>> you're watching france 24. i'm genie godula. these are the headlines. ♪ some 80,000l blocks palestinians from visiting during the holy month of ramadan after two gunman from the west bank shot four is released in tel aviv -- israelis in tel aviv. barack obama will sit down with bernie sanders to pay tribute to

his hard-fought campaign as he prepares to endorse his rival. the euro championship will kickoff tomorrow in france. the security challenges surrounding the massive fan zone under the eiffel tower. major maria sharapova's sponsors will stand by her despite a major band -- two-year ban for the tennis star after failing a drug test. a school for zombies opens up in hollywood. but first our top story live from paris. ♪ genie: four people were shot dead in israel and several hurt in a gun attack in tel aviv. two armed men opened fire in a

restaurant near an open air market. what more can you tell us? >> i can tell you that they are cleaning up at this open air killedwhere the two men and attacked people in that restaurant. we have seen politicians and ordinary israelis streaming into the place to show solidarity. when the footage became orrorable there was a h to see the men so well-dressed pulling out their guns and simply shooting people as they ran. governmentisraeli was very quick and firm in its response, freezing traveling permits to israel for 80,000 palestinians. >> that's right. israel's new hardline defense

minister was one of the politicians who came to the cafe and drank his coffee. he said he was not going to pay lip service. there was immediate impositions. a closure on the village the young men come from. all their relatives had all their permits to work in israel revoked. and all palestinians have their permits to visit. when peopledan, from gaza come to pray in jerusalem and people from the west bank visit their relatives inside israel. all of that frozen right now. the defense minister says it is only the beginning. genie: thank you. rock over -- iraq, over 20 people were killed in separate attacks claimed by isis. targeted attack

a shopping center. another blast hit an army checkpoint, killing at least 12. the person extradited to italy on people smuggling charges is the wrong man. the manors believe known as the general is at the heart of the operation to smuggle migrants from africa to europe. an eritrean man was held in sudan in may and flown to rome on tuesday. the man's friends told the bbc there had been a case of mistaken identity and that he is innocent. wereands of child soldiers recruited by armed groups during the sectarian conflict that ravaged the central african republic. today many of them are trying to rebuild their lives with the help of ngos. our correspondent has this report. >> until very recently, this town 100 kilometers away from

bandi was a stronghold of the anti-christian militia. thousands of child soldiers passed through their ranks between 2012 and 2014. today with the help of an ngo financed by unicef these adolescents are being retrained to integrate into society. they are being given the choice to learn vocational skills or go back to school. something that was inconceivable. killed,my parents were i had to take refuge with the militia. when i was mobilized i was 16. i did not want to go back to school. >> it's important that these children are given the opportunity to choose the vocation they want to follow. to the children during psychosocial activities and profiled them. we had forms with options for them to answer what they want to do with the rest of their lives. a former child soldier also

made his choice. >> i'm starting mechanics. i was in the service and they took us to teach as mechanics. i like it and if i become a professional it will be good for me because there are no mechanics here. >> of the 12,000 child soldiers recruited in central africa during the conflict, unicef estimates that 6000 still need to be demobilized. belgium isourt in examining a request to extradite a suspect in the november paris attacks. he was the so-called man in the hat from brussels in march. he has already confessed to being that man who fled from the scene of the attacks. killed in were brussels and paris.

for more on who that man is, here is our brussels correspondent. who during then investigations became the man in the hat. he confessed to being that third beige the base jacket -- jacket seen fleeing from the scene on cctv. 31-year-old brought up here in brussels with two sisters and three brothers. went to syria to fight with isis, where he is thought to have lost his life. he spent a number of years here working as a baker, where he became known as brioche. he also spent 20 different occasions behind bars for

various charges linked to caring weapons and for drug trafficking. ofis also childhood friends saleh abdeslam.w lobbed the euro 2016 football championship will get underway tomorrow in france. the giant fans alone under the eiffel tower is opening today. some 80,000 people will turn out tonight for a concert by french dj david geguetta. guaranteeing the safety of those crowds is proving to be a serious challenge for police. >> with one million foreign fans flooding into france for euro 2016, private security firms are on the front line. will deploy 900

guards in stadiums and fan zones across the country. we read them their duties as security guards. duties as their security guards. how to optimize every move. >> with the giant screens, wi-firants, its own network, and a concert hall, the paris fan zone resembles a small city. many fear so many people gathered in one place will make it a prime target. >> opening up an area like this for 90,000 people will act like a magnet for trouble and that's really worrying. should think fan zones simply be closed on match days but the government wants a memorable sporting event and says every precaution will be taken. yet a looming terrorist threat covered with a wave of protests means the force is spread exceptionally thin. as thingswe go ahead

are in the knowledge we don't have the resources required or the police will have to import from private security companies inside the fan zones. i really don't know how that will work. and then there's the nightmare scenario. street protests. the start of the euro tournament and a terrorist attack. i don't know how he will cope. >> the budget is 24 million euros. with the eyes of the planet on france and the tournament, there's no margin for error. genie: some of the most famous footballers in history are in town playing a friendly match in paris today. several legends turned out for that charity game being played in paris. now to the united states. toack obama is expected endorse his former secretary of state hillary clinton today as

the democratic presidential nominee. she had a series of victories tuesday over bernie sanders. sanders has yet to concede the race, but he will meet with president obama today at the white house. here's more. >> u.s. president barack obama is hoping he can help put an end to the democratic primary. hillary clinton has the delegates to be the party's butidate in november, bernie sanders won't get out of the race. >> it was a healthy thing for the democratic party to have a contested primary. i thought bernie sanders brought in or miss energy and new ideas -- enormous energy and new ideas. i thought it made hillary a better candidate. my hope is over the next couple of weeks we are able to pull things together. >> in an effort to night the party behind their nominee, obama is meeting senator sanders to nudge him towards embracing his rival.

he is still hoping he will be able to influence the democratic agenda at the convention. a thirdorters make up of the committee members drafting the party's platform. he has vowed to continue to the end of the primary season and beyond. fight then we take our for social, economic, racial and environmental justice to philadelphia, pennsylvania. >> after his meeting with sanders, obama is expected to formerly endorse -- formally endorse clinton. the hopes sanders will, too. crowds have turned out to boxer muhammad ali's hometown of louisville, kentucky for the message funeral set for friday. >> lining the streets of

louisville for a chance at their final goodbye to boxing legend muhammad ali. all tickets to friday's free memorial service were given out within one hour. 6:00 ford in line from a golden ticket and i got a ticket. they just sold out so it's a blessing and i'm honored to have a ticket. >> he's the hometown hero basically. he's a great person period. he has given back to the city so much. availabletickets were for friday's service in honor of the boxing legend who died aged 74 last week. the tribute was a muslim service. >> more people should realize. muslim, christian, jews. more people should aspire to be great. >> a procession will make its way to the memorial stadium on friday.

several heads of state will be present and the ceremony will be broadcast worldwide. universal in hollywood has been giving reporters a peek into the first ever zombie boot camp. that is a special training scheme for actors trying to flesh out a new attraction based on the tv show the walking dead. if you think you might like to try out yourself some top tips for being a good zombie include, slowing down your walk and slumping your shoulders. towill leave you with that focus on today's top stories. here are the headlines. israel has blocked 80,000 palestinians from visiting during the holy month of ramadan. that's after two gunman from the fourbank shot dead israelis. prepares toama

endorse tiller clinton, he will sit down with bernie sanders to pay tribute to his hard-fought campaign. time for business with stephen carroll. you are starting with tennis star maria sharapova. her main sponsor is standing by her despite being banned from the sport for two years. >> that is the sports brand nike. they had originally suspended their contract with her when she tested positive for the drug. after the decision to ban her for two years it was decided they would resume their sponsorship deal. in a statement they said that sure, did notsaid e tribunal found sharapova did not mean to break the rules. >> suspended, but back in the good graces of her major

sponsor. her eight-year contract is estimated to be worth $100 million, making the five-time grand slam winner one of the highest-paid female athletes. fast forward to this past march. she announced she tested positive for a substance that had been banned three months earlier, but that she had been taking for years. >> i did fail the test and i take full responsibility for it. >> nike immediately suspended its endorsement, as did porsche and tahe. but nike has decided to take her back on. the company said the international tennis federation has found that maria did not intentionally break its rules. based on their findings, we hope to see her back on the court and will continue to partner with her.

the tribunal has suspended the 29-year-old for two years. it could mean an end to her professional career. with the nike deal back in the works, she can now count herself among the lucky ones. in the past, the brand has definitively dropped many a scandal ridden athlete including, among others, oscar pistorius, ray rice, and lance armstrong. genie: some good news on the job front. hithe rate of job creation its highest level since 2008. almost 160,000 jobs were created. the french national statistics office revised figures from the last six months. the services sector saw the greatest number of posts created. what has been happening on the markets today? >> european shares trading down.

no boost for the french market from that jobs news. shares in an industrial group plunged more than 30% after the group issued a warning about challenging market conditions. all the main european markets trading down. ministerazil's finance is bracing for more economic worries. >> he says the recession at the start of the year could be the worst since the great depression of the 1930's. economists have already predicted a contraction of 3.9% this year. brazil has been hit by a global slump in commodity prices as well as political scandals that have dented investor confidence and put some 11 million people out of work. >> it won't come as a surprise to many analysts if this year's recession and the retraction of

the economy are the most intense we have seen. since we started measuring brazil's gdp at the beginning of the 20th century. it's a crisis that could be even worse than the great depression of the 1930's. apple is cutting the commission it takes from some sales in the app store. apps that offer an ongoing service will now only have to hand over 15% of earnings. that is half the current rate and one of the biggest changes the app store has seen in its eight-year history. helpeded sales of cognac the company bring in better than expected profits. economic downturn in russia and greece dented and overall growth

in sales. staff may be rebalanced across europe if britain votes to leave the eu. the decision is for individual voters to take. bank has beenhe making contingency plans for the outcome of the vote on june 23. genie: netflix has finally given an idea of just how people are watching their most popular shows. >> they brought us the idea of binge watching to begin with so they analyzed the viewing habits of 100 shows in 190 countries. viewers take their time over shows with complex plot lines are lots of drama like house of cards or mad men. but they don't do the same with they also doies -- the same with certain comedies kimmy schmidt.e

genie: i think i watch modern family once for 72 hours straight. time for the press review. rushworth is here to take -- rushworthorth -- nick is here to take a look at the press review. >> welcome to friends. -- france. all to do withs the tournament beginning in a few hours time. much --r looking very france being the host of this very important tournament. a quote from the paper. stinking mountains of rubbish piled up in tourist areas.

a strike continuing blockade on nuclear power plants. there's just 24 hours to go to sort out all the mess. the paper is saying the whole of the world is looking at france hollande'sand the la recent statement that things are getting better in france is showing up to ridicule. genie: there is a football tournament going on. does friends have any chance to win? what the papers are asking. we have france playing romania to open the tournament on friday. they are theing

favorites. when --could indeed france could indeed win. the catholic daily says that france has a reasonable chance as a favorite of winning the tournament. it points out that over the last won 20 of them. that whole question of the host nation -- one of the comments i saw in the french press was, look at brazil in 2014. they were the host but they lost to germany. genie: hillary clinton is still getting lots of attention. i chose a cartoon of miami

herald which looks at the old question of the glass ceiling. she has said she has broken through it of course. the cartoon is pointing out that above the glass ceiling, what do we see but loads of mud and donald trump no less digging the dirt. the dirt would include distortion, lies, slander and so on. attention is focusing in the american press about who could be her vp running mate. one person's name is elizabeth warren. she is the massachusetts senator. the boston globe is saying she is willing to endorse clinton, but she says, "i'm not sure the move to become vp would make sense for me right now." elizabeth warren is in fact the only democratic female senator not yet to have given the thumbs up to hillary. genie: one of the pieces you saw

argues that clinton's nomination could be a setback for feminism. >> this headline bounced out at me. it was in the magazine the spectator. it shows that a young hillary with her husband. a setback to feminism i just thought -- what could it be? hill, aer, emily british journalist, argues that, hold on, she has not made her career by forging her own political identity. she is very much the partner and wife of bill clinton and we have to go back to the fact that she never divorced him in the monica lewinsky scandal. she never set out a clear agenda of her own politically. " i\ achieving power by means of marrying and putting up with a * *y is something women

have been doing for -- i'm quite shocked by that. her argument is, she should never have stood by her man. thank you for that look at today's paper. thanks to you for watching france 24. for more you can always check out our website. coming up, what makes paris the fashion capital of the world. more on that on the way with french connection. stay tuned. ♪

announcer: 2007, and little samba kuli bali is on his way to make medical history. he's one of the first children to take part in a trial for a new vaccine against deadly meningitis. marie: many countrtries in sub saharan africa have called for these vaccines because of this dreadful and devastating disease which is called epidemic meningitis which was