experience of restaurants will honor said yet headlines this hour. the west oil spill in decades threatens to devastate marine life in the south china sea a king of operation is on the way out. radiance time that sank. turkey's president accuses the united states of trying to create that terrorist only on its borders is washington pledges to help a kurdish fighters who defeated isis in syria. and french prisons were french prison warmest strike over working conditions up to three. inches wide inmates brandishing a knife.

we begin this hour with one of the west oil spills in decades a massive cleanup operation is underway in the south china sea offered iranian tanker sank. officials say old prune boards on a concerned as the senshi tanker was carrying tens of thousands of tons of crude. this bill looks set to devastate marine life had a roof has its rules. but. it's t the biggest oil spill and over twenty five years spreading over more than a hundred square kilometers off thehe coast f china. chinese rescue ships who struggled to distinguish the fire are now facaced with a major environmental disaste. mailer environmental protection is always one of our main focus is. and it remains a top priority no one wants a large scale second rate is

alalso. . from the world. e. the tanker senshi was carrying a hundred and thirty six thousand pounds of highly flammable crude oil fromm i iran when he collided with a hong kong registered cargo ship. on january six. the accident took place about three hundred kilometers east of the young she river estuary. this ship caught fire after the collision and saying in the east china sea on sunday afternoon. the crew of thirty iranians intoo bangladeshis are all believed have perished in the incidence. the oil slick and wreckage continue to blaze on thehe surface of the water after the ship sank forming an oil contamination built of condensate oil. and. is a hopeful life will and. eight say is quite different from the conventional below the eighties. this is all the time. and he will get into the air corps.

the condensate oil spill could have an unprecedented environmental impact on the east china sea and its eco system. poisoning the waters of this crucial spawning site for many large fish and aqaquatc mammals. well say in the region his schools of people have been injured said but incredibly nerve always kills off referral collapsed at the indonenesian stock exchange manyny of the victims were vivisiting students to recor by such a concrete and phil came down. this is a high rise building which dates back to the nineteen nineties and is part of a complex which is also home to the world bank and the international finance corporation. the mages spent between nato allies the united states and turkey president erdogan has threatened to strangle the us plans to help a kurdish. rebels in syria kurdish and arab fighters have seas large swathe of territory fromom defeated islamic stae vices but said he considers the kurdish fighters to be terrorists. and is

threatening to almost any minute you operation on the main walkie g. headquarters in the north of the country that seconds do at out speaking shellac a. should go. erica has a knowledge that is in the process of creating a terror army on our border. visit gender what we have to do is nip this terror army in the bud. bullman. two bombs ripped through the heart of a busy shopping district in baghdad today leading at least thirty eight people dead and over a hundred wounded. is the second such attack in just three days no groups it can just waltz ability to the iraqi capital baghdad. has repeatedly been the target of bombings and armed tax is islamic state group i've read large areas of the country in twenty fourteen comes with house rules. shattered glass this is the gaza. while blood stains puddles in the roads in the city all to familiar with such

carnage never the less in shock once again. so you know at around seven in the morning we were standing right here. once is a former was getting off the bus and the explosion happened. we saw flames and people felt on the ground some were rescued but others are. someone died right here. before this exclusion another massacre near the flag in the square. you know running away from that first exclusion in the second explosion. this wind gusts winds of here in the capital's teheran square during rush hour on monday. is a busy commercial hub where labour's got a in the early morning and the hope of finding work for the day. the interior ministry says the two assailants detonated explosive belts in the crowds missions he said this is rush to the square. the forces cordoned off the scene. prime minister haidar al abadi quickly held emergency meeting with iraq's operations command and

intelligence officials. in which she ordered the security of civilians to be shored up. monday is measured comes just two days after another suicide bomber kills at least four people as a military checkpoints in the north of the capital. palestinian leaders are holding a second day of talks as they seek response to donald trump's decision to recognize jerusalem as the capitol of israel. let me was described as a slap in the face by the palestinian president's inferior speech last night in ramallah hold abbas. also blamed israel for killing off the also calls israeli leaders said comments show the eighty two year old is lost is waits. i hate the things that palestinian president mahmoud abbas said. he exposed the truth. tore o off the mosque the ad he brought to the general public the simple truth that have been workiking to make nine over many yearsrs. that the roots of the conflilict between us andnd the

palestinians. isis thatt containers refusal to recognize the jewish state also kosher. where he now sees the fallout from president trump's alleged disparaging comments about developing countries south africa? has summoned the us is senior diplomats from a the offending comments. allegedly during a meeting with you i said this is all three has denied making statements as s well as. accusations that he is crisis. time he has had to say that you have to say he's not racist on sunday he told reporters he was the. least racist pass and they were never in. all of this on ma. king junior day that is a huge holiday in the us about americans comes to get us to remain at the great civil rights hero of willfulness goes to washington dc our correspondent. fitted crowther is that and fit as i said trump once again having to come out and say that he is not racist but on

a day like today it is particularly unsettling for a lot of people isn't. yes absolutely it is and that includes the family of modular thinking junior who have been commemorating his life today would have been his seventy ninth. birthday into it has given us the child'd's to hear from famiy members of makhunik thinking junior his eldest son is martin luther king the third he was also about those comments that the us president reportedly made in the oval office about. developing countries as you say and. he didn't outright say that he believes the president as a racist but pretty much i had that sentiment so when you describe that the u us president according to those reported close. said he would prefer a people from a white majority countries like norway would immigrate to the united states rather than from black m majority countries like many countries in africa and hating we've also heard from the daughter of modern music in junior that's bernice of reverence but he's. came as she also criticize the us

president today neither of them were in the white house when the us president proclaimed mas include a king day. for this monday full it today we also heard from another of the big civil rights icon's here in the united states congressman john lewis of georgia he says it out rice he says that he believes. donald trump is a racist now the us president himself is inn florida walls playing golf just a short while ago at one of these clubs that and he as you just mentioned has had to response to all of this criticism that caught has come his way. again he has again how to say i am

not a racist it's not she s. were very good souls as you say that's he did and thohoe includes. decked out and he's a senator from illinois who was actually in the meeting he was interviewed again today he says that that word was used at walls bald allying which used by the us president added that he knows exactly. which words we use now a white house interestingly enough has not been doing since these first revelations come out came out and they were reported by the washington post they by the way sticking with that story. entirely the white house hasn't tried to change the sentiments of this discussion on the words of the us president the sentiments being he doesn't wantnt immigraration from developing countries like haiti like many countries in africa and from el salvador.

but would very much welcome immigration from a country like norway which coincidently of course is majority whites in the meantime yes we are looking into whether that's words walls use all knowledge and we've heard from republicans who were in the oval office as well. for this meeting about immigration interestingly enough to members of congress both of ththem republicans initially said they didn't recall what donald trump had said exactly. now they are saying he didn't use that exact words a i can tell you that when you hit a us president saying something like that about a whole continents and about strike blocking acceso

you jails off and down the country stuff calling for back to security office three. offices were injured when an inmate attacked them with a knife just last week. this is a phone on the value a high security jail in northern france a jail which stuff members say it simply isn't secure enough. this monday prison guards of use whatever they can find to block access to the sites. old washing machines or burning size to make better choices heard. will be tied to burn. why? so have things changed. for more live out there asking us to do with armed inmates with nothing with no equipment with nothing saw him. the industrial action was organized and to warn inmates of former. militants lunged at offices with scissors and a razor last week injuring three. but.

the director of the jail has announced he's stepping down but i move hasn't been big or bold enough to somehow the things of unrest. french president has been quick to act cooling for the prison system to be radically modernized. the. you know this company had asked that a new prison plans drafted by the end of february this plan will cover not only the questions of infrastructure. that also prison staffing those working in surveillance location and insertion. the president's words have though come to relate runs a way you have nationwide relocates with riot police deployed in the paris region and strike action. chaos prisons is also as the young and must say. so m more about the situation that i'm enjoying by a gate on silicon long from the universe is stressful and the couple the

all the european monitoring all female policies. thank very much for being with us. on france24 tonight now at prisison o overcrowding is s sesending outut a problem tt specific differences it but. just howow bad is it in broe compared to other countriris how much stress all the warden's t o offic o on the hihit. so in. yeah we did have a little bit of sound. trouble that. we're gonna try and a gate on you can on whether you can move in and try and get back to it later in the program because we of lucy callahan what you are saying we are the same for also. busy measured actress katharine to nerves in pages again she said apologised to victims of sexual assault is just days after she signed and not an actor. with ninety nine of the french german denouncing the online social media me too is that

it's set sexual harassment she and others going at a puritanical which sounds. let's call it sought to fear is backlash internet said today that she wanted to clarify a position it is tom alone that i offer my apologies. the letter claims that the me too movement had gone too far leading to a puritanical attack on sexual freedom. it was also widely seen as suggesting that women who are victims of sexual harassment should just get over it. the letter elicited a wave of condemnation from other women around the world who said that you know that its authors were using their privilege to trivialize sexual violence and it they misunderstood me to movemen. old. letter details of all

of the stereotypes that we here at the coffee machine or a family dinner. from an out of touch male all we can't say anything anymore. the fact that we allegedly can't say anything anymore or that we can say less than we could before for me that's good use. the hashtag need to and it's french acquittal into battle stone bar galvanized tens of thousands of women who share their experiences with sexual harassment and assault. in france the hashtag has led to a few public dismissals of man accused of sexual misconduct. despite this in her latest letter catch needed of stood by the original tax claim the need to movement is a witch hunt. what is that action of the story becoming free here in france? about the prisons because. warden so often and country have been striking today that she preventing access to the prisons they are very angry about the. security

situation of the three offices were injured by inmates at all through the knife edge to work but i'm joined by gates on she can offer the university.. stressssful and. and i was trying to say to you earlier at prison overcrowding is is not a problem specific differences it but how much was all french prisons compared to. other european countries. the result is raises died st forty six years old her publicist brittany's a short while ago she was on a trip to london for a recording session. at the cause of her death has not been made public a you will of course not of some of the bands hit selling gas and somebody at the. is she was famous ones.

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age of forty six. now decide reminder of our headlines of us ready for the salamander eighteen up on the way in the south china sea off the worst oil spill i in decades is threatening to devastate marine life there in iranian sank at sank. off the coast of china at today. turkey's president has the keys the united states of trying to create it terrorist all the on his country's borders. washingtonon pleledges to op the kurdish forces who have isis in syria. and israeli leaders have accused the whole of asa showing his true colors of the palestinian leader. cast the us president are the jerusalem and said he also he's crisis to me day. let's get says and it is usually activities with us this year i to hate. this

out with a the collapse of a british construction giant that lots of jobs at at risk as well as. stories and tens of thousands of jobs really at risk karelian has some forty three thousand employees around the world out half of them in the uk. government which had hundreds of contracting kirlian for construction as wellll as maintenance and public services has promised to fill the gapap whihile nw contracts are are awarded. us jennings has more. overwhelms right huge financial troubles when the u. k.'s largest construction companies is going into the quotation. caribbean happen insults of this land is on constructios many government contracts. at risk of disruption of major projects like the haitians to high speed rail line that would connect the uk's major cities. as well as the schools and prisons that caribbean manages.

firms also the second biggest supplier maintenance seices to network rail and it maintains fifty thousand times for the ministry of defense. the uk government has drawn criticism for not doing more to help the struggling from. this fight the. the companies that it is is contracts to because clearly the country in a number of avenues is heavily reliant on karelian. a think secondly what it calls to. mopping these companies if of running into about time they have to seriously rethink a sausage it continues off of contracts because ultimately. they all put themselves in a very isd to beat its arch rival boeing i in thehe final ovew

of twenty seventeen. receiving orders for over one thousand one hundred planes compared to nine hundred and twelve for its american competitor. that good news was overshadowed by the public admission the airbus may have to pull the plug on production of its flagship super jumbo jet eighty three eighty. can't find some more buyers arrogantly explains. it's the world's largest passenger jet. a double decker plane with eight hundred and fifty three seats. but the airbus a three eighties days may be numbered. the company warned it may have to suspend production of the super jumbo jet if it doesn't secure new orders. so quite honestly at. it we can'tt work out a del with ever is i think there is no choice but to shut down the program. but i'm hopeful that we'll work out a deal with evers and others can add airplanes on top of that. there must suffered a major setback last november amorous airlines is expected to order thirty six eighty three eighties. but chose instead to invest fifteen

point one billion dollars in boeing airbus's biggest competitor. demand has reached a stand still. with no new orders in twenty seventeen the last order was over two years ago when japan's erin upon airways but just three jets. that came three years after amorous ordered fifty aircraft in twenty thirteen. since his inauguration in two thousand and seven airbus has sold just three hundred and seventeen eighty three eighties. among the reasons for the sluggish sales the cost four hundred and thirty seven million dollars per plane. and some airports even had to build larger runways in order to accommodate the jumbo jet. honesty visit in early january french president emmanuel michaels said he hopes chinese companies we including three eighty orders and a partnership with airbus. it may be the best bet for the jumbo jet survival as china is expected to become the world's biggest air travel market by twenty twenty two. you can only days trading

action now minor losses across the board in europe in london curling shares were suspended although rivals in the industry saw a slight boost. ushers dipped about half a percentage point wallstreet is close this monday the us marks martin luther king day. moving on from the days of the business headlines now. this is a perfect first round of austerity measures and reforms despite protests by thousands of people in the streets of athens. changes will make it harder for his call strikes me up for closures and restructure family benefits. creditors have acquired reforms is part athens bailout program which we reviewed by eurozone finance ministers next week. ford will more than double its original investment eleven billion dollars into its efforts to develop electric car program. hopes to have forty hybrid and fully electric vehicles in its model line up by twenty thirty to. major in fact there's been racing to develop green technology is governments around the world increase pressurure on pollutution levevels.

center stage at the detroit auto show. and south korea's government is still considering a built in fan crypto currencies. industry experts before pushing ahead. you know last week cause confusion and a sell off of digital currencies liked it quite. speaking of bitcoin the world might be running out of it that sounds like an unlikely warning for a currency that exists only in digital form. the industry says that eighty percent of all bit queens have already been mind and gone into circulation. now it was launched in two thousand nine twenty one million cryptocurrency tokens were created