Welcome european leaders have seen the deal on an unprecedented 750000000000 Euro Recovery Fund after 4 days of heated talks leaders finally agreed on the details of loans and grants to be given to countries hardest hit by the pandemic for the 1st time ever the aid will be financed by borrowing of the 750000000000 euros 390000000000 will be in the form of grants the remaining 360000000000 euros will be dispersed in the form of cheap loans now its a compromise that satisfies the demands of fiscally conservative countries. Good morning everyone we did it europe is strong europe is united level for these were the words the delegates have been working towards a deal has been done and the wrangling can stop everyone can go home some kind of win or relief was visible on their faces despite the masks. Chief Frances Emanuel mccall and ursula fund the Line Commission president plus standing tallest of the mole. From the netherlands. He had led the group whod limited the grants and made them conditional what i was aiming for and i think we have achieved the emergency brake and emergency brake at the level of European Council to be able to enforce the reforms in Member States if they are not taking place against the broker of that particular member state. Has agreed with your view commission. States like poland and victor all bans hungary they insisted though they hadnt been boxed in and your. Hair was. Rejected despite underlying problems that havent gone away maclin macor say the e. U. Works. After a very long session we have reached a good conclusion and i am very happy about that therefore. Europe has shown that it is prepared to take new paths in what is a very special situation i believe that is necessary Extraordinary Events and in this case thats the pandemic that has reached us all demand extraordinary new methods what. The whole thing may have been close but mcchrystal says the deal they reached will help all 27 e. U. Nations should every im convinced that this plan this budget will respond to the Health Economic and social challenges we are all facing in our countries are going to be. It was a long fight 4 days of negotiations brought significant divisions to light but the deal stands and now everyone can go home. Democrat is one of my nostrils is certainly not going home anytime soon she joins me from brussels with more merino a feast banging french president heated arguments even a walkout a tumultuous few days to get this deal. Piers is the 1st time in history the e. U. Has taken up muser lies debts and this is the big deal this has been a taboo before so its clearly took a couple of arguments also a couple of fights and a compromise it took a while to find a compromise also because we have 2 different 2 very different perspectives on the issue we have the countries from the south of europe that have been kids hardly by the cold in 1000 crisis and that have been suffering economically even before kovac 19 hit them so they said we want grants and then we have the northern countries the self declared frugal countries like the netherlands and austria they said we only want loans at the beginning theyll post to grants and and the end they found a compromise but that took 4 days but a lot of this has been agreed to. In fact dutch Prime Minister. In mud brick how exactly when that. First of those the self declared froogle say its but are lets buy a mug loser the netherlands Prime Minister wanted to have a right to veto the idea behind it is that they wanted the that the grants that are handed out to 2 countries are have Strings Attached so they want it for their country soon to be implemented reforms and now what she calls an emergency brake is the border to version of this of watered down version of does it means that if a Member States has a problem with how the money is used in another member state he or the member said can bring it to sue the city e. U. Summit and they will discuss it this gusted there thats also another. Congress analyse what has been a sticking might one of the major sticking points here and that is the rule of law mechanism the question if the money to send it out will be attached to the rule of law hungary and poland 2 countries that have been facing not just say you know violating the rule of law has been strongly opposing this idea and now they also find a sort of water down version and many critics for example the greens here in the European Parliament say this it will is a 2 to 3 less mechanism money nostrils for the details from brussels thank you very much to the u. K. Next for a highly anticipated report on russian interference british democracy in spending trouble for Boris Johnsons government after being held up for months the intelligence and Security Committee finally presented a blistering indictment of the British Governments failure to take the threat of russian meddling seriously the report warns that the u. K. Top target for russian interference but is accused of phish shows of turning a blind eye to allegations that moscow sought to influence key votes like the brakes at referendum and i responded big it must joins us now from london to get these to suggestion that russia interfered with the 2016 breaks that referendum. Well this is actually the Biggest Surprise that came out of the publication of this long awaited report that the government had not instructed the intelligence agencies to look for this possible interference and the such the Security Committee the parliament tarion the committee of the u. K. Couldnt really say whether there was russian interference or not because they are only working with the material that the intelligence agencies would have supplied and the Intelligence Agency agencies just hadnt been instructed by the u. K. Government however the report does point to threats by russia they say that russia is an established threat and they mention for example the poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko the spy who was murdered in the streets of london in 2006 and of course there were also the the salisbury attacks of saggy scrip hall and his daughter say they dont exonerate russia they certainly dont exonerate the British Government and they say that the intelligence agencies the British Intelligence agencies must be given the tools to tackle a possible threat by russia. Will there be any political. Fall of the government for Boris Johnson in all of this. Well the Committee Members definitely expressed surprise and that we will demand that the British Government did not really look into these possible interferences and they contrast that is for example with the u. S. Where there was an investigation into into russian interference in the 2016 elections they do also say that russian money is a corrupting force in British Society they point to members of the house of lords for example who are involved with russian businesses and also they state that russian money is very entrenched in society theres a lot of Party Political donations by russian oligarchs that live here in the u. K. So they do point to also the British Government and the conservative parties and also indeed other members of other parties involvement and possible to close links with russia and i think generally the fact that the British Government has not investigated this possible interference with its own democratic process and the fallout from this report really does not reflect well on the British Government. In london thank you very much for that and not of some other stories making news around the world the trial has begun of a man accused of an armed attack on a synagogue in the eastern german city of hama last october stefan b. Is accused of murder prosecutors say he opened fire near the building last year killing 2 people he has reportedly admitted his guilt in ukraine an armed man has seized a bus and taken at least 10 people hostage in the countrys west police said the man is believed to be carrying weapons and explosives the interior Ministry Says the suspect was born in russia and has a criminal background. Will geddes Prime MinisterBoyko Borisov has survived a no confidence motion in parliament the country has seen almost 2 weeks of protests over a series of corruption scandals opposition parties attempted to oust voters off government but failed to together enough for. A german borman has been kidnapped by unidentified gunmen in iraq hello maybe this was reportedly abducted on monday outside her office in the capital bugged where she runs and convicted for young iraqi artists mavis was born in berlin and has lived in bug for years friends said she had feared for the safety due to her involvement in protests the iraqi interior Ministry Says it has detected Security Forces to step up their efforts to find the German National if the reports are mileage of belly he joins me from bug with the latest my up what more can you tell us about this incident thanks so much sadly at this stage there is not a lot that has been made public what we do know is that it was taken last night around 8 pm from right outside of her office and she was somebody he says one of the rare foreigners who lives outside of the shot in iraq and she felt safe enough to be out in the streets late at night unfortunately this is this is the latest in the trend of kidnappings that weve seen the other cannot things were foreigners that were taken for 36 hours and then for 2 months before they were released so were still waiting to see the need sure at this kidnapping to get somewhere commission who may have been behind this incident but there is a criminal incident whether its something that is a bit more or could be motivated to understand where the investigation might lead my you spoke of a friend of kidnapping and some of them involve foreigners how safe off a lot of those in iraq at the moment. Its an interesting question because this is the 3rd kidnapping that weve seen of a Foreign National and we had 2 french journalists who were very briefly kidnapped at the beginning of the year we had 3 french and you know workers who were kidnapped for 2 months and now we have this latest incident in the other 2 cases as well there was very Little Information that was released even after the kidnap individuals themselves were released there was very little that was made public about who took them where they were being held exactly and what the nature of the operation that got them free was so this is a really just being a 3rd of the so that were seeing and it has not just foreigners worried but it has a lot of iraqis worried about what this might mean for security across the city and for those especially those who were involved in the protest Movement Last year across across the capital and other cities this means that theres going to be a new spate of protests kidnappings have tried meetings and its you were involved my journey with the update from bob thank you so much. 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