genie: you're watching france 24. time for 60 minutes live around the world. i'm genie godula. these are the headlines. the nigerian government says 21 schoolgirls kidnapped by boko haram have been released. that comes after government negotiations with the group brokered by the red cross and the swiss government. the terror suspect arrested in germany last week has killed himself despite being on suicide watch.

the 22-year-old syrian refugee was accused of planning an attack on an airport in berlin. new allegations of sexual assault against donald trump. several women have come out accusing him of inappropriate touching and kissing. largest supermarket is going head-to-head with unilever. the company's products have been pulled from the website over who pays for the plunging pound. our top story first. in april 2014 over 200 schoolgirls were kidnapped from the -- a town in nigeria by the militant group no boko haram.

21 among them have been released. that was reportedly negotiated by the government. the girls were handed over this morning to government officials in nigeria. no boko haram fighters were released in exchange. more on this story as we get .ore conferenc the syrian refugee accused of planning a bomb attack in germany has committed suicide. he was arrested earlier this week after other syrian migrants caught him and turn to men. -- turned him in. >> the suspected bomber leaving the detention center in a casket. a hunger strike and was able to kill himself in his cell despite the placed under round-the-clock surveillance. the police have yet to confirm how he managed to commit suicide. the gegerman news agency sayayse

hanged himself. was grantedwho asylum last year was being held on suspicion of planning and extremist bomb attack on a beberlin airpoport. authorities were already facing criticism after the 22-year-old eluded police. they have been watching him for months as they prepared a raid on his apartment on saturday. security services found 1.5 kilos of homemade explosive in his flat. after two days on the run he was caught on monday after three fellow syrians tied him up and alerted police. genie: jessica saltz has been covering this story from berlin. she tells us more details from a press conference. the state minister of began this press conference by saying that the suicide should never have happened. he said authorities in the

detention center did everything they could to prevent it. he confirmed that he had been able to kill himself with his sure to that he was wearing by strangling himself by attaching the shirt to the front bars of his own prison cell. the head of this detention center said they have no reason to suspect he was a high suicide risk. they saiaiwhen he ararrived at e detention center on monday he seemed very calm and passive. said he was not an acute suicide risk and he was plplaced in this prison cell and had the routine check on the suspect reduced from every 15 minutes to every 30 minutes. theyetentntion center s said had no reason to suspect he was a suicide risk. his lawyer refuting thihis, sayg

ththe prisison had in f fact tom that he would be under round-the-clocock surveillancncd broken athat he had lamp and tried to manipulate sockets in the prison cell showed a man who was in a lot of distress and trying to do harm to himself. russia sayu.s. and they will resume talks over the crisis in syria. negotiations broke down over a week ago. two days ofw host talks this weekend. the announcement comes after at least another 75 were killed in syria and some of the worst violence the country has seen so far. catherine clifford reports. >> has they rescued the child from the rubble of a previous hits., another this amateur video claims to show russian planes target civilian rescue workers.

this in the neighborhood which was badly hit on wednesday as russia steps uair raids in support of the regime. prompted then french foreign minister call for international action. want to launch is let's stop this massacre that saved the population of aleppo. it's never too late to make peace. >> talks between the u.s. and russia are back on. they disintegrated on october 3 when moscow refused to use its influencnce to stop the bombingf civilians. john kerry and the russian foreign minister will meet with europeanrts from .ounterparts in an interview released on wednesday vladimir putin heaped

the blame for the conflict on the west. i am deeply convinced that it's our western partners first and foremost the united states that are responsible for the situation that has prevailed in the region and in syria in particular. it stillgton said sought moscow's participation in violence, m military cooperation between the states was no longer in the cards. now hoping to work with other countries with influence in the conflict. genie: the u.s. has made its inst direct strike on rebels yemen. on wednesday u.s. planes struck back at t radar sitite in yemen following attacks on warships in the red sea. so far u.s.s. air forces have nt been directly involved in strikes. increasinglyn criticized by the international community for their devastating

impact on civilians. now to the u.s. presidential campaign. several women have come out accusing donald trump of sexual assault. those allegations are adding to the damage already done against the nominee after ththe releasef that video where he was heard making sexually aggressive comments. .ere's alexander tries to control as he recover from a bad week in politics. a leaked a video in which he bragged of forcing himself on women has opened a pandora's box with many now coming forward. a new york times had spoken to two women who claimed trump assaulted them. in one allegation dating back more than 30 years, a fellow air passenger described him as being like an octopus as he grabbed her breasts and tried to put his hand up her skirt. another woman said she was

working at trump tower when he kissed her on the lips outside an elevator. team responded saying the entire article is a fiction. a completely false coordinated character assassination against mr. trump. adding for this to only become public decades later in the final months of a campaign for president should say it all. trump denies making inappropriate advances. i have tremendous respect for women. women protested outside trump international in new york. a perfect word. anyone who supports him now is definitely in that category. >> it's hard to figure out what would feel positive for a woman who supported donald trump. taking the female vote from

hillary clinton was always going to be trump's biggest challenge. now it looks harder than ever for the billionaire salesman to close the deal. hillary clinton is also facing problems from a new set of hacked e-mails released by wikileaks. some unflattering things about hillalary clinton's campaign. her team has struggled to .mprove their flawed candidadate she is out of touch with regular americans and she had a hard time finding a core message for her campaign. the death toll from hurricane matthew is rising along with the floodwaters. the storm has killed at least 36 in the southeastern united states with north carolina being worst hit. more major flooding could be on the way as rivers are on the rise. door to door going toto try to get residents to leave. this is the worst flooding in north carolina in 17 years.

property damage has been estimated at $10 billion. the country worst hit by hurricane matthew was haiti. at least 1000 people were killed and thousands more lost their homes. the u.n. has fiercely criticized haiti and the international community for failing to prevevt the damage. is really outrages that we are still in a situation where that can happen in a country like haiti. a country that has just recently experienced a devastatating earthquake in whih one of the clear lessons was about preparation and a variety of other issues. close to 1.5 million people are in need of assistance in haiti. the provisional president of that country says the government does not have enough money to rebuild everything on its own. thomas waterhouse explains. >> homes barely's standing.

banana trees uprooted and the stillf petrol stations toppled on its side where the hurricane wind left it. a week after hurricane matthew villages in this seaside community are now taking matters into their own hands in order to get their lives back on track. down theer house came authorities came and took our names and said they would do this and that. came back.ver so we have decided to rebuild it ourselves. some good news for residents as workers raced to restore power to the town. is president says he committed to getting all of the countries damaged roads bridges schools and the like repaired. but he needs more help. the government doesn't have all the means are all the resources and it must take

advantage of the support of its main partners. we didn't make any appeal for assistance but we are willing to receive any help. aid has already been offered or come in from the u.s., canada, the eu and some latin countries. with hundreds displaced, much more is needed. pictures offer just a snapshot of how much work is still left to be done to rebuild the country. let's go back to our top story with that announcement that 21 of the schoolgirls kidnapped over two years ago have been released. let's bring in rosie callier. what more can you tell us about this release? >> so far the authorities haven't given very much

information. 21 girls are now being held at .he air force base next is to take the girls to rest for a few days and then they will be handed over to the vice president. they will be cared for by the authorities. not a lot of information about how they were released. girls have been released according to official sources. is certainly good news. we will get in touch with you in a few minutess time. the release of 21 of those over 200 school girls who were taken

over two years ago in nigeria. the nobel prize for literature has just been announced and it was announced not to a traditional author but to a songwriter. it went to bob dylan. cited for having created new poetic expressions within the great american song tradition. let's take a look at some of our other headlines. the nigerian government confirming that 20 one of the schoolgirls kidnapped by boko haram m have been rereleased. that came after govevernment negotiations with the militant group that were brokered by the red cross and switzerland. the terror suspect arrested in germany last week has killed himself despite eating on suicide watch. the 22-year-old syrian refugee was accused of landing an attack on an airport in berlin.

new allegations of sexual assault against donald trump. several women have acccced him of assault. his spokesman called the claims fiction. time for the business news. you are starting out with some big news from wells fargo with the chairman and ceo retiring. withhn stumpf is leaving immediate effect. it comes just after regulators disclosed that as many as 2 million fake accounts had been created. the roles of chairman and ceo have now been split. a democratic member of the house financial services committee said tim sloan was also culpable in the recent scandal. mr. stumpf says he will not sell

his stock options until the investigation into fake accounts is completed. he has apologized for the banks conduct. samsung stock has been battered since it announced it would halt production of the galaxy note seven phone. this after reports of fires started by batteries. consumers around the world have started handing back their phones. they offered $250 discount and then i'm getting a refund. genie: how are the markets doing in europe? lower.ks are trading

investors reacting to the release of those fed minutes which have raised concerns about the november rate hike. the british government has been trying to provide more clarity about its priorities at his it pushes ahead with brexit proceedings. theresa may told members of parliament she would work to maintain maximum possible e accs to the european single market after leaving the eu. investors have been increasingly worried that she is placing immigration control before economics. the french finance minister met with u.s. banks while on a recent trip to washington, d.c. and he's confident there will be some transfer activity from london to paris. >> there will be a transfer of activity to the continent.

i don't know what magnitude and i don't know exactly what activities but there will be a transfer of business to the continent. the's the consequence of brexit negotiations. genie: one of the casualties is the plunging pound. supermarketlargest has pulled dozens of products from online. the consumer goods giant argues the higher cost of commodities should lead to steve price increases. brian quinn reports. >> love it or hate it consumers in the u.k. may be unable to find it. fromte is disappearing shelves in the kingdom as the battle between rich supermarket chain tesco and food and household goods giant unilever continues to heat up. price increases demanded by unilever attributed to the falling pound against the

euro in the wake of the brexit vote. tesco has taken a number of unilever products office website.

the chain is running low on several projects including the sticky brown yeast extract. genie: he was 22 years old and accused of planting a bomb attack on a berlin airport. he committed suicide wednesday evening at a correctional facility. this is a major story for germany because it raises a lot of questions about the power of the police, the treatment of a heavily guarded prisoner who is under suicide watch and managed to commit suicide. also the way that he was arrested. police had been hunting for him for two days. tied him up syrians

in an apartment and alerted the police. he has accused these three syrians of being accomplices to that attack. genie: there are a lot of lessons to be learned. >> this is not a story that is only about a prisoner committing suicide. arrested shows that germany is dependent on cooperation with those who have because the refugees are capable of weeding out those who may have come to europe for criminal purposes and this case really proves how important they are to germany because they have community connections that the german police don't have. they were capable of capturing him before the police because of their connections. genie: let's move on to the u.s. elections.

donald trump is barely out of one scandal. now he's in the middle of a new one. >> everyone is reporting this. here on the front page of the independent is one of the women, one of several accusing him of sexual assault, saying it happened in his office while he was married. you might remember he insisted it was all talk and no action. the new york times broke this story on wednesday. they have spoken to several triedwho say donald trump to touch them or kiss them appropriately -- inappropriately in several instances spanning decades. one woman talks about being felt up by trump on a plane. another says he tried to make moves on her in an elevator in trump tower. and there is a sordid case of him hitting on a 10-year-old girl saying that he would date

her in 10 years. it is sure to derail even further his presidential campaign. hillary clinton is also facing new problems from a new set of hacked e-mails released by wikileaks. >> not a good day for presidential candidates. these e-mails reveal some very unflattering things about hillary clinton. her team has struggled all year long to improve their flawed candidate. see her aseople being out of touch with regular americans and she struggled to find a core message for her campaign. advisor tellsical hillary's ad makers that she is totally dependent on running against donald trump. if ted cruz or marco rubio had become a presidential candidate than her desire of getting to the white house, they felt it would have been seriously derailed.

new leaks show the plodding nature of her campaign. she is very scripted unlike donald trump. this cartoon shows both candidates donning those scary clown masks and running after uncle sam. ladye foreground that is liberty who looks pretty fed u . in many ways this election has become a farce and a scary one. the wife of a mayor who has been called brazil's own donald trump is in hot water over an interview she gave. the wife of the new mayor of sao paulo. businessman who participated in brazil's version of the apprentice. his wife gave an interview to a paper. said she is one of the

people and believes all poor people really just need is a hug from time to time. she also reminded journalists that she supported her own staff lived in shacks and didn't have any teeth. thanks to her they now have teeth of a house and a good health plan. she has been lampooned on social media for being out of touch, elitist and narcissistic. genie: thank you for that look at today's headlines. you can always get a closer look at the press review on our website. the addresses france 24.com. you know that just 40 years ago france was still using the gaiety and for the death penalty? more on france's dark history with capital punishment and how it put an end to it in french connections coming up.

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