>> you are watching france 24, live from paris. it's time for 60 minutes from around the world. vladimir putin makes a surprisie visit toyria to declare victorory over the islamic state group. he said he will start pulling russian sources out of syria. the israeli prime minister defends donald trump's move to recognize jerusalem is the israeli capital.

he told european foreign ministers the decision will bring peace to the middle east. the paris football club will face real madrid in the final 16 of the champion's league. details is coming up. monday is climate financed a with a meeting of business and government leaders convening here in paris ahead of the summit tomorrow. that is coming up here and also, after hundreds of thousands of fans turning out for johnny holliday, he will be buried today on the french caribbean island. first, our top story live from paris.

last week, the announcement recognizing jerusalem as the israeli capital provoked criticism around the world are in the decision upended seven decades of policy. the move was welcomed by benjamin netanyahu. he got stiff criticism from paris. he'd defended his position in brussels. i believe even though we don't have an agreement yet, this is what will happen in the future. i believe most of the european countries will move their embassies to jerusalem and recognize it as the capital and engage robustly with us for security and prosperity and peace. solution is based on two

states with jerusalem the capital of both. it is our position and we will continue to respect the international concerns. four more now from brussels, let's go to o to dave. benjamin netanyahu was in paris and now in brussels. it he said he wants the eu to all of the u.s. lead and recognize jerusalem as israel's capital. it does not seem like that's going to be an easy sell in brussels. dave: i think that's an unlikely prospect in the short term. this is an awkward relationship. you could see it in the body language. she pointed out that an en route israeli prime mr. hasn't been here in 22 years. it was supposed to be a bilateral and the others joined

on. it was an awkward relationship. we have not seen any movement from any eu countries to recognize all of jerusalem as israel's capital. even the czech republic is limiting their recognition. macron talked about freezing settlement construction in the west bank. will they push that agenda? read that's going to be among the discussions today. they will be looking for some kind of reassurance. there is an assurance that with jerusalem,ition of they are kind of stepping back from their neutral role in the peace talks. this is an opening for the european union. i think france might be looking to get more involved in some of these issues. that will be on the table today. genie: dave keating reporting

from brussels. vladimir putin made a surprise visit to syria to declare victory over the islamic state group. he said he will start withdrawing some russian forces from syria, but they will keep its air and naval bases there. >> i gave this order as a general command. the russian will terry presence in syria has to come to an end. have a safe journey. i thank you for your service. oure: i spoke to correspondent in moscow. he said the timing is not a surprise. he declared he is the candidate for the presidency of t time, hishe fourth fofourth time asas president, he

might make the declaration couple of daysys ago. there is notothing random ababot the timiming of thihis. achievedo show he has what he wanted by making the decision to go in more than two years ago with russian forces and set up these two military bases. is is the airbase and there a naval base on the coast. he has achieved the military goals of his campaign, defeating the islamic state and backing assad to the hilt. it's very difficult in the peace process to talk about there not eating assad as the searing -- being assad part of the peace process. he says he has achieved his major goals. that is the crucial aspect of this.

speech,he said in his he said the speech have acted professionally, they acted heroically. now he is taking the peace process by the horns after this meeting at the airbase. he is going on to cairo. he will meet the turkish president. he will push t the version of te lease. -- peace. he wants to control the influence and main influence in syria after the conflict. genie: to get a bit more analysis and all of this, i am joined by nadya. you've been saying the russian president was in syria today to announce he is pulling out of syria. what role they played so far? changeshere have been

because of the role russia played since it entered the war. he talked about the important role that they have played in defeating the islamic state. they played a role in the groups demise and the ancient city, the fight against isis wasn't led by russia. it was a complicated international campaign. you had russian and u.s. planes bombing isis on opposing sides. where russia has played an instrumental role in this is on anti-assad rebels. they undermined the idea they could form an opposition to replace sod. -- assadad. that his help them very significantly.

it was around this time last year that the eastern part of aleppo fell out of opposition hands. that was a real stronghold. it was the heart of the anti-a sonnet movement. anti-assad movement. this was because of russian aerial power. celebration, he knows because of russia he is on the cusp of victory in syria. genie: now that the victory has been fully declared, what is russia hoping to do now? is it keeping the king in place? nadia: we see with the campaign wrapping up, it's peace here it it is piece on russia's terms. vladimir putin said he wants to kickstart peace talks are at russia has established a rival set of peace negotiations to the u.n. geneva talks.

they are been trying to lead diplomatic efforts. russia's goal is to get assad strong enough so he can be willing to participate. -- togime has climbed 2% participate because they knew they were not in a strong enough as it should. in the last two years because of russia, they are much more interested in trying to find a diplomatic solution to the war. there is a sea change among western leaders. dhey used to say that assa himself needs to go. the status quo has changed. it is unrealistic that he will leave. we may see more russian aspects to get the talks going. sad's future is not in doubt. you also see it's diplomatic prowess. they have been sidelined while

you have this russian, iranian, syrian block emerging that will shape the future of syria. genie: now to venezuela where the socialist party swept local elections the way condit by the opposition. the win prompted the president to say the opposition will be banned from next year's presidential race. here is more on that. robert: he is consolidating his grip on power. the venezuelan president has swept the board in sunday's local elections, winning the vast majority of matches. with three of the four opposition parties crying foul, he said he was banning them from next year's presidential vote. a party that has not participated today and has called for boycott cannot participate anymore.

that's what the national assembly has decided. robert: the parties all boycotted the polls. they accuse the government of being a corrupt system. the government bribed people to vote with handouts of food vouchers worth 500,000 ball of ours, more than a monthly wage. they have seen an economic melt down with millions struggling to find medicine and reeling from the highest inflation rate. genie: let's come back to france where the conservative opposition party has elected a new leader. he won close to 75% of the votes from party members. he will have to figure out a way of reuniting a very divided

parties and suffered a disastrous defeat in the presidential election this year. selena sykes explains. selena: he has the job. he is the new leader of the center-right party. he announced the parties come back. >> we sent a message that was very clear. tonight, we can say the right is back. the right will live up to its values, a party at peace with itself that no longer hides behind denial. selena: this is a shift to the right. he campaigned on an anti-immigration platform. ofis also a vocal critic emmanuel macron. in the second round of the presidential election, he

refused to back macron against the leader of the national front. his first task is to reunite his bitterly divided party. they lost 93 seats in the national assembly. moderate party members of already warned they could leave if he is not watering down his hard-line views. they could get behind the far right leaders like marine le pen. people in paris set a final farewell to johnny holliday saturday with one million turning out o on the shl still he's to say goodbye to the singer. a sean's the leaves we have more. >> a final farewell to johnny

holliday. his coffin was displayed one more time on the french island of st. barts people came out to pay tribute and say their last goodbye to the french rock star. he will rest in the small cemetery from the beach. he will be laid to rest in an ordinary grave, just like everybody else. he and his family fell in love with the island in 2008 here it they built this villa overlooking the sea. it was his little slice of paradise, where he could take a break k from the l limelight. >> there were more tranquil here than they were on the french mainland. we respect their privacy. the singer will be raid to last -- laid to rest on monday. this ends the week of tribute to the french rock icon.

the eiffel tower was lit up in his memory. genie: some football news for you, real madrid will face paris in the final 16. rinaldo.h will pit madrid finished as runner-up in its group. barcelona will take on chelsea. englishone of five clubs in the draw. it's time now for the is this news here and you're going to start with bitcoin. it is one step closer to legitimacy is futures contract started trading sunday. brian: you can buy or sell the crypto currency at a certain price in the future. the chicago board options exchange is the first to host bitcoin futures. prices on the first contract jumped rum $15,000 to more than

$18,000. the website crashed twice as trading activity was overwhelming. bitcoin is not regulated by any central bank. they open the currency to further speculation and possible bollocks only -- volatility. investors are looking ahead to meetings of the european central bank and the u.s. federal reserve later in the week. hsbc bank is leading the way. the dax down .1% area is just under flatline. monday is the third climate finance day. leaders and officials are meeting at the french finance ministry to globalize the french financial system. to tomorrow.y up

day,ore on world finance we are joined in the studio by brett fleischman. thank you for coming in. setnd us what goals were and where are we now? brett: thank you for having me. the big finance was a mechanism to help the global selloff, reduce emissions, adapt costs. it was the green climate find. it set a goal of $100 billion a year by 2020. that fund is about 10% funded. there are issues. the u.s. as you know committed $3 billion. was delivered by the obama administration. trop stepped in and the rest is

history. brian: they are shifting to a clean energy system. where does that figure come from? how much is public, how much is private? brett: the number we most vocus on from a grassroots perspective is the amount of money the institutions and government will be investing in fossil fuels. number of clean energy investment is only in relation to the amount of money invested in fossil fuels. if we keep pumping money in the wrong direction, any capital deployment or renewable energy is dragging a ball and chain. brian: we see volkswagen offering all electric models by 2030, teslas big power plant in australia. we have a list of natural gas

projects coming out in russia. is there risk that comes with investing in fossil fuels at this point if transportation and home energy shifts to renewables? brett: absolutely. we are looking at this as a science and energy blend. initiative,racker they showed the 15 largest infrastructure projects, 16 of them were at risk or above the limit. that equaled $280 billion of stranded assets. is in the fossil fuel fuel. it is not in the solutions pool. brian: you have norway shifting investments out of fossil fuels.

they are giant producer themselves. even the saudi's are diversifying their economy or looking too. is there a divestment trend? brett: i would not call it a trend, just a new standard. have to address carbon risk now. it is at the board level. everyone is having a conversation. there are over 800 institutional investors that have committed to some level of fossil fueled investment. they are not letting in whole -- coal. just two weeks ago, there was an announcement at the board level that they are looking at a portfolio, having set a screen on coal. much. thank you so the one planet summit is

tomorrow. there will be a close i kept on this. genie: thanks to you as well. it is time now for our press review. we have our look at the papers. the conflict continues to make headlines. benjamin netanyahu was in paris this weekend and in brussels today. cames informal breakfast on the heels of a stop in paris. that meaning is making front-page news. because the cover conservative israeli paper has chosen not to focus on the tensions in the meeting and how macron called for answers. he said he won't be taking the lead as the main negotiator in peace talks. that's an interesting twist.

it puts a positive spin on things. the u.s. is still holding on to its role as the main peace negotiator and partial peace negotiator. for the jerusalem post, that's a good thing, even if the impartiality is long gone. it is even more so now that donald trump made his announcement. genie: the israeli paper is focusing on france and israel. france could be taking a more active role in peace negotiations and paris is active in the middle east. they might do the same thing with the israeli-palestinian conflict area macron pushed netanyahu to explain his intentions in east jerusalem. the palestinians say that as their capital. genie: palestinians are making headlines today.

>> between rage and resignation, that is the cover of the lebanese paper. the beirut-based paper says even a protests continue, they are not as widely followed as some expected. resignation has worn out over rage. their journalists say that is because of an increasing distrust of the palestinian authority and its leader. the real loser of the announcement is abbas. he needs to speed up conciliation if he wants to -- reconciliation if he wants to regain the trust of palestininis whwho were worn out byby the violence and the lack of leadership. genie: the new york times is looking at this. while it happen if the palestinian authority collapsed? >> they have good explainers on the issue. and hypothesizes

that if the palestinian --hority collapses, police peace would be unlikely. the paper says israel would have to choose between being a jewish state or a democratic one. the times says that's because palestinians would not have a state and would eventually be entirely under israeli rule. genie: let's move to french politics. voted the head of the main conservative opposition party. >> he is all over the french papers this morning. nearly 100,000 party members voted yesterday for him. they backed the 42-year-old. that is more than the party expected. it's a real win or the senator. there will be no doubt that he

has a legitimacy of the right party. that's a change. the party has suffered from years of clinical infighting. rivals received 16% and 9% of the vote, he has a real mandate. genie: it doesn't mean it will be smooth sailing for him. politico, he is the bad boy of the right. he is a hard charging right-winger. he needs to win back voters. he may do that. you may copy donald trump. you can see a cartoon of him with donald trump's shadow. he has been criticized for courting the far right, much like trump. finally, french rock star

johnny holidays death took over so much of the press. there was a huge funeral in

announcer: 2007, and little samba kuli bali is on his way to make medical history. he's one of the first children to take part in a trial for a new vaccine against deadly meningitis. marie: many y countries in sub saharan africa have called for these vaccines because of this d dreadful and devaststatig disease which is called epidemic meningitis which wass