because we've heard positive noises from several members of the austrian chancellor for instance just said that it's going in the right directions the talks were intense which is diplomatic speak for there is quite a battle raging ongoing and that's a good sign because as soon as it gets to the point where they turn and in circles for several hours and everybody says no no and no again it's time to break up and try again but we haven't reached that point yet so to date to end it's ongoing there would swing away at the figures that's what they're doing at the moment and they're sort of. packages within this big recovery deal and within the european budget a little bit more for agriculture a little less for something else a little less for signs for instance we hear the protests from the loving groups coming in by the hour and on the other hand it is also if you bit less on grounds

and a bit more in loans so that again satisfied the frugal countries the northern countries that are sort of grouped around the netherlands is so this is what they're doing there and it's a very very slow process because if you take away 5000000000 and one side you put them somewhere else you have to sort of reformulate the whole the whole package so it's a it's a difficult labor and it's just drags on a difficult labor and irritating one which we've which we've seen for frustrated is coming out of this this summit are these frustrations really only about the coronavirus recovery fund or are there tensions here that run deeper and longer than that. there are deeper running tensions of course because if it were only in the money it's only on the surface you could just you could sort of slip this together in a day and a half but there is stuff underneath this this cultural war between the sun and countries who think they're owed more help from the northern richer countries and

also there is something that the leaders haven't even touched upon yet and which is that's not a good sign because it's a really contentious and dangerous issue the question whether the payment of money from the european funds can be and should be tied to the rule of law and some use to you in countries namely hungary and poland the 2 of course are up the barricades in saying no never under no circumstances but many of the countries are very frustrated considering that their financing was their contributions to the e.u. budget the autocracies that seem to be developing particularly in hungary and also in poland so there is another battle to be had which will come a bit later so there is more to it than just money so much to work out here to get through which i know you will for us barbara thanks very much for talking to us from brussels. french officials have launched an arson inquiry after

a major fire at the cathedral in the western city of not the blaze has since been contained footage showed flames leaping through the gothic church and a large cloud of black smoke. dozens of firefighters were needed to put out the fire at the song here at home all the thieves will it's been just more than a year since the devastating fire at the note adama cathedral in paris one of france's greatest architectural treasures. and in the u.s. city of portland oregon black lives matter protesters and federal law enforcement officials clashed again overnight the city's mayor is demanding that the federal agents be removed after reports of them driving around unmarked cars and seizing demonstrators off the streets the federal agents were deployed by president trump to restore order after weeks of unrest. they've been on portland streets to protest racism every day for more than

a month mostly peaceful some have clashed with police and sprayed graffiti on buildings. the trumpet ministration provoked fiore by sending in federal agents. protecting. officially their job is to protect federal property like the courthouse but multiple eyewitnesses report unidentified offices far from those buildings forcefully detaining protest is they've also used tear gas against the wishes of local authorities mr president agencies should never be used as your own personal army the words and actions from president trump and the department of homeland security has shown this is an attack on our democracy the homeland security chief has called protest his violent extremists he's offended using federal offices including border patrol agents and immigration and customs enforcement in portland and the president says he's satisfied with the work. we've

done a great job in portland portland was totally out of control and they went in and i guess we have many people right now in jail and we very much quelled it and it starts to get to a quality again very easily. the street fights have already turned political now that they're set to become legal rights groups are condemning federal agents for they say making arrests without probable cause and the state attorney general plans to seek a restraining order against them followed by a federal lawsuit. let's have a look at the latest developments in the corona virus pandemic more than 14000000 people have been infected worldwide and over 580000 have died according to the latest figures from johns hopkins university the u.s. has again seen a record. daily number of infections with over 70000 people testing positive for the virus this friday texas and florida are currently worst affected and iran's

president hassan rouhani says an estimated 25000000 iranians could be infected with the coronavirus according to him an additional $30.00 to $35000000.00 of his people could become infected in the coming months. now there are a lot of problems of the coronavirus one of them that's largely overlooked is the plight of binational couples it's unmarried people of different nationalities who happened to be living apart at the start of the pandemic there are thousands of them who remain separated by travel bans and they're campaigning to be allowed to reunite we're joined now with a reporter joel all right who's here with us on the story so who's exactly affected by all this has been 5 months now william since borders started slamming shut separating people separating loved ones foreigners are slowly starting to reopen between certain countries and for people with certain exceptions now early on governments created exceptions for travel bans for people who are legally married but for those who are just in normal relationships who are actually legally wed the

situation isn't so clear some european union countries allow family members to be exempt from travel bans but the definition of a travel of a family member isn't actually clear now this applies for people living in so-called 3rd countries that is countries that are not in the e.u. and are also not on the list of countries deemed safe to travel but there are also problems for people who are couples trying to leave certain countries in order to be reunited that's the case in australia where citizens actually have to apply to be allowed to depart and if you are an american situation it's not clear that you would be given permission i personally know of at least 2 weddings that have been postponed due to coronavirus in one case in australia groom managed to get into germany only to be kicked out again because bureaucrats failed to process his partnership paperwork on time and now they are indefinitely separated well to find out what it's like to be in this situation d.w. earlier this week spoke to a couple that is separated by c.s.

we spoke to zuccotti who is a teacher in new york and her partner here in germany let's listen now to what they had to say. can please have a c. like the only thing we wanna do is just peed together and be at home like i only want to go out to the beaches or the bars or whatever that politicians seem to think young people want to do but i just want to see who would then i don't want to go anywhere else jer basically a marriage as a piece of paper that prove say yes these 2 people love each other. and only because we don't have that we are basically treated less. and that's a thing that i really don't understand. a difficult legal gray zone there so what's what's the next move well these couples are campaigning online of course because they can't do so in person so there's

a hash tag that's going around which is love is not tourism and that's being used to try and campaign into bicycling on twitter sending messages to politicians they've also started a website to try and spread this campaign love is not tourism the petition there are petitions if a different countries and couples are also posting photos of themselves online trying to move the hearts of politicians into changing the situation and you know what it's actually working for example the netherlands this week announced that it would start allowing exceptions to its travel bans for couples where one member is in stuck in a certain country they have to prove that they were in a relationship for at least 3 months before those travel bans came into effect and by doing so the netherlands joins denmark's all stria and norway in allowing these sweetheart reunions and this week germany's interior minister horst c. hoffa was challenged about this and he said he would start working with other european union member countries to come up with a sensible solution but until then these couples are not just socially distance

they're totally distanced i guess they going to have to hope that the old saying is true that absence really does make the heart grow fonder absolutely joel alright thank you for bringing us that story and now to some other stories making news this hour wildfires continue to rage in siberia covering some cities and heavy smoke authorities are trying to contain the flames to prevent them from reaching residential areas northern siberia is seeing a record breaking heat wave a new study says the unusually high temperatures would be almost impossible without human caused climate change. beachfront homeowners north of sydney have been ordered to evacuate when their house is in danger of collapsing into the sea severe storms have whipped up waves which have washed away parts of the coast some residents are hoping to save their homes with concrete pylons to prop up the structures. every year in south africa there is

a feeding frenzy as large bowls of sardines migrate up the eastern coast followed by millions of birds seals and sharks the annual sardine run also provides an opportunity for locals to feast on the riches of the waters that they have to offer it's a particularly popular pastime this year because of the economic hardship brought by the coronavirus crisis our correspondent adrian creech has more. this swarm of thousands of sardines a paradise for sharks and fisherman they pulled the catch ashore with the huge sea . to our troops during the cold 19 years made things even was the unemployment rate as it is an mess little league so true shooting is a way of mending an extra income we get titans of suddens being knitted my scene that does it in ford's name the opportunity of taking big catches and bring all men

to put food on the table. every year between june and all those the sardines migrate along south africa as the east coast following the cold current that's heading into the you know should. refurbish all of them they in turn on this side so thousands of fish are. fishing brings the country closer together young and old regardless of this color what part of society . could. possibly iran is almost over but there's still a lot of fish in the water that's why in the run to when you still see a lot of people out with their fishing rods hoping for some more successful weeks to come. as a g.w. news here's a reminder of our top story at this hour the leaders are holding a 2nd day of talks on the core of virus recovery fund 700000000000 euros are at

stake but there are deep divisions on how to assist member states are just hit by the endemic. you're watching t w news will have more headlines for you at the top of the hour until then get to all the news that you have your dot com can follow us on twitter and instagram at u.w. news a 1000000 books thanks for watching. love . to go beyond. that. all of the stories that matter to move. on to a book whatever it takes. a running nut defenseless nut d.w. it's made for minds. hard rules.