♪ >> you are watching live from paris on "france 24." he says he is making up the lost time. iran's president hailing a strong relationship with france as he wraps up a landmark visit to paris. the first head of state ever to be tried at the international criminal court. trial for alleged crimes against humanity. is spreadingirus explosively in the american -- in the americas.

as many as 4 million infections on the continent this year. he said that iran and france need to make up for lost time. the iranian president hailing a strong relationship with harris as he wraps up his tour of europe. met with francois hollande for what they called frank talks. they talked about the crisis in syria and common terrorist threats. take a listen. >> there is one point that both sides supported strongly today and that is the fight against fanaticism, terrorism, and extremism. we must remain extremely vigilant and active in this

area, exchanging intelligence between our countries, and in otherlicies areas as well, particularly in the field of culture, so that we may continue working towards security for all our people. is striking is here, but it is also striking countries in the region, including iran. terrorism is our common enemy. it strikes all people without any distinction of religion. in the region, terrorism strikes first and foremost the muslim population. everything must be done to fight terrorism. in order to do that, the political problems in the region have to be settled. we were at the presidential palace as the two men made the comments. >> their iranian president and his french counterpart held a

bilateral meeting. they then addressed the press, in which they announced some 11 memorandums to various sectors, including the financial sector, tourism, health, education. in addition to that, they made a number of announcements with regard to contract. airbus is looking to sell 700 passenger planes into iran in addition to building a new terminal. the economic ties front, the two has made some progress. the french president reiterated the fact that that is not the only thing they need to address. they need to look at problems considering syria, iraq, yemen, and iran's relationship with saudi arabia. we need to look out for that the iranian foreign minister and his french counterpart will be working together in the following month to work on a political memorandum to try and come a little bit closer when it comes to regional issues. we have to keep a close eye on that.

holande and rouhani steered clear of human rights. staged.xecution was 65 french lawmakers signed a petition calling on president hollande to bring up human rights in his discussion with hassan rouhani. , a man carrying two handguns was arrested at disneyland. the interior ministry says the 28-year-old suspect is of european origin and he had a koran in his possession. france remains in a state of emergency after islamist gunmen and suicide bombers killed over 100 people in attacks in

november. he stands trial, accused of crimes against humanity. charges including murder, rape, and persecution of his enemies. ivory coast's former president laurent gbagbo attending the first day of his trial at the international criminal court and denying those accusations. >> for the first time, a former head of state is sitting in the international criminal court. is on trial of four counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity, charges he denies. do you plead, guilty or not guilty? >> thank you, mr. president. i plead not guilty. refused to gbagbo step down after losing the election. his bid to cling to power triggered a wave of violence that claimed more than 3000 lives. prosecutors accused gbagbo and

the former militia leader of ,rdering systematic attacks including murder, rape, and other inhumane acts. gatheredo protesters to demonstrate against what they called a one-sided prosecution. he was responsible for horrible crimes in ivory coast. >> gbagbo is not a rebel. he has never killed anyone. the real rebels committed crimes in ivory coast. high,h tensions running the presiding judge made it clear politics had no place these proceedings -- in these proceedings. , butis is a criminal trial not a game. >> prosecutors intend to present

more than 5000 documents as well as 138 potential witnesses in a trial that is set to last at least three years. anchor: as you heard in our report, this is the first time a former head of state has gone on trial. that's get more context of the report. effortbring in luke, an -- an expert. thanks for being with us. there is quite a lot at stake hold a fair trial with such a prominent figure as laurent gbagbo. >> it potentially makes a lot of african states unhappy that the africanargeting leaders. maybe it is because gbagbo is a former leader and not a current one. the trial hasnk

and online to the public they have their own defense counsel and a team to support them. this trial is due to last three, maybe four or five years. why does it need to take so long? luke: the prosecution's try to show that there is comprehensive evidence and they are going to call 130 witnesses and thousands of documents of evidence to present to the court. it is likely to be a number of years. the last case is just only finishing and it took nine years. they are still waiting for reparations from the court. anchor: on a related point, laurent gbagbo himself has already spent five years in jail.

has anyone thought about what happens if he is acquitted? luke: yes. there are provisions to .ompensate him the last case that was brought before this, the court says there was not sufficient evidence. there are concerns over gbagbo's health. anchor: just to come back to the point you touched on earlier, there have been a lot of complaints over the years that the icc doles out white man's justice to africans. how fair is that accusation and what is the icc doing to address it? >> yes. the first few situations, they are all against african individuals.

, the court had its first and investigation into the kate -- its first investigation into the case in georgia. anchor: thank you very much for bringing us those insights. thanks very much for your time. moving across to latin america virus, expected of causing birth defects and thousands of babies, is spreading explosively in the americas according to the world health organization. as many as 4 million people could contract the zika virus throughout the continent this year. to 4 million, how many people are likely to be affected as the zika virus spreads across the americas.

a direct link between the virus and birth defects has yet to be proven. the world health organization is taking the threat very seriously. , only recentlyks suspected, has rapidly changed the risk ofzika -- the risk of zika from a mild threat to one of alarming proportions. reporter: they are meeting to decide whether it should be declared an international health emergency. it can cause severe birth defects in children born from infected mothers. but some have no symptoms at all, making it hard to know whether pregnant women have been affected. while there is no vaccine or treatment, the who has tried to dampen the panic. >> this is not ebola. this one needs a vehicle to -- a

vehicle. if we can control the vehicle, we can minimize the impact of this virus. reporter: cases have been reported in 23 countries and territories. brazil is by far the most with 4000 cases of babies born with serious birth defects. have continueds throughout the day and into the evening for a boat that capsized off a greek island. 24 people have drowned. they had been trying to cross into the european union from turkey. at least 10 of those who lost their lives were children. more than 80 people in total have died off the greek coast in the last week alone. further north in europe, sweden aspreparing to host as many 80,000 failed asylum-seekers. that figure is equal to about 45% of all of last year's applicants.

in 2015, they had the highest number of asylum west in any country in proportion to its population. sweden reversed its policy toward migrants and refugees alongside other scandinavian countries late last year. planse government says it to return around 60,000-80,000 asylum-seekers who have not been granted refuge. the highestad reception of refugees in modern times. today, half of the ones seeking asylum are granted asylum. the other half will have to return. >> how will it be done? >> we are talking about people returning voluntarily. it is about motivating people to return. as a last resort, we will use force. reporter: the process could take years. alongside germany, it is the

most popular destination for refugees and migrants entering the eu illegally. >> we left our country to come to europe, to come to a country of human rights, women's rights, and children's rights. this position from the swedish government does not help us. >> we do not want this. we do not want to go back. we are happy in sweden. we love sweden. this decision makes us uncomfortable, unhappy, and worried. reporter: more than one million refugees and migrants entered europe last year, many fleeing conflict in syria, iraq, and afghanistan. sweden's neighbor, denmark, faced criticism earlier this week for approving legislation that will allow authorities to seek money and valuables from refugees in order to pay for their stay. anchor: another line on the european migration rices.

germany are due to be tightened. the two parties reached agreement today. the measures include a two-year withn family reunions limited refugee protection. germany also wants to speed up deportation of failed .sylum-seekers he might not have stuck a flag , but it is being seen as a clear sign that he thinks the land belongs to his country. six countries claim some or all of the spratly archipelago. yearser: during his eight in office, the president had never visited the disputed island until thursday. this is the film he showed when he returned home. taiwan's ally, the u.s., had warned against such a trip, which could raise tensions in the south china sea. but he said he was proud.

disputedt of the archipelago, claimed fully or in part by china, vietnam, the philippines, malaysia. several governments the size his controversial visit. >> we share responsibility to refrain from actions that increased danger in the south china sea. almostr: china considers all of the south china sea as part of its own territory. in recent months, regional countries said china has become more aggressive in pressing its territorial claim. several countries beefed up their military presence in the region. >> the islands have been china territory since ancient times. the islands on both sides of the straight have the duty of safeguarding them. reporter: the situation is unlikely to calm down.

successor's party is in favor of independence. anchor: we are not used to seeing hollywood stars like leonardo dicaprio looking nervous in the spotlight. today will perhaps set off a few nerves as he met the pope at the vatican. the perhaps unlikely meeting of the silver screen and the policing was marked in dicaprio's interest in protecting the environment. he and the pontiff discussed climate change. in the end, pope francis presented dicaprio with a copy of his recent letter on that subject. >> it represents to me the promise of the future and enlightenment. it is representational of your view here as well. i wanted to give you this gift.

looking pretty happy with their meeting, i would say. let's move on now with business headlines. moving away from ecclesiastical matters to purely economical. we will look at the energy markets. a spike in the oil markets. reporter: forget about the pope. let's look at the energy prices. we have seen a spike in oil prices this session. above $35 a barrel, rising as much as 8%. this came as russia's energy minister said saudi arabia had proposed a production cut. he said the saudi's water oil producers to reduce output by 5%. he added that discussions are still in the early stages. down ever socalmed sign a -- ever so slightly as investors took that statement to heart. we saw prices come off the previous highs today. they are still trading higher with brent crude up more than

3%. slightly lower than we did see a little earlier. is there a deal in the making to reduce oil production? i put that question to spencer wells from ihs in london. >> the more people that are included in this, the harder it would be to actually take place, even if it was just opec and russia. the level of trust that will be required for all of those countries to agree to something and adhere to whatever they agree it is high and would be very difficult to implement. still, if we were to take the russian minister at his word, it's teams as though they are rethinking their strategy. saudi arabia has prioritized its market share. that is why it kept pumping oil at high levels. is that strategy failing and do you think that saudi arabia is on the cusp of rethinking it?

>> i do not necessarily think that they are rethinking. even if we look back to a year ago, saudi arabia always said that they would not cut on their own. they would consider a cut as long as other people are involved. i do not think it is necessarily a change, but more people are starting to talk about that. in terms of their strategy, i do not think it is failing. it is taking longer than anticipated. they wanted to preserve market share and maintain the amount of crude they are producing. the market is showing signs of coming back into balance. u.s. production is slowly declining. demand is increasing. the market is heading towards a balanced position. it still has some way to go. markus: will we see prices had higher in the next few months or so after what has been 12-year lows so far this year? >> well, it depends.

cut, andwas to be a --eed cut that was forced that was enforced, that would bring balance quicker and lead to an earlier rising prices. cut,ere is not an agreed then the market is heading toward balance, but we do not expect it until the second half of this year. the first half of this year, we would expect rices to remain prices to remain weak. and then in the second half, the prices would start slowly increasing. we are talking about a slow increase by the end of 2016. markus: that was spencer welch in london earlier. france and iran have sealed his net worth hundreds of millions of euros. they were signed by the iranian president hassan rouhani in paris. iran has agreed to buy a

aircraft from airbus -- eight aircraft from airbus. peugeot said they have also entered into a partnership. they are set to ramp up its presence as their ceo explains. >> from late 2017, we will introduce three brand-new cars with new technology, updated technology. we will make sure that we get back to 200,000 cars a year. markus: the european commission looks set to probe a cap -- a tax deal between google and britain. the deal was hailed as a major success by the british government when it was announced last week. thatt sparked criticism british taxpayers are being shortchanged. reporter: the deal was hailed as

a success by the british government. the opposition dismissed it as the rise of -- derisory and opaque. the commission is set to investigate. wechsler commission has received a letter from a member of the scottish national party on this matter. --always, the commission on the commission will look at it. reporter: google agreed to pay 130 million pounds in back taxes to britain last week. the deal was criticized by members of the opposition. labour mp 's say it amounts to a 3% tax rate they also questioned the method used to calculate google's tax liability. they say they want the commission to check whether the deal would be considered as a legal state aid. -- as illegal state aid. >> the public needs to make sure

that google paid the taxes they are due in the same way that you or i would do. reporter: they are seeking over 300 million euros in taxes from google. that is twice the amount the company agreed to pay to britain and italy, a much smaller market. google defended the u.k. deal in a letter to the financial times, saying that complies with the law. a six-year audit, we are paying the full amount of tax that her majesty's customs agreed we should pay. reporter: the european commissioner announced new measures to prevent tax avoidance. markus: corporate news next. there will be no bonuses this year for top managers at deutsche bank. the news comes as the lender reports a loss of 6.8 billion euros last year. they were hit by 5.2 billion

euros worth of expenses due to legal disputes. it also wrote down the value of its assets and businesses by 5.8 billion euros. john cryan does not say when the bank will return to profit, urging patience. let me say that, generally speaking, we know that restructuring can be very challenging. tonight, it requires time, determination, and patience. i know these situations firsthand and i am confident that we will succeed. next up, we take a look at the stock market in the united states. stocks have been going in and out of positive territory so far this session. we have seen them stabilize above the flatline in the last couple of hours with the dow jones currently up around .75%.

energy shares have been leading the way. by asok shares surging much as 60% after the company reported big gains in revenues and subscribers during his last financial quarter. it was negative for the european stock market earlier. the dax took a real tumble, down 2.5%. banking shares were among the hardest hit as deutsche bank reported the 6.8 billion euro loss. -- weighed wait on on the dax in frankfurt. pharmaceutical shares were also down. let's bring you up-to-date with a few other stories we have been watching or you this day. a frenchants to buy sports channel. the company is in talks with their current owner, the

sovereign wealth fund of qatar. owns another pay-tv channel, which is facing tough competition from

01/28/16 01/28/16 [captioning made possible by democracy now!] amy: from the sundance film festival in park city, utah, this is democracy now! -- without these photos and videos, first 10 experience, you can't really tell health -- tell the world how bad it might be. >> even was the second most