richard walker richard they've been talking for a long time and there's still lots of tensions and there are. yes i mean the tensions are really quite extreme at the moment between china and the west as a whole really going back several months of course you know the context for that you know many things relating to the covert outbreak which of course began in china there are lots of questions about whether china could have been more transparent in the early days of the outbreak whether that contributed to just how far and how fast the pandemic spreads also there are concerns just voice very recently by the european union outright accusing china of mounting dissin from asian campaigns within europe around the covert outbreak and then on top of that we just saw in the report human rights in jang in the province in western china more than a 1000000 people in so-called reeducation camps their rights being severely curtailed something the doctor well as reported on a lot and of course hong kong with this new national security law that china wants to impose their threatening freedom freedom of speech in hong kong now the usual way for the european union with all of these concerns over human rights is to sort of voice concerns say that we talked to china about these things but human rights groups are saying that simply doesn't go far enough now and the european parliament has actually just recently chimed in in agreement with that saying that the european union has to threaten the consequences over these breaches of human rights otherwise they're just not standing up for their own values properly so more of that in their kind of super at the moment making this a very very difficult set of talks to hold it sounds very difficult while the u.n. china even meeting or at all given all those differences. yeah well this is actually less than had been planned the plan was to have a huge summit much fanfare with all $27.00 european leaders in germany this september that is being put on ice supposedly blaming the corona pandemic but of course all of those factors certainly at play here the european side would say 2 things 1st will they say it's important to keep talking they believe in diplomacy they believe in multilateralism so keep talking no matter how bad the problems are and the 2nd thing is they want that investment treaty that we saw described in the report that there's a real sense in europe that european countries have not had a fair crack at the chinese market the same sort of concerns that you hear voiced in america by donald trump obviously voice in a rather more low key way here in europe so they do want progress on that i think china wants progress on that the question is whether all of those concerns all of those geopolitical tensions all of the uncertainty in the world at the moment just means it might just be too difficult we love you chief international editor richard walker brussels many thanks and that's finance for me. for you in the 45 minutes in the meantime if all the latest news and information. on the web sites that's developing dot com watching the news. after next monica jones and our coverage special. combating the corona pandemic. where does research stand. what are scientists learning. background information and. our corona. covert 19 special next on d w. w's crime fighters are back africa's most successful in radio drama series continues. this season the stories.

richard walker richard so what came out of today's meeting. well christine to be honest not a huge amounts the e.u. leaders the top leaders the presidents of the council and the commission held a press conference. after those talks and they used quite sort of familiar language really talking about having had an open and substantial exchange also on issues where they're far apart from the chinese side but on the concrete issues where they say they really want to make progress on this investment treaty for instance that you just mentioned there they said that that progress has not been made and they really urge particularly urge the chinese side to come forward and also on the very difficult issue of human rights where china is threatening to impose this national security law which she will rights groups say will release a very undermine the freedoms of people in hong kong there was tough language from love on the line in particular from the president of the european commission but nothing really threatening that the european union would impose consequences so one point for instance was a love underline said that she would urge china to reconsider this national security law but she didn't say what europe would actually do if it doesn't reconsider which seems highly likely. so richard where does this leave e.u. china relations. well i think today it's just the latest example that it kind of exposes the difficulty that europe is having in coming up with a really coherent policy towards china and to be fair to the e.u. leaders are quite open about this was a lot of underlined talks about this also in the press conference talking about this framing that europe came up with last year for its relationship with china saying that it is a competitor it is a partner but it is also a systemic rival with a very very profound differences with europe and that just creates sounds like a contradiction and i think today is one of those examples where they're running into the difficulties of dealing with that kind of framing of the relationship where they're trying to juggle european priorities of trying to boost european business with this investment treaty but also running into this very hard reality of china's attitude to human rights which is absolutely diametrically opposed to

richard walker hello richard so what was the outcome off today's meeting. well not a huge amount came out of the meeting at all really the presidents of both european council and the european commission to partner press conference after those talks and they were pretty clear that the 2 sides are made very very far apart on a large number of issues and it's really is exposing the tough time that europe is having in really trying to calibrate a coherent stance towards china as china gets more and more powerful more and more assertive on the world stage now the thing is that europe wants better relations with china particularly on the area of trade and it really wants to find progress on this investment deal that they were talking about today but that investment deal has been years in the making already the negotiations on that go back fully 7 years and the 2 sides had said that this would be the year where they make a breakthrough but the implication from the 2 presidents today was that they remain very far apart that china still needs to make a lot of concessions and the picture on human rights is getting bleaker by the year from shin jang in china's northwest down to hong kong in the south the imposition of this national security law seen by human rights groups as a grave threat to freedoms in hong kong so the european union is confronted with this kind of reality that it is struggling to get what it wants from china either on relating to its interests in trade or to its values in freedom and democracy. that's the deadliest richard walk in brussels on that story of this video summit between evaders and chinese leaders that's taking place to thank you richard. now more than 2000 people turned out in madrid on sunday to demand the return of bullfighting across spain the controversial sports has been canceled since walked on measures began on march 13th but now fans are calling on politicians and organized this to restart events all at the very least to offer financial support to what they consider to be part of spain's cultural and a to artistic heritage it's estimated the lockdown has meant a loss of more than 5000000 euros to the sector. here after dates join me at the next hour it's by fidel. combating the corona pandemic. where does research stand. what are scientists learning. background information and news. in our corona. covered 19 special next on d.v.d. .

richard walker hello richard so what was the outcome off today's meeting. well not a huge amount came out of the meeting at all really the presidents of both european council and the european commission to part in a press conference after those talks and they were pretty clear that the 2 sides remain very very far apart on a large number of issues and it's really is exposing the tough time that europe is having in really trying to calibrate a coherent stance towards china as china gets more and more powerful more and more assertive on the world stage now the thing is that europe wants better relations with china particularly on the area of trade and it really wants to find progress on this investment deal that they were talking about today but that investment deal has been years in the making already the negotiations on that go back fully 7 years and the 2 sides had said that this would be the year where they make a breakthrough but the implication from the 2 presidents today was that they remain very far apart that china still needs to make a lot of concessions and the picture on human rights is getting bleaker by the year from shin jang in china's northwest down to hong kong in the south of the imposition of this national security law seen by human rights groups as a grave threat to freedoms in hong kong so the european union is confronted with this kind of reality that it is struggling to get what it wants from china either on relating to its interests in trade or to its values in freedom and democracy. that's the deadliest richard walk in brussels on that story of this video summit between eagle leaders and chinese leaders that's taking place to thank you richard . the german football league has accepted a lower price from domestic bought hostas for the rights to screen its football matches in the 1st sign of a dip in the sports t.v. market. sky and picked up most matches for the 4 seasons from 2021 on witts over all clubs from the bundesliga and bundesliga tubal passion 1100000000 euros a season it's a slight dip compared to the previous 1160000000 for the campaign now the coronavirus and then of course expects it to have an impact on the previously growing sports t.v. market. and next meryl from sports joins us from our on the subject hey max so there were concerns already that the bundesliga would get a no amount is this a bit of a bureau or a good result considering the circumstances well i mean it is a blow if you consider the current trend which was very much growing up with not just in football in sports

richard walker who joins us from brussels welcome richard a sort of on the line there sounding very optimistic is the consensus really that solid. well i think there is confidence that an agreement will eventually be reached but not really because of anything that came out of this video conference that has just taken place by all accounts there was very little progress made there it was really just a bit of an exchange of views and exchange of perspectives and those perspectives in many areas remain very very far apart but i think it's really because there's a there is a broad recognition of the political pressure to come up with a solution here to come up with an agreement we've had a leader after leader from also love underline who we saw in the clip there through angela merkel many times in recent days but also in recent weeks saying that this is the most serious economic crisis that europe has faced in its history the history of the european union so for europe to be saying that sort of thing but then not to be able to find a common solution a common way forward would be a huge embarrassment it would open the doors potentially to further growth and populism on the continent there are huge stakes specifically for germany because germany within the next couple of weeks takes over the rotating presidency of the european council and so this issue moves right the top of angela merkel's to do list for 2020 so what are the biggest obstacles to a deal. well there are a lot of think that essentially all that they've really agreed on is the need for there to be a recovery fund and one quite important thing that has rubicon that has been crossed is this idea that the european commission will borrow the money centrally on the financial markets and then distribute it so there's consensus on that much but almost everything else is still open the size of the fund the commission wants 700 $50000000000.00 euros there's a small group of countries that have come to be known as the frugal 4 who say that's too much should the money be distributed as loans that have to be paid back or grants that is essentially a free transfer of money there's big debate about that according to what criteria should the money be distributed so all of these are very very big questions the nots mind the details of this is going to be the source of an awful lot of haggling in the weeks to come so is there a deadline on this or committee just talk about this forever they they certainly can't just talk about this forever and there are all sorts of deadlines i mean one kind of looming one a rather trivial sounding one is that people want to be able to take a summer break so they want to try and get this sorted out before that but there are many deadlines beyond that parliament's national parliaments $27.00 of them will most likely have to ratify whatever comes after that that's a process that takes a long time countries want to get their hands on this money so there's that pressure too and also connected to all of this not just about this recovery fund but they're also debating the e.u.'s budget for the next 7 years its previous budget runs out at the end of this year so there's huge pressure to also come up with the budget for the next 7 years because otherwise the e use only budget for its operations will run out at the end of this year so many many deadlines being faced here which only adds to that political pressure trying to keep them busy richard walker thank you. well start with europe for our german chancellor angela merkel says hey you lead us have agreed to a 6 month extension to sanctions against russia you know what comes a day after german prosecutors accuse the kremlin of ordering the killing of a former chechen rebel commander in berlin last year russian president vladimir putin had called for relief from the sanctions joining the coronavirus pandemic which was imposed sanctions were imposed in 2040 over russia's role in the conflict and. now take a look at some of the other stories making news around the world 3 explosions in pakistan's southern province of sindh of killed 4 people including 2 soldiers at least a dozen people who were also injured one of the blast was in karate pakistan's largest silly city killing one and injuring several outside are said to distributing cash handouts from the government because of the pandemic. canada's prime minister justin should have says he's disappointed at china's decision to

richard walker joins us now from brussels with more on the e.u. coronavirus fund raiser richard before we get to the money what's the political significance of this event. you know well of course i mean the money in itself does have significance in fact the total just over 6000000000 euros has been raised with 5000000000 coming from the european commission and sums of money coming from other donors to germany pledging just under 400000000 or so and you know going to a variety of different aspects of this attempt to coordinate internationally in the fight against the pandemic but if you do step back and look at this from a political point of view i think it's really another instance essentially of the europeans trying to step in and fill what emerges is this void that the united states might have filled in other times i mean looking back at previous health emergencies for instance you know the last really large bowl of pandemic a few years ago the united states really a leading role in leading the international coordination there together with institutions like the world health organization well this year the united states has pulled out of the world health organization there's a president donald trump who is very explicitly less interested in multilateralism as an as an approach to solving problems. and also you have the pandemic in the united states seeming to come back with a vengeance with the number of cases day by day now hitting record levels so you have the united states really out of action on this international level and the europeans trying to fill that void to do this crucial work. and if we could just sort of draw down into the numbers 5000000000 euros used to sound like a lot of money but it is that a lot these days. well yeah it's true what used to impress us maybe doesn't impress us so much anymore and certainly the few 1000000000 euros are not going to solve the problem to be fair it was a lot of underlined the present the european commission is quite open about that i mean she has said many times that you know this is a step by step process and tens of billions will be needed over time. but still i mean here in brussels in a couple of weeks' time there's going to be a summit of e.u. nations trying to find agreement on a recovery fund to get e.u. economies moving after the pandemic as they as they emerge from it and they're talking of raising 750000000000 euros so more than 100 times what has been raised today so i think many of our viewers watching perhaps from poorer countries in the global south might be watching this and thinking well ultimately you know the west you have rich countries that are more interested in helping out other rich countries than than helping more vulnerable countries so i think it is going to be a really interesting test in the next few months if the pandemic really continues to get more severe in the global south how far richer western countries are going to be prepared to go to really step up their one wonders if they won't suddenly become more generous richard walker in brussels thanks so much parts of europe are dealing with a flare up of corona virus infections in italy there has been a spike in new cases to the north of naples mainly in apartment blocks housing seasonal farmworkers' the city of mundra goanna is on alert to try to stop the virus from spreading further. tensions have been rising between the residents of these apartment blocks and the local people in undergrown e after the buildings were placed under lockdown due to dozens of coronavirus cases several residents trying to leave and defiance of the buddha and there is will be a big brother for as because. after they are going to close all the c.v.a. and then he is a economic problem for us. most of the residents of bulgaria many of them thought to be working in italy without proper contracts and for very low wages now sentiment against the foreign workforce is mounting. the biggest i'm going to be one. cultural workers they come each season and then they move on to greece for

richard walker joins us now from brussels with more on the e.u. coronavirus fund raiser richard before we get to the money what's the political significance of this event. yeah well of course i mean the money in itself does have significance in fact the total just over 6000000000 euros has been raised with 5000000000 coming from the european commission and sums of money coming from other donors to germany pledging just under 400000000 or so and you know going to a variety of different aspects of this attempt to coordinate internationally in the fight against the pandemic but if you do step back and look at this from a political point of view i think it's really the instance essentially of the europeans trying to step in and fill what emerges is this void that the united states might have filled in other times i mean looking back at previous health emergencies for instance you know the last really large ebola pandemic a few years ago the united states really a leading role in leading the international coordination there together with institutions like the world health organization well this year the united states has pulled out of the world health organization there's a president donald trump who is very explicitly less interested in multilateralism as an as an approach to solving problems. and also you have the pandemic in the united states seeming to come back with a vengeance with the number of cases day by day now hitting record levels so you have the united states really out of action on this international level and the europeans trying to fill that void to do this crucial work. and if we could just sort of drill down into the numbers 5000000000 euros used to sound like a lot of money but it is that a lot these days. well yeah it's true what used to impress us maybe doesn't impress us so much anymore and certainly the few 1000000000 euros are not going to solve the problem to be fair was love underlined the president the european commission is quite open about that i mean she has said many times that you know this is a step by step process and tens of billions will be needed over time. but still i mean here in brussels in a couple of weeks' time there's going to be a summit of e.u. nations trying to find agreement on a recovery fund to get e.u. economies moving after the pandemic as they as they emerge from it and they're talking of raising 750000000000 euros so more than 100 times what has been raised today so i think many of our viewers watching perhaps from poor countries in the global south might be watching this and thinking will also leave you know the west you have rich countries that are more interested in helping out other rich countries than than helping more vulnerable countries so i think it is going to be a really interesting test in the next few months if the pandemic really continues to get more severe in the global south how far richer western countries are going to be prepared to go to really step up their one wonders if they won't suddenly become more generous richard walker in brussels thanks so much. now to some of the other stories making news this hour. authorities in germany have closed roads to popular baltic coast resorts as summer holidays begin in many parts of the country it's an effort to enable social distancing at the beach crowds of people have streamed to north only to find the sand more crowded in the cities. and there were long lines of traffic backed up at the german de mint danish border on the 1st day of eased travel between the 2 countries denmark easing of restrictions applies only to travelers from countries to low number of code 19 infections all the countries and europe's visa free shipping area are on track to reopen their borders to each other by july the 1st. the british embassy in moscow has raised a rainbow flag to celebrate. defying russia's log banning so-called gay propaganda the embassy issued a statement saying it rejects all forms of discrimination including those based on sexual orientation and gender identity a

richard walker joins us now from brussels with more on that you coronavirus fundraiser hello to you richard so tell us what can we expect from today's fund raising summit. yeah well it's the latest in a series of events that have been aimed at raising money but also awareness for the importance of the global corporation in the fight against the corona virus and today's event is something of a hybrid really we've had politicians taking part we just saw it was a laugh on the line in the clips there from the european commission but also a lot of entertainers so there's been some advance like a sort of mini panel discussion that featured the prime minister of norway and miley cyrus and then there was quite a long interview with one of the bad guys from game of thrones so a little bit of a hybrid going on today later on there's going to be a concert also with a lot of big stars performing in that but they have been some concrete results like the 5000000000 we just saw from the european commission the german side also chipping in more money announcing 383000000 euros additionally for these international efforts and i think the whole thing just aimed at underlining this message that the world has to work together to fight the coronavirus it's not good enough for individual countries particularly rich countries just to try and find vaccines for their own people was left on the line said to think that you can beat this virus by just vaccinating your own people is just plain wrong now richardis it clear where this money is supposed to go to. your money will be going to a number of different international initiatives and just to give you one example it's an international vaccine initiative called garvey that sort of been a focus of a lot of fund raising recently and it's about trying to pool resources and coordinate all of these very very large number of vaccine development programs that are going on around the world and that takes many forms for instance you're trying to accelerate the process usually it's a very long time for to develop a vaccine especially this testing period where the trials are taking place at various stages now this alliance wants to try and organize manufacturing vaccines even before they are given the green light so that if they are then given the green light they can be searched very quickly to the populations so it's that kind of thing that requires a lot of money a lot of coordination to w.'s richard walker in brussels thank you very much let's g

richard walker has been having a closer look at some of those so we just have a quick look at what richard prepared and then we'll get your reaction there after . the corona pandemic isn't just a health crisis for europe it's had a massive impact on the economy today and just like the virus itself the economic and social aftereffects hitting some countries harder than others here opinion thinks easily greece and spain will suffer the most so in the last video meeting here members agreed to set up a special recovery fund to kick start the economy because the money borrowed centrally on the financial markets that's being seen as a big step for europe but there is still a lot of details to work out and some of them are huge and very very complicated so we've broken them down for you into 4 main things 1st of all signs how big should the fund be the numbers in play range from 502750 1000000000 euros next. fandom's which countries should get funding and how much and should he be given out his grants loads that have to be paid back. then focus what should the money be spent on the e.u. would like to see lots of green digital vestment but there are some questions about how quickly such projects can get off the ground. and finally how should the fund be paid back to lenders by when and by whom with so much to discuss everyone's warning that it's going to be a while before they can find agreement but the pressure is on to prove that europe can stick together when the going gets tough. the pressure certainly on will they find a compromise georg oh look there i think richard made a really important point here is how the money should be paid back and that is where a lot of state leaders have different ideas speed of digital tax be it an environmental tax how that money should be brought back into through the pockets of the european commission also a conditionality is another tricky issue and of course the issue of what are the criteria for the funding should countries that have overspent for years and currently italy and spain are the ones that really receive the biggest chunk of money from the recovery fund there should they be really be rewarded for not seeing through enough structural change that is what critics of the current commission proposal say or should we rather focus on the actual damage that corona the grown up and demick has done tricolor me so a lot of questions on the table or overall there is agreement that solidarity is important and that this crisis will need requires an adequate answer and as e.u. leaders discuss as we mentioned they're

richard walker is in brussels. here is his take on whether european leaders are closer to getting what they want from china. richard: the presidents of the european council and european commission took part in a press conference after those talks, and they were pretty clear that the two sides remain very, very far apart. on a large number of issues. this really is exposing the tough time that europe is having in really trying to calibrate a coherent stance towards china as china gets more and more powerful, more and more assertive on the world stage. the thing is that europe wants better relations with china, particularly on the area of trade. it really wants to find progress on this investment deal that they were talking about today. but that investment deal has been years in the making already. the negotiations on that go back fully seven years. the two sides have said this will be the year where they make a breakththrough, but the implication from the two presidents today is that they remain far apart and china needs to make a lot of concessions. the picture on human rights is getting bleaker from china's northwest down to hong kong in the south. the imposition of this national security law seen by human rights groups as a grave threat to freedoms in hong kong. so the european union is confronted with this reality that it is struggling to get what it wants from china, either on relating to its interests in trade or to its values in freedom and democracy. phil: richardker. german chancellor angela merkel has condemned as important a night of rioting and looting in stuttgart. on monday, they went to support local officials after the weekend of unrest left shop windows smashed and police officers injured. 25 people have been arrested. >> the interior minister visited the stuttgart city center with the state premier and mayor at his side. they wanted to show strength and solilidarity with locacal policn the aftermath of the weekend riots. i hope the perpetrators have been found and that speedy and harsh sentences will be handed down, he said. shopkeepers alreready suffering from the pandemic lockdown had to sweep up glass shards. the cost of the damages in the millions. the last thing we need in these difficult times is for young men to initiate violence for no reason at all. police are at pains to determine what led to this night of violence. following a single drug check by police, young men join forces to riot in stuttgart from saturday night into t

richard nixon as a republican president across the board. everybody knows about china and foreign policy. that's the reason president nixon was in china. ron walker advanced that first trip. take a look at the domestic arena. richard nixon, and again, 1969 to 1974, establish the environmental protection agency, did clean air and clean water. established the office of the occupational safety and health administration within the labor department. laid the groundwork for major pension reform. instituted the philadelphia plan , the first affirmative action plan in the construction trade. funded the national endowment for the arts and humanities. it started in the johnson administration but had never been funded. defining and changing native american policy, funding historically lacked colleges, federalism, revenue-sharing, health care reform. i am not a big fan of obamacare, but i tell you, the first health care reform came out of richard nixon, hmo. i don't know a you think about hmo these days, but back then that was extraordinary forward-looking thing. when you take a look at all those different areas, it is quite astounding. richard nixon was an extraordinary progressive republican president. >> on that wonderful note, i have just been informed that it is time to wrap it up. while this has been a wonderful conversation, it will be a continuing conversation because, as we uncover more information and gain new insight, we intend to have other sessions like this. i think everyone who has been part of it, our host, and the national archive and the nixon foundation for stimulating these conversations. >> can i add one more thing. welfare reform. the welfare reform that president bill clinton eventually passed was essentially richard nixon's hr one welfare form in 1961. >> and there you have it. [applause] [laughter] >> you are watching american history tv, covering history c-span style with event coverage, eyewitness ac