at home president markov has been facing a lot of criticism only recently he we shuffled his cabinet that is not going down well with everybody either especially when it comes to the appointments of justice minister. under interior minister. that. these protesters are carrying gender equality symbolically to its growth. they say the 2 recent appointments deal a death blow to the promise president in monaco made when he came to power 3 years ago. is accused of having raped a woman in 2009 disappointment is it insulting to all women who are victims of sexual violence and to perm what he has said many like being whistled at in the street and to what extent can you not listen to victims this is a scandalous call that i. am scared if i were a victim of sexual violence one day i would have to turn to institutions run by 6 us people who are accused of rape to each want to do i look to. the point of star lawyer. as justice minister is also causing a stir amongst magistrates they don't feel he's on this side they didn't declare. quite images disappointment is like a declaration of war by a ma

european commission is talking about our bill americal herself together with the french president manuel markov came out with a plan just before that saying 500000000000 was the right amount there are some countries that have been dubbed the frugal for a group of smaller northern european countries saying that they want to fund to be smaller so that's one issue what kind of nature should the fund have should it give out money as grants or should it lend money which countries then have to pay back and that's a big question those frugal for a keen for it mostly to be about lending so that money is paid back the countries that need the money most italy and spain of course are saying no what's the point if you just lend us the money this is only going to make our economic situation more difficult. and there's an east versus west kind of divide that isn't over this with countries in eastern europe which are poorer than countries like france and spain and italy saying well why should we be helping out these countries even if they've had a bigger economic. impact we're still behind their main economic

within europe so i think they're also very important to rankle merkel is working closely with emmanuel markov france the french president and she has been doing that in the last couple of months in advance of taking on this german presidency to show that france and germany the 2 biggest powers in europe are closely aligned ok thank you richard that's richard walker chief international it is in brussels now to the favelas of rio de janeiro in brazil where corona virus infection rates have jumped dramatically there is concern that the government there is stress tickly and the reporting caught that $1000.00 cases so much so that the residents have taken it upon themselves to do the counting. nothing is the same since the pandemic killed rio de janeiro's 5 ehlers adults are out of work children are home from school and cramped unhygenic living conditions greatly increased the risk of infection. i'm scared my children will catch the virus we don't always have running water most of the time we have to haul it from far away and the children don't have any space to play. experts estimate the number o

magdala treasures and has suggested a long time alone to hold on to them and french president emmanuel markov promised last year to return out of that taken from ben in 892 but they remain in paris with your consumers from the university of hamburg he says the legal status of artefacts varies from country to country. in france for example. legal provision that you cannot arrest you tube and he objects once they are in and yes you know it needs. legal solution in germany it's very similar the museum directors even if they want which i doubt they wouldn't be able to restitute objects in great great numbers so it's both the museum directors who are professionals want to keep for it to have caught i'm to put politicians who don't put pressure on them or who don't create a legal frank which makes it possible to return french parliament passed legislation to bieksa go to return 26 or 30 objects which is is is just as more figure compared to the 1000s of objects which were due to turn stolen during colonialism i think it's going nowhere because the european museums are basically food of looted objec