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west. we will be live with our correspondent in a moment. benjamin netanyahu warns israelis against vigilante justice following the death of an eritrean man who was shot by police and beaten by bystanders. police say an investigation is underway to find those who took part in the lynching. hundreds of migrants and refugees are currently stuck helpless at the border between croatia and slovenia. the flow of migrants has sparked a row between the neighbors and slovenia says it cannot taken more than 2500 people a day, and is accusing croatian of the sliding the agreement on the number of migrants allowed to reach its border. reporter: they are tired. the rain is chilling them to the bone.
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and they are stuck at the slovenian border with croatia. temperatures hit just 10 degrees celsius, with cold winds expected through the night creating dire conditions. two women will be die. it is very scary, and they are raining. and they are -- have very, very cold, and you see the size raining. --sky news raining. reporter: men and women and children try to argue with border patrol to let them through. croatia has opened its border with serbia, letting in thousands of migrants stranded for two days. as they make their way to slovenia, the government there has capped its daily intake at 2500 migrants. in actuality, more than twice that number are making it through. >> just one thing. please open the door.
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if you have a heart, open that door. countriesas european dither on their response to the ongoing migrant crisis, the weather is quickly changing. after fleeing war and desperation, another threat is looming -- winter. for more on this, let's speak to linda lowe from the international federation of red cross and red crescent societies. is anyone helping these migrants right for more on this, let's sk now? what are the living conditions right now? >> we are seeing humanitarian needs increasing. isyou know, winterizaiton coming and people are cold and wet and on the right shoes and clothing. we have red cross and red crescent volunteers across
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europe, and particularly the hotspots you are talking about right now, on the spot providing food and whether -- water and raincoats. more is needed. >> migrants have been passing from serbia to croatia and onto western europe. why is the suddenly a bottleneck? >> as we have seen in recent weeks, barriers on border controls are erected. migrants find an adapted their roots. currently with the new border controls that have been put in place recently, particularly by hungary and it's croatian border, we are seeing a bottleneck, serbian border to croatia, and as well on the croatian border into slovenia. the authorities in each of these countries are limiting the number of people that can come in at any given time, i believe to be able to manage the process in a more orderly fashion. perspectiveis your
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on it, when the spoken countries, as others have done, say they have to put a cap on the number of migrants and refugees they take in every day? do you understand that and the logistical challenge, or do you feel they are overstating it? we at the red cross and i crescent are adapting our humanitarian response to the needs involved and they change every day, sometimes hour by hour. we urge all parties to collaborate on sustainable solutions and come up with systems and processes that do not increase the danger or vulnerabilities that these migrants face. >> all right, so where are you currently redirecting your resources, then? >> on any given day we are adapting to the situation in mobilizing volunteers, staff, supplies, to what we call other hotspots at the moment. thatntly at the bottleneck i have identified, we have
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mobilized volunteers and supplies. luckily for us, because we are community-based and grassroots-based, we have volunteers in every community. for us, deploying the people who want to help other people's relatively, comparatively to other organizations, simple. we have people and boots on the ground to move quickly to locations that are close to them, where people need help. >> communications manager at the red cross, thank you very much for fielding our questions this evening. >> thank you. ofin germany, thousands people are rallying interested in support of the far right movement created one year ago. it has been organizing weekly rallies against what he calls the islamization of the west. attendance has been rising again recently as tomi has adopted an open door policy for refugees coming into your. police took down a poster showing chancellor angela merkel
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in a nazi uniform. let's get more on this with sarah harman, who speaks to us from berlin. tell us more about this support for -- it seemed to be waning, now attendance is growing once again at the weekly rallies. sarah: it is one year old, and for a while it looked like it was going to do away with itself . there was a lot of internal strife within the party after photos surfaced of the leader dressed as hitler. he was charged with inciting hatred here in germany for writing on his facebook page: migrants cattle and scum. but many people survived the scandal. he stepped down as the leader of ida but was reinstated thereafter.
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they seem to have gained a lot of strength and support from migrant crisis and people's fears over the way the country is handling the influx of refugees. was firstgida created, for a while they were seeing and being treated as a fringe group, but now it seems that german politicians are taking them more and more seriously. absolutely. we have indications that pegida intends to field candidates in regional elections in 2016. three regional states will vote in march and one will vote in september. interesting facet of this is that pegida is understood to have started as a facebook group, and today the german newsmagazine "der spie gel" is reporting that prosecutors in hamburg are investigating facebook for incitement to hatred for failing
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to delete racist and xenophobia posts on its platform. if it is to come it would indicate the german government is taking the fight against right-wing extremism online. >> sarah, one last question perhaps. rallies have also been announced for this evening. thousands of people are also rallying in dresden. you were telling us earlier about the support, increasing support for pegida. it seems that also generates the counter-pegida movement. sarah: absolutely. many germans are embarrassed by pegida. it is still a fringe movement, does not have mainstream support, it does not have political representation, like some european countries where there is a strong populist party in the parliament. pegida is at this point still a grassroots movement and it is one that many germans find very embarrassing.
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i think there is a strong motivation for people who disapprove to come out and say this is not us in germany and dresden. >> sarah harman, thank you very much, reporting live berlin. an eritrean man shot and beaten in israel yesterday on the mistaken assumption he was an assailant succumbed to his injuries earlier this morning. the incident has shocked country, with some newspapers headlining that he was killed because of the color of his skin. police say they have launched an investigation to find those who took part in the beating. prime minister benjamin netanyahu, for his part, is calling on israelis not to take justice into their own hands. more on the circumstances of yesterday's tragic incident. reporter: it took hours to understand what happened in the central bus station of beersheba. on the security camera video, people are seen running. seem wounded. they are escaping a man who seconds earlier shot a soldier
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and smashed his assault rifle, opening fire on the crowd. chasethe military police the gunman, later identified as a bedouin, inside the building, an eritrean man is mistaken for a second shooter. a security guard shoots the man who collapses. as the wounded man lies on the floor, soldiers try to keep the angry crowd away. several people kick the man's head. after the lynching and shooting, he died at the hospital. israeli police are trying to find those who violently hit him. the beersheba attack is one of the most serious in months of violence between israelis and palestinians, triggered in part by palestinians' anger over the increase to presence of jerusalem at the al-aqsa mosque compound, sacred site for jews. >> this concrete barrier is 10 meters high and separates the
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corner of east jerusalem. police say it is only temporary and is designed to stop petra bonds from being thrown at a province. police have set up roadblocks and checkpoint around jerusalem's arab neighborhoods. israel categorically rejects france's push to send independent observers to main holy site. the french ambassador was summoned by the israeli foreign minister, which expressed opposition to the diplomatic initiative. paris wants the unc 30 council resolution to establish an international presence of the site to maintain the status quo. , as wellposes the move as the u.s. and jordan, which manages israel's religious sites. canadians were called the pollster they for a general election that is seen several wild swings in the polls, as conservative prime minister stephen harper is vying for a fourth term in office but is being challenged by the leader of the liberals, justin trudeau, who led in the latest polls after eight points. reporter: could this be canada's
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next prime minister? early polls give liberal justin trudeau an early lead. although it is a type race. i am honestly undecided. i don't really like a program that the liberals are proposing. i don't know if i believe in their plan, or the potential of the liberal stimulus plan. reporter: while a liberal wing would help to strengthen ties with the united states, they would run a deficit for brees to boost public spending, at odds with current conservative policies. incumbent stephen harper is seeking a fourth monday after nine years in power and wants to balance budgets and lower taxes. canada popularity after hit recession earlier this week, garnering increasing criticism for his aloof style of governing and perceived failure to do more to help middle eastern refugees. up third place is tom
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mulcair and the new democratic party. they faded in recent weeks after it opposed a popular band on the muslim face veil. in such a raise him and not by parliamentary majority could be hard to live down. the ndp has said it would cooperate with the liberals as the conservatives come out on top. at ivan continues to better the filament after killing 11 people in northeastern over province yesterday. it continues to cause widespread damage and severe flooding. 65,000 people had to be evacuated over the weekend. reporter: picking up the pieces after the typhoon rips through the country. these filipinos returned on monday, in during a battle to reach the isolated houses to discover positions long on. was able to save my
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life but all my belongings inside the house got flooded. we could even save one pillow. we have nothing. meanwhile, flooded farms spark a race to save stranded animals living downstream. the typhoon has been downgraded to a tropical storm. its effects are leaving a lasting impression. >> we can know longer harvest anything here. the local help from governments. perhaps even axes to the emergency funds. reporter: local authorities have stepped up believe efforts to help 180,000 people hit directly by the storm. we are helping local government units provide assistance and search and rescue operations. they also need assistance delivering food and we will help in distribution. unicef has launched its own $2.8 million a drive to help the thousands of children forced from their homes. >> the latest on the fifa
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corruption scandal now. the german football federation is having to deny accusations of buying votes to secure the 2006 world cup. the head of germany's football federation at the opening of the museum dedicated game -- he denied reports from "der spiegel" magazine accusing him of bribery. >> i'm saying here again, there were no slush funds. there was no vote purchase. reporter: in friday's edition, 19 claims that a secret fund had been created to buy votes to ensure germany would win the world cup. frankfurt's prosecutor says he will look into the accusation. fifa-related other
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news, michelle 13 he is fighting to defend his honor, this after he was suspended for 90 days over 1.8 million-euro payment from sepp blatter dating back to 2011. platini said it was "a man-to-man thing, in that no contract was signed" for the football consulting work you did er between 1999 and 2000 hundred to explain the gap between the end of his consultancy work and when he was become he told the paper he was "not a money men" and he didn't need the cash. with no written contract between the two men, the european federation could decide to withdraw their support for presidentiale the election in february, a step the english football association has already taken. 20 past 9:00st local time in paris. let's remind you of the main headlines on "france 24." hundreds of refugees are stuck
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at the croatia-slovenia border after slovenia put a limit on the number of people it could take in. men, women, and children are spending the night in the rain, with slovenia cruising croatia of creating a bottleneck of migrants. thousands are rallying in the german city of dresden supporting pegida, one year after the group was created. the group is against what he calls the islamization of the west. anti-pegida marches for also held. benjamin netanyahu once israelis against vigilante justice after the death of an eritrean man. police say an investigation is underway. let's look at the day's business news with kate moody, who has joined us on center will start by talking about climate change could we are half a month away from the landmark in negotiations in paris. a number of international institutions are pushing carbon pricing is the best way to fight global warming and reduce in-house gas emissions. kate: carbon pricing is
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pollute. paying to high-level panel is thrown its support behind a tactic. the leaders of chile, ethiopia, the world bank, and international monetary fund are joining forces in an unprecedented global appeal. speaking with the president of the world bank, he started by playing just what the pricing entails. >> what we know is that there is actually a cost to putting carbon in the air. it can be translated directly .nto human lives, for example carbon-based pollution actually takes the lives of millions of people every year. it.e is actually a cost to we just haven't been incorporating that into the way we do business. through taxes, through fees, through creating schemes, recently want the actual -- recently want the awful cost of putting carbon in the air to be reflected in a meeting with you. if you put lots of carbon in the air, you should pay a tax, fee, or have to trade with other
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companies, because it is affecting the planet, it is affecting the economy, and once it gets that right, we will have the incentive -- in other words, right now we don't think that the incentives are aligned so that we are being as innovative with new technologies as we could be that would both provide the energy we need, for example, but then reduce the carbon footprint dramatically at the same time. touch on this -- there are 2 types of carbon pricing, a carbon tax or emissions-trading scheme. you are not specifically calling for one of the other. why not? >> every country is different, and the way that we have worked is countries will come to us and say we need help with either a tax system, thesis tempo more emissions trading system. we don't want to sit back and dictate what countries do. they all have their own political circumstances, they have different numbers of industries that are actually carbon polluters. some have only a very few that are carbon polluters.
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it is hard to have a trading system -- taxes make more sense there. others have lots of different carbon emitting industries. they choose to go with the trading system. we just want to get the pricing in place, whether it is one system or another. we are a very encouraged by the fact that going in to the conference of the parties, the climate change meeting in paris that will happen in about a month and a half, 80 countries have already stated that they want to implement one or the other of these systems. we just stand ready to help them whichever way they want to go. kate: you referred to earlier the paris climate talks in just over a month. i aren't you pushing for carbon pricing to be included in the final text? 80 out of 100 commitments,
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we see the carbon price there. we have got to get to an agreement in paris. right now the negotiations are going on and are very complicated. 190-plusou get countries involved, it is complicated. we encourage every other country to take seriously the notion of carbon pricing and put a plan together. 80 so far. we hope there is more by the time paris comes around. we have sent the got to get to an agreement. interviewcan see that on our website in its entirety on france24.com later this evening. dozens of global countries have signed a white house-sponsored pledge to take more aggressive stance on climate change. includes johnson & johnson, nike, ikea, and hershey's. although some energy companies did sinai, oil and gas giants like exxon mobil and chevron were notably absent. china, which has
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reported a slight slowdown in its economy for the third quarter. during whicheriod the chinese stock market collapse and the government devalued its currency, sending shockwaves across the global economy. the world's second-largest economy grew at a rate of 6.9% during september. the official government target was 7%. some analysts take it as assigned it deeper problems are at work. since janet with their prospects in the struggling economy, many chinese students are heading into the private sector upon graduation. some see entrepreneurship as an opportunity to pursue their dreams by setting up their own company is not an easy task. this is china's dream community should designed as an incubator for startup companies, the university venture park in beijing attract thousands of young graduates. before, i was working as an electrical engineer.
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i felt like i was on a production line. i want to try out some new ideas came to mind, so i shanghai to become an entrepreneur. 7.5rter: he is one of university graduates entering the job market this year. tryinguggling economy is to provide opportunities for everyone. tole employers are looking technicians and was graduates want to be teachers and managers. some choose to turn to osh proportioned but many are not able to get their business models off the ground. >> most of the ideas die in the cradle. the ideas are a bit out of sync with what society actually needs right now. some graduates look to as models, buta many forget that their idols had years of expense before hitting success. this woman open a bar in beijing
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and says not everyone can make it. properou haven't had training, i don't think you have the ability to face the type of problems that you come across as a young entrepreneur. to promote entrepreneurship, china's government is investing in a next her 30% in science and technology. the service sector is growing faster than total output. kate: let's turn out like the markets now. pretty muted today as investors digested the signs of chinese slowdown. europe's major industries are closing flat. dax managing a half percent gain. wall street is going back-and-forth over the flat line. .he nasdaq is in green oil prices are dropping further in the session. .rude prices are down about 2% brent down about three. let's turn to the other business headlines.
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