chancellor angela merkel since as you know we've worked together a lot over the past days and nights natasha butler joins us live from paris natasha hi there welcome back so does miss your macro believe that they can get a deal by close of debating business i guess. well as a good question i mean i'm sure the french president would like there to be a deal as soon as possible i mean he would have been hoping a deal would be reached a while ago because this summit has gone on much longer than expected 3 nights runs of the 4th day as 27 member states try to agree or back a recovery plan for the european union economies battered by the coronavirus pandemic emanuel mike ross says that what he wants is for the e.u. to show real ambition and solidarity at the time of an unprecedented health crisis and for emanuel michael this is also about the future because what he's been saying over the past few days over the past few weeks is that unless the e.u. comes together now helps we can member states in this time of crisis then many people across the european union will simply look at the e.u. and think well wh

but with so many differences and so much at stake leaders may need even longer to reach a deal natasha butler al-jazeera paris. french judicial sources say the m.r. crown prince mohammed bin ziad is being investigated for complicity in acts of torture in yemen according to the news agency a.f.p. a french judge is looking into crimes perpetrated in yemeni prisons by uys forces the proceedings they mohamed bin zayed is the commander in chief of the armed forces the investigation began in 2019 after months of protests against racism in the u.s. the defense secretary has issued a policy effectively banning the confederate flag at american military sites mark esper has told military commanders only flags which promote unity and respect have been authorized the decision could increase tension between esper and president donald trump who has cited free speech rights and his defense of americans who fly the confederate flag mike hanna has more from washington d.c. and he says as for his band has been described as a de facto ban because he listed the flags that could be flown rather than those that co

s reputation natasha butler al-jazeera paris. across the atlantic new cases of corona virus in the u.s. state of florida have soared past 10000 for the 6th day in iran now california and texas are also experiencing surges and with expanded employment benefits set to expire next week president donald trump has met with republican leaders to discuss another massive relief bill allen fessor reports. as the u.s. heads towards 4000000 corporate cases the president has been discussing a new package for states being overwhelmed he plans to bring back the daily briefing he abandoned weeks ago frankly a lot of the country is doing well a lot of people don't say as you understand but we have had this big flare up in florida texas couple of other places. and so i think what we're going to do is get involved in was such a wing briefings florida has no recorded more than 10000 new infections for the 6th day in a row the state slowly and reopen quickly protesters disrupted a briefing by the governor in orlando. in los angeles there are lines a

undermined by mistrust national interests are clearly at stake but so is the east reputation natasha butler al-jazeera paris u.s. president donald trump has been putting the conflict in libya on his agenda holding talks with multiple leaders on the situation and a phone call with egypt's president abdel fattah el-sisi the white house says the 2 leaders affirmed the need for immediate deescalation in libya including through a ceasefire tramples i spoke with the french president among your macro about deescalation for the white house statement saying the situation has been exacerbated by the presence of foreign forces and arms egypt's parliament later voted to allow president sisi to deploy troops abroad it allows a potential intervention in neighboring libya since he has previously threatened to support warlords leave the have to force as if tripoli's government and its turkish allies launched an assault on the city of sirte the arizona the control of after his forces out as a gateway to libya's oil rich region but just before that parliament vote the un warned against any foreign interventi

but with so many differences and so much at stake leaders may need even longer to reach a deal natasha butler i'll just say were paris. time for a short break here al-jazeera when we come back on a waste of peace will be on the ground in libya say the city. and a rise tom a royal on our for one of the world's oldest charity fundraisers more than statements. hello i think for the time being japan's out of the woods with floods except maybe in the islands further south okinawa got a wet day coming up for example but if you look at what's happening in china and we've got this seasonal rain moving slowly north now it's still sitting of the yangtze and it's curling up towards the korean peninsula the next day or so arc in our new japan it will see rain on saturday then it dries up the temperatures slowly rising but if you're in mohan it's rain rain rain and big rain that so the floods will simply increase the orientation is changed as well so japan is like say you're out of the woods for a for a while at least now are countless stories in it for indonesia particularly sort of way so we're going to

but with so many differences and so much at stake leaders may need even longer to reach a deal natasha butler just 0 paris. residents in barcelona being to stay home to help control a rise in virus cases spain is recording steep jumps and infections with hundreds of new cases most in the catalonia and out again regions a catalan regional government has restricted gatherings to 10 people and close cinemas theaters and gyms. the month of june so a huge protests across the u.s. against police brutality these mass gathering spot fears of a surgeon's of coronavirus but in many big cities like new york that hasn't happened deborah is on that explains why. thousands of protesters on the streets in cities all over america demonstrators shoulder to shoulder huge numbers unified in a historic fight for social justice but this is not what social distancing is supposed to look like leading many to ask did the protests lead to a spike in coronavirus cases this recently published research paper is the most definitive study to date addressing that question based on our research there is no relationship betw

pandemic its rival boeing announced a similar 2nd quarter loss on wednesday it's an hour from natasha butler our correspondent who has more from paris. terrible figures for air bus the european plane made a $2200000000.00 of net losses in the 1st 6 months of this year they've had to deliver half the amount of aircraft in the 1st half of this year that they had planned on and also in the 2nd quarter revenue tumbling by 55 percent so whatever us are saying is that they have had to cut production by 40 percent which of course have a huge impact on the company on staff across the europe who work for us all the suppliers the whole industry that is always linked to any one company and what they're saying is that this is due of course to the coronavirus pandemic the fact that during the log downs people pretty much didn't fly airlines were grounded and even after the restored restrictions have been lifted in some places a line travel has been severely reduced in fact us are saying their visibility for the future is very limited indeed they may not be forecasting in the short term because the airlin

ever been convicted over his death and several autopsies contradicted each other more now from natasha butler who's at that rally. thousands of people have joined this protest calling for justice for adam or for a young frenchman of modern heritage who died while in police custody whom he is against his family to kill his sister axa to always become a bit of a simple enough to get head against police file and i've always maintained that i demurred died because of the actions of police officers however police officer who was there that a majority had died of natural circumstances they're being investigated and put some points over the years but without any clear and definite conclusions was the tourist says that she will continue her campaign but there's little doubt that this campaign is really throwing the spotlight once again on police violence and from police in france have a history of abusive arrests and the country's worst john says that if you are applicable north african origin you want to be 20 times more likely than others to be stopped and checked by police and for those people who

other players this is not an option for europe and it will not be something france will it happen natasha butler has more from paris the french president emmanuel micro was meeting his counterpart from the republic of cyprus at the least only made some statements before the 2 leaders went in for their discussions now he said that he believed that the e.u. needed to respond more strongly to what he called provocations in the eastern mediterranean and he was talking about turkey's continue drilling for oil and gas off the coast of cyprus the republic of cyprus is part of the e.u. the north of cyprus the breakaway north is pro turkey now the e.u. says this oil and gas drilling is illegal it has called on turkey in the past to stop and there are e.u. sanctions on ankara for this france would like to see more sanctions imposed and tensions flared even further just on wednesday when turkish watership actually accompanied a turkish submarine being used for this oil and gas exploration in the area again violating what michael said was violation i should say of maritime law peter millet is a former briti

there is a lot of speculation here today in the french media that ed wofully could be replaced ok natasha butler many thanks for joining us from paris. still ahead here on al-jazeera india's prime minister visits the disputed border area at the center of tensions with china. the knife has been pulled out about 3 inches that doesn't mean that the economy is now healthy and why and not everyone is celebrating better than expected u.s. jobs vegas. hello once again welcome to another look at the international focus has been on usually what's across parts of indonesia recently jakarta saying 56 millimeters of rain in bear mine for the month of july we see around 31 millimeters so that has been particularly on satellite elsewhere was the usual seasonal showers really they should be further north downpours from time to time coming into southern parts of the philippines oreo seeing some heavy showers some are just still seeing some heavy showers northern parts of java should start to turn a little drier and brighter as we go into the 2nd half of the weekend tribe right across a good part of australia bl

but with so many differences and so much at stake leaders may need even longer to reach a deal natasha butler just 0 paris. the u.k. prime minister boris johnson has outlined his plan for england to return to normality saying employers will have more discretion to bring stuff back to workplaces from next month that's despite advice from his chief scientific adviser saying there's absolutely no reason to change the work from home guidance so in your go has more from london. friday in the middle of july in central london and you usually see this place thronging with people not just the people working in offices nearby but also with visitors tourists from of the country but of course these are anything but normal times the prime minister boris johnson is under the gun to try and provide some kind of roadmap to normality of course a lot of that rests on how people can go back to working they can stay working from home or where they can work from their offices or other workplaces and the prime minister has made it clear that he's leaving that decision up to the employers. from the 1st of all this

but with so many differences and so much at stake leaders may need even longer to reach a deal natasha butler just 0 paris. india is now the 3rd country to record more than a 1000000 corona virus cases more states are having to reimpose lockdowns to try and contain the outbreak which has led to over 25000 deaths because of the parana reports from new delhi. municipal workers spray disinfectant in a neighborhood in siliguri one of many areas of the state of west bengal under lockdown from srinagar and indeed administered in the north to do an on the poor and to self around a 3rd of india's 1300000000 population are facing some lockdown restrictions. while some places such as goa are only imposing a weekend lockdown india's 2nd most populous state be hot has ordered its nearly 130000000 residents to stay home for 2 weeks behind as one of india's poorest states health experts are concerned about how rural and less developed areas the handling the outbreak now as it spreads its verdict. in the rural majority states the health infrastructure in the rural areas is far weaker and attesting so real a

in athens who will be with you shortly john i want to start with natasha butler in paris natasha i feel like i've been asking you and our other correspondents the same question for the last 3 days i hope we any closer to breaking this deadlock. well who knows really i mean you know the e.u. leaders have been meeting now 3 nights a 4th day and the same divisions are on the table now the french president emanuel makarov has said that he hopes that you know that perhaps they are reaching some sort of spirit of compromise but there's going to be a pretty big compromise here for them to reach an agreement and what the french president has been out of pains to really point out over the last few days and weeks is that this is a really a crucial moment for the e.u. in its history what he is saying is that if the e.u. a fails to show solidarity cooperation at this time of an unprecedented health crisis and help we can member states who really need assistance then many people in the european union could end up just turning their back on the e.u. it could fuel anti e.u. sentiment in the future and

but with so many differences and so much at stake leaders may need even longer to reach a deal natasha butler just 0 paris. coming up on the al-jazeera news hour maintaining the rage in mali despite the deaths of protesters and mediation efforts the campaign to oust the president's continued. protests in sudan against the law changes allowing non muslims to drink alcohol would stay consider anti islamic. i mean up in sport we'll hear what the olympic president has to say about whether fans will be able to attend next year's tokyo games. but 1st nigerian women's rights activists are planning to march in lagos over the weekend to denounce a surge in gender based violence cases during the coronavirus lockdown on thursday the nigerian house speaker described rape as a pandemic within the country as the group movement against rape and sexual assault visited the national assembly in june all 36 nigerian states declared a state of emergency on rape and sexual violence that speaks of doctors an option coffey the 1st lady of nigeria's kebbi states she's also a pediatric consultant on the founder of th

fisherman say they'll be forced to use whatever tactics they can to battle for their survival natasha butler al-jazeera put on best normandy. millions of muslims fall wide to celebrating the start of the a.d.l. as our holiday it marks the ending of one of the 5 pillars of islam the hajj pilgrimage in mecca but events in saudi arabia and elsewhere are much different this year because of 19. reports of. muslims on every continent scout afraid of how prayer is between major differences facing one direction mecca they pray a new unity but stand separated by coronavirus forced by a pandemic through social distance even in worship something no muslim ever thought they'd have to do. standing shoulder to shoulder is integrity to islamic prayer is an important show of equality regardless of age race to even say shoe status but that's no longer possible with coronavirus restrictions in place the everyday i have oh you don't need this year's eve is totally different from any other year we're following social distancing rules and we can't even agree people closely we even have to bring our own prayer ma

stepped down early on friday orchestrated the coronavirus reopening strategy for the country his natasha butlerin paris to take us to remember just explain to us why all this is happening and what's what's expected. what we have. happen shuffle this was expected president michael's talked for some time about how he was going to reshuffle his ministers and perhaps the prime minister what we now know that we will that we do i should say have a new prime minister here in france jocasta eggs and even though the reshuffle was expected what wasn't expected was his new french prime minister mainly because people here in france about you heard of him so to talk a bit more about this i'm joined by pierre haski a veteran political commentator here and from. his a name that until today most people had never heard of differently many people have never heard even this name but these are rare. polluted because he's on one side is a top technocrat and everybody's praising is efficiency as a technocrat he was in charge recently of the end of the lockdown in france after the pandemic so these are huge responsib

i will be crossing the channel on friday for the other side of the story our desires natasha butler has been to normandy in northern france where fishermen say they're worried losing access to british waters could mean they lose their livelihoods. italy's former interior minister is set to face trial after he was stripped of immunity from prosecution mato salvini now faces a 2nd trial for blocking a migrant ship from docking in the country last year he faces up to 15 years in jail if he's found guilty after the country's senate voted to lift immunity he received as a member of parliament prosecutors accuse the right wing politician of illegally detaining would $100.00 migrants after he stopped a spanish ship which was carrying them from docking on the island of lampedusa for the 19 days. you're on record to go after hearing your speeches this morning if anyone thinks they're going to scare me the center right and my movement with a politically motivated trial then you've got the wrong man and the wrong party on the contrary you give me more strength to defend our ideals. russia's denyin

$2400000000.00 quarterly loss and announce significant job cuts more this let's cross over to natasha butler who is empowered because their bus have released their 2nd quarter results is not really looking that good is it. i know it's bad news for air bus the european plane maker posting these results are 2200000000 net losses in the 1st 6 months of this year in the 2nd quarter revenue for lng by 55 percent half of that they delivered only half of the aircraft they plan to in the beginning of this year and this is means that basically the plane makers have to cut its overall production by 40 percent now the reason airbus says for all this is of course the coronavirus endemic which is seen the airline industry particularly badly affected but also there are issues internal issues within their past including the fact that it is cutting its 80 $380.00 program which it plans to close next year but what the plane maker is saying is that there is now very limited visibility on the future on what will happen next we know that the airline industry is supposed to return to its pre pandemic levels in 2

orchestrated the coronavirus reopening strategy for the country let's go live now to our correspondent natasha butler in paris what else can you tell us about this new name youngest xx. or i can tell you that his appointment was quite a surprise here to many people in france the cabinet reshuffle was expected present on been talking about how he wanted to do you his government so we had expected that to happen but the appointment of jacques stakes replacing it well felipe as prime minister was a surprise to many people because very few people have ever heard of him he is a conservative mer of a small southwestern town he's 55 years old he has however had a career in politics of course he worked in the past for the former a right wing president nicolas sarkozy and then recently he was put in charge of planning the strategy for the easing of lockdown restrictions here in france years according to several politicians who've been talking about him today a very safe pair of hands a trust is a pair of hands a very efficient but why about all that crowd has appointed him yet we have yet to find out but what

inhumane and degrading conditions the government has been ordered to pay the compensation more with natasha butler now in paris get on to the specifics of that in a moment but 1st can you tell us about exactly where you are and all the things you see there with regards to the refugees and homeless people. that's right i'm in central paris you can probably see tents lined up behind me and this is something of a camp protest if you like because n.g.o.s along with. thousands of teenage migrants have set up these tents in the center of the city to try and highlight the plight of young refugees and migrants who find themselves on the streets in paris now all of these tents are full young margaret mainly from west africa some from afghanistan a sleeping in every night and what they are saying is that the french state is basically completely failed them if they were right here now in a perhaps a bit of a safe zone with the engineers looking after them by just being next to their own devices in the street with no one to give them shelter with no food or protection under french nor of course all of company

threatening to stop british fisherman from getting their catches into the shops in the 2nd series natasha butler reports from normandy in northern front. heading into the english channel off the coast of normandy the picturesque cobber of poor old bessie receding into the distance the clown has worked as a fisherman for 30 years he's passionate about his job but scared for his future because of breaks it he worries that if britain and the e.u. fail to reach a deal by the end of the year french fishermen like him could be barred from fishing in waters off the u.k. coast. or we're scared because u.k. waters represent 40 to 60 percent of our revenue so for us it would be catastrophic it's. for decades french fishermen have fished legally in waters off britain where fish are abundant british fishermen have the same rights off the french coast where they mainly gather shellfish drums father was a fisherman his brother runs a seafood restaurant fishing links generations being denied access to u.k. waters would be particularly devastating to the fisherman from the normandy coast because so many of the

would this would mean that they had reached an agreement and so we continue to wait don't we natasha butler in paris thank you. european leaders have blamed the dutch prime minister mark for singlehandedly blocking a deal for the covert 19 recovery fund in europe but he's been under target made all those accusations that vasant has a report now from amsterdam. marketa described it as a lonely fight never before has a dutch prime minister been so heavily criticized at a european summit in art i'm very i don't care i'm working hard for the interests of does citizens which are closely linked to european interests and all those comments i'll just ignore them i can't be distracted by them i see myself as someone who fights for you and other dirt citizens and for that it's important that there's a strong europe that can overcome this crisis the dutch prime minister is leading a group called the frugal for also consisting of sweden denmark and austria who wants trick conditions for financial support to poorer european nations struggling with the economic fallout of covert 19 and margaret is playin

spain all backed the proposal but some other countries don't see keeping an eye on events as natasha butler and paris for us i mean that just underlines the whole european project doesn't it they look for unity but there will always be these divisions amongst the member countries and there's so much at stake here. was very difficult isn't it when you've got 27 member states for all member states to be on the same page and degree and that is why we see these e.u. submits that tend to go on for several days when there is such a big issue on the table the big issue here is a recovery fund for europe the economies of being battered by the current affairs pandemic we're talking about a recovery fund of 800 $60000000000.00 u.s. dollars that's what's being proposed by the e.u. commission and the president that is supported by some countries including france and germany who say that this is a time to show solidarity it's a time of crisis it's a time to help some of the weaker member states member states that have been weakened by this particular countries like italy and spain so badly affected by t

as a butler joins us live now from paris natasha as you're saying in your report there these talks of turn into a marathon summit any indication yet that we're near to an agreement or signs from brussels are there with any nearer turn agreement than we were when these talks began on friday. leaders seemed to be making the sort of noises which suggested an agreement could be done within hours possibly at least another day maybe not more than that but shell michel the e.u. council head as you saw there in that report he has put forward his proposal after days of discussions and his proposal make some concessions to the so-called froogle for those 4 e.u. member states that opposed the size of this deal that opposed the idea of free grants that really wanted moans with conditions well it seems that social michelle has listened to them is made concessions in his proposal that might appeal to them now the question is can this proposal appeal to all 27 member states they've been extremely divided over the last few days they want to find an agreement the willing is there the will is there i s

we'll get reaction from athens with john psaropoulos but 1st let's talk to tasha butler joining us live from paris natasha emanuel my home seems content to put something of a positive gloss on all this. well emanuel mark rara knew going into these discussions that it was never going to be easy 27 member states trying to agree on such an enormous recovery package and already of course we knew the divisions with there now we've seen. several nights trying to come to an agreement but those divisions and differences remain now what a matter of though is saying is i don't know if he's putting a positive spin on it but he is certainly trying to urge e.u. leaders to come to an agreement to back this recovery plan because he says it's absolutely essential for european union unity for solidarity in a time of unprecedented a health crisis in europe and for the very future of europe itself because what eman omar cross has said over the past few days over the past few weeks is unless the european union really steps up now at this time of crisis and cooperates and helps we can member states and comes together then peo