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according to the emergency services none of those affected is in a serious condition following on from what was the fifth terrorism incident hit the country this year. from study force alison sergeant has this report. this bucket placed inside
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and i so thermic shopping bag is believe to be the homemade explosive device at the origin of the blast. it was still flaming one one witness shot this video. the explosion rang out in the middle of rush hour at eight twenty am. as this train was pulling into the southwest london station parsons green massive banks. attached do know happened around on the first thing we saw was and my orange so. bob will six sing the whole chief coming to achieve this arrival is just an ideal had and everything else. you just run out. cheap it's confusing. people just. it was every man for themselves people in farming and on. so people impact. that'll be pushed me and i felt over as well. i mean. that's right. and police. terrorism. in the uk this year. clearly this was a device that tended call cigna.
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call on the peace and security services all. obviously doing all the work to discover the full circumstances of this cowardly attack. and to identify those responsible. for now the british government is maintaining the terrorism threat level at its second highest ranking severe. but may said londoners will be seeing more security on public transportation as the hunt for the bomb maker continues. cross of it was that a power viewers following that incident for us in london she has more now. on the visibly increased security presence across the uk lights off these five now tears the tax that. we know from the prime minister trees a may have self could shed a long over an hour long kubrick meeting is that called hit an emergency meeting. very much part of procedure when this sort of event opens on there is. no doubt. this fully exploded this id this morning we were dealing with a many dead terrace experts say that everybody in that carriage would have actually died all being very seriously.
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maimed with life changing injuries so yes there is a different sense why because off the london bridge a terrorist attack for exampl. i immediately within days five bridges suddenly had breeze blocks. to stop any kind of hopefully for by for any kind of call von being turned into a weapon. and running people over a on bridges on the streets of london are and when you talk to people around here who by the way the cordoned. has been slightly of made closer now to the station up but the fact a mattress of that a lot of these people and by the way a lot of french people live in this area this a french school. personal. children here i spoke to many french people. on to of course couldn't get back to that homes because what the police needed to do today. immediately was to try and make. my e. d.. . not just that you know on stable anymore before they can actually do more work up on who and what is behind. a
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this attacks so yes there is a sense of vigilance alertness on that is very much what the pieces awskie anybody on that train that sort of thing suspicious or. sees anything else suspicious are here in london touchy sending the cctv to text message or cool a terrorist. hotline zour sense of. concern here both with the authorities i'm with the population but overall a sense of calm tonight in london because the worst has very clearly. been avoided. political the reporting now from london. lebanese prime is the to resume a has hit back at the us president donald trump that's off the trump fired off a series of tweets about this morning's attack in london. one of which apply to the british authorities had missed an opportunity to prevent it. lost about his comments prime minister may describe this kind of speculation as and i quote unhelpful. trump and spoke to reporters and said he planned to cool british premiere. which she has now done his we said. rohingya growing.
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we have to be very large we very very top. perhaps. we're not nearly now but now. the us president donald trump speaking. well here in paris a counterterrorism inquiry has been opened after a man wielding a knife attacked a soldier at a central paris metro station this morning. the assailant was wrestled to the ground and promptly arrested the soldier is not reports to have being huts. this is by no means the first such attack on the very people who were deployed to make the city safe up. well the police say they've been carrying out a search of the apartment in the paris suburb of by new. by the attacker is believed to have lived. classes been on high alert softer way of attacks in recent years of many of the attack has inspired by the islamic state group. and the soldier who was attack today was part of what's called operation salty santino which is an
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operation. which troops patrol the city's transport hubs and also major tourist sites. with the days incident comes just a day after the government announced plans aimed at making. those soldiers taking part in that operation safer. for more than two years now they're patrols have been part of daily life in french cities. like here at the carmel parnassus in paris. there could be some people who have never accepted in cities say that are. it's a good thing. impact is we've gotten used to it and the sudden part is they keep getting of top going into. on friday a man attempted to stab a soldier patrolling a metro station in central paris. it was the seventh attack to target forces from operation santino since it was put in place following the january twenty fifteen terrorist attacks. and it came just a day after the french government announced changes to the anti terror force in response to criticism that it soldiers were becoming easy targets. said that move at this new attack completely
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legitimizes what we want to do. making this operation even harder to follow more undetectable for possible attackers. under the new plan soldiers from operations auntie nell will be more more bile and the patrols more random. they'll still be stationed at tourist sites airports and other sensitive areas and their numbers will stay the same. seven thousand deployed across france on a daily basis as many as ten thousand in times of imminent threat. the world news the us active state rex to listen has hit out at north korea today accusing the secretive communist country of threatening of the entire world. well i comes out to pyongyang fired a missile over japan for the second time in less than a month. not prompted yet another meeting of the un security council today to discuss next steps. but it's mostly fools errand or who kay a now explains will lead to stoned all seem to see eye to eye on just how. pyongyang will not bow to the latest round of international sanctions this message was clear on friday
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as north korea launched its farthest reaching ballistic missile over japan. now western powers in north korea's neighbors are not doing enough to curb pyongyang's nuclear ambitions. us secretary of state rex tellers and encourage all countries to continue to take action against the regime explicitly mentioning russia and china. china supplies north korea with most of its oil rush has the largest employer of not korean forced labor. both countries maintain trade relations with the hermit state. australian prime minister malcolm turnbull echoed the us reaction emphasizing china's economic bargaining power. such said he before. the country with the greatest economic leverage iva. out north korea was china. not chinese at this might. and a body conduct of north korea but i have been allies for a very long time. lot of history there. sato did but it is important for china to continue. increasing the sanctions until we see a giant of course. by north korea and.
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china rejected the claim that it is a central actor in the conflict and although it strongly condemns the latest missile launch. it said that international sanctions are not a viable solution tell pulling teeth out. seller deir the focal point of the conflict is not china. the party raising tensions is not china the key to resolving the korean peninsula issue is not china. seeing has sheets sitting i. the kremlin called north korea's latest missile launch an unacceptable publication but did not address its economic relationship with the country. well earlier on the this month the un security council's fifteen members unanimously agreed to slap north korea with yet more. sanctions further reaching sanctions as you mentioned the security council has been meeting again today to discuss this latest provocation. well that's a meeting is underway of getting on the way we can cross not daniel hoffman stunning us. sonny by first appearance. headquarters in new york. and i think it's a for joining us what what we expect to come out of this
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meeting there. well probably as strong condemnation that probably also a call for de escalation essentially along the lines of what that the secretary of the. united nations on your the terrace already said earlier today at when he. expressed his sir in and that i the situation that in. korea. you know basically these and need. standard practice here at the un after each a missile launched from pyongyang of the security council usuall. organize a meeting called by the united states with its a japanese and south korean allies at but it's very unlikely to dead it's we will have. either in your resolution or even less than you at sanctions know the latest round of sanctions which they were considered it. toughest ever voted where adopted and less than a week ago last monday so it's very likely that they will add to add a new layer of sanction. at to date. but but once again what we can expect his media press to leave a condemning this lhasa and remember also that
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yesterday rex attila sunday the secretary of state. said that china and russia need to do more and needs to a condemned more strongly and the actions of north korea and with whom they have strong trading agreements. so we could also. be interested in seeing the divide between the united states on the one hand china and russia on the other han. okay so will is the full the way forward from hit daniel. that very clearly what we should expect is add to that to know what will happen during that the general assembly that of the united nation are he will most liky address the north korean issue. on thursday the the american president will also meet with their its japanese and south korean counterparts at earlier today will soon learn that said vladimir putin cool. french president a menu and the corn asking to engage in direct negotiations a with a on north korea and so probably this week at. this
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high level we and the united nations will be extremely importance and an interesting anecdotes. about that is that in an interesting twist of fate you know that that their countries represented atul nettle general assembly. at rotate every year and this year north korea will be in the front row wendell tramp will be at the podium of the united these at of the united nations general assembly. so it will be also interesting to her for their reaction to the speech. the the the. unusual unexpected development that thank you so mucuch to bring us up to speed. a daniel hoffman at the un in new. thank you very much. who is acting for a french journalist was arrested by turkish border guards last month say he has been released for the past seven weeks a twenty seven year old loop buell has been held on terror charges? after he found a position of photographs and interviews with kurdish militia fighters. bob you've always reports have been handed to the police pending deportation. the french president
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emmanuel my call who raised this issue with the turkish president. welcome the news describing it as and i quote a great relief. first it was just a mortimer is following that story for us in ankara and joins us now it just book tell us more about the background of the story. but why. buel was detained a more he was accused of. well micrornas sir a young twenty sevenen year old frenchmann who describes himself. one trip does the students journalists.. i've neeeed s sold his well. of strangnge and girirls fo german i t television channl is being to o syria. i he ws detatained in so low piaia turkrkish town on the iraqii border. on july ththe twenty six. when turkishsh police were alarmed to findnd boatloadsn his laptop. of himim standig with syrian kurdish armed
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milititia vitamin. my k kids. hohowever these were old picture so well some of f tm are apapparently taken those far back as t twenty thirte. nevertheless our. tech he decided to. . o out accccud him of membershship of a terrorist organized a some it didn't gives thehe terroriststs o organized a n bubut it was assumed to be. the syrian kurursh m militia the whwhite the g. whichch s allied to the turkish kurdish militia groro the pkpkk which is deemed to bea terrorist organization. by turkey the youou on the u. . now his lawyer and his fathther s so french univivy professor. protesteted new juries m msn's i'm also the length of his dick detetention iss l lawyr martin triried dale. said yu know what shouldn't take sue dede day. so that taught stewed verified that he is in fact a bonus the date journalist. okay in some water we on the
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spot about. why this the decision was taken earlier on today that he be released what triggered that you think just put? israelis comes less than twenty four hours after the french foreign minister owns our youth lead three at. matt's targets president red gym type odawa yererin on crcraig yesterdayy. so one has to conclude it does look truth for a french diplomacy. at the press conference yesterday no drown said he had urged the trucks you bring new bureau. out to court as soon as possible but no doubt he said malt b. but i think on top close. nutrients negotiaiating skills arere the s stance tn by. frenchch presidentnt emmanuel mccraw has impressed turkey you know turkey has few friends inn europe but the moment. our relalations with germany austria a and manitobaa
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netherlalands i have never been well us whilile in germany said the turkey can never joined the you. are under are the ones leadership. austria hosts called fororty you negotiations access some negotiated since with turkey to be ended. our and against that so are. my my no mccrone stands up and says no i'll let them negotitiations wilill turkey continue. that you'll needs turkey foror its strugglee against terrorism. and also in itsts battle to cocontain illegal immigration. so franz has becomee a valuable ally. also. okay well thank you very much indeed for that update from central is just for more tonight in ankara. excellent. no news in the face of growing opposition from baghdad be iraqi kurdish parliament has today held votes on paving the way for independence talks. but the outcome of that vote being approval for an independencece referendum in
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just ten days from now. with the move which is also generated alarming neighboring countries need to be in turkey. alice the saying the referendum plants could still a tech ethnic tensions and ththat it could mark the end ofof an era corporation. for thee last three years. i gogot an of f bill have e bn battling a a common enemy in the form of the islac state. no it's a voyage which began in nineteen ninety seven the next seven years wasn't all deceit assassin from where it sent back some four hundred and fifty thousand photographs. but today the cassini spacecraft transmitted for the very los times it plunged into the atmosphere of the ringed planet. from sony force souls mujer tells us more. nnsl these are some of the final images taken by cassini. just a few of the four hundred and fifty thousand pictures that the spacecraft is cacaptured in the past thirteeeen year. seen the scientists have learned invaluable information about some. during. namely the discovery of an
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ocean on the moon and solidus. and the moon titan. which resembles primordial or. findings mean microbial life could exist elsewhere. and it's that very discovery that made scientists decide not to like cassini just float around when it runs out of fuel. wanting to avoid the potential of it crashing into and contaminating the moon's they decided to crash the orbiting spacecraft. we had to make decisions on how to dispose of the spacecraft. and that led us inevitably. to the plan. of taking cassini and plunging it into saturn. because a planetary protection. and our desire to go back to enceladus for. three a cooperative project between nasa the italian and the european space agency's cassini was launched in nineteen ninety seven. and arrived on saturday two thousand four. in its grand
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finale cassini's diving into turn's atmtmosere it over a hundred thirteen kilometers an hour. all the while sending bits of invaluable information back to earth. with the end of an era that full. our exploration of saddam. it's time now for our business updates and you co roya joins me here in the city high that you can say. let's start with your first ripping tough risk is yours and finance mrs looking at. various different ways in which they can get beat tech giants to pay. more tax where they want to target tax optimization practices of by these companies like google amazon amazon an awful. at the idea proposed by franz east attacks the company's ten of us rather. the french finance minister says the there won't be any double tax in that. the informal meeting of eurozone finance ministers south today and will continue tomorrow as that the ministers will discuss this plan. clad rush reports.
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internet giants should pay more taxes in europe. the proposals spearheaded by french economy minister bruno the mayor. the target tech multinationals as google apple facebook and amazon. the initiative for a so called equalization tax. attacks digital giants based on revenue generated in eu countries. a potential big change for us tech companie. currently these groups are only taxed based on profits in the country of their european headquarters. leading many of them to establish residents in countries with lower tax rates such as ireland and luxembourg. this effectively allows online giants to avoid higher taxes. look growing source of frustration for some european countries. that has prompted germany italy and spain to back france's proposal. both cuckoos. is simple. just to tax a turnover i commend the state and even. of the largest internet companies we do not want to other
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attacks these companies. we are notot. pupunishing. or sing shooting them. we simply wants to ensure that or companies operating in europe. they their fair share off doc's. the french economy and finance ministry says that taxing revenue would be easier than changing corporate tax rates. however authorities have yet to find a way to calculate total revenue. the mayor is presenting his plan at a a meeting of eurozone finance ministers and estonia this weekend. paris hopes to have the support of other european leaders by december. in the united states industrial production in the month of august fell by not point nine percent the largest drop in more than eight years. ago hunters and as he sat there was hit hard by hurricane harvey. amamerican consumers also tighten that pass strings is retail sales unexpected be dropped north point two percent lastst month.
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now despite this latest economic data us stocks are now r rally mode. traders on wall street also seem to be ignoring the latest missile from launch from north kore. and other mean london or attacks in france. the dow appears to be on track for another record high finish of the week and nasdaq is also pulled higher by technology shas. s. and p. also trading in the green as you can see but here in europe the. markets closed in the red with london's fifty one hundred these in more than one percent. on the storm i and that's on a strong account. now stunning rose off of the month of england suggested it would stop raising interest rates seen. the pound rose one point three percent this friday against the dollar hitting its highest level since the brexit both in june of last year. renault nissan has unveiled an ambitious make time strategy the car maker says it will launch twelve only electric cars and the next six years. and introduced
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driverless technology into dozens more. french japanese alliance which not will saying please mitsubishi. is hoping to double savings through pooling resourcess. as the group says that the synergy savings will increase the more than ten billion euros by the end of twenty twenty to. see our college guy and says that will allow the company to sell lots more because they can listen. the lights would be saying this you got one five million cars. positioning it probably. ha. do top of the wheel w. st immunoassays. and we are intending and we are forecasting. the to be by the end of the plan. measuring without twenty three. at fourteen million cars. so this will generate addition finishes with a jury cruising this gap. some of the business headlines for you this hour. chess of credit agencies equifax dropped father of the company said the soft it said it found the soft meta. that that which was to blame for the massive data breach.
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and that it could have been fixed both before the credit festival pads. the hacking expose sensitive data of one hundred and forty three million american customers in addition the company admits that as many as four hundred thousand uk consumers may have had that has no information stolen. according to the financial times. bidding for the past four and that then we trump bankrupt last month. at has ended left hands and several other parties a place that base for parts of the country by the deadline set at midday friday. gemini second largest and i now with more than eight thousand employees has long struggle struggle for survival with over one point two billion euros in losses. over the past two yes. hearing frantz public servants a across the county a been coast the strike on the tenth of a favor to protest the government's plan too cut a hundred and twenty thousand public sector jobs. unions have called on all the poll of the country's point four million civil service to take to the
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street. it could be the largest will count. ten years. president michael says the job cuts will reduce public spending. by sixty billion euros. and then and micro strand to reform the country's labor laws has also been met with protests. but in the private sector more people have been getting senior positions and better pay in recent years. the number of cattle or manages increased by five percent in five years. and now represents twenty percent of france's back force jet dillard explains. in a competitive market a skilled labor force comes at a cost. the number of highly qualified executive employees in france has. salaries are. particularly in special i sectors. and the small paris based digital firm thirty five the employees are executives. they all receive salary increases every year twice a year for the most productive employees. still philly i got a ten percent raise in february we
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stand again recently. a couple months ago. i got a three percent raise doolittle. for the company's owner raises are not only a way to keep skilled and productive employees it's also a sound investment secondly cost moneyy but a m more skilledd experienced employee is a more productive employee. and therefore brings back money into the company. executive employees represent roughly twenty percent of the french work force. althouough the average national salary has in much change in the past decade. their salaries have grown considerably reaching fifty six thousand year was yearly before taxes. and because they're such a sought after work force the unemployment rate for executive employees is astonishingly low. three point five percent. when issue and we're expecting a record two hundred and twenty thousand executives recruited just this year it's never been this high seen or heard. between two thousand and ten and two thousand and fifteen the number of executive employees in france rose by five percent. over the same period of time
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the number of non executive positions decreased slightl. and tens of thousands of blue collar jobs disappeare. plus uncomfortable paid that at school from the business knees listen to their w
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