Hello, and welcome to audiences in the uk and around the world. Were covering all the latest coronavirus developments here in britain and globally. This is europes moment. That is how the president of the European Commission characterised the challenge facing the eu in emerging from the coronavirus crisis. Well today eu leaders will meet via videoconference in search of a deal over what theyre calling the next generation fund, worth 750 billion euros. The European Commission wants much of that money to be distributed to the worst affected countries in grants, but sweden, denmark, austria and the netherlands say it needs to be paid back. Simonjones reports. After months of lockdown, europe is tentatively opening up europe is tentatively opening up again. Locals on the beach in barcelona are set to be joined soon by international tourists, but the question now is whether the eu can come together to agree a coronavirus recovery plan. It is known as the next generation eu fund. And a sign
Announced later today. Businesses and government deparments in australia are hit by what its Prime Minister calls a sophisticated, state based cyber attack. Facebook removes ads by Donald Trumps campaign containing a symbol used by nazi germany the latest setback in a bad week for the us president. And coming up, we return to the northern Italian Region of lombardy, which became the global epicentre of coronavirus when it saw the first major outbreak in europe. Hello and welcome if youre watching in the uk or around the world and stay with us for the latest news and analysis from here and across the globe. Hello, good morning and welcome to bbc news. Im Annita Mcveigh and you can in touch with me on twitter about any of our stories Annita Mcveigh. Our top story today primary and secondary schools in england are to get a £1 billion boost to help children catch up on months of lessons that were missed during lockdown. The uk government has pledged that a third of that cash will go towar
Later, clearly frail and feeble. His older brother, father georg ratzinger, said today benedict is having trouble walking and had been advised by his doctors to stop traveling overseas. Benedict will relinquish his papacy on february 28th. Todays decision by benedict xvi came as a huge surprise to me, and, i think, to everyone in rome and everyone in the vatican. Reporter as a cardinal, Joseph Ratzinger was known as john paul iis enforcer of religious doctrine. He did not like answering questions. Heres abcs brian ross asking him about a sexual abuse case in 2002. Reporter the question was come to me when the moment is given. But not yet. Reporter in his almost eightyearolds as pope, he would sometimes play the piano. He always wore his pradastyle red shoes. But his passion was preaching the gospel. Hes never enjoyed being an administrator and he paid a price for that. His papacy will be remembered for its scandals. Those endless sexual abuse coverups that cost more than 3 billion to s
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The late German Pope, who was particularly fond of Christmas, once knocked on the doors of his entire community at midnight to express his joy at the miracle.