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ferguson at this point. that includes in front of the ferguson police department. that's one of the places where we have seen a standoff between pro pesters and police officers. they are out in force which might be one of the reasons why. it is cold and snowing. that's a simple factor in protest that keeps people away from the streets especially if they have been protesting. remember the first day after the grand jury decision, there was a lot of looting and violence and arrests. that number went down significantly yesterday, and for now we have no news of any arrests. there is another factor that goes into it. that is the thanksgiving week. that's when people are together with their families and that might be something that people
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are concentrating on. there is at least one going on in ferguson. a few dozen people. it is absolutely peaceful and for now we have absolutely no reports of looting violence. it looks like a calm evening near ferguson. >> now, the parents of the teenager who was killed gave an interview and do not believe the policeman's version of the events. >> he was run for his life. and as his father has said before, he had a conversation with him about how to deal with the authorities if you're approached. >> which was? >> which was to obey, basically if they ask you to do something you are to do it. and i believe that he asked my son to stop. and i believe that's what he did. he stopped. he turned around to get down on
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his knees like the officer asked him. >> just have to keep the faith. that hole will never be filled. we have other children that we love, but i think that broke me. >> the protests have not been limited to forget sofpblet neighboring st. louis protesters made it into the building after 100 police officers were called in. it was stopped. >> and in los angeles 12 people were arrested wednesday for failing to disperse. another fatal shooting the killing of 12-year-old that mere rice in cleveland who was carrying a toy gun at the time. video footage released shows the officer opened fire seconds after stepping out of their car.
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we have the story. >> these are the final minutes of tamir rice's life. the 12-year-old boy was shot by white police officers on saturday and he died the next day. now authorities released a video recording of the incident along with one of the 9/11 calls that brought the officers to the scene. >> i'm sitting across the street at the park. >> what's the name of the park? >> can you dell. >> the guy keeps pointing it. it's probably fake but you know what? he is scaring the [beep] out of me. >> he is seen circling a ga z-bo waving the gun. two officers arrive on the scene and less than two seconds later one of them fires. >> shots fired. male down. black male. maybe 20. black resolver. black handgun.
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>> the officers say they believe he was pointing a real weapon at them and it was later found to be an air gun that fires plastic pellets. >> this is not an effort to exonerate. it's not an effort to show the public that anybody did anything wrong. this is an obvious tragic event where a young member of our community lost their life. we've got two officers that were out there protecting the public that just had to, you know, do something that nobody wants to do. >> as with the police shooting of michael brown in ferguson missouri tamir's death triggered pro tests on tuesday, but they remained peaceful. the two officers have been suspendeden pending the hearing by a zpwrg. >> and following parliamentary elections in october incumbent will stay on as head of the government.
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let's go to our correspondent. they have been locked in a protractic conflict with rebels for months. what is the new parliament going to change, if anything? >> well, no one is expecting a shift. kiev continues to maintain that areas near crime crime should be part of -- crimea should be part of ukraine and under government control but it looks like they are trying to defend those parts of these regions that they do control, from possible attack rather than trying to retake cities -- other cities i think the point the point of ukraine is to try to told rest of the country together. to show the rest of the rebels
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that ukraine has what it takes to become prosperous and free and making them want to rejoin the fold but that's going to be extremely difficult because country is on the verge of default and desperately needs loans and in order get them they need to show they can put together a strong goverpbling coalition and unfortunately, although there are a lot of fresh faces in the ukrainian parliament and clearly those who came up wanting to reform the cournings there are still many representing old -- old regime. >> and you're in a capital that seated it as independent. do people there even care about what happens in kiev and the parliamentary elections? >> well, as far as i can see the so-called people of the done yeth haven't -- they like to
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treat ukraine as a foreign country that they feel should have gone on carrying giving out pensions and other things. a lot of people really believe russian propaganda that it's now willing led by fascists. from a associate logical point of view the woman working with drug users says they are middle class educated liberals and fits the profile of those who would be pro ukrainian. she said she didn't like ukrainian government because eshe believes it's full of politicians that are using the war for unmeaningful things and making the military more difficult and intense than it might have needed to be. >> and gulliver reporting live.
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thank you very much. also happening around the world a suicide attack on the a vehicle of the britch embassy wounded 33. the taliban claimed responsibility for the attack saying they have targeted foreign invading forces. >> and researchers are making progress towards an elola vaccine. 20 adults were injected with doses of the vaccine and they all reacted positively. and a political fall dwhrute forced his health minister to resign. her ex-husband is reportedly accused of receiving kickbacks. >> a boat carrying 700 migrants is expected to dock on the greek island. the freight boat was immobilized
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after an engine failure. it's now being towed by coast guard. >> sunrise of the southern greek idle of concrete, and in the distance a cargo ship. it remains attached to a vessel and toed it through gail force winds. 17 nautical miles. its passengers include refugees from syria and afghanistan. once their boat is anchored, they will be given shelter in the local town. >> our main concern is to offer them preliminary care. register them and find somewhere for them to stay so that they are given the best conditions possible. >> the red cross volunteers have prepared sheltonner and food in a basketball stadium.
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initial cases -- initial indications are that it was headed to italy. >> here in france the annual environmental meeting was one of the president's campaign promises. he was to turn france into a world leader on environmental issues. marade in the runup to the climate summit this was important for him so what did you take away from his speech? >> well, the president set the tone nice and early. he said that there was no way france could convince the rest of the world when it gathers in december here that it was not itself convinced of the environmental challenges and then went on for the next 40 members trying to convince the members that he himself has bought into this that they
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should react to the climate change and so, too should france and so, too, should france influence the rest of the world. he announced hess going to cut the subsidies for coal and fossil fuel developments in neighboring countries. he also said he is going to create a new agency for biodiversity, but its wasn't until the end that he came back to the idea of this global conference and said bang example is not always easy. some of the critics mentioned afterwards that it's all well and good to want to be an example but we need concrete action. and here some of these concrete mest measures should be developed, and that might decrease some of the critics. >> there is reason to believe that it could be a success? >> yes. exactly. the president applauded the decision or announcement made by
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china and the united states. let me remind you it was in copenhagen, the failure of the decade when it was largely blamed on the united states and china. looks like they are willing to play ball. he also admitted two or three years ago he may not have act the way he did today but it's only recently that he's understood the urgency of this and hopes other world leaders will have a similar momentum coming into next year. >> thank you. now, the aw strailier cricketer phillip hughes has died. he died after being struck in the head with a ball. the flags were lowered to half mast. >> a tragic accident which has shake at any world of sports.
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australian cricketer phillip hughes was struck on the neck bay ball during a domestic match on tuesday. despite receiving immediate assistance and being put into an induced coma, doctors were unable to save his life. he died three days before his 26th birthday. his team captain read out the statement on behalf of the family. >> he was full of life and we as a family shared the love of the game with him but we would like to thank all the medical and nursing staff at st. vincent's hospital for their great efforts with phillip. we love you. >> fans have taken to social media to thayer condolences. england's cricket legend asked people to spare thoughts for the man who balled the ball. deaths are rare in cricket with
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just five other deaths in the professional game in over 140 years. doctors say phillips died of a rare condition. >> it leads to the hemorrhage and there's only about 100 cases ever reported. only one previously reported as a result of a craket ball. >> cricket balls are made of a cork covered in leather and the australian cricket association says it will now conduct a review into player safety. >> all right. just before we turn our attention to the press review, a quick reminder of the top story this hour, the streets of ferguson have been quiet after two days of protest. security forces are still deployed.
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>> let's see what's grabbing headlines around the world. let's start with the eboila crisis and its continued lead? west africa. >> that's right. the new world health organizations figures came out yesterday. more than 600 new ebola cases were reported in the three countries most affected so sierraly-on-and liberia and new guinea. reporting from the front line of the epidemic points out one major stress aide groups are facing is a shortage of the protective suits. this is the hazmat or moon suits we have been seeing coming out of west africa. it's necessary to have one of these suits to avoid deadlyal contact of the bodily fluids but there's only a handful of these
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manufacturers and they have ramped up production but have had a hard time meeting demand. there's a lot of fear of ebola. and it says the u.s. is grabbing up all this ebola gear. >> citizens, hospitals, etc. are buying all these suits. >> posing a shortage in west aftera with the crisis is obviously big. >> and set to pave the way for a major international climate conference that will take place next year? >> yes. the president says he has become aware of the responsibility of climate change and you wonder how green is the president? you can see him painting himself green but does he really have a green streak inside him?
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well, the staff is quite zwided on the issue. so they argue in favor of both cases. if you take a look you can see a photo of two of him facing each other. one says, yes he is does and is hellbent on solving environmental issues. >> the other says no everything he says about the environment is just politics. >> this part to have staff says all that is just a bunch of hot air and that no real reforms have been put in place. >> in its editorial they say he is a neo fight when it comes to the environment and he still has work to do. >> far right leader now le pen is also in the spotlight. they are holding a major party summit this weekend and is widely expected to be re-elected
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as parliamentary president. >> yes. but they say there is one deloud on her horizon and that is her father who used to be the party leader. now there's a poll that says 71.9% of national front members say her father is damaging to her political strategy. so you can see the front page. it says my father, the ball and chain. >> of course, she has been trying to clean up the party image. let's move to state side where the papers focus on ferguson, missouri. mostly peaceful throughout wednesday night. this comes after two days of unrest. >> the paper asks why were protesters so willing to destroy their own snabeds we saw a lot of looting and vandalism after the grand jury's decision not to
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indict the police officer that killed michael brown. they say they -- that because residents of ferguson feel like outsiders in their own land. one bake ry called natalie's cakes and more owned bay woman named natalie duh beaus. she was already facing a pretty tough year because of all these protests and on monday night her shop was completely ransacked. it was looted. so she actually set up a crowd funding campaign online to raise donations and she is quite successful. as you can see in just a couple days she raised over $5,000 donations to an amount of about $170,000 to be able to rebuild her shop. >> and today is thanksgiving in the u.s. what do you have for us? >> yes. thanksgiving is a time for giving thanks and traditionally
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a time to have a family gathering around a large meafment it can sometimes be a little awkward though, and you can -- it can turn into an obstacle course. >> don't argue over dinner. >> because sometimes it can be about argument over politics and religion. >> slate has the solution. it says don't argue. instead of that solve these conundrums. other debate to takes are perhaps more fun. there's a long list of them. but if you were condemned to be a tree or a fish, which would you rather be? >> so that's the question you're supposed to a sk ask in front of the dinner "sunday night baseball" >> if animals ruled the world, would you rather be ruled by bees or dolphins? and would you rather fight a horse-sized duck or 100
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horse-sized -- duck-sized horses? is >> so avoiding politics and money and religion. thank you very much. do stay tuned. we have the business news coming up right now. all right. steve and carol has joined us with the top business news. stephen, let's start with the opec oil-producing company. >> they are deciding how the respond to the sharp drop in oil. it's fallen some 307 since june leaving some of the opec members struggling to pay their bills and whether or not to cut froucks produce prices is the one that's on the table. >> slashing production or not? that's the question facing o'epeck ministers in vienna who has seen oil prices tumble in
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the last five months. >> it's important to recognize that if the recent -- may be put at risk. >> that's more a problem for some than others. members have their national budget try to -- and some are pushing for a cut in production to balance their books. >> change the views of the opec and tried what it's like to maximize the benefits for its members. >> that's more complicateded than it seems. with the advent of the shale production opec is looking at competition it didn't expect. >> they were set up originally so they could control the price of i'll. the price of oil. but as the financial crisis has hit there's less demand are the
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-- they are losing control of the product they provide. >> opec prices 40% of the world's oil and any cut would mean a further cut in the market's share something the powerful gulf states are so far reluctant to permit. >> let's take a look at how oil is trading today. the brent crude falling again in trading. opec is now under the 76-dollar marked. that's -- the markets are not feeling the cut in production is likely. on the stock market the cut in oil and gas prices -- paris had a late start to the day after some problems on the exchange. up .2 of 1%. and the -- >> and the european commission is going to give its verdict on
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the budget of france. any idea what they are going to say? >> reuters say that six countries will be told of their budget, eaui spending plans in march of next year. that's the very strong hint we're expecting from the european commission. we know france as ha deficit of 3.4% well above the eu limit of 3% but they wouldn't make any further cuts on the spending plan for next year. >> the european parliament voted in favor to break up google. it seeks the separation of the company's search engine from its other services. it will add pressure to the commission's long-running antitrust investigation into the search giant. the french drinks company is
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