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theello and welcome to program. i am claire pryde, and these are the top stories. a shooting outside the nightclub in the u.s. in a florida nightclub leaves at least does go people dead. three people have been arrested. minister tough -- calls for tougher deportation rules after an asylum seeker blew himself up in a music festival, injuring 12 people. turkey issues arrest warrants for more than 40 journalists as part of a probe into the failed to.
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coup.t -- into the failed claire: we start with the shooting in the city of fort myers, in florida. officials say at least two people have been killed, up to 17 injured, this outside a nightclub called club blue -- called club blu. there is douglas hanks. douglas: this is a shooting that happened outside the nightclub. dead, 14e are reported injured, and there was miter shooting -- there was minor shooting after. there was a police chase of some sort, and that resulted in a firefight. -- the deadlyr
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shooting was outside the nightclub. there are reports of 18 party happening there, and we all know the identity -- we do not know the identity of the shooter. claire: the shooting is coming in month and a half after a nightclub shooting in orlando, the worst in history. douglas: that is the sad part. we have to out why this person opened fire inside a nightclub. nightclubs can be volatile places. this is the place where you do see gun violence. patrons bringing in guns to a nightclub is a common security concern because of violence and guns in america and whatnot. i think the whole country right now is looking to say, tell us more. who was it? who did this? terrorism, or to
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is it more standard-issue gun violence in the united states? claire: douglas hanks in miami. 's fourth bloody attack in a week. an asylum seeker blowing himself up near a music festival in bavaria sunday night. 12 people were injured, three seriously. the 27-year-old was known to police, having attempt at suicide twice. it is unclear if it was an islamist attack. jessica saltz, what more can you tell us? jessica: police are trying to piece together the situation regarding last night's explosion , answering the questions that remain open -- what motivated the young man to commit this attack, how did he get a hold of this device, which was essentially a nail bomb? police found a mobile phone on his body. -- thegation investigation is very much
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ongoing. the interior minister of the -- it is toovaria early to tell if there was an islamist motive. this underlines throughout the morning the need in germany to reassess its deportation laws that thisnews broke syrian had actually had his asylum rejected in germany when he arrived two years ago. more recently, information came out that he was supposed to have been deported to bulgaria, although we do not know why he was supposed to be deported. abide bywho do not german laws, it is being said they need to be sent back. the interior minister of germany has said that he's deeply shocked and saddened by the news.
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a refugee killed one woman with a machete and injured three others. the german chancellor has also said she was deeply shocked and concerned. they will likely be holding a press conference later this afternoon, and i am sure that this point of the deportation laws in germany will be the contentious issue. whether you are able to deport refugees escaping war and persecution back to her homeland, especially given the fact that this particular 27-year-old syrian who blew himself up yesterday was said to be undertaking psychiatric care in germany, and that makes it especially difficult to deport people, when they are undergoing medical treatment. claire: officials have also shared information on friday's friday's attack in munich. authorities arrested a 16-year-old afghan young man in
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the city of munich yesterday who they believe had strong links, was a friend of the perpetrator, the 18-year-old perpetrator on friday night who committed that awful shooting spree which killed nine people, and then he shot himself dead. this 16-year-old got in touch with police himself soon after friday's event, and police took him in custody yesterday. they set on his telephone they found a deleted conversation with the killer that they were able to revive, providing information that he may have known of the killer's intent. this 16-year-old afghani is said to have met the 18-year-old in a psychiatric care unit where they were both undergoing psychiatric care. they both shared a love of a violent computer game, and the perpetrator who was just named in the german crisis -- police
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found a lot of literature pertaining to this in his apartment. he was obsessed with the norwegian who killed 77 people on an island five years ago to the day of the shooting spree on friday. as the investigation is still ongoing in munich as to what the motive is behind that attack also. thate: thank you for update. jessica sultan berlin. in turkey, arrest warrants have been issued for 42 journalists. there is a widespread crackdown after the failed coup. more than 30 clerics have been arrested, this in a country under a three-month state of emergency. jaspermortimer -- mortimer joins us. which government is -- which journalists is the government after? areer: presumably these
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sympathetic to the gulenist cause. one journalist was quite well-known both as a print journalist and as a television journalist. but they did not manage to capture her in the early morning ' homes thisrnalists morning. apparently, the police went to istanbul to her home as well as her home on the aegean coast, and they did not find her in either place. they also issued arrest warrants for 31 academics, some of them professors at istanbul university. in addition, they have arrested more than 300 soldiers, some of whom were teachers at the military academy. but perhaps the most interesting thing to emerge in the last 24
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hours is that the chief of general staff who, on the night of the coup attempt, was kidnapped by the plotters and held at an airbase outside ankara, has said that the officer in charge of holding him getmajor general, wanted to in touch with attila: -- with fethullah gulen in the united states. he is blamed for the coup. the chief of general staff refused to speak with fethullah gulen, and he told the major general to finish this business before things get out of control. claire: jasper, if you could briefly tell us about the president meeting the opposition today? erdoganyes, president has invited the prime minister,
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who is technically the leader of his own party, the leader of the opposition of the republican people's party, the leading opposition party in parliament, and the head of the ultra-right , to see him in his presidential palace. he has not invited the leader of the pro-kurdish party, the htp. that is the most liberal party in parliament. the fact that the other leaders have agreed to see him shows that erdogan is once again trying to divide the opposition. claire: thank you very much, for bringing us up to date. jasper mortimer in ankara. in france, the interior minister has said he will sue a police officer who says she was harassed to change her report on the bastille day attack in nice.
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our correspondent reports. >> this policewoman has brought forward the latest accusations against the french interior minister. charge of a cctv control room on the night of the attack in nice. she says she was harassed for one hour by representatives of the interior ministry and told to alter her reports on how many national police units were present on the night. she asked me to edit the police report. she wanted us to mention that members of the national police were there, that i refused to do it. she refused because she says she did not see any national police units in the footage. this is the latest criticism leveled against the government and its handling of security in nice on the fourth of july. the french interior minister said that he would sue her for defamation. >> i know the truth.
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no one in my cabinet has ever been in contact. the public prosecutor overseeing the investigation says representatives were sent to nice with the sole aim of watching the cctv footage to establish the truck's route. the french minister has come under fire for security failures on the night of the attacks. the former mayor of nice is accusing him of lying over the number of police and soldiers sent to patrol the beachfront. despite calls from the far right resign, so far he has refused to do so. claire: the former mayor of nice is among those calling for his resignation in the wake of the bastille day attack, and he is not on the far right, he is on the right. some french media are quick to point out that the woman is a supporter of his. we are not manipulating
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anything, we are just asking for answers. the state has to stop putting obstacles in the way of truth. france and the french people do -- thed leadership french need one thing, and that is the truth. claire: the democratic national convention kicks off in philadelphia later with delegates set to formerly -- to formerly -- with delegates set to formally nominate hillary clinton. our correspondent explains. >> it was meant to be a show of -- as the at the democratic convention kicks off monday, democrats are divided. this follows the publication of 19,000 in terminal e-mails, revealing how party officials tried to undermine bernie sanders' campaign from the beginning. >> and does not come as a shock to me.
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the dnc wasquestion on secretary clinton's side from day one. we all know that. >> one of the e-mails suggest party officials intended to use his face as an argument against him. skated on saying that i has jewish heritage, but think i read that he is an atheist. hasebbie wasserman schultz long been accused of supporting hillary clinton by the sanders campaign. at thes she will resign end of the convention at philadelphia, but bernie sanders supporters say they are disappointed. note saw that the dnc was impartial from the beginning. what happened in california, , clinton hanging out from the boston polls -- it was wrong. sanders and his
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supporters have expressed disappointment that hillary clinton's joints -- hillary clinton's choice of tim kaine as her running mate. byis seen as too centrist many people. a reminder of the top stories. a shooting outside a nightclub in the u.s. state of florida leaves at least two people that. three people have been arrested. the interior minister for tougher deportation rules after a failed syrian asylum seeker blew himself up near a member area and music festival. arrest warrant in turkey have then put out for over 40 journalists. tens of thousands of people have been rounded up since the attempted coup.
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business, and i am joined by kate moody. thating with the news there may finally be a buyer. kate: the telecom giant verizon is going to buy the core internet business of yahoo!, a $5 billion deal. verizon also bought aol last year. the idea is going to be to merge yahoo! and aol to complete -- to create a viable competitor to google and facebook in the digital advertising market, throwing on its own position as a mobile operator. yahoo! shares are going to be halted as wall street opens in a few hours' time. the deal does not include .ahoo!'s stake in alibaba the deal is expected to bring in end to marissa mayer's four-year tenure. claire: how are the markets
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faring this monday? midway through the session, we're seeing the dax leading gains up to 1%. the swedish telecom's equipment maker ericsson is seeing shares up 2% this hour as its chief executive announced his resignation. --nair is also among the big big companies in the sector. we will see if they announce a change in monetary policy or follow their lead of the bank of england or european central bank, deciding not to unleash any new stimulus measures post brexit. other business headlines -- shares in nintendo plunged 18% monday after the financial from pokemon go are said to be limited.
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nintendo only has a 32% stake in the franchise, not enough to boost the struggling firm medium to long term. there is a 40% surge in revenue for the chinese technology giant, the third biggest smart vendor in the world, huawei. some analysts say the shift to handheld devices may be weighing on profits. operating margins shrank from 18% to 12%. the french luxury group lvmh is selling donna karan. house bought the design for the second time in his .0-year history they are known in the industry for changing designers and executives until the brand takes off. claire: let's turn our attention to brazil, just before the
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olympic games. under two weeks, and locals are hoping they can benefit from all the visitors coming to town. flood ofs international visitors and athletes is expected to head to brazil in just under two weeks' time. there is hope that there will be a bit of a boost for the struggling brazilian economy because the only big games will create job opportunities for unskilled workers. take a look at this report from our correspondent. >> another day and another olympic recruitment drive in rio de janeiro. today they have come in the hundreds, one of the last chances to nab a job at the games. have a few jobs to fill -- cashiers, receptionists, security guards. >> with unemployment in brazil at 11%, work can be hard to come by. among today's jobseekers is a man who came from haiti to brazil in search of opportunity. >> i am here today to find
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somewhere to work and earn money from my family. olympics, thehe job market has escaped some of the worst effects of the recession. rio's temporary employment agency has recorded 16,000 people. 80,000 short-term workers are being hired for the event. a welcome surge in optimism, but this economics professor warns it will be short-lived. these jobs will not last. they are short-term. it is good for people who work during the games, but what worries me is what happens after the olympics. where will we be in november? may be on a downward slope. -- this man makes deliveries on the streets. today millions of brazilians like him survive exclusively on
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casual work. worth's shadow economy is hundreds of billions of euros per year. it is many -- it is where many of those getting work during the olympic will have to return after the games are over. that is it for business. thank you, kate. time now for "the press review." joining me now to take a look at the international papers -- we are going to start with the german paper, focusing on last night's suicide attack. >> there's this photo and a lead article on its website. a 27-year-old blew himself up. we are referring to the man in what authorities are calling a deliberate act. it is the third such attack in and it in the last week, is reported that the man was a refugee from syria who had come to germany as an asylum seeker
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two years ago. his application was refused and he has been living under the radar since that, living in a hotel in the city where the attack took place. he was also housed in a psychiatric hospital at some point and had reportedly tried to commit suicide twice. authorities are not ruling out a possible terrorist motives, not for the moment. the democratic national convention kicks off later. delegates will be formally nominating hillary clinton for the presidency, what they are struggling to put on a show of unity. >> before the convention begins, the democrats have lost their dnc chairwoman, debbie wasserman schultz, who announced her resignation yesterday after thousands of hacked e-mails were revealed on twitter on friday showing strong signs of biased toward hillary clinton and away from bernie sanders. debbie wasserman schultz had said that bernie would never become president, according to "the wall street journal."
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she also humiliatingly brought into question his jewish faith, allegedly. "a primary campaign marked by infighting." claire: and hackers are being blamed? >> yes, this is from "the new york times." the democrats argue that the timing is suspicious. the leak happened days after the republican national convention happened and a few days before the democratic one was set to begin. they believe it was to bring down the clinton campaign and help trop. -- and help trump. trump is saying he may not back nato allies if they came under attack from russia. -- trump's allied campaign manager, paul manna fort, was one of many advisers
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to help the russian backed ukrainian leader. these allegations have been denied. france, the interior minister is doing a police -- is -- >> the french newspaper revealed there was no police presence at -- "le figaro" reports a policewoman accused the french interior ministry of harassment. basically she says she was forced to change your testimony to say that there were indeed police fans -- police vans blocking off access. these allegations are said to be political manipulation. there is a counterclaim against the policewoman for defamation. >> and one paper is looking for
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why there was so much criticism in the wake of that attack. >> he is sort of seen in a positive light, at least after the charlie hebdo attacks and the november attacks, mostly because he is a calm, cool, collected person. those on the center-right and far right months before the election.sidential he is refusing to resign. in fact, his team says it is an attempt at a canoe, a political coup -- it is an attempt at a up, a political coup, run by the party of nicholas sarkozy. claire: we are going to end with what one journalist is calling a return to nostalgia. >> that's right.
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with all of bad news happening in the world, we have lost some of the greats this year -- david bowie, prints, muhammad ali -- david bowie, prince, muhammad ali. we're desperately yearning for the 1990's. the proof of that is that clinton is trying to get it to the white house. what was going on at that time. what is interesting is nostalgia used to be considered a disease, according to a swiss physician who believed it could lead to anxiety, insomnia, and disordered eating. but today it is used as escapism for simpler times. claire: i am all for this return to the 1990's. that is it. on our have plenty more website. do not forget, you can check it out at france24.com. a quick break. i will be right back. stay tuned.
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