Life rafts are ferried towards turkish waters by a greek coast guard vessel then i apparently the rope is cuts one of the migrants reported that the life raft was left to float around for hours until they were rescued back on the turkish side. This kind of expulsion is known as push back and is in legal once they angriest migrants have the right to apply for asylum there apparently pushbacks dont take place just on water but also on land aid groups criticized this practice as openly breaching of the European Human Rights Convention the thought of being deported and scares many refugees in greece could they be next i reporter traveled to a refugee camp near the salome came to find out. To refugee camps near thessaloniki. Adele aotearoa from the Refugee Organization you soar is looking for clues for socalled pushbacks Asylum Seekers are said to have been illegally picked up by greek police and deported to turkey. Yes its happening how often. If the czech woman with syrian roots has been
Hello im terry Martin Thanks for joining us german chancellor Angela Merkel and french president. Are expected shortly to detail a joint plan to help europe recover from the coded 900 crisis it comes after both leaders addressed a birchwood meeting of the World Health Organizations governing body this years World Health Assembly is focused almost entirely on boosting Global Cooperation to fight the pandemic. And well be bringing you some live pictures hopefully in just a few moments from the joint press conference from the german and french leaders but 1st lets cross over to do w. Political correspondent Thomas Sparrow hes standing by for us at our parliamentary studios and hes here to break this down for a certain most likely expect from this unusual event you mentioned terry already one of the key elements those discussions on how to recover the economy in the European Union in particular and in the euro zone that is something that well probably hear in a few minutes from both corn a
Crisis. Our goal has been to provide a comprehensive response addressing not just the medical priority spells of Economic Impact on so Many American families. Weve provided funding for the testing, for medical care, personal protective equipment for frontline medical personnel. For vaccine and treatment development, for veterans, nutrition programs, for first responders, for Unemployment Benefits, for elementary schools, high schools and colleges, for farmers and ranchers. For the Paycheck Protection Program to help Small Businesses keep employees on the payroll and when the program ran out we provided another 310 billion to ensure as many Small Businesses as possible were able to take advantage. The act also appropriated 293 billion for direct payments to american citizens to help them get through this difficult time. A at this point can madam president , Government Agencies are focused on getting all the aid that we passed out the door. Some programs that the Paycheck Protection Prog
Confusing. On the move again in france and spain start lifting some of the toughest coronavirus restrictions in europe. And disneyland reopens in Mainland China cinemas museums and other recreational venues are set to follow. Hello a defiant donald trump has praised his governments efforts to ramp up testing for corona virus as the nation with the worlds highest death toll starts to reopen its economy more than 80000 people have now died in the u. S. But the president says americas Testing Capacity is unmatched an unrivaled and has 9000000 people have been tested for the virus so far and hes announced new funds to ramp up capacity even more giving priority to Nursing Homes this afternoon i am announcing that my administration is and weve got this all approved its all done is sending 1000000000. 00 to americas states territories and so this is all been approved weve got it done completed the money is going out this major investment will ensure that america continues to conduct more test
I want to talk about that. As i tried to communicate last week, the drafting of our institution, the history of its formation is extraordinary to say the least. It is remarkable moment in all of world history. We are here at 233 years later and our constitution is in the news daily, being referred to as we almost speak here tonight, again and again. One particular aspect, but it is alive and well. To think about the fact this came together from a period of midmay until midseptember of 1787 is remarkable. We recall that we said the revolutionary war, and a lot of folks are not clear on the sequencing. It is important to note conflict began with lexington and concord and massachusetts in 1774. These very independent colonies, all british colonies that operated with their own governments and their own leadership, and so forth, suddenly had to come together and form a military alliance. It was not easy for them to do that. They had a lot of hesitation and concern about what it meant to be