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live from paris. let's look what is making headlines. melbourne police say they are treating a knife attack in australia's second-biggesest ciy as terrorism. one person was stabbed to death and two were injured. the attacker died in the hospital after being shot by police. the world gears up to mark the anniversary of world war i.
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emmanuel macron and theresa may will commemorate their country shared sacrifice. unveilsp administration its latest measures to crack down on immigration, saying those who enter illegally will no longer be able to claim asylum. ♪ >> police in australia are describing a knife attack as an incident of terrorism. one person was stabbed to death. two have been injured. the attacker was shot by police. said they heard a loud bang explosion and saw a car bursrst into flamemes.
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withhea is s popular shoppers. the attacker, from somalia, was known to authorities. our reporter has the latest. >> police have responded to a knife crime incident in melbourne city center.. three people have been stabbed. emergency services were called to attend to a car on fire. >> what we know about the individual we shot and has died at hospital, we are treating this as a terrorism incident. the counterterrorism command and the homicide squad dealing with this. the investigation is being conducted by the counterterrorism command. i am not at libertyty to discloe the idedenty of that person. >> w witnesses heaeard a loud bg -- heard a loud
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bang explosion before the car burst into flames. >> there are police everywhere. this is insane. police are not looking for other attackers. >> theresa may and emmanuel macron are set to commemorate their shared sacrifice in world war i. it is just ahead of the 100th anniversary of the end of world war i. for more on this story, i am international
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correspondent. what is the symbolic significance of the french and british leaders coming together on this? >> the location is important. when i wasas being taught this n school, we were focused on the first day because it was the worst day for the british army. men were,000 young being mowed down by german machine guns. the education was about that first day. we were not aware about the thatround of the some, france was being bled at verdun. was a case of britain to the rescue. this is a sacrifice that emmanuel macron has not forgotten that france has not forgotten and will be paying tribute to.
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we talk about britain and france, they were empires at the time, as was germany. there were many places on the somme. we were taken to these on britain. somme.a world war at the it is ironic coming at this time when britain is about to exit the eu. >> the brexit argument has been we want to stay friends with europe. culture andared history. we do not want to shy away from that. we just don't want to be in a political europe. the thingxample of they are talking about. cannotblem is, you separate politics from everything else because the climate is intense.
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they have a working lunch between the symbolic moments. brexit is unavoidable. summit is being billed as a make or break summit on brexit. the hopes for this working lunch are low. if you look at their previous encounter, it was during summer holiday, it was not specifically about a political calendar. not give anron did inch. he is positioning paris to be a post brexit trading hub. he has every reason to continue taking a hard line with theresa may. >> france 24 will be broadcasting special coverage throughout the weekend.
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forum will bee held here in the french capital. be no states, there may wall, the trump administration has taken a radical step. the people who enter the country illegally will no longer be eligible for asylum. the move tolclaring be illegal. under u.s. law, there is a legal obligation to hear asylum claims from migrants. if they fear violence back in their home countries. >> as caravans follow the , the trumpers administration has announced new regulations on asylum claims that could leave them without a chance of entering the united states as they flee poverty and
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violence in their countries. >> my goal is to enter the united states. my children are there and i want to be with my family and children. however i do it, i have to enter the united states. i will ross the river, the desert if i have to. i will get to the border, and from there, i will make my decision. i will try to cross the river. outlines that they can only be eligible if they arrive at an official port of entry on the border. this comesfter soldiersere dedeployed to the border on mony and installeled barbeded wire fs in anticicipation of thehe cara. trump has vowed to stop them from entering the country. the law is expected to be introduced by presidential decree friday and will certainly
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face court challenges. a global trend. the number of anti-semitic attacks in france rose by 69% in the first nine months of this year. the prime minister has warned against indifference, vowing to crack down on hate speech and hate crimes in the country. >> france is home to the largest jewish community. many jews say they no longer feel safe. it is not just a feeling. acts rose by 69% in the first nine months of 2018. out against carried acer the sum because they are jewish echoes like the sound of broken glass. ofking the 80th anniversary
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the night of broken glass, during which hundreds of synagogues were torched and dozens of jews were killed by nazis. anti-semitic acts today are relentless. we are very far from being finished with anti-semitism. 2015,a record year in anti-semitic acts fell in 2016 went down further last year. increase been a steady in violent attacks targeting jews. a retired of kindergarten director who was tortured and thrown off her balcony last year shocked the jewish community. they were horrified when an 85-year-old holocaust survivor was killed at her home in paris in march. edouard philippe and his
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government have e vowed to crack down on hate beach and hate crimes. he said a dedicated team will intervene and help tackle anti-semitism. the director now, of the american jewish committee here in paris. disturbing statistics. what is driving these figures upwards here in france? >> we do not know. don't know is we where the sources come from. we only have the numbers of the violent and nonviolent anti-semitic acts. know, we do not have ethnical statistics, where they come from. upwards trendn this year. started in years, it 2000 and we have identified
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three forms of anti-semitism coming from the far right, the andleft, and islamist jihadist anti-semitism. >> it is part of a global trend. all overn see it europe, germany. there is an increase of anti-semitic acts over the past years. the u.k., a new form coming from the far left. you can see it in the united states, pittsburgh was a horrific reminder that anti-semitism is not dead in the united states. from you feel -- we heard the prime minister, but did you government ish doing enough to address the issue? ,> the previous government there is an understanding there is a problem of anti-semitism.
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important and positive. the way the prime minister expressed himself is important. createdious government a plan to combat anti-semitism. taken itrnment has forward. the realities, we have not seen change on the ground. is taking itt seriously, but the realities on the ground have not changed. part of it has to do with the fact there are words, but the government has not mobilized civil society as a whole. for now, it is words and we will see if it translates into result on the grounds. >> thank you for coming in. is making of what headlines. melbourne policece are treatinga
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knife attack in the second largest city of australia as terrorism. one person was stabbed to death and two were injured. the attacker died after being shot by police. the world is gearing up to mark the 100th anniversary of the end of world war i. emmanuel and theresa may set to commemorate their country's shared sacrifice in what was called the world -- the war to end all wars. trump announcing those who enter american soil illegally will no longer be able to claim asylum. it i is time for the business news. i am joined by catherine bennett. you are going to tell us about ubs. >> it is in hot water. filed aice department lawsuit saying the bank lost williams to investors on
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residential mortgages. ubs denies the charges. here, prosecutors have demanded they pay a record fine of 3.7 billion euros for helping clients avoid taxes. at least 9.7 6 billion euros and unreported between 2004 2012. we will have a look and see how the markets in europe are doing. markets are continuing to edge lower. banking stocks are down. keeping one eye on italy as its standoff with brussels continues. the european commission warned the forecast was not in line with its own calculation. the ftse 100 and dax are down by almost 1%.
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with the british deadline -- with the brexit deadline looming, trouble could be brewing for guinness. concern is mounting over whether the irish drink industry supply chain between the republic and northern ireland will be kept complete. selena sykes has more. iconics ireland's most export. leavefilled with guinness dublin and had to belfast, where the beverage is packaged for international consumption. brewers worry the supply chain is in limbo. >> on average, our industry undertakes 23,000 truckk movements. any delay to that would work out to about 100 euro per truck cost
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back onto the industry. >> london and dublin want to avoid a hard border. negotiatorseu cannot agree on how to do so. the u.k. rejecting brussels proposal that the eu remain in the customs union. guinness's coffers are likely to absorb economic uncertainty. many are concerned the price of brexit will trickle down for customers. for it to go up anymore,, no, i would not be happy. ticking, someock politicians have warned consumers could see their favorite brands drying up. britain's economy has picked 0.2%aining 0.6%, growing
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from the last quarter. ofs was largely because retail sales and increased household spending. latest in a long string of problems for low-budget airline ryanair. a plane was seized by a french bailiff thursday evening. 149 passengers were forced to disembark. chris is here to talk to us. thank you for joining us. can you tell me more about this? >> ryanair pulled out of the airport and said they wanted subsidies, they wanted to have planes flying in with tourists spending money in the area. the eu ruruled those subsidies were illegal, so they pulled out. that is what they did.
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the region council says pay back the money we gave you and ryanair refused. a charge said, you have to and they did not. the extraordinary decision made last night to send a bailiff over to him pound one of the planes that -- to him pound one o o of thth impound planes thahat came i ryanaiair is toto send someone n with a checkbook to pay the fine of over half a million euros to get its money back. it is an extraordinary situation. ryanair does not need this kind of publicity. >> a hasty solution from ryanair. is interesting. another news story about ryanair, moving on. it is time for the press review.
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it is time to take a look at what is making headlines. i am joined by allison. you are going to start in germany, where newspapers are marking the ninth of november, a day of many important inner verse reads. >> it is the day of fate. there is one german newspaper that has a list of the most important events that occurred in germany on the ninth of november. the fall of the monarch he and 19 eight teen -- the fall of the 1918.hy in there was the night of broken glass that marked the start of the holocaust. headline reads the night the mass murder began. the image is a type of monument to holocaust victims, or a
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stumbling block. something you will notice if you have walked around in berlin, there are cobblestones with the name of a holocaust victim and the date they were deported. they have been vandalized in recent years. the returnample of of anti-semitism. nationalism has been making a comeback in germany. of glassng the night is more important than ever. towe are looking ahead commemorations marking the end of world war i. they have been overshadowed by a series of regulations -- a series of revelations that -- has been racially profiling its players. >> in french football, it is making the front pages. it came from the investigative
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website, based on documents from football leaks. they have a mock up of one of the forms the recruiters used to track players. ethnicate of birth, and background. west indian, north african, black african, and french. here in france, it is against the law to collect this information. this information was used to discriminate against black players. or uneasiness on their front page. they write this affair has been sickening. >> it is not the first time this is happened in france. >> in 2010, there was a scandal about racial quotas. that was revealed by the site that reported the heads of the football federation believed
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there were too many blacks and arabs and not enough whites playing for french teams. , report was done at the time and it included a young star of france's national team. he was an unknown 12.5-year-old boy, playing for his local team. he told reporters he disagreed with quotas because if you look at history, all of the best players were black or arab with few exceptions. is a reminder that racial stereotyping remains a problem in the world of football. >> rather upsetting. of theto the other side atlantic, it has been an adventure -- an eventful newsweek.
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the hype of the midterms and the horrific latest mass shooting, a wave of hysteria was sparked by news that an 85-year-old woman had fallen and fractured her ribs. any 85-year-old woman. this was ruth bader ginsburg. she is one of the four remaining progressive judges on the conservative majority supreme court. no many on the left, it is exaggeration to say the fate of the country hangs on her health. news she had been hospitalized ont a wave of hysteria social media. this is prompted one writer to argue maybe it should not be this way. the fact we are concerned about the health of this one-woman is a signal there e is a problem in the u.s. he proposes a solution of supreme court term limits, so
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retire during a term. pic was finally sworn in yesterday in a ceremony ruth bader ginsburg had to miss. >> we are going to end with a story that returns to the theme of commemorations. a croatian man tried to vandalized and anti-fascist statue. the statute fought back. brokefell on the man and his foot. he had to be hospitalized. you can read about it in the guardian. it was of a man who became a hero for inviting against croatia -- four fighting against pro nazi government.
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some accuse authorities of turning a blind eye to this nostalgia for its former fascist regime. many people are saying perhaps it served this guy writes. right.ed this guy >> you can head to our website, france24.com. newsl be back with more and headlines after a short break. stay here with us on france 24. >> within weeks, the bulgarian
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ruben martinez: a century ago, hundreds of thousands of mexicans fled the chaos of the mexican revolution, most of them arriving in los angeles, gravitating to the old pueblo area around olvera street. raquel gutierrez: they recreated a sense of home and history in the theaters of the nearby broadway corridor, where
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