libya. iran spiritual whole survey trav of fifty ss othe streets of paris in the first major challenge president michael's attempt to full public sector jobs. and the lawyer in charge of donald trump's defense in a russia condition investigation quite still down. closely for straight the president's refusal to take his advice will have

more from our washington. but is there a day after he was placed on the full investigation for corruption linked to libya the exiled president nicolas sarkozy has been making his case on national tv he's been accused. of receiving illegal campaign donations from libya prizes ect in two thousand and said it'll he strenuously denies the allegations and in alaska published in today's for your newspaper id case it made his life. a living hell he's bign national television claiming that there's been no new evidence produced during two days of police questioning he says he will now fights. to clear

his name necklaces. well i over french citizens the truth i never betrayed that trust. it was usually i have never avoided my legal obligations not for one second. the police did their job as professionals. have nothing to say about that of drool i'm not above the rules. but i'm not below it either on some. well so far but i'm joined not held in and about as we so that it is not because you very much going on the attack he says he will figh. to clear his name he says he's being treated like a common crook yes and we saw really. the soft part of this interview because after that this it was really hard hitting he lt as what he claims is the calumny. he said i was being dragged in the in the mud this is monstrous you really use very harsh words to say that this is essentially. of and that's up waits by. former officials of coca

cola qaddafi as a vengeance for his decision to go to war in libya and two thousand eleven he stressed. that all the allegations only surfaced after that date despite the fact that they're related to the presidential anden. and. he is said that all the evidence issstial fabricated and he went to great lengths to say that a document produced by the news website isn't he jeops own case by going on national tv just a day off the the duchess made that decision it would be very

unusual in the united states for example or the uk. well. basically. right now. this was step number one to be put under formal investigation now the investigation continues. and of the magistrates looking into the should have to make a decision whether he should be sentenced to trial or not and so. this is a phase whe. that both sides will fights to decide you know a to tell the balance in favor of either a trial or not so you guys are because he knows he has to go on the offensive and it's his style you could see that he has been boilin. for months toel his side of the story through that old the the media reports have essentially said that

negroes are because he has been box would include by mark out wants to he did not as vision. but really as a french head of state now he lost power of course in twenty twelve he said as french president for five years at sid said he says he is being questioned by police for. one hundrfift ht the first time he's in place of the former investigation is it yes and the. there there are other cases where he's been put under formal ition ces and one ac. it's an influence peddling case the complicated but. he's been actually since the trial the prosecution

said that he should be sent to the file and. this is what i was referring to now. the magisters into this living his life to the side but clearly. because it is already illegal trouble but this is more damaging because this is copy this is a guy who was a pariah you d take months i mean there there's no deadline of for the judges to decide you can take their time. okay much thank you very much indeed about how their offense policy that is a. well saying into frogs tens of thousands of rail of his teachers and nurses a will job today in a festive mar challenged president michael's public sector reforms. police say more than three hundred thousand people took part in demonstrations nationwide including nearly fifty

thousand here in paris. cg union the title. of the hall a million listen men travel disruption across the country with a set of flights in and out of paris councils. most train services was scrapped as well and it's expected to be the first of many strikes. this spring and summer after yet set. creating headaches for visitors and residents alike public sector workers are out on strike. this include civ sernts hospital staff transport employees air traffic controllers. expect travel chaos internal to with affected with three out of four trains running. in paris regional strains in our we are service are operating on a reduced schedule. metro workers are

also striking. air traffic won't fare much better around thirty percent of flights have been canceledgion. hospital staff are walking out to impacting emergency room services. the good news is the public sector strike is scheduled for just one day the bad news is more are on the way sncf the state owned rail operator has announced rolling strikes to kick off april third. which will see traffic disruptions two d a week for the next three months. those in paris it's probably a good idea to avoid public transportation if possible. one alternative is to try one of the city's bike sharinger such as they live old bike and also. avoid protest routes they can cause traffic gridlock. and finally have something to keep you

entertaid it could save your sanity if you find yourself facing a long dela. follow the orders of the european union france is preparing to open up its right away to competition private operators could be running the country's high speed rail lines as soon as twenty twenty one. across the channel the u. k. runs apology privatize service and federal unions say the site of that system should serve as a cautionary tale to the friends france24 may's belkin's as israel's. living by the sea working in london and arrangements too good to resist many bricks. those rights at home ist an hour away from the capital by trade box as a catch commuters hit all of the mercy of the line they describe as nightmarish. i see. .ust labelled thousand i. mean.

it's always. around the rest in on the. seats meanwhile a how to come by if that is the service is running. allies affted by some forty strikes in just over two years that aside from the daily delays. sign. is is. not. when the stage privatized uk railways in the nineteen nineties it said free market competition would mean better service at lower prices. today british trains of the second most expensive in europe office switzerland and of ters once the railways to return to state control. be fall privatizing asian back in the nineteen seventies and eighties going to munch that we had m. national rail i do remember that it was very punctual i just remember it being very cheap. for about making so much money on part of the money to the plot

baki to prevent five years. another contentious issue the facts of twenty five years of his state of the british rail cease to exist. many companies in charge of britain's trains on even british. first of and paris one for transport minister isn't buying it for him the card system is chaotic and insufficiently competitive from those avoid making the

same mistakes my vice president mac clone o the management of the french roadies would be. bringing competition. but dense weaker in essence yes as a company what you will see is strong private operators strong public operators. good competition between the two. in compliance with the u. directives four months is a pattern to open up its railways to competition. the government insists the sncf will remain a public company but french rail unions across the channel and worry that privatization isn so far off. well to the united states now where investigations into donald trump's exclusion waited russia continue the us presidents. lazily out all the cases now decided to call it a day

dowd had been a guy chasing with special estimates at robert mueller i the times of a one on one interview with the president today he quits legal team the statements in which he said he loves the. president's wish him well is the latests president has to deal with the special counsel's investigation into russian meddling in the presidential election out of course includes. find out whether there was collusion between the trump campaign and russiahat we lost heard from john dow the now former lead lawyer a private lawyer that is for the us president also white house where was that he wanted that whole investigationto be self that was from a statement that was sent out by john dow that he then had to correct essentially and say this was his point of view

not the u. s. presidents point if you. now this is a positive by john dowd is an important one and it comes at a very important time in which the us prede israeli trying to shake up. his legal team why because he's looking at what tactic exactly to use when it comes to the rest of thisve no ons how long this investigation will lost but we do know. that an actual interview an in person interview i say tt this will happen because. what we've seen throughout the donald trump presidency is that he gets his way he might be surrounded by people who at times giving give him differing points of

view? but they all pretty quickly shown the the door angele remember rex tillerson the secretary ts state he had different president. i ge that the same goes for lawyers within this legal team and that is helping donald trump a through this investigation the us was also about it today. off the talking abou. tariffs that will be imposed on china in the near future he was also whether he still wants to speak in person to robert miller the special counsel he said he did. now that's a us presidents point of view not necessarily point of view the shed with his legal team will maybe in anybody inside of the white house. but it is the president's point of view it's likely that this

will happen he did tell us this whole two months ago already in the white house m washington. he is a since the islamic state group carried out a space for the tax in brussels killing thirty two and wounding three hundred three young belgian listens blew themselves off. they were part of the same cell that is carried out the paris attacks for months so yeah they came from the brussels dict of modern make. us very foles may but months and this report from the neighborhood that's been trying to shed its image. hello elizabeth's early

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you are what you dot . campbell for you have seen the success story does not stop. you could do again what you did. you do it and the strap. these says haitian entrusted him with the reins of this code in school the trains twenty students every six months. maybe while they're voting from brussels let's get some of these issues right now and he's back with us in the studio advocates. international trade tensions very much on the rises as a off to donald trump pave the way for new edges. causing s the u. s. than vice versa trade gap between the world's largest economies officially stands at three hundred and seventy five billionol a lis aund one thousand tee hundred

targeted. cuses onbe technology officials hav meioned robotic hh spd rl anergy sectors. visitor trying to protect american companies intellectual property right. the administration is also planning to restrict chinese investment in strategic sectors. the soon aluminum actions we've taken deal more or less with the present. this action on electoral property rights deals with the futur. that's why these actions are so important and so important in unison with each other. we will end up negotiating these tng rather than fighting over them in my. as wilbur ross indicated that there is likely to be a lot of negotiation coming ahead. industries are likely target or the lobbying and finalist will be doing could take action of its own and target us agricultural exports were american planes and cars. around forty five trade associations warned earlier this week that the

tough measures against china could result in higher prices for american consumers. as well as potential job losses. now as he wrapped up pressure on china us president offer concessions on the country's closest allies. the u. australia argentina brazil and south korea have now joined canada and mexico as countries that will be exempt from the twenty five percent tariff on steel and ten percent on aluminum imports. officials described it as a pause american president said more go shuzhen's on broader trade terms could follow. trying of course was the main target of those moves it is the kind the world's top steel producer and exporter. islamic used by the us and eu of shee metal and damaging to mystic industries. as hearts are still that schedule to take effect at midnight in maeted sharply to that heightens rhetoric wallstreet tumbled down jones plunging over seven

hundred points at the closing bell a nearly three percent in the red. nasdaq and s. and p. not far behind their a lot of industries very worried about how these new tires might impact their own business. whether they could be hit by retaormeuren five percent us seal down about eleven percent. major european indices also slumped earlier attacks of the heaviest losses about one point seven percent dow. cac accounts and if it's the one hundred at last still the pte. glandheentelow ldest i its interest rates on hold at half of one percent. and stayed a possible rate hike in may. continue to fall in the aftermath of the data scandal involving cambridge analytica. side rising slightly at wednesday's close following mark zuckerberg's apology shares have once again it tumbled on the nasdaq. stock down about ten percent for the week that's waiting fifty billion dollars off of the company's value. most analysts expect the social network to recover in the short term. states future success could hinge on how it deals with this crisis

and questions about its business model. facebook is facing obviously tremendous financial losses right now in the market with the loss of confidence and public trust in. their products but i think over onr term they're gonna have to face a whole host of regulatory questions and probably a potential legiation. around the protection of consumer data. the us house of representatives has approved a one point three trillion dollars spending bill with largely bipartisan support. budgeting for includes increase spending for the military in infrastructure building missiles funding to combat america's. crisis lawmakers wunable to break stalemate on immigration measures and health insurance premiums. final bill did not include funding for a border wall with mexico. yes and is expected to pass the budget that could force the government shutdown if it doesn't go through by midnight on friday. first union's been on strike again this thursday calling

on emmanuel michael's back down on a series of reforms to the public sector and national railway service. country has a long history of taking tohe strts but just how successful has struck men in a bring about change. residence in finding out. so who's the ones that a smaller form small strike. big reform big strike. one of the biggest in recent history started in nineteen ninety following when prime minister on loans you pay try to reform the national pension and social security system. not sure and local for reasons france was responded with three weeks of strikes that paralyzed. now after more than two million demonstrated across the country marched against warm. in t tus hunf youth mobilized to bring on the c. job contract that would have made it easier to find your new hires under the age of twenty six. after three months of protests the cd

was abandoned in april. four years later and then prime minister falls off you want another crack at performing french pension system. the public's response nine months of demonstrations fuel shortages and other disruptions. president sarkozy retaliated by selling police forces to break up the protest. ultimately succeeded in raising the retirement age to sixty two. apostle final wider protest movement was starting to lose steam. a new round of strikes and protests again in the spring twenty sixteen. to the socialist government was a series of labor reforms to extend the work week. easier for employers to hire and fire workers. dislike monster demonstrations the was eventually forced through parliament. a new passport for post brexit britain passengers in a vision when she announced that the uk passport covers would be changed back to their traditional navy blue abandoning the burgundy used in the rest of the eu.

now being criticized for awarding the new contract you a franco dutch firm jim also rather than a british producer. delarue the current preserve you can't passports says the firm's undercutting meeting by the french manufacturer. i think in the end of his residence. whereas. my complete arabig straight around the world we axles. of all schools over forty countries in the world with the. biggest and best of all human factor unbelievably. 's gonna surprise in the version of windows in schools registry. may seem like a largely symbolic move floor of a lot of people quite upset about this decision and i can't think to date i can't really with the business which i can't russia right

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