Into loan countries money the positions at all of what spain and italy both economies were hit hard by the pandemic they want generous grants from the bloc that dont need to be repaid the german chancellor Angela Merkel and french president to manual mccrone have been trying to broker a compromise by offering e. U. Countries a combination of loans and grants but e. U. Leaders cant agree on how to do this. Community trichomonas sufficient by these compromises and i say this very clearly it will not be made at the cost of european goals not out of principle but will be made because we are facing an Unprecedented Health economic and social crisis and because our countries need it the european unity needs it the mission a fierce argument also erupted between the dutch Prime Minister mark rutte a and his hung garion counterpart viktor orban over whether money. Be withheld from countries that fail to live up to the e. U. s core values in recent years victor obamas governments been accused of
Government but one it says was driven by practicalities not politics. Announcing the total ban on huawei kitted britains planned 5 g. Network by 2027 the culture minister said u. S. Sanctions blocking quote ways use of american lycra chips would make the company less reliable in future the best way to secure our networks is for operators to stop using new affected huawei to quit and to build the u. K. s future 5 g. Networks said to be clear from the end of this year Telecoms Operators must not buy any 5 g. Equipment from a while away and once the Telecom Security bill is passed it will be illegal for them to do so. The move against way will please washington which has been pressuring the u. K. To act the company had expected it its warning u. K. Mobile users will lose out in a statement it says regrettably our future in the u. K. Has become politicized this is about u. S. Trade policy and not security over the past 20 years while way has focused on building a better connected u. K. As
A Major General the most senior servicemen to have died in clashes on azerbaijans border with armenia only just very. Unlike the enemy our generals and officers do not hide behind the backs of soldiers they adequately carry out their combat missions unfortunately battles are not without losses. Both sides accuse each other of starting the latest hostilities. Both sides releasing videos of their high tech weaponry as ery missile strikes on armenian positions. Armenians shooting down azeri drones. All. The fighting which began on sunday has so far claimed more than a dozen lives including at least one civilian what i think many many say with the whole story of them going precious in red whereas the very area in stansell appropriated by significant religious are like egypt right next to the military trains or between them and was extremely important because it enough are the 1st one to suffer from that all korean. Military activity. The region is situated north of the disputed territory o
A signal that europe is able to act after all people often accused europe of being too little too late for us here were demonstrating that the opposite is the case at the end of april the European Union gave us the mandate of designing a recovery package and today only 2 months later the next generation europe is 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 our step fasten has more now on that land mondale. It was a dramatic summit and it was the longest in the last 20 years and finally they came up with this quite complicated compromise before the summit started there was a huge part of grants 500000000000 euros of grants well that was something that especially the northern smaller countries didnt agree to didnt want to agree to sort of compromise is now that its nearly half of the money is going to be grants and half will be loans and also through these grants there a
friends. it is wednesday, december 27th, i m willie geist. joe and mika have the morning off. a lot to get to including israeli forces shifting military efforts to southern and central gaza with officials warning the war could take many more months. and hours from now, antony blinken and alejandro mayor kas are set to meet with mexican president obrador. plus donald trump continues to claim he should be immune from any prosecution surrounding his efforts to overturn the 2020 election. we ll have the latest there. also ahead, bus drivers across the country increasingly under attack on the job. we ll dig into an alarming trend and what officials are doing about it. with us this morning, jonathan lemire, susan paige, and retired four star navy admiral james stavridis. good morning to you all. let s begin together with israel expanding the ground invasion in gaza. this as the united states continues to urge israel to protect civilian lives and shift to a more low intensity oper