going back to the studio you're watching france twenty four this is live from paris i'm showing about a giant thanks so much for tuning and let's take a look at our top stories this hou. a deadly attack in colombia has left at least nine people dead remains unclear who was behind the car bomb that targeted a police academy in the capital. bogota. doubling down on brexit negotiations britain's prime minister met with lawmakers this thursday just days before she is expected to propose a plan b. to leave the european union. and the menu and michael's former eight is in police custody and it's on the band allies accused of using his diplomatic passports for personal r reasons.

after he was fired in jujuly for beating a protester . at l least nine people are dead after a car bomb exploded in colombia other twenty two are injured the attack took place at a police academy south of the capital bogota. as of yet no one has claimed responsibility for the attack that is bringing back memories of years of drug and far left violence. colombia's president yvonne do kay and now as he was returning immediately to bogota from the west of the country at back in the capital he gave a press conference here is an excerpt of his remarks. if this were not talking. and saveve this attack targeted a police academy where unarmed young people

and students were staying. no so this was an attack not only against young people our law enforcement and our police officers. this was an attack against the whole of society levels yeah. yeah this lunatic terrorist act will not go unpunished. we colombians have never bow ties to terrorism we have always a radic hated it. and d this attacack will beo exception. gave final say that is if you don't. here isn't at several eye witnesseses accounts of that attack. the dress was only means. a we e felt a hugee explosi. it's affected all the homes in the area it five blocks away. would broken from the impasse is. it makes me sad that this is happening in my country because it hasn't happened for a long time. i live near the police school and the blast was very strong.

i thought a car had hit my house. because of the we're going to other world news now and concentrating on breaks it after surviving a noo confidence vote on wednesday if -- they came a day after the u. k. parliament rejected her plan to leave the e. u.. theresa may has until monday to come up with a plan b. she's decided to skip next week's world economic forum meeting in doubles to focus on those negotiations catherine clifford as more. in a bid to break the deadlock between mps by monday to resume got straight down to cross party talks which will continue into the weekends. but labour leader jeremy corbyn says with may i'm willing to compromise on the main substance of brexit. the talks are an empty gesture. and that he will meet with the prime minister until the possibility of a no deal is completely abandoned. last night's offer of talks with party leaders turned out to be simply a stocks not a serious attempt to

engage with the new reality that is needed. no sooner had she said the words in parliament's than the government confirmed that she would not take no deal. off the table the prime minister must strike a tricky balance between winning over pro you mps without pushing away those who keep her in power. for him the no deal brexit is anissa two hundred members of the u. k. parliament signed a letter calling on the government to relax and no deal frank sets. of the parties like the s. and p. all meeting with may say no deal must be avoided. i commit the scottish national party. to working constructively with the government however i do think it's is important. we make it clear to the prime minister and the spirit of openness. in these talks to the issue over moving article extetending optical fifty of the peoplele's court on avoiding a new deal.

have to be on the table. outright rejected a second vote. and deal scenario threatens to trigger a recession in person as well as sparking major legal disruption. the government has been seen ramping up it's no deal preparations of the past few weeks. earlier i spoke to our international affairs editor rob parsons. the big interests today -- off to those two votes early on in the week was. now that she's got pasar yoshi lot she lost the on her withdrawal act should survive the vote of no confidence we going to see a more flexible to raisise a mail off to the right and the the first indication. it has to be said is not -- we're nonot going to sesee a more flexible to resume she's sticking by the so called red lines in other words no in particular to a customs union -- no one extension of our so that. we seem to be locked into this position -- would not be ready.

i was very much idea but where the government is going to take this because if it does if she comes. to parliament. next next monday with plan b. and it's substantially the same as plan a with perhaps some changes on labor law -- and perhaps something -- on the ecology or inverter environmental changes right it's not going to do it. quite clearly not going t to do it but what will happen on monday though is the problem with having its opportunity to put amendments to her. bill. and that's where we might begin to see the direction in w which this is goioing o move -- though that we don't have much t time left r right bee the deadline -- what about jeremy corbin's talk to theresa may -- what kind of policy is that? well again you know he doesn't really throat take things forward very much of the board of sort of this stage. particularly now is to jeremy coleman has lost his

no confidence motion in the palm that he willl be lookig for other optptions and thee are many inside the labor party. who thought the ones that happens and it was the expectation that it would happen? that about point. label would throw its weight behind the idea of a people's vote. and your early wobbling on seemss to o be provider educatating on that and suggesting the what he would like to go full first of all is to put. a labor proposal on all on on the table. full for brexit. which is only you know everybody knows is is not going to get through -- and puts bank still further the idea of a second referendum this a lot of bad feeling about that within the labor pararty and a lotf consternation of i think you could say -- around the country as well worry is jeremy corbyn provider kading and refusing to cut to the chase on this. you countries have been preparing for brides it for months and now france is

setting the stage for the worst case scenario hard brings it. that would mean having no pre approved this is travel and a host of other sectors. french authorities triggered their hard break that planned this thursday that notably includes infrastructure funding claire rush explains. the plans are ready. on thursday french prime minister at buffy the outlines the details of a no deal breaks a contingency plan to be launched in the coming days. hello this is yu we've taken the decision to start fifty million euro investment plan is in small french farmers and their portals awful cities which are the limitations which will be most directly impacted. by the consequences of a no deal breakers is going to need you believes it to you. also announced the hiring of six hundred additional custom staff for cross border trade and security. the governmenent has drawn p to five degrees related for adoption after being vetted by the council of state. they include emergency

customs measures protecting transport links safeguards on financial activities cross channel defense equipment deliveries and allowing british citizens to remain without a visa for a year after brexit. provided french in the u. k. can do the same. french parliament had already approved a special law earlier this week allowing for the government to impose emergency measures in case of a hard brags tha. added the additional specific measures will be launched in february aiming to protect frances fishing industry. expected to be hard hit by no deal scenario. for more onhis storory our guest is n bag professor at the european institute at the london school of economics thank you so much for speaking to a state -- on france twenty four at how much of a shock is brings it going to be for france or even have for the other countries in the eu. i think we should be clear that if it is this. much talked about no deal

brexit is bad news for everybody. and the encouragement i take from that is the because is bad news for e everybody nobody's going to work very hard to prevent it happenin. shop for friends will be nothing like a short for the uk but as as britain's closest neighbor friends along withth bow to an art d will be the country's most directly affected. so where is correct for a new affiliate to to announce his list of things that that should be done. to try to deal with the potential for frank said. i think the reality is they would have to be implemente. i hope i'm not being overly optimistic and saying that i let that what makes you say that. because the incentives on all sides are to make sure that you don't get into this position where you have to deal with this catalog of difficulties there is is going to arise. if you have a strong incentive. that t to me is the congress

always means that you try to avoid it. right now the other countries in the u. you -- has been following this process had been negotiating in brussels -- with london -- there is a certain amount of fatigue -- briggs it fatigue on the constant and it is is is -- london aware of that is there is there any kind of sense -- that -- that that the u. k. is it understands. what kind of stressors the e. used to war or is that not really? part of their thinking at this point. to some extent yes sir certainly the diplomats and role will be aware of this some of the politicians are aware of this. but he's been very much a domestic uk debate what form of brexit is tolerable. and the reason we sold this. difficulty the drama in the house of commons this week is that. burton fundamentally is not decided how we want to treat

your relationship to you okay but he would your opinion to a whole. new nurses i use the word future relationship very advisedly here because i think the possibilities do include brexit not happenin. what do u. k. has to do is to find a mechanism to decide that and we sing the beginnings of this today with three somebody's? willingness at least to to speak to other political parties but we also see the intransigence expressed by the labor part or is it leased his leader jeremy corbyn in not being willing to engage in those talks. without preconditions so we're at the beginning of a process where things might get sorted out. my fear is that we're going to end up whether it all being bashed other look at the last minute to avoid the no do that we were talking about earlier. my last question -- to you professor we saw earlier -- from our our our correspondent -- in london talking about those talks -- that theresa may was holding hey she said that several parties -- from scotland or from from

wales are trying to include provisions of four of votes on their independence what what kind of future -- could britain has -- under breaks it i guess what is the likelihood -- that -- this union -- might at least partially disintegrate. the british union disintegrating i think is. also will but unlikely because for the time being the debate is much more about how to keep. a very close relationship between now and the whole of the united kingdom and the rest of the european union. i think the way it's moving is that parliament is going to result in a way which may well side dying that there's the two political parties and they're the ones who ar. most responsible for all these risks figure of her to to the the british union. i think the answer may well have to be in this i know this is provocative. and national cross party government the u. k. with a

primary mandate to sort out the mess the bricks it has become. thank you so much of france or have questions on france twenty four professor in bag a professor at the european. institute at london's. school of economics thank you. moving on to other world news now and france's president delivered his traditional new year's speech to the army this thursday menu and michael announced france will remain quote militarily engaged in the middle east. despite the u. s. as planned withdrawal from syria france's military has twelve hundred soldiers in iraq and syria as part of anti islamic state group efforts. they make up their operations artillery and special forces as well as train segments of the iraqi army brian quinn has the story. france staying in syria. emmanuel macron landed at the tuzla airbase thursday afternoon for his annual

address to the country's armed forces. it's the only fair mobile speech the president has given so far in twenty nineteen as the country remains mired in the yellow vest protest movement. the ambiance relaxed. away the money won't model we now. that ambiance would soon turned somber as micron thank the nation's forces for their service and remembered the fall in. what a g. also clarified a key piece of foreign policy? francis twelve hundrere soldldiers in iraq and s sya there to help in the fight against the islamic state group. will be withdrawn noticed alone we will remain militarily engaged in iraq and syria with the international coalition for the coming year. is that the tone please. we will adopt our global minute tree stands for the situation. puts any rush to withdrawal would be a missesed his us counterpart donald trump's decision to pull out the two thousand american troops

currently stationed in northern syria. a number of u. s. allies including mackerel expressed dismay at the policy shift after trump surprise announcement in late december. the frenchh president pointd to wednesdayay's bomb attack inin the kurdish controlled city o of maan beach in northern syria. an attack claimed by the islamic state group that killed four us service memberss as evidence that te fight against the jihadis is far from over. it's unclear who fired on the convoy of the head of the unun's missionon in yemn but the united nations says patrick can march is unharmed he's currently in the port city of data. that's where up to seventy five observers will be deployed to implement the u. when cease fire deal following the approval of the un s security council. on wednesday. it sounds too good to be true a miracle diet that could save millions of lives and site one of the biggest causes of global warming a

team of specialists are calling it the planetary health diet. and it's pretty basic eat less meat and more fruits vegetables and not sounds lilike a win win t to me per o'brien reports. you can have a beef burger week or steak a month but as many vegan pies as you like. a landmark studies has a wide scale changing habits is needed to save millions of lives sustainably feed the world's population and prevent climate catastrophe. to meet the guidelines europeans for example must eat almost 80% less red meat and get more fruits vegetables and not sin that diet. do we just give advice on sustainable dials we said no we w will actually say whats good for human health what is the evidence what does the epidemiologogy. say a good diet whether your body's in malawi or in manitoba or whether it's in brazil of birmingham alabam. unhealthy diets accounts for up to eleven million

premature deaths each year. while the food sector mainly meats and dairy is one of the biggest contributors to greenhouse gases and biodiversity loss. the studies been welcomomedy other i can and the kind of plananet that w we will turn over to our children will be a seriously degraded planet- wiwith unheaealthy populatis and that't's not the kind of world i want my grandkids to be living in. the report says in order to sustain a global population of ten billion by twenty fifty just changing diets isn't enough. food waste needs to be hauled and current farmland must be used with more efficiency. and now it's time for business and kay moody is back on set looking back case and there's more trouble brewing as for chinese firm while way yeah the hits just keep on coming really in beijing. as describing these latesest develolopments as his diarra us prosecutors have reportedly begun a criminal

investigation against while way for stealing trade secrets from their american business partners. germany meanwhile is debating whether to cut the from off from its next generation mobile networks. university of oxford in the u. k. has now suspended new donations and sponsorships from hallway. joseph on reports. yeah after scrutinizing wall ways telecommunication products you us lawmakers warn against using its solar equipmpment the fear itsts components could be hacked and interrupupt energrgy supplies in the us. criticism has been piling up against the chinese tech giant the world's largest maker of telecommunications equipmenent. the wall street journal reports that federal prosecutors are investigating if while we stole trade secrets from its us business partners. in poland while we local sales director was arrested on suspicion of spying for china. even germany one of the company's biggest markets is

exploring ways to keep one way out of the five g. mobile network for security reasons. chinese authorities say the only reason the companies being attacked is because it's chinese. we are to the relevant representatives of us congress to hold their own warranted suppression of chinese cocompanies. while ways founder ren saying faye held tuesday a rare meeting with international media denying hiss company has been n spyg for chchina. his own daughter the company's chihi finincial officer is still being detataed i in canada where she's accused of misleading banks over hallways business in iran. u. s. lawmakers launched wednesday a bill that would ban us companies from selling components to chinese companies that violate u. s. sanctions on tehran. the sentence could impact the latest round of trade talks between the us and china which is due to kick off at the end of this mont. beijing has confirmed its delegation will be arriving

in washington on january the thirtieth led by vice premier li lu he rolled to large two comments have declared a temporary ceasefire in there to protect her battle. recent versions were hailed as positive have been revealed since. let's check in on the day's trading action now wall street trading up all eyes are on netflix as it prepares to release its earnings figures it sure is already sort earlier on in the week. after next boost subscription fees morgan stanley shares they were down after it broke the second banking sectors hot streak with disappointing fourth quarter results. the major european indices closed to slightly down the banking sector was the worst performer there. for the one hundred about four tenths of a percent in red. the pound is still strong as it has been since the british parliament rejected the government's exit deal from the e. u. earlier this week -- it has breached a dollar twenty nine there it's up about eight tenths of 1% against both the dollar and

the euro. earlier i spoke to for extra just kit jukes in london and asked why sterling has remained stable despite the upheaval in westminster. i think the first thing. to to to look at is is to contact stutudy felony no mt diststance after thehe vote. twenty sixteen andnd he's still you know it's 9% off its alall timime low in real effective terms. and that was the level it reached when the u. k.k.olby i invnvted in. nineteen s seventy six it's thirty sometething percent away from from the highs that we've seen. since then so it it's it's way below long term averages as we priced in. early on in this process the danger of the negative economic implications of that even witith the chaos f thisis week t the r risk ofa heart brexit of a no deal brexit is diminishing. i'm for some of the hope of a meeting in some form of customs union all reason of having a second referendum

keeps s the u. k. and your that possibility is increasing somewhat -- notwithstanding the fact that almost anything is still possible what is that exactly what it markets seem more confident that a no deal breaks it isn't really going to be on the cards. when businesses and governments including here in france seem increasingly concerned about it? i'm i'm a believer once markets that now that the house of commons parliament and u. k. has taken more control of the prproceeding. that you'd want to accept having another deal brexit forced upon but it good okay it'll. force some kind of conclusion and that't's certainlnly the position of the majority of and beast they don't want that to happen unprepared to do quite a lot to avoioid. the danger of course is not wanting something to happen one prevent it happeningng unless the u. . k. can find some kind of a deal which is willing to accept and the e. you will accept but at least there's a clear intntent.

from the majorityy of the of the mp said parliament now not to let this happen. the french governmement has stepped up its preparations for possible hard for exit. emergency plan includes a fifty million euros for rports and seaports. many companies have already been putting contitingencies into place with the financial industry among the that's b been preparing for brexit on the chain market operator euronext drumsms exchanges across europe including here in n paris. its chief executives in seeking difference we for stephen carroll. so i think that the finance sector he's relatively pretty well prepared. i'm more concerned about -- industrial and commercial operations that are not as familiar as we are we'd coping with the regular. transformations. you can see the full interview in this week's people in profit online now. the japanese group hitachihi has abandoned plans for a nuclear plant in wales. project is worth nearly

seventeen billion dollars and he taught you will have to write off nearly three billion in losses. had asked for more financial support from the government. touches also suspending work on another sighting gloucestershire. touchy said the decision was not linked to the ongoing brexit turmoil but the announcement is another blow to the british government. to make nuclear power a key point in its energy policy. there are you know our decision it has absolutely nothing t to do with the political confusion. link to briggs. this government continues to believe that out a a good way the best way in fact to deliver secure supply. at the lowest cost a nuclear has important role to play in all future energy mix. city group that beat expectations with its latest profits report earlier this week now some other figures are also raising eyebrows. the bank said that on average it's female employees earn 30% less than men. that's largely because there

are fewer women in high paying positions of power. city said the results of the survey underscore the need to increase the number of women and minorities in senior roles. cities seeking to increase the representation to at least 40% help balance the scales of course these reports shown are always a little bit depressing as a female to hear these kinds of things -- if though it prompt action on that kind of level. it's good to have figures out there it also seems very strange to me that that that the very company or the bank that is responsible for not having as many women in those positions of power is now saying that we must have more. i mean it's it will they should. ever again taking action to help to help underscore that need -- to promote women deserve the physician's office like right of course we don't want women that don't serve those positions to gets those positions because then it would be kind of like real life for men sometimes. you know that happens thank you so much those business news will be back in just a few minutes. do states is they with us on france twenty four thanks for watching

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