claire: italy's government turns on the operator the bridge that collapsed on tuesday, illing 30 niie people. this despite the fact of the cause of the disaster isn't yet known. ibrahim boubacar keita reelected president of mali. , says exl not relent

cia chief john brennan as thee 1 white house revokes his security donald trump. welcome back to the france 24 newsroom. the italian state will have to take over the company's motorways if companies who have concessions aren't able to do .he job property so says the deputy prrme minisser. the government has accused the operator of tte bridgg that collapsed in genoa on tueeday of not investing enough in mmiiteeance. jenna was chief prosecutor has chief prosecutor has said there still could be people trapped in the rubble. according to rescuers there is little chance theyyare alive. >> a second nightt of

under the fallen bridge as the search for victims continues. there's an urgent need to clear the debris from tracks and a dry riverbed to avoid having a dam created a heavy rains fall. toly's prime ministee turns the firm in chhrge of operating and maintaining the bridge. he signals the government wouldn't wait for the investigation to conclude o revoke its contract. weehave tht po that every citizen can travel safely. it had the binding obligation of the running cost and to keep up work. his traasportation and infrastructure minister said fiim over 150 milliin euros.the

it operates almost half of italy's 6770 k kilometer motorwy network under a contract rrnning it aagues that it met its obligations and all its works had been approved by the government. authorities are alalso worried pbouttthe stabiiity f remaining secttons of the brrdge thahat stand above otheher buildings. more than 600 peopleauthoritiesd about the have the living practically in shadow of the motorway. building a new bridge could require destroying the vacatedd1 buildings according to the transport minister. i'm joined bb an economist. hello. in. as i mentioned, you've got the iialian government basically threatening to nationalize motorwayy. issue of public goverrments invest in otorways and other infrasttucture issnot just an issue in italy but

across europe. >> yee. you are totally rrght. what is going on in italy is all at the moment unfortunately, germany, france and otherr6 c131 designatedo not enough amount for public investtent. we face in the future different situations. italyc the risk like in to have the same situation like that's the reason why at the moment it's very importanttfor europe to avoid anothhr catastrophh to invest more and more for bridges, highwaas. that's the problem. unfortunatell in italy we have to wait to see that kind of ttagedy to have a kind of answwr. at the moment the government in

the situation.know how to face pecause the bridde has to be destroyee at the end to build another one and it costs aaloo. past tochosse in the let the concessions of the we don't know if it's a good choice because the amounn of pnvestment is not enough to maintain the highwayyin a good way and to assure securities for people. claire::does this have anything to do with brussels? earlier this week you have the italian goveenment pointing he finger at brussels and saying theyydidn't have enough money t% spend on infrastructure because do they have a point? >> we cannnt say that really. it's difficult. we ccn say on the one and that of funds for its development.lot

on the other part the problem is that we have -- the government told the europeaneurope o avoid another catastrophe commission we cannot europe the rules of beccuseeii avoidd us to have the investment for highways oo brrdge. italy has benefits a lot from -- moment.s from europe at the there's the cost of reconstruction. there's also the cost to the couudn media is saying it be 11 billion euros and 55,000 so far we have had the prime minister give us 5 million euro

government to the region. -pthat's nowhere nearrenoughh >> at the moment what is at% ris is tte acttvity in the harborr and the activity at the moment. answer because it's the first% time they face that kind oo activity of the harbor for that city. that's the proolem. how o face the emergency oo the situation. and the government has at the solution to real propose to the citizens. we have act very quickly because at the moment the activity could be stopped after tomorrow. claire: we will have to see what the governmmet does next. thann you.

the results of sunday's prrsidential runoff in mali are in. president ibrahim boubacar keita has been reelected with 67% of -ptte vote. his opponent said he would challenge the result, aaleging -p>> it's a comfortable victory a restlessn after election. vvolence come accusstions and frauu -- of fraud and low turnout diin't threetened keita's election. he is accused of ballot stuffing, vote uyinn and

hundreds of polling stations werr closed for securrty reasons. the u... asked all arties to remain calm s he elelection concluludes. claire:: c1 islamii state groups claimed responsibility forr6 c11 wednesday's suicide attack at an educatton center in the afghan capital, kabul. 31 people were illed. many of them teenagers studying officials say teaching was underway wwen the bombee blew himself up. thhssis in the shiite area of the city. dozens of people were injured. figure and half after kim jong-un's half brother was murdered in maalysia, a judge has ruled that there is evidence

against the accused for the trial to proceed. two women, ne from indonesia anddthe other from vietnam, artiste of rrbbing a toxiccnerve ffce.on kim ong nam's they say they thought they were takinn part ii a tv prank show and they cllim to be innocent pictims of a north korean plot. journalists are nottthe enemy. boston globe's editorial board. hundreds of ammrican news organizations have answered the newspaaers call to publish% editorialssopposing donald which have been condemned by you and experts. ---u.n. experts. before.e have been protests reeentless attacks on the american media. but tte latest initiative has support. the first amendment and the freedom of the press. -- u.n. experts. >>nearly 350 newspapers joined e

the massachusetts daily called her editors to write opinion pieces stressing the importance of press freedom. -paad internntional ones, hundrs paper to say thee are not the enemy. response to a hailstorm of aatacks by the president, both on twitter where he has called the mminstream media the enemy of the people and in multiple speeches. badhey can make anything because they are the fake fake disgustiig news. >> i like real news. >> trump has repeatedly bashed% -pthe edia for eing against m and publishing "fake news." a campaign against the press that may be wwrking. over 50% of reppblicans feel the press is the enemy of tte only 5% of democrats feel thatt1 way. >> doee everybody like the press? >> no.

fair? >> no. initiative to sound the alarm may be a risky one. that's the opinion of a political journalist. jacc shafer says it's an he says trump proof that the collective media issout to get him when in fact most just want to report thh claire: the white house has revoked the securiiy clearance of john brennan, saying the ex cia hief's behavior has been erratic. he has been an outspoken critic of donald trump, most recently coodemning the president for calling and asked staff for a pog. following through on a threat to strip ffrmer officials of

move, theecedented white house announced that obama era cia director john brennan %will a longer have access to classified government pill a longer have access to classified governnent infoomation. >> ny benefits that senior consultations will -- with mr. brennan are now outrage -- outweighed byythe risks posed by his erratic conduct and behavior. >> they are also considering revoking clearance from other x officials including ames comey. have een critical of the president. the miiistration insists theer decisions abbut clearance are -pnot politically motivated. brennan disagreed. >> this action is part of a broader effort by mr. trump to suppress freeeom of speech and punish critics. it should gravely worry all americans including intelligence professionals about the cost of announcement has l led politicil possible motivation.%-

desire to distract from the media storm surrrunding a newly rereleased book by one of rum's former aides. >> omarosa manigault newman that trump is a racist. if we simply makeethe news about revoking his security clearance we take all the headlines away former u.s. officials usualll keep their security clearance so they can continue advising the government and land jobs at security analysts. according to the most recent have u.s. security clearancele with ovvr one million at the top secret level. if i say world cup,% chances are you're thinking about football. but there's also a tango world cup nd is cuurently underway n more than 500 couples from across the world are taking part. tte winners will be annoonced next week. italy.take aalisten to

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>> france, 1968. charles de gaulle has already beee president of the french republic for 10 years. international he is a prestigious, lmost heroic fiiure. in francophone africa.onization he ecognized the people's republic of china in 1964. and pulled france out of natt's inneggated military command two years later. , opposing her united states and the soviet union, france rejected bipolarity and pursued ann6 c131 independent foreign policy. within the borders oo the hexagon. after wave o of popular uprisin, the hahandstaves, italy and west , french yooth wanted to start their own revolution. in 1968, george ross was writing

his he was preparing to go to paris to do research in may. just before he left, he was following the emerging sscial movement in the country. -p>> i remember reading about te business right away. it's sounded like just another student movement to me. uses on french workers unions at harvard. to do research in may. just before hethen it got obvioh bigger. coverage -- was a movie star forra a while. it was pretty clear that he was to being a magnifiient orator. whhn he gave speeches, peopll listened. that's the main thing i remember. marching from aris to the sorbonne. 1968, -- was a student in paris on a scholarship. he was preparing an entrance exam for cinema school. he ived in the latin quarter. the hard of the may 68 uprising. he witnessed the nighttof the

when thousands of french students confronted >> the situation beeame dangerous when the first% barricade fell, leading o unprecedented violence. we quickly hid in a woman's apartment. i was terrified. i thought people would die. the next day we realized that no had such a demonstration occurred in the mcgrath, morocco, tunisia, it would have been a bloodbath. that really struck me. it was a huge unprecedented demonstration. yet the protesters didn't have hostile intentions. it was a refreshing attitude within the realm of polltical >> in 1968, one third of the

age of 20.0.ulatation was undere 2 million ppople were paid justd tte minimum wage. discontenn,ave of employees in the subuubs f parii went on strike. the aatomobile company employed 12,000 immigrant workers. >> i'm pictured here with one chinese riend. two portuguese friends. the spanish friend. senegalian.alien -- toto make and save money and thn returned to their countries afafter a few years. to theirrcountries after a few yearsrs. tte strike put those plansson hold. on the one hand they werr afraid thee wouldn't be paii. there were rumors of civii war brewing in france.

>> a civil war may not have taken place.% the strike paralyzed the country. factories, transportation, the% public sector. it all came to a standstiil. the foreign affairs minister received muutiple essages from embassies. the country's allies grew increasingly worried about the up swell of popular revolt in frrnce. thatere was a telegram explained in extremely precise public transport. the german economy was dependent on food trucks from france which were no longer mmking it into germany and that would rot if so people in germany were% french andause the german ecooomies were already% tightly ccnnected. >> germanyywasn't the onll pountry to worry. authorities.sms of the french

french and german eeonomies were lready tightly connected. >> obviously the british were happy to see de gaulle being duped by frencc students. the united kingdom had just been rejected from the european eeonomic community for the second timee in november 196967. so the british criticized french police for their overly forceful >> these to protests. impression on george ross who moved close to the theatater in latin quarter the in mid-may. -pat he time it was occupied by militants. ittwas filled up looking like they were about to go to ar..61 , it'shey move on you

pretty scary. in thh states, the police never sort of eat people up. under control. but in paris is quite evident that the cif id respopond to students and heavyvy-handed way. -- in a heaay-handeddway. >> of the protesters in number. encouraged by the union, workers joined the students in their strike. among them, vasco martins. heehad fled portugaa to avoid fighting in the colonial war in angola. had i been arrested, i risked beinggdeported..6 c13 c1 this was the case forrmany people..6 c1c13 c1 they were deported and t then st to the army which was fightinn the portuguese colonial war in angola. i refused to participate in that pnit -- in that. lived in frrnce.ese citiiens

they fred -- fled economic misery and the authoritarian thenio salazzr had replaced public with a military dictatorship in 1926. >> theeregime was afraid the portuguese would be contaminated by the spirii of freedoo and change that drove may 68. >> indeed, such ideas had already spread to africa, students in he car still connected to frencc culturee6 c1 provoked a major crisis which took hold of the entire country. like in france, in enegal the student movement partially people were dissstisfied with the social aad economic situation in senegal. it weekened leopold sang gore's presidency. people even wondered if he would

step down. the newer effect was complete. extremely firmme remained but eventually he gave in to the demands of the different groups. >> charles de gaulle had other loyal followers in africa including the president of the central african republic. 30 he sent a telegram affirming his fidelity to charles de gaulle. general, oneeman lone can% save all of humanity and ressore peace to the world. generaa charles de gaulle, liberator of france, liberator of africa. men of god. the central african people beseechhhis excellency to remain mandate. his cinematography exam had been

annulled and he would have to take them again the following year. he joined the students who were occupying the soobonne. >> i was waiting n line. iere was a long line and spotted workers. people who came to sign up even though they wwre not students. when my turn came i told the young lady i was available. she looked at me and that, great. you're going to reelace me now because i need to nurss my son. i said nooproblem and itit like i became e a military figu. i had the sensation of being a true literary fiiure. in the occupied also the sorbonne, huuan revolutionaries and mao zedong replace more traditional political rrfugees of the time.

little interest in frennh studenents. ththhy wanted d to keep ccucutis estoril tegall stood up to the united ssates. the chinese had a more ambiguous ppsition. protesests. radical sociallst government of the late 19th century. as the results of the legislative eleccions in june rolled in, they toned down their rretoric. 180. aa first they were medically opposed to the gaullist reprrssionon of the student and worker protests. when deegaulle's party won the electton, the chinese side interest in sspporting his foreign-policy whicc favored vietnam. >> sure enough, on may 13 in paris, neeotiations between the americans and vietnamese commenced at charles de gaulle's initiative.

the talks went to a peace trraty five years latee. meanwhile in france, the government held two days of talks between workers and way to aaaaaaaaaaaaw coming up onreel south.

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