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European union budget it is unprecedented at this level and within that number weve got this 157000000000. 00 another not insignificant amount that has been earmarked to help countries recover from the pandemic but this thats where the divisions begin because on one side you have 4 socalled trees who favor loans rather than just straight out grants while europes 4 biggest in arguably most influential economies want the opposite there are also personal disputes to overcome the Hungarian Prime Minister viktor orban blames the dutch leader for the deadlock he says mark grew to hate him and is attacking hush lee made in a european new center in london following developments there 3 days of talks and i guess we have to start thinking and you mention that they can be a late flurry of activity but the possibility of no deal. Yeah it is possible and weve just heard have a better all the Prime Minister of luxemburg is actually decided to leave the meeting to go back to luxembourg to hold a covert 90 meeting of his own and he plans to return to proselyte a little bit later on so we may well see a situation the talks go throughout the night and we hear something 1st thing the morning its very difficult to say right now but things are most certainly dragging on because there are deep divisions between different parts of europe on how best to distribute this huge tranche of bonnie the differences of opinion between those countries that are the biggest net contributors to the e. U. s financial reserves and those who benefit most from contributions from the as you mentioned there are 4 countries known collectively as the frugal for so austria the netherlands denmark and sweden they put capital among some of the biggest net contributors to the e. U. Budget they are deeply worried about sharing this money through grants that dont need to be repaid they prefer doing it via loans they also want there to be strict checks and balances in place to make sure that the money is being used for the right purposes as well but on the other side of the equation youve got the likes of italy and spain that are hoping for a big payout with no Strings Attached essentially both of these countries saw their economies deeply in trouble as a result of the pandemic and when it comes to italy if he was already on the edge before the pandemic so it most certainly is looking for a significant amount of Financial Support at the moment but they cant agree on how to do this you know angler merkel the german chancellor. Of france trying to broker an agreement that would see countries receive a combination of loans and cross grants but nobody right now knows how to strike the right balance when im glad merkel arrived in brussels this morning she wasnt all that optimistic. The indian today we are entering the 3rd day of negotiations and it is certainly the decisive one the various issues the size of the fund the way it is managed and also the issues of the rule of law have now been well dealt with whether theyll be a solution i still cant say theres a lot of goodwill but there are also a lot of positions so i will join in working for it but there may also be no result today and what did you make of viktor or burn scar moments about the leader from the netherlands i know victor obama is a controversial character at the best of times but it does highlight that the divisions in europe go a lot deeper and a lot further back than just you know what to do with this money yeah i think its fair to say that the pandemic is exacerbated already existing problems over to about had been under tremendous amount of scrutiny from brussels for perceived rolling back of key core European Values has been accused of attacking journalists over attacking academics of immigrant sort of refusing to take the right quota of refugees into the country he has been a thorn in the side of many officials in brussels and now the dutch Prime Minister is hoping within any agreement to have a mechanism whereby e. U. Countries that would have to prove exactly what they are doing to maintain the z. Values to maintain european sense of the rule of law and water victor all about is basically said is well look if you include that demand within any agreement we will veto it we have the backing of poland and our friends slovenia as well so we may well see this was becoming a person or spot between an orb and contributing to an agreement being to be railed overall ok nave hopefully we get some movement from brussels a little bit later and we will talk to you then when and if that happens. In the meantime some analysis from london with Julian Horowitz is the managing director of the think tank vocal Europe Julian thanks for your time the q. Part of me thinks that during a pandemic during such a serious time which is going to have such serious repercussions for such a long time this would be the time when people would be able to find compromise and work for the greater good why cant they do that in europe well im sure actually everybody in europe would agree of you and specifically everybody at the special European Council meeting the problem is that the politics of rule everybody has their own opinion of whats best for how to deal with these crises and look at 19 crisis is no different i guess it highlights that well weve gotten used to having a European Union but it is still such an ambitious sort of idea isnt it the idea that 27 countries could come to some sort of agreement when they say you know they go from rich to poor to north to south its its a very diverse area. It is and of course these all have different cultures and different ways of perceiving the political issues i mean for example in something thats many people would find surprising 3 of the frugal countries being Finland Sweden and norway theyre all run by for example social democratic parties or lead question them about bodies which usually you would actually be. Very supportive of measures just in todays programs but it also shows a sort of the left and right dynamic such as the identity crisis happening on the left right now in ash and the parties like these could this also be part of all for potentially part of the sort of recessing of european politics when we think european politics we immediately think france germany italy probably spain as well used to be the u. K. As well but now the power is if not shifting it is dispersing a little bit and other views have to be taken into account. Of course and thats the way the European Union should work i mean the frozen pool while the u. K. Was a member usually had the as you say de those 4 big countries and u. K. In a way dictating things but now for example the u. K. As a Member States the netherlands is almost taking on the role of the defender of that form of liberalism and the defense of frugal and markets economies and the fact that states through d. East of the European Union are having a much more impactful way of dealing with european issues while we may not agree with the politics themselves this is technically a good thing because for example maybe 1015 years ago or sorry when poland every industry joins most people laughed about the idea of poland deciding anything and it was seen as the box of jokes in Many Political circles same thing with hungry when they joined and now what were seeing is these countries are in many ways engaging fully with the european process and thats of course taking aside the rule of law issues and the liberalism that were seeing but if we tied look at the Silver Lining of the situation we are seeing these countries taking more active role and that also leaves them open to the influence of states such as france than outlands its really germany and spain in this particular situation just to come back to the idea of the Recovery Fund why is it that the countries have split how they have for the reasons they have in that the big 4 are saying lets give the money out lets make them grants and the other ones are saying no lets make them lines why are they taking those different camps. Well i think its so we should look at it as the big 4 and the rest ok so for example germany france italy and spain all hit quite heavily by the current of ice crisis and in the case of france for example france had to take a lot of financial but in order to put forward the incredibly supportive and helpful plan they put out to support french citizens and benefit and businesses and in thats why that is why they are quite keen on this plan because in effect they see it as benefiting them but it would also benefit of the countries that need to support them regarding be frugal for will say or particular the Northern European countries there is a sort of troll not that still exists from the financial crisis and the eurozone crisis where they have this perception that they were running dry in order to help and that what was shown in some dutch newspapers the latest suppleness to just going on holiday when this is actually not the case i mean the the lazy southern a stereotype when europe is actually incorrect because you see the reforms being but forward in spain and greece you see the improvements in the finance situations you see the improvement in their ability to handle that issues in the way that many people didnt really expect them to be able to do and these people are doing the best to make things work out but unfortunately when you have a crisis of the scale that weve all lived through for the past 4 months you can simply just get by fruit and you do need assistance from other countries which is another reason why countries like france want to help these countries. You know its from europe very interesting talking to you really clear thank you so much for that thank you very much. Were on to other news an International Mediators in mali have called for a power sharing government on a new Constitutional Court so try to calm tensions between opposing parties a delegation from the west African Regional bloc issued a statement after days of discussions with the governing party and the opposition they did have an earlier plan that was rejected by the Opposition Alliance led by the cleric mahmoud. Under the proposal the current Ruling Coalition would make up to or would make up 50 percent of the unity government you would have 30 percent that would come from members of the opposition and the remaining 20 from Civil Society groups the mediators also say new judges should be appointed to the Constitutional Court to resolve the disputed march election results. Very. Very. Correspondent following developments from neighboring senegal he says the initial recommendations ignored key opposition demands. Eko oss recommends a new Constitutional Courts with judges appointed by the president half of the other judges appointed by what they describe as a neutral independent body to set up a core of 5 judges that would decide on the 31. 00 contested parliamentary seats after the much contested parliamentary elections that took place in april many of those seats went to close members of the family of the president. Or allies of him and so for the for the echo us body it seems that this political crisis is a constitutional crisis he did mention that there will be no dissolution of the National Assembly nor will it work our kate resigned hes been democratically elected and therefore he is illegitimate ruler of mali so none of that that those were the demands made by the protesters during the protest movement that weve seen the last couple of months the opposition want seats in government the cleric. Wants to see a different type of government that address the security concerns in the north in the center of the country so itll be difficult for for these recommendation to satisfy all of the members of the opposition now echo oss has said that it will have a delegation that will stay in mali it gives a deadline until the end of the month for this Constitutional Court to to nominate a new judges so that they can the so that mali can find an end to this political crisis a crisis which goes back a lot further than this recent all these recent events it actually goes back to 2012 when armed groups took control of the north and declared islamic law before they were defeated by french and african troops the thing is the violence has continued molly and Security Forces have been leading the offensive but theyve also been accused of rampant abuse the situation is only worsen the plight of civilians most of whom. Live in poverty position they decide the government just hasnt done enough to improve the economy in the last row came in april when the Constitutional Court overturned those provisional results of a long delayed and disputed parliamentary election held in march some thoughts from the queens and now her lectures on politics at the university of aberdeen and wrote the book inherent and contemporary challenges to African Security he says president abraham. Inherited a fragile state the president actually understand the historical issues the question is what then do you do its very complicated one you know you have the issues with islamic groups you have issues with tribes you have issues of poorly you have a government who simply doesnt have the means to be able to control the entire country and you also have a type of state which the people are not seeing we dont want to concede the protest there were more Islamic Party jeeps which its not quite certain team with one heater stands for one doesnt interesting uses there because this is the kind of event that is accepted by the International Community and is more or less there to enforce it whether the people want it or not. He doesnt have a choice. The news hour and here is whats coming up syria holds its 3rd parliamentary election since 2011 but all the candidates on government approved. Also the latest on the floods in northeastern india and nepal that are affecting millions of people. In sports running moto g. P. World champion suffers a serious injury during the opening race School Season far well have that story a little later. Because President Donald Trump has blamed Democratic Party leaders for a recent surge in Violent Crime across some American Cities he made those unfounded comments on the Fox News Sunday program youve seen gas up in new york doused up in chicago shooting. Its how do you explain it and what are you going to do with i explained it very simply by saying is there democrat run cities there liberally run there stupidly run liberal democrats have been running cities in this country for decades surely why is it so bad right now they run a poorly it was always bad but now its gotten totally out of control and its really because they wanted to fund the police and biden wants to fund the 30 just left seaside a charter with Bernie Sanders nothing about the funding all real it says abolish it says of lets go all right what do you get me that youre out of. My town or in washington d. C. Lets go get me the child or what happened after that. Well they went got him the child and he looked at it and couldnt find the claim that joe biden wants to defund the police fox news then went back a couple of days later before the spooled kos which was a delayed broadcast and still got no answer from the white house some what basis President Trump was making what was essentially a false statement there were a lot of false statements in that hour long interview President Trump had a wide ranging conversation discussing is if its to come back to coronavirus all what many would argue his lack of effort is relationship with the chief just in the United States dr tony funk she is threat to to defund schools that refused to open up 5 days a week at the beginning of the new school term so certainly it was a very wide ranging conversation and in point she got a hugely controversial come on ok so lets go back to some of those other points you made particularly coronavirus which really should be the number one issue for any interview i think with the president at the moment what more did he have to say on that and comments on dr felt she as well. Continue to argue. Assumption that the rates are so high in the United States because the testing levels are so high well that is not correct the testing