1r >> the time is now. >> 12 hours for the planet. >> welcome back to the france 24 newsroom. time for 60 minutes around the world. these are the headlines. russia warns there could be serious consequences following the downing of one of its military planes. turkey says it shut down that aircraft after it warned several times to leave its airspace. the french president gets support from the u.s. but not the firm backing he was hoping for.

that's after francois hollande sat down with president obama after he tried to get a new russia against the islamic state groups. tunisia kmps it was a suicide bomber that blew himself up on a bus that left at least 13 dead. that's the country's third major terror attack this we're. also coming up for you this hour, pope francis heads to kenya to kick off his first ever visit to africa. but security concerns are so high the pontiff could be forced to change up the itinerary for the final leg of this trip. and something new and shiny in french pockets from today. if you're in the euro zone, that is. he'll be taking a look at the euro note in the update. that and more on the way but first our top story.

>> nato and the united nations are asking for calm after turkey shot down a russian warplane. one pilot was killed in the incident but the second who parachuted out of the plane is now safe and on his way to a russian air base nearby. turkey says the plane violated its airspace for 17 seconds before tuesday and that it warned it 10 times to leave before shooting it down. speaking today, the turkish president said he does not want any escalation with russia but said he would always defend turkish borders. and also there are concerns from the west that russia is not targets islamic state militants also known as daiish with the strikes but rebels pposing the syrian regime. >> they claim to be fighting against daiish, however, they .re if the north area

here is no daiish there. we know the locations for daiish. is it is in the east and the south. >> the incident comes after weeks of tension from russia and turkey on different sides f the syrian conflict. we now get a report. >> two very different versions of the same event. in turkey's version backed by nato and the u.s. and shown on this radar released by the turkish general staff, a russian warplane flying close to the turkish border was given repeated warnings. when it breached turkish airspace for 17 seconds, two turkish fighter jets shot the plane down. russia's maps tell a different story and show russian jets

flying over the syrian territory the whole time and say it was the turkish plane that violated syrian airspace. it's backed by russian's ally syria. what we do know is the two pilots of russia's warplane managed to eject before the crash. russia says one of them was killed before he hit the ground and according to russia's ambassador to france, the other was picked up by the syrian army. the russian rescue mission to find the remaining pilot only added to the death toll when a rescue helicopter was damaged by gunfire, killing a soldier onboard. russia's president vladimir putin calls the incident a stab in the back from turkey and warned there would be serious consequences with relations between the two countries. consequences that were already evident on wednesday when foreign minister sergey lavrov grabbed a planned chris.turkey and warned russian tourists against going there on holiday. russia also announced it will be sending a guided missile

cruiser to the waters around latakia around the turkish border and all russian bombers will now be escorted by fighter planes. turkey's nato allies including the u.s. have defended its right to protect its borders. but all have called for diplomacy and deescalation. >> russia is not part of the current u.s. led coalition against the islamic state group and despite calls from the french president to create a new coalition with russia onboard, the u.s. is reticent. u.s. officials say reports of heavy civilian casualties from russia's bombing campaign are one key reason why washington is unlikely to coordinate air strikes with moscow. that news comes as a disappointment to the french president francois hollande who tried to convince the u.s. to welcome russia at the coalition in a top level meeting in ashington. >> listening to the press conference, the u.s. and french

president seemed united. contrary to appearances, the u.s. president has just francois e plan proposed. the french president called for a coalition with the u.s. and russia against the islamic state group and barack obama showed no interest in the alliance. president obama: we agree russia could play a more constructive role if it were to shift the focus of its strike to defeating isil. >> dweeth the islamic state organization and not other rebel groups fighting russia's ally bashar al-assad. the rejection is a blow for hollande's diplomatic plan. though the week started well when the french president got support from the british prime minister cameron. >> firmly support the action president hollande has taken to strike isil in syria and is my firm conviction britain should do so, too. >> of course, the decision is

not up to cameron but to the british parliament, creating a grand coalition wasn't an easy task to begin with. it turned even more complicated on tuesday when one of the west's key allies, turkey, shot down a russian jet that shot straight in its airspace. holiday land travel tots moscow goal is to nd its convince president to form the group. hollande now says that fighting the islamic state group is the priority. the french leader reportedly lowered his ambitions. he's no longer aiming for a grand coalition. he just hopes that those who strike syria at least try to coordinate their bombings. >> 12 days after the attacks in paris that left 130 dead, brussels has become a major focus in the investigation with raids and arrests mainly centering on the neighborhood of molambique where some of the

attackers grew up. belgium went into lockdown for five days over fears after similar attack there but today brussels is slowly coming back to life. the city schools and underground metro have reopen dad and for more now on what the feeling is there, we'll bring in our chris mohr. what's it like on the streets of brussels, do things feel like they're back to normal? chris: the last few days when the city was a bit of a ghost town, they certainly do. as you said there, children going back to school. the metro is now operating a partial services and a lot of the shops and businesses that have been closed the last few days are reopening. some 500 police and army have been deployed to help secure this return to normality today and the security presence is very evident in the cities in the commercial neighborhood where we were this morning and where we ask a few commuters about their feelings and should be able to listen to that now. >> we have to get back to

normal to go to work and school is open again. it's a little contradictory. we don't have a lot of information so people are having a hard time understanding why normal life should resume when the terror alert level is at level four until monday. >> i think in terms of prevention the government has done a good job and like there are more police and soldiers on the streets and that's all preventative stuff. they're managing it well. >> i've just dropped my daughter off at school and that's a choice i have to make. we have to trust them but it's difficult. and when i'm on the metro and i see the army, it reminds me of the danger. but yes, i'm going to work but i am scared. chris: as you heard there, a mixture of determination to get on with life as normal and apprehension. and other people really talking about this paradox really that yesterday the message was the public services remain closed, stay away from crowded areas. today the official message is

get on with your life as you always do but at the same time, the terror threat remains at its highest level and is set to do so until next week. >> like you say, chris, it is a bit after strange situation there with no real breakthrough in the investigation so far to try and calm these fears of an imminent attack and yet people being told to go back to normal. do we know anything more from the investigation there? chris: that's right. as people are going to work, they know that five people have been charged in connection with what happened in paris. there's of course this hugely high profile manhunt here in elgium and elsewhere for abdel amsulah and now habrini seen with him in a car two days before the attacks. one of the problems here is official communication, the authorities are readily few and far between and of course that's led to an enormous amount of speculation about foiled plots, etc., in the belgium media the last week or

so. only today we saw the country's foreign minister giving an interview to american television in which he seemed to say the authorities were on the hunt for a group of up to 10 people heavily armed and intent on launching a paris style attack. so amid what is at times a lack of communication, people very aware this is a very much ongoing police investigation and operations continue that some people remain at large, hence that sense of apprehension. we are talking about that just now. >> thank you, chris moore reporting from brussels. tunisia confirmed it was a suicide bomber who blew himself up in tuesday's attack there hat left at least 13 dead. the attack was on the bus carrying officials at the time. a new month long state of emergency is now in place. it's the third major attack in tunisia this year alone after gun attacks in tunise and at the beach reduce of sus that

killed 60 people in all. we have more. >> the state of emergency was called in last night as well as a curfew from k p.m. to 5:00 p.m., the state of emergency is going to last a month, the curfew will probably be in place again tonight. now, the atmosphere is obviously very heavy militarily near the place where the attack happened last night. and it has been heavy many weeks now especially for since the first time for the past few months tunisian civilians were targeted by jihaddist groups on november 13 while the attack in paris was taking place, a young shepherd, a 16-year-old shepherd was beheaded in the mountains of in the center, western region of tunisia. so the tensions were already set and they were looking forward to this week of the film festival, a week of culture and a week of joy for them.

they were all going in large numbers to the movie theaters and now the attack last night is obviously a big blow to this joyful week. however, the film festival has not been canceled by the state of emergency and despite the curfew and the continue erbeians see it as a -- and the continue erbeians see it as a sign of resistance. >> the security is tight in kenya as the pope starts his first visit to africa today. he's arriving in nairobi at around 3:00 p.m. paris time and he'll be on a six-day tour that will also include uganda and the pontiff's first visit to a war zone, the central african republic. we have more now from nairobi. >> obviously the catholic population in kenya accounts for 25% as the kenyan population and is extremely excited and elements of other faiths which are also excited because of obviously pope

francis has a track record of being very liberal and progressive in his views so that's created some optimism that the pope will speak out on a number of issues, including the need for reconciliation between faith and parliament of other people's views, including sexuality as well. now, in uganda, of course, there's been a big fight against anti-gay legislation and it is expected by some people the pope may speak on that issue. so at least pledge a message of tolerance if not endorsement. now here in kenya, preparations are of course well underway. the pope is due to arrive at 5:00 local time. i'm currently in the park which is the center of nairobi and there will be about a million people according to local press reports as they listen to the pope's mass being relayed from the university of nairobi. >> duncan woodside reporting from kenya. the major climate conference in paris is just five days away

now. some 150 world leaders will be here to try and lock in a deal to help control global warming. in the meantime, little by little, some countries are trying to find solutions themselves. that's the case in austria where environmentalists are pushing what's been called river current power in the danube. that river flows through a picture postcard valley and unlike solar panels that could spoil the view, the river turbines seem to be the best way to make the blue danube green. the aim in time is for all the 30,000 inhabitants of the unesco protected valley to get their power that way. >> this is "france 24" a look at the headlines. russia is one -- warning there could be serious consequences following the downing of one of its military planes. turkey said it shot down the aircraft after it ignored several warnings to leave its airspace. the french president gets support from the u.s. but not

the firm backing he was hoping for. this after francois hollande sat down with barack obama to try to get the u.s. onboard in a new coalition including russia against the islam you can state group. tunisia confirms it was a suicide bomber who blew himself up on tuesday's attack on a bus there that left at least 13 dead. that's the country's third major terrorist attack this year. business news for you now with steven carol. hi, steven. we'll start in the u.k. where the government is about to announce new cuts. steven: the britain prime minister will announce his four-year plan for public spending expected to include cuts of more than $10 billion euros. social care, policing and education are all thought likely to be factors but george osborne is expected to announce a increase in the british government's spending on housing. the idea is to increase the supply of affordable homes through incentives for builders among other measures.

details set to be aannounced in the next half-hour in the parliament in westminister. jamie: what's been happening in the markets so far's stephen: the ftse 100 ahead of the announcement by the british prime minister is trading up by almost 1%. the trade is reporting a bit of a quieter time in the markets ahead of the thanksgiving holiday in the united states. shares of airlines and hotel groups are bouncing back after the falls we've seen in recent days in the wake of the travel warning coming from the united states and course the situation in belgium. jamie: people living in countries that use the euro like in france will see something new and shiny in their pockets tell us about that. stephen: the euro 20 bank note goes in circulation and will protect against fraud with a new portrait window of europa from greek mythology. the note are being replaced to replace those that have been in circulation since 2002. claire williams has the story. claire: this one is working.

>> the new 20 euro bank note, one of four billion produced in circulation across the euro zone. it's still blue and beige but a hologram of the greek figure uropa made an appearance, the portrait was taken from a vase in the louvre museum in paris. with the in your notes it should be easier to spot a fake. >> this window becomes available when you look at the notes against the light. the transparent window near the top of the hologram reveals a portrait of uropa, which is visible on both sides of the bank note. claire: the 20 euro note is the most spent and most counterfeited in the 19 countries that use the euro. they make up more than half of fake notes. a quarter of a million were taken out of circulation in the first half of 2015. the old notes are still valid for now. the european central bank hopes the new ones will make up 80% of those spent in france by

next september. over the last two years, new five and 10 euro notes have been phased in and new 50 euro note is due to be released in 2017. stephen: more business headlines. the travel group thomas cook reported the first annual profit in five years thanks to cost cutting at the company. net profits at 33 million euros the end of september compared to a loss of almost 170 million last year. they will publish real world and emissions data for its cars. the information will be connected from on the road tests carried out with the transport and environment organization. the test results will be available for next year's usage and from 2017 for emissions for peugeot. moody's has raised the outlook for argentina to positive after the election of the new president. moody's is one of the three

agencies to take a view in argentina after it defaulted on its debt last year. the credit rating is still deep in junk territory but the move is an endorsement of the pro business policies. jamie: to wrap up business today, a series of controversial ads by amazon are being removed from the subway in new york. stephen: the advertising was for a tv series called the man in the high castle being made by amazon and the show depicts an alternative reality in which nazi germany and japan have control over the united states after winning world war ii. the advertisement on subway seats with a diversion of the american flag you see with the german eagle was inspired by imperial japan and called offense. the new york mayor bill de blasio called for the ads to be removed because they were irresponsible and offensive and were pulled from the subway carriage after intervention from the governor of new york, andrew cuomo. they're going to keep their subway postposter advertising for the tv series but the seats

have been taken out of service. jamie: stephen carroll with a look at the business news. now time for the press review. ♪ jamie: we're here to take a look at the paper today. let's start in tunisia where there is a lo of focus on yesterday's deadly attack which left 13 dead. >> lots of mourning in the tunisian press and if you look here you see the black background, a candle and a symbol of defiance a symbol made with the hands which is a peace sign but also a victory sign and something we saw a lot in the wake of the arab spring and the paper is being very defiant in its headline and says tunisia is going to win. the children of tunisia are determined to sweep away terrorism. but this paper is actually quite quit cal of tunisian authorities and say they're

purely on the defensive and they respond every time there's an attack on a case by case basis but doesn't seem to be a global anti-terrorism strategy and seems like it's terrorists calling the shots in tunisia. and the french paper said what is being targeted here is tunisia's western style democracy. tunisia is paying the price of its democratic commitment. jamie: another big story in the papers is turkey's shooting down of a russian fighter plane. florence: russia and turkey have different versions of what happened here. if you want the russia version, head to the moscow times and see a quote by the russian president, vladimir putin who says the downing of this military plane is a stab in the back from accomplices of terrorists. very tough words from the russian president. very different opinion, though, in the turkish papers if you want another quote, this time from the turkish president, heck out this article in the

"hurriet daily news" and said turkey downed the jet with the rules of engagement and turkey said its jet was in its airspace and why it was shot down. a very tit for tat answers here but what's clear is there is a crisis within the crisis which is the syrian crisis, of course. another interesting piece in the daily news says that syria is turning into a turkish russian battlefield and things could escalate quite dramatically. jamie: those worries are he cannedoed in international press. florence: one of the reasons it's a big deal is because it's the first time a russian warplane has been downed by a nato country since the cold war. you see here the front page of the newspaper saying what's happening here is ankara is showing its muscles in the syrian crisis. the british paper, "the independent" says this is actually the turkish missile crisis, very serious implications there as well. "the guardian" another british paper says it's crucial for all

parties involved so ankara and moscow and of course nato, everyone should keep a cool head here. this is very nerve jangling situation and actually exposes the fragility that lies between all this talk of an international coalition against the islamic state group and one of the major sticking points to that kind of international coalition is the future of the syrian president bashar al-assad. and just to show you how complicated the diplomacy can be, a cartoon from "the new york times" today, you see this is the french president hollande meeting with barack obama yesterday in washington. you see he says i brought along a friend, the friend is a russian president vladimir putin who also brought along a friend and that's the syrian president bashar al-assad who you see has blood on his hands according to the cartoonist. jamie: in france many papers are focusing on efforts to step up the fight of radicalization, particularly of young people. florence: two radicalization centers will be set up in 2016

and what french authorities announced. who are they aiming this ad? it's aimed at two sorts of people, first of all, people that have been signaled by a stop jihadism program which was set up recently by french authorities and essentially their friend and families have signaled them as radical islamists and the other people being targeted are people who are returning from a trip to syria either an aborted trip or trip where they actually managed to get in but there's not enough evidence against them to put them into jail so essentially will go to these centers. jamie: you have interesting figures on who these radicals are. florence: it's fascinating and quite surprising and actually goes against stereotypes, really. if we look at an article, in the fact checkers, which look at these statistics which just came out. 40% of these radical islamists are women, for instance. one in five are under 18 years old so we're dealing with a the lo of young people. this is a very interesting statistic, 50%. so half of them are recent converts so they haven't really been raised in muslim family,

say, and what's really interesting is at fact that these statistics are so surprising goes against these stereotypes, very interesting article and you should really check out today inññ//777úúú