turning success. story in terms of. the state of new news live from berlin waiting on a deal in brussels e.u. leaders are haggling over new proposals on how to divvy up the 750000000000 euro coronavirus recovery fund there is agreement on the need for the release but some leaders are warning against tending out a free lunch also coming out. of french cathedral and plains of storage is launched

in the bars and inquiry after a major blaze at the sump yet its own fault gothic cathedral and the city tough not to. and get your troops out of foreclosure that's the message from the u.s. city's mayor to president trump after and tear racism protesters clashed with federal law enforcement officers. on the welcome to the program. a new leaders are meeting in brussels for a 2nd day to break a deadlock on the contentious economic recovery plan european council president child michel offered a revised proposal for the package aimed at helping countries worst affected by the coronavirus pandemic german chancellor angela merkel is chairing a summit tensions are running high between leaders and many expect the talks to continue until well into the night. negotiations and earlier than expected when

agreement looked and likely the talks are hung up over the packages mix of loans and grants and who controls how countries spend the money. and our correspondent bob levy is monitoring the developments and brussels for us baba a new proposal from european council presidential michele is now on the table making important concessions to the so-called frugal for any chance this will be more acceptable to the reluctant member states it's more except through to the through for of course and so we heard the austrian chancellor suppressed in court saying oh things are going quite well in his direction he meant of course but we heard also in the meantime the italian prime minister a con to said the talks are stalled because he doesn't find the cuts acceptable so around dinner time within 2 hours probably we're going to see another proposal so-called negotiating box with all the things the rebates and the sums looms and grants and everything sort of reassembled think of a puzzle in

a different manner and then it will be put back and then they will talk about it again that's going to be a long night and yesterday's talks also merits is this all just about the coronavirus recovery fund or do the cracks run deeper than that. the cracks do indeed run deeper we have this cultural war because between the south and the northern the so-called frugal countries the south says well we just need more help from you and aren't we all one big family in europe and then we have one very nasty issues and hasn't even been touched upon the link that many leaders want to make between paying on money and keeping the rules of democracy and the rule of law in hungary particularly and in poland now these 2 countries have said we will not agree to that under any circumstances but we will see that is vettel that has yet to be fortier now barbara you have covered many e.u. summit you already said it's going to be a long night but what's your guess how long until the deal is really across the

line. it can take some time and we see here that discipline is breaking down the us are in chancellor already. having snuck out for a beer to other prime ministers to belgium if you will miss and luxemburg colleague battle they went out they left the summit building and they went to the next square the here in brussels in the belgian capital and they had a bag of fridays and enjoyed a bit of sunshine away time away from their colleagues and finally it usually is some it is measured by clean shirts i mean that's how the men do it they say this is going to be a 2 shorter or 3 shorter or maybe even a 4 shorter that would mean monday terrible but america who is negotiating he was leading these talks she will have to inject it so yesterday was a red jacket today it was the blue jacket tomorrow she might probably turn up in

green because it's the color of hope isn't it. thinking about of a sale in brussels. in france and vesta gators have launched an arson inquiry after a fire broke out at one of the country's famous gothic cathedrals no one was injured in the blaze that began on saturday morning in the western city of not so firefighters several hours to bring the situation under control. the flames blew out stained glass windows and destroyed the cathedral to ground all been. processed by the emergency services shortly after 8 o'clock in the morning schools the firefighters beat back the blaze that threatened to engulf the 15th century building. french prime minister john cassaday arrived in normed saying he was there to show solidarity with the city. 1st i would like to pay tribute to the commitment and the great professionalism of the more

than $100.00 firefighters who were mobilized from the beginning of the tragedy and who handled it with remarkable efficiency. i also saw the perfect coordination among all departments the departments firefighters the government and the city. investigators say the fire started at several locations fueling suspicions of arson. we had served this morning that the fire started in 3 places this has led us to open an investigation for almost an investigation run by the regional judicial police here is another pretty big here the smoke pouring from the building has brought back memories of the not fire in paris last year but this is not the 1st time the cathedral in north has gone up in flames fire crews stressed the situation this time was not as severe . i want to clarify that we are not in a notre dame style scenario even the cathedral fire which took place in 1972

following that in fact in the roof was redone with concrete reinforcement it was completed to a high standard. at this stage the only major structural damage seems to be to the cathedral which dates from the 17th century a fortunate escape for one of france's great cultural treasures. and now to some other stories making news around the world 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 seeking or 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 with their houses 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 saints or homes by kong by building concrete pylons to prop up the structures. the u.s. government has put a drug kingpin to death in iowa he was convicted of killing 5 people it's the 3rd federal execution carried out in the u.s. in just 4 days the same number as conducted over the previous 3 decades in a 5 to 4 decision on thursday the u.s. supreme court ruled executions could proceed. in the u.s. city of portland oregon black lives matter protesters and federal law enforcement officers clashed again overnight the city's mayor is demanding that the federal agents be removed after reports of them driving around an unmarked vehicles and seizing demonstrators off the streets the federal agents were deployed by president trump to restore order after weeks of unrest. they

feed on ports in 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. officially their job is to protect federal property like the courthouse but multiple eyewitnesses report and identified offices far from those buildings forcefully detaining protest as they've also used tear gas against the wishes of local authorities mr president federal agencies should never be used as your own personal armory words and actions from president trump and the department of homeland security has shown that this is an attack on our democracy the homeland security chief has called protest as 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 their work 1st. 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 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 towns to seek a restraining order against them followed by a federal lawsuit. let's now take a look at some of the latest global developments in the coronavirus crisis more than 14000000 people have been infected worldwide and over 580000 have died according to the latest figures from johns hopkins university the united states has again registered a record daily number of infections with over 70000 people testing positive for the

virus on friday texas and florida are currently worst affected and iran's president hassan rouhani says an estimated $25000000.00 iranians could be infected with the coronavirus citing an unpublished study by the country's health ministry he warrant that an additional $30.00 to $35000000.00 people could become infected in the coming months. now of all the problems caused by the coronavirus one has been largely overlooked the plight of binational couples unmarried people of different nationalities who just happened to be living apart at the start of the pandemic thousands remain separated by travel bans and are now campaigning to be allowed to re-unite our reporter felt all right is here to tell us more joe who is affected by this well it's been 5 months now since borders started slamming shut separating loved ones around the world in the european union family members are exempt from those travel bans but the definition of

a family member doesn't necessarily include people in long term relationships you are married now this affects couples where one member is in a so-called surge country that is a country that's not part of the e.u. and is also not on the safe travel list however it also affects people who are trying to leave specific countries for example australia citizens have to apply to depart the country they can do so on compassionate grounds but it's not clear that having a partner in another country would actually meet that criteria and i personally know of 2 weddings that have actually been postponed because of the current virus crisis in one case an australian groom did manage to get into germany only to be kicked out again because of your cuts failed to complete his partnership visa paperwork on time and now that couple is indefinitely separated well to understand how this all feels d.w. spoke to a couple that is separated by travel bans earlier this week we heard from missouri who is a teacher in new york and sasha a programmer from dortmund here in germany let's have a listen to what they had to say can you please have

a seat late the only thing we wanted to get his feet together and who'll likely want to go out to beaches or the birth or whatever that politician feels think young people want to do i just want to see who would and who wouldn't go anywhere else basically a marriage is 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 the thing that i really don't understand a tough situation there what's their next move or they're campaigning and they're doing it online because they can do it in person of course so they fetched love is not tourism is being used to try and pressure politicians on twitter there's also a campaign website love is not tourism with petitions aimed at specific countries

and couples of posting their photos online hoping to move the hearts of politicians with their sad stories and it is actually starting to work this in at least last week the netherlands announced that it will relax its travel bans for couples where one member is in a so-called sewed country they're still going to have to prove that they were in a relationship at least 3 months prior to the start of the lockdowns once that comes into effect the netherlands will join denmark austria and norway allowing these sweetheart reunions and this week germany's interior minister holds c. hoffa also said that he will be talking to other e.u. countries to come up with a sensible solution for this but until then they're going to have to place their hope in the old saying that absence makes the heart grow fonder will find a way jill dougherty thank you very much and formula one mercedes world champion lewis hamilton has secured pole position for sunday's hungaroring crown free the british driver is going for a record extending 8 the win in hungary as he looks to build on his victory last

time out in austria it was a good day all around for mercedes with hamilton's team mate well terry bought us coming in 2nd hamilton is looking to dislodge the fan from top spot in the drivers' championship. you're watching d.w. news we'll have more headlines for you at the top of the hour until then you can get the latest news d.w. dot com and don't forget to follow us on twitter and instagram at d w news on a fairly for me and the entire team here in berlin thanks for watching. are they friends so long to be with you if you trust the lord he was limiting your belief among the good news.