you are watching "france 24," broadcasting live from paris. the e.u. could provide help to balkan countries hit by the financial crisis. angela merkel is in brussels to address the issue. we will talk to our correspondent. more than 3000 migrants crossed into hungary on thursday alone. we followed a group of migrants throughout their ordeal at the border of serbia. vester lee flanagan, who shot dead to reporters -- dead two reporters on live television,

described himself as a human powder keg before he shot himself. also coming up, in business, ukraine agrees to a deal with its creditors to avoid default and to help stabilize the country's economy, battered by the cost of war. balkan leaders are meeting with angela merkel in vienna today. the summit will largely be dominated by the migrant crisis. the german chancellor is urging european countries to come up with a strategy to deal with the influx and to prevent far right extremism from spreading. some countries have implement a tough measures to protect their borders.

hungary and bulgaria are building walls to prevent migrants from flowing in. more than 100,000 people are thought to have used the balkans route this year alone, more than 10 times the number compared to last year. the blame game among the countries affected by the crisis continues. members -- so, you have a problem, but you are asking us, serbia, to come up with an action plan for migrants. you should come up with an action plan first, then ask us to come up with our plan. i have to be completely open with you on this issue because we are friends. reporter: -- claire: what can we expect from the conference? reporter: we can certainly expect all of those balkan countries to take a hard and common line on this migrant crisis.

we just heard from the serbian foreign minister. he and his macedonian colleague said there needs to be some kind of e.u. action plan. the macedonians said they have only received 900,000 euros to help them deal with this crisis, which is woefully insufficient in their opinion. austria certainly wants to switch the focus as part of this conference on this migrant crisis. the focused so far has been on the mediterranean migrant issue. this has been largely ignored, the west balkans issue, by the e.u. the foreign ministers also said this morning that this problem by one countryd alone. it cannot be solved unilaterally. they pointed to the example of hungary. they are building a fence, also bulgaria. they are saying this is not going to stop the problem.

make this work, the only way there will be some sort of solution is if the eu agrees to tackle this problem as a joint entity and works together with those balkan countries. claire: and perhaps financial aid to try to reach that. will they have time to talk about the issues they were supposed to talk about in the first place? was: the conference initially called to talk about issues such as greater cooperation between the balkan states and the e.u. and also e.u. enlargement, possible membership for those states looking toward the future. also, the economic problems those states are having at the moment. i think there will be time to talk about that. we have already had the e.u. enlargement commissioner saying that he expects membership talks will begin fairly soon with serbia, following a groundbreaking announcement yesterday by serbia and kosovo that they would normalize

relations. they've had a very strained relationship for the past decade or so. conference will be dominated by this issue, but there will be time to talk about these other issues as well. claire: john cummins reporting from the enough. enough -- -- from the from vienna. followed4" reporters the trek of desperate migrants. roadter: weeks on the waiting for this moment, together with his cousin, he fled from the violence of area -- syria's civil war. they have all joined together to get to germany at any cost. their chosen point of entry, the railway between serbia and hungary. >> have fled from bullets -- we

have fled from bullets. i am happy to arrive here. reporter: a few inches short of the border checkpoint, his companions get nervous. only four of them get the nerve to continue. it's done. fencete of the razor wire erected by the government, they pass through. >> they say it is not a problem. just take my name or where i from and this is the information, general information. us in. he doesn't take a reporter: he and his cousin and up being caught -- and his cousin end up being caught. we are unable to take pictures

inside the detention center. refugees have escaped from the police. they hide in the forest to rest. that morning, police discovered another camp. >> there are more and more of them everyday. everyone who had planned to go on is leaving before it is too late. unprecedented humanitarian crisis. tens of thousands of people made it as far as budapest and are desperately trying to get to northern europe. residents other news, in virginia are paying tribute to the two journalists shot dead online television on wednesday. dozens of candles and flowers have been placed in front of the wdbj tv station. some 40,000 viewers are thought to have witnessed the viewing on their tv screens. alison parker and her cameraman, adam ward, reportedly used to

work with the gunman. fired fromn had been the channel two years ago. he often complained about being a victim of homophobia and racism. about two hours after the shooting, flanagan sent along suicide note to abc news. reporter: "a human powder keg ready to go boom," those are the words that investor -- vester flanagan used to describe himself in a 23-page fax. it was sent to abc news hours after the shootings. flanagan sent a lengthy, multipage fax about the incident. our investigators now have a copy of it.

fax, the in the 41-year-old said his, quote, "tipping point," was the charleston church shooting. he legally bought a gun. he also enumerated a number of other grievances. man, he said he has been the victim of races -- racism and sexual harassment at work. >> eventually, after many incidents of his anger coming to the fore, we dismissed him. wealt-- well.e that reporter: what exactly pushed him to target alison parker and adam ward is still unclear, but the former journalist admitted to being angry. effedn said, "yeah, i'm

up in the head." claire: defense officials from venezuela and colombia are set to meet in the coming days to try to come up with a plan for border security. this after venezuela decided to expel some thousands of colombians. it is necessary to prevent crime and smuggling. reporter: outrage in columbia -- colombia as venezuela closes the neighboring border and orders the deprecation of colombia -- the exportation of -- the deportation of colombians living in the country. >> violent crimes committed on the border. you know that our sister country, colombia, has a major

drug production problem. it's neighboring countries are affected by its -- its neighboring countries are affected by its trafficking. convinced that closing the border is not the way forward and do not believe it is a way to combat smuggling. reporter: mattresses, televisions, pieces of furniture -- carrying what possessions they can, thousands of colombians return to their home country as venezuela continues to crack down on undocumented immigrants and smugglers operating on the border. venezuelan authorities have been demolishing the homes of colombian immigrants. the colombian president has hit back, stating that "venezuela's problems are made in venezuela, not colombia or anywhere else in the world." claire: it has been 500 days since the cheetah girls -- the chibok girls were kidnapped by boko haram.

the girls' families are preparing to mark the anniversa ry. girlseized more than 200 who were preparing for exams. the nigerian government has vowed to find them. over the past three months, the islamists are thought to have killed more than 1000 people in the northeast of the country. violence has spread beyond nigerian borders into neighboring cameroon and chad. just yesterday, 10 suspected boko haram fighters went on trial in the chadian capital. reporter: there was heavy security outside and inside the courtroom. it is the first chadian trial involving suspected boko haram members. these men are accused of having organized when attacks that killed 30 people in june -- killed 38 people in june. >> there is the rule of law in

chad. that's why we don't respond to terrorists who are violent with more violence. the government has provided the suspects with more -- with lawyers so they can have a fair trial. reporter: the authorities believe this nigerian national was the mastermind behind the june attacks. since then, chad has toughened up its antiterrorist laws. some opposition groups are concerned about these measures. >> the new antiterrorist law might restrict freedoms. what's happening in chad now is that the constitution is not being respected. with this new law, people might try to settle the scores. it might lead to chaos. nicolas: chad has been targeted by boko haram as it has been at the forefront of the regional

struggle against the group. have lost much territory, but they are still able to carry out attacks in the region. claire: a new, experimental blood test can detect cancer relaxes months before doctors would have noticed -- cancer r months before doctors would have noticed on scans. researchers say this could save many lives. you are watching "france 24." here is a reminder of our top stories. provide could financial help to the balkan countries hit by the migrant crisis. angela merkel is meeting with regional leaders in vienna to address the issue. more than 3000 migrants crossed into hungary on wednesday alone. police say it is unprecedented. "france 24" reporters followed a group of migrants throughout their ordeal at the border of serbia. vester flanagan, who shot dead

two reporters on live television, described himself as "a human powder keg." he sent a fax to abc news, where he complained of racial discrimination and homophobia. it is time for business news. our very own stephen carroll is with us in the studio. we are going to start with ukraine. it has reached a deal on reducing debt. stephen: that's right. the ukrainian government says it has agreed to a 3.5 billion -- $ 3.5 billion reduction in debt, a 20% haircut on $18 billion of its debt, half of what kiev had been seeking. the agreement comes after months of fraud negotiations with private bondholders. reducing the debt burden is seen as crucial to the country's international bailout. we can speak to our correspondent, gulliver cragg. is this a good deal for kiev?

gulliver: absolutely. you said it was half of what kiev was demanding, but i think that was in kiev's wildest dreams. this is better than what a lot of analysts in both the united states and ukraine were expecting, $3.8 billion that they don't have to pay back. thisding to economists, allows them to defer payment until -- ukraine is also offering securities in a form of percentage of its growth after the year 2021. that is obviously a few years down the line, but it was an offer the creditors will they could accept -- creditors felt they could accept. the minister is a us-born

economist. she has been credited with proceeding with a very difficult response in the finance ministry, one of the ministries said to have made the most progress on reforms since the maidan revolution. gone through tough negotiations and come back with a deal that almost certainly means ukraine will avoid default this year. of the: pressure is one holders of ukrainian debt. are they likely to be involved -- russia is one of the holders of ukrainian debt. are they likely to be involved in this deal? gulliver: there is about $2 billion that ukraine owes to russia under former president viktor yanukovych. that was a 20% haircut on as well. the announcement from russia is very firm, no.

but the deal with private creditors still goes ahead. stephen: that's gulliver cragg, speaking to us from ukraine. claire: we will move on to today's stock markets. it has been a bit calmer today after the recent turmoil. stephen: quite a bit of a roller coaster week, but the european market are showing gains. all of the european markets of, over -- markets up, over 2% in some cases. the game is in those companies hurt by the -- the gain is in those companies hurt by the chinese drop. in asia, a sweep of gains there as well. the shanghai composite up at the close by over 5%. some signs of a bounceback there. inns too for the nikkei

tokyo and the hang seng as well. let's have a look at some of the day's other business headlines. a french oil company is to sell a gas -- it is part of a cost-cutting at the firm over global oil prices. company says sales in china are dropping, but by much less than a year earlier. chinese sales fell 2% in the last financial year compared to 23% the year before. overall profits of the company are down 15%. facebook is creating a virtual assistant to rival apple's siri. it will run the facebook messenger app and will be able to complete tasks like purcha

sing items. claire: microsoft says the newest version of windows is taking off. stephen: just a month after its launch, microsoft says 75 million devices have installed compared to just 15 million for the last version, windows 8. microsoft is aiming to have one billion devices using windows 10 within three years. one of the upgrades was, you could have the virtual assistant tell you jokes. half a million people have done that over the past month. one of the jokes tweeted -- what do you call a dog that does magic? a labracadabrador. claire: thank you very much, stephen carroll. the press review is up next.

and there is time to take a look at what's grabbing the headlines in the weekly news headlines. florence villeminot is here with me. hi, flo. foiled attack on the paris train is continuing to make headlines here in france. this week, the man who stopped the suspect, the attacker, were awarded with the legion of honor. florence: you can see a photo of that on the front page. they are calling them heroes. they were not afraid. there is an interesting, 24-page, exclusive report on the incident, with very impressive photos taken on the scene. these three men were among the heroes, the three twentysomething americans, getting something -- a lot of attention. childhood friends who were backpacking across europe. it is worth reading. it is pretty funny, from "the

new york times" style and fashion sectoin, -- section, talking about the heroes in t-shirts and khakis. by the time they got the news that they were to be given the award, it was sunday. anybody in france in august knows it pretty much impossible to buy a suit on sunday. they had to scramble and borrow" their friends. -- borrow clothes from their friends. the french government is wrecking its brain to try and improve the security on trains to tryracking its brain and improve the security on trains. florence: they are trying to increase security, perhaps introducing random searches.

there is a lighter look at the situation in a cartoon in an algerian daily. it has been all over the media. francois hollande talking about how france is increasing security in trains, "we are going to put an american on each train." claire: it is the end of the summer holiday and politicians have come back to work. florence: this week was marked by a lot of turmoil in the chinese markets that sparked fear of a global financial crisis. things had been looking pretty gloomy, given the lowering growth rate in several countries, including china. the very interesting issue of "l focusing on living in a world without growth. daniel an economist, expert in this

area. industrial societies were created with this prospect of never-ending growth, but clearly that prospect has been crushed. this is leading to anxiety, nostalgia for the past, and also to xenophobia. he says the world has become too small and we need to live how to learn -- need to learn how to live without growth. claire: but some businesses are managing to flourish. florence: we've been talking about uber, airbnb. this is the focus of "le point" this week, this new economic model. they are talking about the capitalist revolution here. "le point" investigates what it calls this historic change. what does this "uber economy" mean for business owners and employees? how can you make the most of it? claire: talking about

capitalism, let's head to the united states. he is considered the poster boy of capitalism. he wants to become the president of the u.s. that is of course donald trump. florence: we have been talking a lot about him in the u.s. media, but he is just starting to get a lot of attention elsewhere, particularly here in france. this week, there were several articles about him. he is on the front page of "society." who in the world is donald trump? calls him the craziest candidate for the white house. he is quite a mystery in france. people have known him for his reality tv show. people wonder if he is seriously running for the white house. a lot of papers don't understand much about him, but they do focus a lot on his hair. it was interesting to know he was on the front page of the left-leaning paper in france as well. they had nothing really nice to say about him.

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