On the program. Protesters the islands a government that would make it a crime to insult the Chinese National anthem. Is a fresh. Face with the 1st man from the u. S. Since the Space Shuttle 90 years ago. Dortmund needed a win to survive so the bow with the title slipped through. Im unique are celebrating after scoring. Victory. Im so welcome to the Program European commission president. Has unveiled a plan worth 750000000000 euros to help the Member States bounce back from the recession triggered by the coronavirus pandemic much of it. Will be funded by common e. U. Debts a new approach proposed by germany and france talked of on the line described the fund as an ambitious answer to the challenge and said the European Union face the choice of Member States going it alone or responding to go the a must be to invest together in our common good we will be bold by raising unprecedented amounts of funding at european level we will be focused by channeling the funding to the new priorities that will shape the future and to achieve this were setting up next generation e. U. Worth 750000000000 euro together with a core and if of 1 point one trillion this sums up to 1. 85 trillion general in todays proposal of the dublin brussels correspondent girl matters spoke with us you have on the line after the News Conference launching the rescue package though she has the backing of france and germany asked how confident she was of winning the support of smaller members especially those opposed to the sharing of debt. I spoke to every head of state of government during the last weeks and it is important that we should keep in mind every member state is affected by the economic crisis so its in our common interest that we rapidly come out of the crisis and that we invest in our european priorities and for that next generation e. U. The Recovery Fund is important. But with money thats where mainly were friendship allans so whats your message to those who have been critical or skeptical of the idea to hand out grounds i think during the crisis we saw how easy the the Single Market can be heavily hampered and damaged. When for example the different economies shut down. So the opposite is necessary for our Single Market that we open up again and that we recover fast and that we have the integration of the Single Market repaired rapidly. No member state is able to do that on on its own they are all integrated and dependent on each other which is good because it increased the Living Standards in the prosperity of all Member States and therefore its in our common interest to get the economy back on its feet we need for that grants because the european budget consists of grants but there will also be a share of loans now you have a number of ideas how to get the money back in trading or digital tax but to put it mildly these are ideas that havent been exactly popular with Member States. The fact that we have an unprecedented situation and that the commission is raising money at the market that has to be indeed paid back over a long period. Increases the awareness that it is a good solution to pay that money partly back to new own resources now its a matter of negotiations with him. The different Member States but seeing as we have a completely new situation it is worse to go new ways thanks very much attention. One of the 1st european leaders to react to the commissions proposal was joe chancellor Angela Merkel the commons would have forced the commission has made a proposal and im not surprised that it is not identical with the one germany and france of mate is of course this proposal contains elements of both what was discussed between germany and france as well as elements of the guarantees and loans that were mentioned by 4 other countries. And now we start negotiating its the 400 so lets get more from the w. s chief Political Editor mckay that could throw welcome michela a lot of responsibility falling on germany shoulders over the next 6 months absolutely germany will head the European Union to a certain degree and im going to machall will become pretty much the chief negotiator there when it comes to matching that proposal we saw from the commission today with what those individual poll parliaments because all states will have to agree are willing to pass in their own parliaments so it will be a very delicate balancing act im going to machall in her final term also balancing the interests of europe her wanting to position herself as a european leader and germanys own core interests im so what will be the key challenges facing the chancellor. Well it will be getting everybody to the table she herself over ready dropped a red line by agreeing with france to their own proposal of 500000000000 euros seeing the e. U. Take on joint debt that was an absolute no go until a couple of months ago and have hope is by germany being willing to put money into that basket to agreeing to cross its own red line several times that others will too having said that that doesnt mean that her own party which doesnt really have to unite behind the next chancellor Angela Merkel once again because it is her final term will definitely play ball her ball there so we will see some very tense negotiations in brussels and also there were 2 other big issues in the green deal and brecks it corona will be the focus but somehow we will have to find some space in some agreement to push those issues forward as well. Chief Political Editor thank you now to hong kong where police have 5 pallets of prodemocracy protesters and arrested more than 300 people in the city center the demonstrators were opposing a bill criminalizing disrespect for chinas National Anthem on call lawmakers are currently debating those changes. Thousands of hong kong residents defied Police Orders and took to the streets demonstrating for their independence and against chinas efforts to technics grip on the semi autonomous region the protesters were met by a Strong Police force which fired pellets filled with pepper to disperse the crowds and arrested hundreds one of the residents concerns a bill threatening anyone who disrespects the Chinese National anthem with up to 3 years in prison. Im worried about the National Anthem law i know it will pass in the Legislative Council because pro stablished that lawmakers have a majority there. I came to hong kong from Mainland China when i was young so i know about the darkness of china im worried china will impose its standards and its system on hong kong the. Protesters want to express their outrage not only against the National Anthem law but also against the new National Security law imposed by the Chinese Government the full text of the legislation has yet to be published but it has raised International Alarm over freedoms in the city. Bangkok security chief defended the measures on Chinese State television. And it is necessary and important to establish a Legal Framework and enforcement mechanism for safeguarding National Security and the Hong Kong SpecialAdministrative Region at state level and this will be conducive to the long term stability and prosperity of hong kong and also helpful in safeguarding the legitimate rights and freedoms of hong kong residents young and call for action. But thats exactly what the protesters fear hong kong will loose the freedoms and Civil Liberties secured when the former british colony was handed back to china in 1997 there are meant to remain in place for at least another 2 decades beijing brands the matter and internal china. S. Affair but the leader of hong kongs prodemocracy civic party is calling on the International Community for help. Your party has long be a member of the free world we share the same values we share the same liberty and freedom and now when china is trying to take this away from hong kong we expect the rest of the world was speak up for us despite social distancing rules resistance against beijings attempt to tighten its grip on hong kong this growing fiercer protests are likely to continue in the coming days. And lets take a look now at some of the other stories making news around the world protesters have taken to the streets in the United States in the u. S. State of minnesota after a black man died while being detained by police the death of george floyd has drawn outrage after a video emerged showing a white officer kneeling on his neck as he cried out but he couldnt bring. Announces by forces aligned with libyas interim government of hold him to a year long offensive on tripoli by rival military command for hafta turkey provided support in pushing back after his army of various factions are vying for control of libya since 2014 in a war that has drawn in foreign powers. A cease fire to between Afghanistan Afghan forces and the taliban has ended with reports of renewed fighting to send it after hundreds of taliban prisoners were released as part of a deal with the United States and taliban announced the a cease fire for the ied celebrations at the end of ramadan. For u. S. President donald trump a threat to shut down social media platforms a day after twitter labeled one of his tweets but tension misleading mr trump responded by accusing social media platforms of silencing conservative voices and tweet it that republicans will strongly regulate or close them down before we can ever allow this to happen the president has more than 80000000 twitter followers. The reporter joel dill really has been following this story out welcome to joe tell us more about what twitter did to so enraged the president this all started on shoes they were in for the 1st time ever twitter clamp down on misinformation spread by the u. S. President it label 2 of his tweets as potentially misleading so the background to all of this is that trump is angry with the u. S. State of california which ones to introduce postal voting or mail in ballots now trump believes that would unfairly advantages rivals the democrats we can have a look now at the tweet that started this all off in which he claimed that mail in ballots would result in electoral strode now we can see what twitter did in response at the bottom they out of this little link that says get the facts about mail in ballots that link leads to a web page which presents article stating that theres no evidence to back up that what the president is saying and that the postal voting is not prone to fraud well today trump is hit back he says that republicans will regulate or shut down social media platforms if they continue as he says to stifle conservative voices and in more recent hours hes come out again saying that there will be big action to followed ok so the president has used twitter before to spread dubious claim so why is twitter only acting now well twitter is getting ready for the 2020 president ial elections that wants to clamp down on misinformation and specifically does has updated its policies to say that users cannot spread misinformation relating to participating in the electoral process so theyre applying their own rules here however they are targeting all of trumps problematic tweets for example right now theyre refusing to take down another one of his tweets in which he indirectly accuses a liberal t. V. Host of being involved in a murder so you could actually say that twit has been quite lenient with the president here all have done is put one little link at the bottom of one of his many many tweets ok so but he often happens to show. Things down so how worried should twitter be right well its also ironic that trump here has accused twitter of stifling free speech and then has threatened to shut it down which of course would stifle free speech now trump loves twitter he uses it all the time and it seems very unlikely that hes going to shut off his one direct channel he has right to talk to his base without having to be filtered by the media that he hates much we should also point out that calls to regulate social media have come from the other side of politics the former u. S. Democratic president ial candidate Elizabeth Warren calls a social media platforms to be regulated so with both parties angry it seems possible that after the coming elections that social media platforms could face some kind of regulation if they dont regulate themselves in the meantime joe thank you. In a few hours the United States will launch a fresh bin for dominance in space when its 1st privately build a rocket will take off from home soil with u. S. Astronauts on board since it stopped its own launches in 2011 the u. S. Has relied on russia for dives into space and the arrangement the Trump Administration is eager to change. If all goes to plan it will be the dawning of a new era in space travel that the launch of the full knaan rocket with its manned dragon capsule will end americas dependence on russia for access to space the joint operation between nasa and space x. Led by the pay pal and tesla founder ellen musk should open up much cheaper space travel. You would have never thought you know after we landed atlantis back in 2011 that you know 9 years later we would be where we are in some ways and its. Better than i would have imagined in so many of. The Space Shuttles used in the past were enormous complex and massively expensive every flight swallowed up half a 1000000000. 00 with space x. The cost should be somewhere between 60. 00 and 90000000. 00 the track and capsule is much smaller than a Space Shuttle and the interior is more sophisticated than this tesla car sent up as dummy cargo joining an earlier test. A successful launch could give space x. A head start in commercial space and travel tourism its rival the boeing starliner ended a test flight early because of a Software Problem so space x. s crew being careful not to raise expectations there are just so many technical factors and things that we need to focus on to make sure that we pull this off that our place and history or you know even trying to put our names in the same sentence as the folks who have come before us. It seems premature until and till we until weve pulled it off and. If there are problems with the launch rocket the capsule can detach itself and make an Emergency Landing extensive testing has so far yielded positive results. Are believe the only negative results have been the astronauts tests for covert 19. Theres always issues space is hard obviously but we want to hit all the hit all the boxes do everything we need to do to demonstrate that this vehicle is capable of taking ash not up from us well. As often as nasa will allow us to do sell. After a 19 hour flight the astronauts will stay in orbit for a month to back up the International Space station hopes for a new era in space travel will be riding with them. We can get more on this from Science Writer keith cowing who also happens to be a former Rocket Scientist welcome to you a missile very exciting what is this this new era in space travel likely to look like. Well its interesting for me i was at the very 1st Space Shuttle launch in the very last one and weve waited a long time for this once the excitement is the same but how theyre going to do this is very different as mentioned in your introduction this is a private company that has contracted for services not unlike an airliner although this one goes straight up and so thats its a market change and how americas going to gain access to space again. And v. M. Pick ations for that and a private company doing this rather than i country one of a. Well 1st of all its sort of. Interesting to look at the history of this this actually this commercial space thing started back in the latter years of george bush and then continued through obama and then now is coming to its fruition here with the trump and if nasa had developed this rocket our own government has estimated you know what it cost 20. 00 to 30000000000. 00 more than it did to have a private company do it and of course the person developing this is an entrepreneur but hes also a businessman and hes looking at this is a commercial product so the net result is you have a consumer Oriented Approach to this that nasa has never had before hopefully to answer your question it will be cheaper and the cheaper the flights the more than you can afford to do right but the program has already suffered that delays out and sat and sat back so how confident are not on space x. That it will happen this time well the only thing thats standing in the lead now is the weather theres a Tropical Storm that just came onshore siller the launch opportunity is probably 50 percent today and its anybodys guess as to whether it will clear up but its been a long road to get here but. You know we have a success that tends to drive more successes and i think everybody is expecting that once it does finally launch a soundtrack