unfolds like at dot com. you watching a live from paris on frustrated for the top stories this hour. french president emmanuel mac prosecutors a peace deal for libya. as rival leaders agreed to a ceasefire. say they will commit to elections. if it's. chaos. full of what fate. the u. s. president six an elusive. i see success with senators going. so the votes on healthcare. they sent us his son in law and senior advisers to question that once again over alleged ties. to russia. hundreds of firefighters battled wildfires in southern france and corsica to vin is supposed to sound

to pay have been destroyed. need provence and liberal regions palm acuity battery fix . first though libya's rival leaders have. to a nationwide. holding stokes here in. why is our seras shoe meets the un backed? italy and the powerful military leader khalifa how stop met during talks hosted by the french president's emmanuel macro. libya was plunged into chaos following the overthrow of mama daffy back in twenty twelve defensive in which france played a major role. macropsia today the peace in libya wars in europe's best interests. if we do. i will do everything in my power to support your efforts.

in the reconciliation process and. to fight effectively against these terrorist groups six of us bush will be on you didn't. what's happening today in libya is what's at the heart of the destabilization created by the islamic state militant group. al qaeda. and other terrorist organizations operating in the middle east and in parts of africa. they must be eradicated and we will help you achieve that new getting twelve media interviews with the. a bit of history and the full of mama get actually back in twenty twelve plunged libya into instability. destroying the economy and disrupting oil production six years on hundreds of thousands of libyans are internally displaced. and the power vacuum has allowed the islamic state group to gain a foothold less than two hundred miles from europe's shores. libya has also become a lucrative how. people trafficking the lipton looks at the country's descends into chaos.

across the nation was forty. years under muammar qaddafi comes to an end. the authoritarian libyan president meeting a grisly end in a tunnel. trying to escape his hometown of san. the twenty fourteen a new libya holds parliamentary elections. but violence results in low turnout gunmen stormed the parliament in tripoli and libya is left without a central government. and certain general kobe for halftime performance gaddafi loyalists he begins an offensive against what he says are islamist militias. his own group libyan national army captures several key cities. including benghazi in the northeast. in july tripoli's international airport becomes a battleground between half done and his coalition. and the newly formed libya dorm coalition which is led by fighters from the northwestern city

of ms randa. this conflict establishes two rival governments the general national congress in tripoli and the house of representatives in tobruk. the two broke based government was backed by hostile it was led by a prime minister abdullah al thingy. and recognized by the u. n. u. s. e. u. egypt and the united arab emirate. even though the libyan supreme court ruled it to be illegal and unconstitutional in november twenty fourteen. the tripoli based government wasn't on elected reincarnation of the original gnc whose term expired in august twenty fourteen its leader was a president nouri al bu some main. and it was dominated by the muslim brotherhood's justice and construction policy. december twenty fifty amen libya's. sign a you end product deal to form a you. government led by firas al sarraj. but a change of heart in some of the players throws

the new government's into disarray. the islamic state group takes advantage of the chaos in libya to advance into sets. the following year the u. s. begins an ad campaign against alliance at the request of libya's un backed government in tripoli. so where are we now. the council on foreign relations estimates there are between five and eight thousand alliance fighters still in libya. and the not the only terrorist group rating in the country. unsubtle sharia is also tha. the capital is once more a battleground this time between three factions each with backing from external powers. first the un backed government which supported by most of the international community. then there's the government of national salvation which the u. a. e. accuses of receiving support from catha and turkey. and finally a third group in the east of the country which includes libyan national army forces loyal

to general hafta. six years of uncertainty and conflict have left many of libya's citizens without electricity or formal education. well over four hundred thousand internally displaced. the search for stability in the oil rich country continues packtrack. and more people have died trying to make the crossing to europe from libya the bodies of thirteen people have. found in the mediterranean sea including those of several pregnant women. drowned apparently trying to make that crossing them found by spanish and gee i wish did manage to rescue dozens of other people. he went and to it today some ninety four thousand people have been booked safety in its sleep so far this year but more than two thousand three hundred and seventy people. have drowned. palestinians say they will continue to boycott the al aqsa mosque in jerusalem despite israel's decision to remove metal detectives from the sites many muslims say they're concerned by

israel's pledge to. replace the metal detectors with more sophisticated surveillance equipment. the dispute led to days of deadly riots in the murder of a jewish family at their home in the west bank. not dimasi has the latest. palestinians are spinning it as a rat win against benjamin netanyahu's government. late on monday night israel took down metal detectors at the entrance to the harbor motion reef temple mount complex in the old city of jerusalem. in a bid to stop unrest spiraling out of control but this is a defeat overnight number of their government by the palestinian popular nonviolent. bitter* who i wanna point. bob above the prologue of nonviolence. and how effective it can be you and there is mass participation. in defining go completion. though israel has reversed its decision on the controversial security measures it has said it will implement new currently unspecified advanced technologies. outside the

holy site. a move that is unlikely to come palestinians who face israel is using security as a pretext. change the facts on the ground in jerusalem. well i'm really issue it'll never be quiet. it's not that we don't want peace but they causing us problems and i had one time they close the gates to alexa. and you cannot go and pray each time there's a new story they inspect our children in the streets disregard our lives we don't know what will happen in the end. the dispute runs much deeper than the use of metal detectors. iraq has become a symbol for palestinian nationalist aspiration. and control over the site holy to muslims and jews alike has long been one of the biggest stumbling blocks in peace negotiations. in a sign that this crisis isn't over yet the walk off the muslim authority that administers the most complex

announced on tuesday mornin. that worship is should continue to boycott praying at the site. leann. if people have to leave their homes in west in india as heavy monsoon rains continue even the desert state of rajasthan has been affected. in gujarat state rescue teams on a motion by its have saved hundreds of people off to flood waters threaten to carry them away. dozens of people have been killed nationwide seeing this year's monsoon season. well moving now to washington and two votes on capitol hill today in the senate's has been holding a procedural vote which could lead to the repeal of barack obama's affordable care act. and in fact the senate has voted to continue the debate goes on repealing. obamacare that means that the republican hopes of scrapping. barack obama's signature healthcare reform. is not dates in the moshe

it will continue republicans forty. that. failed sat on numerous counts to try and he. i will hold. up a bottle cases that vote at just a in and cleaning and. senator john mccain he made his first public appearance since revealing. at that he was suffering from brain cancer. pat. lost week acid outside has just gone through. and i'm just waiting to hear at how many senses voted in favor and how many that against. i mean while i two men deserve fat president jumps in a circle have been back before investigators today. without probe into alleged collusion between that trumps election campaign and russia continuing his son in law and senior adviser at jerry kouchner. being grilled for a second day will pull mana force trump's former campaign manager. was facing investigated for the first time will try meanwhile continues to publicly disparage a man who

had been one of his strongest allies he's been tweeting that attorney general jeff sessions. is weak and believe it trump is angry that sessions recused himself rather than lead that investigation. into alleged ties with russia with our spake to eric me san and attending legal experts in washington. and i asked him why trump didn't just go right ahead and fire sections rather than continue to attack him publicly. well it looks like he prefer would prefer that sessions resign. and dictating what the president can do it in terms of replacing sessions he has more options if sessions resigns arguably. under these laws which i rarely invoked then he would if. if he had to go on fire

sessions so it it might be that this is why he's goading him that's probably the main reason also. it looks like he really feels like he's been betrayed because he had an agreement although it would have been an illegal one it it appears. with sessions that from the beginning of the. nomination process that sessions would not recuse himself from the russia investigation and then all of a sudden from the president's perspective all of a sudden de sessions announce who of course he has to recuse himself. he was a senior official in the campaign and. the regulations prohibit him from investigating himself so he would turn that over to his number two who seems to be a much more. independent and career minded. prosecutor who doesn't have the same feel to drop so that seems to be what has enraged the president. and what's interesting about it also it has not been as clearly reported. is that sessions. never mentioned even in his

confirmation hearings that he was going to be our recused himself even though the rationale he later gave. would have been a parent at the time of his confirmation hearings so what changed the only thing that changed was a washington post story. that. that made clear that sessions had falsely testified at his confirmation hearing about meetings he'd had with russian officials. though he denied that that was the reason for the sudden change or the sudden announcement that he was going to recuse himself. so all of this seems to have contributed to the president's fury and is also possibly a and quite probably really. part of a strategy to try to install somebody who can intervene in the russian vest a gay asian and be more personally loyal to the president.

currently send that speaking to amy earlier well i repugnance the president. used his veto to block to the government's proposals to overhaul the judiciary. yesterday today that he. on us that's just farting airports. yeah well i got zeppelins presidents's veto to answer three bills proposing to reform the country's judiciary didn't choose they signed off on the bird. despite widespread calls across the country for to be shelved. presents this film polish treats all day on monday demanding that the controversial reforms would dropped altogether. but is it then. the president did a part of his duty. he behaved like a guard who did not let the thieves go in. but no veto for the third film means the thief can still use the back towards the

museum. the thurber which presidents andrzej duda signed off on announce the polish justice minister to name the heads of the country's common courts. however his veto on the other two was not well received by poland's ruling loyal and just and that thes was getting in the way. he shakes of today's vetoed by the president has slowed down welcome the reform what's moral is being treated as an incentive for those who struggle to maintain and on fast system. lauren justice pawns his been attempting to reform poland's judiciary since taking power in twenty fifteen by bringing it under the control of the executive wing of governments. hundreds of firefighters are battling blazes in southern france signed on the island of corsica. high heat and dry weather is contributing to huge fires in the vial area of provence and in the new girl. the french interior minister it will travel to close elated to meet with emergency service.

you streams of water to battle a wall of flame tearing through this region in northeast corsica. due to strong winds the forest fires on the island become more aggressive and firefighters are battling the flames with downpours throughout the night. despite their efforts many homes is still threatened. and those in danger had been evacuated in haste. luckily there have been any casualties this evening so far. but here the wind pushes the flames closer to a local business. as employees trying to stop the advance using garden hoses. a difficult night for them along with the three hundred firemen my belies to in the area. from the end of the hills around the town of past the amount blackened by the inferno. currency thousand hectares of going up in smoke here in northern corsica. this residence is returning to her home. after being evacuated the previous nigh. global everything is done. even the call. all that remains of her

garden is now ash. and above my house is still standing it severely damaged look at us all it's a catastrophe where seventeen years of happiness for this to happen. this was al paradise left behind. in this village the firing came close to the houses but there wasn't enough time to evacuate some of the residents. i feel that it was really hollis we should have been evacuated but they cut into us. because by the time we left the highs there were two or three meters the flying off. the fire was so gosh darn there was fire here untouched our neighboring. terrible and we were very scared. since then the fine hand has died down but it's still raging in other parts. in the south of corsica a large hotel is on the threats from freshly sparked flames. was saying for us and it is one of the oldest fans have festivals in the world fifteen hundred performances have been held so over the past month as part of the seventy first. abby neil

festival sean gaffney takes a look now at some of the highlights. it's. one of the most important events in the arts calendar the avignon festival transforms the host city into a giant fiercer. they fear the program of events opened with the performance of the ancient greek tragedy antigone. chicago this s. r. recreates emission of his yard with john f. autonomy sitting down the full. field madness nnova. susan still has shown the lights on thailand from subsaharan africa. examining things including corruption and south africa and the genocide lois poetry in my s town to be able to translate these wards and shared them. because the plot. i'm in.

we came and we left revitalizing. you know as a man that was something. me ask. minus the few cynthia nixon on theatrical productions avignon olson features fringe events known as the all of. one of these plays was about the terrorist mohammed mera. a controversial choice four thousand people signed a petition to have it bunch from the festival. they're always hidden gems on sauvignon including the musical of claudette forever chocolate please on sally does crime of passion. to keep audiences coming back for more. where the freshman in avenue in full swing well let's against a business she's way now cabey's but with us ads at kate's that some good news? so very welcome good news

for the french economy thanks after the number of people out of work dropped slightly in the month of june. that was the first full month of emmanuel macklin's presidency the labor ministry said the unemployment rate in mainland france fell by point three percent. leaving about three point four eight million people claiming unemployment benefits. including overseas territories that figure is hired about three point seven four million. the overall rate still hovering just under ten percent. labor market has see sawed in recent months the new government has already launched a series of reform. aimed at boosting hiring. greece has successfully raised funds on the financial markets for the first time in three years taking in about three billion euros. grace is still receiving funds under its bailout program but the debt sale is seen as an important step in regaining its financial independence. harold maxwell explains. alexis express was cool smiles as he welcomed the eu's economy commissioner. on the day greece return to the bond market is greece coming back to the markets. you have successfully later.

and i think that the this is the most. importance. messes and the most significant is that. in order to to feed busines. unpleasant adventure of. cree says it sold three billion years worth of five year bonds after rate of just over four point six percent. it's an important milestone for the country. as it seeks to ensure can fill the funding gap left when its beta program ends in august twenty team. within the scene the greek economy. is i hear it now. greece is now a. on it so reform and fiscal commitments. and i was started. to. return to. and we'll talk. greece lost it bonds in twenty fourteen. but it's been broadly shot out from the markets since the start of its financial crisis and twenty ten. the staff right since then it's received three international bailouts. in return for wide ranging

reforms of its economy. the recently things have been looking up for athens. the annual budget position is much improved. and economists say the country is close to returning to sustainable growth. greece's debt to gdp ratio still stands at a hundred and eighty percent. but last week the ratings agency s. and p. raised its assessment for its credit worthiness. from stable to positive. chicken on the day's trading action now the major european indices closed up london's footsie one hundred leading with gains of about three quarters of one percent. financial and banking sectors boost trade across the board. on wallstreet the snp five hundred hit a new record high shortly after the opening bell. dow jones now up about half a percentage point there. trade is being driven largely by earnings but investors are also keeping an eye on the us federal reserve. is kicks off a two day policy meeting. interest rates are likely to remain unchanged but there could be some guidance from the central bank about the outlook for

the american economy. days after the imf downgraded its forecast. google's parent company alphabet meanwhile seeing its shares trade down about two and a half percent on the nasdaq. the internet giant says it's reviewing its options in its first financial results since being fined a record two point four billion euros by the european commission last month. bill resulted in alphabets earnings seeing their biggest drop since two thousand and eight. when pollard has more. it's been a costly few months for google's parent company alphabet. the two point seven billion dollar fine issued by the european commission last month help cool was the biggest drop in the company's earnings in nearly a decade. they were down twenty eight percent on the same period last year to three and a half billion dollars but elsewhere results were good. revenue was up by more than twenty percent to twenty six billion dollars. and earnings per share past five dollars which beat analysts'

expectations. alfa as chief financial officer ruth poor at said our revenues demonstrate the ongoing momentum in all businesses with broad based strength globally. the eu race you define the largest in its history for alphabet unfairly promoting shopping services over competitors. some analysts think alphabets may issue an appeal. poorer said that the company was reviewing its legal options. but with a u. investigators pursuing other antitrust cases against its advertising products an android the company was keen to focus on areas of growth. especially on mobile devices and you cheer. alphabet is also seeking to expand other areas of its business like the cloud. thing on some days other business headlines. bmw says it will produce its new electric many model in the uk rather than germany. your maker has previously warned that it could move

production abroad to protect itself from the impact of greg's it. him w. said it had neither sought nor received assurances of tax breaks. you kate negotiates a trade deal with europe. battery powered carbon based on the three door model which is already made. oxford plans. amazon is expanding its new headquarters in london hiring an additional four hundred fifty staff members in its research and development unit. to focus on the technology behind the firm's burgeoning video streaming service. amazon said it's hiring plans have not been affected by britain's impending departure from. and the american fashion brand michael forces agreed by luxury shoemaker jimmy choo for about a billion euros. the french fry would put itself up for sale in april of this year. purchase is part of the renewal efforts at michael kors just been struggling with falling sales at stores. jimmy choo shares a person seventeen percent in london. united states and united kingdom are continuing to days of trade talks.

yes president donald trump tweeted that the deal could be quote big and exciting end quote. and create jobs he also accused you of an acting protectionist policies against american exporters. allegations that european politicians have also leveled against his administration. british trades adroitly liam fox says he wants to ensure that commercial ties with the u. s. are not interrupted. when the u. k. leaves the european union. he said the change offered new opportunities all of the country cannot formally enter into any new deals. until brags it is finalized in twenty nineteen. the inbox also due to address lawmakers a little bit later on and we could get some more details about some of the issues that are coming up into those discussions for. marat much needed detail on that phrase it may have been a few of over to him and they can't thanks very much indeed take we do that with the business was taking a short break

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