welcome to this broadcast germany today takes over the rotating presidency of the european union. is about to discuss how plans for the 6 months with lawmakers in the federal parliament the bundestag guide the course of the block at a time of huge social and economic upheaval triggered by the global coronavirus and make germany kicked off. by projecting the words together for your. iconic brandenburg gate the slogan is a reference to the damage caused by the virus pandemic which just plans to european economies into recession johnson. has described it as the greatest challenge the e.u. has ever faced. we're reaching and i'm going to michael to begin how to dress for the job but in the meantime i'm joined by political correspondent nina. you know the motto for the e.u. presidency is together for your recovery what is angle of michael's plan. the german government will throw all its weight behind efforts to get the european union out if there's very existential corona crisis of course the german government had completely different plans for its e.u. presidency that always takes a ha

s germany takes over the presidency of the european union the main goal is to contain the pandemic overcome its consequences the program. serbia's president calls for calm following violent clashes over plans for a return to. critics claim a jump of virus infection is on the president's vision. of the united nations awards of the possible half a 1000000 extra tests a because of his night of the pandemic disrupts pharmaceutical supplies. i'm phil gale welcome to the program german chancellor merkel has called on the european union to unite and emerge stronger from its greatest ever challenge the coronavirus pandemic it's the 2nd time germany has taken over the presidency of the european council chance of methyl at the helm speaking at the european parliament in brussels the chancellor made out her vision for germany's 6 month term which will be dominated by economic recovery from the pandemic and she welcomes the commission's plan for a recovery fund for struggling european economies. the chancellor merkel said member states would need to compromise in order to sign. and often the recovery f

union the government in warsaw doesn't want to get the country out of the european union it needs the political assistance of the e.u. it needs the money from the from the e.u. however there is no chance for improvement of these relations so where does this leave poland's opposition which is decidedly pro-u. . i guess the opposition is in a very dire situation right now in poland you know the next important election is in 3 years 2023 it will be hard to keep your supporters and your members mobilized for 3 years without any election. coming coming on there will be a question asks what how did we let this happen what happened that. our candidate kind of the liberal party was not able to win so this is a ration it's hard for the for the liberal position in poland would you reckon that a majority of polls is anti european no poll is a very pro european country and all the polls say the 50 percent then come from. poland is also a very divided country very deeply divided and some people do like things that the government does in poland big national conservative government the other 50 perc

the european union recommending u.s. travelers are not yet allowed to come into the eu unless they are residents here. werere you surprprised at that decision? >> not at all. i had conversations with various officials in the european union about when and if -- not if, when we are going to open our borders. the real issue is safety. make sure the europeaeans are se and americans are safe. currently, the europeans are further along on the disease then theyou will united states is. i'm sure there will be more exceptions to the rule, more travel back and forth, but on an exception basis for a while, until the disease gets under control. >> is the u.s. government talking to individual eu states on a bilateral basis about so-called air bridges for example, to allowed travel to and from specific couountrie? >> clearly, the european union will make the decision on a bilateral basis. authoritytes have the and responsibility. right now, our conversatations have continued at the european union level, not at the bilateral state leve

union, there is a great deal of support for the economic benefits of european union membership. de you is not unpopular in poland. e.u. is not unpopular in poland. the question reveals some of the emotion in poland on social issues, and i think it is well worth posing, but i do not think there is contestants -- --sensus used help those opinions are strongly held on both sides of the issue and polish society. host: what is the estimated population of poland? guest: about 38 million. you: i want to share with what the president had to say. president trump: poland is one of the few countries fulfilling their obligations under nato, andr monetary obligations, they asked if we would send additional troops. they are going to pay for that, the sending of additional troops. we will probably be moving them poland, reducing germany substantially. aboutl be moving down to 25,000. germany is paying a small fraction of what they are supposed to be paying. they are paying a low bit more than 1% depending on how you calculate. you could calculate that they are paying less than 1%, but if you a

union is key the european union has tried to keep this deal alive i don't think that they've done as much as they can but i hope that they pursue for the next several months this approach of strategic patience that will at least keep the j. c. p. away on life support. in then do you think are you worried about the u.s. on a about the russia china role. not so much i mean ok china can do something in the economy buying oil from. iran and selling things russia head has its own problems economic problems we yes we could do maybe more but we tried but you know you have to understand in our system also our big companies are so much afraid of the u.s. sanctions against them when they continue to do business with iran that we only have a few small companies and others which have exported things like medical stuff and others to to juran but it's not the same it used to be but again it's it is the hammer of the american sanctions which our companies are more afraid of they're now anything else so even if the governments will encourage them to continue under the new system to do a certain limi

union is to ask you know why does the european union continue to provide extraordinarily generous subsidies to this trojan horse within european democracy you know why for example is the european people's party the center right alliance in the european parliament why does it continue to treat. or bonds party is a member or rather than a formally expelled it suspended it but it didn't expel it you know why it is the european union's budget to you to provide so these are the kinds of things that can be done but frankly so far european political leaders have been quite timid they issued a so-called protest when or by a stablish that's dictatorship but they didn't name hungary it was just a go at me and blanche and eric statement of principle it was so bland that orbán joined it as you say it's a question of. accountability it's a question of pressuring hungry i want to get to that a little bit later but 1st i want to turn to surveillance now. that is another measure that we have seen emerged amid this coronavirus crisis you have called coronavirus the new terrorism through that lens where is

sensually she's saying the she and germany are prepared to provide leadership to the european union as they face up to this what she's been describing as the biggest crisis since the european union was founded and that process of germany kind of stepping up to this leadership position actually began a couple of months ago when i go america will join forces with a man who were my call the french president and jointly proposed 500000000000 euro recovery fund which was the sort of kernel upon which the european commission has built this this larger proposal that you just mentioned there. and making that a joint effort with the french was a sign that germany and france the 2 largest powers within the european union will closely working together on this and also very importantly the structure of this fund that's being discussed is going to break what was previously a to boom for germany this is this idea that the european commission the central executive body of the european union will raise the money for this fund centrally borrow it on the financial markets and that's something that it ha

era ease the european union's planned for the european unioion of the future. so he must have a tough negotiations at brexit future relations talks between the uk and the european union. do not seem to be going well we had strong signals in the last week that the u. k. could end up without a full moon trades deal on january first next year at this will come across the u. k.. but also to the e. u. i. u. country spaiain. as the second biggest trade deficit with the u. k. of all the u. twenty seven. are you afraid defense the u. k. would act walk away on wto terms without a formal deal what do you think that the bluffing to create room for deal. well what we think and on this one we are not alone is six twenty seven member states that think exactly the same thing. is that. we want that to happen in vicious post b bxit relationship with thehe united. kingdom and we think that it is worth investing the time now to crack the turks all these. up close relationshipp in the form of an agreement and we think it's better to have an agreement that do o have the u k exceed

observers here christine call the reaction of the official european union union a deafening silence there has been some reaction now because just on this monday the european parliament put this on the agenda and within one of its committees the commissioner for refugees over your hands and was heard and she said yes of course the european union cannot defend its borders and at the same time violate its regulations its laws of values and so she called again for these events to be investigated the problem here is who's going to do that basically even when the when h.c.r. last the refugee organization of the united nations. few weeks ago called on greece to investigate these events it is it ends up with greece investigating itself the european union simply has no prosecutor it doesn't have a police it doesn't have simply have the the possibilities to do this in an active manner and so this is something that sort of turns in itself and i'm sure we get to of infringement procedure would takes a long time we are just sort of running in circles. right. company but i'm hearing ok so why is the e.

but also the united states and hopefully the european union eventually. they will all have to kind of live with this new reality that we have you know or a party which feels not bound by international law at all do you feel if there are more countries to take steps like the u.k. have just taken with extradition or with any other issues to do with the security law will it make a difference in the end if there is enough opposition to china i mean china is not generally a country in the communist party is generally not a party that would change its mind. it certainly seems so but i do think boris johnson and only have exercise leadership it is little to support in a situation like afterbirth said or so many had thought that perhaps u.k. would warm up to china to secure a trade deal. but we see kind of the reverse development and in a way the u.k. now is a leader. in developing a much more assertive western china policy together with the united states and it is indeed actually the european union and in particular germany who are the laggards and we really nee

union backed by the european union and will not need to be repaid by those countries that something that was was very controversial but then again countries like italy spain and greece are saying do not add to our debt load you know you would just be making it worse for us so this is something that was pushed very hard by the team of france and germany chancellor merkel and president mccaughan and as you just heard those 2 leaders came out and said that this is an historic deal that will allow those countries to rebuild you've also got the 7 year budget and one thing that was very important in this in this these negotiations was that for the 1st time there will be a link to rule of law that means that there will be a process in the contained within the budget that if countries are seen to be abusing the democratic values of the european union there will be a procedure by which. the payments can be suspended and a process in vote to see whether they deserve to continue receiving these funds from the european union so those are 2 very important points. and thank you so much that was t

here in europe german chancellor angela merkel has called on the european union. to emerge stronger from its greatest challenge the coronavirus. holds today to mark the beginning of germany's 6 month presidency of the european council with the european union in crisis. masks hand gestures and rather awkward head nodding have taken the place of handshakes german chancellor angela merkel's 1st trip abroad since the corona virus outbreak was marked by new pandemic etiquette as you have confronts an unprecedented threat are already over 100000 european lives have been lost to the virus and alongside growing debt and unemployment the continent to seeing a marked rise in populism. when this in for the pandemic can't be fought with lies and dissent from ation beneath even nor with hatred and agitation in fact denying populism is being shown its limits i've used up the top priority of the german presidency is to ensure that europe emerges from the crisis united by just short term stabilisation of europe will not be enough we also want to europe that offers hope in a while

for the young apprentice britain's departure from the european union and the increasingly anti european rhetoric coming from both right and left is a source of worry. this becomes now was when i can understand it because i mainly experience the advantages also this is truly the longest period of peace that europe has ever had. but it was like this might be over you have to during her break funk or has time to consider how political developments could threaten one of her personal dreams. a dream a bit of england of a small cafe in england rex it is a really stupid situation for me. thanks to the front cover remains optimistic for her the everyday reality of the e.u. devoid of flags anthems and pomp is what matters the most. this is the dublin users are mind off the top story at this germany's chancellor angela merkel has been outlining goals and expectations for our country as it as a 6 month stint heading the presidency she said any plan for the economic recovery from the impact of the. needed to be sustainable and to benefit everyone. don't forget you can keep up to date on our website

european union agrees to spend 750000000000 euros to boost economies that hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic leaders of member states agreed to give brussels unprecedented the powers to spend borrow and levy taxes across the bloc so as this union of 27 sovereign states just tiptoed a little closer to becoming a european republic until gale in berlin and this is the day. today we've taken a historic step we can be all proud of our response to the biggest crisis the european union has ever faced when you when you begin to live in the new should my timing was this perhaps for the longest summit in history but it. came out of it is truly historic. this is the this is towards europe as a whole has now a chance to come out stronger from the crisis. is this good work you look for europe writes no. also on the day a committee of m.p.'s from britain's parliament accuses the government of badly underestimating the threat from russia and failing to investigate the possibility of russian interference in the present referendum so the question is who is protecting the british public from interfer

ambassador to the european union. global coronavirus cases reach 11.5 million. in the u.s., we see more reopening's and rolling back. the latest from crystal watson from johns hopkins school of public health. we are seeing markets higher. the nasdaq is the leader today. the s&p is up 1.5%, following china overnight. the vix at 27. 7.0159.hore yuan at let's get a check on the markets. abigail doolittle has the details. abigail: certainly a risk on day at the markets. the s&p, the fifth day in a row for the winning streak. the optimism carrying right into the new week after some strong economic data. of course, we have that continuing rally in china. 100 set for its third record close in a row, being helped out by amazon. and above $3000 for the first time ever for amazon. has a $1 trillion market cap once again. olibre is above 1000 for the first time. nasdaq a member of the composite and nasdaq 100. speaking of these records, it's incredible. if we look at a chart on the march lows, the nasdaq is now up more than 51%.

maybe being a more active member of the of the european the european union and. that was you know. one of the for many of the visions we'll see at around 9 pm local time here in germany which vision i guess is going to take it's a close race it may not be immediately evident but we'll be coming back to you in the coming hours for texture and see from these posters thank you thank you. thousands of israelis have taken to the streets of tel aviv to protest against the government's economic response to the coronavirus pandemic they accuse prime minister benjamin netanyahu of not taking care of citizens' needs as unemployment source but he has pledged immediate financial aid to help those most affected by the crisis. protesters perhaps television spain brought in swear by the thousands somewhere in mass not all social distancing unemployed graduate small business owners students also. say they're being crushed financially by the coronavirus and by the government's fails response to it. why can't the process began writing government that the give us the money we did i

will the fence clause which calls all european union members to come to the aid of any one european union member that is under attack greece has said since last november that it will consider any turkish drilling operation in its exclusive economic zone a breach of greek sovereignty and a form of attack and that will occasion a greek military response it is with a view to those expected actions on turkey's turkey's part but greece has now warned its european counterparts so beyond this very solemn pronounce. of principle of what germany believes and what greece believes what now remains to be seen is what deterrent actions are going to take place all right john thank you very much for that john psaropoulos live for us there in athens. a u.s. federal offices have broken up a long running protest against police brutality in the city of portland. this video captured multiple explosions near the city courthouse where the demonstration was being held president donald trump sent federal agents there to try to control the ongoing rallies over the death of african american george floyd in police

up and running and it has the agreement of the european council and in the history of the european union that is an absolute record for a new budgetary instrument. now oxford university has made a breakthrough in the race to develop a coronavirus vaccine early results appear to show it is safe and triggers an immune response the vaccine was adapted from a common cold virus found in chimpanzees the world health organization has welcomed the breakthrough but says that any viable vaccine must be available to everyone. u.s. president on trump has met congressional leaders from his republican party to discuss another coronavirus economic relief bill there that as cases continue to rise with florida california and texas all seeing a huge increase in infections egypt's parliament has voted to allow the president. to deploy troops abroad it allows for a possible intervention in neighboring libya as he has previously threatened to support world khalifa haftar us forces if tripoli is government and its turkish allies launched an assault on the city of. well those are the headlines do join me for m

union is to ask you know why does the european union continue to provide extraordinarily generous subsidies to this trojan horse within european democracy you know why for example is the european people's party the center right alliance in the european parliament why does it continue to treat. or bounce party is a member or rather than a formally expelled it suspended it but it didn't expel it you know why is the european union's budget to you to provide so these are the kinds of things that can be done but frankly so far european political leaders have been quite timid they issued a so-called protest when or by a stablished that's dictatorship but they didn't name hungary it was just a being a blanching eric statement of principle it was so bland that orbán joined it was you say it's a question of. accountability it's a question of pressuring hungry i want to get to that a little bit later but 1st i want to turn to surveillance now. that is another measure that we have seen emerged amid this coronavirus crisis you have called corona virus the new terrorism through that lens where is the b

union the european union countries are totally disagreeing about how this rescue package should go forward i mean as the fool go forward to speak of denmark the netherlands sweden and you know they don't want the pact and austria of course they don't want the package to go for go on as it is they want more loans for countries like italy and spain which would be benefiting more from that rescue package and so easily if there is no agreement on the european union about how they should go forward i can only imagine what they're going to do when it comes to talking about other countries outside the e.u. and this is exactly where i think the e.u. is going to lose out because countries like china have been very effective in you know assisting african countries at this point of course have had their own issues with cobbett but it's not been quite the same way i think this in a focus within europe which is also a very political thing because of. voice in a sense that we're trying to prevent the rise of populist parties within europe so it's a hard balance within europe and for that reason there's

strongly in the european union but if the european union does not itself find a way to to modernize and be a more. useful less spending organization it will go you know it will keep having these problems in these discussions namecalling nobody cares i think it's good that we give to certain european countries money but i understand margaret the very world that you were in strict conditions i support him but i find it troubling that we are now being seen as the hardliners was in europe i don't really like that but i understand why they say used this week while the talks have been tough and long and brussels prime minister to may end up gaining at home for his hard nosed approach step fasten al-jazeera amsterdam now u.s. president donald trump has been putting the conflict in libya on his agenda holding talks with multiple leaders on the situation there and a phone call with egypt's president sisi the white house says the 2 leaders affirmed the need for immediate deescalation in libya including through a cease fire also spoke with french president emanuel mark on a bounty escalation w

union is to ask you know why does the european union continue to provide extraordinarily generous subsidies to this trojan horse within european democracy you know why for example is the european people's party the center right alliance in the european parliament why does it continue to treat feet aushev or bonds party is a member or rather than a formally expelled it suspended it but it didn't expel and you know why it is the european union's budget to you to provide so these are the kinds of things that can be done but frankly so far european political leaders have been quite timid they issued a so-called protest when or by a stablished that's dictatorship but they didn't name hungary it was just a blanching eric statement of principle it was so bland that orbán joined it was you say it's a question of. accountability it's a question of pressuring hungry i want to get to that a little bit later but 1st i want to turn to surveillance now. that is another measure that we have seen emerged in this coronavirus crisis you have called coronavirus the new terrorism through that lens where is th

we left the european union in january this year. the transition period comes to an end at the end of this year. so that's labour's view. six months to go, ben, until the transition period ends. remember, none of the rules have not really changed. although the uk has left the european union, the transition means the rules have pretty much been kept the same. but the change that comes on the ist of january could be a pretty significant one. how are the brexit talks actually going? we haven't heard much about them. long gone are the days where it felt like we used to speak about brexit every day. it has been ticking on in the background and the talks have been ongoing throughout the coronavirus crisis. they have started meeting face—to—face recently. there are still some significant hurdles in things like state aid and the role of the european court ofjustice in the future relationship between the uk and the european union. there is concern in some parts of the eu that there isn't clarity and there hasn't been a breakthrough yet. t

union stand on things like antitrust laws as they apply in america where does the european union see big tax. well as we've seen in the past years that european union has taken action against some behaviors of the big companies have sort of pushed back on. the fact that they make the rules and. everyone in on the planet including people in europe have to have to follow so i think what europe has shown in the past year or so is that it's. its own leadership in terms of regulation of the shown that regulation is possible. and can be very effective like the g.d.p. are the privacy and data protection regulation in europe. has effectively worked for european citizens to protect their their rights against these companies and so i think that's that's a very positive thing that it shows that it's possible to to do something. and it doesn't have to mean that that competition and innovation is trying to i think it's possible to find a balance there the area having both august's by thought i guess in belgium the new delhi have suggested that actually international of the sites will happen at so

you've been you know over have to demonstrate the sort of data the of the european union you know i want to talk about using it by banks but also a political tool for geopolitical objective that clearly is an issue for the european union and when it's done says they the european parliament in the plenty would be discussing a need to be nice at the pentagon thanks aggression i do want to talk about the eve aspect of this in just a moment but i'm still want to push a little further on the question of what's happening in the aegean because we do have those reports of the boats the migrant boats being attacked and pushed back i'm just want to i want to ask you point blank are you aware of those reports have you looked into them and how do you account for those reports the hellenic coast guard is full of the spec think the utopia a big nation for the protection of life on c.n.n. international you know we've gotten on the phone well what climb up to do with that is the whole of these woods are not open a thing always and with that difference these them prevent and rescued these both befor

influence and mocks has been mentioning that this case really shows how the european union as a whole really needs to take into account that u.s. surveillance laws need the need to reform and need serious reform so in a nutshell this case is about to 2 very procedural decisions but from a practical perspective it's about the situation when a user concludes a contract with facebook which is going to be facebook ireland for users from the european union and then the question is how can it facebook us get access to data from facebook heartland so the answer to that is that it's not going to be that easy right so just to understand it better so if people go online now they're not going to notice a difference but the way their data will be handled will be different have companies like facebook found ways to ensure data privacy. indeed privacy shield was supposed to be an expression of how the european commission and the united states had agreed on such a formula however the court of justice claims that this formally out is not enough so what happens now with the privacy shield is that a lo

clearly expect support from the european union and that's one of the reasons he made this trip through europe this week he was very much trying to you know close ranks within the alliance the transatlantic alliance he visited denmark he visited great britain of course not a member of the european union anymore but basically saying you know we need to approach this as a united front so yes that's the expectation what have been the reactions here in the e.u. . well the e.u. has the reaction has been mixed and the truth is that there are a plurality of views you have countries that are more hawkish like sweden you have a country like the u.k. that has really evolved i would say in the past 6 months from a position that was much more accommodationist much more hawkish and then you have countries like germany and france which really have a broad span of equities related to china 1st and foremost the trade relationship which has really taken a hit because of coded that they really want to maintain so they are much more stability minded i would say the european commission itself brussels itse

european union on our merry dance of censorship and media repression has dropped the store and on it. on feet they may have been counting on the fact that nobody would notice this rather gigantic elephant in the corner of the room but they have named the wrong guy so i think it will now be a laughingstock the european union claims to be the. norm free speech free expression democracy and all of that and yet just goes to show that's all lipstick when the 'd when the lipsticks rubbed off it's a rather plain our face underneath. oh well you know what happens with that must not shut the stores approach of the last 7 days thanks watching the weekly or not international reporting from moscow on kevin i would enjoy the rest of the weekend . before. all of tropicana council states and other world over. washington ceased to be a city that. tended toward the compromised bike much as i'm sure national interest people talk about gridlock in congress but it's people talk about. the rights of the radicals in both bodies. this. bipartisan centrist approach to politics most domestic and pork. that's

european union on our merry dance of censorship and media repression has dropped the store and on it. feet and they may have been counting on the fact that nobody would notice this rather gigantic elephant in the corner of the room but they have named the wrong guy saw i think it will now be a laughingstock the european union claims to be the. norm free speech free expression democracy and all of that and yet just goes to show butts all lipstick when the when the lipsticks rubbed off it's a rather plain our face underneath. and you can catch the very latest developments as russia goes to the bowling with this weapon stay with me here at our 2 international right for the day i'll be back in 30. but i have in moments israel palestine the seemingly widening divisions between them and focus us we cross to option they go in the underground team as they close. thousands of american men and women choose to serve in the country's military and the decision little shot change lives every thing came to a complete. the day that i was afraid to be instructed you know told to shut up or they'd kil

status no longer applies to european union rules it is designed to place human rights front and center of a new british policy you i think was very aware and the opportunity to delay the departure of the place this weekend and so this was a strong. u.k. is going to stand on and it's going to exercise this right the act is set to be extended to may challenge of a country such as china over the week a detention camps and crackdowns on hong kong protest as the question is will they go far enough to effect a change in behavior sunit i ago. we've been speaking to segue a magnitsky former employer and businessman bill browder he campaigned for the british sanctions as well as the magnitsky act in the u.s. and he hopes the rest of the world will follow suit in punishing human rights abuses. i've been campaigning and advocating for consequences for the murder of sergei magnitsky for a decade and i used to be in the old times that governments would just issue stern words saying we condemn such and such government for doing some atrocity and the people doing the trustee were just laughing becaus

in europe in the european union however poland is very deeply divided and as we have seen in this is this election. it's almost 5050 half of the of the society says we agree what the president does we like it that way the other 50 percent says no but it doesn't mean that the you did the country wants to get out from the rippin union ok so. from a polish test thank you for that thank you. prime minister just have a conte and germany's chancellor angela merkel have met for talks on a proposed coronavirus recovery fund for your country's country has been gente european leaders to support the multi-billion dollar economic stimulus plan he has medicals backing but some e.u. countries oppose the fund which would see the european union issued joint debt for the 1st time several e.u. countries including if the off facing severe economic recession due to the coronavirus endemic. and formal we can use chief political correspondent melinda crave who is at schloss news a bit outside the den where the meeting between going to medical and just if it contained is taking place hello melinda good to

it's something that does hurt the european union a great deal. at the same time the european union and its member states have been saying the only thing that would hurt it more is a second wave of coronavirus infections and another lockdown. that's something they want to avoid. at this point in lime they believe allowing american tourists, american visitors back here on to the continent is something that would be a public health risk that they don't want to take. if we look at that list, you mentioned some countries like china, that's quite interesting. also interesting if the european union clearly seems to believe and see that countries like, for instance, rwanda, serbia and algeria have done a more efficient job of dealing with the coronavirus pandemic than the trump administration has done so far. essentially the european union is saying look none of this has anything to do with politics, they are saying all they are doing is looking at the numbers and they want to see a significant decrease in no very well coronavirus infections in countries

tells the european union it should do more to tackle those defying the u.n. arms embargo in libya plus. a nickel a gauge at sydney's a solemn sacred center looking at how many people are struggling to cope during the global pandemic after being left out of government support packages. that oppose the world's biggest logged on in response to the coronavirus pandemic but since india started lifting restrictions last month the number of cases has been growing rapidly now it's past the 1000000 mark with testing still limited it's believed the actual number of infections could be much higher several states have reimposed restrictions more than 25000 people have died it speak now to elizabeth brandon who's in new delhi elizabeth tell us more about the log down efforts to try and slow the spread of the virus across the country. hi kim so as we see another record rise both in cases needs 35000 and the deaths need the 700 deaths we're seeing more states going into local law down the latest in the territory golo which goes into lockdown today just for the rest of the w

union. and we're very glad to have with us public talk of tovar ski he took us to excuse me he is a polish economist and senior associate at the german institute for international and security affairs he says we must reform the member states now or will face the same problems again with less time and fewer instruments. and great to have with us once again that. think emily and she is deputy editor in chief of the parliamentary bureau of the german newspaper sayto and she says the deal is far from perfect but it is a signal that multilateralism is still alive. and let me start with you cast him and ask for your take on the big picture there are a lot of supra lives being thrown around here a historic a breakthrough chancellor merkel saying it's a huge step for the e.u. would you agree with all that i would say yes it's a huge step forward for drug money and also for do you because germany basically changed my mind and giving out. and said offer loans but i would not miss all these people that

apple an island when their dispute with the european union over back taxes and e.u. court lets the tech giant off the hook for what the commission claimed was an illegal sweetheart tax deal with the irish. and other corporate political tug of war is playing out in the proportions of this battle just got bigger beijing accuses britain of helping washington chinese tech giant while away. at what you just thought things couldn't get any worse u.s. chinese relations take another walloping this time of the hong kong preferential trade treatment. i'm going to let's do business a sweet deal for apple the american multinational does not have to pay back 13000000000 euros in taxes to while it was what the e.u. had been trying to force the company into doing but the irish government took the case alongside apple to europe 2nd highest court its long denied that its tax arrangements with the take them out to a legal state 8 the european commission is expected to appeal the ruling to the european court of justice. earlier this year and then irish prime minister current apple chie

years of the european union are open again. i mean leisure and business travelers back as long as they're from countries on the sea placed stay tuned to find out which they are. welcome to the program police have made the 1st arrests since a new and controversial security law imposed by beijing came into force they used water cannon to disperse protesters who had gathered in a city shopping district dozens were arrested under the new law the simple act of publicly displaying a pro independence flag has become a criminal offense. despite the new law and a ban on holding marches during the corona pandemic hundreds of protesters showed up. after a short warning it just took minutes for the police to roll into action. one protester was arrested for holding the hong kong independence flag dozens more were arrested later. at a news conference pro-democracy lawmakers found themselves in a bizarre situation now not allowed to speak english or address the media i would feel if they have the word to the international community and the me

without a political union, the european union will a lwa ys union, the european union will always have this problem and we cannot have the political union until the government will remain, and you are right to say that politics always gets in the way but this was a chance for the european union to actually show the citizens that it can act on their own interest. my fear is it is long delayed, this lack of action will fall on the shoulders of the average citizen that will pay the price for it to. we have seen china, korea, already posting positive gdp growth numbers, while in italy we are looking at —13, —15%, and we have had the economy in trouble for six months, and nothing has been done, neither domestic nor within the eu level, and as a european, i hope for the success of the economy in the continent, but i see the institutions getting in the way of real life unfortunately. we shall keep a close eye on how those talks do progressive. think of being the programme, and as soon as we hear they are backin and as soon as we hear they are back in discussions in brussels we will let yo

is that a failure of the european union to help the people of the european union means that many of voters might end up turning their back on the e.u. we might see a rise an anti e.u. sentiment people wondering what the e.u. is actually for especially when they've lived through such a crisis and a manner michael says that could lead to the disintegration of the e.u. itself so that's really his view it is a long term one of course so there is the immediate sense of urgency as coronaviruses continue so what amount of micros calling for is for the european union to show ambition. to not meet a spirit of compromise and ambition is to take the risk of returning to harder times and for some who are concerned about this in the end it may end up costing us even more so i will continue to fight on these subjects in particular with german chancellor angela merkel since as you know we've worked together a lot over the past days and nights. well the leaders have been meeting 3 nights they are in their 4th day of course this is all taking a lot longer than they had hoped when they 1st met on friday but

our conversation today will be about the economy of the european union and the european union with a response to the covid-19 crisis. we will also touch upon the european union and commissions broader economic policy agenda as we hopefully recover from the crisis, its evolving fiscal institutions and its management of the european macroeconomy. so it should be an interesting conversation and obviously particular important given the worldwide economic crisis we have found ourselves in. let me introduce i guess today, he is the director general for economic of financial affairs in the european commission, prior to his current job he was director general for structural reform support and will touch a little bit on while i imagine. and prior to that he was deputy director general for economic and financial affairs. he worked extensively on the funds which will talk about as well. anyway with that introduction out-of-the-way mark, i wanted to start out by talking about the way in which the crisis has unfolded over the past two months in europe and what actions have been taken to deal with