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>> welcome back to the studio here. you're watching live from paris. let's take a look at our top stories this hour. local authorities have declared a state of emergency in charlotte, north carolina, in the united states, after a violentight of protests. one person business shot and and 44e person was shot others arrested as demonstrators denounced the killing of a black man by police earlier this week. hundreds are still missing in the waters of the mediterranean. 169 survivors have been rescued after the fishing vessel capsizedem to europe wednesday. the boat sank, a mere 12 left thes after it
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coast.n and police arrested two belgian police officers after they 13 migrantsroup of across the border into france. the migrants say they were headed to calais but ended up in belgium by mistake. >> a state of emergency in the u.s. city of charlotte, a second violent protests on wednesday saw the state governor guard andhe national state police to keep the peace seriouslyotester was wounded. but the mayor says she won't be a curfew. the rioting began after a black man was shot to death by police on tuesday. police have yet to release the video of the incident, even to family.im's
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let's go to our correspondent in charlotte, north carolina. gallagher, why aren't police releasing the video of the shooting? reporter: well, the police conference heess gave earlier, explained his reasons. he basically stated two things.t first of all, that he has seen, of course, the footage and that the victim in a degrading way. and therefore, it is -- it would unbecoming to share that with the public. so he wants to show the footage first to the family. a little bitad more of an ambiguous statement, saying he had promised transparency but not full transparency. basically he's saying that by sharing the entirety of the video or even bits of it, he ongoingmpromise the investigation. and he wants to protect the integrity of that process. explanation.is i can tell you it certainly has those who came out
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here last night and who might be coming out again to protest in downtown charlotte. i exchanged -- had a few words about,lks milling walking around. the streets are very empty, as you can tell. me.aps behind and they were saying that they were really waging the publication of that video to shed light on what exactly transpired in that interaction, a little bit more than 48 hours scott, anen keith african-american resident of charlotte, and police, who shot and killed him. the police are also afraid that by releasing the video, it might insight more violence. end, more violence could continue this evening; is that correct? the potential, for that is there. the governor for north carolina has called for a state of emergency. has asked for the national guard, high patrol to join
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police out here. last night, at times police seemed to be sort of overwhelmed by the sheer number of people downtown charlotte. they're afraid that those scenes are going to be played out again this same location. for the moment, it's very quiet. an there's no way to tell not people will actually come back and protest. for moreotential friction and altercation is certainly there. absolutelyke to are not satisfied by the words of the police chief. and they say that justice is far been served in this case. and many others, because that's what this is about as well, insisting that this is not just about what happened in charlotte but it's also about tulsa,ppened in oklahoma, just a few days ago, where another african-american shot and killed by police as we have seen since the beginning of the year, out here the united states. those kinds of scenes have sort of brought back to light racial
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tensions and deep divisions between communities, minorities and law enforcement. >> thank you. reporting live there from charlotte, north carolina. hundreds of migrants are still boatng after their capsized off the coast of egypt on wednesday. wereoughly 600 people who on board, there are at least only 169 survivors. rescueue teams, many using dilapidated fishing boats, recovered at least 52 bodies. 300 people well over unaccounted for. those who made it out alive recount how human trafficking crammed the wooden boat and it started capsizing almost immediately. julia kim has more. reporter: egyptian authorities bring more bodies ashore to be families.ith their [crying] anorter: but many still face
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unbearable weight. hundreds of lives are for.ounted fishing boats carrying between capsized0 migrants, off egypt's mediterranean coast. sister's son drowned in this boat. he was 16 years old. he left because he was looking living.y to earn a we are asking the government to increase the search and rescue efforts. reporter: relatives of the migrants are angry at officials' slow response to a disaster that happened so close to the country's coast. was localsay it fisherman who had saved lives. alternativecome an point for migrants from africa.an the boat had also carried people sudan, ethiopia and err -- brought some african-americans on board, and then -- africans on board.
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many people on board, the boat sank. reporter: turkey's migrant e.u. haseal with the forced people smugglers to turn to egypt. theborder agency says number of migrants arriving in has almostegypt doubled in the last 12 months. about 3,000 people are said to trying tothis year, cross the mediterranean. >> amid the deadlock, represents the syria support group are gathering this thursday in new york as the tone between escalates the u.s. further, over who is responsible a u.n. aidack on convoy earlier this week. in an interview, syrian president bashar al-assad blamed the u.s. for that attack as well as for the collapse of last week's cease-fire. meanwhile, aleppo saw some of months,iest fighting in signaling a fresh uptake in hostilities.
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reporter: aleppo ablaze once heaviestder the bombardment in months. the silence of the cease-fire, broken. truly medical sources say dozens were overnightthese strikes, captured here on amateur video, in eastern rebel-held aleppo. as day broke, residents emerged to inspect the extent of the latest destruction. according to the syrian 15ervatory for human rights, raids alone targeted two held by --ds still nothave received the aid which set out to get to them at the start of cease-fire 10 days ago. suspended for 48 hours, after a deadly strike on an aid convoy. says aid ison finally headed to besieged areas near damascus.
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>> the security situation in syria is a patchwork of levels of security or insecurity. multipletchwork of actors, armed groups. and we need to take that into when we evaluate it on a case by case basis. so that is what we do. reporter: the cease-fire agreement made between moscow and washington was supposed to allow for humanitarian aid to areas.pass to besieged but it's now been thrown into disarray as fighting as broken particularly in the east ofregions of the damascus. >> french and belgian in a growingre rout over migrants. two belgian police officers were france, after helping a group of 13 afghan and migrants cross the border into the french town. the officers say the migrants
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themselves in belgium as they were trying to reach calais, so they took them, they, in the direction wanted to go. joining us live from brussels, story, is may.is what is the diplomatic fallout incident? reporter: well, getting quite for theecause frankly, french authorities, by transporting and depositing those 13 migrants 15 yards into the french border, they were tree.g up the wrong they shouldn't have done that territory. french that's why we saw those two thrown intoers, their barracks, to interrogate some four years. minister hadterior a clear and frank discussion, looking again for explanations. belgium,, here in police are quite upset about it, saying that during those four
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hours, while those belgian police man were being rightogated, they had no to an attorney and french was the only language being spoken, them, hish one of native language is dutch. policemen here are seeking interiornd asking the minister, what are the legal procedures? he interior minister said would temporarily allow for theer checks of french-belgium border. 2,500 migrants have been transported by police belgium border. the message is those two men jobs and doing their belgium police have threatened to strike over this, if they more clarity. >> but the two countries are meant to be partners on this
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issue. reporter: indeed. that's why there was so much anger and many people upset here. one of the sergeant spoke to the television today, and said there's a bit of a ping-pong match being played between france,n belgium and in again asking for clarity on what the legal procedures are, if a to leaves ordered belgium, he believes that should well in france. this incident highlights how complicated the migrant crisis is for european countries and neighbor systems. so many spats about asylum procedures. today marks one year exactly the european commission proposed an idea to relocate on, of course, and geographic properties of each state. now, only 5,000 people have been relocated under this scheme.
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of october, hungary have a referendum to ask citizens if they think this is not. or >> thank you so much for joining us. debating a total ban on poland's parliament discussed a law -- a draft law supported by the conservative government, the second law up for debate, put fort by the to allow abortions. through the 12 weeks of pregnancy. legislation in the deeply abortingcountry allows a fetus under certain conditions. story.as the reporter: a near total ban on abortions and prison terms for who undergo them and the practitioners who carry them out. at stake for polish women, as their parliament votes by thesetiative abortion organizations, tabled in parliament after it received
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almost half a million signatures. want to make the prison term for abortion the same as infantside, for a mother with postpartum depression, so months to five years. reporter: pro choice activists with a rival allow abortions up to 12 weeks in pregnancy. terminations are currently only legal in poland in the case of rape, incest, severe health risks to the mother or an deformed fetus. anti-abortion groups are also toling for authorities support families with children who are disabled or conceived or insist, where abortion would no longer be an option under their bill. poland sees only 2,000 legal abortions a year, but many go
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underground. >> in poland, you can have an abortion illegally in private clinics. of an illegal abortion in poland is between $1,000 and 1,500 euros. reporter: they have an anti-abortion stance but it's leaders know the majority of polls support keeping existing anti-abortion laws. already some of the strictest in europe. a world where no antibiotics are strong enough to a patient of a disease, where so-called super bugs survive every type of medicine developed. well, that world is slowly becoming reality. in to address the issues, united nations is calling for more research and controls on antibiotics. here's more. reporter: after years of alarm,sts sounding the the united nations is finally calling for a global drive to failing boiks.of >> if we fail to address this
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quickly and anti-microbial, resistance will provide universal health coverage for difficult if not impossible. as super bugs, there's pathogens that can't be treatment.xisting their resistance stems from antibiotics being overused or even misused entirely, such as with viral infections, against completelyre ineffective. 2050,rt projected that by antibiotic resistance could kill some 10 million people globally, more than cancer, and the problems isn't limited to treating humans. concernedparticularly antibiotics asf a preventive way on livestock fisheries also included. we know that they need to be
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in a curative way and to avoid imminent infections. reporter: the u.n. wants countries to come up with ways use.duce antibiotic and come up with alternative treatments. that may be one of the largest obstacles of all. new treatments just aren't profitable and just two more of antibiotics have gone on the market in the last 50 years. >> it's time for business now kate. you're back on set. you're starting with the confer confirmation of a massive data breach at yahoo. should i be worried about my e-mail account. reporter: they're advising you to change your password. the internet giant has said some 500 million users may have had personal information compromised. that's about double what earlier reports had suggested. we'd been reporting, we thought million accounts may have been affected. now we're hearing 500 million. have says the hack may
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been state-sponsored. any more details about who yahoo thinks may have been responsible. may haven data included names, dates of birth and passwords, probably not unprotected pas passwords, paymt or bank account information. the breach is thought to have taken place in 2014. users are indeed being advised to change their passwords if they haven't done so since then. now, it's not yet clear how this yahoo'sre might affect plan to sell its e-mail service $4.8 billion. verizon did confirm it had been notified of the yahoo breach but says it has limited information to sar and will evaluate -- so far and will risk as the investigation continues. now, yahoo shares actually in the momentsy after that announcement but we have seen them dropping now.
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how theake a look at shares are trading currently. climbed upually again, just ever so slightly. ashad been down by as much minus .7%, so we're going to be how investors are taking in that information. seen global, we've stock markets reacting by not raising interest rates just yet set the ground for a hike by the end of the year. we saw major european industries jumping. there is over -- we've been wall street trading higher this thursday. stocks up between about .8% each. and investors have been weighed down expectedby weaker than data for housing sales in the month of august. organization trade has ruled that european aircraft makerrer airbus has been
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receiving billions of euros in illegal funding from e.u. members, even after they were ordered to cut them off. that's the latest twist in more long ofecade transatlantic spots. yet to rule on a similar complaint that boeing benefits from billions of tax breaks in the u.s. airbus says it will appeal the judgment. begunrench court has hearing what could be the country's biggest ever case of fraud. french authorities demanded more than 550 million european unions back -- euros from back taxes from a man who appeared this paris.y in the 70-year-old is the heir of a family of wealthy new york art dealers. he's accused of hiding his offshore taxe in havens since the death of his father in 2001.
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expected to last more than a month. goldenstein is facing up to 10 years in prison if convicted but his lawyer is confident that won't happen. >> we have nothing to fear. we have already come to an agreement regarding the main facts. we explained that when the events took place, there were no place that would oblige our client to make a he neveron, therefore had any intention to carry out fraud. >> next week, the french government will unveil a plan aimed at keeping production at a factory in eastern france. floated would see general electorates stepping in. struggling train maker is partly owned by the french avernment, and has become symbol of french industry. here's more. reporter: here in balfour, these on eachs are literally other's doorsteps. that could end up being a
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workers at the embattled assembly plant. nunt, the french -- this month, the french industry fury when it haltnced plans to building. under the plan, 400 jobs would be transferred to other parts of france. but now the french government is negotiating to get those workers door, toed next factory.lectric's not everyone is enthusiastic. >> the issue isn't about to generalg workers electric. that would mean shutting down the factory at bell four. we've been fighting to safeguard everyone's jobs at the balfour sites. >> if the general electorate can of the workforce, that would be a good thing, but now rumors.t reporter: they hold a 20% stake firm.
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last year, general electric bought its power division in a just under 9 billion euros. but it came with strings attached, notably a pledge from g.e. to create 1,000 jobs on the soil for three years. way for thee one u.s. giant to make good on its promise. >> moving on to some of the day's other business headlines, cargo is splitting its operations into two independent entities. it's in part because of low oil prices and shipping right. they also raised the possibility of spinning off their oil business from the group in order theurther streamline business. shares climbed about 3% higher. 150 flights to and from rome's international onport were cancelled thursday because of strike action.
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pilots andesenting cabin crew called the stoppage longerest against working hours. and u.s. senators are asking the department to launch a formal investigation into wells fargo. believe the blanking giant may have violated labor laws by to pay overtime to its staff. a senate committee called on the to resign,ls fargo over a scandal linked to fake accounts for which the bank has fined $185 million. the of puerto rico is in dark thursday, after a fire erupted at an electricity plant that powers most of the u.s. territory. the government cancelled classes andublic schools universities, while hospitals have pushed back all appointments. the outage has also affected water services. crews are working around the to try and restore
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island'sty to the three and a half million people. a lot of unanswered questions about this blackout, including wasthe company that responsible for that power plant is going to find the money to this equipment. remember, puerto rico is a nontry that has basically money in its coffers. >> well, they have to find it somewhere, because they need that electricity. >> absolutely. much.you so kate with the business news. we'll be back in just a few minutes after the break. stay with us. úaaaaaa
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09/22/16 09/22/16 [captioning made possible by democracy now!] amy: from pacifica this is democracy now! his book and said it was a gun. he sits out here e every day. his sunrise to school with my daughter. that man sits out here every day and wait for his son to get off the bus. you understand how that baby had to come home to that? amy: protests continued in the second night in charlotte, north carolina, over the police killing of keith lamont sc

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