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>> welcome back to the france 24 newsroom. time for 60 minutes live around the world. these are the headlines. big wins for the two outsiders in the u.s. presidential campaign. billionaire donald trump comes in first for the republicans in the new hampshire primary. democrat bernie sanders finishes far ahead of hillary clinton. french foreign minister confirms long-standing rumors that he is leaving his job. he's now to head up the highest court in france.
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that opens the way to what could be the latest cabinet reshuffle before next year's french presidential election. and the french parliament votes to include the stripping of nationality for convict terrorists in the constitution, but the collective passage of measures still requires the support of lawmakers in a vote today before it can pass on to the upper house. also coming up for you this hour in business, relief for european banks, as shares rally, but concern remains over how italian lenders will cope with rising back debt. and paris unveils the logo for its latest bid to host the olympics in a lavish ceremony on the champs-elysees. that and more on the way, but first, our top story live from paris.
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both donald trump and bernie sanders won big victories in new hampshire tuesday. those wins seem to have been boosted by a growing anger in america against washington's political establishment. here's a closer look at the numbers with most of the votes counted. donald trump got over 35%. that was an important rebound for the real estate magnate after his loss to texas senator ted cruz in iowa. cruz came in third place this time around after the ohio governor, john kasich, who had a strong showing with close to 16%. for the democrats, bernie sanders brought in close to 16% of the vote against 38% for hillary clinton. for more now on what went down in new hampshire tuesday, let's bring in our jessica, who's been watching that very closely for us from there. the ca, let's start with republican race. what can you tell us about that? >> i can tell thaw the trump
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phenomenon is very real and donald is basking in. he had a huge victory here in new hampshire. it seems that his promises sold to the people as a billionaire businessman as a true salesman. he has known how to capitalize on the mood here in the united states and convince angry, disillusioned voters that an anti-establishment figure and one that is promising to make america great again is the one for the republican party. it has huge support in his victory speech, sounded joub land as ever. people were cheering u.s.a., u.s.a., trump, trump, trump. he has really managed to get enormous support, because his method has been absolutely clear and simple, and people really like that. they also see him as genuine,
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and that's something that has been really important in the vote here in new hampshire. also for the republicans who came in second and third, john kasich, the ohio governor, managed to creep up over the last few days. he did more than 100 town hall here, and people really warmed to him, because they feel that he is genuine and that he has experience, and perhaps those with less experience have suffered here, like marco rubio, who was portrayed after floundering a bit in the debate as being sort of automated, being a robotic kind of person who is not able to go unscripted. >> jessica, let's take a look now at the democrats. bernie sanders had a huge win in new hampshire. why do you think he had so much success there? >> well, people love him.
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he reminds them of their grand dad. he is angry in speaking against who those disillusioned voters are. he's promising them, i think as hillary clinton put it, the sun, the moon, and the stars. and people do believe that he can deliver. certainly do. even speaking to donald trump supporters last night, they said, oh, bless him, he's a lovely guy, although he is delusional, and really, people are split, but those who are supporting him think that he can deliver on his promises to take on wall street, to raise he minimum wage. reporting from new hampshire.
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doug, i think hillary clinton went into the new hampshire primary expecting to lose, but not by this much. how nervous is her campaign now? >> in a nut shell, nervous. hillary clinton is finding herself in what is becoming familiar territory in presidential campaign politics? there is the potential for a long, bruising slog to the democratic convention in july. one that perhaps in neither campaign that she really anticipated going in, you know, it does bare reminding, because now we've been talking about her struggles against sanders now in the early part of this campaign for so many weeks now we forget that there was a time when she had a double-digit, up to a 30-point or more lead in the polls, in states like new hampshire, leads that evaporated, and not only evaporated, but really went 180 degrees full circle around, and now we have a more than 20-point lead for sanders coming out of new hampshire.
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look, they're trying to limit damage control. shortly as polls were closing, the clinton campaign released a memo, a sort of communique, saying that this loss had been "long anticipated," and that is true, and that's what you were asking me. however, they probably didn't, or at least were hoping to not have this wide, or yawning a gap, perhaps 10 to 15 points is what they were hoping for. 20 points plus shows that they are facing a real battle, and they're doing it as a campaign now. we're facing 14 primaries and caucuses in the next three weeks, we have nevada coming up on february 20, where hillary clinton is counting on hispanic vote. then we have south carolina a week later on the 27th for the democrats, in which she's absolutely counting on the afro-american, the black vote there, 60% of the democratic primary voters in that state are african-americans. and beyond that, you have the giant, what the americans call super tuesday, 11 states, all voting in one day. that's often a make or break day, because candidates who come up short after super tuesday often also come up short on cash shortly
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thereafter, often within hours, and are forced to drop out. hillary clinton isn't about to drop out of any campaigns, but what is happening is she's retooling very quickly, and retooling in the sense, revamping. she's having a very hard focus, already was focused on the minority vote, already looking beyond new hampshire, even before this vote in new hampshire, looking forward to these states. but now it's going to be a very hard focus on issues like criminal justice, issues like gun control, issues that the african-american community really connect to. and it's probably no coincidence that bernie sanders himself is meeting today in new york city, in harlem, with al sharpton. >> thanks for that, douglas. let's come back to france, where the foreign minister says he's leaving the government. he's now due to take a position as head of france's highest court. his departure had long been rumored, and when journalists asked today if he was taking part in his final cabinet meeting, he simply said yes. for more on this, let's bring in our french politics editor.
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mark, what can we read into this? is this a promotion? is he being sidelined? >> little a promotion, because he's been foreign minister since 2012, since francois hollande became president, and it just so happened that the president of the constitutional council mandate was ending, just in mid-march, and so the president of the republican is the one with the power to appoint his successor, and he decided to appoint fabius, who was prime minister, finance minister. the only thing he could become that would be better in terms of a politician is president. that seems not to be possible anymore for him because he's not that young anymore. so the constitutional council is something that he can look so. he certainly was not sidelined. what's interesting is that this signal at the beginning of a cabinet reshuffle. >> let's talk a bit more about what. who might be going where?
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any ideas? marc: well, many people have ideas. there are rumors that they're flying around trial balloons, so it's very difficult to figure out. one thing is certain, fabius is gone. who is going to replace him? there's a lot of speculation that it could be the former partner of francois hollande, currently the ecology minister. she's been campaigning very hard for this post. however, she's known to speak out on any issues, and so diplomats are a little bit worried and are said to be resisting her appointment. another potential candidates is francois hollande's first prime minister. this would be surprising because he left his prime ministership not very happy to be pushed aside, but that's a possibility. more interestingly, politically, is whether the cabinet reshuffle will involve other ministries, because we
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know francois hollande is struggling in the polls. he needs to show his camp that he's still in command, that he can make appointments maybe to green party members, maybe to members to the left of this party that are unhappy with his security policies, his economic policies, and so on. so it will be very interesting to know who will be appointed, how broad the reshuffle will be. we'll probably know either tomorrow or friday of the new french government will look like. >> thanks for that, marc, our french politics editor. also in france last night, the french parliament voted on a controversial constitutional amendment that would allow citizens to be stripped of their nationality if they're convicted of terrorism. that divisive article, article two, pass the by a slame margin with m.p.'s on both the right and left voting for and against the measure. we have more on the vote. reporter: m.p.'s came in and out force late tuesday to vote on a controversial constitutional amendment. it would permit french
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nationals to be stripped of their citizenship if convicted of terrorism. the measure, or article two, passed by just 14 votes. >> an absolute majority of 162 in favor, and 148 against. the measure has passed. reporter: just squeaking by, the amendment has divided m.p.'s for mos. from members on the right to socialists on the left, many say this is against french values. translator: regardless of the final wording, two leave a permanent mark, one that does dishonor to our republic. reporter: 29 different changes to the wording of article two were submitted, but all were rejected. some m.p.'s, including leaders of the green party, said the amendment is discriminatory, and for some on the right, backing a socialist measure, one that is still controversial, is out of the question. article two divides us.
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it creates controversy and breaks us apart. now it's even created gaps within parties. reporter: on the right, some m.p.'s voted in favor, even if it was proposed by the socialists. they say it combats terrorism and fits well with their party lines. the government underlined again that the text does not, in its wording, target dual nationals. >> we are only talking about terrorists. the only difference is between terrorists and the french people. that's the fundamental difference. reporter: article two isn't done being voted on. it's part of wednesday's vote on all of the government's amendments. then it will go before the senate, and if it gets through that hurdle, then both bodies must together pass it with a 3/5 majority. >> paris is hoping it will be sixth time lucky in its latest bid to host the olympic games. the logo for the 2020 bid was unveiled last night in a colorful ceremony on the hamps-elysees.
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reporter: the city of light lit up for france's 2024 olympic bid. the campaign's logo has been unveiled, a colorful eiffel tower made up of the numbers 2 and 4. translator: it's really strong. it's recognized across the world immediately. you know it's about the french bid, the parisian bid, so yes, we wanted to use a very strong image. reporter: and first impressions are good. translator: it's really cool. i like the colors. the 2 and to signal 2024 is really great. translator: yes, absolutely a success. reporter: france's bid to host the games in 2024 has now secured around 10 million euros across five sponsorship deals. paris is hoping to raise half of the 60 million euro bid for the bid's campaign through private funding if the city is awarded the olympics, the infrastructure budget for hosting is expected to reach three billion euros with
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operational costs more than doubling that. but there's stiff competition for the honor of hosting. rome, budapest, and los angeles have all thrown their hats into the ring. reporter: the international olympic committee will choose the host city in september 2017. you're watching france 24. let's look at today's headlines. big wins for two outsiders in the u.s. presidential campaign. billionaire donald trump comes in first for the republicans in new hampshire. bernie sanders, the democrat, finishes far ahead of hillary clinton. french foreign minister confirmed long-standing rumors that he is leaving his job. he's due to now head up the highest court in france, said it was the way to what could be the last cabinet reshuffle before next year's french presidential election. the french parliament votes to include the stripping of nationality for convicted terrorists in the constitution. but that collective package of
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measures still requires the settlement of lawmakers in a vote today before it can pass on to the upper house. hi, steven. let's start with the stock market, where things are definitely better than they have been looking. steven: we've got significant gains in trading today after it hit the two-year lows earlier in the week. frankfurt is in the biggest gain today at this point of the trading day. a short time ago it was up over 2.2%. that's largely thanks to deutsche bank, the german lender had been among the worst hit by that investor panic really over its financial health. it's up over 13% today in frankfurt. gains, too, for many european banks. another example, societe generale here in paris is up by over 8%. the other factor we're watching on the markets for you is the price of oil. on tuesday we had a warning from the international energy agency that oversupply in the oil markets is going to get worse. that sent the brent crude index down 7% yesterday.
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it's up over 2%, as you can see today. jamie: stephen, thanks. that's really been the focus this week, and italy's banks in particular. stephen: that's right. shares in the biggest banks fell by some 30% since the start of this year. italy's banks have been cutting costs with left handers like unicredit, forced to cut thousands of jobs. a deal with the european union to tackle the problem's so-called bad loans was agreed last month, but investors are still worried, as we get this report. reporter: december 2015, hundreds of protesters demonstrate in rome in front of one of italy's biggest banks. >> i saved up all my life for my retirement, and just like that, they tell me i've lost my money. reporter: thousands of italians have just found out that four of the country's regional banks had gone bankrupt and that their savings were gone. a collapse that was symptomatic of a bigger problem that has been crippling the italian economy for a decade. at the heart of the issue, the
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rising amount of so-called bad loans, which are now worth around 21% of the country's total g.d.p. also known as nonperforming loans, they represent money that borrowers are unable to repay. overall, that's an estimated 200 billion euros are banks are unlikely to get back. the situation has led to fear that is italy could become the next e.u. country headed for a banking crisis. >> italian banks are europe's weak links. there are worries that italy could spark another crisis in the eurozone. reporter: the european union agreed to a deal that will enable the italian government to guarantee these nonperforming loans so that banks can sell them to private buyers such as hedge funds. it's a move that, if successful, could restore investor confidence and speed you want country's feeble economic recovery. jamie: to the united states with good news for google's
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self-driving car. >> one of those things we've been following. american sode safety regulators have said the artificial intelligence system developed by google could be legally considered the car's driver. the current rules state that a car isn't road ready unless it has a driver at the wheel, but in the internet giant, the u.s. national highway traffic safety administration says it could interpret driver as meaning the self-driving system, but the major goost to book and he will other companies who are developing cars as it brings them closer to being allowed outright on public roads. more of the business headlines -- the number of people visiting disneyland paris fell by 8% after the november terror attacks. the park was closed for four days, and disney says there was a spike in cancellations, too. revenue in the park fell by 1% thanks to an increased band by visitors. heineken has a volatile year ahead, but says it still expects profits to rise in
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2016, the dutch brewer's profit rose by a quarter to almost 1.9 billion euros. sales fell by 2% in africa and the middle east, but rose elsewhere, including in europe, which is its biggest market. and volkswagen has hired 900 temporary staff in france to handle the recall of cars affected by the emissions scandal. some 950,000 vehicles will need to have their software updated in france. the cars are expected to begin this month. jamie: just to wrap up. apple's chief executive has been left a bit red-faced after posting a photo that's less than perfect. stephen: poor tim cook. he was at the super bowl on sunday night. he posted a picture taken with his iphone on twitter. it wasn't the best photo. it did capture the moment. denver broncos winning, but it has to be said it wasn't perhaps the best advertisement for the iphone. the photo itself was a little bit blurry, as you can see. people pecked up on the fact that it was blurry, a little embarrassing given that apple is running a shot-on iphone
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photo campaign at the moment showing you can take great photos. the photo was taken down by presumably someone in tim cook's entourage and replaced with a much more crystal-clear version of what was happening in san francisco on sunday night. tim cook perhaps a little bit embarrassed by posting the blurry photo. jammi: might not be the phone, might be the taker of the picture. stephen: exactly, that's the thing. they look like photos that i take. jamie: stephen carroll, thank you for that, at the business news. time for the press review. let's start here in france, where m.p.'s are voting on a very controversial bill to amend the constitution in the wake of the terrorist attacks last november. >> that's right, after several hours of tense debate, m.p.'s voted in favor of article two yesterday. now this is a controversial measure which will allow authorities to strip french citizens of their french citizenship if they are
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convicted of terrorism. it was a very close vote of 162 votes in favor, 148 against. now the government won by 14 votes, and according to, it was a humiliation for the government. keep in mind, this is the right-wing paper, not a huge fan of the socialist government, but according to them, it was a humiliation because the government was hoping for more support. what's interesting is the government amended article two right before the vote was passed. initially it was supposed to be about dual citizens, and now the measure is going to include all french citizens. jamie: the day before, they voted in favor of article one, which would enshrine the constitution, the process of declaring a state of national emergency, but strangely, there weren't that many m.p.'s in the house for the vote. >> absolutely. there were only 136 m.p.'s that showed up for the vote. 444 were absent. and this led to a lot of outrage online. you can read about it more here. people saying, you know, we've been talking about these
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constitutional changes for months now, where were the m.p.'s when it finally came down to the vote? what is our taxpayer money doing after all. isn't this supposed to pay for them to attend these votes? according to the knee-jerk reaction, it is a little bit uncalled for, because m.p.'s started debating these constitutional changes on friday, and so the bulk of the work was already done. so in many ways they didn't have to be there for the actual vote, and one m.p. is actually quoted in this article, he says do you really think a serious debate can take place among 500 people? and another interesting quote is from another m.p., who says the presence of m.p.'s depends on how political the volt is. and article one, the one about the state of emergency, was seen as being less political with article two, the one about stripping citizens of their nationality, and so that's where there were fewer m.p.'s for the article one vote and more for article two. jamie: let's go to the united states, where results have come in from new hampshire. big oners, donald trurp and
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bernie sanders. >> they certainly were the big winners. interesting analysis piece that points out that as surprising as may be, people vote for trump and -- people voting for trump and sanders are very similar. they have a lot in common. now, what is it, you might think, because they seem like polar opposites. well, these are people who want to feel like winners. ordinary people who feel wounded and abandoned by the current political system, and for whom, especially the craft of 2008 is still very present in their daily lives. so they're expressing anger through trump and through sanders, and they see them as an opportunity to beat the system and to knock down the establishment that has failed them. now, sanders' win is seen as being quite decisive, and particularly humiliating for hillary clinton. but there's an interesting analysis piece in the "new york times." this is actually their editorial today. it says that new hampshire is actually a pressure test for team clinton and all the candidates that lost, because after all, the trick is not to
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let these results go to their heads or get under their skin, because after all, new hampshire is just a drop in the bucket, and it's all about the long game. jamie: indeed. let's move on to the oscars. the academy awards, significant cinema celebration still about two weeks away, and yet the buzz is already growing. >> that's right. the guardian reports that ceremony organizers have asked for thank-you lists in advance to avoid gushing speeches. now, winners actually have a to give time limit their thank-you speeches at the end, and they often get cut off by the orchestra, and that can lead to some very embarrassing situations. so this year, the academy award decided to ask people for a list that will actually appear at the bottom of the screen. it will scroll under them, and that will leave the winners 45 seconds to talk about whatever they want within that time frame. now, losers will still go away with a little something special, the gift bag, the skas gift bag.
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it gets a lot of attention every year. you can read more about it in the french version of "g.q.." the contents are getting weirder and weirder. what is in the oscars gift bag? well, it includes over $200,000 worth of gifts, including something called the vampire breast list. i'll let you read the article to find out what that is. and this is just for the female contestants, and a 10-day trip to israel. so lots of surprising things. so no one will go away having lost everything. jamie: empty handed. just to wrap up on something completely different, a word on astro physics. for decades, scientists have been searching for gravitational ways, and they may have found them. >> there's a lot of excitement in the science world over this. gravitational waves are created by the most cataclysmic events in the cosmos, for instance, which two black holes collide. it's kind of like throwing a rock into the pond. it creates waves that go throughout the universe. it was first predicted by einstein in his theory of general relativity in 1915, so
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over 100 years ago, and scientists have been searching desperately for these gravitational weights ever since, and it seems like they're about to say that they've actually found them. a team -- well, several teams of u.s. scientists are set;
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