>> you are watching france 24. it is 1:00 p.m. in paris. at least 100,000 people have been evacuated from their homes in japan as the country is hit by torrential rain and floods. eyewitnesses say it brings back terrible memories from the tsunami four years ago. preparations underway for the international conference on climate change. francois hollande wants to

finance for green energy. up to 5000 migrants have arrived at the serbian order with hungary in just one day. hunt gary and state television says at least 3000 have already entered the territory. -- hungarian state television says at least 3000 have already entered the territory. japanese rescuers are racing to save residents just north of tokyo. the region has been hit by heavy rain. hundreds of homes have been flooded or hit i landslides. rivers have overflowed there. more about the impressive rescue operation. >> a daring helicopter rescue just north of tokyo.

aid workers luck residents to safety. they were left stranded on balconies and rooftops after a new by river -- a nearby river burst its banks. waist-highere left in rainwater. >> i have been living here for 10 years and it is the first time the river has overflowed that much. the first time i have seen such a thing. >> there are areas that are only accessible by boat with water levels above two meters. our teams from the fire station are in charge of evacuating people and bringing them here. >> torrential rain and strong winds across japan have forced 100,000 people from their homes. almost 60eas, centimeters of rain has fallen since monday.

warnings of mudslides and flash flooding has been issued. plant, theear downpour has sent hundreds of tons of contaminated water used to cool the reactors into the ocean. authorities have issued a weather running concerning 5 million people. >> the weather across the world is disrupted by climate change. forecasters say if things continue that way, flooding squid in test of touch in test of -- intensify. they're hosting an international climate change conference in november in paris. let's take a listen to what francois hollande told them. >> we need to show we can succeed and we need this meeting, probably the most essential meeting the world has ever organized, to be a success. the foreign minister said it is

late, maybe too late. it is an urgent matter and we have to act quickly. the future will depend on what we decide now. at the end of 2015. the way the world faces the next 20 to 30 years will result from our action. france 24 is covering the story live. james, we have just heard president hollande is very fervent. addressed all the issues that made copenhagen quite a huge failure. basically it will be a success only if a binding agreement is found between countries who will pledge to reduce or curb their and give clear

objectives, and these must be watched and enforced on a global level. he also said the second problem was financing, that it was essential that countries commit to putting money every year to reach the $100 billion target every year to tackle climate change. to help the poor countries to develop in a sustainable way. he has been saying that what is different from this time and what happened in copenhagen is that people have now realized how important the matter is. he says there are less and less climate the septic's around the world. entists around the world. this could create jobs and boost business. it is an opportunity for the world and opportunity the

needs to seize because the future of mankind is at stake. >> the conference starts in three months so hollande only has three months to convince world powers to reach a deal. challengeis a massive and the friends -- french born minister is working -- foreign minister is working to get these pledges from countries. they want to make sure problems are ironed out before the conference actually starts. that was another problem with copenhagen. it is required for ministers and heads of state to start regressing -- discussing global for the conference. the idea is to start negotiating -- negotiations have already started, but will be carrying on

at the u.n. general assembly in the weeks to come, and also in lima where it will be all about financing. there will be a conference in paris just before the actual one, and this will enable france to maybe get a deal. francois hollande says it is not a done deal. >> thank you very much for that update. news, a record 5000 migrants have reportedly arrived at serbia's border with hungary over the past 24 hours. an increasing number of people are using the balkan area to get to europe. more about the tough measures implemented by hungry to prevent migrant hungary to prevent migrants from coming in. >> you must bear in mind the new hungarian minister of defense

might have wanted, we might see a little bit of muscle flexing here. officially the home gary and army is only going to be deployed after september 20 -- the hungarian army is only going to be deployed after september 20. the law needs to be voted by a 4/5ths majority in parliament and that has not happened yet. the army will patrol along the border. as it happens in many countries, it will help police keep order along the border so there is nothing exceptional about that. >> the motorway connecting denmark to germany has been reopened after 300 refugees, including women and children, began walking on it. danish authorities say traffic across the german boarder could also resume today. >> hunkered down inside, or than 300 migrants and refugees

refused to leave a train in denmark on wednesday. they wanted to continue on to sweden, rather than have their asylum requests registered in denmark. after hours of negotiation, some 100 migrants agreed to file their requests. 200 others disembarked and went on their way. >> i am feeling happy, we are all happy. >> denmark, thank you so, so much. >> during the standoff, dana's citizens came to the -- danish citizens came to the train station for support, and even drove some to sweden. it is a major transportation hub from germany to sweden. rail services are set to resume but there railway ferry leak is still suspended.

border, wasman closed after some 300 migrants began traveling it on foot to get to sweden. 80,000 a silence wieters were taken -- asylum seekers were taken in by sweden last year. denmark and its newly elected conservative government has sought to cut asylum benefits by half. pro-kurdish organization warns the country is on the verge of a civil war. retaliate almost on a daily basis and have killed dozens of policemen over the summer. in a few days, nationalist protesters attacked the headquarters of the pro-kurdish party. went to themer, you

headquarters. what is the government actually doing about those who destroyed it? jasper: the president and prime minister have condemned the headquarters,hdp as well as the officers of the newspaper, whose offices were vandalized two times in three nights. there has been very little in the way of follow-through by the government. office,ase of the hdp only four people have been arrested, but if you look at the videos of that attack, there were at least 50 or 60 hooligans involved. attackst of those two was led by a party member of parliament. the police have issued no warrant for his arrest. the party has not even rebuked him for his role in that attack.

turkish political scientist was saying to me early today, when it comes to these condemnations by the president and prime minister, there is a certain insincerity if not hypocrisy. when i was asked the hdp officers yesterday, the member of parliament took me to the room that was gutted by fire. the attackers clearly knew where to go. they targeted the room where the to keeps its applications run in the elections on november 1. the other rooms were singed by fire but only that room was destroyed. this was an attack that was planned by the arc party to electione hdp's campaign, and was helped by the

police. videos, youat the get the impression the police are making a halfhearted attempt to stop the hooligans. they used pepper spray some of the time but not all the time. you get the impression if the police had wanted to, they could have kept the hooligans away from the building. >> thank you very much for that update. we will come back to you by the time the elections are held in seven weeks. tons of rubbish that has been piling up in the streets of beirut could soon be taken to landfills. the lebanese cabinet has finally agreed to allow local authorities to deal with waste. the crisis triggered mass antigovernment protests led by the you stink movement. protesters say that they have had enough with politicians' incompetence. these protesters have called

it a sham, but the emergency cabinet meeting did produce an outcome in the end. after six hours of talks, lebanon's politicians decided to give municipalities a role in local waste. this could help treat the rubbish that has been piling and steaming since the summer. >> we think this plan meets the conditions to achieve the partnership and the solution. tonight, the cabinet agreed on an environmental solution that is sustainable and safe. july andisis began in the government did not renew the contract for the private company in charge of rubbish connection -- collection. others -- as uncollected garbage piles up, protest grew. asy saw the rotting rubbish

representative of the government. the people are upset and in pain. we have corrupt leaders. we do not have the minimum rights that everybody else enjoys. >> we need a serious revolution. we are fed up with our government, all the politicians, all the leaders. even if rubbish and the stench disappear from this the -- the street, the use think campaign will decry -- you stink campaign will decry what is going on. >> time for business news, stephen carroll is with me. china,going to start in because authorities are doing their best to talk up the economy.

stephen: we have been hearing from the chinese premier who says the company -- country's economic transition is not a risk to the global economy and the country is on task to meet its targets. premier league was speaking as aspremier lee was speaking food prices jumped. chinesethe slump on the stock market is not a sign of a bigger problem. >> the chinese economy faces difficult days and pressures but with in a reasonable range. in the past two months, some economic indicators have showed downturns or fluctuations, but the measures we have adopted are gradually showing result. some indicators have to's -- started to pick up. generally speaking, the

fundamentals of our economy remain unchanged. stephen: the computer manufacturer dell will invest $25 billion in china. it is its second-biggest market. delldvent made by michael during a visit to china. >> three months before the climate conference, the french environment minister has been making some announcements about state funding. stephen: he says that french forrnment cut off funding coal burning technology that it exports to china. they promised to scrap the coal export credit. they have gotten the green you take from the unit -- european union to sell its turbine business to general electric. the french president was very

clear on the subject. state funding will be cut off imminently. what i have suggested to them is that government funding that was given for carbon activities will be redirected to investing in renewable energy. >> we need coherence, we need rules. stephen: they have said the government needs to cut the amount of money that states spend on salaries. it suggests public servers -- public-sector workers to work longer hours. state needsys the to slim down the public-sector. the government had made considerable efforts in reducing payroll expenditure, but more needs to be done. in a report, the court calls for 450 million euros in savings for 2016 and 2017 by reducing the

number of public-sector jobs, and increasing the effective number of hours worked. public-sector week.s work 35 hours a almost two thirds of public-sector payroll is spent in the health sector with the rest split among local authorities, public administration, and state lotteries. an agreement is expected by the end of september. some are willing to give it their support, but the left-wing cgt are firmly against it. >> brazil has seen its credit rating downgraded. stephen: they have been downgraded to junk status. the s&p says they are unable to decide on a fiscal policy to

pass necessary budget measures. effects spill into the economy from petrobras. we are seeing companies that have an exposure to brazil trading down at this lunchtime in europe. among them, the french retail group casino, their share is down. the bank of england has decided to keep its base interest rate at 0.5% and downgraded its growth in the country. not much time for the ftse 100 to react. >> the new owner of the national geographic has raised eyebrows. >> it has been bought out by rupert murdoch's 20th century fox in a deal worth $725 million. national geographic also funds science and research.

they have raised the point that rupert murdoch is a climate change skeptic so they are wondering how this will play out. says it willraphic be allowed to expand its work including into research. >> that wraps up the business news and it is time for the weekly press review. it is time to take a look at what is grabbing the headlines in the weekly news headlines. story across the weeklies is of course the european migrant crisis. they called for a radical overhaul of the eu's migration policy. in the meantime, individual countries are dealing with it the way that they can. it has revealed faultlines within the eu.

quite pessimistic, europe is tearing itself apart. run for your life. you can see this illustration of a european technocrat in very much the same position as that three-year-old syrian boy aylan kurdi, whose photo went viral last week. people say it shook and woke up european leaders to the crisis and asked them to take action. what is the solution? it is incredibly tricky because you have political refugees, economic migrants. how can you tell the difference? aren't they sometimes the same? there are all sorts of conflicts that they are fleeing. you have chaos in libya, dictatorship in eritrea. some countries are grading them with open arms with welcome signs. others are setting up fences

with barbed wire on top. taking a look at the complexity of the migrant crisis, it is just the beginning because it will take a long time to address the root of all evil, and that is unrest say via -- in syria and libya. it is almost mission impossible. >> the german magazine is focusing on who is actually profiting from all this. they are the human traffickers. >> they speak about the merciless human traffickers this week and their deadly business. they are making money on the distress and misery of others. you can see that illustration is reference to another incident that has been somewhat overshadowed in recent days, that horrific discovery of an abandoned truck in austria with the decomposing bodies of some 71 people. take a closer look at the

europe -- human trafficking rings. that human readers trafficking is a very lucrative business that brings billions of dollars, euros to these groups, these human trafficking groups. it encourages corruption and organized crime. if you want more details, you can check it out. it has a special report, 24 page report on the migrant crisis. >> they are calling it europe's biggest challenge. you can see this photo of a four-year-old afghan girl and her father crossing at the hungarian-serbian border last week. you can see this plea, welcome us. their struggle is probably not over yet because even hungary, the prime minister viktor orban

has demonstrated a hard-line approach, which criminalizes illegal border crossings. starting september 15, those who cross the border risk years in prison and expulsion. >> hungary is building a second razor wire fence. this is a contrast with countries like germany. >> the german chancellor has drawn a lot of praise for this generous response to the migrant crisis. france-wing magazine in is not necessarily a huge fan of an open door migrant policy, but they are a huge fan of angela merkel, talking about the incredible mess merkel. if only she were french. they are especially a fan of her economic policy and say she is at the head of a flourishing economy, and is the world's most powerful woman.

hoping she would be the leader of france, but let's go back to france's response to the migrant crisis. the president announced france the president announced france will be welcoming some 24,000 ÷waú

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