>> french authorities are declaring it mission accomplished in calais. they say the so-called jungle migrant camp has been empty with bused awayf people to relocation centers across the country. but according to our reporters, some people are still in the camp, even as the bulldozers prepare to move in. catherine norrison trent has this report. at thene: i'm standing

edge of the camp known as the jungle and as you can see behind me, there are lots of people milling around behind me. i saw them walking between the tent, and there are definitely people still inside the jungle tonight. the local official there is somewhat come back from their word earlier on today saying they will be able to empty it by the end of tonight. kind of retracting the statement from a little earlier saying there were no migrants in the jungle because it is clearly not the case. people earlier said they intended to stay there until the bitter end, they did not intend to get on the buses that are taking people to reception centers across france. happenshave to see what if they stick to their guns and refused to go. the authorities are saying the end of the jungle is looming very fast and the reception center processing, the migrants being taken away, will close tonight and they will be emptying this camp.

we will have to wait and see what that turns out to be in action. ago to theshort time head of one of the biggest local charities working here. there are he believes still around 1000 people here at the moment. laura: the french government has been sharply criticized over what has been called a disorganized and rushed approach to the evacuations, particularly when it comes to dealing with teenagers and children. younger: hundreds of people lined up for interviews that would decide there eight. some pushed against barriers. volunteers said to be using unnecessary force as they push them back. they've all been standing in the crowd since 4:00 this morning. they were here yesterday and

sent away without registration. they have now come back to line up again. >> authorities estimate 1300 teenagers and refugees were in the camp. some have been moved to a temporary shelter to be processed. doctors without borders have describe the methods used as their fate hangs on one person's estimate of their age. it says it has stopped telling young people to go there. save the children believe there are hundreds who have been unable to register for shelter and are now left to their own devices. me. they just look at this is not the best way to check our age. we must leave the jungle.

we will go in illegally by road, by truck, to go to the u.k.. >> over 200 have been sent to the u.k. since last week. the french interior minister said all unaccompanied minors with proven family links in britain will eventually be transferred and that london had promised to review all the cases where it is in the child's interest. inislamic state fighters mosul are shaving their beards and preparing to flee, according to the latest report from residents still inside the city. troops to the south has been held up. air and ong from the the ground. about 90 villages and towns have been retaken so far in the mosul offensive, say iraqi military

officials. as they and the kurdish peshmerga bit closer to the village itself, the mission gets more and more delicate. >> we are cleansing the villages, one step at a time, because some of the villages still have civilians in them, which makes our job more difficult. >> the battle continues on multiple fronts. in the northeast, the kurds have more or less in circle one town. the iraqi forces have been held up by the jihadists to the south, but to the east, they are less than 10 kilometers from the city's outskirts. iraqi special forces cleared this village on wednesday. they and were relieved their children were safe, but said others have not been so lucky. >> my brother was killed by the islamic state group because he wanted to join the iraqi security forces. they took a lot of people.

they carry them in pickup trucks and i have no idea what their fate will be. >> as they were driven away to a safe distance, a convoy of around 500 iraqi federal police move toward the front to the east of mosul to provide reinforcements to the ongoing operation. police units are said to be among the first to introduce city itself. laura: thousands of civilians have been displaced by the it isng around mosul, and not just there. our reporter has been meeting with those fleeing to other towns and cities. here is his report. reporter: we are at a refugee camp close to another area that the islamic state group still controls. ,hile all eyes are on mosul that is not the only place in iraq that they are still in control of.

it was always thought that the two forces would try and take the area before they moved on to mosul, but they simply bypassed it. this is the area from which we saw fighters mount an assault on a kook and opening up -- on kirkuk, and it led people to flee this area. we met some of those recently displaced people and what we saw in the camp is the way they are very suspicious of men coming out of these areas, suspicious they may have been islamic state group fighters, so they have separated them from their families and are keeping them behind market wire. the numbers that are being estimated of people fleeing, were talking about hundreds of thousands of people returning to the kurdish areas and the

peshmerga are very system wishes of them -- they're very system wishes of them -- very suspicious of them. for mosulh the battle still very much under way, world powers are planning for another offensive in raqqa. defensehe british secretary speaking earlier. that isis an arab city, the first thing we have to understand, it has to be liberated by a force that is essentially arab, that has a substantial arab element to it, otherwise deliberation will not be welcomed by the people of raqqa. so it is important that it is sufficiently strong but also sufficiently arab.

laura: at least 26 people have been killed in russian provinces in a syrian this week and most of the victims were schoolchildren. claimed they were hit while waiting outside a school. by syrianuently hit forces. turkish police in a southeastern city used tear gas to disperse protest against the arrest of two politicians in the kurdish stronghold. they denied being pkk sympathizers and say they are working to stop all out war. our correspondent has more. basically accused of

supporting the pkk, making speeches in support of the pkk theallowing them to use office of municipal facilities, and they are accused of incitement to violence. the latest we've just heard is that they will be detained for five days. if you could just allow me to make a personal note here, i've had a press breakfast with her, i've had a long interview with her with one other journalists and i have listened to her speech of a kurdish new year celebration in march. she does not strike me as being a militant. she strikes me as being somebody who is trying to improve things and who is leading the kurds in a peaceful direction. in every spec, she's the kind of kurdish leader who the government should want to have. laura: hundreds of thousands

protesting in venezuela, demanding the president step down. he recently overruled the referendum to remove him from power and has been staging a rally of his own. he has also just won an endorsement from the army. venezuela's opposition taking to the streets once again. as the standoff deepens with the country's authorities. the demonstration comes a day hold aongress voted to replace theo try to president. >> this is a narco terrorist government that wants to see jet the country to hunger and terror. but we the people of venezuela had taken to the streets so that the whole world can see we are

against them. i feel this is the beginning of a change. change is coming. people around us are motivated and eager to make this happen. the move is nothing short of a army to cu. coup.arliamentary >> why did they refuse dialogue? ,ecause over in north america the outgoing government of barack obama has ordered to said venezuela ablaze and to put an end to any dialogue. >> the crisis has prompted intervention. has denounced anything between the opposition and the government. laura: french interior minister has pledged additional euros to

help keep police officers save. with whatre fed up they see as a lack of protection. two officers were recently seriously injured when a patrol car was firebombed. it's been 10 days of protest with no solution in sight. spontaneous demonstrations by police have been popping up across france. it all started on the night of october 17. understaffed and ilich whipped -- ill-equipped, a group of police officers to site to make their grievances public. thataccused authorities of providing necessary resources to do their jobs. tensions hit a boiling point after a police car was set on fire in a paris suburb earlier this month, critically injuring two officers. they carry out long investigations of 6-8 months, they take risks and make arrests

, but six months later they realize they had to the same people all over again. police have been calling for a change in the way the judiciary hands out senate that demand is likely to go unheard. >> in france, police officers have the right to use a firearm only if there is direct danger, meaning if they are shot at or someone is shooting at other people. a firearmthey can use to stop the shooting or defend themselves, but they cannot open fire on someone who is escaping from them. >> so far none of the spontaneous gatherings have received the backing from police unions even though union representatives are pleased they have been heard. police in the country say they have been stretched too thin.

they hope the meeting between union representatives and the french president will yield some results after they've been left with little choice but to break with tradition and take to the streets. year may be just around the corner but france is engaged in a bout of nostalgia as a late. mitterand ruled france from 1981-1995 and was the country's longest serving leader. he also had a colorful private life. he had a long-term lover and a daughter from that relationship. recently his letters were published. i'm joined by david bell, a professor of french politics and the author of a political by auger of matter and -- a political biography of

mitterand. >> mitterrand had this extraordinary ability to bring parts of the left coalition together which at the time looked like a formidable stretch from the communist party right across to the left radicals. unfortunately, that has not hollande.r françois lon laura: what made him such a successful politician? his abilityt spirit to drag himself up off the floor when he had been knocked down several times was quite extraordinary. there are a few politicians who are like that. nixonght think of richard or perhaps more favorably, president johnson in the united states. these great figures have this

ability to pull themselves off the campus and go at it for another few rounds. it is quite extraordinary. as you say, it's a different age today. politicians today face enormous scrutiny from the media come the 24 hour rolling tv channels and the intrusive press. the french were not at all mitterrand's extramarital affairs, were they? , even ining about it america, things are much more discreet. if you think about president america, his affairs were just not really published in the press. the press kept a respectable distance on these matters. i don't think it is very different in france. again, times are different. in paris the same time margaret thatcher was the prime minister in the u.k.

they both have enduring but very different legacies. >> we're still living like that in mitterand's europe. the position he took at the end of the cold war. legacy andressive people will be living with that for the next 10 or 20 years, 30 years. who can say? laura: a poll came out yesterday approvalat hollande's ratings are at around 4%. what would mitterand say about that? >> to pull yourself back up from such a low position will require political astuteness, which so far the current president has not shown. it may still be possible, who

can say? that is very different from , because he's ratings never plummeted quite like that. laura: thank you very much indeed. you can be short, tall, fat, or thin, but killer heels are a must if you want to take part in this, the hugely competitive drag queen race in washington dc. there was something of a political flavor this year. there were some hillary clinton and donald trump look-alikes. there you go. >> it was the event of the season. economick about inequality.

it's basically going to take 170 years before women around the world are earning the same as their male counterparts. grexit important to know that it's not just about payee theity, it's also about number of women in the government -- in a government cabinet or the number of women e-mail executives, so a number of different factors in play. on average, women around the world have access to just 59% of the economic advantages that men have. that does include things like pay and employment opportunities. last year they said the gap would be closed by the year 2133 but it has noticed a dramatic slowdown in progress and has 2186.d the forecast to u.k.e felt the 17th, the

20, and the united states only 45th. a closer look at the report and what it means. women have left work early, protesting the gender pay gap. women in iceland earn on average 40% less than men, meaning they effectively work for free after 2:38. they say that women apply for lower paid jobs, that they chose themselves, that they are free, that no woman chooses to be oppressed. it iceland took the top spot in a study on gender equality released this week by the world economic forum, a survey that took into account education, health, economic opportunity, and political empowerment. >> with women being one half of the world's talent, there is a clear moral case that they should have equal access to earning opportunities and

political representation. this is just extremely important for economies. that talent needs to be integrated into the work place. it needs to be unleashed in a way that it isn't currently. next the report states that won't reachn economic equality until the year 2186. only 54% of working age women participate in the labor force and overall they earn much less. on average, about half as much as men. the median annual salary for women is around 10,000 euros. for men, it's about 18,000. the gender gap has widened over the past four years. at 59%, it's now at levels last seen during the financial crisis of 2008. >> the state of the free trade deal between the european union and canada remains unclear as well jim continues negotiations

continues belgium negotiations. quoting a diplomatic source who says a breakthrough is possible and that belgian leaders have resolved a number of issues. it's a question of whether the paperwork can be pushed through the proper channels fast enough for a planned signing ceremony to go on on thursday. >> if you cannot make the taste for free trade with a country like canada, a close friend and there are obvious consequences for europe's global position. it is too early to go there yet. >> let's check in on the markets

now, lots of earnings coming in around the world. lloyds said its net profits has slumped by more than two thirds after the bank set aside another 1.1 billion euros to cover cost in the selling of english protection insurance. a mixed session on wall street. the dow jones creeping above the flatline. the nasdaq still way down heavily in part by apple who shares have fallen 2.6% after sales of its flagship iphone fell for the third quarter in a row. salt profitsne surge in the third quarter aided by a fall in the value of pounds sterling. jumped 23% in the three months leading up to september.

shares of boeing -- it raised target.-end airbus said profit fell by 21% despite currency changes in production delays. also cutting jobs from its helicopter division. toyota has announced a recall of 5.8 million cars around the world for potentially faulty airbag in players -- insulators made by contact -- made by takata. toyota said the latest recall rings 23.1 million total recall of cars. it's usually the bosses who are but g 20melight

leaders are being wined and dined. it's an exclusive society that translates to the bosses chefs club. they have met every years a group since 1977. this is the first year india is playing host. the chefs get together to informationas and about their bosses' tastes. everything.ns of course they have different opinions and don't always agree with each other, but at least we play a part in bringing them together around the table. >> there's always an element of surprise. it's like you want to surprise them every time so they don't get bored with your route. >> that have a special hotline known as the blue telephone for state visits and that kind of

thing. laura: thank you very much, kate moody. stay with us. this is "france 24."

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