genie: this is "france 24." time for 60 minutes around the world. i'm genie godula. from theinisters international coalition against the islamic state groupon meeting in paris, hoping to step up their organization and resources against the militants. the taliban says it is behind university in a pakistan. close to 20 are killed and dozens are hurt as gun man

stormed the campus -- as gunmen stormed the campus. one of the last grand masters of italian comedy has died. ore scolactor ett was a leading filmmaker for three decades. stephen carroll reports from davos on day one of the world economic forum. growth: slowing economic with chilled temperatures here, and to be optimistic as local leaders gather here in the swiss else. ?enie: a match made in heaven sarah palin endorses donald trump in the republican race to the white house. that and more on the way. first, our top story from paris.

the fight against the islamic state group is the story -- the topic of talks here in paris today defense ministers from seven countries are here to hash out ways to build the international coalition that kicked off in 2014 and to boost its resources. the meeting today is cohosted by the french defense minister and his u.s. counterpart, ash carter. againstsay the fight the i.s. group has been slow to take off, but it is beginning to bear fruit. here is more from british defense secretary michael fallon. we need to do more to stem the flow of foreign fighters, and particularly to stop the treatment of oil, which they have been doing with the syrian regime. we need to make sure that stops, too. taking parta is not in the talks in paris today, but

-- it istinuing to continuing its own bombing campaign. the meeting with sergei lavrov today is to determine who is eligible to join the mediated peace talks on syria. no agreement so far as to which of the syrian military -- the syrian militant groups should be game for strikes and which should be part of the talks. our correspondent takes a closer look at the international coalition operation in syria and iraq. buildings are flattened by recent air raids in iraq's mosul abiggest city, base missile strike. -- the jihadists lost millions of dollars. 21 coalition airstrikes also

destroyed oil facilities near ramadi and a cache of weapons. the us-led coalition began bombing iraq and syria in late summer of 2014. since then they have launched over 6000 airstrikes in iraq and over 3000 in syria. the main cities targeted are ramadi.d baiji and france has stepped up its efforts, contributed to 20% of airstrikes. u.s. officials said last week that coalition airstrikes killed eight civilians in 2015, but air wars, a collective of independent journalists tracking the number of airstrikes and casualties, say that hundreds of people have died. military commanders are talking of a new phase with an emphasis on targeting infrastructure and supply lines. with a greater focus on syria. the islamic state group

says two of the jihadists behind the paris attacks in november last year came from iraq. a photo in the latest issue of the group's english-language propaganda magazine identifies two iraqi men alongside the ledger planner of the attacks, killed in a shootout with french police. the islamic state group also confronted the death of the masked british militant known as jihadi john, who appeared in including the beheadings of western hostages. inleast 21 have been killed an attack on a university in northwestern pakistan. another 60 people were hurt. catherine clifford reports. catherine: families gather outside the university. he does not yet know if his relatives are alive. armed militants scaled campus walls, entering classrooms and dormitories, and firing at

students and teachers. >> i saw three terrorists. one was on the roof, firing from there. i saw four university security guards who were injured, and we took them to ambulances. >> we heard gunfire at the back of the campus, and we thought maybe some people were fighting, and the shooting intensified, so we said get into the rooms, do not go out. then security forces came and showed great bravery. >> police, military, and special launched air and ground operations. some 20 ambulances rushed to the injured to hospital. about 50rsity is kilometers from the city of shawar. are -- of pe as you just heard, the

attack today comes a little over a year after taliban gunmen killed dozens of children at another school nearby. france 24's islamabad correspondent told us more on why security measures put in place since then are not working. >> this is a question being raised by observers here also, and some analysts also, and the -- with the government said they will not tolerate any militancy, they will not tolerate any terrorism. a military operation has been going on next to this area for the last 1.5 years. despite that, we are seeing that the ability of the militants to attack still is intact. there are a lot of questions being asked. just last week there was -- schools in the province where the attack happened, there might be another sort of attack that insaw in peshawar last year,

2014. despite that, a lot of questions are being asked. andite that, the military other law enforcement agencies are not being able to cope with this militant threat, even though they do claim otherwise. genie: our correspondent reporting from islamabad. the official pakistani-taliban spokesman has said the movement is not behind the deadly attack on the university. his comments came after a taliban leader claimed the attack in a phone call to the associated press news agency. has spokeneme leader out against the attack on the three weeks ago. he condemned the attack for the first time from his website, calling it a bad and wrong incident. next, to columbia, where a historic breakthrough between

the government and farc rebels could be on the horizon after observe the end of their conflict. the u.n. has yet to respond, but it represents the biggest breakthrough yet after three years of talks. conflictes-long between the farc and the colombian government led to 22,000 dead. >> today we have taken one more step, a big, definitive step toward the end of conflict and the achievement of peace. we were able to formally request the u.n. security council to create a special mission that would oversee the bilateral and definitive cease-fire. words, the end of war and the disarmament process. genie: we have got the latest on

the u.s. race to the white house. politician turned reality star sarah palin has thrown her weight behind billionaire donald trump. trump is the front runner in the republican race, and sarah palin gave him a passionate endorsement at a campaign rally in iowa. catherine clifford has more. catherine: crowds at this iowa rally are not just getting trump. the presidential hopeful welcomed another larger-than-life political character. donald trump: this is a person i have known for a long time, who i have respected for so long -- somebody who, when i heard that she was going to endorse me, i was so honored. catherine: sarah palin took to the stage to sing trump's praises. sarah palin: are you ready for a will kickin chief who isis' ass, ready to make america

great again? are you ready to stump for trump? i am here to support the next resident of the united states, donald trump. catherine: the shining endorsement comes less than two weeks before votes are cast in iowa, and trump's neck and neck with republican rival ted cruz. sarah palin endorsed ted cruz when he ran for senate in 2012. the switch of allegiance came as a surprise. how much can she do for trump? in a run for vice president in 2008, sarah palin bill turnbull shown a as a desk presiden -- as a lesser governor in 2009, sarah palin worked as a political -- as alaska governor in 2009, since then, sarah palin has worked as a political pundit . she is a polarizing figure

amongst the party as a whole. genie: there has been another big loss in the arts world. italian cinema lost one of its reats with the death of ettore scola. directed "special day" and "we loved each other so much." scola, the filmmaker, who has died at the age of 84, films comedies with a subversive edge. than the 1977 film "a special day," starring sophia laurent, which denounced the persecution of homosexuals under miscellany. -- under mussolini. >> all aspects of fascism -- >> the established his career as

a screenwriter, including the 1963 hit. he carved an imprint for himself as a filmmaker, winning the best director afford -- the best inector award at cannes 1986. a one-time member of the italian communist party, he used his knowledge of left-wing groups in films such as "we love each other so much," which charted the postwar fortunes of three partisans. centered on the 16th.e of louis the his last film of the documentary was called "federico," about his

friend and mentor, federico fellini. in thedefense ministers international coalition against islamic state are meeting today. to tell us a bit more about that, i am joined from london by jonathan i'll, the national director of the united service institute here and thank you so much for joining us. you have written two reports on the international efforts to fight islamic state group leader do you agree with the efforts efforts getting results? jonathan: there is a political cohesion. there is also a bigger commitment in terms of resources on the ground. internal discussions about the so-called boots on the ground, whether we have ground forces on the ground or not, have been bypassed.

and there is a sense of urgency in washington, which after all is the main supporter of this coalition. there is a similar sense of purpose that the priority of upon usg isis is now and cannot be ducked. unfortunately, however, there is still much more to be done. the french position puts forward -- put forward by president accepted.is still not this is not the first priority in the middle east as the french would like it to be. genie: what do you think is going to come out of this meeting today? jonathan: the first thing is trying to see whether the current strategy is working. there have been some achievements in terms of trying to cut down the financial resources of the terrorist

organizations, but also in terms of narrowing the territorial scope. it is not going to be defeated very quickly. nobody has argued otherwise. but clearly the strategy is beginning to bear some straight -- is beginning to bear some fruit. be any there also has to expiration of some of the political ramifications of that. for instance, what kind of contribution a country like turkey could have in this business, and also whether there a wider effort would be put in place to stabilize syria, --order to train some of the although we are talking much more about defense chiefs, so the emphasis will remain on the military strategy, we cannot ignore the political ramifications of this. genie: thank you so much.

thank you for taking the time to speak to us from london. 's world economic forum , an annual in davos gathering of business leaders discussing challenges facing the global economy in 2016. stephen carroll joins us now there from the snowy mountains. what has been happening there today? day of theis first world economic forum, business underway in the conference center behind us -- the theme is about mastering the industrial revolution. lot of talk about technology that we are seeing today and how digital is going to affect all of our areas of our life. we will hear from the new canadian prime minister, justin trudeau, today. we will also hear from u.s. vice president joe biden as well. there is somewhat of a chill with the freezing temperatures in davos.

those figures out in china yesterday showing the lowest growth rate in 25 years. the international monetary fund also reduced its forecast for global economic growth for this year and next year. saying thata survey only 27% of chief executives they surveyed saw things improving. this is an issue i suppose that is affecting many types of businesses, and there are lots of different studies coming out, on what do those communications -- matt harrington, thank you for joining us. you look at the trust people having governments, institutions, businesses. what has this survey showed? >> the headline this year is that trust is up, up across all four institutions -- business, media, ngo's, and government, which is interesting in terms of the opening you just gave. it is counterintuitive.

when we were talking to thousands of folks last year, people were feeling better. what is underlying that increase in trust is where it is coming from. dilly -- both informed if formed -- we surveyed both informed elites, the top 15%, and then there is the 85%, what we characterize as the mass population. stephen: and there is quite a big difference in results with those two sections. >> the top 4% or 5% really carried that list. there is a real sense of inequity between the top 5% and the bottom 85%. stephen: they had less trust in governments, in businesses, as a result? >> exactly. france in total is a neutral country. it is one that is neither trusting nor totally distrusting, so it is sitting in that middle.

but when you look at mass population, there is a significant drop which the mass population is distrusting. it is a 16-point gap between the informed public's distrust of the society's institutions and mass population. code do we have an explanation for this gap? there are a few things going on. there is an inversion of the old information infrastructure, which is top-down. information and knowledge decisions were being made from the top, to the general benefit of society. that has changed with the collapse of the command-and-control model. everyone has access to myriad ofn, via a channels. what that means is that the mass population has the opportunity to find information, access information that they want, and that lines to their beliefs, so

they are much more self selective. it is the collapse of that control model. it is a real inversion pyramid we are seeing. stephen: one thing i find interesting in this survey is that is mrs. are more trusted than governments. is that new? >> it is the 2008 and 2009, government surged. it was seen that the government was going to hold the world together in terms of the economic elk down. business has worked very hard to earn back trust. this past year, with the ascendancy of business over government, that is indicative of business getting its act together. we see more job creation, innovation, the impact of technology. that is coming from business, not from a frozen congress in the u.s. or any you bureaucracy -- or an e.u. bureaucracy slowing things down. in the race he was then, that in the grand scheme of things, --

you see this when you look at the opportunity business has to lead. we think this year's trust barometer gives a roadmap that perhaps ceo's in particular need to lead. stephen: thank you for joining us on "france 24." european shares are trading sharply down today. falling oil prices down near 12-year lows again, hurting european share markets, up to 3% in the main markets in europe. more to come this day and week at "france 24." back to you, jeannie. you so much come and stay warm. it is time for the press review on "france 24." florence villeminot is with us here. lots of reaction to the reports of a horrible attack on the

university in northwestern pakistan. flo: it is mainly factual information we are seeing, but lots of papers in pakistan are focusing on the fact that this attack comes a year after another deadly attack in a school -- on a school in peshaw ar, which left 140 students debt. a pakistani paper has republished an article that it published a year ago on the one-year anniversary of that attack. it asked a chilling question -- will pakistani schools be attacked again, essentially. it is chillingly foreshadowing what we see today, and the answer to that attack -- will pakistan seymour school attacks? the answer is yes -- will pakistan see more school attacks ? the answer is yes. if you click on each country,

you can see how many people have died in attacks on schools. this is a global phenomenon, really, that is increasing at an financial rate. genie: let's move onto another story. amnesty international has published a report claiming kurdish peshmerga forces may have committed more crimes in areas that were recaptured from the islamic state group leader flo: this is a shocking report that is getting a lot of attention. a german paper. it sums up with this report says, that kurdish fighters are carrying out revenge in iraq allegedly. according to amnesty international, kurdish fighters have been destroying thousands of arab villages in northern iraq and forcing -- essentially displacing people. is ading to the report, it deliberate effort to uproot these arab communities, and it is based on a field investigation and has sent shockwaves through the region. peshmerga fighters up to

this point have been praised. taking a look at a fresh paper, it wonders are these kurdish fighters saviors or persecutors, executioners? these fighters were seen as the hope of the west, and now they are being accused of crimes against humanity. the kurdish authorities have not responded to these allegations. genie: in the united states, the white house race got another interesting match, some might say in heaven. sarah palin has now endorsed donald trump. flo: that is right. dazzling in sequence. donald trump was smirking. it might be a surreal endorsement, according to "the daily beast," but it can only benefit the donald. the best headline on the front page in a while goes to "the new york daily news," saying, "i am

with stupid today." and the best one, "bird brains of a feather flock together." genie: things are not looking good for france, as the facility rate, always historically high, had a significant drop. flo: this is according to the french national statistics bureau. in 2015, the french fertility rate dropped below the symbolic threshold of two children per women, the rate needed to renew a population. france has historically been about that two children per woman rate, and it has been proud of the fact that it has been above that rate. according to statistics, we are at the lowest fertility rate we have had since 1999. genie: we have to remind viewers right-leaningis a

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