In the past 5 weeks. Plus d. W. Talked of british fundraising phenomenon the captain tom moore after raising staggering sum to spoil his countrys Health Care System the world war 2 veteran tells people to stay strong during this crisis. Seems. To me to do old. Wrong. I merely said i must and welcome European Union leaders have moved closer to approving a joint Recovery Fund after meeting Via Video Conference on thursday the money would be in march for businesses that have taken a hit in the shutdown diplomatic sources say the 27 leaders agreed to ask the European Commission to work out the details date details including the size shape and methods of getting the money to businesses most urgently in need. The Video Conference was the 4th such meeting since the virus hit e. U. Countries and expectations were low e. U. Member states of so far failed to agree on how to help those economies hit hardest by the pandemic but after just a few hours the Council President emerged emphasizing the countrys common interests this toned image is put into our societies and serious through their well being interest of each e. U. Member states depends on the will be of the whole of the e. U. We are all in this to. Michelle said leaders have agreed to task the e. U. Commission with linking a Recovery Plan to the use next long term budget a u Commission President found a line called for unity unless we acted decisively and collectively the recovery will not be symmetric and divergence between Member States will increase. Speaking to the press in berlin after the meeting german chancellor Angela Merkel also stressed what this meant for europes biggest economy. Thats what are the figures for germany it means we have to expect higher contributions for the e. U. Next budget. Its clear we need some kind of financial instrument Recovery Plan. Or Recovery Fund recovery fun and i want to be very clear here the collective response is also in germanys interest in. Berlin has expressed a willingness and recent days to offer more aid to other struggling a your economy. And eurozone finance ministers had already agreed on the principle of an e. U. Recovery fund the big problem the size and nature of this new debt instrument has yet to be decided but after thursdays meeting italian Prime Minister just sepic on to hailed the progress being made. The most important thing is that this urgent and necessary instrument has been confirmed italy led the calls for our initiative and the letter signed by 8 other countries was very important an instrument like this was absolutely unthinkable until now. Despite the prize details on the plan and sparse and many suspect the e. U. Commissions toughest negotiations are yet to come. The outbreak of the coronavirus us pushing us jobless numbers to high is not seen since the Great Depression off the 1930 s. The most recent figures show one in 6 American Workers has been thrown out of the job in the past 5 weeks thats 26000000 men and women a washington correspondent of a salat tells the story of 2 of those people. When montelena alya looks at her old construction site she still struggles to comprehend what happened 3 weeks ago the immigrant architect from poland was working on one of washingtons biggest apartment buildings then she lost her job in just a blink of an eye so very challenging it was of our time saying actually to even an intro for unemployment it took me 2 weeks of nonstop calling sometimes i was on the hold for 56 hours in her 20 years in america leno was able to build a life she owns her own home. And raises 2 sons. You know for the 1st time she is fighting to make ends meet she cant afford the mortgage and she has been forced to learn new skills like home schooling the kids. Can become so i have 6 who have. Her savings will last for another few weeks she says she is trying not to think about what comes after that will have. All. The right now the main thing gets to. Being able to provide them with food and to have a shelter and we dont have that when we are in there only about stories. Only a few miles away in washington sean neighborhood bar that was shut down has reopened as a food Bank Catering to some of those who are hit the hardest hit. Laid off workers from the Hospitality Business get one hot meal per day has been tough is day by day but all you can do is just be optimistic and you know be glad that youre healthy you have my wife and baby and well well were for your restaurant and we are now working its very hard these are great people and i appreciate it when they do it like its helped me through some tough times there could have been a lot so for. The bars owner and of the liril had to furlough 70 off or 85. 00 employees she collected some 300000 u. S. Dollars in donations and is now trying to keep the community afloat. Here in d. C. One in 7 workers is actually in the Hospitality Industry so youre talking about a huge number of people who are suddenly hitting the the Public Safety net programs and so there have just been a lot of delays in them receiving the aid that theyre applying for. How much is a model in a l u 2 is still waiting for her unemployment aid as a skilled worker she hopes to find a new job once the crisis is over but she knows that Many Americans will not be that lucky a month relaxing. And now heres a look at other stories making headlines around the world of course it is Migrant Center has been evacuated after the vast majority of the 175 president s tested positive for the new coronavirus. Mass testing of all vessels. One of them was found to be carrying the virus. Police in the democratic republic of congo face down followers of a local cult leader in an attempt of freight on his residence and kinshasa the center of comes a day after members of the antigovernment religious group clashed with police resulting in deaths on both sides. South african president 0 rama has announced steps to gradually lift the countrys lockdown starting may 1st mr actions on travel and some industries will be east South Africans have been under state home orders for almost a month with essential trips the only exceptions. Staff as a boss alone a hospital distributed roses and books to covert 1000 patients on thursday they were celebrating st george catalonia as patron saint april the 23rd is when people usually exchange roses and books and catalonia but the coronavirus has made that impossible for many people. But mostly they are cops and the German Football League say they hope to officially restart the bundesliga season on may 9th and stadiums tending government approval it will mark the 1st return of the major european football me during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. The German Football League wants to restart the bundesliga season with games behind closed doors and they have a powerful motive broadcasters have agreed to pay out around 300000000 euros in t. V. Money if the season resumes. Due to new tougher than 4 thanks to the agreement the 36. 00 1st and 2nd Division Clubs will be assured the money they need until june the 30th. It will be a lifeline for cash strapped clubs like cologne. And this one. It was important used today a lot of clubs have money problems and making partial payments now and payments in full when play resumes would send an important message. Games without spectators may be the only way to stem the financial damage during the coronavirus pandemic. This season doesnt resume or it stops again searching mechanisms would ensure the money is repaid. That would threaten the survival of a number of clubs and it would jeopardize the livelihood of around 56000 people who work in german professional football. And in womens football they use our european championships as been moved from next year into 2022 thats because the mens year tournament was pushed from this year into 201021 due to the pandemic the netherlands won the last tournament and 27. 00 a sports governing body in europe grief and says it made the decision to avoid conflict with the mens tournament at the move will also know when the footballs feature more prominently at the postponed summit and then takes in tokyo. At the age of 99 captain tom moore has become a Global Social media phenomenon the british role for 2 veteran has made headlines for raising funds for Health Workers treating coronavirus patients so father Viral Campaign has attracted donations from around the world a total of over 32000000 euros and rising you had a chance to speak with captain will one week before he turns 100 years old 100 laps of the garden for 1000. 00 pounds that was captain tom moores plan to raise money to support workers going Britains NationalHealth Service but in the process he won the hearts of many around the world and foster passed his fundraising target by millions of pounds speaking to d. W. Alongside his daughter the world war 2 veteran expressed his delight at the achievement. Amazing that certain amount of money was very rude to me so short time almost like the clauses there is a very good one went to the source i think those are. The coronavirus pandemic has strained britains public Health Service the n. H. S. And expose shortages in equipment for frontline staff thats why tom moore took up his challenge we said initially that the money would be far and the n. H. S. Charities and that money would be used to support it all sorts of things then this crisis so things like knocks start to sleep and i was seeing what i can find the towards and the prying i have and looking after Mental Health so that money is already been put to good use. Having fought in world war 2 the army veteran turned celebrity had words of hope for todays generation. Throughout the world. The quote was all new people. Is no no no you son of him but i would say to everyone things will get better theres no doubt that wrongdoers will be rolled out onto the ground. Tom moore turns 100 next week physical distancing measures mean there will be a big party at his home in bedford but nothing will stop the many well wishers who be cheering him on from a far. Street gets a corona make over a mural by the british street artist banksy has been given a virus related faceless lift of sorts the mural a take on johns family has to go with a pearl earring has graced the side of a building in bristol england since 2040 miles wearing a face must though its not clear if the new edition was put there by banksy himself it did not appear on the artists Instagram Page where he normally presents his new work. Dont forget you can always get the w. News on the go just download our app from google play or from the app store that will give you access to all the latest news from around the world as well as push notifications for any breaking news and if you are a product news story you can also use that to send us photos and videos of whats happening around t. V. 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