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thank. you this is. jubilation after european union leaders strike a halt for deal on a multi-billion. recovery package we. europe. europe. for 4 days and nights they finally agree of the details of. member states it's harder. a man goes on trial in germany for attacking
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a synagogue. but he's accused of killing 2 people. welcome to the program european leaders have sealed the deal on an unprecedented $750000000000.00 euro recovery fund after 4 days of heated talks leaders finally agreed on the details of loans and grants to be given to countries hardest hit by the pandemic for the 1st time ever the aid will be financed by borrowing off the 750000000000 euros 390000000000 will be in the form of grants and the remaining 360000000000 euros will be dispersed in the form of cheap unknowns. it's a compromise that satisfies the demands of fiscally conservative country. good
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morning everyone we did it europe is strong europe is united level for these were the words the delegates have been working towards a deal has been done and the wrangling can stop everyone can go home some kind of when a. relief was visible on their faces despite the masks. e.u. council chief france's emmanuel mccall and ursula funder line commission president plus standing tallest of the mole. from the netherlands. he had led the group who'd limited the grants and made them conditional what i was aiming for and i think we have achieved the emergency brake and emergency brake at the level of european council to be able to enforce the reforms in member states if they are not taking place against the broker of that particular member
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state. has agreed with european commission. states like poland and victor all bans hungary they insisted though they haven't been boxed in any. connection with the rule that. was. rejected despite underlying problems that haven't gone away maclin macor say the e.u. works. after a very long session we have reached a good conclusion and i am very happy about that therefore. europe has shown that it is prepared to take new paths in what is a very special situation i believe that is necessary extraordinary events and in this case that's the pandemic that has reached us all demand extraordinary new methods what. the whole thing may have been close but macron says the deal they reached will help all 27 e.u.
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nations just recovering i'm convinced that this plan this budget will respond to the health economic and social challenges we are all facing in our countries be. it was a long fight 4 days of negotiations brought significant divisions to light but the deal stands and now everyone can go home. democrats one of my nice try was just not going home anytime soon she joins me from brussels with more money a face to banking french president heated arguments even a walkout a tumultuous few days to get this deal. with piers is the 1st time in history the e.u. is taking up new surprise debts and this is a big deal this has been a taboo before so it clearly took a couple of arguments also a couple of fights and a compromise it took a while to to find a compromise also because we have 2 different 2 very different perspectives sun the
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issue we have the countries from the south of europe that have been kids hardly by the cold 19 crisis and that have been suffering economically even before coburg 19 hit them so they said we want to grunts and then we have the northern countries the self declared frugal countries like the netherlands and austria they said we only want loans at the beginning they are 2 grounds and and the end they found a compromise but that took 4 days but a lot of this has been agreed to on condition but in fact dutch prime minister talked often in mud brick how exactly when the. first of those the self declared froogle say it's but are let's buy a mug loser the netherlands prime minister wants it to have a right to veto the idea behind it is that they wanted the that the grounds that are handed out to 2 countries are have strings attached so they wanted for the
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country soon to be implemented forms and now what she calls an emergency brake is the border to version this of watered down version of does it means that if a member states has a problem with how the money is used in another member state he or the member said can bring it to sue the city e.u. the e.u. summit and they will discuss it discuss it there that's also another. congress analyse what has been a sticking might one of the major sticking points here and that is the rule of law mechanism the question if the money to send it out will be attached to the rule of law hungary and poland 2 countries that have been facing you say snow violating the rule of law and have been strongly opposing this idea and now they also find a sort of force it down version and many critics for example the greens here in the european parliament say this it will is that super tuesday less mechanism. for the details from brussels thank you very much and now to some other stories making news
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around the world a group of british m.p.'s has for to size the government for failing to protect you k. elections from russian interference a report by parliament's intelligence and security committee says daunting street avoided investigating russian meddling in britain's political system the committee also accused the government of delaying the publication of its report. in ukraine and the man has seized a bus and taken some 20 people hostage in the northwestern city of release of the man is believed to be carrying explosives gunshots of all to be unhurt but so far no casualties have been reported. a german national has been kidnapped by unidentified gunmen in the iraqi capital the abductor bomani neighbors who works for the german cultural institute and he's also known as an activist friend said she had feared for her safety due to her involvement in protests and enjoy enough that waters are continuing to rise along the young sea river system pressure on
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major dams is expected to peak later this week more than 1800000 people have been forced to evacuate since flooding began early this month. the trial has begun here in germany of the man accused of an armed attack on a synagogue in the eastern city of last october 28 year old stefan b. is a minister have tried to storm the synagogue on young kapoor the whole new state of the jewish calendar prosecutors say he intended to massacre the washer inside he's also accused of murdering 2 people nearby according to reports the suspect has admitted to carrying out the attack which he knife seemed to try and is expected to last at least 3 months john nobody political correspondent almost in. where the trial is taking place thomas it's the 1st tier of to trial what is happening today. it's the 1st day of a trial that's being described as the biggest case in the history of this state
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saxony on how it. is located and you could certainly say the importance of that case today dozens and dozens of journalists attending this process this process also protests in front of the courthouse here in fact about people specifically trying to commemorate the victims trying to state the importance of prevention not some people actually told me that's one of the main hopes of this whole process here. to try and make authorities aware of the need to focus on prevention what is happening right now behind me in the court is that the indictment is being read out loud at the process has just started a few minutes ago 2 hours late there is an open end here today but proceedings are set to continue at least until october that's when the main decision will be expected if the suspect is found guilty he could face life imprisonment this is
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a very important case not only for this state here but for germany and also internationally. can you tell us a bit more about the suspect in question. we're talking here about a 28 year old german who was described as being socially isolated he described his attack as being anti semitic and that is extremely important in this particular case because we're talking about anti-semitism on the rise here in germany and in fact it is one of the key challenges that authorities have in this country so that it gives you an idea of the importers from a political perspective of what's happening here behind me on the other hand something also important is the fact that the alleged perpetrator placed his attack online he lifestream did and he also published money festo and this is being compared to other similar cases around the world for example in el paso in texas oh
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christ church in new zealand and for much additional point of view this is also seen as a possible president to climb understand how these attacks are actually happening in the idea of someone acting on his or her own but at the site same time having networks online so this these 2 elements the fact that this is being described as anti-semitic the fact that he also used online resources and published everything online is being described as 2 very important elements when it comes to this process in marked a book you said that this is a very important case traumas why is this affecting so much attention with in germany. it's not only within germany because it's also internationally and one element is what i just mentioned this idea that we're talking about something that can also be understood from an international perspective that can be compared to other cases that happened elsewhere again i mentioned el paso in texas a christ church in new zealand so this is being watched very closely for much
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additional perspective but also from a political perspective and then there's also the the elements that i described in this rise in the seventy's and here in germany the fact that german authorities on a federal level but also regional level are focusing more and more on this they've been criticized in the past for overlooking that these kinds of incidents for turning a blind eye if you will so this is politically judicially and socially a very important case in this country thomas barrow in thank you very much. scientists at oaks for diversity say a coronavirus vaccine they're developing with pharmaceutical giant. is showing promise after its 1st human trials but they're not the only contenders working on a vaccine dozens of big pharma are in the race as well as start ups astra zeneca seems to be pulling ahead of the competition its vaccine was given to more than a 1000 volunteers they are produce an immune response the potential vaccine is one
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of at least 100 being developed across the world for covert 19 at least 23 of them are already in human trials according to the world health organisation. these are just some of the companies participating in the race against the corona virus. among them global players like pfizer sonal fee and johnson and johnson but there are also many unfamiliar names on that list startups that are at the forefront against kobe bryant jean britain is snapping up $30000000.00 doses from german company by on tech a business founded just 12 years ago from a suit of clothes giants like glaxo smith kline want to piece of the action to the companies buying a 10 percent stake in the german firm cure vax. heavyweight astra zeneca may be in the lead now but not so well known biotech also promising early results for their vaccines the race is on. the
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