Of the rule of law have now been well dealt with whether theyll be a solution i still cant say theres a lot of goodwill but there are also a lot of positions so i will join in working for it but there may also be no result today move barker has been monitoring the summit from london and explains now the reasons behind the deadlock. Well when it comes to money there are always problems in the e. U. Largely because there are key distinctions between those countries that are net contributors per capita to the budget and there are those countries the beneficiaries the contributors tend to come from wealthier countries in Northern Europe the beneficiaries from southern and Eastern Europe and what were seeing as a result of the pandemic is this problem significantly exacerbated so late into the night youve got these 2 key politicians trying to play peacemaker Angela Merkel the german chancellor Emmanuel Macron of france trying to get 4 countries known as the frugal for that include denmark s
A signal that europe is able to act after all people often accused europe of being too little too late for us here were demonstrating that the opposite is the case at the end of april the European Union gave us the mandate of designing a recovery package and today only 2 months later the next generation europe is up and running and it has the agreement of the European Council and in the history of the European Union that is an absolute record for a new budgetary instrument our step fasten has more now on that land mondale. It was a dramatic summit and it was the longest in the last 20 years and finally they came up with this quite complicated compromise before the summit started there was a huge part of grants 500000000000 euros of grants well that was something that especially the northern smaller countries didnt agree to didnt want to agree to sort of compromise is now that its nearly half of the money is going to be grants and half will be loans and also through these grants there a
hello. i m pamela brown. welcome to cnn newsroom. the historic storm the new york governor called the blizzard of the century has now killed 25 people in the buffalo area. and a top erie county official says that number is likely to rise. he said the conditions have been so severe, their own rescuers needed rescuing. intense winds created whiteout conditions as 43 inches of snow dropped in just 24 hours. listen to what one family with four young kids faced, after they lost power and went in search of a heated hotel room. it was very intense. we tried to keep it together for as long as possible. because we didn t want to fight. it was like looking at a white piece of construction paper. you couldn t see anything at all. like absolutely nothing until you were probably about a foot away from even cars. with their bright lights on. you just couldn t see anything. not yellow traffic signs, not traffic. you couldn t see anything. you couldn t see a traffic light. you have t
Veterans both cool rad in article as and brothers tom an chuck hagel both volunteer to go to war and fought in the same Army Infantry unit. In our year of war, daniel recounts journey from Middle America to vietnam at the height of the war and then home again. As we observed 50th anniversary of the war, privileged to hear are from these two eyewitnesses. The author daniel served in u. S. Army for 35 years retiring as a lieutenant general. He commanded troops in both afghanistan and iraq, earning five bronze star medals one for valor and combat action badge hes a contradicting editor for Army Magazine and author of eight other books he currently teaches history at North Carolina state university. Chuck hagel has long served our country. He was secretary of defense from 2013 to 2015. And before that, a u u. S. Senator from his home state nebraska during the vietnam war he served in combat as a sergeant in the u. S. Army and earned two purple hearts. The combat infantryman badging and the
Digit temperatures. As hot as it is, theyve seen worse. Ive worked in 118 degrees in Mountain House drinking a whole case of water. Construction workers always have the same message. If youre out in this heat, drink plenty of water. Take their advice because they are pros. Emergency officials are letting a fire at a Chemical Plant in crosby, texas damaged by harvey burn out on its own. The plant lost refrigeration yesterday that caused several explosions. The owners believe there will be more. The epa believes theres no serious danger but evacuated the area as a precaution. In houston rescue efforts continue as crews go door to door. So far they are rescued 72,000 people. Many of those are returning home to clean up from the devastation. Feel like crying but then im joyful because i could have been in the water. This too shall pass. I know that it will. About 20,000 homes will remain flooded for the next week because of Emergency Water releases from two reservoirs. Today houstons mayor