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hello, everyone. this is france 24. time for 60 minutes around the world. i am genie godula. the men known as "apical trump" when of the of brazil's election. jair bolsonaro will now face leftist fernando haddad in the runoff. -- "tropical trump." a justice from guilty of
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stealing babies during the franco regime, found guilty. but no penalty due to limitations. and now a journalist reportedly was killed and release are asking for permission to search the conflict. also coming up this hour, the nobel prize in economics went to two american scholars for their work on climate change and innovation. and the force is strong with a young frenchman who lost all of his star wars legos when his house was robbed. more coming up in our press review. but first, top stories live from paris. welcome of voters in
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brazil are faced with a stark choice in round two of their presidential election after the far right populist jair on a stunning 46 point 7% in the first round. the ultraconservative jair bolsonaro has stirred controversy, lashing out at minorities, the gay community, and women, but has won support for his tough stance on crime. foraces fernando haddad weeks now. reporter: as the first results came in, supporters of jair bolsonaro began to celebrate. >> we are electing an honest man. we are trying to the ourselves and the corruption -- from the corruption. bolsonaro finally took
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to the internet to address his supporters. he outpaced his rivalal with 47% of the vote, but not enough to avoid a runoff. >> everyryone who o lives with , stay mobilized.. i am here because i believe in you and you brutally -- and you believe in brazil. reporter: left-wing candidate addressed hisd supporters directly. polls put him at the neck with bolsonaro in the runoff. at stake inso much this 2018 election. our constitution is on the line. it is under serious threat. reporter: those concerns shared by supporters outside. a i think it is going to be hard struggle. it is going to be a street fight. i'm very worried the left might not pull it off. crisis,: economic
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rampant crime, and corruption scandals -- many brazilians have turned away from the party of da silva. bolsonaro performed strongly in taking 57south, percent of the use of the support in rio de janeiro. he plans problems with the electronic voting system for his that she blames problems with the electronic voting system for his clear to win outright on sunday. genie: i enjoined on the set by a sociologist and lecturer. you are also a member of "the other brazil," which supports a former president. how shocked where you to see him win in the stroud? >> it was a shock. no one saw this victory in the first round. we've got 30%, 31 percent, that
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is a big number, but not 46% of the votes. almost 15 million votes. it's a lot of support for candidate who says all the time that the problem with brazil is the minorities, the problem with brazil is the games, the problem with brazil is the feminists in the indians in all of that. it came as a great shock. genie: how much do you think people were voting for bolsonaro and not just against the left? ofi think there are a lot votes against the left. these prejudices and brazil are very strong yet. was builtociety that through slavery, and this kind .f damage has continued
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society was touched very hard by the segregation system, by the racism and the homophobia in thihis conservative thinking. i think his voters are conservative. that is for sure. bubut i think they are finding n bolsonaro somebody who could actually win, not like other candidates from the right who are conservative also. genie: i guess that is where the big question is. maybe people were not fans of bolsonaro 100% but they are fed up with high crime, the poor economy. do you think scenario can really change things if he is to win the second round? reporter: no, i don't think so. when you see w what he did the last 27 years in the parliament, ofis always on these side the same politics that are on the table. for instance, 2016, the coup
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d'etat, we saw he voted everything will time with the government. so it's not a new politics. the thing that is going to change, i think is the brutality of the security policies. that, yes, i think that will be a great change if paulson nora wins. he already said he wants to put -- ofns in the hands especially the landlords in , for example, to fight against indians and peasants. wants to execute criminals because a good criminal is a dead criminal. that is the main issue and i do not think he is going to solve the problem of criminality. we are not there yet.
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the second round is october 20 eighth. we will keep an i on that to see how that develops. thank you for coming to speak with us. -- the second round is october 28. now, and 85-year-old former gynecologist accused of selling one baby in particular during the franco regime is guilty of charges, but the court cleared him to to the statute of limitations. the baby was one of thousands of babies who were told that their baby had died only to be adopted by loyalists of franco. our correspondent joins us. tell us more about what was said in the verdict today. reporter: the verdict velatially said that dr. steal her from her natural
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mother and helped take a pregnancy for the woman who raising her, that she should pertain to be pregnant off as herthe baby own. the court said that did indeed ms. madrigal is a victim, she is a still one baby, but the statute of limitations expired in the case of stolen babies when his master golf turned 18. turned 18.igal she did not know that she was stolen from her natural m mothe. she was the mother who brought her up who confessed to t the crime to her. that was instrumental in getting the case to court. she gave evividence to the judg. hasgh the natural mother not lived to see the verdict, she has been instrumental in
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getting some sort of justice to it she said today, this was a bittersweet victory because she has proved her case even though dr. eduardo vela will not go to prison. the first verdict in thousands of objections that are thought to have taken place during the franco regime. our others on the way? reporter: is madrigal is expected to appeal this verdict to the supreme court. one of the reason she will do that, she has told me is she tols her case is crucial thousands of stolen babies or mothers who feel that their babies were stolen from them. one researcher thinks that about 300,000 babies may have been stolen in spain in the 1930's and that actually c continued io
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the democracy as late as the 1980's and many of those are them's, including ms. madrigal -- many of those victims, including ms. madrigal, she still does not know who her natural mother was. withs likely to push on another verdict. that in the you for case of spain's stolen babies. judgment on the case of a journalist, turkish officials claiming he was killed and has asked the saudi's permission to conduct their own investigation inside the consulate. we have more from our correspondent. reporter: the hunt for jamal
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continues. >> everything is being inspected, especially entries and exits from istanbul, as well as the airports. turkish police say around 15 saudi's, including officials, arrived in istanbul on tuesday and were at the consulate as the same time as jamal khashoggi. on saturday, a journalist said ashoggi had been killed. saudi arabia sent two investigators. >> the saudi official jamal khashoggii was killed in the consulate in istanbul. khashoggi was at the conflict to pick up official documents relating to his wedding. to officials, and
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they said, we have evidence he was killed in a barbaric way. we will announce tomorrow or the day after. reporter: an advisor to the royal family, jamal khashoggi fled saudi arabia in 2017. he has written critically of the air to the throne, notably in "the washington post." meanwhile protesters have been gathering outside the consulate in istanbul. beijing has finally broken its silence about the fatete of the missing intern moe -- interpol president. officials say that he is being investigated for suspected bribery. he was last seen when he left the french city of leon for a trip to china. his wife is appealing to the
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international community for her, saying that husband sent her a knife emoji to warn her of danger. reporter: he is accused by thehe chinese minisistry of having accept b bribes. accusation inn china, especially under xi jinping. the past two years, several high-ranking chinese officials have been imprisosoned in this manner. one of these men is the former minister o of public security, o is said to be close to the missing man. the wife denies that they were ever close and is defending her husband, saying that he e spent his life defending the rule of
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law in china and cannot be accucused of corruruption. shee also pleaded for her husband's security, knowing that she could be the target of reprisals from china. a reporter from beijing. let's look at today's headlines here on france 24. the known as tropical trump has won the first round of brazil's election. the cro will now face leftist fernando haddad in the runoff. and an 85-year-old gynecologist accused of stealing a baby bring the franco regime found guilty, but clear duty of the statute of limitations. no word on the missing saudi journalist jamal khashoggi. he was pressing going into the consulate in turkey on most we could go. turkish officials say that he was killed and are reportedly asking for permission to search the consulate.
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time now for a business update. hi, yuka. the swedish academy hasas announced the e laureates forr e prize in economics? and paulliam nordhaus romer will be sharing the award. romer is ad romer -- former chief economist, order the center showing how the government forces can drive private plans to pursue innovation. france, a massive tax fraud trial is about to open against a swiss bank? that spankings ubs. it is accused of encouraging rich clients to dodge taxes.
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they organized golf and hunting evidence in switzerland. the long-running case comes after they failed to reach a settlement with french authorities last year. organizing hunting expeditions and golf turned him it's while using business cards and switching hotels regularly -- these are some of the tactics allegedly used by ubs anchors to stash money. it's part of the investigation into the swiss banking giant. a whistleblower broke rules back in 2007. this clienttuated -- this crime. thousands of bankers, billions of euros in assets. ubs says it is looking
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forward to having a chance to challenge claims. subsidiary ish also on trial. french prosecutors wanted ubs to 137 billion euros, but the bank pushed for different figure closer to 300 million. ubs is playing a risky game. court, any fine under french law could be half of the settlement. maxwell there. shows an ubs dropped ahead of the trial, which is set to open very shortly. european shares are trading on a week note at the start of the trading week, weighed down by worries over italy's budget
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plans and bond yields among other things. bank is moving to pump more cash into the economy. the people's bank of china says that it will reduce the debt held over next week by one percentage point. borrowing costs rise, the government will not cave in to market pressure and is o on -- they accused traitors of -- -- [indiscernible] the high court in london has blocked an attempt to bring a class gadget -- a class action against google. is accused of accessing
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details of people's internet browsing data. google welcomes the ruling saying the claim was without merit. and they are defying the sanctions threat. the european union said last friday that there would be special access to the trading block. the commission says that other exports will face tariffs. lloyds banking group has confirmed there are tall. this and not -- there are talks. this is after lloyds managed 30 billion pounds and wealth management. with lloyds holding a majority stake. they have confirmed the discussions are ongoing.
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that is set for business for now. thank you for the business update. it is now time for the press review. so, hi. you have been looking at reports in turkey after the reported death of a saudi dissident at these saudi consulate in istanbul. they are demand during answers after the death of the journalist jamal khashoggi, who according to sources was murdered inside the saudi consulate in istanbul. this has created an unprecedented crisis. language paper is warning on its front page -- this arab language crime says they only have unofficial information but it shows nonetheless there has been saudi crime and you have this
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cartoonist who is not sitting on the fence about the scandal. the bloodied pen representing saudiggi, and you have officials' foot stuck in the pen. genie: what are they saying? reporter: they say that they have high hopes for the safety of jamal khashoggi. the turkish press is quite outraged. a conservative paper says if they did murder khash oggi at its consulate, it needs roguedesignated as a state. there will be legal and diplomatic consequences. genie: to bulgaria where the rape and murder of a journalist
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has been shocking there. reporter: they are collecting dna in evidence at the sight of the gruesome death. she had recently been part of a investigating state corruption. she is the third journalist to be assassinated in the eu and the last year. those are alarming statistics. it is unclear if her work was the reason. we have reactions to the swearing-in of donald trump's supreme court nominee, brett kavanaugh of course. reporter: justice brett kavanaugh. he is promoting -- provoking a lot of emotion. of concernsnslaught for you have lady justice line
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folded. this is a pretty bitter cartoon. wonders how low can you go, literally. frat boythem playing a game. we will turn attention to steve bannon and stoking populist sentiments in europe. reporter: he is trying to bring the populace to power in the european elections, even creating his own club in britain. he is not hiding his intentions in an interview where he says he break up europe. and you have a big world
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cup star -- what is up with him? reporter: he continues to throw football fans with his club. 5-0 in the league match thanks to quadruple goals, four and 13 minutes to be precise. it's a personal best for him. frenchlso time for the sports page. and just to wrap up now, i happy ending for devastated star wars lego fan? reporter: he is a huge fan, his passions spanning 14 years. man's last collection took 10 months to build. they broke into his home and the parisian suburbs.
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and they left all the valuables. and then he posted a cheery video online. they set up a video. not bringat this will back his collection, but he can build a new one. genie: thanks for helping us with what these papers of and saying. you can get a closer look, of course, at this on her website, france24.com. in the next half hour, our environment reporter will tatalk more about the dramatic climate change report from the human and what we can do to help, after the break. -- the u.n. and what we can do to help come after the break. -- four news
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