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you are watching france 24. 60 minutes live. these are the headlines. donald trump has just flown into israel. he will be sitting down with prime minister benjamin net net mahmoud abbas on the trip to srael and occupied palestinian territories. campaigning officially starts in next month's or parliamentary elections. emmanuel macron needs to get a to be able to make good on his reforms.
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the protests in venezuela take another violent turn as a is attacked by a mob and set on fire. u.s. president donald trump is of theel the latest stop first foreign trip since taking office. he touched down on air force one thought to be the first direct flight from saudi arabia to israel. by the israeli prime minister before walking down the red carpet with both of their wives. here is more of what they had to arrival.ump's >> we have before us a rare to bring security and stability and peace to this
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its people o defeating terrorism and creating of harmony, prosperity and peace. there can only get working together. there is no other way. mr. president, mr. prime minister, i look forward to closely with both of you during my stay. mr. president, israel shares the commitment to peace you yesterday. we have already made peace with egypt and jordan. israel's hand is extended to eace, in peace, to all of our neighbors including the palestinians. a genuine e seek is and durable one in which the recognized, is security remains in israel's hands, and the conflict ends once and for all.
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donald trump will sit down eparately with the israeli and palestinian leaders trying to reach the ultimate deal, peace east.e middle to talk more we bring in our juvenile.dent in how likely is it that donald through where no other u.s. leader has so far? >> that is the question that asking.e here is because he is a wild card and he is unpredictable both carefully.stepping you don't hear criticism either rom the palestinian leader or israeli leader. they are taking care in how they deal with him and no matter what says. so at the moment things look good. surround him who say they are not likely to be a hree-way meeting between the two leaders and donald trump this time and that there's not
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going to be any huge announcement. what they are doing is confidence building measures sking both to take steps they may not want to and further down the line in a couple of weeks, to set up y will try some meeting. but as to whether that will lead talking about re peace and peace are not the same thing particularly not here. >> let's talk more about benjamin netanyahu who has to be a very long time standing in connection to a president.at as u.s. is donald trump exactly what he was hoping for? say be careful what you wish for. donald trump on the campaign he was s exactly what hoping for. he promised to move the u.s. his first task would be to move the u.s. embassy from tel aviv to juvenile. that hasn't happened yet and is unlikely to happen during this visit, we are told. spoke what the right wing in
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israel's parliament thought and thought is they would have freedom to build in ewish settlements in the west bank. that has been curtailed by a president est from trump. so the new president trump is tarting to sound like the old democrat and republican dministrations so he is not exactly what they hoped for and the nk you can say despite warm welcome and it was a warm welcome state ceremony at the you can see nervousness n israel's right wing government because is not exactly what they hoped for. >> talk us through donald program over the next few days, the symbol inch of the symbolism of the places he will go. symbolic and worrisome is this afternoon. and doing time off something private. he's going to the old city of
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the historic religious sites. he will visit the church of the is believe the jesus was crucified and resurrected and then he is going theliest site for jews western wall. that the is a security night player for anyone following him americans because the -- to get to both the old warren of natural yale w -- alleyways and it is hard to their homes soom it is a security nightmare and -- american officials said they didn't want any israeli prime including the minister to accompany him to the western wall. that was seen as a bit of a slap in the face but they didn't kphpblt on it public -- comment on it publicly. it is a private and complicated visit from a
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security point of view. >> we will check back in with you throughout the day to get latest on donald trump's trip to israel today. is ready to ays it start mass producing a new capable of missile reaching japan. itt is after they test fired sunday and korea says it is an the policies of president trump. he u.s., south korea and japan have quickly condemned the move. protests in venezuela have taken another violent turn. killed in ave been weeks of demonstrations against the government. protester was attacked by a mob and set on fire. that story we go there. orlando was admitted to hospital with first and second
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on 80% of his body. a crowd of about 100 opposition him, rters surrounded doused him in petrol and set him him of after accusing being a thief. the president says he was attack pro-government. > they hit him and nearly lynched him because somebody shouted out opposition. is that what we call democracy? however will these people go? not the first one they set on fire and not the first one they have killed. this is the latest in a series of violent attacks in venezuela 50 days of mass protests. opposition activist was shot sunday bringing the -- bringing the total killed to 48. undreds have been injured and over 2,000 have been detained.
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its worst s facing economic crisis in decades with inflation expected to reach a stagg staggering 720% this year according to the i.m.f. there have been shortages of food and medicine. antigovernment supporters have elections early saying the president has mismanaged the economy. accused the opposition of trying to mount a coup and down s he won't step before the term ends in 2019. come back to france where campaigning has officially tarted for next month's parliamentary elections. the newly elected french emmanuel macron needs a majority to make good on his reforms. >> the prime minister is under pressure pressure. his political future hinges on
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outcome of the upcoming legislative elections. interview he said i would campaign for emmanuel macro macron's party leaving the right in disarray. it have joined the government and right wing alliance with macron is out of the question. left is clearly divided between those who backed who say his ose government is too right wing. is saying president neither right nor left but when that is the case there is no wing and france does need a left wing. the far right national front 577 vie for seats in all constituencies. he party's president is candidate in the northern town.
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>> i feel that this should be the greatest number of national m.p.'s possible. my place is to lead my troops as have always done. candidates left has in every constituency. will be running for m.p. in marseille. wave of to ride on the the electoral success winning close to 20% of the vote in the round of the presidential election. france 24 weago on aired the testimony of several men from chechnya who escaped the oppression of the his regime. since then three french gay and lodgeed a ociations complaint with the criminal court for general know site -- general side r --
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struggling tot is get them visas. in this report our correspondent managed to get the latest on the difficult situation facing these victims. this person a ed month ago but now he's unable to speak to us. tortured in a secret prison by he fledge chechnya -- led chechnya hoping he could quickly leave russia. et he and others are still in hiding while they wait for visas. every day we spend here is torture and suffering for us. you are scared without even going outside. you think they will knock on door or break it down at any moment. the longer we stay here the more time those looking for us have
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to find us. >> most of them are running from their own families who were told orientation by forces. >> my older brother said he is and he's not the only one. my father spoke to me, too. heard the time it takes me to find you is the time that you live.still to espite the imminent danger and strong international solidarity the russian n.g.o. helping 45 has only managed to obtain three visas so far. > some are in the hospital and others have other illnesses. each time i speak to them they ask what is happening with there country or that country. they are waiting and hoping and meet their hopes. it is very difficult for me.
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>> officially france says it is illing to consider the requests. the lgbt network puts the help to speed up procedures. >> let's look at our business with will. you are going to start with an that isional trade deal set to move forward without the united states. >> right. 11 re expecting the remaining countries of the trans set to partnership are reset the deal. world's third largest u.s. but without the changed their minds thanks it new zealand's efforts. didn't want to leave empty landed after years of negotiation. country e unity in the and great desire to work together to come to an agreement
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the people of our countries and other countries to if they can meet the high standards. t.p.p. 11 countries making the decision to move forward with the deal in the rhetoric otectionist out of washington. in january donald trump called and said a disaster it would hurt u.s. manufacturing. t.p.p. 11 are moving forward still no change from washington. listen. >> made the decision and i agree to negotiate bilateral are bieror the united states multilateral and after reviewing the t.p.p. was not in the interest of the united states. but that by no means means that e are turning our back on the other but perhaps the opposite. discussing donald trump with this trade deal and a his f investors watching
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first foreign trip. markets in europe are mixed only the ft-si in the green and others in the reds. c.a.c. flat moments ago in the d.a.x. down furt and ft-si up in the green. chemical stocks doing well on a major merger. >> the e.u. finance ministers to discuss whether to unlock the next bailout hroepblgs for greece.- loans for >> they have received some 260 from international creditors. in change greece has had to go austerity nful measures leaving them facing kyrocketing unemployment and deteriorating living. we have more. the e.u. kept bailing greece out forever? finance minister is [inaudible].s
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>> this debasement of democratic what you get when you have seven years of a great has been which constantly forced by the austerity and further toxic loans which are the problem, l of not the solution. >> since the economy crashed 260 e has received about billion euros from bailout debts.ms to help pay back the eurozone finance ministers next t to discuss the round. it is set to cut spending austerity measures. thursday parliament approved the late latest. hasobody is denying, no one any doubt that the agreement has indicts. does open a path in front of us. > despite the money greece is
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back in session. more than a quarter of the work and is out of families have less money to spend. even hrow the loans -- though the loans help the avoid debt.lt they are more in it is now almost 180% of g.d.p. latest round of austerity has drawn protests appear and -- and strikes. >> will some other countries apart by war hope the private sector can help them. major themes at the world economic forum in jordan. politicians and business people gathered and in yemen where the unemployment 50% some say it is only the private sector that can lead to growth. the world economic forum in jordan this week hopes to steer
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stagnant economy in the africa to and north the digital future. can't find -- you something that can help you start-up. building the electricity and internet connection but you can syrian people have some solutions for everything. they want to tackle youth unemployment which is around 30%. offering such needed service, the young businessman ays he struggled to find investments due to the ongoing conflict in yemen. difficulties are leading businesses are not known because of the situation in the country. so, the yemeni youth started to
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a private project and created many jobs and opportunities. of difficulties they face in getting funds or investors.elp from four keyrum identified challenges they will have to face to succeed. define the economy, reduce public intervention in markets, providing opportunities to young and improving innovation. >> let's take a look at other business news. plan they ough the cut 600 jobs the biggest in two decades. the hong kong flag slip carrier tickets d by cheaper and increased competition from china.and mark fields is out at ford c.e.o. 40% and theyropped have yet to make a statement but
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failing der pressuror to expand the core business. he will be replaced by jim hackett. good news from portugal six years after the bailout the breaching no longer budgetary rules. well below the 3% limit and only three are in the threshold.hat greece, france and spain. we will wrap up with something a little different in aris and other areas the emergence of cats cafes but san francisco is going in a direction. >> no doubt some wonder if this too far. gone bit a new pop-up in the san the rato dungeon called cafe two days in july people can pay $50 per person including all can drink coffee with the and main attraction the san francisco dungien.
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worn that the fare is either locally grown nor sustainable but i imagine it is organic. >> no, thank you for that. ow it is time for the press review. let's look at what the papers with allison.ng >> we will start in israel where hey are gearing up for the arrival of donald trump. as you can imagine a lot of rolling out the press version of the red carpet. post ande the juvenile arrives ine is trump amid great expectation. president moves the u.s. embassy to juvenile. trump said he wanted to move it he's gone back on that and it is a point of contention
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countries and the editorial calls for him to make good on the promise and embassy to juvenile. the juvenile post commends the to ident for his decision visit the western wall which previous u.s. presidents will do it use they consider contested territory. he will be lucky if he can get a as pse of the wall because you see in this cartoon he's going to be surrounded by quite security. israel is deplaying 10,000 police officers for -- deploying police officers for the crowd. the left wing paper has a great expectation. they want to see progress on a peace deal. their editorial is a message to the government about the visit aying they should harness his determination and draft a deal that with involve two states. as the paper points out trump has demonstrated he doesn't deal care what a final looks like as long as there's a deal. that could lead to lots of upset
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as we see in takar don't know. we have him telling the leaders move the embassy to juvenile and western wall to tell investigative and the first abbas and the second upsets netanyahu. >> you have reaction from the yesterday. language bic colleagues pulled some out p paper who writes about the change in tone that a lot of about saying trump is transformed into a creature f tolerance but the conference won't be the start of peace in the middle east but a war sunni and shiite muslims d iran. he villainize ed times creates an interesting
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juxtaposition with the gathering saudi arabia and elections that happened in iran and points out as trump was attacking iran there was a generation of young iranians who of celebrating the victory the person who represents change and open up toward the west. in france it is the start of the ampaign for pachallmentry ebs -- parliamentary elections. >> a lot of people call this the that election and this campaign is the one not to this frontcording to page. there are 20 days until the explained and as is the stakes are high for everyone. parties on the far left and right are hoping to hang on what they carved out in the presidential election. traditional parties are just and the neway alive president emmanuel macron is hoping to win a majority for his and all the little -- there's a lot of political
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rossover in the government leading to questions about where and they plan are to support the government's agenda. confusing for e voters as we see in this cartoon. you see a man looking at posters and said i will supports he one that macron but that person says which one. >> single people in china are pressure to get married but not coming from the people you might expect. is coming from their employers which is surprising. single men is f seen as social inability and ommunist youth league has guidelines to help them find partners. chinese paper global times report people have been media of g on social being forced to attend mass threatenedthings and by employers to face repercussions if they don't go.
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