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fire and block the engine -- the entrance near paris. police fired tear gas. >> chancing altogether, prison guards faced up against the police. they are protesting working editions inside the notorious prison. while the guards blocked the entrance, police used tear gas to try to disperse the crowd. >> we are not afraid of police. we want people to know what is going on in french presence. by an protest was sparked
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attack on six prison guards last thursday. guards say the prison's overcrowded and working conditions are unsafe. >> i've seen violence increased enormously. before, there was a kind of respect. now it is much less. today we were attacked for absolutely nothing. we are inviting all doesn't want to come to come and see our working conditions in prison for inmates and workers. previouss of the night's clashes could be seen as people arrive for visiting hours at the prison. some of the inmates family members backed up the guards claims of overcrowding. >> for the past year there have been four in the cell instead of three. >> it's a disaster, it's unmanageable. >> prison guards are demanding a meeting with the unions and senior management to address their concerns. businesst's get the
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news, kate moody is back in the studio. starting with the united airlines story, the passenger removed.orcibly the company share price has been affected as well. were getting more than unqualified apology from the ceo , saying i want you to know we take full responsibility and we will work to make it right. this is a change from what we heard earlier in the day. that it's hard to separate apology from what we've seen to the share price and the backlash of bad publicity is been receiving. share prices paring back from earlier sharp losses, down as much as 6% overnight, 3% as the markets open for trading. , sparked by.6% now the incident on sunday evening after footage of a passenger being dragged out of his seat and off the plane from the
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flight from chicago to louisville. you can see the ratather dramatc image there. he was taken to the hospital and photo show his face battered and bleeding. chinese users have been particularly outraged as it's being portrayed as a case of racial discrimination against the passenger who appears to have been of asian origin. the airline itself did little to calm the uproar in the first 24 hours or so. it issued a rather loop warm apology saying the man was belligerent. a different tone now, the result of analyst saying overbooking is a common practice for major airlines. the investor relations department of the airline will clearly be pulling their hair out in the context of recent
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events, but it's just in the , and allan industry airlines, not just this particular one, although they handled this very badly. all airlines routinely try to overbook their airlines because they assume there'll normally be a number of people who will book and not turn up. kate: the transport sector has been weighed down by united's problems, the dow jones dropping about 100 points earlier in the session. major indices all down in the red although the dow has paired that some with earlier losses. the volatility index has risen this tuesday, apparently connected to geopolitical concerns as the u.s. secretary of state begins talks in moscow. gold has gained strongly this session. a mixed close in europe, the dax losing a half percentage point
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at the end of its session. president donald trump has claimed that 600,000 jobs have been created in the u.s. since he took office in january. the white house is not provided data to back up the claim of job creation. surveys indicate more than 500,000 jobs have been added credits half of the hiring to the outgoing obama administration. tally under president trump is perhaps closer to 300,000. >> my administration has already taken historic action to unleash job creation. we've signed dozens of bills and executive actions to reduce federal overreach and expand arrested reduction. this is just the beginning. were going to reduce taxes,
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eliminate wasteful regulations, which was already done, probably 25%. take a look at dodd-frank, the bankers in the room will be very happy because were doing a major streamlining and perhaps elimination replacing it with something else. filed itsiba has long-awaited quarterly results but without the green light from its auditors. its nuclear new file for bankruptcy protection and could be even deeper than to shiva has yet admitted. it's raising questions about the company's future viability. alexander al qaeda has more. --a japanese giant balancing alexander has more. results showed a net loss equivalent to $4.8 u.s. from april to december. the second post explains the independent auditors still investigating the figures relating to the company's nuclear business which called
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for bankruptcy last month. in short, nobody can do it -- can guarantee that the figures given are accurate. and ontog timely figures is key. the president of to shiva is fighting to prevent his company from being delisted from the tokyo stock exchange. >> according to the rules of listing, if the tokyo stock exchange decides to do list the company, it is obvious that it thinks it will threaten the stability of the market. if it's not delisted immediately. so we would like to make our utmost effort to avoid delisting. >> to shiva's share price rose 87% during 2016 but the gains were almost entirely wiped out by the end of the year. multibillion dollar write-down triggered one of the worst ever share declines for a major japanese company. the taiwan-based tech firm foxconn has termed to shiva a
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potential lifeline, by offering billions for the chips business, but the sale would have to be approved japanese regulators. kate: some of the other business headlines, a european telecom company has filed papers to begin trading shares of its u.s. branch on wall street. another $1raise billion. french billionaire has been expanding his region recent years. apples main parts suppliers has filed a counter suit against it in u.s. court saying the iphone maker breached their agreement. in january, apple accuse qualcomm of overcharging for the modem chip that connects its phones and ipads to cellular
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networks. they been accused of maintaining a monopoly over the chip business. royal dutch shell has admitted for the first time that new sump it's money would be funneled to a corrupt company as it tried to gain access to an oil field in nigeria. it comes after the email show that shell had negotiated with the former oil minister who is convicted of money laundering in a second case. shell and its italian partner paid the nigerian government in 2011 for an expiration license. date knowledge it was aware of the involvement. thank you very much, kate moody.
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04/11/17 04/11/17 [captioning made possible by democracy now!] amy: from pacifica, this is democracy now! to beeral steps are taken. the first of which will be the declaration of a state of emergency after the necessary legal and c constitutional procedures are comomplete, , r three momonths in egypypt. amy: egyptian president sisi declares a state of emergency after a pair of bombings on palm sunday killed 49 people, injuring over 100.

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