♪ anchor: 9:00 p.m. here in the french capital, watching live from paris on france 24. these are the top stories. zeroing in on extremism. the french prime minister says he's considering plans to ban foreign funding of mosques across the country. scenes of destruction. the charity save the children says a maternity hospital it supports was hit in an airstrike in syria'sidlib province. and just over 100 days to go. hillary clinton and donald trump take their race to the white house to battleground states after back-to-back party conventions. ♪

anchor: good evening. wherein here in france, the police are continuing their investigation into tuesday's church attack in normandy, during which an elderly priest was killed by two teenagers. today, authorities arrested a syrian asylum seeker in connection with the attack. a copy of his passport was found at the home of one of the assailants. with the french government under intense scrutiny for the handling of this attack and the best deal day attack -- best nice,e day attack in ideas have been proposed, including a ban on the financing of mosques in france from overseas. reporter: following the spate of attacks that have racked france and germany in recent weeks, manuel valls told that he

wants to root out mosques that promote extremism. >> i want to have imams trained in france, not abroad, and ban foreign financing of mosques for a determined time. we must be against those who under the cover of sermons prepare people for violence. reporter: radical islamism in france surged again to the top of the agenda this week after a priest was murdered in a church in normandy on tuesday. wednesday night, hundreds of people attended mass in paris, interview to the victim. so-called islamic state described the killers as the group's "soldiers." the french government is under increasing pressure to eradicate the kind of indoctrination that turns men into violent extremists, something this imam has been combating for some time. >> we have let young people

become completely brainwashed and contaminated by false ideals. dozens of mosques today are managed by people who have extremist ideals that are completely incompatible with republican values. reporter: it is unclear how the government will try to block mosques from receiving foreign funds. calizationf deradi programs have been launched, but critics say they have been underfunded. tom: one of the two men who carried out that attack in normandy was known to authorities and was required to carry an electronic tag. more about this young man's communications during the week leading up to the deadly attack. arrest, the house 19-year-old was under judicial surveillance and forced to wear a bracelet that tracked his every move, but he still managed to carry out a deadly attack on

a nearby church with the help of messaging app telegram. one week before the attack he sent an encrypted message. you take a knife, you go to a church, you start killing. on the eve of the attack, a second message, promising to send photos of the attack to his 280 contacts. i will tell you, three to four minutes before, and when it happens, you need to share it immediately. on the fated day before entering the church, he sent a third message. download what i am about to send and spread it widely. minutes later, father jacques hamel was murdered. kermiche filmed the video on his cell phone and was killed by police before sending the video. the berlin-based application has been popular among jihadist of indicationsse that leave no trace on servers. >> telegram was>>, created in

2013 and it has been used by jihadists. the islamic state group's news agency uses telegram to claim a tax. reporter: telegram has more than 100 million users, proving a challenge for monitoring information. >> the problem is that telegram has more than 10 million messages and our -- per hour, so it is impossible for humans to analyze everything. but there's also the issue of privacy, for the people who use the service legitimately. nice attackter the on july 14, france passed a law allowing investigators to search cell phones during home rates in an effort to infiltrate jihadist communication networks. havefor many years, there been concerns about how french prisons can be breeding grounds but oneemists, nonprofit organization is trying out a rather novel way of trying to stop people from becoming radicalized behind bars.

catherine: between the barbed wire and the prison bars of the jail in villepins lies a makeshift planetarium. on monday, the prisoners can be found with their heads in the stars. the program is put on by the nonprofit organization, together we fight recidivism. it provides an introduction to the skies. >> you know, in prison, there's nothing else to do. they don't deal with us. they talk about rehabilitation, but they do not rehabilitate the prisoners. they just do push-ups, and run like idiots. that's all they do. capturing the attention of prisoners is hard, but here they have managed to do it in a spectacular way. catherine: among the 30 prisoners taking part in the program are some who have been jailed for radicalization or supporting terrorist groups. now, astronomy has become the new tool in the fight against fundamentalism.

learning to calculate the times andheir daily prayers, discovering the great scholars of the muslim arab world. the instructor tries to get the inmates to open their minds, so as to be able to question the decrees of fundamentalists. >> the goal is to help them combat, give them something they can take with them, good information to have them have a good balance between faith and reason. catherine: the astronomy workshop rounds out the anti-radicalization program organized by the prison. in the coming months, the program will be rolled out in six other prisons across france. the international charity save the children says a maternity hospital in syria which it supports has been seriously damaged after it was hit during an airstrike. this happened in a rebel held area of i idlib province.

it is not yet clear if it was hit by syrian regime aircraft or russian warplanes. the number of casualties is not known, but the hospital was a key facility, working with 1000 women and children every month. earlier, i spoke to a health coordinator for save the children international, who told us more about what happened. >> we don't have the tools to verify the injuries at this time, but the most important fact is that this incident was caused, we have seen over the last month, a lot of similar incidents where health facilities and civilian infrastructure were targeted. for save the children, this is the first time one of our supported health facilities was targeted, but we have had similar experiences in the schools we support. several schools in the last few months were targeted by strikes. tom: tell us a little more about

this facility. from what we can understand, it seems as though this maternity facility was one-of-a-kind in this particular region of syria . >> absolutely. it is the only maternity hospital in the area, in the northwest, and we are providing these services for more than 200,000 people, to have access to these vital services. for women and for children, at this hospital, without that service they cannot have access. y other hospitals providing similar services are 70 kilometers away, so you can imagine these communities will not have access to these vital services. tom: that was a spokesperson for save the children international, speaking to me earlier. the turkish president is dismissing criticism by western powers that the crackdown which two followed a failed coup

weeks ago. tens of thousands of people from the judiciary and military and police were suspended or taken into custody. journalists were among those arrested after the closure of dozens of media outlets. a special cemetery dubbed the traitor's ceremony has been created outside istanbul, which will be used to bury alleged plotters who died in the failed coup. martin: even the dead will not escape turkey's purge. traitors'eads, cemetary. only one body lies here so far, but three more graves are ready. >> just looking at the sign gives you chills. martin: not just turkey, but nowhere in the world has ever seen a sign like this. >> this means that our authorities, are government thinks this is what they deserved. martin: the site lies on the

outskirts of istanbul, and is not yet open to the public. but the city's mayor said that when it is, he hopes every passerby curses those who like e there and not let them rest in their tombs. nearby is a shelter for some of istanbul's many stray dogs. >> they should not be near the dogs. they should not be anywhere in turkey. they should be cremated, and their ashes should be tossed into the ocean. martin: the government has also issued a directive barring the plotters' funeral rites. >> these moves are contributing to a dangerous atmosphere, denying people religious services and decent burial, a basic denial of people's rights. martin: it is all part of a crackdown that has already seen around 16,000 people detained. but that has not stopped support

for turkey's president reccep ta yyip erdogan, which right now is sky high. tom: in other news, the democratic party's convention has now wrapped up in pennsylvania. it ended with an emotive plea from hillary clinton for national unity and tolerance. clinton has until november 2 convince americans -- november cap convince americans that only she, not rival donald trump, can bring a deeply divided nation together. more now on how the convention went. ms. clinton: i accept your nomination! >> it is now official. accepting the democratic nomination, hillary clinton becomes the first woman to lead a major u.s. party, bringing great joy to her supporters. >> as she said earlier in her speech, when any barrier breaks down in america, that brings opportunity for everybody. and that touched me so much. reporter: but hillary clinton's

nomination has not gone as smoothly as she might have liked. a scandal over leaked e-mails cast a cloud over proceedings, and some bernie sanders supporters refuse to cheer her during her speech. there's been a lot of missed opportunities this week, to create real unity, instead of the scripted unity we have heard. it was underwhelming. >> this is a great step. there was a lot she said that was really good. we need to have party unity, from all the supporters as well. reporter: clinton accepted the nomination with a rousing speech aimed at the thousands at the convention as well as millions watching at home. the former first lady now has just 100 days to ensure enough support to return to the white house, this time as the first female president. we speak now to a

professor of history and public affairs at princeton university, ins us now. thank you so much for speaking to us. how would you rate clinton's speech? >> i think it was pretty effective. it wasn't a great piece of oratory in terms of the delivery, but she did two things she needed to do. the first, to show sanders supporters and the democratic party what she stands for. she moved very far to the left from where she has been in the past. second, she really targeted donald trump andrew a sharp contrast between the extent of experience she has as a public servant and his record, which is very thin, combined with his erratic behavior. tom: you used the word "stark contrast," -- this is a really stark pair of choices facing the u.s. electorate in november. as a professor of history, i wonder, looking back, is there any time in modern history you can compare the difference in

the candidates to? have you ever seen anything quite like this before? >> in 1968, we had a third-party candidate who did pretty well named george wallace, the governor of alabama who ran a based oncist campaign, a racist backlash to civil rights. they were fights outside when he held rallies. and he used the same kind of incendiary rhetoric. that was a candidate, not a main candidate, but a third-party candidate who did a little of what trump did, and it was certainly a contentious period, the 1960's, probably more than we have today. tom: of course, this is a historic moment now. officially, hillary clinton is the democratic party's candidate to run in november. americanink, are people excited about the fact they could elect for the very first time a woman? many would say about time. >> it's funny. i don't think many people have processed that historic nature

of the candidacy, as they should. everyone has been so focused on donald trump, and what has been a remarkably odd campaign here in the united states, unexpected in so many ways, that they have glossed over that fact. i do think that last night that was really highlighted, and i think there was a moment when she came out to speak, that people did recognize the historic nature of what just happened, regardless of what you feel about her candidacy. tom: just looking at the speech itself. both candidates in the conventions, would you say either delivered a game changing speech, either trump or clinton? >> the reality is, there are no game changing speeches. it's rare that anybody makes a speech, or there's a single moment in the campaign that fundamentally changes the dynamic of the race. thelly, they play into character of the candidacy that has artie taken shape. there might be a bump, as we

say, with the polls going up a little bit, but these convention speeches don't have that power anymore. the electorate is very polarized america. they are not willing to be persuaded by a speech, and the media is so fragmented, it's really hard to reach large parts of the national electorate. tom: ok, thank you so much for speaking to us. thank you very much, indeed. now, in exactly one week, the summer olympic games will begin in rio de janeiro. in the run-up to this, the world's biggest sporting event, there are still serious concerns about the games. amongst them, security, water pollution, and infrastructure. there's also the question of which russian athletes will be allowed to compete, following revelations of doping on a massive scale. our correspondent has this report. testing fireworks in the skies above rio de janeiro, but away from the bright lights of the opening ceremony

rehearsal, one of the main challenges facing the game was brought into sharp relief. a local resident robbed at knife point had to wait over one hour for police to arrive, despite the country's largest ever deployment of security personnel since sunday. also cause for concern, the city's polluted water, recently described as a toxic stew. the government had promised to treat 80% of the sewage drained into the bay before sailing events kick off in august, but athletes are being warned to be vigilant in the face of a high concentration of super bacteria in the water. >> they will probably suffer some form of contamination. they won't necessarily get ill, but they will be coming into contact with highly contaminated water. reporter: and then there's accusations of incomplete and shoddily executed infrastructure. housing forid that its athletes was neither safe nor readady early this week, and organizers deployed more than

600 workmen to tackle problems with water and electricity. nothing out of the ordinary for international olympic committee president thomas bach. >> there are always many issues, many challenges to overcome. they like to finish things in the last second. i am sure it will come together, and we will have great games. reporter: the 2016 rio olympics kick off on the fifth of august. am: for the first time ever, team has been sent to take part at healing takes that does not represent any one country. team ofinvited a athletes currently living as refugees, who touchdown in rio on friday. among those, south sudanese refugees currently residing in neighboring kenya. it is now time for a check of business news. good evening to you, will.

plans to build a nuclear power plant in the united kingdom have created lots of discussion, and seem to have hit a bit of a bump in the road. will: a lot of controversy. it has been discussed for over a decade, and debated in france for a couple years now. we thought it was moving ahead, until the u.k. government said it will review the 24 billion hinkley point project. there have been security concerns in the u.k., since one third of the investment is coming from china. meanwhile, the project has also been divisive in france. the other key investor is a french energy giant, who approved the plan on thursday despite its own financial concerns. the company, 80% owned by the french government, is saddled with 7 billion euros of debt. the opposition shadow secretary says that a re-think is long overdue. >> well, look. i have been calling for two years now to have this decision reviewed. we ask the government for a plan

b, and they said they did not need one. it is now clear, at the last minute, when they have already said to people that they will sign this today, they have had a re-think. i welcome that, but i do think that it makes us look completely chaotic for investors in this country who are going to say, look, the government doesn't know what it's doing when it comes to major infrastructure projects. william: the european controlled bank has approved monte de paschi's rescue plan but has not yet revealed the exact plan. the world oldest lender and italy's third-largest says it is desperate to raise capital, mired in high levels of bad debt. italy is saddled with 360 billion euros of bad debts itself. some say the fears that monte paschi threatens the entire italian banking system are overblown. >> there might be one single

problem in the italian banking system, and everyone is tackling it to provide a solution. as far as the italian banking system as a whole, i don't think there is a systemic problem. way, and are on their they will likely suggest there is no systemic banking problem. william: the european banking authority will publish the results of stress tests at 8:00 p.m. gmt. let's check in on the markets. 1.2%, wellonomy grew below expectations of 2.6%. you can see a negative effect on the dow jones, also brought down by lower oil prices. the nasdaq and s&p 500 just above flat. earlier, european markets closed with the german dax jumping 0.6% and the cac 40 performing similarly and the ftse just above the flat line, looking at oil prices. disappointing growth figures out

of the eurozone. we can look into that data now. the eurozone economic growth nearly cut in half for the second quarter, growing just 0.3%. analysts warn that the consequences of a brexit could harm the economy even more later in the year. but on an encouraging note, higher food and alcohol prices helped move the bloc away from deflation in june. meanwhile, growth in france stalled, even with the 2016 football championships. they could not offset a fall in food sg,pendin giving france just 0% growth. disappointing data for france, but there is one sector that's doing well. construction. low interest rates, banks are lending, and companies are investing. here's julia sieger with more. julia: in just one month, students will be back in parisian schools. deliveryehind on the

of this construction site is not an option. it is an important contract for the country. >> we have to clean and polish all the bricks and redo the masonry. paint all the windows. julia: the contract will bring in 85,000 euros to the company, which is simultaneously working on 150 other sites. >> we start our day earlier, and finish later, because we also need to report back to the office of times a week. but it doesn't bother us. julia: a dozen temporary workers were recently hired, twice as many as last year, thanks to a growing number of orders. >> all of the white tags are construction sites, and all of the colors refer to our workers that will be assigned. the board is more full now, as the order book is also growing. there are less and less free slots. julia: the company has orders for the next six months, up from the regular three-month booking period.

companies in the construction sector agree that the economy is picking up. >> we are relieved. after eight years of harsh economic crisis, things are looking strong. first, because interest rates are low. and second, importantly, demand is high. we still have a positive demographic in france with young couples looking to buy. julia: builders tend to see an uptick in the summer, but companies are hoping the backlog continues. william cowan fears are growing for thousands of jobs at telecom firm sfr. unions say 5000 jobs are at risk theye company, which says have been losing customers. the company was bought in 2014 by a billionaire that promised to protect staff members. >> one employee in three will be cut from france's second-largest telecom company. union sources say that 5000 jobs are on the line at sfr. the company will not confirm the

figure, but says that it is reducing staff numbers. a worrying uncertainty for employees. >> it is sad, because there are many people with great expertise, who thought that their skills would be put to good use in this company, who thought they could flourish here, who are being sacrificed for purely financial reasons. >> patrick has been the head of a company that was bought by sfr three years ago. he said the merger would go ahead with all existing employees on board. >> we will begin to bring together two companies with strong dynamics, and we commit to retaining all employees. >> but on paper, he only promise to keep job safe until july 1, 2017. from then on, the company will announce voluntary redundancy plans. the first to go could be in the shops. in 2015, the company lost more than one million customers and was left in stagnation.

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07/29/16 07/29/16 [captioning made possible by democracy now!] amy: from the democratic national convention in philadelelphia, this is democray now! mrs. clinton: and so my friends, it is witith humility am a determination, and boundless confidence in america's promise that i accept your nomination for president of the united states. amy: in an historic night, hillary clinton becomes the first woman to accept a major party presidential nomination.