anchor: 9:00 p.m. here at the french capital. exceptional gravity. a french minister is describing a drug trial that left one man in a coma and at least three others with permanent brain damage. paying their recent act. -- their respect. authorities carry out fresh anti-terror operations. starving to death, the un security council holds a session amid reap ports of seizures of towns across syria which have left hundreds of thousands of people facing starvation.

good evening. the un security council is holding an emergency meeting this friday. amid repeated reports on seizures in towns across syria, leaving people with nothing to eat. ban ki-moon says that by deliberately starving civilians, both the syrian government and rebels are committing war crimes. jessica is there following developments for us and joins us now. at whose request is that meeting being held for? unitedr: france and the kingdom requested this meeting with the backing of the united states. essentially to

call the world's attention to a dire situation. over hundred thousand civilians stuck in besieged towns earlier this week. this is a all up -- follow-up to that. we expect to hear about inditions of civilians several towns in syria. reports from unicef officials that have been able to make it in with aide c onvoys. one official says that at a clinic, unicef officials watched fromyear-old roboy die malnutrition right in front of their eyes. towards --rd reap reports that parents have been so desperate to alleviate the

suffering of their children. they have been giving them sleeping pills to make it a little bit easier for them to face that suffering. anchor: arendt this testimony there -- horrendous testimony there. the do people think arendt's outcome of the security council meeting could be? reporter: it really is to put thosere on on side of all responsible for putting these towns under sees -- under siege. this is ahead of political talks between the syrian regime and the opposition leader on the 25th of january. syria on envoy for monday. he is expected to raise the issue as well and perhaps to say to the syrian regime to bring a message from the opposition. there will be no negotiations

unless these sieges on these towns are lifted. we heard the un's secretary-general say that using food as a war weapon is a war crime. they want to stop the sieges of these towns. anchor: thank you for that update. we will be following developments there at the un security council emergency summit throughout the course of the evening. amidst growing concerns about freedom of expression in turkey, a group of 27 academic was detained today. they signed a joint declaration announcing turkish government operations against kurdish rebels. they severely criticized these inventories of the declaration. the group of an visual have titles such as professor.

is simple president area on writing. -- friday. the was paying his respects to the vick's suicide arming. that is back has inflamed on the islamic eighth organization. afraid,ot trade -- hundreds of people gathered in solidarity at the site of the attacks indonesian capital. 30 people killed, 20 others injured. withe attacked a starbucks guns and explosives. all five of the attackers were killed. that attack was funded by the islamic state organization. it killed one suspected militant and arrested a handful of others. security is being stepped up across the country.

life in jakarta is showing signs of gradually returning to normal. >> we are not afraid. ambassador gather to lay flowers in an expression of defiance. they say that we are not giving in. >> we are here to say to the terrorists who ordered this attack that they had not won. the people of jakarta are not afraid. increased police at hotels and airports and shopping centers nationwide. they have reassured shopkeepers. >> i spoke to them and everything seems to be getting normal. people told me in shops and food stores that they were afraid. life has gone back to the way it used to be. that is important. >> reinforcements have been

deployed to public buildings to reassure tourists. could revivettack memories of the molly attack in 2003 and 2005. they say that they are not giving in to panic. >> there are more police out there. i think, if anything, i will stay for now. >> it is unnerving knowing that something like that happens to somewhere i am about to go. i feel safe. i am with friends. we are staying together. we are not going to go to very heavily populated areas. >> the last terror attack in indonesia was in 2009 when people were killed at two luxury hotels in the capital. anchor: following last year's historic nuclear deal, international sanctions against .ran are close to being lifted

the international atomic energy agency outlines iran's compliance. any day now, iran's foreign minister are expected to announce implementation days, the days that iran officially downsizes their nuclear program and receives sanctions relief. irani and businesses are poised to win big. for the country's tourism industry, it is the best industry -- newsday have had in years. >> credit cards can be used. that is big for an industry like tourism. prepares to iran join international banking and finance systems, they are getting ready to take in the second largest population in the middle east. hand, germany,

france, and the u.k. have teamed up to create the iranian business alliance. before sanctions were introduced, germany was iran's largest trading partner in the european union. economy, itgerman is really very, very huge. they have very potential market in the near future here in this region. reporter: as tehran towns down to possible economic prosperity, iran's gdp could surpass that of saudi arabia and turkey. investigation is underway in france after one man was declared brain dead and three others face the possibility of permanent brain damage. that is after they take part in critical trials for a drug to treat pain. 90 volunteers were given the

drug at the laboratory. an french minister called it accident of exceptional gravity. the director of the institute of science and ethics, there were talks at university. he joins us now. what more do we know about the drug that was being tested and what it was meant to be used for. >> we do not know about the drug or what actually happened to the patient's. it was designed to look at the safety of new drugs and their efficacy. there were committees that were reviewed such trials before they were conducted. what would be important to know is what these ethics committee saw. what the risks are, what they understood, could they happen, and what precautions were taken? anchor: we had reports of earlier on in the day that that

drug contained a compound of marijuana. that is being denied. have you heard of situations where volunteers have taken part in these kinds of trials and then have gone on to fall seriously ill? reporter: there was one here in britain 10 years ago where six perfectly healthy men were being subject to an experiment to look at a drug to reduce the immune reactions when treating arthritis. they became extremely ill very quickly. one man at lost his fingers and toes. another man had severe deformities. all of them are at an increased risk for cancer. the problem was that the size was too large. the drug was given too quickly in too high a dose. there was not enough space between subjects to look at possible reactions. you have a case where a number of people have fallen ill.

there should be time to observe reactions. the problem in the united kingdom is that there was not a whatficant examination of was already known. a proper study would have predicted those sorts of reactions. there was one trial that was not published that predicted this kind of reaction. what we want to know in this case is, what kind of research was done? , the peopleumably taking part in these trials are doing so for money. issue have any ethical with people signing up to become human guinea pigs for cash? reporter: they can be paid up to 4500 euros. many people have concerns that this is coercive. personally, i think the most important features is that they are as safe as possible.

there will always be risk. people are told very openly about the risk. i think that people can be paid. they need to know the risks that they are taking. anchor: thank you for speaking to us. thank you so much for speaking to us again. investigators here in france have used dna samples to identify one of the paris attackers who blew themselves up during a police raid act in november. he is eating identified as a 25-year-old elgin moroccan who was one of the team that went on a shooting spree across the french capital. one of the attackers remain at large. belgian: a 25-year-old moroccan named the eighth done gunman in parent -- the paris attacks.

he blew himself up with a suicide bomb during a police raid. dna was collected at the scene. -- they shut people at bars and cafes across paris. he was known for being part of a radical religious group. is the alleged coordinator of the paris attacks. inleft belgium for syria 2013. >> he was among the first people that went to syria from here. he was known as relatively calm, from a respectable family that generally kept to themselves. he returned from syria remains unknown. police now know that he was among a team of killers on the paris streets on the 13th of november.

they went into hiding. ineral months before hand, july, 2015, you was among 31 belgians to be tried in connection with extremist activities. he was sentenced to five years in prison in his absence. five people haven't been killed in southern somalia after a terror group attacked a military base. the killers were all canyon. it remains unclear how many died. the 22,000 african union forces in there. they have gained strength against militants, pushing them out of several strongholds. was yesterday, sierra leone facing the end of the ebola outbreak. the latest victim was taken ill to the border with ginny died on

tuesday. tuesday that it was determined that she had died ebola. more than 11,000 people have lost their lives to that virus in west africa. it has been just over half a century and history was made with the first ever spacewalk. until today, it was something that no british person has ever done. an astronaut and his loading outside of theg international space station to replace an electrical unit. he said that he felt exhilarated. he was far too busy to dwell on it. it is time to check on the business markets. we are starting with the lower price of oil. a far cry from the crisis of $145 a barrel that we saw eight years ago. yearter: just in the past and a half we have seen oil

prices come down by as much as 70%. oil prices have gone under $30 a barrel. that brings the latest value that we have here. crude is down almost $.60. the $29 a barrel mark. a level that we have not seen for about 12 years or so. lower oil price is putting pressure on global stocks this friday. we have seen it european and american stocks trading sharply down this session. i spoke to chris beauchamp about the force. he said that one of the main culprits is the suspect of iran exporting more oil. >> we have further pressure on oil prices. .ran is coming into the market that is something we have known about for a while. it continues to meet the supply

picture, which is fundamentally very liquid. we are expecting that to continue to go down and drive expectations.d as more and more stock comes into market, demand still remains fairly weak. plus, you have got that spat between saudi and it wrong. -- and iran outlook ift is the we look at france? theyow can prices go? warned that prices could go as low as $10 a barrel. reporter: it is interesting that you have had that development. you have that with people breaking the euro. i am always wary when investment ranks start tripping them -- tripping over themselves to start predicting a movement in price. muchan see them going

lower towards those targets. you see the occasional big rallies in the price. just as people start to get bearish on oil, there could be a sudden cut from opec. thisuld see once again kicking back into action. lower oil prices are often seen as an economic boon. petrol gets cheaper. why are we seeing the reaction in the stock markets? why are we seeing them follow oil to the downside? reporter: if you like oil as a global -- barometer of the global economy, the u.s. and china, they are seeing falls in the consumption of oil. u.s. thatta from the

fell last month. if consumers are not spending the money they save on fuel prices on other things, as we think they might be doing, that shows that they are concerned about the global economic outlook. consumers are still cautious. it looks as if the global economy is heading for a more difficult pastor than we thought . if that is the case, you move away from stocks and into bonds. anchor: he was speaking to me earlier from london. it's take a look at global stocks. in the unitedin states where we are seeing shares to the downside of once again. the nasdaq down as much as 2.5%. we have actually seen a worse picture earlier this section. markets are clawing back some of their previous losses. the shares are among the hardest hit stateside with exxon and

chevron weighing heavily on the dow. those gains fizzled out quickly. it is down as much as 2.5%. bhp billiton shares dropped more than 6%. it wrote down the shares of it shale assets and the united states. that is another effect of the oil prices. shale assets in the united states have taken a beating in the last year and a half or so. we have seen oil prices trade prices,longside oil emerging-market current seas also coming under pressure on friday. the russian ruble has been falling back to lowe's. -- lows. crude is a major source of income for russia. the benchmark index dropping more than 4%. from one emerging-market to another, brazil and rio de

janeiro are gearing up for carnival. preparations are underway. even though the annual party is three weeks away. a deepening recession and unemployment is damping the mood. carnival,run-up to the atmosphere is usually jubilant. this time around, result's economic woes are damping the mood. they have forced them to cut production and let go of staff. >> we are making 30% less than we were last year, which was not a great year in itself. this year is much worse. 30% is a lot for us. some shops have been clients of hours for a long time have been forced to close. carnival the timing of this year is also impacting spending with consumers less likely to spend it so soon after

the christmas holidays. battled by has been a worsening recession and economy. itsrial lost a third of value against the dollar, making it harder for brazilians to travel. >> more people are staying in rio de janeiro, where there are lots of street parties and tourists coming. >> while the economic realities this time around may be too hard to ignore, it is unlikely that resilience will spend the carnival season in despair. anchor: let's get you to a few other stories. a french utility wants to shed at least or thousand jobs according to union sources. the plan would stretch over the next three years and were not include any forced layoffs. they would not replace staff who quit or retire.

more than three unions have called for a strike on that day. they are not commenting on the reports. air france is trying to take the edge off of plans. they have told unions that it is ready to make fresh investments. the french like carrier says that -- unless pilots agree to longer working hours. air france is sticking to a plan as many as 1000 jobs. goldman sachs has agreed to pay over $5 billion to investors that it said it misled during the financial crisis. bank of america j.p. morgan chase and other banks have already reached still larger settlements over similar allegations. we are going to finish up with this. one of france's most well-known candy brands could fall back

into hands. a brand that is only known for his taste, and also a joke on the inside. those jokes tend to be of varying quality. own right andy american who giant. it signaled back in october that it is thinking of a sale. now the franco belgian firm has told a french newspaper that it would be a willing buyer. disclosure, it would not become only wrench. it certainly would take a step and what some french people would say is the right direction. guess what, i brought you one. >> thank you very much. >> it is such an iconic rant here in france. it started in 1954. many people have actually grown up with it.

>> it seems to be stuck. tend to be of varying quality. >> we will read it together. thank you. that is very kind. please come back again. with theson there business news. i will be back in four minutes with the top stories.

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