>> hello and welcome to live at paris. let's look what's happening and making headline this is hour. president obama: true security comes from making peace with our neighbors. >> u.s. president barack obama joined hundreds of world leaders in jerusalem to pay their final respects to shimon peres, the last of israel's founding leaders. past and president, mahmoud abbas comes under attack from

the palestinian for attending the funeral and was his first trip to israel and the fifth time since 2010. and baby, you can drive my car. actually, no. driverless cars are set to appear at the paris motor show which kicks off this saturday.

take part in the funeral, paying tribute to a person they regard as playing a major role

in the establishment of occupation and also the continuous disposition of palestinian land as a initial supporter of the settlement of enterprise. and they have shared a lot of videos on social media, a lot of criticism and videos of abbas shaking hands with prime minister netanyahu with criticism of abbas and even mocking abbas and saying he's a trader. many point to the irony he had to apply for a permit to take part in a funeral who they see as the legacy of the israeli politician as playing a major role in the establishment of the occupation, the permit system and the stations of movement for palestinians which is a part of the occupation today. >> thanks very much for that pdate.

next up, france steps up its fight against the so-called islamic state group. the french military launched air operations in iraq and several fighter jets taking off from the aircraft carrier friday morning. the planes are a part of a mission to retake mosul, a trong hold in northern iraq. france's third mission since the charlie hebdo attacks in 2013. for more i'm joined in the studio by our foreign affairs editor. ery good afternoon to you. only france's third mission with the u.s. backed coalition. how significant is this, why now? >> this is not the beginning of the battle for mosul. in fact, the french ministry official speaking to the associated press emphasized that it's not the beginning of the actual offensive but clearly preparations are intensifying.

the french have flown 30 air missions in the past week. and now the aircraft carrier we're seeing in the screen the charles de gaulle is undergoing maintenance in france and france is setting up artillery pieces south of mosul and of course the u.s. announced this week that is would send around 600 troops to iraq to assist local forces to try to retake that city. but according to military analyst who you interviewed a short while ago there are a lot of differences between the different factions and forces that are supposed to retake mosul and therefore the battle plan is not clear yet. and in terms of the importance of mosul, it's iraq's second city. it's isis's de facto capital and if they lost that would be left with one major strong hold in the califat and would be in syria and obviously there are very high stakes for isis to hold on to mosul and had plenty

of time to prepare for this likely offensive. they will have put in land mines, snipers and all kinds of things like that. they will obviously have tried to learn some lessons from the fight in fallujah. that took several weeks for iraqi forces to finally push isis out of fallujah but that was a smaller place so mosul being larger, obviously a big urban population and that's going to make this a very complicated and drawn out battle. there's no timetable or firm dates. >> thanks very much for that from our foreign affairs editor. this friday marks one year since russia began its aerial offensive in war torn syria to support the embattled assad a veem. -- regime.

thousands have lost their lives since 2013 according to the observatory for human rights. a watchdog said the figures include civilians and fighters on both sides of the conflict. the kremlin news helped turn the balance of power. september 2015, russia launches its first aerial offensive in war torn syria in support of long term ally president assad and his embattled regime. >> we are only going to support the syrian army in its fight against terrorist groups. secondly, we will only give aerial support to syria, we won't supply ground troops. and thirdly, the support will continue as long as the syrian rmy is carrying out attacks. >> russian fighter jets and long range missiles and the syrian army fight on the ground. by march this year, the syrian rmy retook the ancient city of

palmeira, the first victory of the islamic state group. >> syria is a microcosm of a game being played in russia on the center stage, particularly in the middle east. this lull has expanded considerably from what it was three to four years ago. >> but the kremlin is under fire from critics who accuse them of targeting syria's opposition rather than islamic extremists. >> it's important to stop this massacre. our people, our kingdom are getting hit by russian air strikes, we are starving to death. >> this month russia and the u.s. brokered a last minute cease-fire but it fell apart within a week, with each side blaming the other of violations. >> we know there can be no peace in syria if russia is determined to keep fighting this war. >> since then air strikes have pummeled aleppo with such verocity the british and french

are flagging up possible war crimes. the war continues on the ground and in the air there's no sign of russia's operation ending any time soon. >> nearly two weeks after a u.s.a. and russia brokered cease-fire collapsed, fighting continues in the besieged capital of aleppo, syrian and government air strikes have pounleded rather hard the areas since the regime announced the bid to take back the city. according to the world health organization, the latest flare-up conflict killed 338 people over the past few weeks, including more than 100 children. to other news now, investigators in the u.s. are sifting through the mangled wreckage of thursday's train crash in new jersey. one woman was killed and scores of others injured when a packed commuter train slammed into a railway station in hoboken during the busy morning rush

hour. authorities have begun probing what caused the tragic accident, in particular, they'll be looking at how fast the train was going when it crashed. >> many unanswered questions remain. investigators search the scene at hoboken rail station. the busy commuter train crashed through ticket barriers and into the main concourse area on thursday. passengers are fed up as it -- said i sped up as it came into the station. andrew cuomo said it is too early to decide if the crash was caused by mechanical error or human error. >> there's no point to speculating what happened, why the train came in so fast, was there a medical condition, what happened with the conductor, etc. we have no idea. and i don't think the speculation is especially helpful. >> the train's engineer was seriously injured in the crash but authorities say he is fully cooperating from the hospital.

investigators from the national transportation board are working to recover video from the train's two external cameras, along with information from its onboard data recorders. one of the big remaining questions is whether positive train control, a system designed to automatically halt a train if an engineer misses a stop signal could have prevented the crash. >> p.t.c. has been one of our priorities and we know it can prevent accidents. whether it is involved in this accident, that's definitely one of the things we'll look at carefully. >> railroads are under a federal mandate to install the system by 2018 but most u.s. trains, including the 440 that run in the new jersey transit system do not yet have it in place. >> hedge funds have started to pull money out of deutsche bank amid fears over its financial strength. that's according to reports in bloomberg news. the bank has scrambled to deny the reports, insisting that it is stable and strong. despite this the company shares tumbled to new lows in the u.s.

and europe. we now have a report. >> continuing troubles for deutsche bank. this after bloomberg reported that 10 hedge funds have put some of their business from the bank. the german government denied again that deutsche was seeking help in dealing with the $14 billion fine issued by the u.s. justice department who allegedly sold back mort securities. the focal point is growing and rising about the health of europe's banking system with the austrian finance minister ays europe is not having its layman moment. >> nobody predicted the collapse of lehman had a avalanche. but that should not happen again with a single mechanism regulation set by new rules. that means we have all measures in place on a european level to stabilize financial markets.

>> since peaking in july 2015, germany's largest bank has seen its shares fall by more than 65% and the stock has lost more than half of its market value. mario dragg, dismissed the suggestion that the european central banks lower interest rates were to blame for deutsche's woes. >> if a bank represents a systemic threat for the euro zone, this cannot be because of low interest rates, it has to do with other reasons. >> deutsche meanwhile issued a statement emphasizing its strong financial position. >> now the rosetta space probe has completed its final mission, crash landing on the icy surface of comet 67-p that it's been chasing for more than a decade. for more on this, let's go to katherine who is in paris for us. katherine, it's the end of an historic 12-year mission. what are scientists been able to gather?

>> they've gathered a huge amount of data from this rosetta mission and in fact said while this is the end of the satellite's life, it's been crash landed into a comet now and has cut off the signal. in fact, it's far from the end of the work on the rosetta mission which will take them around 10 years now to analyze all the data they've discovered. and it really goes into the very origins of our solar system itself. it looked at what exactly is made up on the surface of the core of the comet and these are bodies, spatial bodies which have been around for 4.5 billion years so at around the time of the formation of our solar system and can provide a huge amount of insight to how planets like the planet earth were created and with a they found notably is there were glycine particles, part of an

amino acid which makes up proteins and we're talking about the very building blocks of life itself. and what is found on the comet reinforces the theory that comets crashing into planets which brought life to planet earth. so it's a very significant discovery, indeed. they've also got more information about how water could have got to planet earth. there was water on the comet but not the kind we have on earth. perhaps that came from elsewhere. in any case, a huge wealth of data to be analyzed. >> can you tell us about a bit more why the rosetta was so important? >> well, this was so important because it just really talks about where we came from, the origins of the solar system and that's why it was such an emotional moment as well, the wrapping up of this 12-year mission and it was quite a technical feat to bring it to this dramatic end. the rosetta was crashed into the comet it had been circling for the past couple years, and that at a distance of 720

kilometers away from earth so a technical fuche you are to coordinate all that and that was done in dramatic style because basically the satellite was circling further away from the sun. scientists knew its aging solar panels wouldn't provide enough pow tore keep it going so they decided to use one last attempt to crash it into the surface of this comet and get a very close-up and unseen before look at the surface to provide them with all this data, which as i say really could tell us more about where life came from, how the solar system was formed, the possibilities of using it, we're told by a physics expert here, are endless. >> fascinating stuff. thanks for that. time for today's focus report. amid a worsening economic political and energy crisis, venezuela is spiraling deeper into chaos. every day life for the country's residents is getting harder and harder with food shortages, power cuts and looting now the norm.

the growing insecurity has heightened social tensions to the extreme. this as venezuela witnesses a frightening growing wave of street lynchings of alleged criminals with some people taking the law in their own hands. >> it's a question of survival for many inhabitants in the venezuelan capital. oil prices surged and the economy collapsed and the world of law collapsed leaving them homeless and without protection. in this video, regular citizens are looting a supermarket. food riots have become a common sight in car agoous. -- in caracus. people are eating fewer meals a day and people can't afford to buy groceries anymore. the population furiously says the state can no longer protect them and some have decided to take the law into their own hands. it's someone trying to steal. the footage shows the crowd standing over an alleged robber, lying on the ground

bleeding from his head. dozens of people are surrounding him idle, watching him in agony without picking up a finger. in the end this man was burnt alive and eventually died from his injuries. his name was roberto, a 42-year-old cook. his aunt is still in shock and says it's a public execution and that those responsible are still on the run. >> they are murderers. i saw the video. you can't tell me the men that poured the gas and lit him on fire are running free? i just don't get it. >> a number of murders and lynchings in broad daylight in the capital have increased dramatically in the last year, even in calm neighborhoods. this used to be a safe middle class shopping district but that was before the economic crisis. >> over there is a street lamp. someone was beaten to death by a mob.

this time it was horrible. some of our neighbors caught a man who tried to steal something. they were kicking him in the jaw. i got in their way, not to protect him but just to make sure they wouldn't kill him. i got hit, too. and the guy, well, he died here. >> the district here has its own militia. its members say they don't lynch people but admit using force to arrest robbers. >> i'm going to tell you the truth, if someone steals and doesn't harm anyone we stop him and we give the phone back and call police and everything goes smoothly. if he steals and warns someone we know what will happen, police arrest him and give him a pat on the back and let him go. that guy, yes, he deserves it, we'll beat him. >> many citizens say robbers and lynch mobs act with impunity in venezuela. the police chief of the district, however, blames it on

redundancies. >> it has collapsed and there are less and less police officers. in one event there were 1,256 police for 600,000 and today there are only 750 left. >> lynchings have become taboo in venezuela, especially after the country's supreme court banned media from publishing videos of these acts, saying they create too much anxiety and uncertainty. well, for more on this, let's go to natalia, a specialist in latin american studies and thanks very much for joining us here on live from paris. as we heard from that report, lynchings are on the rise. we're seeing some very, very scary statistics. why are so many people in venezuela deciding to take matters in their own hands? >> you know, first of all, it tells you that the decay of a society and of a country where

people think that justice doesn't work. imagine 98% of crimes come unsolved. and crimes are sometimes not and frequent. people feel really enraged. unfortunately, they feel they cannot protect themselves anymore from insecurity which is affecting people from every sector and especially people from not only middle class people but in the bario, the shantytowns thrs killing almost every night and people live in fear as people from middle classes are being robbed. also, there's a lack of medicine and lack of food and

people have to make long lines and life has become very tense and people are tense and that kind of life starts making people less human and it's really dangerous that society is becoming this way. and of course i can say that the government is not doing what he should be doing and controlling the environment and controlling safety for its people. and the government is not doing that because they just have ost the capability to do that. >> and natalia, venezuela is obviously embroiled in an economic crisis, political crisis.

where is the country headed? things are looking very grim. where can it go from here? >> hyper inflation of 700% this year, even more. il prices are not coming up. and the country almost now reserves less because they didn't take the necessary measures on time. but spend them in a lot of corruption in the country. so what's coming next? the only thing that could save the country is to -- for the government to allow the madulo m of president before january 10. which led to new presidential elections in 30 days and that

would give some kind of breathing, new possibilities for the country with a new government and probably a new esident or let's say a transition government. but the government is doing anything they can to sustain power and to control because they have too much at stake if they lose. here's too much corruption that can become against them. and the people are really trying to strive and trying to do the referendum this year, even though government doesn't stop putting more and more and more obstacles so the people cannot say their will and manifest their will through the vote. >> thanks very much once again for joining us here will.

that was natalia, a specialist in latin american study. 8úxú