♪ >> benjamin netanyahu accuses u.s. secretary of state of being warned after john kerry of israel's determination to build settlements on palestinian territory threatens a two state solution to the conflict. turkey says it's reached a cease-fire deal with russia to shut down weapons at midnight local time in syria. the rebels say they know it no such deal. two hours after the french , shedent is a pardon

leaves jail is a free woman after serving three of her tenure prison sentence for killing her abusive husband. welcome back to the "france 24 newsroom in paris. i'm thomas waterhouse. the words of john kerry this wednesday as he warned israel that his bid to build settlements on palestinian land threatens the country's future as a democracy. despite saying that israel should be recognized as a jewish state, john kerry said he hopes his plans for two state in the -- with a share capital in jerusalem would outlive the obama administration. let's take a listen. >> because the student -- the two state solution is the only way to achieve a just and lasting peace between israelis and palestinians. it is the only way to ensure israel's future as a jewish and

democratic state. meanwhile, prime minister netanyahu has hit back at the speech, calling it biased. he accused the u.s. secretary of state of barely touching on the root cause of the conflict. let's take a listen. >> now i must express my deep disappointment with the speech today of john kerry. a speech that was almost as anti-israels the resolution passed last week. peacest instantly about between israelis and palestinians, secretary kerry paid lip service to the unremitting campaign of terrorism that has been waged by the palestinians against the jewish state for nearly a century. thomas: more on this clash of words, let's cross live to tel aviv and speak to a pollster and political analyst, stephen miller.

thanks very much for being with us here on "france 24." have you view john kerry's words? stephen: i tend to think, is not clear what the goal of the speech was and who the audience was. if he was trying to speak to the israeli public, secretary of state john kerry certainly further distanced himself from the israeli public by not addressing palestinian incitement to terror, not addressing palestinian terror and not addressing hamas in a strong way. focusedd over these and in a excessive way on the issue of the settlements combining those far outposts to even jewish communities in jerusalem within the old city. to the israeli public, this really wasn't an effective speech, and because of that, netanyahu can gain points from

.t of course everyone expected netanyahu to respond against the speech, and that's exactly what he did. audience, it's helpful to netanyahu. it's not clear how this speech will help the democratic party in america. in the secretary's last few days, i don't expect strong support from democratic members of congress in america thomas to come out and support what john kerry said today. , what wasy a question the goal of this, if it was not to take another jab at israel in these parting days? it doesas you mention, seem that relations between netanyahu's government and the obama administration are becoming increasingly strained. how might those relations improve or change when donald trump is in the white house? stephen: the relationship between prime minister netanyahu and president obama is notoriously awful.

awful would be a generous way to describe it. i think there are expectations here within israel that the administration of incoming president-elect donald trump will provide a better relationship with prime minister netanyahu. however, i think it is premature to acknowledge or assess any of of positions, president-elect trump. no one in israel and i don't think anyone in america could have presented president obama's policies in the middle east. and president bush and president clinton before him. these are in thing they -- these are things that are not easy to predict. in see,we need to wait but certainly that first meeting between incoming president donald trump and prime minister it, theu, the optics of language around it, will be very important to watch as a starting point to the administration, much as president obama's cairo

speech in 2009 was with the israeli public. stephen miller, thank you very much for that insight. moving on, turkey has -- turkey has announced it is carved out a cease-fire plan with russia. the kremlin has made no comment about reports of an accord and syrian rebel groups say that no official truce has been agreed. the turkish foreign ministers say the documents outlining the truth -- to the troops have been drafted and are ready to be put into place. if successful, it will form the basis of upcoming political negotiations between the assad regime and opposition overseen by russia and turkey. with more on the potential start time of that truce, here is our turkey correspondent, jasper mortimer. thing: it is an uncertain

. according to reports here, it is due to begin at midnight tonight, but the turkish foreign minister indicated uncertainty -- it was not yet the order of the day. he said we are still working on it, it could be in place at any moment. apparently it's being brokered by turkey and russia primarily, but iran is also included, according to turkish diplomats. if the cease-fire takes effect, and if it holds, it will pave the way for all party talks, including the syrian government, capital next month. we should be very cautious about this report. first of all, there are many players on the syrian battlefield, and i think it is unlikely that they could all fall into line on a cease-fire in just a few hours.

secondly, not all of the players on the battlefield answer to turkey, , russia, and iran. the saududi's, thehe qataris, te americans are also supplying various fighting groups. in instance, the rebels southern syria get their , who is from jordan aligned with america. turkey and russia don't have anything to do with those rebels down in southern syria. another thing is that the reports say that terror organizations will be excluded from this deal. well, turkey regards the syrian , and as a terrorist group the al qaeda linked group which now goes by different name in syria, what if that is left out of the negotiations and they go on fighting? will the other groups cease-fire

if they are being fired at? i don't think so. thomas: you telling coast guard has announced that 900 more migrants have been rescued from stricken boats off the coast of libya. the red crescent says 11 bodies have also been recovered. to well overt 180,000 since january, reading -- beating the previous record of 170,000 reported in 2014. discoverya macabre that's become all too common. corpses washed up on the shores of three beaches west of tripoli. local residents alerted the libyan red crescent that lifted them one by one on two pickup trucks, as passersby looked on. corpses we recovered 11 . this number illustrates the difficulties our response team

faces as it continues to recover bodies floating in the water. according to the united nations, more than 5000 migrants died attempting to reach italy's shores this year. is the highest recorded death toll, despite the fact that the number of those crossing the mediterranean went from one million in 2015 to 360,000 in 2016. since former libyan leader muammar gaddafi was overthrown in 2012, the north african country has slid into chaos, with militias vying for power. islamic state has capitalized on the power vacuum in seized territory as well. with 2000 kilometers of coastline, libya has become a haven for human traffickers and for 300,000 migrants hoping a better life. those who die on the route are most often never identified. their journeys end in numbered graves outside libyan towns. woman: here in france, a

who killed her abusive husband has walked free from jail after receiving a presidential pardon. the 69 one was serving a 10 year sentence for shooting her husband dead -- the 69 year old woman said she had endured 20 years of sexual assault and violence at his hands before she opened fire. >> she's been almost three years behind bars. jaclyn sauvage was released from prison just hours after president françois lond -- fronts while hollande was released. immediaten puts an into her detention. she was married to a violent alcoholic who she said raped her and beat her and her three daughters and also abused her son. she was found guilty of murder and sentenced to 10 years in prison in 2014, a verdict which

was upheld on appeal a year later after the state rejected her plea of self-defense. she quickly became a celebrity with feminist groups and celebrities calling for the president to intervene. a petition demanding her release gathered over 400,000 signatures. in was granted partial artan january but the court twice rejected applications for her release. >> i'm very happy, i'm overwhelmed and relieved. has show thatnde he cares about women who have suffered the mastic abuse. he cares about their suffering and he cares about their lives and all those who unfortunately die at the hands of their husbands. feminist groups are calling for the definition of self-defense to be expanded to protect victims of the mystic abuse. -- of domestic abuse. that's all for now,

there's more world news and headlines coming up in about 15 minutes time. to stay tuned. -- do stay tuned. ♪ >> hello and welcome to a special year-end edition of "france 24." it's all about how we get around. , we may assembly line remember 2016 as the year we crossed a new frontier. once again, transportation at the heart of it. back in september, private taxi service uber launch its first experiment in driverless cars. bei-driverless cars, to exact. this was in pittsburgh. there is still a primate behind the wheel, but just for how

long? fast forward to november and a big announcement by volkswagen, eager to wash its hands of its diesel fixing scandal, boldly announcing that in less than a decade it wants to become world leader in electric cars and electro-mobility. is it the downfall of the combustion engine? is it closer than we think? atnoticed a mini revolution the paris auto show behind the usual cocktail of slinky models and big engines. all the talk was about whether anyone really needed to buy one of these boys. various shades of ridesharing have makers and consumers wondering if the car owner is already an endangered species. today in our debate we are talking about the car of tomorrow. with as is the managing director of delphi electronics controls europe. don'tof people necessarily know what delphi is, but your stuff is in almost everybody's car, basically.

>> absolutely. delphi is a large manufacturer of electronics. we do powertrain, electrical wiring, architecture, etc. quick someone who is also around the world is the head of corporate communications for a ridesharing service that started in france. ex exactly, but we are now in 22 countries. we do long-distance carpooling. we could that with passengers heading the same way and they share the ride and the costs associated with it, and they share a good time, too. >> this is the ceo and cofounder of a french startup that connects your car to the cloud. it stands for you go, we connect. we offer advanced communication solutions for the connecticut car. etic car.e kin

>> just how connected are car is is the debate were going into. we're pleased to welcome back , thank youconsultant for being with us. you will cast the analyst i on all of these fast changes. facebook, twitter, , volkswagenoutube faced with the dieselgate scandal that will cost 38 billion euros. volkswagen decided to turn the tables last month in a big good conversation changer, the slashing of 30,000 jobs and plans by the world's largest automaker to go electric in a big way. than 30rket more plug-in models by 2025.

it's a gamble, electric vehicles currently make up 1% of vehicles sold. going to deliver the goods? we've seen changes in the last couple of years. you could do electric cars as kind of a marketing tool. today with strong inflation in not should they have to, it's what they need to comply. they have to sell one car out of four electric. that will be the case for most manufacturers. quick so one out of four, will it be a money winner for them? >> the time being, electric cars today are 1% of global sales, because it is hard to compete with traditional cars. the only way the electric car

will be successful is if you reduce the advantage of the traditional car. i will give you an example. take norway. in norway, one car out of three is electric. why? because a conventional car is , sog to be 100% taxed eventually for the customer it is cheaper. >> so it is cheaper, but only because of course it measures. >> a lot of countries are taking those measures. germany, by 2030, no more diesel and gasoline cars. it is a strong industry strategy and manufactures now have to comply. they have to do the job. soyou are based in germany, are the germans making this conversion because it is the

law, or because it makes good business sense? >> it is both. and also looking globally outside of europe. fuelnited states, it is economy they are regulating. it is clear that every major automaker that once to sell around the world has to do some level of electrification. it doesn't define if it is a full battery hybrid, there is a continuum of different technologies that will be launched to make this more effective. delphi and others are investing in this. it is an intermediate cost way to get into the electrification market in terms of increasing fuel economy by 15%, reducing co2 emissions by 15%, but just having higher voltage in the car, for example. you are saying you are still troubleshooting what the right specifications will be, or you know what you are doing and it's time to move ahead?

>> we know what we're doing. the automakers are trying to solve a careful equation going out for the next 18 years. what equals the right overall compliance to the various co2 or fuel economy requirements? that's where the industry is going. from a technology standpoint, the technology is already here. it's just a matter of bringing the cost down. a typical electric vehicle, what you're paying for the on cost to get that technology clearly is something that is affecting the ability of normal consumers to afford this. going forward, if you think about how the costs are already coming down, think about the car shows, a very much everybody is showing these models. i think you're really going to see that this market is going to take off. >> what will be the tipping point? >> let's use 20 between five as a clear point. tell me if you would agree with

this statistic. 10% of cars by 2025 will be equipped. >> according to a study, they say one in five cars by 2025. does that seem plausible? include int you that. if you include only electric vehicles -- >> they are saying that by that time, we will have hybrids and rechargeables. hybrids and chargeable hybrids together will make up more cars on the road than gas and diesel. >> aloe be able to comment, but there is some decision in europe and the u.s. about one car out of four which has to be electric, and that's -- not just hybrid, but some kind of

electrification where you can plug in the car. again, there's a couple of roadblocks i want to mention for electric cars. the first one is an electric car for your day-to-day trips is fantastic, but the day need to travel 500 kilometers, you have an issue, because of the battery size. even if you have the battery, you need to be able to charge it, and that is not possible as of now. lastly german manufactures announced plans for a charging network across europe, with 400 stations by 2020. we will need that for people to have electric cars. otherwise it will only be one they can use during the week and they will still need a diesel or gasoline is one for longer trips. the other problem about electric cars is that we're switching lithium to metal.

that's not addressing the problem. >> i'm talking about what is in the battery. >> but talking about how you power the car. greg's as you mention, it's important because some studies have been done, if take a regular car, the lifecycle of the car, if you compare a regular car with an electric car today, it's exactly the same. 40% of electricity in the world comes from coal. so it doesn't make any difference on co2 emissions. >> in a previous life you worked on renewables and how energy is changing. thus the prospect of an electric car excite you? >> if we managed to solve the many challenges that have been raised around the title, of course it's very exciting -- that of an raised around the table. for us it's still about filling into cars, filling 50 seats.

the cost of an electric vehicle would reduce the cost of petrol, obviously, since there wouldn't be any. you have to take all the cost into account of owning a car. therefore there will still be very much of a financial interest for people to share their rights. if you look at the most important impact which is on the environment, there still seems to be some challenges that need to be addressed before this can really be considered a sustainable solution. france, what is the religion of authorities? ministerrs back the was talking about putting these plug-ins and every gas station. that in reality, what is going on? the byace an issue about

ability the charging station. the -- you have different requirements in different countries. , i would say it's under development. it took much longer than expected. that is a reason why it's -- you have different requirements in different countries. apartment, youan might not have access to a charging station, which is in issue. situation, you could link the charging station with communication. for instance want to download dos or if you want to

something like that, it requires communication. >> the hybrids are growing so fast that you have to wonder, will this conversation about electric cars, in a way, be hybrids -- be moot if become the norm? >> it's a good way to go to full electric vehicles. it saves the missions and it helps to develop the technology. in the end, it will be a fully youtric be nickel p >> do agree that hybrids are just a means to an end, which are electric cars eventually? >> i think you will still see hybrid technology for many years to come. there is still the anxiety issue that consumers have. they want to know that they can destination without

having to rely on a charging network. there is still a delay when you have to park your car in a charging station and wait for the car to be charged. a really believe that you are still also going to see internal combustion engines. diesel still has a great place in the market. the technology in terms of fueling emissions and economy is still strong. we are heavily investing in improvements in just the basic technology, but the progression in hybrids from 48 volts to the hybrid approach where you don't have the range anxiety issue because you have an engine to charge the

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