From International Mediators calling for demonstrators to return to the streets challenge on his claims on crime and the coronavirus the fox news interview that didnt go as planned for the us president. And in sport chelsea have beaten Manchester United to reach the english f. A. Cup final a 31. 00 semifinal win at Londons Wembley stadium setting out the title decider against arsenal. We begin the news hour in brussels where negotiations over the European Unions long term budget and Coronavirus Recovery Fund the are continuing but hopes of an agreement appears to be faltering after 3 full days of talks leaders are at loggerheads over the unprecedented spending proposal which is aimed at Holding Europe out of its deepest recession since world war 2. On the table is a budget of 2. 00 trillion dollars to be spread out over the next 7 years it includes an 857000000000. 00 fund to help countries recover from the pandemic but members cannot agree on how the money should be distributed needs barker reports. How to share 857000000000. 00 the questions confounded e. U. Leaders for days and deepened all divisions within the bloc in one camp nations known as the frugal for austria denmark sweden and the netherlands the wealthy northern states pay the most per capita into the e. U. Shared reserves they want strict controls on how the Recovery Fund is shared prefer ing to loan countries money the positions at odds with 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 emmanuel mccrone have been trying to broker a compromise by offering e. U. Countries a combination of loans and grants but even latest cant agree on how to do this. These compromises and i say this very clearly 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 european unity needs is the mission a fierce argument also erupted between the dutch Prime Minister mark rutte or and his hung garion counterpart viktor orban over whether money should be withheld from countries that fail to live up to the e. U. s core values in recent years victor or bans governments been accused of attacks on the media minorities and the rule of law charges which he denies i dont know what is the person all reason for the dutch Prime Minister to me or hungary but hes attacking saul harshly and making very clear that because hungary in his opinion does not respect the rule of law must be punished financially thats his position which is not acceptable. Your place is its deepest recession since the 2nd world war the road to recovery is on solidarity. Well for more on this lets speak to job of rahman who is the managing director for europe at the Eurasia Group he also worked at the european commissions that rectory general for economic and Financial Affairs he joins us from london via skype sir thank you so much for joining us here on aljazeera so the talks are still going on in brussels we can expect them presumably to go on for quite some time we know the sticking points of the size of the fund than and governance of it as well where do you think the breakthrough if any will will occur. I think the signs of moved a bit closer together on the following European Council president sharma show think was quite clear in private hes not going to table a proposal on monday unless he feels theres a consensus emerging and hes now done this evening the new fund is still 750000000000 although theres a small proportion of grants that would not be 400000000000 from 500 previously and the share would increase from 252350 1000000000 so that moves in the direction of the frugal for so what has now been table is now a discussion among evaders taking place on the other 2 questions on governance how the money is spent what the constraints are and how money is spent conditionalities attached as well as this question of rule of law i think the 2 sides are still quite far apart which suggests if the talks need to continue tomorrow for quite some time or else theyll break apart and leaders are likely to reconvene in a week or 2 weeks time it was very interesting listening in if you could hear reports to president emmanuel mccrone speaking there and saying that obviously this is an unprecedented situation a Health Crisis as well but the European Union the European Union needs agreement of the european identity needs it considering that some countries felt abandoned by the e. U. When the coronavirus struck do you agree with president macross on that yes for all the reservations that maybe from the frugal for that actually any kind of sense of european identity needs a deal to be struck. I do look i think the macro team and the elites they see very very clearly that the European Union has value in response to this pandemic writs and remain legitimate in the eyes of European Public opinion at the moment what weve affectively seen in response to prove that 19 is national that all responses and i think emanuel is right in his assessment but the e. U. Level needs to provide a certain level of our you want in order to remain legitimate now i think theres a high degree of alignment between paris between berlin Angela Merkel has also moved quite substantially as well as with brussels in order to to put this proposal on the table but involves a lot of borrowing and transferring a lot of the boring to countries that have been hit hard by koval but of course striking agreement in europe is not straightforward and this was going to always require a lot of negotiating and a lot of back and forth and indeed thats what were seeing in brussels this evening and we are seeing i suppose an echo of that north south divide that we saw throughout the euro zone crisis and that arguably continues to the state very different dynamics at play but what do you think germanys role in all of this is a country that was always you know want to fiscal severity and impose austerity on many countries but that now actually we see not siding with the frugal for. Germanys interests lie in a strong European Union and germany has often used europe as a platform to further the project its own power its own value in its own strength not only in your but on the global stage i think Angela Merkel understands very very clearly that the nature of this crisis is very very different its how it was an external shock its countries asymmetrically and that the european level needs to respond in germany has a big role in that process and thats part of the reason why shes moved her entire political establishment around the idea of substantially you bargain transferring that money to Southern Europe so theres a strong redistributive dimension so merkel wants a deal but she cant carry the entirety of nor that your thoughts for other leaders in scandinavia or indeed in the netherlands and elsewhere to do that theres a lot of speculation in brussels that roots may be playing the mystic politics here symbolically he needs the summit to sail so he can go home demonstrate for the good fight your return in a week or 2 and do a deal i think thats probably more likely than a complete failure breakdown and this been kept until september so there may still be a fair amount of theatre involved in some of the northern europeans and especially the dutch are doing it so i guess once all the theatrical might have finished where do you think the compromise should lie. I think ultimately there will be in agreement but broadly can vote yes on that Commission Proposal so in the ballpark of 750000000000 euros i think theyll be more equivalent share of grants and loans so 40350 feels about right there will be fairly substantial conditions attached to this money i suspect european leaders will be in all the ultimately signing off and deliberating when when all the europeans have concerns about how the money is being spent in Southern Europe where the reforms are not being implemented and i think ultimately orban is going to have to see a fair degree of oversight of his territory because there are real concerns over the law now will be really biting oversight probably not because it up with the case or will veto but probably a bit of strengthening on the rule of law conditionalities compared to what weve had historically but probably is where the landing zone lyings a lot of issues at play there which that ramen managing director for europe at the Eurasia Group sir thank you for sharing your views with us lets go to hong kong now it has recorded its highest one day increase in virus cases since the pandemic began chief executive kerry lamb announced new restrictions to contain the spread after 180 new infections were confirmed on sunday she described the situation as critical and says there is no sign that its coming under control nonessential workers have been ordered to to work from home and testing will be increased supporters of brazils president will say that all are back on the streets rallying against the virus restrictions the president tested positive for cove in 1000 last week and the still sick with the virus but he continues to criticize lockdown measures also that are says restrictions will lead to even more deaths with Unemployed People dying of hunger bacillus reported more than 2000000 infections its the 2nd worst affected country after the United States. And the surge in corona virus infections as seen pose new restrictions in a number of cities across colombia more than 190000 cases have been confirmed that hospitals are becoming increasingly overwhelmed in the Capital Budget that many of the citys poorest neighborhoods are suffering as businesses are forced to close a listener amputee explains. Soldiers and city workers this infect the streets after bogo time poses a new coronavirus lock down its the 1st of a series of rolling measures restricting almost a 3rd of the citys 8000000 residents for 2 weeks at a time but its a more important thing i think that it is very important that people are aware and keep washing their hands the front of the house clean the shoes before entering the home we need to stop the virus together. As entered what experts believe will be the worst face of the pandemic and the outbreak is hitting the poorest neighborhoods the hardest where few people can afford to stay home for a nobody like street vendor. Who had just started recovering financially after 4 months of restrictions were eased bookcase i think you know i make it is i put them out by the landlord wants to kick us out i live with my mother my mother in law too young brother in laws my pregnant wife i dont have anything to pay her weight except what i managed to make on the streets across these neighborhoods mall businesses including here salons that had reopened a few weeks ago have closed their shutters once again. The mayor says the new restrictions have been planned to minimize direct konami impact in pledged government aid to 700000 People Living in the newly quarantined areas. The mayor hopes to avoid stretching hospitals to their limit but intensive care units are already more than 90 percent full. Doctors associations have repeatedly said. Im saying that the Health System could collapse and at this point and ive called tory this dream poses Strict Lockdown in the entire city for a least 2 weeks. We know that various hospitals in the south of the city are already facing the dilemma of who to save who gets a ventilator and who doesnt partial lockdown will not be enough to stop the spread of the spirit. Returning to a total lockdown is a tough choice in a city with so many people in need but it might become unavoidable if you factions continue to rise or we can speak to a listener ampere to live now he is in bogota theyre all over the world the difficulty for authorities has been to balance that the sort of medical needs and Economic Needs in the country how have colombian authorities managed to do that. Well barbara now that thats the biggest concern for both local governors mayors and the National Government colombia had originally this cited to impose a very Strict Lockdown to try and buy some time better to try and better prepare the Health System here today and deal with the increase in infections well now we are getting into that peak period and what were seeing is that it probably hasnt been enough and now the governments are taking again or imposing new restrictions and no doubt this is affecting the poorest the most a lot of people more than 50 percent of the population here works informally needs to be on the streets needs to work to be able to feed their families and so these new restrictions are very difficult some communities there have been instances of looting in some communities the worst case was and july 6th the when a group of people the salted a gas tanker to try and steal the gasoline there was a fire in an explosion and 42 people died about it shows you just how big the needs are here and there is no doubt that this pandemic as for widened the inequalities in this country now the government has been trying to help hundreds of thousands of families theyve been able to reach many of them and indeed help them especially in big cities but they havent been as efficient in reaching people who live in remote areas of colombia where also now the virus is spreading so its a very very complicated situation and thats why the government is excluding at least for now a return to a full lock down here in the capital bogota. Waiting for the results of the limited lockdowns by sectors of the city before deciding what the next step will be and hoping to reach the peak at some point in august of the infections with the latest from bogota. Thank you coming up this news hour from london that china accused of gross human rights abuses over its mistreatment of the weaker population from sunday services to sunday marches the Catholic Church urges weekly anti parliament protests in kinshasa and in sports the reigning moto g. P. World champion suffers a serious injury during the opening race of the 6. Mollies political opposition has rejected a plan that would see the formation of a unity government and called on its supporters to return to the streets the proposal put forward by a delegation from the west african bloc eco waltz recommend that half the government be made up from the current governing coalition 30 percent from members of the opposition and 20 percent from Civil Society groups while unrest began in mali in 2012 when armed groups took control of the north and the cleared islam a colonial before they were defeated by french and african troops but the violence has continued molly and Security Forces have been leading the offensive but theyve also been accused of rampant abuse the situation has worsened the plight of civilians most of whom live in poverty opposition leaders say the government hasnt done enough to improve the economy and the last straw came in april when the Constitutional Court overturned the provisional results of a long delayed and disputed parliamentary election held in march Nicholas Hawke has more now on the oppositions demands from dakar in neighboring senekal. Well members of the opposition have dismissed it some leaders of the 5 movement this Coalition Members of Civil Society and trade unionists and opposition political opposition have described it as a failure from the get go weve seen that some of them some of these leaders wouldnt even step in into the negotiation room they said that 1st there needed to be an investigation on why the government deployed a commando trained by the e. U. Meant to fight armed groups such as al qaeda and the stomach state greater affiliates in northern mali well why were those troops used to deployed against protesters last weekend number of them were killed shot in the head or in the stomach so in order for a discussion to happen there needs to be an investigation 1st which which then the Prime Minister we should what happened to that they say. The offers made by the echo was was more about trying to solve an electoral crisis but what theyre saying here is its a crisis of government thats happening in a crisis of trust thats happening in mali they they want to see the dissolution of the National Assembly they want to see. Resign or be stripped of his powers down just just now weve heard that there is discussion about what theyre going to do next so they say that they will continue their movement of a civil disobedience and they describe what they will do as a day in french. Which means a day of ghost town will they will they will block the capital bamako bring it down still. Irans foreign minister edge of a city for has been visiting iraqs capital baghdad he held talks with his iraqi counterpart and discussed relations which have been strained by foreign powers city says neighboring nations have to cooperate for the good of the region without interfering in each others affairs he denounced the killing of Iranian Revolutionary guard commander kasim sulaimani after visiting the site of his this so want to fulton has more now from baghdad on the importance of za