Lockdown, which goes into effect three hours from now. Good evening. We begin in the french city of nice, where a man armed with a knife killed three people. The first victim was an elderly woman. Another was a mother in her 40s. The third was a father of two, also in his 40s. The assailant was shot and wounded by police and is now in the hospital. Todays brut killingcome less than two weeks after a frenchman was beheaded in front of his school in the paris suburbs after showing cartoons of the prophet mohammed to his pupils in a teaching of freedom of speech. Mac hasron president macron has called this a terrorist attack and has called for the people to stand united. I wanted to pass on a message of solitude. It is also a message of unity. In france, the resulting one community, the National Community there is only one community, the National Community. I want to say to my citizens, whatever their religion, whether they believe or not, we must, in these moments, unite and not given to
Inquiry after a major blaze at the gothic st peter and St Paul Cathedral in the city of knox. In the us pays tribute to the man known as the conscience of the nation john lewis the civil rights icon marched alongside Dr Martin Luther King Jr and went on to serve 17 terms and congress has done. A mickle welcome to the program. A new leaders are gathered and brussels for a 2nd day to thrash out the terms of a contentious economic Recovery Plan European Council president ial michelle offered a revised proposal for the package aimed at helping countries worst affected by the coronavirus and demick german chancellor Angela Merkel is chairing a summit. Pessimism runs high among those most in need italian Prime Minister just epic contest says the talks are at a stalemate as wealthy Northern European countries insist on a package consisting mainly of loans rather than grants tensions are also running high over who controls how countries spend the money. Lets bring in our correspondent bob bizz
Star dean run as providing an essential lifeline during the coronavirus and jamming. On the cold polish welcome to the progress. E. U. Leaders are meeting in brussels for a 2nd day to break a deadlock on a contentious coronavirus Recovery Plan European Council president Charles Michel offered a revised proposal for the package aimed at helping countries worst affected by the pandemic tensions are running high between leaders and many expect the talks to continue until well into the night fridays negotiations and earlier than expected when an agreement looked unlikely the talks are hung up over the packages mix of loans and grants and who controls how countries spend the money. Our correspondent bob i have is was monitoring the developments and brussels for us baba a new proposal from European Council president ial michelle is now on the table making important concessions to the socalled frugal for any chance this will be more acceptable to the reluctant Member States its more except th
Perspective on the countrys leadership. At a 15th century cathedral in flying french authorities launched an awesome inquiry after a major place of fixing it sinkholes in the city if not. As a matter how did welcome e. U. Leaders trying to Reach Agreement on a 750000000000 euro coronavirus Recovery Plan have extended they summit into sunday spot maybe into light on saturday not in brussels latest filed to finalize the deal member countries of the voted on how much of the money should be distributed as grants and how much as loans socalled froogle for group of northern countries led by the netherlands once strict controls on spending in states including italy and spain a seeking substantial aid its. Own lets bring in our correspondent barbara faisal who is watching but mostly whiting and brussels barbara good to have you with us what is the main sticking point. Theres still so many sticking points that we couldnt pick out the one that was the stickiest because all the Big Questions here
John lewis who marched alongside Martin Luther king and went on to serve 17 times in congress has died at the age of i. Im Rebecca Richards welcome to the program a year later is trying to reach an agreement on a 750000000000 euro coronavirus Recovery Plan have extended this summit into a 3rd day despite meeting until late on saturday night in brussels they did fail to finalize a deal member countries are divided on how much of the money should be distributed as a grants and how much as loans hit Southern States including italy and spain a seeking a substantial aid payments but a group of fiscally frugal northern countries favor loans and more control over how the money is spent. Bridging the gap between the 2 opposite camps is proving to be a major challenge but there is hope that a compromise will eventually be raged. So some of the 1st in summary and one can say it is going quite well things are going in the right direction of course as youd expect its a tough struggle a tough negot