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>> this is "france 24." time for 60 minutes live around world. these are the headlines. the first votes are cast in new in the crucial presidential primary there. republican donald trump has pledged he will bounce back from democrat in iowa and hillary clinton is working to narrow the gap an bernie sanders. crash in germany leaves nine dead and 150 injured. passenger trains
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collided southeast of munich. syrian government troops backed y russia need to cut off rebel supply lines. the fighting has pushed housands of refugees to join thousands more stuck on the turkish border. in business another volatile day on the stock markets. as ill get the latest european shares continue to fall. we will slash back to the 1960's first our top from paris. >> first to the united states nd crucial new hampshire
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primary under way now. 1.3 state is home to just million people but turning into the battleground that could crowded republican field. we are covering the primary and joins us now from there. jessica, it is still very early. of new hampshire were hit by the snow. out to the ade it poll so far. >> there is heavy snowfall but i them.think it will stop the polls have opened and the was the n of dixville first to vote at midnight. lost s surprisingly trump there because he's leading in the polls yet maybe they are a moderate in that area near the border with canada. the republican candidate
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who won that very small vote are only a few people in the town, kasich won he is certainly one to watch. the more model straight voice in and for the n race democrats in dixville it was despite -- ton, sorry, it was bernie sanders who polls here forhe the democrats. >> as you say the polls are win for bernie a sanders, a win for donald trump for the republicans but it seems real interest might be in who comes in second particularly for the republicans. >> that's right. watch the long race. we may get some indicators here that hampshire about how is going to pan out. first of all, it will be how big the o see win those two leading in the do in new hampshire.
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losing a ctually little support after some comments. where he was ly booed and hecklers were shouting boring" at him despite the fact the majority seemed to of him.rtive he also in the debate saturday shusshed bush. to see how it goes for donald trump. and for bernie sanders despite popular he is very here, will that translate into a over hillary clinton. she is campaigning hard and in seems much more likely to be the candidate. but really let's look at who and third n second place for the republicans. the field is wide open. as though marco rubio may be gaining ground but then debates on saturday he
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as accused by a very caustic chris christie of being like a robot and repeating the same times and some voters appear to be worried that substance. show than at the same time, he's promising hat he's the only republican candidate that can unite everyone for the republican cause. to watch all of runners to see who will come out strong here and who ould really be the challenger for trump and ultimately perhaps get the nomination. you for that ank reporting from nashua, new hampshire. stay warm in the snow there. time for a focus on germany horrific e was that train crash this morning that brought a death toll now to the nine.t two more are still missing. in theple have been hurt
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crash. it was when two local passenger just before ad-on :00 a.m. local time in bavaria about 60 kilometers or 40 miles southeast of munich. this report. frantic efforts to rescue passengers. collided just before 7:00 in bavaria. it is 60 kilometers southeast of close to the austrian border. parts of both trains derailed wagonens overturned. it took around five hours for to free survivors trapped inside the wreckage. between a line is river on one side and thick forest on the other making very difficult. emergency helicopters and ambulances lined up in the area ready to take the injured to safety. he railway has been block and
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road have been closed. the trains at this time would school be filled with children but due to local holidays this was not the case. serious railway accident in germany for many years. authorities say the cause is not known. >> next to hong kong where lunar celebrations turned violent. iot police used baton and pepper spray to break up clouro. street violence there since pro democracy protests a little over a year ago. we have this report. eporter: throwing bricks and lighting trash on fire to express anger. the battle erupted between the hundreds of protesters on tuesday. a riot that began after police unlicensed ar out vendors who traditionally sell stalls during the chinese new year. the sellers and crowd responded the government
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has been trying to strip the autonomous city of traditions. police officers and civilians injured. the leader of hong kong condemned what is the worst city has seen since 2014 in the pro democracy protests. >> we will never tolerate riots. the police will spare no effort rioters. the i would like to deliver my condolences to the police reporters d news injured in the riots. reporter: more than a year after the pro democracy protests many residents are till highly distrustful of local authority and beijing and tightening alis the -- see as the tightening grip on hong kong. resentment remains prevalent. even in the chinese new year. >> in syria government troops to cutby russia continue
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off rebel supply lines. he russian air strikes have given a major boost to regime forces. hey are close to completely shutting down a key supply root route.e -- it has pushed people to the edge turkis isturkish-syrian border. he united nations is call ago on turkey to open the borders. we have a report from the turk ish side. turkish foreign minister said they are admitting syrian efer gees in a controlled fashion and let in some 10,000 f the roughly 50,000 who reached the borders in recent days. does that correspond to what you are seeing on the ground? reporter: well, right now the and r remains closed there's no indication as to when 10,000 people will be let
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authorities.rkish we have seen ambulances come in , some urgent medical cases are being let in. more than a dozen a day. carrying so trucking humanitarian aid going in and out. if turkey n remains, 10,000 what will happen to the other, the tens of others massed at the border. we know the situation is dire on the other side. crescent has already blankets and 2,000 tents and mobile toilets enough.s not more people arrived yesterday and among them many fear that they are so close to the turkish border soon the russian not spare them.
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>> what have you been hearing in the area?hting are the government troops ground? more reporter: we just spoke to a fof the son from one rmy coalitions, a coalition that is unite iing many, he sai that the lly he feels russian air strike campaign is what the ding in regime forces haven't been able to do in all those years meaning to empty those areas hat wanted to overthrow the assad regime in 2011. to a command are of the syrian army and he said that for the last 15 days there's been no food or ammunition alepo. in the military offensive launched disrupted one main
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supply roads for the rebel forces forces. the aoeast is cut off from the turkey. that is is one of the main supply roads for the rebel forces. is still a road open on the western side of the city but the military offensive is ongoing and is advancing toward the west. so,le fear that soon -- so many aleppo would be cut off meaning more than there would be trapped which is only 60 kilometers from here. that.ank you for meanwhile, the violence continues in damascus as well. killed theret were today after a car bomb went off at a police officer's club. police officers were among the victims and another 20 people were hurt.
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a musical note now. n london with a sneak preview at the new jimmy heupb direction jimmy hendrix museum in his fixed to be h was exactly the way it was when he left it. eporter: red carpeting, turquoise drapes and persian 1960's as e to the decorated by jimmy hendrix. is bedroom has been faithfully recreated in his former residents on brooks street where girlfriend at is the time from july 1968 to march of 1969. >> it was not really a residential street at the time music as loud ay as you like and they did. adjoin being t -- the flat is george friedrich handel. wrote many here he
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masterpieces. >> when he found out handel had he had a very open air and was willing to listen to so he went tousic bought the p and water music and messiah. displays photos and video clips of the singer and includes his record collection one of his guitars. >> i think all the clips and give you a bigger glimpse of him concentrated in and what he was like as a person. he played guitar constantly. writing constantly. reporter: he moved out in 1969 a drug efore he died of a overdose in a london hotel. 46 years old after his death his music continues to inspire. guitarist it is possible to take a journey back in time.
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>> you are watching "france 24." let's look at the top stories. in germany n crash levers nine dead and -- leaves hurt.dead and 150 they collided southeast of munich. first votes are cast in new hampshire in the crucial presidential primary there. republican donald trump has pledged he will bounce back from iowa and hillary clinton is working to narrow the gap on bernie sanders. syrian government troops backed by russia continue to cut off supply lines around aleppo pushing thousands of refugees to the thousands more stuck on the turkish border. this is news now and steven is here with us. in the stock markets another volatile day. nikkei w sharp falls on in tokyo down over 5% in japan one-day drop it
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nearly three years. 3% ney closed down by almost and chinese markets closed for the new year holiday there. new york we have seen them turn with some gains early like thehares, nothing losses yesterday where the main markets closed down around 3%. paris is down by over 1% a short time ago. better idea of what is happening on the market to the london to speak head analyst at london capital group. hammeringreally had a yesterday on the markets. is this the same picture we are seeing today? >> we did see something of a pop deutsche bank in early trade as they reassured the markets that they are still are no major ere issues. nevertheless that selling is starting to resume. when you see stocks and bonds selling off at the same time you have a certain out there.y
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ultimately it does come down to the fact we are seeing negative pretty much s coming across the board relating to eurozone sofr vienna debt and that doesn't help banks trying increase the profitability and ultimately make a certain on what at the borrow funds before they lend. financialme being the sector will be a drag. while we are seeing something of it is probably just a calm about of the storm. we have the testimony later on week from janet yellin which we hope will give a irection to both the currency markets and equity markets. but for the most part it seems feel that central banks have lost a lot of their teeth and impact they once had less and less as the months wear on. > how much of this loss of confidence is due to oil prices? there are worries we could see
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because oil companies are losing out in terms of that lower oil profiles. -- oil price. >> it is a major factor. the debt levels some anks hold would be related to oil companies who make hay while the sun sidelines with the low environment. but now that you are seeing oil barrel with $30 per some watching it to fall below at this point in time the majority of the opec ember states are seeing oil prices well below the break even costs. so, oil is definitely a factor and the idea that some of these debts that are outstanding will not be held back is one of the at play.tors >> is there anything that central banks can do if they are a lot of it with low interest rates meaning lower profits.
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can be something that done to restore more confidence banking sector? >> it is difficult to say. conference it was stated it was responsibility for the profitability and it to them to make whatever measures they need 2/3 that profitability. but these negative interest weary n a very sort of environment do not look well. we are looking for capital and hat doesn't sit well with investors. so for the time being we look at stocks look a g hrelittle softer the coming day draghi might do something to help support the part cy but for the most it is all down to interest rates at highery can't lend rates than they are borrowing we will see a major shift in
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these banks. of >> we will keep following that. joining us.r >> here in france privacy ruling facebook. affect >> the regulator is threatening to fine facebook if it doesn't handles e way it personal information. among other changes it says the must tell people who are not facebook users that being nternet use is tracked by the like button and of use are nsfers data to the united states after the european court of justice safe down the so-called harbor data sharing deal. company spokeswoman said facebook is confident in law.lies with european > let's stay in france where uber is disrupted for four hours regulation changes by the french government. a.m. rvice between 11:00
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and 3:00 p.m. was over measures thousands of sk drivers' jobs relating to licenses for them and other following nounced protests by taxi drivers. >> thank you for that look at news.siness now time for the press review. syria butcus again on this time from u.n. nvestigators who accuse assad and his regime of crimes against humanity. >> it is a very interesting tory getting a lot of attention. we will look at the front page paper that anese talks about how the u.n. is ccusing the assad regime of ex-terminating civilians and evidence of lected widespread murder, rape, imprisonment, forced disappearances and other inhumane acts.
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of is getting a lot attention. the u.n. as well is in the a tlight if we look at cartoon in a jordanian paper you general .n. secretary giving a press conference and he ays we are preoccupied or worried about the swaeuituation and taped on the podium hidi hiding behind the podium catch ing that the tpraeuls he throws around when addressing the crisis. in syria the nd troops backed by russian air major are staging a every against aleppo the biggest bastion yria a rebel and looks like it is going to be choked off. talks l street journal" about how syrian forces are queezing rebels out of there and it has to do with the fact ussia is using air strikes and instrumental in helping the regime turn the tide against the
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rebels. led coalition is ocusing on islamic state group targets so papers are saying these series of air strikes seem waging different wars, one against rebels and one against the islamic state group. this points out that aleppo is a challenger the credibility of and its tough talk against assad. of aid remember the tens thousands of syrians fleeing are islamic state group but the violence of bashar al assad regime. but that wave out of aleppo is getting a lot of attention. we look at the belgian paper it focuses on the crisis on the doors of europe because many of aleppo are fleeing trying to go in turkey. >> in france many are focusing fate of french farmers who have been striking for weeks now to protest low prices.
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>> farmer blame retailers and distributors for dropping prices essentially suffocating them. ou see the business paper here talking about the price hypocrisy because they say the are high costs for farmers and rigid regulation. cartoon you see the prime minister lashing out they arerussels saying doing too little and too late and you see him at a table with animals including a goat, scapegoat and according to the cartoon brussels is scapegoat for government. >> when it comes to farming one wondering whether there's a future for the profession. driver ulture is a key of the french economy. that is why it is such an important issue in the paramedics. you see it is quite optimistic. future.ming still has a it might be in danger right now but there's a future for it as
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reform right now and according to the paper we have to abandon the current model of mass production and go to something developing on organic farming and local farming. a loto today in the paper of focus on u.s. politics and today is the new hampshire a lot of d there's focus on democratic candidate hillary clinton. to n the polls leading up the vote today she was trailing bernie sanders a lot of people in on hopes to cash women voters like she did in the owa caucuses but it is not a done deal. feminist icons have come out swinging for clinton. saturday madeleine all bright catch e of her favorite phrase as special place in hell for woman who don't support each other. has come upote that time and time again and was the quote of the day for the "new
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york times." seems like she is talking to people who are considering not voting for hillary clinton. the previous day gloria stein young women are supporting bernie sanders because young men are. she drew criticism for this. lots of bernie sanders supporters say they are feeling biological e being bullied into voting for hillary clinton. beyonce' and her super bowl now i particularly thought it was amazing. not to everyone's liking. you see the daily beast is talking about how it rubbed conservatives the wrong way. like her backup to block id tribute -- block nd they panthers and paid tribute to malcolm x. her song formation was released a rallying seep as -- seen as rallying cry for the lives matter and before
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