i'm fine thank god dot com. nnova warm welcome to you if you're just joining us here at the france twenty four news room it's nine pm here in the french capital and these are our headlines. the twenty two year old a suspect behind the barcelona taglines week is shot dead. by s spanish police he was killed in a small townn not far from the city. in total now f fifteen people have dd and over a a hundred and twenenty more wounded. in those attacks it's like. cons for america's longest running military mission are expected to be revealed this monday after repeatedly promising to bring us troros home. trump now expected to ease his opposition and listen to us generals who say they have to stay. and the secret service in

the u. s. says it needs more money to continue protecting the president. and his family over a thousand agents have already reached limits in overtime as trunks travels most weekends to properties of florida new jersey for virginia . we start this hour old news in spain where the man suspected of running. pedestrians in the center. salona last week. been shot dead by police the death toll from the two attacks in spain has risen to fifteen people scores more where of course injured in those attacks. after manhunts that has been ongoing since last thursday police now confirm that they have shut their main suspec. in that van attacked or correspondence or morris tells a bit more about

exactly how that happened. gotten on police say they go to a s screeching frorom a neighbhbor about fifty kilometers of frorom a f frm barcelona. they use to say the locacal policice and sea man that matched the description. of a new day s. i'm more a story apple could yahoo who was suspected of driving that van in barcelona on the ground because. they immediately go down to that place and dadad they apppproved the man. . i when you werere about too withinin fifty meters of him they noticed he had a bulky caught around his midriff it looked seven matching his i. i'm not being seen to the

end a dramatic five day manhunt rugby since the late last man of the lasalle which police believe. has contained about a dozen people because s six p peope now have been shocked by the cats in n the companies hope for people arrested i will be appeariring in coururt to mamadrid. tomorrow and it cools it to people are believed to have been identified as dead. having detonated them themselves accidentally at an explosion in the house being at the we vehicle that ran through crowds in barcelona on thursday. published in spanish media stills from security footage show eunice apple yakub just minutes after the attack. apparently on around the

twenty two year old moroccan was thought to refuse the confusion in the aftermath to escape on foot. it took investigators for days to catch up with him retracing his steps. well after abandoning the band used to mow down people unless ram less. video surveillance quotable get coupon camera first entering and leaving the pulcheria market. fifteen minutes later he suspected of driving through a police checkpoint in a stolen car. that vehicle was later dumped in the suburb of sight just does van. its owner found stabbed to death in the backseat. police carried out such as this ripoll black and we get to the lives as a european arrest warrant quintiles. the fear was that he'd managed to cross the border. however i would you could hadn't in fact managed to flee far. he was found just ten kilometers to the west of barcelona where he died when shotot in a police operatio. they says spanish authorities also confirmed the identity of a moroccan in nam between missing for

several days. his body was found with at least one other in a house in oquendo that blew up on wednesday.. while police initially suspected a gas explosion investigations later revealed a hundred intact bottles of butane gas along with bomb making materials. most of it is to some people this week's growth of currently being discovered that the same ones that were used in on the islamic state group attacks. bingley and there's ingredients of the same kinds of bombs are being found which leads us to conclude that this is the land they were building the explosive talent phallic on those explosive. who is? the imam is thought to be at the head of the terrorist cells and may have helped indoctrinate the young talk is all in their teens and twenties. in all police believe twelve people were involved in the planning and execution of the attacks on thursday and friday. well the attacks in a barcelona and elsewhere in spain were claimed by the islamic state group pounds of the boston office that group in iraq in the city of

tel afar is currently under heavy fire. as iraqi forces backed by coalition troops close in tel afar once a major supply help between mosul and the nearby syrian border. the offensive to retake it began on sunday alison sergeant reports. belgian an american special forces set up position on the roof of a house. keeping a look out. and firing mortar to back up the iraqi government troops. as they move in on several villages some thirty kilometers east of tel afar. shots available from the lasso units started moving in the enemy collapse chip. they had several small groups of fighters. i'm using suicide vehicles as well as a roadside bombs. which this unit would stop our forces. iraqi generals say the two thousand militants left in the city have limited supplies andnd a are weary r months of aerial bombardmen. but they'y're still e expecd to put up a tough fight as

they did in mosul officially retaken just over a month ago. tel afar is now one of only a few remaining islamic states strongholds in iraq. another pocket of militants is in kirkuk. with the rest mainly spread across the desert region around the border with syri. and i couldn't yeah yeah for asians to retake nineveh will not stop until everywhere in the province is liberated. fishman including talent far behind idea with him when i idea nine other areas. you don't have to then the iraqi forces will complete the border check. but you will get that experts say that street fighting in residential areas will be the troops biggest challenge just like it was in mosul. ability to. while most of california's residents have already left the u. n. warns that up to forty thousand civilians remain in the area. and are expected to flee as coalition forces move in. on the offensive in iraq they're backed by a u. s. led coalition and this monday president donald

trump is expected to outline his plans for america's longest military conflict. it's in afghanistan there are currently some eight thousand four hundred us troops stationed in the country defense sector jim mattis house called for increasing the numbers. due to the continued threat from islamist militants. back at the white house donald trump is preparing for a formal address to the nation. many of been waiting for trump to lay out the u. s. strategy for the conflict in afghanistan. after months of keeping the public in limbo he announced on saturday via twitter. that he's taken a decision. it's a very big decision f r may have took ovover a mass. and. we're gonna. make it a lot less messy but that has been. a place seventeen years or longer scores i read in one of your columns. and that frankly it's a. it's going to be a decision that's her name delivers. u. s. involvement in afghanistan goes back to

september eleventh two thousand and one with the attack on the world trade center in new york. george w. bush then presidents invaded afghanistan to track down osama bin laden and the taliban. what games were made the military intervention failed to eradicate threats? after barack obama took office he initially scaled up the military operation before initiating the gradual withdrawal of troops at the end of his second term. today there are eight thousand four hundred american soldiers remaining an afghan territory. it iss unclear w which of trtrump's advisors has been the most convincing. vice president pat. you'd in favor of an increase in troops on his long time strategic adviser steve ban. who was fired on friday had rooted for the withdrawal of all us forces? meanwhile the u. s. started scaling back its visa services in russia this monday three weeks after russian president vladimir putin ordered washington to hop america's embassy staff

there. business travelers tourists and students will all be affected by the latest move in a list of measures that have sarss relations between the two countries. the us blames the staffing restrictions saying the capacity for interviews for visa request has been greatly reduced. as a result mean hot russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov it says there are political tomes to what has just happened and that moscow is considering how best to respond. or correspondent in moscow tommaso tells more about the impact this latest move will have on many russians. first glance perhaps it doesn't seem so bad a week with no non immigrant visa so there's a. business visas tourist visas for example this is how it works when most russians will have to do and interview before they get better fees or r whatev. whatevever type of visa i eighties they have organize anything you i go to a concert or an embassy to carry that out before they give.

the peace of the moment as it was a white line of say some two months but we're told that's going to increase drastically we don't know how much body because it hasn't started yet seasonal toys that changes. but it could be something the same up between four and six months will be able to get abortions to get a visa and i you and so that. the problem that. the us is now so it's going to be closing concerts across the country it has three of them. so you know close because it's close the visa sections of the concert since the pages berg catherine would. and vertical stock convertible stock is that i doubt flight from moscow you can imagine if you want a visa. to the u. s. . milling about in both of your house have on a long flight to moscow in flight back. and then you find out if you had the visa or not it's not some people say what it's not such a big deal because there's notot s so many russ it goes to the u. s. anyway some commentators politicians are. saying tht. but. so just under fiftyty thousd ssians wenent to o the u. s. in the first quarter of of of this year and that's a

significant group of people. but they tend to be. liberal minded small opened to the west make your your typical. you typical russian and these are the kind of the ten to have strong influence for the crime. well meanwhile concerning chums own travel plans the secret service is seeking more money from congress to maintain the security detail on. donald trump and his family the president has traveled almost every weekend properties in florida new jersey and virginia. the holidays and business trips always adult children also given a security detail in all that makes eighteen trope family members that are being protected. by the secret services. our correspondent in washington for a crowded tells us a bit more. the secret service has not run out of money bus is having serious difficulties. paying its agents you are responsible for the protection of the us president all his family and of some members of his white house and cabinet teams. the director of the secret service spoke to the

newspaper usa today and said that over one thousand agents had already reached their salary cap. for this year alone. it's only august and the main reason for this. is the travel by the us president and his family he has been away from washington almost every single weekend either at one of his golf clubs and results or at the presidential retreat in camp david. or traveling abroad and any time a family member of donald trump travels he or she also has to get secret service protection. now the lack of money in the secret service is very ironic considering some of what we heard. from the us president before he actually became us president donald trump had criticized barak obama his predecessor for his travel and for the time he spends at golf clubs. well this is a new us president donald trump the travels more than his predecessor did and also

spends more time i golf clubs but his predecessor did. now after two accidents in as many months the us navy is investigating the performance and writing us all of its fleet of vessels. in southeast asia ten sailors were reported missing and five others wounded. after an american warship collided with an oil tanker near singapore adorned this monday alison sergeant has a story. the u. s. s. john mccain after a collision with an oil tanker. many crewmembers were sleeping when the two ships crashed it don flooding the hole with water. nda souls and aircraft from the u. s. singapore and malaysia are now combing the water's for signs of ten missing sailor. the navy destroyer is named for the father and grandfather of republican senator john mccain who tweeted his prayers for the war ship and its crew. five american soldiers were also wounded in the crash. meanwhile crewmembers onboard the liberian flax tanker reported no injuries

and no oil spills. the tanker was carrying twelve thousand tons of fuel oil from taiwan singapore. it's usually extremely rare for such large vessels to run into each other. but it's the second time in two months. seseven sailors were killedn june when the uss john mccain sister ship the uss fitzgerald. was struck by a philipippine container s shp off the coast of japan. staying at a with american forces the u. s. in south korea began annual military exercises which north korea has denounced as preparation for war. south korea's president thomas says the joint trails are purely defensive designed to prepare for but not to star. a war with a nuclear capable north korea. the exercises are expected to last until the end of the month as luke schrager reports they come at a time of really increase tensions in the region. preparing for war but hoping for peace. south korea's two week long war games with the united

states are set to lost until the end of the month. by major tensions with the neighboring north o of spot concerned with ordinary south koreans. go see nothing in the right thing to do is to minimize the scale of these exercises will stop them permanently because they can provoke north korea. during the crisis in the korean peninsula. pyongyang tested to intercontinental ballistic missiles last month smoking up it's a war of words with washington. mention of fire and fury on one side followed by threats of a strike near the u. s. territory of guam on the other only east. off the northern leader kim jong nam walked back his words. his southern counterpart has been trying to do escalate the situation ever since. really given her potential in the open suspicions over the current texas sizes. powderfinger waiting it's an annual exercise of a defensive nature and when it's no intention of heightening the retreat tensions on the korean peninsula.

no of creation not distort our efforts on it should not aggravate the situation. remove. the simulated maneuvers date back to nineteen sixty seven this year some fifty thousand south korean soldiers will be taking part along with seventeen thousand fivee hundred us troops down from twenty five thousand last year. what's momore they'll be no actual life fire field exercises something that could assuage misgivings to the north. traveling and many miles on to telescopes and protective eyewear millions of americans are sitting at this monday getting ready to watch a total eclipse of the sun. a solar eclipse happens every one to three years but usually in some no man's land like the arts colds this year however it is crossing coast to coast you can see it there. . all thee way from oregon toto south carolina. some twelve million people like in the power all of it is not so great clips and many more traveling. it to get their space to what should adopt phenomenon it's been almost a century sensor at full of

solar eclipse like not. has made such a journey across the united states. he traveled in their millions to consequence of what's being called the great american eclipse. amateur astronomers have been setting out there stoles from early morning nnova. exactly and everybody like quietly go don't worlds just stay still we're here for a wedding so we flew in a week early so we can do this. skywatchers got their depth feeling spots across the united states to watch the moon's shadow comes directly in front of the sun. flossing acted flights for two minutes the eclipse could be seen in fourteen states beginning in the west coast of oregon and ending nineteen minutes later over charleston south carolina. shadow path across the eart. is usually hand in the water like across the ocean. or it's in hard to get places

this path actually goes across all the united states starts an organ. and goes across this is called the great american eclipse because so many americans. can see and witness totalit. it was the first total s sor eclipspse to sweep coast to coast across the u. s. in nineteen nine years. okay and no first lady for france a provision to macomb wife of president emmanuel michael will represent the country and carry out charity works but will not be given the official statu. following opposition to giving her. i sold said that latest from the eighties a palace the former school teacher will have. two presidential advisers and her own office. which will be paid for directly from the presidential budget the overall cost of that house and not have ever been met no. speaking of money now it's time once again to look at the business headlines and i'm joined in studio by and cut. huda anchor at a big

week started a big week for the labor ministry they wanted to bring reforms into the labor code something the french love to hear. you turns many remember i this is one of the big killers of president mac clones are. campaigner and the deadline is august thirty first for the government to publish this legislation reforming france's rigid labor code. this week is crucial as negotiators from the labor ministry will present their traps first to the employers lobby on tuesday. then the unions on wednesday. bellavista that's the cat has more on the story. emmanuel michael's controversial plan to reform france's labor laws may be months in the making. but it could still face fierce resistance when it gets presented to union leaders later this week. in what could prove a watershed moment for the president. we'll show a subcommittee sweet keeping a very close eye on it because we don't yet know which stands the government will take on a number of key issues which could be a red line. mmhm government affairs. remaining sticking points include plans to scrap rules currently limiting companies

reliance on temporary contracts. and to allow businesses to make employees redundant even if they're turning a profit globally. opponents of the bill say it will only serve the interests of big corporations while leaving workers more vulnerable. yet the government claims the reforms are necessary to restore competitive eddie to a struggling economy. with france's gdp growth ranking consistently lower than the european average in recent years. michael says france must look to neighboring germany and spain which have seen unemployment dropped sharply after passing similar reforms. yet some argue the figures are skewed as most jobs created by these policies remain temporary or underpaid. france's biggest union cgt already said it will oppose the bill. and has called for nationwide demonstrations in september. moving on more than one hundred leading robotics experts around the world have penned an open letter to the united nations urging

the ban on the development of autonomous weapons or killer robots so to speak. the letter itself reads like something out of a science fiction novel here's an excerpt for you to take a look at. it says lethal autonomous weapons threatened to become the third revolution in warfare. once develops they will permit armed conflict to be fighting the scale greater than ever at time scales faster than humans can comprehend. and by saying we do not have long to act. once this pandora's box is opened it will be hard to close. human rights watch says that more than a dozen countries including the u. s. china and russia are currently developing a thomas weapon systems. now it's time to take a look at a developing story tensions between china and the united states over trad. on friday the u. s. launch what's known as a section three one probe to investigate chinese intellectual property theft. the move has angered beijing where authorities have warned there ready to respond. catherine viet has mark. edging closer to a trade war the u. s. has launched an investigation into china's intellectual property

policies. washington says it will also look into reports that the chinese government is investing in american firms. as a way of accessing proprietary information. us companies have long complained of widespread industrial espionage by state back chinese rivals. the investigation has angered beijing and officials say the government is ready to respond if new taririffs are put in placec. you wanted if you collect new taxes and increasee the cost of chinese export companies covers. the american bias also face an increasing costs. and this could lead to a high default risk of also if such negative impact lasts longer. all chinese exporters will need to seek new markets and more international business what if watching the poetry. the u. s. says economic losses from counterfeit consumer goods pirated software and theft of trade secrets amounts to around six hundred billion dollars

a year. president trump is relying on section three oh one of the trade act of nineteen seventy four. which gives him the authority to unilaterally impose tariffs or other restrictions. to protect the u. s. from unfair trade this is. analysts say china has more to lose in any possible trade war. . but ultimamatey you s. consumers would end up paying more for imported goods. it's time for some other business headlines we're following for you from around the world. french petroleum trying to follow has struck a seven point five billion dollar deal to buy danish company moller maersk will division. let's go get nearly five billion dollars into tough shares. to talking on two point five billion marks oil that. first i wanted to shift its focus to its shipping business. share certain. four percent after the deal was announced. chinese automaker great wall confirmed its interest in purchasing fiat chrysler automobiles.

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about, we got to change the books whichch are sexist and racist. give me a break. columbus discovered america? everybody knows that punk got lost. amy: the pioneering comedianan d civil rights activist dick gregory has died at the age of 84. we will look at his remarkable life from being the first african-american comedian