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this is the news live from berlin a security crisis in france president to manual mcauliffe chairs an emergency meeting a day after a fuel tax protests turned violent he and his ministers debate whether to impose a state of emergency to prevent a recurrence of the worst civil unrest in more than a decade also coming up. g. twenty leaders agree on a joint communique at this summit in argentina despite tensions over treat and climate on the sidelines u.s. president donald trump and his chinese counterpart choosing king make steps towards defusing their trade war. and do it climate talks open in poland with calls for action experts one time is running out to stop runaway kobold warming.
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i'm a money thank you for joining us french president emanuel mccall has held a crisis cabinet meeting as a government considers imposing a state of emergency a day off to fuel tax protests turned into violent riots across france now across surveyed the damage in the central paris streets after returning from the g twenty in argentina authorities say some ten thousand protesters took part in the protests in the french capital on saturday and more than four hundred were arrested after clashes broke out this france's worst civil unrest in more than a decade. lisa lewis has been covering the story in paris and i asked if any was also the meeting one known yet well we haven't had any announcement by the government just yet they were meeting for an hour and a half that was. a long meeting and they better really think about what they're
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going to do next because the pressure is growing the government has so far said we're going but you don't change anything to our plans but more and more people here are saying you know actually really really need to react to this otherwise it's going to explode even more people are talking about interaction of it and insurrection of the situation and more and more commentators are also saying you know you really have to come back go back on that and measure that is announce for you next year that is the fuel tax rise that was the trigger for this movement if not caught doesn't change that at least temporarily if he doesn't say you know good we're going to push it back by at least a few months so that we can negotiate it's very difficult how this will actually come down situation so is that what exactly is making this so difficult for the government to tackle. it's very complicated you've got about one hundred thirty thousand people that demonstrated across france yesterday but polls from a few days ago show that a lot of people
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a lot of the french eighty percent seventy percent actually supporting the movement and understand what these people are talking about this is the part of france that feels left behind by put issuance in paris obviously in my car has the image of a very arrogant president president who doesn't understand the needs of the people and his reaction to this crisis has just shown it has underlined that very perception of things so this makes it more complicated obviously when you look at the demonstrations themselves you can also see as you you know you saw the pictures from yesterday so there are violent clashes and lots of people are now saying that the demonstrations were actually infiltrated by groups from the far right from the far left that are trying to cause mayhem so the government really has to do something to calm the situation down so with so much as seventy and fresh where can we expect things to go from here. well the minority thing to do would be to negotiate but because this movement is leaderless at the moment it's very difficult
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to see who the government could talk to now the different parts of the jews are in movement have now you know the different organizations in the regions are apparently trying to elect local leaders so these local leaders can go to paris and talk to mark ha but that is not really very fledged out yet fleshed out yet so we really are waiting to see where this will go because he's very important to talk to them and to find some measure to actually you know make the anger go away he said louis in paris thank you. after two days of math and talks between the world's most powerful leaders the latest g twenty summit wrapped up in argentina's capital on saturday night though a big fault lines of migration and climate change and fears that u.s. president donald trump might refuse to sign a final communique but in the end all the leaders agreed to it on the summit sidelines trump and his chinese counterpart agreed to
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a temporary truce in the world's biggest trade dispute. it was a meeting of me saying with multilateralism taking a back seat as one on one talks dominated the summit. in particular all eyes were on u.s. president donald trump's meeting with his chinese counterpart teaching pain their first talk since a trade war erupted between their countries earlier this year few. think it was very special relationship that i had with president xi and i think that is going to be her primary reason why the world probably going to ending up getting something that movie night for china and united showing a successful dinner date the latest later announced an agreement to suspend new terrorists for ninety days a step towards diffusing the trade will. be a different kind of war also proved a key issue the conflict between russia and ukraine it was top of the agenda for
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german chancellor angela merkel's one on one with russian president vladimir putin . she called on him to release the ukrainian sailors detained by russia last weekend and said she wanted to avoid any further escalation. be undirected us off to some for can we proposed and it is being considered to have a meeting in the normandy fall meant for which the normandy councils being france germany ukraine and russia sputum about the processes happening there. putin however said he believes only a change in the ukrainian government would bring an end to the crisis. one thing all twenty leaders did agree on the need to reform the world trade organization given current trade tensions globally a success for this summit. after some of the other stories making news around the world israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has denied engaging in bribery
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after police were commended corruption charges against him and his wife sarra the case revolves around alleged regulator the favors granted to an israeli telecom company in exchange for positive coverage on the company's news website that i now faces recommended indictments in two of the corruption investigations. the us naval chief in the middle east has been found dead vice admiral scott stanley was found at his residence in balmain the gulf kingdom is the base for the fifth u.s. fleet and the u.s. navy did not give any cause of death but said no foul play is suspected. seventy nine cities in china including beijing have issued air pollution alerts that's according to state media a blanket of small over large chunks of the country is largely the result of call five heating systems being switched on for the winter. representatives from hundreds of nations have begun crunch un climate talks in poland the summit comes
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against a backdrop of dire environmental warnings and a call for action against the threats posed by climate change delegates will seek ways of implementing the commitments made in the twenty fifteen paris treaty to limit the rise in global temperatures. this is where delegates from nearly two hundred countries will be scrambling to reach a deal that can save the planet. the meeting in cultivates aims to flesh out the details of the landmark twenty fifteen paris accord. that's when countries agreed to try to limit global warming to one point five degrees celsius by the end of the century sticking points include how nations will transparently report their greenhouse gas emissions. the sense of urgency is palpable climate change is not just somewhere out in the future it's today and we need to take action not only to reduce the emissions but frankly to figure out and to put in motion the kinds of ways that we're going to address those impacts because it's having effects on on
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real people's lives and those who are most vulnerable are getting hit hard. it was real people who turned out in the belgian capital brussels on sunday demanding strong measures to combat climate change there were similar scenes a day earlier in germany protesters took to the streets of berlin and cologne calling on the government to accelerate the country's exit from coal fired energy. urgently need to take action on the climate because one thing is certain we can't continue on the path of using and wasting so much energy and only caring about our own wallets. experts believe a vast overhaul of the world's economy is needed to curb global warming people around the world are demanding their leaders do whatever it takes now. flags are flying at half mast across the united states in tribute to the late george had but
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walker bush the former u.s. president died on saturday at the age of ninety four now bush played a lead role in making sure the cold war ended peacefully and in launching the first gulf war well some people have criticized his foreign policy others have praised bush's accomplishments a statement ship. to own that the former president the phrase endorsing service in his inaugural address in the u.s. the country george h.w. bush served many say he will be missed. he is everything you ever imagined a person would be. and i think his legacy really is what inspires all of us to come here across the well in kuwait bush's photograph i don't see a towel in the capital of the country his price cheerful ousting iraqi forces in one thousand nine hundred. eleven have not a government he has much respect here because he freed kuwait it's big not small he
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helped us against arab aggression he's a foreigner but he freed us from the arabs. but many iraqis see him miss a criminal for the intervention which later became known as the gulf war. or history will not honor bush sr because he attacked a peaceful nation that never challenged america on a job for the reste russians have mixed feelings towards to forty first us president former soviet premier and bush but closely together to end the cold war during the late eighty's and early ninety's. for sure conflict or to stay generally i have negative feelings about him his dealings with garbage of other countries direction but you bring it relations between russia and the us warms during gorbachev's time and it made sense to me like the legion. while views on bush defer many constant i that he played a role in changing the world oda. the draw for qualifying for the european soccer championship in twenty twenty has been made featuring former champions germany in
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the netherlands' set to battle each other group sees england in a comparatively easy group facing the czech republic all garia want to know grow and cost of all defending champions portugal are in group b. taking on ukraine serbia lithuania and look some book and group see the germans and the dutch together in what can be fierce encounters they'll also be playing against north an island a stone ia and bella rooms the top two teams in each of the ten groups will qualify for you or twenty twenty which for the first time will be staged in twelve different venues across the continent after qualifying for the champions league knockout stages with a game to spare bundesliga leaders brucia dortmund were back in domestic action on saturday they ground out a two no victory over struggling freiburg extending their lead at the top of the table to seven points. what that t.-bone cost to the table at christmas dalton fans were in full voice ahead of kickoff. i hadn't they could
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have been three up by the time vindication jaden sencha won a penalty in the thirty seven minutes was not much contact but nonetheless. responsibility fell to marco ruiz i was captives night strike of the season the below freiburg almost hit back just two minutes later my jerome vaughn those free kicks thumping back off running but he's good oh i don't mean cuts away to wild to put the games a bit because pitched chick teeing up tackle out katha in the eighty ninth minute was i to nail a final score i royce now katha to the rescue once more with ten toes in just eight appearances the spaniards had no trouble making friends in dalton. how does it go
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to show the say we're so happy to have him in the squad there's a few lads that are working hard for him still to feel if he doesn't of course we know that we have an ice cold striker that can put the ball in the net to develop we saw that again today on the pitch as he has plenty more for fans to cheer about as dalton goes seven points clear. and i remind you of the top story we're following for you french president emmanuel mccall has held a crisis cabinet meeting a day after a fuel tax protests turned violent across france here in his ministers consider whether to impose a state of emergency to prevent a recurrence of west civil unrest in more than a decade. you're watching news from brendon well coming up the top of the hour and don't forget you can get all the latest news and information around the clock on all websites that's d w dot com but also on social media and you can follow us me our news thank you for watching he doesn't.
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