>> thank you very much for joining us. the u.s. and the u.k. are weighing up leading an international response to rescue the yeaxi -- the yazidi people stranded in the mountains. the people of isis have chased the yazidis from their homes.

the u.k.'s david cameron says there are detailed plans to save the yeah cd -- the yazidis. >> there is an absolutely desperate situation in iraq, particularly on this mountainside. i'm pleased that british planes have been playing a role to help these people. we need a plan to keep -- get those people off a mountain -- off the mountain and to a place of safety. detailed plans are being put in place and are underway. britain will play a role. >> the france says it will be delivering for -- arms to the kurdish forces in the coming hours. it is also sending advisers to the scene. the kurdish passion murder -- ku rdish peshmerga forces are working against isis. >> france has announced it is due to send weaponry to iraqi

kurds struggling to hold back the isis tied in northern iraq. a statement released by the presidential palace said that weapons would be sent in the coming hours. it is a decision that has been taken outside the normal european framework after the failure of an ambassadors meeting on tuesday to come to an agreement after -- over the iraq situation. some eu countries are strictly opposed to sending weapons to the struggling kurds. the president of the autonomous kurdish region of iraq called on the international community to help them fight against the insurgents. they have received support from the u.s. and u.k. the u.k. has intensified its involvement by sending helicopters and arranging airdrops of supplies. the french government has not yet given any precise details so far about the types of arms being deployed, how many, and how they are to be used.

meanwhile, 20 tons of humanitarian aid left from paris on wednesday. a convoy comprised of medicine tents, and materials for treatment and distribution of water. >> let's get more french perspective on this story. we are joined by a member of parliament. thank you for joining us on "france 24." >> hello. >> what's your opinion on sending arms to the kurds? >> i support the decisions by francois hollande, which will be implemented by the french government. there is a necessity to fight back against islamist state and the kurds in iraq and the democratic forces in iraq need all the support from the international community. i think it's right that france, like the u.s. and britain, are supporting actively the democratic forces in iraq. >> should france join with this

possible plan from the united states and the u.k. to launch a rescue mission to help get the yaziidis off of the mount? >> there are different initiatives, humanitarian airstrikes from the u.s., france has decided to send arms to the fighters -- i think all the initiatives are going in the right direction. if we remember what happened in syria, france was in favor of delivering weapons to the opposition before the opposition was taken over by the islamists. france was completely isolated and the other eu states did not want to do it. now look at the situation in syria. before the islamist state takes control of more of areas -- control of more areas of iraq, it's important to help them fight back. the islamist state is not only a threat to iraq or syria. it's a threat to the whole region if we don't stop it.

it could be extremely dangerous for the stability of the region and the stability of the whole world. >> philip cordery, thank you very much for joining us. let's move on now to our next story. live from paris, the world health organization has reported 128 new cases of ebola in west africa and 56 deaths. news of the outbreak spreading comes as canada announces it was sending a stock of new serum to help those infected. the world body has given the greenlight for the use of an experimental drug to treat all in the biggest outbreak of -- treat people in the biggest outbreak of ebola in history but supplies are limited. >> the serum can now be used in the fight against ebola but it is already out of stock in the u.s. according to experts pharmaceutical companies could be reluctant to produce more of the drug. >> the number of people who are affected i.e. ebola virus throughout the decades has been relatively low -- affected by

ebola virus throughout the decades has been relatively low. it is unlikely they will invest large amounts of money because there is not sufficient profit. >> they kept some of the stock for national security reasons. >> the treatments and vaccines that we have that have arisen mainly out of funding from governments, we should aim particularly to meet bioterrorism threats. people are worried that ebola virus could be used in germ warfare. >> according to "the washington post" in 2010, the u.s. department of defense signed a $140 million contract with the company to develop a treatment for ebola infections, a research program aimed at enhancing the nation's bio defense capability -- biodefense response capability. >> let's bring you the news coming in from the middle east.

the israeli police sources say that a rocket has landed just two hours before the end of the temporary cease-fire. negotiations are going on in cairo between israel and hamas mediated by egypt, in order to try to find a solution to the conflict which has claimed almost 2000 lives in the gaza strip. the latest coming in from the middle east is from israeli police forces, saying that a rocket has landed on israel ahead of that truce deadline. with no solution it seems on the table at the talks in cairo, it seems that the resumption of hostilities, as threatened by both sides, looks like it is now underway. we will bring you more as we get it here on "france 24." next ukraine has called a russian convoy approaching its border a cynical act designed to fan a rebel in. -- fan a rebellion.

kiev says a compromise could be reached if the red cross came -- became involved. russia's president vladimir putin has warned of a humanitarian catastrophe in the eastern region. our correspondent joins us now from kiev. tell us the latest you have on this convoy. >> well, i was just speaking to some journalists who are on the scene in the russian city, which is several hundred kilometers away from moscow, on the way to ukraine. it has been halted there all day. it arrived last night and was due to leave at 10:00 this morning. it is still there now. that convoy is going to start trundling its way toward ukraine again in the morning. but there is still an awful lot that is unclear about this convoy. we are getting very conflicting

information coming out of kiev about whether this is absolutely not wanted and will be sent back under any circumstances. then we have president poroshenko's spokesperson saying, is the international red cross gets involved and there is an international presence on the border, it could be taken through customs and it would be ok. we've heard russia say that all of this has already been completely agreed with the red cross and we have the red cross saying it hasn't been agreed. there is an awful amount of confusion. it is humanitarian aid, if it is indeed humanitarian aid -- there have been some doubts about what is inside there is a really awful humanitarian situation going on at the moment. >> at potentially humanitarian catastrophe -- when vladimir putin says a potential humanitarian catastrophe, we can take him at his word? >> it depends on who you blame

for that catastrophe. kiev says it is putin's fault in the purse lace for -- in the f irst place for prompting the uprising in eastern ukraine. if you listen to what moscow says, then what we are seeing is a really unpleasant and aggressive movement by the ukrainian army to win back this territory involving the shelling of civilian populations. who is to blame? there is no doubt there is a serious -- the death toll has doubled in the last two week.s. over 2000 deaths in eastern ukraine since the violence began. whole cities without running water. these are -- this is a very grave situation. >> shaun walker, thank you very much. the brazilian presidential candidate, a contender to unseat

president dilma rousseff in october, has been killed in an air crash. he was running third in the polls. he was on board a jet that crashed into a gym and houses in the city of santos. there were seven people on board. it was en route from rio to send hollow. -- two sao paulo. the current president has suspended her campaign for reelection. >>the former hard-line leader of egypt, hosni mubarak, has been speaking at his trial in cairo. he read a statement to the court denying the order of the deaths. the uprising became known as the arab spring. >> ec -- he sseees -- he seized a golden opportunity to tell his side of the story one last time. he defended his 30-year rule, three decades during which he

said the egyptian army help protect the country from threats from abroad and from terrorist. insists the troops were not -- and from terrorists. he insists the troops were not trained to -- >> i developed our armed forces and provided them with arms and training so they could defend our people and our peace. i never played irresponsibly with the lives of agents. >> is former interior minister claimed the revolution -- his former interior minister claimed the revolution was a conspiracy by the muslim brotherhood and hamas. the ousting of mohamed morsi sparked further unrest and violence. last year's military coup helped bring back stability to egypt. >> i've warned against mixing religion and politics before and against taking steps backward, like what happened in 2012.

>> along with seven other former top ranking officials, the 86-year-old faces life in prison over murder charges. >> the actress and icon, lauren bacall has passed away at age 89. her smoky voice -- the smoky-voiced screen siren was equally lauded for her broadway performances. she will became -- she became part of one of the most glamorous couples in hollywood when she married humphrey bogart, aman 25 years her senior, but who she claimed was the love of her life. >> you know how to whistle. you just put your lips together and blow. >> she was 19 years old when she debuted in "to have and have not." together, they played in three films, including the classic "the big sleep." ♪ >> ♪ lying on a pillow >> ♪ sleeping like a willow.

>> they fell for each other on and off screen, marrying in 1945 but the love story ended prematurely when bogart died of cancer in 1957. she was briefly engaged to crooner frank sinatra, but bacall said there was a part of her that could never get over bogart. she was in over 30 minute -- movies. and though she was nominated she never won an oscar until 2009 when she was given an honorary award for her role in the golden age of pictures. >> a man at last. [laughter] well, this is quite an event i must say. this is something i never expected. >> lauren bacall won over a dozen awards in a career that spanned more than half a century. she was a hit on the silver screen, the stage, and even as an author.

she told her life story in her two best-selling autobiographies. >> actress lauren bacall has passed away at the age of 89. a train derailment in switzerland narrowly avoided ending in tragedy. it jumped off the tracks after it ran into a landslide in the alps. one carriage tumbled into a ravine but was rented from falling farther -- but was prevented from falling farther by trees. no one was killed. the accident happened southeast of zero -- of zurich. more to come. stay with us on "france 24." >> welcome back. time for media watch. good to see you. starting with an article on "france 24's" observers

website about false images of isis. >> we heard a new story. in gaza, we heard that the fake images do circulate on social media, where fact checking is less thorough, if not completely nonexistent on occasion. the website has flagged quite a few images that are also fake, false images used to prove slavery and general -- genital mutilation under isis. the first one is "summary executions of the yazidis." this image was supposedly taken in iraq. it was supposedly yazidis on sinjar mountain. those images were taken in syria. it was a clan who rebelled against isis there. the spirit of the photo is intact in the sense that these

are isis executions, but the factual location is not correct. photos of women and allegedly sold as slaves. you can see images taken in lebanon in 2013. this is a shiite procession in the town of -- an iraq the parliamentarian and several websites claimed that hundreds of women from the yazidi community had been sold as slaves, but there are no photos to illustrate that. further down again, group marriage and mo-- group marriage in mosul. that is bogus. it is not a group marriage. it is one man marrying one woman. and "state fatwa on female genital mutilation." there was a claim that isis had ordered the genital mutilation of all women and girls living in the mosul region. the claim was founded on the

basis of a fake fatwa that has been circulating online for several months. isis has reportedly ordered farmers to hide cows' udders bec ause they are deemed indecent. you have lots of sendups of that, photomontages online, but no actual proof of that claim. isis themselves are putting up their hand and claiming responsibility for a huge amount of brutal acts, but in the midst of all that, there does seem to be some bogus claims as well. >> lots of things online that you can't check you can't verify what it is about or where it is from. sometimes it is about incompetence. sometimes it is about manipulation. the key is to go to trusted sources, such as ours. >> and they are doing a good job there. >> next up, reporting on

suicide, which is extremely delicate. a newsmagazine, left-leaning in the u.k., looks at where reporting on this sensitive issue can go wrong. >> they spoke -- i don't have the article to illustrate this. i lost it along the way. they spoke about some suicide attempts last year. there was paris jackson, the daughter of michael jackson, and also a couple of other examples, where it was reported on in an arc -- on in an insensitive manner and the people were still around to witness these reports later. a couple of words of caution in articles today about that. i won't go into more detail about that, but it is being flagged that reporting on suicide can on occasion be insensitive. >> let's move onto another great loss for hollywood, robin williams, of course, taking his own life yesterday. today, we have sad news of the passing, of, at the age of 89

lauren bacall. >> lots of reaction to that online. her best quotes. you can't always be a leading lady. i'm not a has-been, i'm a will -be. here is a test to find out whether your mission in life is complete. if you're a live, it -- you're alive, it isn't. she had a very strong spirit. a french online news source and magazine dealing with culture and films and that kind of stuff says, "her look has been turned off," like a light. she was known as "the look," for the look she was probably off and giving to mr. bogart. she was a regular in paris over the years. you could see her at the café. she was -- when i'm feeling decadent. one more.

i think we have the images for this. a rather odd bit of trivia. let's roll the pictures. madonna's "vogue" from 1990. there was a whole list of hollywood greats in it at one point. >> ♪ on the cover of a magazine grace kelly harlow jean jean kelly fred astaire ginger rogers dance on air >> they have all passed on, every single one of them. this was the hollywood golden age. she was the last to go, lauren bacall. >> thank you very much indeed. let's cross the studio. kate, starting on the fear of deflation here in france and across the eurozone. >> that's right. the eurozone's two largest economies have reported very disappointing figures of

inflation for july. that means consumer prices rose much less than expected. while lower prices sounds like a good thing for consumers, a spiral of falling prices can actually hamper economic activity, producing overall -- reducing overall consumer spending and dragging down the wider economy. >> not exactly what the european economy was looking for -- inflation in france in july following. a seasonal decline in annual summer sales. france joined by germany posting your -- year-on-year inflation figures well below the target. that raises the specter of deflation, a situation where prices actually fall, as the long-term declining growth hurts consumer confidence -- >> it is a risk that it will set off a vicious circle. consumers expect to see prices

fall so they are encouraged to spend less and less. that aggregates to displace an airy situation -- to di sflationary situations. without intervention, the situation will get worse by the day. >> spain portugal, and greece are already in deflation. efforts to counter it require a european response. >> the european central bank aided by national governments has to prove that it believes inflation will turn at some point, not only by announcing investment by the state, but also by indicating that the central bank is ready to intervene and do whatever it takes to reach a balanced level. >> the impact will be felt at a national level. falling prices in sales -- and sales will hurt revenue from the -- revenue. paris has calculated that the revenue of 136 billion euros on annual inflation is 2.5 times

recent levels. the likely shortfall set back efforts to reduce the national deficit. >> for the u.k., the unemployment rate edging towards a six-year low. the number of jobless people felt -- fell to just over 2 million, a rate of 6.4%, the lowest since late 2008. the government has expressed concern about wage inflation. the average range rose by 0.6% in the year ending in june. the bank of england says it will play into the decision about if and when it will decide to raise interest rates. the markets shrugged off most of that data this wednesday. europe following a positive trend from asia. germany's dax led gains, closing up just under 1.5%. the cac 40 ended up just .78%. wall street also trading in the green espied disappointing's -- despite disappointing sales numb

ers. weak sales in the auto sector. markets around the world are being driven by optimism about the situation in ukraine and strong results on utilities and insurance sectors. moving on to some of the other business headlines. starting with the french bank societe generale. they could face a trial in the u.s., accused of fraud. they say they were misled about the quality of subprime mortgage loans. they collapsed and were taken over by the british government. the trial could take place next year if the two banks don't settle. deere, the american manufacturer of farming equipment, has seen its third-quarter sales drop 15% as u.s. farmers spend less money. it will scale back production as demand remains uncertain. sales of sony's playstation 4

have hit the 10 million mark less than a year after the gaming console debuted. the xbox

m pacifica, this is democracy now! >> i recommended to the president and the president has authorized me to go ahead and send about 130 new assessment team members up to northern iraq in the erbil area. quick as the pentagon sent 130 more marines