>> on france 24 and france 24.com. >> thanks for watching france 24. it is time for 60 minutes life around the world. these are the headlines. egypt votes today and its presidential election. with the reelection of incumbent a -- is, the focus am the number of people who bothered to turn out to vote. in syriaia, the biggest evacuatn yet from a former rebel held area. more than 5000 rebels and

civilians have been evacuated following five weeks of government bombing. adult film star stormy daniels says she was threatened to keep silent about an allegedly sexual relationship with donald trump 12 years ago. breaking her silence in an interview on 60 minutes. also coming up, more trouble for facebook after the social network took out newspaper ads to apologize for that data scandal. the details in our business update. a waiter who got fired for his behavior says he is not rude. he is just french. details coming up in the press review. this is live from paris.

people are voting today in egypt to elect a new president, but there is no real suspense in who that is going to be. the current leader, ell sissi seems to be set to be a shoe in for a second term. most of his real and -- competitors with drew from the race citing threats of imprisonment. chris moore is covering the election for us. he joins us live in front of a polling station in cairo. how has the polling turnout been today? >> people have been heading to this polling station. it is home to some of the countries christian minorities. you might be able to hear behind me the atmosphere. 200 people turning up to a pro- el sissi event.

14,000 polling stations have opened up. 350,000 security personnel have been deployed in the wake of the attack in alexandria. said, with so many contenders, -- falling by the low-profile candidates now facing president el sisii. in the wake of populated back protests, the army deposing morsi. the one and overwhelming victory -- he won in an overwhelming victory. they have really been getting people to come out and exercise

what they say is there patriotic duty to vote. his image right now is everywhere and kyra. -- in cairo. >> how different is this election for president sissi compared to the last one. what will the next four years have in store for ejections? -- fort egyptians -- fort egyptians >> with him coming to power on the back of protests from a large part of the population to get rid of mohamed morsi. in the wake of that when he became president, he pledged to sort out the country's economy. the underlying issues going forward are likely to remain similar. he has been quite low-profile during his campaign. when he has spoken out it has been to place emphasis on setting up the fight against

militants in the sinai peninsula in the wake of a series of attacks. the economy will always be looking -- lurking in the background. anhave seen egypt taking on imf loan. inflation here shut up. -- shot up. those are the kinds of things that will be affecting people's daily lives regardless of the politics over the next four years. >> thanks so much for that. chris will be hosting our election special live tonight from egypt. that starts at 6:30 p.m. french time. is moussaallenger

mustafa moussa who publicly supports the president. is theear-old moussa sole candidate running against el sissi in the upcoming vote. >> i believe i have equal chances. i believe that my program will get me a high enough percentage to get me to win. that is my goal. >> his actions do not always reflect his words. the french educated architect turned politician has refused to make campaign speeches nor has he bought ads in newspapers or on television. his party endorsed president sissi for a second term before offering their second -- before offering their own canandidate. back in january, the -- he threw his risk -- he threw his hat in the ring before the deadline.

>> i promise you know when in the party are glorifying anyone. working --nor are we >> they are called to boycott the election. other candidates were prevented from running altogether. former chief o of staff was arrested after declaring his candidacy. so was a former islamist with ties to the now banned muslim brotherhood. -- won 96% of the vote. tens of thousands of supppporters pourered into the streets of the capital to mark three years of war.

a military coalition led by saudi arabia entered yemen and march 2015 with the goal of restoring what it called legitimate government. hoursprotests came just after forces intercepted seven missiles fired by who see rebels. the strikes come just a week after defense secretary james mattis urged the crown prince to end the -- we have the latest on the situation in syria. more than 5000 rebels and civilians less eastern guida on sunday. that was the biggest evacuation yet. syrian troops now hold more than 90% of the one-time opposition stronghold just outside damascus. the evacuation was brokered by russia to clear the rebels out of three remaining rebel held pockets.

allegedly showing syrian rebels arriving in areas after fleeing. evacuated pockets after rebel forces agreed to lay down their weapons. >> we fled because of the shelling and destruction. we are forced to hinder -- to handle the ghouta. it was because of the airstrikes and the heavy shelling we were subjected to. around, thepockets city of duma is the last rebel stronghold. negotiations for surrender are underway with the main rebel group. the assad regime has given opposition the choice to moving back to other rebel held territories or signing up with

the government. making sure they are no longer here and that there are no more explosive devices left. the evacuations come after the syrian army backed by russia intensified their fighting last month leaving them with no choice but to leave. those who have fled have n no te parted for rebel held zones. >> the man behind catalonia's push for independence has been arrested after months of self-imposed exile. he was caught sunday and germany after the spanish supreme court reactivated an international arrest warrant against him. today, a german government spokesperson said that spain is a state under the rule of law and that the catalan crisis can only be resolved within the framework of spanish law. crisis -- into

a demonstration in barcelona against his arrest by tens of thousands of catalan's last night turned violent. on sunday in the united states, stormy daniels gave a highly anticipated interview to 60 minutes. she is the adult film star who had an allegedly affair with the president. and the interview, she claims that five years ago she was threatened lawsuit was in a parking lot with her infant daughter in order to keep her from talking about the relationship with trump. a television interview of so anticipated it was almost a national event in the united states. the star stormy daniels whose real name is stephanie clifford's told the american show 60 minutes that five years after she had a consensual affair with donald trump, she was threatened to keep her mouth shut. >> a guy walked up on me and

said to me, leave trump alone. forget the story. he leaned around and looked at my daughter and said, that is a beautiful little girl. it would be a shame if something happened to her mom. offeredls said she was $130,000 by his lawyer in exchange for signing a nondisclosure agreement. she says trump never signed it. trump's lawyer says he paid the sum out-of-pocket. havels's defense says they proof it came from trump headquarters. that could lead to campaigns financed violations. -- satanawyers say trumps's lawyers are -- lawyers say daniels's lawyers --

the president could have to publicly testify. a now to china where monumental library has opened. while the building has garnered rave reviews, some book lovers are not so impressed. the library actually contains far fewer books. all of them on display in the main reading room are actually an optical illusion painted onto the wall. dubbed theebeen library of the future. its floorsrs spread out t over 33,000 square meters. with its all-white a core -- decor, it looks like it could be straight out of a sci-fi film. >> thehe architecture gives it a feeling of eating in -- of being in a space.

when you look up, it gives the impression of a mountain of. looks >> many say they come just to admire the buildlding. peopople are calliling it the bt library inin the wororld. >> i camame just to see the architecture. since the library opened, an average of 15,000 people come every weekend. young and old, avid readers, or just the curious, the library has its share of fans. in the main room, what looks like looks turns out to be an elaborate trick of the eye. they are printed images that only appear real to -- from a distance. >> the books they do have can be found in an adjoining room. >> here at the books on politics.

we have works by our president too. books that criticize the president are prohibited from publication. you will not find those here. >> the library has space to hold just over a million bucks if the government gives its approval -- a million books if the government gives its approval. >> egypt is voting and its presidential election today. with the reelection of the incumbent a near certainty, the focus is on the number of people who actually bothered to turn out and vote. in syria, the biggest evacuation yet. more than 5000 rebels and civilians have been evacuated following five weeks of government robbing -- government bombing. stormy daniels says she was threatatened to keep quiet about her legend sexual encounter with donald trump 12 years ago.

breaking her silence on an interview with 60 minutes. time for a look at today's business news. you're going to start with the latest trade tensions. >> china last out at the u.s. over what it called economic intimidation. that is after president trump threreatened to of -- then toto impose tariffs o of $60 millionn chinese imports. behind-t-the-scenes talks have been taking place between beijing and washington. salinas likes has the story. >> after days of harsh words, washington and beijing have reportedly started behind-the-scenes negotiations on trade. potential released to the markets rattled by fear of a trade war after the u.s. announced plans to hit china with plans -- with tariffs. aiming to address is $350

billion -- it's $350 billion trade deficit with china. >> we still do not know what decisions will be taken. there is a perception this will not lead to anything too good. hopefully we can move into a more -- more of a dialogue. >> according to the wall street journal, the talks led by china's top economic advisor cover manufacturing. >president trump says he wants o reduce the trade deficitit by $0 billion. in a letter sent to beijing, the trump administration sent out a number of requests incluluding a rereduction of chihinese tarifin u.s.s. cars and access to chin's financial sector. the u.s. treasury secretary is

said to be weighing a trip to beijing to pursue the negotiations. china says it is open to talks despite lashing out at what they called u.s. economic intimidation. >> trade has been the big issue for the markets in big days. backroom talks between china and the u.s. seems to be encouraging investors today. traders are trading up. wall street had slumps late last week. we are expecting american shares at this stage to open up in positive territory. >> some more tough questions were facebook -- for facebook. >> it had beenen collecting data from android mobile users. a spokesperson for facebook says that information only came from users who had opted in to share it and had never sold or shared on to third parties.

this comes at a difficult time for facebooook and the company s trying to dig its waway out of e data harvesting scandal. the social network to out full-page advertisements in nine british and american newspapers over the weekend apologizing to its users. mark zuckerberg is coming under increasing pressure to testify to u.s. lawmakers. let's come back to france where. the government has passed a certificate milestone. >> the budget deficit here in france drops below 3%. that is a good deal lower than in 2016 when it was 3.4%. the 3% level is important because it eurozone rules require all countries to have a deficit below that level. it is even better than what was predicted previously by the french government. let's take a look at more of today's headlines. has filedremington

for protection. has credited with falling gun sales and increasing call for gun control. uber is selling its business in southeast asia. under the deal, the american firm will keep a 27 and a half percent stake in grab. it is the first consolidation for the industry in the region. it is the second big retreat for uber. alston 14 drain older contracts -- one four contracts. car imports to new zealand have been hit by some unwanted hitchhikers. >> the statistic office says that 8000 cars were refused entry to new zealand because of the discovery of stink hugs inin

the vehicles -- stink logs -- stink bugs in the vehicles. there are extra inspections to tackle the problems. i admit i had never heard of stink bugs before. >> do they stink? >> when you step on them, apparently they do. >> it is not time for our press review. -- it is now time for our press review. focus on today for the voting and egypt. >> and election with out much suspense. sissi is running virtually unopposed in egypt. it is pretty hard to find criticism today. let's take a look at one egyptian paper. their headline is today we elect our president.

they put the emphasis on the huge amount of security overseeing the vote. they also call on egyptians to go out and vote saying it is their responsibility. voter turnout is really the only uncertainty in this election. in that picture, we see the picture of sissi's only rival moussa. basically he is only included to make this seem fair. he himself is actually a supporter of sissi. cartoon,n see in this that journalist there is say candidate numbmber two, what wod you lilike to tell voters?s? his response is both for candidate number one. >> outside of egypt, many international organizations are denouncing the media crackdown. >> there is one case that is getting a lot of attention. she is the egyptian

correspondent for the times of london. the paper. revealed she was kicked out of egypt in. february. she tells her story in full detail here. she was told she could leave our face a military trial. -- he could leave or face a military trial. she thought she could go back to cover the election, but she found out she was placed on a list of undesirables. she writes that her expulsion comes at a time when a freedom is under assault at egypt -- in egypt. many egyptians are practicing self-censorship. >> in the united states, the adult film actress stormy daniels is also describing an atmosphere of fear. she gave an interview to 60 minutes on sunday where she said that she was threatened to keep quiet about her allegedly relationship with donald trump. >> she talked about these

relationships -- you talked about these threats -- she talked about these threats. since this news broke about her allegedly a fair. the only good news for donald trump is that the media attention has taken the focus off of the russia inquiry. as you can see in this cartoon, this man watching the interview says, forget robert mueller, this president needs to worry about melania. millenia stayed back in florida while he flew up to washington. the press has been really scrutinizing the couple's interactions trying to see how the relationship is holding up. >> donald trump has been pretty quiet about this interview. >> he has. when another woman accused the president of aggression, he very quickly spoke out to deny the claim. this is not been the case with the stormy daniels affair.

the daily beast says that stormy h has worked into a large-scale polilitical crisi. >> moving back to france, there is one faced dominating the papers. >> this is the man who sacrificed his life i trading -- by trading places with a hostage. you can see the word there, that his hero. the paper says that his sacrifice teaches us a valuable lesson in a time that is defined i -- by individualism. all of france is mourning his death. we read that quote. a man came to pay his respects at a church yesterday. beltrame will be given a national tribute in the coming days.

the paper writes they hope it will be a time for friends to come together and that national unity is more important than ever in the fight against terrorism. >> you have a typically french story about a french waiter who was fired a cousin being aggressive that it was fired because of being aggressive. >> he said he was not being rude, he was just french. this waiter worked in a restaurant in vancouver, canada. perhaps they are less used to the french way of the. he is using the claim of cultural discrimination. the question, does being french give you the right to read rude -- to be rude? >> thank you for that look at the papersrs today. get a closer look on her website. we are going to take a quick break. we'll be back with more headlines. do not go away.

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