where the prime minister and a number of government mrs remain on the stage in the presidential palace. in the southern city of eight and separatist forces of battling government troops the two sides was previously had eyes in their battle against the shiites iranian backed who's the rebels. then you frances now i've been up in these conflicts that he's forty people have been killed in the latest fighting. the violence is complicating efforts to get aid through to civilians really is you already suffering the effects of the civil war. which is f. millions risk of starvation over one i'm joined by stacy

feel great you that she is a professor of political science at hobart and william smith colleges in new york thanks for being with us on france24 tonight. now and a as we cann see t e confnflict in yemen is becoming increasingly complex. told us throughh this southernn separatist movement wedded it come from and we're quite repressive d that leads you a split within the movement towards a secessionist and unless the sessions. grgrouping. after that you thousand and eleven uprising the southern movement was more or less locked out of transitional power on that it remains important onn t e ground and there was some by and. by some southern leaders and transitional institutions but i don't wawant a war itstself broket i think in in twenty fifteen

i think that southern leaders. certainly responded to thee who the movement as a clearr threat in a way that leads southern leadership. to aligign with haiti's government and sport president has he i think today just to describe what's happening in it and as the southern n transitiol council. switching allegiances is a little bit problematic i don't see this necessarily as any sign that they're aligning with. ease so much as there's more than one book war going on in yemen simultaneously. what what is the united arab emirates visions will? make it because they back the separatist i the yet they are allied with saudi arabia

in fighting the disease como contain the movies but i i don't think that that's a reasonable. expectations and the iraqis have committed ground troops that have been playing a much more direct role in fighting in the south. that this bird the southern movement t to announcee the formation last spring of a southern transitional council which is a more. coherent set of parastatal institutions with an eye towards sovereignty and i think that they would not have made that movie if they didn't feel thatat they hada powerful backer. the amorites is financially significance and militarily significant in the south and really appears to be. fighting a different war in many ways than what's going on in the north involving that the saudi backed coalition against the who these and all of this is terrible news for civilians

is it because the the south of the country have been largely spent some of the violence and. now it is cool stuff at in and another fronts as ththe c convicts f you like and already people there are a suffering a hug. humanitarian catastrophe. absolutely i mean i think that having further deterioration in humanitarian access is absolutely devastating. it's true that the south i is no spareded some of the punishg airstrtrikes thahat civilias and suffered in the f far north part of the country but at the same time. they have had to deal with. insurgent islands frorom groups like al qaeda in the arabiann peninsula from islamic state and f from soe local groups as well on. that said it's been at a lower check and there is there has been an open airport there's and the ability to move some. goods instead country and this really is a set back from the perspective of humanitarian access in the u. nh the are has spoken on that point. on just today really. quite urgently says it over again i thank you very much

and for your contribution that. now three of kenya's main tv stations alternate affairs of other nurses because they had plans to prove costly opposition leaders unofficial swearing in ceremony. rhino dingo was and the people's president at this unofficial ceremony attended by thousands of people in nairobi on she said places interested in opposition and being. on the events. present who can yes it was sworn in for a second send loss of amber off at his first victory was overturned by the supreme court. more that one guy she'd already out correspondent carolyn sums it is after is now in karen at the government says that this is about security that saying that this. unofficial swearing in ceremony for riding actually put canyon lives at risk. ththat's right. it is saying that they have evidence that there wasas se sort of attempt or plot. you

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lot of people who support the current president. and what he'd seen with this election is how divided those two sites are there are many people that i've heard reacting to this news of the government crackdown on members of the opposition and the media. we support the believe that finally orders coming and then they've been greatly affected by this and this election the economy has. greatly affected at the same time. any person the country when people do support the opposition and thehere are many people whwho. concerns and. opposition is the only way that they can achihieve. any told me theye runnining to continue fight. memeans make thehemselves in dangerer and so actually sek radical change in our country. and you said that can year has the edge addition of of having a free press it has done for a long time and is there a fan now that this money to a wide a. media crackdown agenda scared of doing their jobs.

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arab spring. two days yeah we. take turns twenty eleven has been looks why crisis in recent weeks hundreds were arrested after the right spot. as a lesbian you tax and every simmering anger in two days here about the slow pace of change unemployment especially among young people is high and corruption remains a major problem. is michael speaking a short while ago. the success of june this year with. our values democracy freedom of the goals the a qualities that men and women. aside this. time in a mediterranean. it's also our battle. but i spacey simon speak minute cold ingenious about mackerel speech about how citizens his visit. he talked about i think the usual talking points that we say he talks about hsien history i* culture. in interviews out yesterday he told about investments and forward looking projects or which may grief projects.

are tackling youth unemployment on. . and security holes which is the primary signs all european countries. shines really at is that you actually see ever use this rachael. alpha seven years ago. it happened progress i commitments investing in the region. off the problem is and this is what we're seeing a protest rally is that housing how. . people what is your idea how very high expectations. on very little ease agreed as i think this is a problem that any safe is it is already opt to resolve. that is not international condemnation tacky hits he needs offensive in northern syria with french president emmanuel macron warning anchor against a full blooded invasion. take he says it's fighting kurdish ypg fights is. great that help to defeat isis in syria the syrian observatory for human rights says at least sixty seven civilians being

killed in the offensive. which we had two weeks ago including at least twenty children of bodom as well. he's intervention offering continues the situation on the ground here distributed announcingng the sponsors f. from the fighting. french president emmanuel macron said on wednesday the turkey's operation and often with a complimentary for funds. if it becomes a fully fledged invasion. and could not wait long to respond. dash ransome mrs may's ross is interpreting this is seen as an invasion operation we need to assess what they've done in syria accordingly. this is a crooked idea from the start. the whole world knows and has to know. that turkey is not sensing within invasive minds. articulated may the next gender yeah. leader of the meditation surgeons operations nowow in its secd

week in a hospital in a frame suffice it to including fast. inside the numbers of wounded continue to rise streaming in from across this northern region as a free intense as strike. towns like this one of the last fifty following heavy shelling concert asian allies. level forces. to launch the offensive named operation only brunch on january twentieth targeting kurdish ypg militia in northern syria. and cololor considers ypg to be a terrorist organization. and he's the operation is showing up turkish security measure us off. and is fighting continues on the turkish border. the operatation lookss set to continue. far beyond its second week. our new american movement that's how us president donald trump describes his policies in his first state of the union address last night that was one of those republicans. and democrats sat and watched silence and starting face and over axle

has one speech. please know. from his usual rhetoric donald trump called for unity discuss interview in a dress. the highlights of. of american history. and i think it was a message of unification match who welell republicicans so unificatio. democrats some divisiveness. in the parties who speak for bottles. massachusetts representative joe kennedy to cry trump's partisanship. on his robach of civil rights protections this administration. isn't just hard. the laws that protect us. they're talking the very idea. that we are all worthy of protection. over official democratic response incidents haidian spanish. and came from one of the first latino is to be elected to the virgininia house of delegates. elizabeth grisman condemns trtrump's asked you to immigration. anand shoun'n't acceptsts nr

should we normalize the atrocicious and insults and ways in w which she repreres our communities. to d do so would be to givee inn to welfare funds dangerous narrative. awful that it despite a genomic is in brussels bipartisan compromises. in his speech trump national hotlines at own aggression. recy are browse by linking it to violent crime. and once again insisting on avoidable. usually after that speech about a conceded washington for a retreat in west virginia who's up in a rail accidents at least one person was killed and another injured after truck. hit the child to train carrying dozens of gee i feel like is. among them speaker of the house paul ryan and senator ted cruz nigel make is also off were among the casualties. here in from the cold is not how the guilty verdict against the french right operation sncf. accused of discriminating against eight hundred moroccan book is the highest price. is during the

nineteen seventies they say they would tonight the same benefits as. counterparts sncf was booted japan find a hundred and fifty billion euros back in twenty fifth day not feel the decision they lost that appeal. was this is russia. among the expressions of joy we heard outside the courthouse here in central paris was a visa false long live friends and thank you to the french justice syste. and not is because of the verdict of guilty against the sncf the french state railway who discrimination now the case with rules after many years of. hearings by eight hundred and forty eight she bonnie. they on moroccan workers bruce fans the nineteen seventies and they all agreed that they have been treated unfairly over the years. one person said to me that he had worked in lower normandy he ended up having to retire at fifty five had back problems and he found his time was nine hundred and twenty seven euros a

month. not was not really enough for him and he argued that that was not what the same as french workers were guessing so today celebrations among the other phrases here with singing in the rain. us so historic judgment through the for these workers who. some of them up to thirteen years they must be fighting for that cools here. in terms of working conditions. nick russia's then now the list of nominations for the so called french also his of the season is. unveiled this wednesday and picking up thirteen animations is an acclaimed film about aids activists in the nineteen nineties a world war one and ate my this is well. as

unity in our schools. the forty third edition dedicated to general an icon of french he claims movie fs activist fighting to bring about legislation and treatment of patients with aids. in the nineteen nineties. see you up there of post world war one satire drawn from an award winning novel also picked up thirteen nominations. i think i. three and a concern for them as. well. trailing closely behind is the feel good comedy said if you. from the makers of the french hit on for seven. he plays a caterer trying to keep a chaotic waiting on track. well known international names. inertia added another says on on the nation as best actress. in let the

sunshine in. almost commit. it's. home. school. smaller french p pductions however also gotot nodod measurement makes by allll f ththe famouous frenchh sinir barbara was nominated for best director. one it faces stiff competition from you that there's. thriller pretty please all. which. of one the heart of yours. also scoring nominations from the french academy for best fil. right time get an update on the basis that you can raise it was misty eyed a yeah i would have thought it was a huge industrial strike at in germany at a tree thousands of workers walking out on the job say no they started. a series of twenty four us strikes as the pay and working hours the powerful

you gave italian called for full day walk out through friday before advice on whether to extend the strik. some estimate that the cost of the strife could tell is almost in sixty million euros pad day in lost revenues ongaku that hassle. germany's biggest industrial unions tightening the screws on employers. for the first time in the powerful unions history again at that has called for twenty four offe. other sticking point is the union's demand for an optional twenty eight hour work week. for workers who care for children or the elderly over a period of two years. employers say they can only accept that if they can increase workers hours when necessary. yemen time w was made is proposals we've made aisles

we toldd t them w what theye asking for is unacceptable and they told us the same thing. several industry federations filed a request with german courtsn wednesdaday to forbid the strikes are union members. they fear the financial losses from the walk outs which cologne based think tank i w. estimates at sixty two million euros every day. both sides about the door open to resume talks after the strikes and on friday. that is in a strong position with three point nine million hard working member. the union argues they should benefit from germany's fastest economic growth in six years. mistaking in today's trading action now european markets were mixed this wednesday. ruled upon european stocks index ended the month with a two percent gain on wall street the stock market also looking to ends january the monthly gain of the all major in this is as you can see currently trading. below the flight line building is

among the biggest winners it says hit a a fresh high is that they make a whole cost forty a profit well above. market estimates saying it will deliver more things this yeah. now the us federal reserve has kept its benchmark interest rate unchanged the signal that it expects to redeem a gradual rate hikes as inflation that set to pick up the chef. to meet its target of two percent. wednesday's was janet yellen's for a final meeting as chat before handing it is jerome powell next week. can say in the united state. surprise announcements by amazon jp morgan and basha half of a mistake in the health sector on tuesday the three companies announce came out with funds to create a joint healthcare company. aimed at offering simpler and cheaper services to their employees in these goals says an existing health insurers to tumble idiot as he has said they don't aim to make a profit. will focus on developing

technology fast he lost an expert here in paris about what they might have in mind take a lesson. there is no doubt that they're not intending only to offer that kind of land do that one point five a two million on please. it's a model. the eight day they will be it will be a marketing standpoint easy for them to say we've achieve that for all please. though week we're going to offer the same kind of benefits to all of the america. and at five to wipe the market as they tried to wipe. ordinary yeah a bookshop so the energy groceries and so on. some of the business headlines for you at this hour france wants to to ban huge discounts at supermarkets like buy one get one free office. the navy's possible why doesn't and funny they'll pretend it's a cabinet on wednesday. is to raise regulated minimum food prices guaranteed better income famas it comes off the scuffles broke out at several supermarkets and restaurants. office fold a the heavily discounted it

said a chocolate spread. she is a british financial services groupup. capita plunged over fifty percent for ananother profit warnin. outsourcing time also announced a major shakeke u. capped alreadydy a series of profit warnings last year analysts have more for the group could end up the same way as the construction company caribbean. which collapse under a mountain of debt that is on. japan's fuji film is taking a the xerox to fans already have a joint venture fuji xerox which will only absolve the thought for the pm a half the fiji to fiji taking energy sake. come games state cut of one point seven billion dollars in costs by twenty twenty two. and on those times to cut ten thousand jobs in the next two yes. yeah my son is a world leader of it comes the gender equality but has now taken a step further. the country has introduced a little rituals is employers

to prove that paying men and women the same ways for the same job or face fines. roads are not as as t the story. president is one of the lucky ones she says she is not a face and a wagee discririmination at work. announces that century iceland is going one step further to make sure she another women never do. you'll requiring ploys to provove that payining minimn the same way to the doing the same work. . is is onee of the. . pefully interesting and helpful tool that he used to try. to eliminate it yeah. so in favor of it definitel. more because i think it's necessary and. also a good tool to help us. there's nothing you about legal payments and. there's been a litittle the moaningt since nineneteen sixty one. but now it'll wait staff is found resulted in planet's pre state should have nothing to do with it.

it was off the police. genesis or nation. the thought behind the on the israelii reversingng tht responsibilityputting it to the company to prove that the company is not discriminating against its employees. companies have until the end of and he twenty one to comply with the little. bit large ones like this bank with more than two hundred fifty employees after complied by the end of this year. any the tones will things fines up to four hundred years but today on the publicly named and shamed. what is always sad isn't it laura that we need a little? to karen's it as well as making waves in austin this is so you can agreement today he cried of the business but he's already said with this

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