♪ ost influential voice in iraq for the past eight years, refusing to stand aside. the president of iraq has given his job to another shiite politician, and al-maliki has accused the president of a coup, saying it is a serious violation of the constitution. >> a major defeat for nouri

al-maliki as a rising shiite takes the premiership. after months of political wrangling, the country's president called on the deputies speaker of congress to form a new parliament. that man was elected by the iraqi national alliance, a coalition that al-maliki is also a part of. >> as the first coalition meeting, we elected al-maliki and he was the only candidate. >> the choice is likely to be resisted by the outgoing prime minister. early on sunday, al-maliki declared he would file a legal complaint against the president. >> i am warned before the gravity of breaching the constitution, which the people of iraq have voted for. i have also warned against ignoring the results of the election. >> the announcement comes just

hours after the prime minister stepped up his struggle to keep his job. security troops were deployed across the street from the capitol. they have denied it. >> everything is normal and usual. >> prime minister since 2006, almy d -- al-maliki has a support base, and some took to the streets on monday, but even his shiite backing has become divided. tehran and washington have called on theminister to calm the waters. >> let's turn to the humanitarian crisis in iraq where people are in urgent need for food and water. thousands of them are stranded on a mountain since the sunni insurgents.

isis is involved. the united states says they will send a response team, and some 20,000 people have been rescued by iraqi forces. with analysis of the situation a representative from the french aid agency joins us now for his take on the situation. good evening to you, emanuel. tell us your reading of what is going on on the ground and what you are finding. >> good evening, sir. first of all we are facing a major humanitarian crisis. there are the displaced people who are rising from the northern part of iraq, and a fourth wave

arrived two months after the first one so why am i saying it is a major crisis? it is due to the number of people who are rising and due to the profile of the people. which, keep in mind, most of them have been fleeing for something like one week in very difficult conditions. the pressure is mounting over several days, and they are in the kurdistan region, with a very poor profile. these people are very tired. so really, it is a terrible situation that these arabs are not prepared to answer, and

original authorities are doing their best to help these people. >> and, of course, these people, emanuel, are running for their lives from the threat of the isis insurgents, and many of the people you have to help if the children, and this comes to the tragedy of the situation the number of children who have been affected. >> as was being mentioned before, the children yes very, very, let's say horrific situation. children arriving here in a bad health state and a lack of food and things like this. >> emmanuelle, we need to leave it there. i am very sorry to cut you

there, emanuel speaking to us from northern iraq. thank you for telling us what your organization is doing there. the u.s. securities source on monday began drafting a resolution aimed at ending what they call choking off the flow of foreign fighters and the financial support to jihadist in iraq and syria, and this includes sanctions against individuals who support isis in iraq and others in syria. barack obama has ordered airstrikes to halt their advance. there was a measure proposed by britain for adopting a strongly wording text later this week and we will have more on that of course, as it develops. israel and hamas are talking again, and egypt, once again, is acting as mediator. the cease-fire is holding, but a lasting peace still seems far off. a are convening in cairo to

discuss the crisis where more than 2000 people have been killed. the arab league has been told that israel is not interested in peace. >> holding fire for now. throughout the night violence did not break out between gaza and israel, and the fragile 72 hour truce seems to be holding giving them a chance to restart indirect talks in egypt, but for hamas, this is the last chance for a deal. >> we want to reach our goal, which is to meet the demands of all palestinians and those in the gaza strip. >> israel once gaza to be demilitarized, to stop them from infiltrating into the country through tunnels. right and the start of the new truce at midnight, both camps kept on fighting.

this after a previous cease-fire expired on friday. the israeli prime minister warned that reaching an agreement would take time. >> israel will continue to act in every way to change the situation and to bring peace for all its citizens. we will find unity until we complete our mission. >> egyptian mediators and the u.n. hope that the new round of talks will bring lasting peace to the region. >> let's pick up from the end of the report there and get the latest on the talks. is there any sign of progress? our correspondent is in cairo. good evening to you. what is the latest word you can bring us? >> well, the indirect negotiations have begun again with egypt once again playing the role of shuttle diplomacy taking proposals back and forth between the israeli delegation and the palestinian delegation. as with the last failed round

the fire negotiation, the two sides are not speaking to each other directly, and as with the last round of failed negotiations the two sides seem very far apart on fundamental, core issues. as the report mentioned, the israelis are insisting that hamas disarm, and hamas is insisting that tangible steps taken to ease the restrictions on movement in and out of gaza before they even begin to talk about a peace deal, so there has been no sign of progress beyond just the fact that they are not shooting at each other at the moment, but the cease-fire is holding. the negotiations are going, and they have another two days before this current 72 hours cease-fire ends, so everyone is waiting and seeing, but there have been no indication of movement on either side, but negotiations have begun once again in cairo.

>> with the arab league, what can we expect to come from that? realistically? >> realistically, not a lot is going to change the situation on the ground. the arab league is kind of a symbolic organization at the end of the day and the strongest stuff they could take is that they would be calling on the international community to intervene. that is not really going to carry that much weight. it is really more of a symbolic situation. it is more of a public fencing space more than anything that would change anything on the ground. >> thank you very much for bringing us up-to-date there speaking to us from cairo. the number of ebola cases in nigeria has now been put at 10. the world health organization has confirmed the outbreak there is the worst ever. 951 people have been killed there. doctors say it will continue to migrate. the outbreak began in liberia

where the military has established checkpoints to keep people from moving around to stop the spread of ebola. >> the liberian government is taking tough measures to fight the spread of ebola, and they are being affected. the capital is usually bustling, but they have stopped traders from gathering. >> we are driving, and we do not have a market here. >> street vendors say they are finding it impossible to make a living. >> now the government is saying that everybody remained home and now they are saying no market. that is really bad. >> government checkpoints prevent people from moving from districts, isolating some communities. the measure is proving unpopular, but church attendance in this christian country has remained strong, where they disinfect their hands with

chlorinated water before entering church. >> when you come to church, it is the word of god, and we cannot back off. >> invented measures cannot go but so far in a country whose health services, particularly in rural areas, are struggling to deal with new cases. >> there have been at least 32 arrests in writing after a u.s. police officer shot dead an unarmed black teenager who was killed on saturday in missouri. rioting and looting of stores followed in the city of st. louis, where it happened. there is an open investigation into possible civil rights violations. >> rioters in the town of ferguson talk to the police in the light of brown's death. tension between the african-american majority and the mostly white local police force. >> no justice! no peace!

>> police had to call in reinforcements from neighboring towns. african-american civil rights groups have called for calm. >> this will create more problems, and i hope that this community will settle down, because it would lighten the burden of little bit, once they realize what has happened. >> the trigger for the riots, on saturday night, michael brown, an unarmed black teenager was shot by police after an argument. the circumstances of his death are unclear. according to the police, the teenager tried to steal a gun from an officer, but a witness who was with brown said the officer attacked him for no apparent reason. >> graduating from my high school and he was not bothering anybody. >> he was a cool kid. he was no troublemaker. he was always quiet. >> an investigation is currently

underway, led by the fbi, and the victim's family has already hired a lawyer who represented the family of trayvon martin, a 17-year-old african-american killed by a neighborhood watchman in florida, sparking a nationwide debate about race and self-defense. >> paris is asking lovers to seal their romance with what is now called a sophie and to stop attaching padlocks to the famous bridge over the river seine, and it has become the place to demonstrate your love with a commonplace hardware, and a padlock, and then it is sealed for eternity. this process began in 2008, and it has weighed heavily on the bridge. in june, for example, a section of the bridge collapsed under the weight of so many padlocks. lovers are being urged to take a selfie and upload it to a website called lovewithoutlocks.

controversially, nouri al-maliki refuses to step aside after the president appoints a new man to take his job. another 72 hours, the latest truce in gaza, is holding. talks between israel and hamas holds on, motivated by egypt in cairo. it was said that israel was not interested in peace. the world health organization warns the ebola outbreak will get worse. 961 dead so far, and more cases have been confirmed in nigeria where a national emergency has been declared. those are the headlines read stay with us. more "france 24" in just a moment. ♪

welcome back. it is time for media watch, and that means james is in the studio. great to see you. how to lose friends on facebook, and one way, it seems, right now, is to share what you actually think about the israel-palestinian conflict. >> that is right. this weekend talking about this very topic and how people are falling out over their various positions on this particular issue, an issue that gets people's emotions running high. so this first article that i'm going to show you in the los angeles times by a woman talking about her situation at home. she is married to an israeli guy, and her father herself is israeli, and she posted this does is stick on facebook about the number of hamas fired rockets landing in southern israel, and immediately, a

friend said, oh, my god, on the post and deleted it. then her husband posted a video with a zionist interpretation of the founding of israel, and that led to a big rant with anti-semitic slurs, so her husband said he is finished and took this friend off his facebook feed. the next day, there was a heated exchange with a close jewish friend who is sympathetic to the palestinian side, and he was unceremoniously dumped, so people are to beating each other, unfriending each other because they do not -- people are deleting each other unfriending each other, because they do not agree. sometimes they could converse on hebrew, and there would be political differences that would flareup, but emotional ties would keep the family together, and then this lebanese person deleted her own facebook after

seeing this post. the journalists that she promised to not post anything political again, but this is obviously getting everyone's emotions and piquing interest so it is interesting that friends that are able to survive in real life don't seem to survive on social media. >> so many things about the written word being misinterpreted, and, of course the short expression of social media leads to multiple interpretations. i think a lot about discussing anything except religion or politics holds. >> but there is one thing that people are able to do, and that is on facebook, you can just not witness what certain people say or think without going so far to unfriend them or block them, which is an aggressive enough act. this particular article on pi

nkprogress.com, one out of three people get their news through facebook. the thing is if you are muting or blocking people on facebook it poses a problem in itself in the sense that the debate becomes even more polarized, so you are staying in their own sphere. >> it gets more and more extreme. >> if you are weeding out certain points of view, your only existing in an ecosystem that is pretty small in some respects, but in the article they talked about people who we did --weeded other people out. anything about war upsets me said one person. and another said, living in tel aviv, that posts that make israel out to a genocide machine purposefully killing anyone possible, that is the kind of

thing he is going to immediately delete, and i think the story out of all of this is towards the end of the article, people say things on social media that they may not say to someone in person. because you are physically removed from an audience, it makes it easier to use inflammatory rhetoric, and that means you're going to have a fight with somebody, a row with somebody, because you're paying more attention. >> indeed, especially if they have bigger muscles than you. >> you're going to be a bit more careful about what you say. >> i don't know. social networking. it can be a blessing. it can be a burden. james, always a blessing. great to see you, great to see you. and across the studio, we have kate awaiting us with the business. >> nice to see you, mark. >> starting with turkey. the man just elected resident. he is credited with ushering in

a golden age during the decade he served as prime minister. >> well, he is proposing a continuation of that. he wants to bring turkey into the top 10 economies over the next decade, but i tell you, his policies are a little bit controversial. under his watch, foreign investment in turkey did room, and the gdp averaged five percent growth per year, but that has slowed to just over 2.5% last year, and inflation is double what the central bank would like it to be, and many critics argue that his growth is unsustainable. we explain. >> the economy. erdogan's secret weapon. turkey's gdp has nearly quadrupled since he came to power, leading to a boom in private consumption and construction. >> the industrial park has tripled in the area, and the companies have grown in size.

we have increased the output of our equipment and scaled up. >> the economic prosperity has benefited turks across the board. the standard of living has improved and the average income has tripled since 2002, so it was a little surprise that many backed erdogan to continue leading the country. >> everyone knows that this was in accordance, so it is key in turkish politics. >> that while the turkish economy has come a long way in the last decade, it has shown signs of weakness over the past year amid domestic troubles. protests and a corruption scandal has seen some overseas investors leaving. a cause for concern in a country that heavily defends on foreign funds. the government has also been at loggerheads over monetary policy and it has profound consequences on the future of the turkish economy. while erdogan has vowed to make

turkey one of the top countries by 2023, critics argue he will have to change his policies if that were to happen. the same policies that made him the directly elected president. >> russia's economy takes and did from a program in june compared to the same period last year. it is a slight decrease from the previous quarter, and a slight change in growth that was forecast by the economy minister last month. russian gdp growth had already slowed down last year, and was a stream of western sanctions that will start weighing on overall growth. and they cut their own estimate by over one percentage point to just over .2% growth for the rest of the year. let's take a look at how the markets fared on this first trading day in the week. in europe, following on from the positive trend that we saw in asia earlier on, and the cap 24

-- cac 24 was trading up. investors around the world seemingly reassured by geopolitical tensions, signs moscow will not be sending troops into ukraine, very reassuring for investors around the world. and some other business headlines now, we focus on the energy sector. joining forces to build a massive wind farm off of the german north sea coast, costing 1.2 billion euros. it is expected to start working in 2017. they have 72 turbines, capable of supplying energy for thousands of homes. and the uk's subsidiary of an energy company has temporarily shut down four new reactors over a potential problem with boilers. they are not considered public safety threats but they were

also building two new reactors. they are looking for a change to help their energy needs. the merger will make the texas-based one. finally, the sweet tooth of paris. the founder of one of the world's most celebrated ice cream brands has died at the age of 90. he opened the first ice cream parlor in 1954, and it quickly became a landmark in paris with thousands of like. after 60 years of business, his most important and demanding customers were always the schoolchildren of paris. that is all the business news

for now. >> what a legacy. all of the business. >> and we are taking a short break. after that, of course, more news to come. you are watching live from paris on "fr

m pacifica, this is democracy now! >> in the occupied territories what israel is doing is much worse than apartheid. to call it apartheid is a gift to israel. what is happening there is much worse. >> as a new 72 hour cease-fire takes hold in gaza, we turn to the world-renowned dissident and linguist m.i.t. professor noam chomsky.