good evening he served as national church and. the u. s.. today michael flynn pleaded guilty to lying to the fbi. ongoing probe advice as. mona. told president donald trump. trump calls the probe a witch hunts moscow also denies any role in trying sway. what is election? spadea. but analysts according today's developments a major escalation pharmaceuticals catherine vs has this repor. a guilty plea by michael flynn. in a statement three nick now is making false statements to the fbi about his russian contacts and city took full responsibility for his

actions. the charges were brought by special counsel robert muller and are part of the ongoing probe into alleged russian meddling in the two thousand and sixteen u. s. presidential election. flynn donald trump's ex national security advisor has also announced he's cooperating with malaise in sedition. says he's prepared to testify that senior members of trump's transition team ordered him to make contact with the russians. it's a dramatic escalation that could bring muller closer to those in trump's inner circle and even the president himself. given a universe of potential charges against mike flynn it also indicates he must be providing substantial cocooperation bob muller. b because. if lawnmowers near for go with those other potential charges must be having something of value in terms of. jennifer's cooperation. blaine is a fourth in self fire most senior figure from the administration indicted in this sprawling in the the asian.

white house lawyers seeking to distance the president from the proceedings said that nothing about the plea implicates anyone othther tn flynn. leona such bill powell who's the senior washington correspondent for newsweek magazine this is what he told. i think i i serves to raise questions at all but his most die hard. on them so managing i don't wanna hear supporters sure i think it raises on. questions. but it's also true that that. an incoming national security advisor during the transition. can meet and talk withh. . born officials with with soon to meet counterparts you can talk with. a russian ambassador without that being necessarily a crime. there is also i think. as someone who. who arrived here earlier this year after? a career

spent most as a foreign correspondent. there is an anti russian hysteria in this town. which even given all we know. is a little bit over the top. . now if in fact flynn or anyone else has information. more evidence that that. the trump campaign was colluding with. the russiaian government to damage hillary clinton or into some why a need. trump's ever to become president that obviously is down and that comes out the president will be impeached. . so it but but there's a big there's a big distance to travel between where we are now. and and that. .. and i think it's j just a question is.

isn't molars investigation. so that. any hassle as primary know that that is to say was investigation is not limited to the collusion question we see that in the end in the in the in the indictments o. of his formerr campaign chairman paul man afford and his deputy rick gates. so there there are. several and i and. understand deepening surrounds. to this investigation and only onene of them is the notion of collusion or the trump campaign being in cahoots with. with vladimir putin and russian operative. it just rossi briefly if you will. michael flynn is one of the vocal. people leading that cool locker up the. food recalls hillala clinton and the the so called email scandal. water the consequences looking like for him it is he now realistically face.

. the possibility of all of of time in custody. a sure potentially s. online too the fbi is is isa serious charge and he has he has. admitted to it now clearly he he has. cut a a plea deal with. the special prosecutor. and maybe that will completely eliminate. a any a any jail time. or maybe it would be. extremely minimal we don't know yet. but sure he faces consequences for for for this plea the there's no question about that. and that was a bill powell cdo ocean course on of the music's dickinson unilatera. we will announce you of the world news an executive at the swiss french cement to make a lot files has today being charged with indirectly financing. in what will syria. zealand make astounds accused of paying islamic state group as well as other militant organizations. via middle notot in orderr o carry on with the operations

in the north of the country. willll companies a also suspecected of usingg fake consulting contracts to buy fuel from the jihadists france24 mario sophos has this report. the first indictments of for the franco swiss group lafarge wholesome offered detention of several days three executives of this in america were presented to a judge. charged with financing a terrorist company violation of the european regulations are endangering the lives of others. bruno pasha director of the syrian subsidiary from two thousand eight to two thousand fourteen and some vote they are degree of security director. frederick boss successor to bring up issue is also under examination the thousands in the suspected of having paid money to jihadist organizations. including lots of islamic states. they did so so they could continue to operate the jalebi up plans in old in syria from twenty thirteen to twenty fourteen. greener pasture is also accused of endangering the lives of

others as employees had no choioice but to collaborate. yeah because forced us to go to work despite the risks. the former director of the plants has already confirmed payment students. who also taking commission hundred the rest the reverts islamic state group? payments of up to a hundred thousand dollars per r month. the recent days the police increase the pressure on the come. allowed search lasted two days last november. according to sources close to the investigation is good enough because in the former ceo of the french giants he could soon be summoned by the judges. no serious it she for government negotiators as a his delegation cattle take part in meaningful talks in geneva unless the opposition dropped his demand that president bashar assad. plays no role in an interim government. hello bashar al jaafari made those coincident interview with the eleven on page tv channel on my a gene.

but it's not yet clear if the syrian government allegation. join the talk three. when the war in syria is now in its seventh year has resulted in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people so far. all previous rounds of peace talks have failed to make progress. but francis says that eighty meeting with a group of rohingya refugees in bangladesh those you as a just a small fraction of the six hundred and twenty thousand. muslim minority for neighboring ghana being forced to flee will the u. n. is calling a campaign of ethnic cleansing against them. withdraw is a in ghana earlier in the week that holds if avoided using the term rohingya is it could have offended his hosts. busy he did use it articles on sunday has this report. mmhm. not all those. we often condemned on this. this is a few. more g..

yeah. risky. lupe ditched diplomatic language on friday a truly the one he had so diligently avoided sunny days earlier during a visit to burma. leading up to the track the topic of how he would address the crisis. and a subject of much speculation. his advisers hardwood franz's that using the word rohingya one of them. could aggravate a tense. support the country's. more christian population grows. politically speaking muslims have lived in the country's restive rajoy state for decades. analog recognized as citizens. they have limited access to education. health care homes implements. a deeply moving speech on his asian tour the particles for the given is. form of the rohingya minority has suffereded in t the face ofe world's indifference. a group off sixteen refugees have the opportunity his speaker leader of one point two billion catholics world

lines. he listened to the stories and times. crossing the homes. more than six hundred thousand rohingya refugees have fled irma since august twenty fifth streaming across the border to neighboring bangladesh which is struggled to deal with the influx. acetatate when e lease is brutatal crarackdon lurking insurgents b began. over they reportedly killed twelve people in attacks on police pays. since then about two hundred seventy hoffman of religiou. houthi england's. at least nine people have been killed in warm thirty others wounded in the north western pakistani city of peshawar. where taliban militants disguised in burke is storm to the campus of an agricultural college in the early hours of this friday morning? most people were sleeping when the sound of gunfire began to ring out across the campus. as the gunman went from room to room searching for students. well the pakistani taliban

has claimed responsibility if he attacked it later released a video showing how events unfolded. was exactly three years ago the taliban gunmen killed a hundred and thirty four children at school in this very same city. with snow falling heavily in moscow today coaches from the thirties you countries to take part in next year's world cup assembled in the main hall of the kremlin earlier on. for ceremony at which the draw was held its only who's gonna pay against to. all hosts russia will play saudi arabia any opening game in moscow on the fourteenth of june. the current world cup holders germany have been drawn in group f. together with mexico sweden and south korea and france. as you can see that found itself in groups easier with australia peru. and denmark with more we can cross not a football analyst george alec who joins us from london. george everyone's all seeing this question. what do you regard as being the group of death?

this indecision woke up. i think probably all insane is very. a very very slow moving qualifying so if on the likes of nigeria who was asking seems qualified. and europeans exile i stand here in and found out and i will kovler and croatia's i think also on the it prince will. a frog after every will face on from that was also lucky that can be tricky to. argentina by no means actually zaghari not in. okay just looking at the. that the draw of arundel the ceremonies surrounding it you getting impression that everything's ready for a decision of the world cup next year. i know her name now home i think there's some this aliens the leasing building pay looks in except i think no maybe he's looking at and as always. and i'm is and he's on quite ready yet that he himself enough time i think that come next you never engineer in liverpool

is another amazing tone. yeah what other who says russia rank lowest out of old. the teams in the. taking part in the world copper are. good a surprise a student. they can do and i think host nations janet carrie well because you have big support behind the and i in. why the hell hound her impulsive and go joining gruppe we delighted i do i do think that russia and poland accredited seems he wants is a jewel? body set u up here supports and are being impolite is is a big big causes if i should not and as saudi arabia and you open up a month it out of the way and and the reason why congress all. you our schools in the united kingdom over how you were. raising the chances of all of all of the anguish and. out a lot form on on russian soil it is yeah andd

off didn't that. properly get points enegry they should qualify pretty easy in and in the second round up a one a fat one of poland's grief as well so. it looks like the ones we love him in a while cap and that he hopes is in here and that they should d do well that wouould certainly. sine that video. okay overblown lists a george eric in london thank you very much indeed for sharing that with us. today is world aids day a day organized by united nations a thirty three year in a row with the goal of raising awareness about virus an estimated thirty seven million people across. most adolescent deaths from aids are in sub sahara africa. referrals thirty four teams who take us now to meet a team of people

whose aim is the race aids awareness. on the streets here in france. meet the wandering pleasure brigade. the name might means you love but there at this paris university with a serious same in mind. getting eighteen to twenty four year olds take the risk of aids seriously. gentle buff of y young people arent necessarily less well informed most people know that he thought he exists but they don't necessarily feel it concerns them. they say it's all the bullets gnomeo worth. it's true that a lot of. learn. tested right here on can. the truck goes wherever it's needed with everything. that didn't hurt. that's s. doesn't take long. early all fidgety us all and i already have the results. output in the solution. your negative. no hot.

but some still miss the point with hiv around for so long they consider it a part of the landscape as sounded. even if your screen for you can live a moral less normal life with the men even if it's heavy goings. i think people fully it's less a serious disease that a chronic one that as clinton's. for charities like this one it's now over to schools and parents to get the message across by breaking down taboos. well we don't talk about cases of homosexuality we don't talk about sexuality is seoul. we don't talk about risky practices. the school avoids alliance because the states is pulled back in those areas and since we now have treatment. despite decades of prevention and awareness campaigns it seems there's still some way to go. since early suggested that some thirty percent of eighteen to twenty four year olds wouldn't be comfortable with a friend he was hiv positive. it is time now for a check of the top business news i'm joined by bryant quinn and

the bryant really begin. in australia with a pretty cool story this juan tessler has just scored. something of a cuba comes the renewable energies also about it right a big bet for eli must in its payoff tesla has succeeded in building the world's largest lithium ion battery in south australia. just gone online part of a government plan to shore up its energy grid after a string of damaging blackouts last year. almost had put himself on the spot promising that the renewable energy storage system would be online within a hundred days of signing a contract. or other would be free. so his eyes reports. from about some sweats at suu reality tesla has switch on the world's largest lithium ion batteries south australia. delivering on the promise made by the energy company's boss at o mosque to build a system within a hundred days or provided for free. the south australian prime minister said about she was history in the making process a little edgy.

this is an example of south australia leading the world and the world's largest lithium ion battery. it's right here in jamestown in south australia. and it's already supplying pad sitting ash electricity market. a hundred megawatts battery which is connected to a wind farm costs around forty two million euros and comparative thirty thousand homes for one hour. south australia has recently been crippled by a series of blackouts causing businesses eighties. it in your. including one and and austria wedding and so i state lost power often being hit by a storm. the crisis prompted the government some beta four hundred sixty four million your energy prime. advocates say about she represents a breakthrough and societal energy by enabling the. some of local sometimeses wn power international gradess. that's has has passion farm where the speed the world's largest. construction has

already begun in as a ladies on a project witchell have one point one million batteries and three point four million sort of panels. republicans in the u. s. senate believe they have the votes to pass landmark tax overhaul bill friday senate in session now final vote on that bill is expected sometime soon. republicans confident that they can muster fifty votes to pass with vice president mike pence coming in as a tiebreaker if necessary. many conservative republicans have balked at the bills price tag to the country's budget though the most recent analysis as it would increase the u. s. national debt by one trillion dollars over ten years. president donald trump and gop leaders insisting the corporate tax cuts in the bill will help ordinary americans. at losing both hiring and wages but several corporations have already said that's not likely to be the case let's listen. ceos of fizer cisco coca cola said that's not what we're gonna do if we had a significant rate cut we're going to give that back to our shareholders in

dividends and stock buyback. so how is the billl likely o affect americans household finances. congressional budget office released a report taking into account changed attacks build and deserves is like medicare and medicaid. the upshot is diminishing returns for any tax bracket. for some of the lowest in. as per year the bill will cost them a forty eight hour as per year right off the. but he seven hundred eighty eight dollar hole in their budget by twenty. seven households near the median income fifty seventy five thousand dollars per year will start with an eight hundred twelve dollar benefit but by twenty twenty seven will see hundred thirty nine. i lost even the richest americans who will benefit the most see there's benefits going down from around fifty nine thousand dollars per year and the just around nine thousand and ten years. wall street's been giddy this week over that impending tax bill the dow looking for its sixth straight hague day of gains friday. but news of former top trump advisor michael

flynn pleading guilty to charges winds the fbi sent equities index is plummetin. they're on the rebound though is that tax bill gains momentum however the down as in p. still down between three and four tenths of a percent. the nasdaq down around six tenths of a percent. european indexes closing lower tech stocks and automakers leading the way down. moments with you one hundred with the least damages uk factory activity had a four year high frank for dax and paris's cac iran each to losing over a percent. i air france has launched a new low cost airline called june. . airlines target mart mobiles passengers will find programs from vice land and red bull tv and dining offerings include organic apricot compote. but is the strategy is sustainable business model. arrogantly take a look. it could be the end of no frills budget airlines june a subsidiary of air france is looking to seduce

millennials with tech savvy flight attendants that will serve modern siebel's like out of juice and organic quinoa salads. a risky endeavor to marry low prices with traditional service see you know over here or we're trying to envision the travel of the future based on current trends in travel habits. also. i ththink choice in personalized travel biggest different from other low cost airlines we have a diverse fight offered kills you know because usually all set of of yes you. june's first flights take off today. just thirty nine euros to fly from paris to major european cities including parto lisbon barcelona and merlin. and from spring twenty eighteen on the company will expand its offer to include long haul flights to brazil in the seychelles for less than three hundred euros. and also to egypt south africa and iran. the company plans to reduce expenses by cutting cabin crew cost. june steward will be paid less than their air france

counterparts false also and trouble is rapidly growing and we want our share of that growth. the use of this new subsidiary will allow us to do that go back on the offensive. and france more competitive. but for the long haul flights gym opens tough competition. securely from premium airline companies from the gulf countries. but also from other low cost competitors like norwegian. along with hop entrance abbia june will be com air france's third airline company. let's take a look at some of his top business headlines now. royal bank of scotland plans to close a quarter of its branches six hundred eighty jobs are expected because the banks of the nearly two hundred sixty retail outlets. rts is customer visits to its branches are down forty percent since twenty fourteen as more people turned online may. jim also is heading nearly two huhundred ninety jobs in france. digigital security companies as reduced demand for. penny bank ours and mobile

sim cards is driving a decision that represent ten percent of tomatoes. work force companies lost over forty percent of its value this year. point of general motors is china avengers is recalling nearly one million vehicles. say i gm rulings is fuel tank problems in well how june cars are prompting a recall twenty seventeen. a meter auto recalls in china with gm related ventures reported in september to be recalling two and a half million cars. airbags. a u. s. regulators have said that big going futures will be allowed to trade on major markets. you know currencies price roast him ten thousand five hundred dollars on that news after a roller coaster week. value rocket to eleven thousand following back. hundred. the decision by the commodity futures trading commission could lead to greater mainstream legitimacy for. it our regulatory scheme. finally for business outrage over beverage discrimination

the world's largest beer brewer has been accused of abusing its dot armaments in belgium. says anheuser busch inbev deliberately kept. beer imports from reaching belgian consumers. prices higher their complaints as the company purposely change the packaging on jeweler and the left fears in france and the netherlands to make them harder to import from those countries. back into belgium where there are more expensive. seems awfully cold move to pull on the thousands tom given appears kind of a thing. yeah elson the country of my buff the story china thank you. shinji brian couldn't wait today's edition of a business army backhoe possible i paris time to go

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