back to france twenty four you watching life compariso. on a disk. it's nine pm in the fan but in the headlines our. the islamic state group has been defeated in mosul the official declaration of victory made by iraq's prime minister haidar al abadi. donald trumps of the junior defends his decision to meet with a russian lawyer during the election campaign. the president's eldest son the brushing off the significance of the meeting in a tweet. saying it went nowhere but he had to liste. wned china's best known political prisoner is in critical condition. beijing or booting out allowing sixty one year old do each show both to leave the country. to seek treatment for late stage liver cancer

overseas . formal declaration. iraq's prime minister has announced the islamic state group has been defeated in mosul. the operation to kick the jihadists outlasted almost nine months. but even with the islamic state group defeated iraq's army will still have work to do. they will need to carry out clearing operations to root out sleeper cells and diffuse a booby traps. and defiling of jahrom one decide i don't know victory today is a victory over obscurantism walk brutality and terrorism. and i announce from here to the entire world the end failure and collapse of the infamous and terrorist islamic state burnett. went out a hybrid

data sheet either on the body speaking there early enough for more here's our correspondent simona fulton reporting from arable. the government's declaration of victory in the battle for mostly is an important moment for iraq. but the retaking of iraq's second largest city has come at a huge cost to its population the level of destruction in parts of the city has been compared to world war two. civilians have spend months caught up in crossfire pounded by both coalition airstrikes on one hand and used as human shields by the jihadists on the other. the civilian death toll remains unknown earlier today i spoke to the country director of the ngo oxfam. award of the deep and potentially long lasting impact on civilians. what we see is people with nothing highly come occurrence living on that i suspect has been the scene? of the level of violence have been going through. plus not having full of no hiding what the not having anything specially for the children and women has been terrible. on top of addressing the immediate humanitarian needs

of the displaced the government also faces the challenge of dealing with the root causes of the crisis. the sunni population also has long felt abandoned by the shiite led government in baghdad. which is fueled support for the terror grou. we don't want ice just come back who have to close that gap. and we close to compromise in either case in providing the means and the minimum service providing child. good government governance for the people he wouldn't do that has. millions will be needed to rebuild muscle and to address these needs. humanitarian agencies also worry that with the highest group dislodged from urban centers. the jihadists would resort to asymmetric warfar. suicide bombings and they injuring the delivery of aid and the greater muscle area. simona fulton reporting there from avvo next the seventh round of un sponsored peace talks to end the six year conflict in syria is underway. in geneva there is little expectation for breakthrough to end the war that has killed over three hundred twenty

thousand people. the talks are taking place after a ceasefire in three provinces in southern syria went into effect on sunday. the opposition insist that bashar al assad a marxist step down. but the government says assad's fate is not up for discussion. for more here's our correspondent john observer closer supporting from geneva. i new round of peace talks began monday in geneva with the un special envoy mister stefan that mistura. starting the talks on a more optimistic note than we've seen in previous rounds and he had good reasons to be a bit upbeat. following the major breakthrough on the sidelines of the g. twenty leave a summit in hamburg when us president donald trump and his russian counterpart. vladimir putin brokered an agreement on that we can which led to a new ceasefire in the southwest of syria in three key provinces. this is impetus for mister de mistura because every time there's been some the escalation on the ground

there's been positive movement in the geneva process and vice versa. when escalation in hostilities has up in on the ground the talks and gone into crisis or sometimes even unraveled. the second element that them is to raise optimistic and looking forward to. is the end game in the liberation of rucka which is currently held by the slamming state if there is movement in this area. then mister de mistura said it will energize the search for the political process by all the syrians in other words. to go forward for the political transition full i reforms of the constitution. and down the road elections and i knew syria that is a scenario and to do that he started. monday with a meeting with the chief negotiator of the syrian government. miss ambassador arab jeffrey he that meant representatives of the permanent five great powers of the security council the u. s. russia. frowns. the uk and china and subsequently he had an informal. working lunch with

the leaders of the opposition including natural hariri of the nsc. and and and and heights and see and also with the mosque i'm kyra groups so that is a lot of. optimism going forward but at the same time miss that mr is cautious. but going forward tomorrow he hopes to hold technical talks with all the gold delegations to move the process forward. ate all the so called for key baskets. jones are courses for putting that from geneva next the eldest son of the us president has admitted to meeting a russian lawyer during the election campaign last year. but donald trump in juniors account of the meeting changed over the weekend after the new york times reported that negative information on hillary clinton was what do you hurt him to discussion. in the first place home on the story we can go across to washington and join correspondent phillip crowther. fit has the white house reacted. yeah well first of all there's a a statement from a

doll trump's personal lawyer that was already released yesterday that of course is the most important part of the story. did the candidates at the time now the president of the united states know about a meeting between. campaign officials high ranking campaign officials and somebody a lawyer in this case who had links to the kremlin though she at this point. denies it now according to doll trump's personal lawyer he did not know about this meeting. and and did not attend it a few minutes ago we got a little bit more from the white house said this is from spokesperson sarah huckabee sound as she says this that all trump. found out over the last few days that this meeting even took place that it was a very short meeting. and that there was no follow up that by reflecting essentially what we have from donald trump junior in his statement on the white house also saying that. it will not not add anything to tha. don't from junior though the song of the u. s. president has added something to this and not surprisingly this also comes on twitter like

many. big statements these days from the white house and outside. he says this he is willing willing to testify or least give his view of things and his information to the senate intelligence committee one senator at least asked. for dalton junior to talk about this to tell them. what he knows he seems to be willing to do that it is then probably only a matter of time? before that actually happens. no philip questions on a russian meddling in lost his election and don't seem to be dying down. even though the u. s. president says he's accepted vladimir putin's word that well moscow didn't metal. yeah that's been probably the reason why this. story continues. because after all the us intelligence agencies admittedly during the time of us president obama but still the exact same intelligence services. came to a very clear conclusion about the russian government did to meddle in the u. s. election and that the decisions came from the very odd that the highest part. of the russian government in other words the russian president vladimir putin now

in their first face to face meeting in hamburg on the sidelines of the g. twenty meeting. vladimir putin according to the u. s. view of things and to the russian view of things said that he and the russian government had nothing to do with this the russians say donald trump accepted. his point of view the u. s. side and the white house again repeating this today simply saying that donald trump listen to a random approach and have to say his denials. and then decided to move on to other stories well the problem is here but this is an actual story and this is a triple investigation. going on right now it is not that simple to discard this even if you are the us presidents there's an investigation by the special counsel right now by former. fbi director robert mueller then they're also two investigations the one by the senate intelligence committee and one by the house intelligence committee. they'll seriously looking at this what kind of meddling from the russians that was and what kind of collusion that might have been between the trump campaign team and russian intelligence officials that is why. this

is a story that won't go away. clearly at one third of crown a thank you very much for the update from washington. next china's best known political prisoner is in critical condition you shall bows in hospital for late stage liver cancer. beijing has come under fire for not providing the nobel laureate the necessary medical care earlier. now the government is also digging in its heels and has ruled out allowing the sixty one year old to leave the country to seek treatment overseas. elizabeth walks reports. but they. chavo the famous chinese dissident serving an eleven year prison sentence. ical condition. it's not free to leave chin. the hospital treating him for stage for liver cancer says that radiation and invasive procedures are impossible. that evaluation contradicted the one made just one day earlier by western specialists. who say he is indeed fit to travel abroad for care they re the nobel peace prize laureates family has requested that he be treated in either germany?

or the united states. the european union or united nations and others including the artist i way way are calling upon the chinese authorities to release the auto. winds of the house to our attitude has always been that we strongly advocate for humanitarian solutions unusual bow and his family. meanwhile protesters gathered in hong kong in support of freeing the sixty one year old activist. we are now i'm holding this. marathon suited. to say no. strong. to the. government including the. president paying. their down. lucille ball should be allowed. ladies. all the songs always. full medical trick. terry and. duration. leo is the human rights act. writer who has called for. rules. he was awarded the nobel peace. two thousand ten. serving his prison sentence

but has been denied the right of a representative to collect it. next emmanuel michael came to power in france promising to revamp the french labor code deliberations on a new reform began in parliament today. opposition parties are promising a tough fight parliament has until the twentieth of september to enact the changes rebecca rosman reports. french president among you know michael is looking to expound on his mission to have more flexibility to french labor laws. with the goal of bringing down the country's stubbornly high unemployment rate. would you like decision don't tell us that it's about adapting france to the brutality of the globalized world. not of that is true. they have to say for behind all these false accusations. we find the same vice. the vice which has poisoned public debate for too long. denying reality declared it the. unemployment currently hovers at around ten percen. but mac clones says he wants

to bring it down to seven percent within the next five years. an ambitious goal given france's unemployment rate hasn't been below seven percent in nearly forty years. the labor law reforms sink to give companies more flexibility to negotiate contracts directly with employees. rather than having to comply with sector wide rules. and the cop on compensation for unfair dismissals. while streamlining a number of other hiring processes. all of this is meant to incentivize companies to offer more permanent open ended contracts. but others argue an overhaul of the labor code will only bring more job insecurity to the country. well matt cone has until late september dot com the reforms passed. critics of the proposals so they won't go down without a fight. now it's an ambitious announcement from francaise environment minister a nickel out little announce that the country could close up to seventy nuclear reactors. by twenty twenty five the move would bring

into line a policy to reduce their reliance on nuclear power by fifty percent. yet another sign that france is determined to lead the way in global energy transition. nikolai although the country's ecological and social transition minister announced that by twenty twenty five the country put clothes as many as seventeen nuclear power plants. on monday willow made the announcement to listeners on france's rtl radio. a possible following what we've said that nuclear power would represent fifty percent of our electricity production. everyone can understand about to reach that we will close a certain number of reactors and not only one reactor. which by the way has not been closed yet you fail to please let me plan thanks. can amount up to seventeen reactors will have to take a closer look difficult will go up. currently seventy five percent of france's electricity needs are met through nuclear energy. the new proposals would limit the country's reliance

to not more than fifty percent. though nuclear energy is a way to avoid fossil fuel emissions critics point out that there is still no accepted means to safely manage or store radioactive waste. france is now dismantling nine of its nuclear reactors which could take decades to complete. in part because edf the national energy company vastly underestimated the difficulty and cost of the task. willow's announcement follows decisions from president emmanuel mac clones government to ban fossil fuels by two thousand forty. fifth while dismantling france's nuclear plants and transitioning to cleaner energy will be costly it is however less expensive than replacing the current plans. which are nearing the end of their life expectancy. french president emmanuel michael is in lausanne switzerland he's personally making paris's bid to host the olympics in twenty twenty four. the venture capital and los angeles are in the running to host the

games. tomorrow the i oc is widely expected to announce both the twenty twenty four and twenty twenty eight host cities. here's what the culture of the paris games have to say. some plastic to get. auditing you nineteen the beyond paris twenty twenty four it's a bead. it's a fantastic adventure that we that we shared since the beginning and that we've they're a great support from all of us so far government. and please don't my call. was very supportive since they won. he's. you really wants to to oppose the games in twenty twenty four one. and to give is that you support is that is so important so you really want you to. be here. two or so defense. paris twenty twenty four. now it's july traditionally summer weather here in france but that wasn't the case on sunday evening in the french capital. forty nine point two millimeters of rain fell in one hour alone in paris. stormy weather will it mean to commute to work for some on this monday a nightmare. tara.

violent thunderstorm and torrential rains that pounded the french capital were unusual for the month of july. nearly fifty millimeters of rain fell in just one hour thehe equivalt of an entire month of rain. the downpour affected nearly two dozen metro stations some of which have to close due to flooding. summit just asians were still closed on monday morning. said that we'll meet at the last minute the metro conductor announced that we wouldn't stop at the next station rock. song yeah so a lot of us had to get on. my block. between nine eleven pm emergency services received seventeen hundred phone calls and intervened on thirty seven occasions mainly to pump out flooded basements. earlier in the day the french city of not to bore the brunt of the storm. traffic came to a standstill as streets and major thoroughfares flooded. the results of a storm that barely lasted half an hour. dear emergency services responded to two hundred sixty five calls.

no casualties were reported central france in the paris region will remain on high alert until tuesday morning. tenet your mind if a top stories young life from paris the islamic state group has been defeated in mosul. the official declaration of victory made by iraq's prime minister haidar al abadi. donald trump junior defends his decision to meet with on russian lawyer during the election campaign. the president's eldest son and brushing off the significance of the meeting in a tweet. saying it went nowhere but he had to liste. i'm china's and best known political prisoner is in critical condition. beijing rolling out a lot like sixty one year old you shall bow to leave the country to seek treatment for late stage liver cancer. time now for the business use wit capability good evening cake lana now the new french government has been backtracking on some campaign promises. to slash housing taxes but it now looks like that's on back on the board that's why it's hard to keep track really of

what the mac clyde ministration is planning to do. of the latest we're hearing is that they are indeed planning to push through the tax reform plan. beginning next year this despite inheriting a more difficult than expected financial situation. the country's public spending watchdog said last month the government was facing eight billion euro hole in its finances. net would be unable to pay for the tax reductions that had been promised. now though the president has vowed to push ahead with his original timeline for adjusting the housing and wealth taxes. details are expected on tuesday emerald maxwell has more. the motion. tax cuts will go ahead as soon as next year. just a week ago the french prime minister said the promise cuts would be perspire and. but finance minister put on a mask word back combats saying he understood the feeling of urgency. you support group. profitable i think they did you perfectly possible to reduce public spending quite significantly meet our european commitments and at the same time. lower taxes

for french people and the french businesses will be forcing people to please he. the tax breaks are back on track off the pressure from frustrated business leaders. they include reforms to the wealth tax to exclude assets not held in property. meanwhile households with income of under twenty thousand euros will be exempt from housing tax. that's eighty percent of those who pay them. the plan has long worried local councils which rely on it for flood affecting come. two one i'm one more yeah if we have fewer means less stuff less capacity then obviously will be able to provide fewer services that show. tax reforms are a key part of the menu and mac clones plan to boost the french economy. but applying the next year it will cost about six billion years. adding strain to government which lost not discovered a larger than expected hole in the public finances. france is heading towards a deficit of three point two percent of gdp this year. but michael insists that the

country will meet the eu's three percent target in twenty seventeen. for the first time in decades. france's deficit will be one of the items on the your group's agenda as the finance ministers of the eurozone meet in brussels on tuesday. that also be discussing italy's banking system and the recent bailouts of three separate lenders including montepaschi siena. the deals were approved by the european but by european regulators have been criticized. germany's finance minister for example has said the time government failed to heed the lessons of the financial crisis. your group president however said sector was now more stable. well i personally very happy that valium banks are now being sold out. problems are being dealt with. and that the authorities are. taking action i mean this is crucial for the economic recovery. only way to get o. in the economy going. is by making the bank's healthy forest. so all we can do all excipients holes all

different. cases. and see. more. just. the chicken on the day's trading action now european indices closed higher this monday attacks leading with gains of nearly half a percentage point. this german exports rose more than expected last month wall street's also trading above the flatline. tech heavy nasdaq is being boosted by amazon as it prepares to launch its annual sales blitz known as prime day. oil prices are slightly reversing their earlier steep losses use wti trading just above forty four dollars a barrel. international brand dropping just under forty seven. rent prices are nearly eighteen percent lower than they were at the beginning of this year. despite friesen output by opec and other major producers. top oil producers and energy ministers meanwhile are meeting at the world petroleum congress in a stumble. against the backdrop of low oil prices and the beginnings of a global shift away from traditional fossil fuels. in a keynote address the head

of saudi arum co encourage the industry to keep up investment. saying that despite changes oil and gas would remain the quote hear. of the energy mix. announcer said his company which is the world's largest exporter would invest more than three hundred billion dollars over the next decade to keep up its capacity and explore for more natural ga. he said the planned ipo still on track for next yea. moving on some of those other business headlines no. india's national stock exchange was shut down for over five hours because of a technical problem. it's an apartment for the country's biggest stock exchange which is seeking regulatory approval for an initial public offering. that could raise as much as a billion dollars. rival bombay stock exchange that it was functioning as normal on monday. sites shares hitting record highs. trip administration has dismissed reports that it's considering raising taxes on the wealthiest americans. in order to compensate for tax breaks for the middle class. treasury secretary stephen isshin said that was not part of the tax reform plan

being put together. at the white house will release its full proposal in september. is aiming for congressional vote by the end of the year. shares an abercrombie and fitch plummeted twenty percent after the struggling american retailers said it was no longer up for sale. had been fielding takeover offers but said on monday it would try to improve its business model alone. grant has lost its popularity among teenage shoppers. sales plunging ten percent in the second quarter this year. threats of retaliatory tariffs were in the air over the weekend is g. twenty leaders sought to prevent the united states from imposing protectionist taxes on steel imports to the united states. plan to address the problem of cheap steel flooding the market was eventually reached. language of the final declaration lease options open to washington as rebecca rosman explains. seemed an agreement on steel concessions or else. mounting pressure from us president donald trump.

production. what does stunned? by november a substantial report will be presented which makes concrete political solutions for steel over capacities in style i'm beat that's. low cost imports from countries like china have severely weakened the us steel market. and industry trump promise to revive during his twenty sixteen presidential campaign. what other g. twenty leaders were hesitant to give in to what they deem does the trump administrations protectionist policies? an agreement was struck early on saturday to address over capacity an artificially low prices. in hopes of avoiding a global trade war. but truth still may take matters into his own hands. by imposing tariffs on steel imports under national security grounds. boys sex into thirty two of the trade expansion act. even though only a fraction of us steel is used for defense purposes. the us trade deficit with

other g. twenty members reach seven hundred and thirty eight billion dollars in twenty sixteen. including three hundred twenty seven billion with china. exchange for the steel deal multi twenty members agree to fight protectionism. something many members continue to be wary about. given the trump administrations increasing protectionist stance. just one of many tense issues up for discussion of the weekend that energy twenty thank you very much for that kate movie that with the day's business going to take a short break more news coming up stay with us

07/10/17 07/10/17 [captioning made possible by democracy now!] amy: from pacifica, this is dedemocracy now! >> w western mosul, ththe worst damage in the entire complex. the fighting has been the fiercest. looking at levels comparable to anything else that has happened in iraq so far. amy: iraqi forces have retake the city of mosul from isis after a vicious nine-month battle that killed thousands of civilians and left over 700,000 iraqis displaced.