tom: 1:00 p.m. in the french capital. fromre watching "live paris" on "france 24."i am tom burges watson. authorities are focusing on far right groups following the murder of mp jo cox. only small pockets of the islamic state group remain in falluja following a four-week campaign to liberate that city. rejecting funding from brussels, medical charity msf says it will reject all eu cash donations in protest of policy on migrants.

laura-- evening. we begin in the united kingdom, where flags are half mast following the killing of mp jo cox, who was shot and stabbed yesterday in her own constituency. this is the scene in central london where people are standing to pay their respects. let's listen in. most important of all, we should value ncs pressures the democracy we have on these islands, where 65 million of us live together, work together, and get on together. it is all underpinned by tolerance. where we see hatred, where we find division, where we see

intolerance, we must drive it out of our politics and our public life and out of our communities. corbyn: it is an attack of democracy, what happened yesterday. it is the well of hatred that killed her. she leaves behind her husband who left a truly wonderful statement yesterday, a statement saying that in her memory we will try to conquer hatred with love and with respect. there we were hearing the leader of the opposition and the prime minister before him paying tribute to jo cox. named by-old man british media as thomas mayor has been arrested and is being questioned. he is suspected of having neo-nazi links. jo cox supported britain remaining in eu, and witnesses first"shouted "britain as he killed her. that is the scene in parliament square as people are bowing her head and standing and sounds to

page of you to jo cox. -- to pay tribute to jo cox. we go to the bishop of leeds, who speaks to us now. on thursday you addressed a church service and clearly this is a community in a very profound sense of shock. >> i think the war that reflects the mood in the community, a lot of people say how can a thing like this happen in an ordinary place like this. the truth is that terrible things happen in ordinary places . people are still in shock. only 24 hours since jo cox was murdered, just down the road from where we are standing. so it is early days. indeed. she will be remembered, isn't she, as someone who did a huge amount for other people, not just in the u.k., but she had her eye on issues very much further from home. rev. baines: well, she worked for charities before she went into parliament, and she was a

very bold defender of the rights , for example, of syrian migrants and of children who should be allowed into the united kingdom. when people ask, what about the community, actually, there is a community of communities, because people across the world have been impacted by untimely and violent death. "communitye the word ," and you said that in your service yesterday. you said she served her community and love her community and died in community. she is someone who belonged right there, wasn't she? rev. baines: well, the thing is, mp's often represent constituencies that before they became an np they didn't have any connection with. she was brought up here. she is very much from here. that makes the connection with

her all the more intimate, and therefore the last all the more acute. tom: just speaking to people there, what sorts of things are people telling you about how she affected them? rev. baines: well, she was in a primary school yesterday morning, and people have met her. everybody knew her. she is not the sort of person who could walk into a room and you wouldn't notice. she would occupy the space, if i can use the phrase. people remember her as a very vivacious, lively, always excitable young woman, and that makes it harder to recognize that she is no longer with us. tom: are you able to tell us anything more about what preparations are being made to honor her and celebrate her life? i know the service was held yesterday, but in terms of a funeral or memorial service from any details you can give us?

rev. baines: no am i think it is too early for that. what i can say is that parliament has been recalled on monday and will sit on monday afternoon, and i will be speaking in the house of lords to respond to the tributes that will be made there. tom: all right, well, thank you so much indeed for speaking to us, reverend nicholas baines, the bishop of leeds. thank you very much indeed. , anng on to other news now official ceremony has been held here in france for one of the 2 police officials who were knifed to death in their home earlier this week on the outskirts of paris. the assailant is reported to have sworn allegiance to the islamic state group french president francois hollande led the tribute and held the ceremony, which was attended by hundreds of police officers. reporter: they came to page future 2 of their colleagues, victims of a senseless -- pay

tribute to 2 of the college, victims of a senseless act of murder. in front of hundreds of police officers, the flag draped coffins were brought to the perfecter of versailles -- the prefecture of versailles. alongside them, the french president, as well as the prime minister, manuel valls, and interior minister. said they werede everyday heroes whose lives have been cut short. hollande: it is unbearable to think that these lives, so full of promise, could be so brutally annihilated, having been the victim of hate filled terrorism. were killedcouple by a jihadists. the three-year-old son survived the attack. francois hollande used his speech to once again praised the country security forces and

vowed to crack down hard on their attackers. lande: violence carried out against the representatives of public order will never go unpunished. justice will be applied with the maximum force. all those who defy the authority of the state must know that they will have to answer for their acts. reporter: the french government has been keen to underline its support for the country's police , forced to work under the threat of terrorism and a growing climate of social unrest. tom: now, a black box flight recorder has been recovered from the egyptair flight which crashed in the eastern mediterranean last month en route from paris to cairo. it is hoped it will offer tea information as to what brought the plane down, killing all 66 passengers and crew on board. two days ago, deep-sea diving equipment located the crash site

and the other cockpit voice recorder was recovered. their inmate line the vital clues -- therein may like the vital clues. commanders in the iraqi army save flags are flying at government buildings in falluja, following a 4 --week-old offensive aimed at driving the islamic state group out of the city, just as 50 kilometers from the capital, baghdad. iraqi forces say they are in control of 70% of the city. reporter: as far as the eye can see, they keep coming. hundreds upon hundreds of families, men, women, and children, richard and displaced by a war that has laid waste to the city. they are the lucky ones. they escaped alive. it groups say 50,000 civilians are still inside falluja. this city has been under the iron grip of the islamic state

group for more than two years. residents have known nothing but hardship. >> we live in fear and starvation. our kids were frightened when the islamic state was in control . they arrested men and insulted women. they did not respect anyone. reporter: but the tide could finally be turning in the iraqi government's favor. the head of the iraq special forces says his man has entered a special neighborhood. he claims to have captured the main government complex, that is fighters were using as a base. now he says troops have turned their attention to a nearby hospital where jihadists are reportedly holed up. they are iraqi army launched an operation to retake falluja in late may. weeks of brutal state to state, have spared no one.

least of all of families caught up in it. although thousands have fled, some civilians have stayed, fearful of how they could be treated by shia militias fighting alongside the iraq he army. aid charityical doctors without borders is going to reject all funding from the european union. that is in protest of a deal struck earlier on this year with turkey, deal aimed at stemming the flow of migrants into the eu. kyle brown tells us more. active inhumanity efforts around the world, msf has announced it will reject funding from the european union and member states, saying it is tied to programs that have damaging consequences for people in need of help. it is a rare broadside to the eu for the controversial system in place since march in which migrants arriving in greece are sent back to turkey. by sealing european borders

and declaring turkey responsible for granting protection to people attempting to reach greece, the eu states have taken themselves out of the equation of protecting refugees, rejecting universal humanitarian principles and undermining international refugee law designed to protect those forced to flee. the money rejected, more than 50 million euros, amounts to 8% of msf's budget. the charity gets 90% of its funding from private donations, and says current operations will not be affected. for its part, the eu has downplayed the move. >> msf is not an diplomatic partner of humanitarian aid in turkey. therefore, no life-saving humanitarian aid for refugees in turkey will be affected. in the deal, launched in march, turkey agreed to stop or take back migrants in return for financial aid and free movement for turkish citizens in europe.

it is an attempt to stem the .low of migrants more than one million came to europe last year. the eu is considering similar deals with countries in the middle east and africa, including those with records of human rights abuses. msf says europe is turning his back on people with desperate humanitarian needs. more, we can speak to the head of the research unit at msf, who joins us now from geneva. thank you so much for speaking to us. can you start by speaking to us position ont msf's the eu deal with turkey and have the decision to reject funding was taken? it is damaging the terms and policies and this deal is just one perfect example of first, the lack of responsibility taken by the eu, and second, we are

effectnow the damaging it actually has, and we saw , who have decided to send a cap a million refugees to somalia and other countries, to the way they will actually stop people from arriving to the shores of the european union. we actually consider that this is absolutely not the way the eu should handle this crisis. countriese european are in conflict to the middle east. it doesn't make any sense. tom: i know you have got to go so i don't want to keep you. let me ask you briefly, what sort of hold this leave them in the finances of msf? we have reserves we

keep specifically in case of such circumstances so we will be able to manage in the next few months. we are hoping that more private donors will actually support our move and help us with even more operations, on the specific crisis and others. tom: thank you so much. i won't keep you any longer. head of the research unit at msf . thank you for speaking to us. association ofal atlantic federations has extended the ban of the russian federation following revelations of state doping and corruption on a massive scale. it follows a last-ditch effort by moscow to overturn the ban 's decision does leave some possibility for russian track and field athletes to compete.

here is what the head had to say. >> the iaaf council was unanimous that russia had not met the reinstatement conditions, and that russian athletes couldn't not credibly return to international competition without undermining the confidence of their competitors and the public. i.e.her representatives, officials, athletes, support personnel, should take part in international competition or in the affairs of the iaaf. tom: president of the iaaf speaking there. earlier on, we got the latest on this increasingly hot topic there. that has been at the government line leading up to government comments from vladimir putin before the decision was taken. he says he says he's afraid that this has become very politicized, that it is no longer a question of support but

a question of broader politics on a global scale. we have heard from the ministry of sports as well who is , putting out a statement saying they are concerned about the politicization, saying they are disappointed by the decision and that they have done all they can to follow the recommendations put out by the world and wide-open organization, the agency, at the end of last year, that they put in place extra testing and rebuild institutions, athletics institutions, to make them robust and rigid so they can do their job. an interesting point at the end there, we heard the suggestion that the international olympic committee could perhaps reverse or alter, overruled the decision when it meets next week. that was a suggestion from the -- ministry of

sport, in the letter to put out to journalists. they are saying that collective responsibility is simply unfair, that clean athletes, clean russian athletes, should be made to pay for the bad decisions, the doping decisions, of others. that committee does meet next week and they are suggesting they are sympathetic to reviewing this decision, to in some way allow athletes from russia to compete. tom: thomas low reporting from moscow. russian president vladimir putin has described the violence of the euro 2016 champions as being a disgrace. that follows a decision by french authorities to hand prison sentences to three russian fans and deport 20 others. however, putin went on to question how russian fans could have overpowered a much larger contingent of english supporters. hooligans english have been at the heart of some of the ugliest scenes of fan violence since the european champions began.

held as justice 70 years in the waiting. and 94-year-old former ss officer has been sentenced to five years in prison, being found guilty of some 170,000 counts of being in accessory to murder. served as aning prison guard at auschwitz, the nazi death camp in occupied poland where more than one million people perished, most of them jewish. among those who give testimony were one dozen survivors. the hong kong national who was detained in china, interrogated eight months, has broken his silence about his ordeal on the mainland. he was one of a number of booksellers who sold publications resizing beijing and who subsequently banished. -- criticizing beijing and who subsequently banished. his was all the more shocking because he disappeared on hong kong territory.

reporter: protesters took to the streets in support of hong kong bookseller, now a hero for many. >> he is the role model for hong kong people. oppression, upholding freedom and democracy. the 61-year-old says he was blind folded and interrogated without a lawyer and detained for eight months after being accused of illegally importing books banned by beijing. on thursday, he broke bailed to reveal details of his month-long ordeal. >> for five months i was locked in a room of about 18 square meters. for 24 hours, six groups of people took turns watching me. i lost my freedom. lam is one of five

booksellers who disappeared last year for publishing books critical of the chinese government. the mysterious abductions were seen by many in hong kong as the communist government attempt to silence dissent. lam says he was abducted in hong kong and not the mainland, prompting fears that the mainland is tightening its grip on the island. his story has brought support from a new political party that is fighting for greater self-determination for hong kong. chinese authorities have not commented. they had previously denied abducting the booksellers, saying they came freely to the mainland. it is time for a check of the top business news stories. markus karlsson joins me here in the studio. good evening to you. of course, the strikes very much on the cards in france and we have had several of them. a meeting has been taking place between the government and key unions. markus: strikes, fuel shortages,

protests in the streets, those have been the headlines for some weeks, maybe for some months. the cep union has been at the center of all the controversy. it has been at the forefront of the protests against the french government labor reform package. the french labor minister held the sox earlier with the leader of the cgt in a bid to essentially stop this standoff. but there was no sign of the two sites seeing eye to eye. will hildebrandt has more. it was the first meeting between the government and the cgt union since the protests began three months ago, but he was unable to break the impasse. the cgt and the government disagree over some fundamental points. these disagreements were merely confirmed today. will: the cgt leader says there is no reason to call a protest

slated for the 23rd and the 28. the union is staunchly opposed to the tenets that would allow committees to hire and fire workers with greater ease. has already staged blockades at oil refineries, nuclear power stations, and other facilities. >> i think we can criticize the cgt for preying on people's anxieties, and that has used the debate over the labor form to also play on people's fears. william: while the labor law is unpopular in france, support for the strikes have waned, and that was before protests on tuesday that descended into violence and left 40 people injured in paris. the cgt is france's oldest and biggest union, with ties to the once powerful communist party. today it still flies the banner of fighting for the common man. but some wonder if it may have overplayed its hand as more moderate movements such as france's second-largest union

have successfully negotiated with the government. speaking of strikes, tom, pilots and air france are said to go on strike again next week. three pilot unions are threatening industrial action between the 24th and the 27th of june, following a walkout earlier this month during a standoff over pay and conditions could the instant complained the airline is not listening to their demands. -- the unions complained the airline is not listening to their demands. russian president vladimir putin is making a pitch to improve business relations in europe. petersburg,st. putin says russia is willing to reach out to improve ties. he says european business leaders want to change and he's calling on leaders to respond. the european union and the united states slapped economic sanctions on russia after its annexation of crimea. the sanctions have contributed to an already gloomy outlook for the russian economy at a time of low oil prices. russia did not

initiate the current breakdown and problems that brought about the sanctions. remain as a response, but as we traditionally say, we do not hold a grudge and we are ready to accommodate our european partners. this obviously cannot be a one-sided game. markus: shares in apple are under pressure in new york trading. it comes over the news that officials in beijing ruled against the american electronics giant in a patent dispute. there is speculation that the legal standoff could or's apple to halt sales of certain iphone models in the chinese capital. apple has made an appeal against the patent ruling and says all its own in china remain on sale -- all of its phones in china remain on sale for now. we are going to take a look at how the stock markets are faring with just under 35 minutes to go of the year -- the american trading day, i should say. as you are seeing right now, apple shares putting pressure on all three major indices over in

the u.s., with the dow jones industrial average down by about .2%. health-care stocks are down and so our technology shares. in europe, the indices closed in positive territory over thinking that the likelihood of a brexit is diminishing. that helped european stocks and also the british pound. across shares did well europe. we did see the banking shares doing well on the latest of elements in the greek debt crisis. let's take another look at that and other stories in brief. 7.5eurozone is unlocking billion euros worth of financial aid for greece. the single currency area bailout .und has backed this payout the european stability mechanism says greece has completed required reforms. the eurozone finance ministers have also given the green light to ensure that greece has enough to pay its bills until years and -- until the year's end. and spanish group are

teaming up in wind power. they are combining wind turbine making to make one of the world's biggest actors in the sector. as part of the deal, siemens is paying shareholders just over one billion euros. in return, it will hold 59% of the

06/17/16 06/17/16 [captioning made possible by democracy now!] amy: from pacifica, this is democracy now! >> she leaves behind a huhusband come wonderful man who likewise spent his man campaigning for human rights and justice. and she leaves behind two young children who will never grow up to see their mom again. amy: britain mourns after rising british parliament member jo cox who was stabbed and shot to death in her own districict. eyewitnenesses sayay her assass, thomas mair, shouted "britain rs