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a hospital that killed 22 people. this is "live from paris." ♪ we start here in france and reactions across the political spectrum with the air france protests. president hollande has described the scene at charles de gaulle airport, where workers stormed a board meeting as bad for the country's image. a restructuring plan centered on job cuts and other cost-cutting measures, which management said he needed to turn around the underperforming airline. our france 24 reporter. report: the french prime minister lashed out at what he called thugs, referring to the union members that attacked the air france officials at charles de gaulle airport. speaking at the airline
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headquarters, he echoed 's commentsollande that france's image had taken a hit internationally. realizes that the pictures from yesterday were seen around the world. not only did they shock our fellow citizens that have raised legitimate issues, it has hurt the image of air france and put france itself at risk. i know as well that images of violence towards that man have these imagesd, and are hurting our country. report: executives running to safety with their clothing ripped off, beamed worldwide. the national flag carrier. french government has sided with the airline, calling for a realistic and responsible reaction to the financial woes of air france. the labor unions, for their part, savoring it is not the
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answer, though they criticize the company for its drastic cost-cutting plan, including some 2900 job cuts. >> with the workers yesterday. management's voice. and france, firmly established. only one plan. reporter: the union rejects the restructuring plan announced by the company and are now calling on the government to intervene. turkey has some of the russian ambassador after they were in their airspace for the second time in two days. this as russia continues assaults against president bashar al-assad. -- those against president bashar al-assad. they said they would respond to any future issue.
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report: two stray russian jets that caused a diplomatic standoff between turkey and russia. on saturday and sunday, jets in theissue with jets turkish airspace before being turned away, a simple error, says moscow. border,the turkey syria three kilometers away. depending on the weather conditions, you have to have the base from the north. caused by bad weather conditions in the area. reporter: the turkish prime minister warned that his country would not hesitate to attack back if their airspace is breached again, with mounting tensions between ankara and moscow. russian airstrikes are bolstering the regime. u.s. secretary of state john kerry says it was a perilously close call, and the nato secretary-general warned russia
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against the stabilizing the middle east. >> they were strong with turkey. they contend the violations of nature airspace. i call on russia to avoid escalating tensions with the alliance. itsia must de-conflict military activities in syria. reporter: the u.s. and russia each carrying out airstrikes, and they have been communicating to ensure that such errors do not happen, but full cooperation between the two sides appears to be lacking. the anti-immigration movement, another demonstration in dresden, accusing the government of ignoring fears over migration. thousands of people joining the march to the upper house. and this has been in the center -- thes over the we sent
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recent wave of immigration. for more, i enjoyed by a professor, who is a professor of political science at the university of berlin. good evening to you. how concerned are you buy these protests, these ongoing protest, and there seem to be increasing numbers of people who are attending. professor: yes. is 9000.number and this is lower than one year before, and in late december, it 20,000, so iteven is a special right wing populist against the asylum-seekers' aggressive movement in an area, so especially that. chancellor angela merkel says this recent wave of would change germany
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forever. are they ready for that? not ready,ok, we are we are against, we are ethnocentric, and we even can be violent. this is true for the area. this is less true for some other .owns this is less true for other countries, especially other states, especially in west germany, so, yes. if the political administration is efficient and committed, this wave of migrants can be integrated, yes. i think so. thethere are -- and at sites, the right wing radical sites, even more than protests?
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yes, this is true. anchor, talking about integration, the number of people coming into germany keeps going up and up. it is a huge challenge for the government and the authorities, in general. professor: yes, it is a huge challenge, but the government of the grand coalition is committed to have a solution for this challenge. numbers that we do not know exactly in the next month, but i think it will be around a million, not 5 million or 7 million. these are numbers of the right wing. and, of course, on the other side, europe has to their share, course, it and, of next two,t over the
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3, 4, 10 years. it has to be limited. there are possibilities, and limited. it is not the mentality. the mentality of the big amount of germans, they are saying we have to help these refugees. they are in civil war regions like syria. there is a commitment. there is an empathy. there is a compassion. i never have experienced in the last 60 years, and it was never experienced in the history of germany, so this is the good side and the hominids side, but the political elite has to do their job. sidelinedt can be with the populist and even more dangerous neo-nazis with their violent acts.
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anchor: thank you very much for talking to us. elsewhere, the islamic state organization claiming responsibly for attacks in the port of aden that killed at least 15 people. a statement on twitter account from jihadists, with suicide bombers. blamedfficials had rebels fighting in the civil war for this attack. no comments so far. the u.s. mission in afghanistan, a decision to carry out a deadly airstrike that hit a hospital was made within the american chain of command. 22 people died in saturday's incident in the capital. hospitaly that ran the has expressed anger at the u.s. reaction and want an independent investigation. >> the most direct acknowledgment of the u.s. involvement in the deadly strike
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on the hospital, but with the armed forces committee, general campbell said the facility was not the target. >> the decision to provide aerial fire was a u.s. decision made within the u.s. chain of command. the hospital was mistakenly struck. we would never intentionally target a protected medical facility. reporter: on saturday, a hospital run by a medical ngo was locked, killing a dozen staff members and 10 patients. u.s. forces had responded to by afghanor help forces, according to the general. afghan officials suggested the tablet and were using the medical facility as a base, and outrageous claim, says the group president. >> this is a disgusting statement that the afghan authorities have made, to say that the presence of afghan fighters was the reason for attacking the hospital. first of all, we are a
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corporation with the u.s. government. they have made this attack. this is leading to a war crime. reporter: they are calling for an independent inquiry into the attack. in the meantime, the medical charity has removed its staff there, a major blow for the population, as a hospital was the only one capable of treating severe injuries in the war-torn region. anchor: one jerusalem city remains on lockdown in the wake the west bank. said one person died of a bullet wound to the chest after days of unrest, which have claimed the lives of four israelis and three palestinians. mahmoud abbas says he does not want escalation. we have a report. reporter: these are the scenes of the latest clashes between
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the palestinians and the israeli security forces. protesters say they will not back down. we are doing our duties and we are in our land, and they are shooting at us, not leaving us alone. reporter: violence also continued in jerusalem. there were recent attacks on a jerusalem hospital. israeli prime minister benjamin that yahoo! convened his security cabinet late on monday. this is following the arrest of five suspects over a deadly shooting of an israeli settlement. >> of these are going deeply into arab neighbors, something that has not been done in the past it we are allowing our forces to take strong action against those who throw rocks and firebombs it this is necessary in order to safeguard the security of israeli citizens.
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reporter: mahmoud abbas also convened with security advisers. in a statement, he accused israel of dragging the palestinian into a cycle of violence. the 13-year-old palestinian boy from a refugee camp is the latest victim of the unrest. he died on monday from a bullet wound to the chest, warning to a local hospital. anchor: elsewhere, on the code does your -- on the coast, 20 people killed and two months of rain fell in the space of just a couple of hours. a semblance of normality returns. france 24's reporter. reporter: picking up the pieces after flash floods ravaged the french riviera. a united front as they begin a lengthy cleanup process. some have taken to show their support.
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others do the same for us, and that is why we are here. reporter: clearing the homes of water and debris is proving to be no easy feat. they are shocked. >> it is very moving to see everyone coming together. not only helping others, but my family helping me. road, an just down the area swamped with branches. a group of volunteers is already on the case. the show of solidarity is overwhelming. i never realized i had so many friends and friends willing to give a helping hand. it is great. whether it is cleaning outhouses or delivering supplies or coats to those who have lost everything. everyone was chipping in. thought warm m clothing and coats, baby clothing.
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i was going to take her to a charity shop, but then i saw the resident here. reporter: in a space of a few hours, hundreds of bags of clothing were donated. there is no doubt that the community spirit is boosting more out. anchor: congratulations now to japan. awarded the nobel prize in physics. work on subatomic particles called neutrinos. france 24 has the details. reporter: they made the announcement tuesday morning. >> the 2015 nobel prize in physics. a japaneset went to and a canadian. for one professor, this was an unusual early-morning wake-up call. >> it is two hours since i got the phone call. it has been a complete whirlwind ever since.
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my life seems to have changed a little bit. reporter: in tokyo, similarly taken aback. >> i received a phone call today and was informed i would be awarded the nobel prize in physics. i am truly honored. my mind has truly gone blank now. reporter on the each lead teens which discovered the subatomic .articles known as neutrinos this, in turn, demonstrates they have mass. the discovery had implications for both particle physics and cosmic science. impliescle physics neutrino mass articles. zero, soount, but not this is the first indication of physics beyond what we call the
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standard model of particle physics, so this is a discovery of opening a window towards the unknown. reporter: a just reward for two ground breaking experiment, which opened up a whole new field of that he on the most elusive particle known to man. anchor: time now for business with markus karlsson, affecting the likes of facebook. thousands that transfer data to the european union and the united states, and that includes facebook, also google, to mention a few. the court says an agreement known as safe harbor is not enough to protect european can tumors. this ruling stems from a complaint from the australian -- austrian camp. they are concerned that american companies may share personal data with u.s. spy agencies.
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with a24 met representative at the start of this case. reporter: meet a person in a fight with internet giant like amazon and google. the ruling on the european court of justice on his case of internet private data will change how thousands of businesses operate and share information. foundstrian student had that facebook had gathered over 1000 pages of information on him without his can that. kgb,ything for example the they never had 1200 people about a totally average citizen. having control over it. as soon as you have control over information, you also have control over the person itself. --orter: it is said it about .iolates the safe sharing
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some 4400 companies use it to share information, via between their foreign officers or with others. edward snowden's revelation that data was being sent to the u.s. government for spying purposes that essentially put the agreement on the chopping block, and the implications of the court ruling could be widespread. a massive number of similar complaints from eu citizens of invasion of privacy could follow. tech companies could now face increased scrutiny. they will have to rework the way they share information, and the ruling could trip up or complicate ongoing negotiations for an eu-u.s. free trade agreement. reaction to the rulings with u.s. officials saying it is disappointed. facebook says it is crucial that they have legal ways to transfer data across the atlantic. they say companies can continue to make transatlantic data
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transfers. with thee been working american authorities to make the transfers safer for european it is an, and in light of the ruling, we will continue this work towards a renewed safe train work -- framework for the transfer of data across the atlantic. in the meantime, transatlantic data flows between countries can continue using other mechanisms for the transfer of personal data available under the eu data protection law. and the head of air france says they are willing to have talks with unions on how to cut costs. the french fry minister was at the headquarters of air france one day after managers had to flee from angry employees. they are calling for more dialogue between unions and the airlines, and they say the pictures of angry people have damaged the image of the entire country.
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the employees were protesting cutting 2900 jobs at the airline to make the business profitable. >> because negotiations failed, and because real negotiations practically did not take place at all, we have to proceed with a restructuring plan. if the unions, especially those representing pilots, are ready for real negotiations, the door is open. another company under pressure, volkswagen. preparing for massive cutbacks after vw was found cheating on emissions test. need tod the changes fix the wrongs will not be painless. the ceo met at the german carmaker's headquarters. reporter: checking just how much this volkswagen diesel car actually pollutes. authorities in south korea have begun running emissions tests on
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models that may have been fitted with cheating software. it was the brand' is weakest showing since may. this goes halfway through the month of september, but the worst is yet to come. they told staff at the vw headquarters that there are billions in euros already set aside some but it will not be enough to deal with the cost of insistedal, but he that the automaker will recover. >> of course, there is an uneasy feeling, but the team has to stick together. stands for high quality, despite the mistakes that are made. report: all of the vw investments will be reviewed and possibly cut back to try to protect the 600,000 employees worldwide. >> right now come we cannot predict if and how this will affect the workforce in the
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medium and long term. currently, it is good news. there are no consequences regarding jobs. reporter: volkswagen is trying to get its business back on track while getting at the roots of the cover-up. it has until wednesday to submit to regulators how to make their cars compliant with emissions standards, while others are going to be testifying to a congressional panel on thursday. the international monetary fund says global growth will be the slowest since 2009. they had trimmed it to 3.1 percent, down from a forecast of 3.3% earlier this year. as developeden markets like the united states and eurozone are picking up, as emerging markets come in particular, are slowing down, partly on low in commodity prices and also because of slowing growth in china. repercussions for the entire
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world economy. these repercussions are greater in countries that trade with china or that depend on exports which china consumes very intensively. reporter: we are seeing concerns of global growth making their mark on u.s. markets this session. as you can see, the nasdaq and s&p 500 are below the flatline once again. as he say, on concerns of slowing global growth. the dow jones is above the flatline, and their is shares into plot that are powering ahead on the news that its chief executive is stepping down. that has been helping the now, as i said, to perform better than its peers. dow, as i said, to perform better than its peers been the dax is up, and the same thing for the cac 40 in paris.
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