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light has respondedmmmmmmmm. that's the former french president nicolas sarkozy still being questioned by police over allegations he received illegal campaign funding from the late libyan dictator. its alleged that good that he provided around fifty million euros sometimes in suitcases stuffed with cash to help solve because you get elected in two thousand and seven the right wing . he's also under destination for an illegal overspend in his failed. reelection campaign in twenty twelve will he denies all of the allegations n n y

went tonight. is still being held. like he's a house we all three questions now for nearly twelve hours by. ney laundering and corruption access here and a question as to how much longer will police say continues to hold him they have forty eight hours in total. until thursday morning to decide whether or not they will continueue with this investigation of whether or not they w will releaimim cut down as you said at his old concerns the explosive allegations that buy into thousand seven. is a successful presidential campaign with partly funded by millions of years it came directly from mama qaddafi's regime those allegations two thousand and thirteen. and then in two thousand and sixteen it would have in particular fuel when a lebanese businessman said that he had. at. himself brought suit case of cash

flow of millions of euros from the libyan capital tripoli to paris to the interior ministry because he yes that's right laura strenuously strenuous denials from them. as a because he the pasta schools at his allegations crude and manipulative admitted as if he says at because qaddafi'd have effectively. suffocated this story because they are really angry at a breaks out of relations between the cut after a a a a a a a a a a as not if you rememember when w because he took office back

in two thousand saturday will really. a very warm relations between tripoli. and and paris. and and. is. he came here on a state several busess. and deals made between the two countries but in two thousand and eleven happen in the uprising in libya. and. nicolas sarkozy was one of the first so please taket suggestion given and a half thousand now for nearly twelve hours as i said so fall and no charges will be expresseseveveveveveveveveve causes aids are also implicated in this event on good enough texas through who's who. because he was taken into police custody on tuesday one of his former ministers and r right hand mannnnnnnns

off to food was questioned about his role in south was these two thousand seven presidential campaign. genesi air s suspect was financed in part by the libyan regimof markeoffi. according to the french investigate website made yet profits off the food made an official state visit to libya and two thousand five. allegedly negotiated with qaddafi's advisors for fifty million euros to be sent to france for soccer these campaigns. the money was to be received threats or because he himself as the man who would become his chief of staff of the. day. yeah bafta reported that in two thousand and seven gayay on rentedddddddddddddddddddd branch of the bank bandit body about. that was big enough for a man to stand completely operated. he said it was to store copies of sarkozy speeches. then in march two thousand and eight gael about himselflflflflfly neighborhoodod by the act itself. after receiving a wire transfer for five hundred thousand euros.

officially he says the money came from the sale of three. an idiot box reports that the money actually came from one of the dock he's aid station survey. by way of an intermediary. the french businessmen alexandra he. a close ally itself because he and his predecessor jack jack judy is expected of setting up payments between france and libya. in january of this year he was arrested in britain on charges of fraud and money laundering. the french daily le monde said investigators also sees to ca for his with home. the jury is reportedly hospitalized with heart problems in london. but hearing to extradite him to france is set for april seveventeenth. finally the man whose testimony lit the fuse on the casenenenenenenenenenent thank you dean. said he personally carried millions of euros in cash from tripoli to paris in briefcases. between two thousand and six in two thousand and seven he said he delivered money to get tr

because he himself. hundreds of saudi arabia has kicked off a three week tour of the united states thirty two year old mohammed bin saleh sat down with president donald trump the p pretendiding. hehe at the ambitious young leader were already very good friends with a joint is. on may's i do have plenty in common that it more now all washington correspondent fitted crowded joins us live with it. some scenes schemes to cultivate a relationship with the saudis. yeah allows all the saudis with the us president and they did so already when us presidenent donalddddddddddd as president that wall saudi arabia he came back. very impressed and with a lot of arms deals signed with saudi arabia s something he's houe it again in the oval office today. now when it comes to iran of course the chew up pretty much on n the same wavelengthth a few. . signsl of this vessel an interview givenn by mohammed bin salmn

at the weekend to cbshehere he was also about iraran popotentially getting its hahands on a nuclearar w wen his responsnse was if iran s to do that. than saudi arabia would do the same as quickly as possible in other words what you see here saudi arabi clearly seeing iran as one of its biggest threat if not the very biggest one. at the united states luxury agrees with that the to see eye to eye on that front important because the us president will have to take a decision again. in may in just over a months time. he will have to decide the nuclear deal with iran and according to a senior administration official we heard from at the weekend. the g g g g g g g g g g g gg to seek the counsel of

mohammed bin salman that presumably has now happened and you can imaginene what s ttt of view is that is the united states should no longer be part of the nuclear deal with iran. saudi a arabia has criticizd it at length in the past and remember this t the us president when it comes to people giving their opiniond later. that is his decision she congratulate the average person on his reelection the weekends. yes he did so in a another phone call that's came from the white house to the russian president vladimir putincontroversial is t necessarily because i was a phone call to congratulate. in a position that is something that as press secretary sarah huckabee sanders pointed out earlier today former us president

barack for e lost reelection although not in a position it's all that extraordinary thing to do. the french president emmanuel i'm not going to the same also put in a phone call to run it who's in bus made show that while some criticism in there as well and said we're not seeing much of that. fromthe whitef this little bit cramped and read out or indeed from what the us president told reporters in the oval offic. earlier todayeeeeeeeeeeeeeew from the white house that's most likely they were to subject matters that were not spoken about in thahahat important ones isaiah said.h

something that is russia's doing that was not discussed in other words friendly phone call indeed a little bit too friendly a lot of people would say and that includes the likes. of us senator john mccain a republican he believes that that kind of a phone call simply should not hnnn because the election was not free and fair speaking of that definition of free and fair elections. press secretary had sarah huckabee sanders was lost about this earlier today does shensnsnn russia to be free and fair. she did not have a clear answer to that decided instead to say that the united states cannot tell other countries how to run its elections of course in the past this white house has done. exactly that with other countries venezuela being one of those countries mentioned by the united

states senate thank you very much indeed rather than in washington. now moving to syria with fifteen children and two women he was suffering in a school in eastern ghouta all the latest victims of the regime's offensive. rescue team said they been hiding from the bombardment of the town of our being unforeseen hundred civilians have been killed in this offensive. began a month ago and at least fifty thousand others have fled and the u. and says it is extremely concerned for their welfare should be civivil has the story. few images services fromm bombings in eastern ghouta on tuesday. journalist and servers repeport the regime has continued to pound the and click. forces loyal to bashar al assad have retaken much of eastern ghouta an estimated eighty percent controlling the rental area is one of their priorities. he divided it into three pockets each ds of thousands of civilians are believed to still be trapped inside. the u. n. says the civil

trainees attacks on eastern ghouta by the regime and against our friend by turkish h h h h h h h h h h. if we are today reach rating our call for the protection and safety. as well as. a full on handed continued humanitarian communities rice. and hundreds of thousands of civilians still trapped by his fighting and dying of aids. eastern ghouta has been under siege for five years evacted to government shelters or still strugglin. brought overcrowded makeshift facilities the lack of everything. there's been another s.tate of texas the latest . in a string of bombings president trump has made a very sick individual or individuals. sorry james has the story. more terror in texasagagagan

the u. s. ststate this month this time and affects the silly outside t the city of san antonio. containing nails and shrapnel it was bound for austin the texas capital officicials say theuesday mororning explosion is likely linked to the sererial bomber as implanting packages in austin. with a working around the clock. again. the public safety our numum. providing all the resources that we had that we can do. finally find some the person or individual final. an ex employee suffered non life threatening injuries in the fst two bombs killed two black men and the third injured a latino woman. the intended victims lead investigators to leave the bomber is motivated by racial hatred. at first the parcel bombs were dropped and exploded when moved but the fourth which went off sunday night. appeared less targeted it was detonated by a parent trip wire device injuring

two white men that explosion that it leads police t to suspect the bomber is no amateur the belief that we are now dealing with someone who's using trip wires. shows a higher level of sophistication a higher level of skill market solutions have set off a massive investigation with hundreds of law enforcement officers fbi agents and bomb technicicians now workingngn the case. for texas residents here in the next last it's a race against time to locate suspects before they strike a again. nowaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa so l mackerel wasas located aroud the world to s speak french french president sources francophphonie initiative tt it's an ambitious plan he was for it should be the first language in africa within generation maybennn the world areas. and the academy forces in paris

stuff in it. it was at least one of the france should be proud. to be just one among many countries thatand write fr. we need to work on and strengthened that shift. the seoul promote the french language is often compared to a straight line garden. isn't the government actu k k kwsws he. has changed. it's a place for sharing. it is being transformed by changes across the planet's. these information that planet's. alright she said or international schools location prororororororororn public funding for such schools has been caught by around ten percent of southeast asia correspondent paris castle evils froroone such school l in bangkok. does she mean rangoon singapore and buying call or have a friend she say withh accidentnts academic reputation. they can be with other internationanal schools answering from the former forty. why promoting?

some are under the authority of government agencies s and paparis. othehers all semi prive like here i in a time capsule.* me a solution fees arere six thousand to eight thohousand t t t t t r international schooools in bangkok. laughs. france does give us the money without that the fees would be higher. the government is looking to reduce deficits at all levels. wants to the four hundred ninety two french schools of rolled down by ten percent. that says you three million euros added to the loss of hundrererererererererererer. and janet is the elected member of parliament for french citizens of rolled. she needs in bangkok acts pass like this man who can no longer afford to send his little sister the frch school a a a a a a a a a a h language french labor skills and culture we defend fronts

just as much as are only some one else all schools free for us of rules please on to me. but free tuition is not prel on his jeans. is it in our languagage and ththe francopophonie are paf our soft power. but we lacked thehe necessary financial means. clearly jobs are being cut eveverywhere and now i see o politicalesire to o overturn that. they'll be no budget increase. worry teachers are stage protests across the world in recent months the governmnmt wants to reform the agencyy people french education abroad. it feels a despite the cuts eight schools will continue to provide quality teaching. this is not imposing that lesson is usually now because bryantedededededede. analysts said about facebook's ongoing problems and all these because at a hashtag delete facebook is running on another world and that social media site tonight at these companies under a lot of presesd

regulators as well indeed a lot of market value at that a lot of regulatory pressure facebook's relationship to a firm called cambridge analytical that the uk based political consultancy hired by the presidential campaig. of donald trump in order to the twenty sixteen us election drawing as scrutin. facebook representatives at every few asking questions he's on wednesday can analytic is ceo suspended federal trade commission uk e.e.e. lawmakers all demanding answers on how the consultingng firm harvested and use facebook data from tens of millions of us voters. without right arouns the details. another difficult day for facebook. this time a uk summons for ceo mark zuckerberg. who has been asked to give evidence to a british parliamentararararar compans rings to cambridge analytical? a british political consulting firm. it was a lower says cambridge analytical misuse

data is collected from facebook users and weaponized in the twenty sisixteen at us presidential election this data was with misappropriated and is and i i think that they need to be investigated for us. now we're in the information commissioner is seeking a warrant to search cambridge analytical computer servers. the firm has already missed a monday deadline to provide access to these records. did you to the bbc elizabeth denham's of the facebook inquiry was part of a larger investigation of some thirty organizations use of personal data for big data politics. we need to make sure that has more control and understands how their data may be used for political mesessaging ad mimicro targetiting. ththiss on june undeder cover repeps by british telelevision channel fouour news revealed secretly taped interviview withth senior cambridge analytica executives. boasting of how they use digital manipulatation to sl actions in countries around the world.

facing the election campaign all the facts. it is actually school by motion. cambridge analytica has denied any wrongdoing. facebook for its pharmacies another slap in the face surfaced of the federal trade commission was also intended to investigate the social media giant. president roosevelt arising there will facebook chairs down over two percent on tuesday after recoveringayat fifty billion dollars in market value race and sex scandal broke u. s. i. indexes overall however managing clothes in positive territory is a two day meeting of the u. s. federal reserve got under way. most investors r r r r r r r r re announced wednesday it out finishing up around half percent the s. and p. five hundred up just over ten percent the nasdaq up on a quarter percent.european ish some decent gains across most sectors one and forty one hundred nas around a quarter percent. cac around here passenger up nearly six tenths the frankfurt dax of around three quarters of a

percent. the usssssssssssssssssssssst chinese imports with new terrorists. from the ministration preparing eleven you import duties worth up to sixty billion dollars per year on chinese products like sneakers and consumer electronics. us retail indusususususususo for me to higher costs for american businesses and us higher prices for american consumers. terms on a mission to reduce the massive us trade deficit with china which he blames in part on theft of intellectual property by chinese companies. china for its part is urging the us to act rationally on the issue and avoid a mutually damaging trade war. premier li keeshan called for more trade not less and promisedn inteectual property here he is. we as you want. may five. legal. we also hope that the united states w will increae its exports of high tech techchchchchchchchchchchchce

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