difficult. reporters plus on france24 and france24 dot com. the french happily watching live from paris of france24 until bushels these our top stories. the called sitting at a midnight deadline united states faces the prospect of a government shutdown the first in nearly five years. the leaders of france and germany that on the show to unity here in paris johnson muggles political survival. hinges on the outcome of events this weekend. another attack cold prison guards this time in corsica. &-rd to keep order in front is jails.

good evening agency backdrop ofof a looming g governmentt down the united states president donald trump has been forced to cancel his plans for a weekend at his florida resort. where he which more or have been celebrating one year in office unless a deal is struck by midnight tonight? federal agencies and begin shutting down and placing nonessential cellphone leav. resolve it hasn't happened in eighty five years. will also like the house of representatives voted in favor of a budget bill and extending government funding but the other chamber now he's devotional not build. a democrats look intent on blocking it that's because they won't any budget deals

include protection of undocumented immigrants known as dreamers. who ends of the u. s. is children and they will be protected from deportation overall circles kidded who has more now almost a shut down might mean the security operationd law enforcement would continue? there would be delays to pay for military personnel and the lace to dealing with such paperwork as passport applications. national parks monuments and museums would also be close. the stop gap funding. i was on thursday evening now faces uncertainty and senate republicans need sixty senators. until february sixteenth and most democrats in. the republican senators have already said they would vote against. the finger pointing has

already begun side leaning the other end president trump for a failure to reach a budget compromise. do not shut down the federal government. the only people standing in the way of keeping the government open our senate democrats. there is a government shutdown or not is now entirely up to them. who's really the president. in the morning is one of and in the afternoon is another. there's little discussion coordination between the president and the gop leadership here. democrats have been demanding that any budget deal included protection of seven hundred thousand on immigrants known as dreamers should recently were protected by the deck a program. and so congress have shown no sign of meeting those demands offering instead the six years extension of the children's health insurance program. in its chancellorr democratic support. well we can cost now to our white house correspondent philip craw the.

but is it is sometimes should happen. yes very likely at this point because they're also lost minute negotiations last minute folks and they don't seem to lead to a results so far there's alslo miminute talks between t ths president donalald trurump t the white house. and chuck schumer shows throughoutt te as senate minority leader they got together at the white house chuck schumer this were told to return to the u. s. congress said the progress but was made. but that new deal had been reached between the two and it is precisely between those two most likely where deal would have to be made. between the whites because the white house has to negotiate essentially for the government not to shut down adds democrats in the senate so far all refusing to go along with that bill that was very to through the house of representatives yesterday as you mentioned. democrats in the senate

wants protection for the so called dreamers for. these immigrants to that i arrived in the united states illegally. with that parents as you can here at this is all about keeping the government running their all sorts of bits and pieces other added to these pieces of legislation. and that explains why there seems to be this showdown right now at the eleventh hour almost between republicans and democrats and with the white house in between as well. okay so the clock is tickin. just a few hours in fact and to c come up witith a deal n if they managed to do that a deal is struck always gonna fight also is exactly the same position we're in right now. it just for another four wt takes the can down the road

essentially about every year the u. s. government has to go through this to keep its finances flowing essentiall. and there aren't any moves right now to keep that from happening the reason why there is. this kind of bickering essentially between republicans and democrats every single time almost every month about keeping the government's going. is simply because the two sides agree on anything and this is an opportunity for democrats and republicans to add things to a spending bill like this one in this case it's about immigration republicans are trying to make this. about the military it's a pretty complex issue but at the end of the day it looks like the most likely outcome at this point would be for the government's to essentially run out of money at the end of the day. and people would be furloughed essentially they be told all to come into work on monday government workers that is

and then museums would be shot down national parks as well and they'd be all sorts of other stuff happening. at it wouldn't look very good for this country of course and maybe the person who looked worse would be the us president it tends to be the white house thahat is blame. when the government shuts down the last time was twenty thirteen barack obama was in office and he was largely blamed for it. okay well thank you very much indeed. other at the white house thank you so much again. we will use now he turkish defense minister said today that missiles on a kurdish control and pay the north in soil. to be shot down residuals erin okay as a small. the shelling intensified around midnight. potentially

opening yet another front in the syrian civil war. to the turkish defense minister the turkish military started offensive in the african region in northwest syria on friday. targeting syrian kurdish fighters. anand thahait woud be hard accounts and everybody has some of his it out again. we have lived of course t this kind of operation is an important one it's a cross border operation and as it's being mounted we need to do whatever it takes to a certain extent. to minimize possible losses. getting and now us only unless you anchor at claims the kurdish people's protection units or ypg militia. is an extension of kurdish rebels fighting for autonomy in turkey. the ypg militia controls strategic northern syrian towns including man beach

and african. over the past few days thirty has deployed tanks and troops to the syrian border. and tension mounted on thursday when turkey's foreign minister went to moscow to see question approval for the planned operation. this comes just one day after the u. s. against isle militants in the region. tensions between the us and turkey increase from washington announced plans to create a border r securiy force in n northern syria. that would include thousands of ypg fighthters. a white g spokesman has said the ypg will respond with ututmost force tax on africa. brings run and the months of speculation egyptian president abdel fattah cc as announces a short while ago. that he will indeed be seeking a second term in elections elections which he held in late march a run off vote is adding an to be held a month later for the candidate manages to secure an outright majority. will during the couourse of the

next week we should find out he's planning to challenge cc. cabinets half until the twenty ninth of january to register at the intention to run. for. the germans also angela merkel and president's in not comparable show of franco german you to see him paris today. this is they try to agree on reforms too y years i. will together france and germany account for about fifty percent about posing the single currency area. making them central to the reforms but in recent weeks johnson mogul has been focused on. issues because a higher maybe the formation of a coalition unnatural much a political survival hinges. expectation is that she will manage to clinch a deal with the center left social democrats during the course of the weekend. however president michael refused to be drawn into trying to predict the outcome of those events.

a justice of the spdr he will issue a say on this sunday with regards to sports organizations and the start of coalition negotiations. you know that our employees he commanded it is not my job to comment on the internal politics of our ally and partner. posted he'd. general knowledge can say is that the luminary talks outline each remission for the european project. don't visit that. the old man at all germany and france can and should take the lead on many questions related to your u. and therefore i understand that france is waiting for us to form a new government welcome to act in europe it is crucial that germany have a stable government stubby the. year old saab. the judge also seeking that with more we can cross the jessica salts a in a berlin. jessica the city is a in the press conference a idea putting on a. united front view what would a in takeaways.

well i think it was an important aside show solidarity between the french and german leaders on the line by the fox of course at a time to. update these a treaty to face the challenges of the twenty first century as i'm gonna markle said they also spoke for use of that very strong bilateral relations. islands i'm of course is that that rule joint interest for european ruffles. of course michael saying that he doesn't need angela merkel. need to get started on his ambitions concert europe well he doesn't need the job hm johnson site in. can i take a government is at the moment well three paw jonny bowstring festival how it wants to stand w with frs in planning a futurure full stababilized in europe. it

will shock proof and also rate of raising the standards of living across europe so fault so in line with what i know michael has denied demanding for many months. so you need to handle circles it would be good pull back on top the social democrats and in that the german government. they all most in line with the a lot of his politics and the social democrats germany hold mine on michael in very high regard. what of because as i say we still have a few steps to go before we know whether or not germany has deformed and you government? okay any use alluded to their ideological on of muggles ability to step up to the plate and joined mackerel and resounding europe it's an issue that te

social democratic a delicate faface and to vote on sunda. whether or not to approve discriminate coalition agreement to baffle allowowg full commissionn t talks wih these parties to continue to six hundred delegates of the social democrats will be voting in bonn on sunday. .n ouout so it has been a realy the issue that's being discussed in germany at this week with noo o one really e willlling to take a take a pass on on the outcome of this vote. certainly am not usually to the social democrats has being touring around the country this week trying to convince his policy based. outt of this agreement does contain enough of the whole boxes social democratic ideas especially when it comes to socialal issues father many

members of the social democrats that remain unconvinced and for m many members of the social democrats the country full d be punished and he said it n your actions they would really be out. campaigning on the principles that are already half of written down in this agreement which he said would be absolutely as a so. the morning after his policy promoted shows on who have to wait to see what happens in this special sunday. okay thank you very much developed aids just consults in but he's much. the prison system has the very much in the news this week following on from series of assaults on prison guards who in turn. be protesting about their working conditions. the news of yet more taxes time in corsica has voted in rage those whose job it is to

maintain order and francnces overercrowded jails. was abe to come one of all has this report. prison guards under attack for the second time in a week. these two offices were taken to the hospital after being assaulted point three inmates at the border prison in corsica. police say at least one convicts was suspected of being a radicalized islamist. the attack is the latest in a series of violent assaults in french prisons it comes as prison staff have been protesting outside dozens of jails across the country. demanding will security and safer handling and violent inmates. this is a good defeated evil this is the final straw for us. and this is why many prison guards are considering quitting their jobs the ball may close they don't feel safe if all security. the national protest movement started on monday off the three girls were injured in

an attack by a former al queda militants last week. french president him and michael was quick to condemn the attack calling for the prison system to be radically modernized. she did all this capitol beat also that i had asked that a new president plan be drafted by the end of february. this plan will cover not only the questions of infrastructure but also present staffing those working surveillance probation and reinsertion. michael's words though came too late to prevent a wave of nationwide blockade by angry prison stuff scuffles broke out at the high security through email she's prison south of paris on thursday. where about one hundred and fifty prison girls bills at barricades of burning size to prevent their colleagues from getting to work? unions meanwhile have been holding talks with the justice ministry warning the strike will continue until that involves all mass. sign up for general business news stories i'm joined by brian couldn't hide right.

so by talking about the oil industry in the united states because it would appear. is booming through the international energy agency has forecast thahat e u. s. could become the world's number one oil producer and twenty eightee. blowing past traditional headway saudi arabia and rival russia. use monthly report says the u. s. production already at a fifty year high could top ten million barrels per day this year. the reason for that the recovering price of oil crude is risen by around fifty percent since june and u. s. shshale gas reserves required as higher prices to turn a profitt. crude prices have been rising to levelsls not seen since the start of a global prices slump at the end of twenty fourteen. and friday they posted their first loss in five weeks with brent crude. tony around sixty eight dollars and sixty four cents a barrel west texas intermediate just over sixty three dollars a barrel. one person surelyly glad for that news president donald

trump himself a champion of the u. s. fossil fuel industry. saturday marks one year since trump's inauguration in that time he's been keen to take credit for major gains in the stock market while promising to secure u. s. jobs ms inauguration a yearo us markets have been seeing record close after a record close. three major stock indexes the nasdaq dow jones as in the five hundred posted their best year since two thousand thirteen. some analysts say the president's tax reform plan has played a large role in the rally. we got a very generous tax cuts and of course it favors corporate america. show were looking at an expansion of economic activity plus corporate earnings and that takes us to where we are no. a lot of enthusiasm in the marketplace of ideas in that i've never witnessed before. seventeen saudi unemployment rate fall for each year in a row down to fouour point one pepercent. but less jobs were created just over two million. that's lower than any barack obama's last six years. gdp

is also growing at a healthy pace two point three percent over all four corners of twenty seventeen. following higher global growth that's been boosted by strong investment and exports. kids believe the positive figures have been carried over from the obama years i mean the economy is on the up and up but i think that a lot of that is also due to the policies that were put in place. almost in. the presidency in fact a gallup poll at the start of the year show that more americans credit obama for the healthy economy than they do from. trump's only if they will be based on the long term impact of his new tax laws as well as the negotiation of trade deals like nafta. and it could take years to fully sink in. president was on over there checking in on the markets for friday worries over a possible u. s. government shutdown are finally starting to touch us markets with the dollar moving to a near three year low. equities indexes however mostly shrugging off those

fears that al bouncing back from earlier losses the hover right around the flat line. as mp five hundred of a quarter of a percent the nasdaq up over four tenths of percent. you wish your still on track for the third straight week of overall gains european shares in a ten year high friday on the heels of economic data showing strong account surpluses and export figure. uk retail shares having a rough day on gloomy british consumer data on and thirty one hundred still managing a gain of nearly four tenths of a percent for the day frankfort daxi anymore than percent cap. up around six tenths percen. i here in france the auto giant psa peugeot citroen has become the first large french company to institute a voluntary layoff plan. five out of six unions sending an agreement with management friday morning thirteen hundred jobs will be cut under the deal made possible by a new french labor rules pushed through by president emmanuel mackerel. that allow

companies to negotiate master parsers psa is promising to hire thirteen hundred other workers as the company restructures to meet demand for electric an autonomous vehicles. hard left cgt union was the only one to refuse the agreement they say it's just a cover for getting rid of older workers and closing factories even as the companies and solid health stabilises. yes ideal psa is accompanying great commercials. in great financial shape. she's already has to see. vision of the jobs issue on giving contracts that century workers and jobseekers official they need employee. was on his are you. africa now liberia is gearing up of the swearing in of its new president george weah. the former football star's is helping the poor is his top priority and here is one of the world's most impoverished countries with sky high unemployment and shoddy infrastructure. as the new president takes office next monday many ordinary liberians are hoping he will bring about the cheesy. france24 catherine restraint

and signals so sent this report from on rodia. in one room his largest market families setting up shop. he's on the phone technology at university dreaming of found his own poultry business. he dropped out because he couldn't afford the fees and now he exile to living. just a few dollars a day. and then plus my dream school. better yet who hosted for my family to make ends meet home soon in his for a new president. and he's for this one education. and he's alarm this marketplace is full of young people whose only choice is to hold goods. in what's known as liberia's wheelbarrow economy. many here hope newly elected president george we have will transform their lives.

people. who do to? every day and night school government it makes in article should be fun this o be brought. this mobile the education december with the rule if i started developin. it is a challenge in ruby to come and it's also you know not. the new president and his team taking office next week liberia could be on the edge of change. much needed in a country where you thought employment sounds eighty five percent. a single is one of his top business headlines now hsbc has agreed to pay more than one hundred million dollars u. s. authorities to settle a currency rigging case. bank is admitted to cheating clients during foreign exchange transactions in twenty ten and twenty eleve. prosecutors each based hsbc

traders manipulated the exchange rate deliberately drive the price of the british pound in a direction that would benefit the bank. and harm clients. softbank has completed a deal to acquire fifteen percent of over the japanese conglomerate will buy a chunk of the right healing firm from existing shareholders along with new shares a thirty percent discount. nine point three billion dollar deal sees accede o and co founder travis kalanick officially a billionaire. she sells one point four billion dollars worth of shares after a year that saw him ousted. the string of scandals and lawsuits. and the c collapse of uk construcuction g giant karen is triggering sector wide scrutiny uk's business secretaries as a task force led by the government and banks will seek to soften the blow for small businesses that depended on caribbean contracts. from one is a liquidation mondale in money to up to thirty thousand smaller companies uk banks have pledged some two hundred twenty five million pounds in support. industry figures say that is unlikely to be enough. finally for business another indicator of the

interconnectedness of the global marketplace french luxury spirits maker ready quantrill's as organic sales growth slowed to three point two percent in the third quarter. one reason for that the chinese new year it comes like this year starting in mid february which means that related sales will be delayed until the following quarter. expensive connect made a big comeback in china last year after a previous government crackdown on corruption hurt sales of luxury spirit often used as gifts. nearly fifty seven million bottles of cognac went to the far east last year and up eleven percent. on the previous year. and the case of other. i support it. if you over here to. this is a local business thank you very much indeed for a business update brian quinn that. thank you so much to you and that's it for me i'll be back in just a couple of minutes time away

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