i. think. this is the news live from berlin tensions run high in brussels as negotiations over a coronavirus stimulus package remain deadlocked few leaders haggle over how to parcel out a 750000000000 euro recovery fund the summit goes into overtime and on the 3rd day of talks things get personal between the opposing camps also coming up. elections in syria government controlled areas go to the polls with strict measures to contain the spread of coronavirus the vote comes amid new international sanctions and rare protests against the assad regime within its own strongholds.

i'm on a use of welcome to the show e.u. leaders are meeting for a 3rd day as they struggle to reach an agreement on a 750000000000 euro coronavirus recovery plan member countries are divided on how much of the money should be distributed as free grants and how much as loans that need to be repaid hard hit southern states including italy and spain are seeking substantial aid payments but a group of so-called frugal northern countries favor loans and more control over how the money is spent. bridging the gap between the 2 camps is proving to be a major challenge heading into a new round of meetings german chancellor angela merkel warned that a deal might not be reached today. begin hood today we are entering the 3rd day of

negotiations and it is certainly the decisive one the various issues the size of the fund the way it is managed and also the questions of the rule of law have not been examined thirdly i still can't say whether a solution will be found there is a lot of goodwill but there are also many positions and so i will make every effort but it may also be there is no result is achieved today so it's a plan that you can still let's bring in our correspondent barbara vessel who is following the summit in brussels so barbara quite a sober outlook from uncle a medical there who was echoed actually by luxembourg's prime minister xavier bentyl she said quote in 7 years i have rarely seen such diametrically opposed positions on many points so barbara why is this summit turning out to be so difficult because it's about money a lot of money and it's about power it's about control over this money and it is really seems to be quite intractable and on the 3rd day tempers are fraying and the

gloves come off it seems the european leaders are rather sick and tired of each other and they're forgetting the usual diplomatic lightness the bad boy of the hour has been from the beginning on the dutch prime minister mark rich he has made himself the informal spokesman off the frugal to the countries who want to pay as little money as possible to the south but have as much control as possible over this money at the same time that you've managed to set. teeth on edge and she's usually very patient and just listen what hungary and prime minister viktor orban had to say about that beef. not because of me but because of the daughter gone because he initiated something. i think it's ok to read something. which is not good quality and off you know understanding what you've done is a brick it's because of them not because of the i don't like blame game but the doc

is the real responsible man for a whole mess we have. the french president. seems to be rather tired of this whole thing also and several times already threatened to leave the summit so we are firmly into kindergarten games here at this point and the auspices for the rest of the evening on not overly positive a lot of these negotiations are talking about has to do with money but there's also an underlying discussion about european values going on here so solidarity rule of law is the european union losing common ground in these discussions it rather looks like it and some of their a g i mean this just remember during the last weeks of the koran the crisis everybody says yeah europe has to pull together we have to sort of come out of this crisis together and only together we can emerge from it and now what we see is the usual haggling and squabbling about it 1000000000 here and

a 1000000000 there i mean this is the biggest economic bloc in the world so it should be doable and also you also see that the underlying values i mean the rule of law that stands for democracy in the european union that is independent judiciary that's a free press free opinions and so on its force are being undermined in some european countries and hungary as we know and poland increasingly and there was supposed to be a time between european money and keeping sticking to the rule of law and that is supposedly just about these thrown under the bus again and so it is all it all doesn't really look very bright so if no agreement tonight then what's next. no agreement tonight means another summit horrible to say but true because i'm going to america will send everybody home she chairs the meetings she will send everybody home and say this was not good enough let's try again within 10 days or maybe at

the latest 2 weeks we will be here again so let's hope and pray believe me they can still do it correspondent bob a visit in brussels thank you. syrians are voting in parliamentary elections today in areas controlled by the regime of bashar al assad the president and his wife have already cast their votes in the mosque analysts say there are few real choices for the voters as the ballots are dominated by the ruling party and its allies. assad's government is dealing with a devastated economy after 9 years of civil war as well as new international sanctions. the aftermath of an asteroid in the leopard province president bashar al assad is reaching at the last pockets of opposition to his regime 8. he has won the war with brute force controls most of the country. but it is

a country in ruins not just its times and cities but its economy too with inflation rampant the world food program says food prices and that 20 times higher than pre-war levels millions of syrians i'm going hungry some of pinning hopes on sunday's parliamentary elections. at this we hope the candidates will be deserving of the faith replacing in the syria has to return to what it was before that we hope we can overcome the sanctions so that syria can become better than it was. an opposition groups up boycotting the poll candidates must be government approved ensuring a parliament dominated by assad's bought party and its allies yet after 20 years in power assad is facing rising discontent even among loyal supporters. these are anti-government demonstrations in the opposition held city of us as in

march by june anti regime protests that also fled in the loyalist area of psuedo though under a regime control the protests went unchallenged a sign of public anger that is growing. will not be reflected in the election results. let's bring in journalist judge a team he's following the syrian elections from beirut lebanon judge president assad's baath party is disliked in much of the country but it's trying to retain power at all costs it seems so is there a chance that things won't go assad's way and these elections. hello and i mean there is no chance it goes the other way because when syria has tried to will to do it the other way since 2011 they have been killed or sent to jail so just like the sick people from the north and i would prefer to call it like as ours for the students. who want to mock the elections like the national wedding it's

just like the media and there are no ways to do with the other way why this election is going without any a position and we are not talking about a position that is outside syria or the people who are even in the north or even under the kurdish controlled areas we are talking about it cannot tolerate even its own people like what one of these are as the businessman how much functional it was like a faithful ally of us that is when his wife because he just formed 8 least chairman of the mosque that this court independent list they made him they forced him to withdraw from the election because he is not on the ba'ath party lists so this tradition cannot tell you to let it there's even deposition from inside otherwise or moreover i mean you can't even vote even if you are not in syria they have yours and national numbers. can send anyone to just vote by your name and you will

vote for her for baath party i mean this election can no way go the other way unless there is you and is there and doing supervision for this election and those like it does not limit this to people and sway the election so last month they voted against us said nobody not see any opposition in any and by the way that 8 of the people who participated in this election will be will be hype because if you can manipulate any numbers or anywhere so if the election isn't free as you're saying then why is the side putting effort into this why is it important for him. because look this election is important as are the ones to say i'm still there we're i'm still controlling and this parliament in particular is important for 2 things it will be the economy into or to fight any course to tuition for syria and it will be the parliament who has. just confirmed the presidential

candidate in 2021 because as for the move goes like any candidate for the presidency you must have confirmation and the signature must follow the signature of 35 m.p.'s from the seat in their parliament so this is part of the important core of these 2 things this part of it is important for school for any incident for the russians to be short of power because as we know like you know any ns in there is food for example in north and i live for they are trying to bring their men into the parliament one of them is called headed up base for example it was one of the eyes this man when i was working there and then now he's like a military leader in a bucket brigade that it's true i g. and now he's a candidate and there is or so for the strength to make this parliament as it carved into coming in the asians or any political forces if it will ok so a symbolic election there judge would seem in beirut. thank you

and now to some of the other stories making news around the world judges in iran have suspended the planned executions of 3 men links to anti-government protests last year the move was announced on iranian state television it follows a widespread online campaign against the us executions lawyers for the men say they hope the death sentences will be overturned following a review. in italy engineers have begun testing the new highway bridge in genoa that was built to replace the one that collapsed 2 years ago dozens of trucks are crossing the span to test the bridges ability to withstand large waves 43 people were killed when the former bridge collapsed in severe weather. turkish present president regift. has paid a surprise visit to the highest afia is them both this is this a week before the 1st muslim prayers of a site in nearly a century last week turkey's tough court ruled the byzantine landmark could be

reconverted into a mosque in a decision that's been widely condemned by christian churches and unesco. france has marked the nazi roundup of thousands of parisian jews in mid july 1942 they were taken into custody in an operation known as veggie we've named after the cycling village drum where most of them were 1st sent only a limited number of people were allowed to attend this ceremony amid covert 19 precautions. this was a very controlled environment were even the children of survivors could not attend but the significance of the ceremony loomed large it commemorates the events of july 942 when more than 13000 pairs jews were rounded up by the german occupying forces with the help of french police most of the jews were brought to the city's indoor cycle track they and the others were then deported to the auschwitz

concentration camp. at the sermon and a leader of the jewish community in france expressed his concern about the rise of anti semitism there was an almost 75 percent increase in anti semitic acts in the country in 2018 and a further increase of more than 25 percent last year the mayor of paris and he said she's concerned just quickly they were slow to sit and i would also like before the end of this year and if health conditions allow it to organize with all the religious and also secular authorities the conference will to take a moment to reflect on and review all these foundations of anti-semitism and racism undermining our society since it would. mean a little specific more than $75000.00 french jews were deported to nazi death camps but only a few 1000 survived. the. you're watching news live from

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