>> hell will he. welcome to live from paris. 1:00 p.m. here in the french capital. we'll take a look what's making headlines at this hour. the international criminal court has just ruled to keep former ivory coast president in custody until a new hearing in february. also the government and did thic republic of congo rejected an african union request to suspend the announcement to final results for the disputed presidential elections. and as many as 1.2 million

french women experience some form of sexual abecause or assault in 2017, but they were just -- there were just four convictions. this according to a new report. >> breaking news coming out of the hague. major decision from the international criminal court has just ruled to keep the former ivory coast president and his youth minister in custody until a new hearing in february. the judges ordered they should be freed immediately, but a day later the prosecutors filed a last-ditch attempt to keep them bind bars arguing they might abscond. the charges against humanity, in connection with disputing a 2010

election that left 3,000 people dead and more than half a million people displaced. the first former head of state to go on trial at the i.c.c. get more from frank. frank, what's the reaction where you are to the court's suspicion? -- court's suspension. >> very much breaking news here in after cafment still trying to gather reaction. we have spoken to the spokesperson. the political parart of the presesident. they told us ththat they are disappointed and don't understand the decision. in the sense of not understanding seems to be common. there was a real sort of festival atmosphere where supporters poured on to the streets to celebrate. the convictions of the violence of the election crisis over the last couple days the celebration has died down and a sense of confusion. yesterday we had protests in the

north of the country and in the certainty where hundreds of people protest again the potential release of gbagbo. tensions are running high you in iraas and among groups. overall right now they are waiting to find out. >> how much support does gbagbo still have within the c country? >> he's still very influential in ivory coast politics. go back a little bit, back to the 1970's. he led challenges against the one party state for the president. and east even inprisoned in the 70's for his action then. in the 80's he led protests which eventually forced the president to bring in this multipiparty democratcy. he cemented the actual political system wove now. then he went on to be president from 2000. and then didn't step down immediately leading to the violence in 2010-2011..

in the meantime he's been in thing hague, the party has very much deteriorated a and split into factions. politically his influence has weekened. he's stitill very much p presen weakened. they are very much preparing for his return. they are looking into alliance a was the party so the 200 election. just looking more generally a cross the country he's still very important. there is a sense it would be good for him to return to the country so the country can resume and reinvigorate the efforts trying to heel the wounds from the 2010-2011 crisis. generally he's a big person. everybody knows about him. many want him back so that the country can try to move on from eight years ago. >> thank you. staying in africa. the african union is calling on the congress of the democratic republic of congo to suspend the

announcement of final results of that disputed presidential election. it says that it has serious doubts after provisional results which were released last week gave opposition a victory. another o oppositioion candidats been insisting he did win and accusing the outgoing president cabinet of falsifying those results. in response to the statement, the d.r.c. government this friday has rejected the request. >> two days after the announcement of the d.r.c.'s presidential poll results, opposition candidate filed an appeal in the constitutional court. his goal, the results. as a the top court prepares to hand down its ruling, he continues to allege that the outgoing president and main opposition candidate have been secretly negotiating a power haring deal.

>> electoral commission wants him to retain power. some of the candidates who didn't win are now seek aing to keep him in power forever. no. this cannot happen. i don't think the people will allow this election to be stolen or the presidency to be stolen. >> the majority says that all discussions so far have centered own forming a new c coalition government. >> the coalition is beginning to take shape. there is no way to form a coalition without talking with willing parties. namely the president-elect and that of the payment majority along with regional parties. >> the party has declared can president-elect says contesting results will destabilize the cocountry, which has n never se peaceful transition of power

since fwaining independence in 1960. >> a a today we're teaching the d.r.c. a lesson in democratcy. powerful president, considered a dictator by some, trying to position the president-elect. and support other people. some will spark hate and violence in the d.r.c. >> it's a constitutional court -- if the constitutional court rejects the appeal, the results of the electoral commission will stand. meaning he will be sworn in on january 22. >> meanwhile, u.n. human rights officials are saying that documented 34 deaths, 15 injuries, a number of arrests having been carried out in the country since those election results were annouounced on january y 10. zimbabwe's government has again forced a total internet shutdown following a violent crackdown an

people protesting dramatic fuel price increase. the country's biggles mobile operator has been ordered to shut down the internet in the african nation until further notice. the u.n. howman rights office is also calling on the zimbabwe government to halt the violence and stop its excessive use of force. >> these demonstrators arrive at the magistrate court. arrested for protesting against the rides of the price -- rise of the price of gasoline. an insururrection that was, according to authorities, orchestrated by i this man. -- orchestrated by this man. accused of insighting violence hrough social media platforms. >> now they are doing the same thing. it's very unfortunate. -- ght we were in a new

>> the autocratic ruler mugabe, was succeeded in 2017 boy the current president. currently on a trip overseas, he called for the cessation of the protest, but condoned the armed intervention of security forces. for four days authorities have violently clashed with demonstrators. several were killed. anand many more were injured.. talking positively on reform. saying it is new dispensation. but in reality there hasn't been any improvement. >> a general strike has left the country at a statand still. leaving many with no option. >> there is nothing to eat at home and i have run out of provisions. that has forced me to come into town and i hope i can buy what i need. >> the european union has urged

the president to respect h huma rights and the rule of law in the country. >> to washington now where the u.s. president, donald trump, has postponed nancy pelosi's upcoming trips to brusssss and afghanistan. he says he wants her to stay to negotiate an end to the partial u.s.s. government shutdown. he halted the trip by denying the use of military aircraft for the speaker. this is after nancy pelosi had urged the president to postpone his state of the union address amid political deadlock. simon reports. >> d donald trump's latest moveo pressure democrat lawmakers to approvee funding for his u.s.-mexico border wall postponed a congressional trip. it's a decision that hasn't gone down well on the other slile. particularly as the president reveals nancy pelosi's confidential trip to a war zone when she is third inin line to e

presidentcy. -- presidency. >> i think the president's decision to disclose the trips the speaker is making to the war zone was completely and utterly irresponsible. in every way. >> the president's move seems an apparent retaliation at pelosi for asking him to cancel his state of the union address. a tit for tat response which looms under the shadow of the government shutdown. the longest in u.s. history. >> i think she ought to stay in town and solve the problem. everybody's responsible for this. she will do nothing to fund the border. does that make any sense to anybody? no. i think she ought to stay here. sit here until it gets done. >> forget games. forget petty games. let's sit down and open the government up. there are real people suffering. real people in my state who aren't going to be able to pay their mortgage.

pay their kids' schools. pay their doctors. that's wrong. >> on the ground, 800,0,000 federal workers and agencies remain without pay. with the negotiations in an ironcladad stalemate that situation looks set to continue. >> now as many as 1.2 million french women were targeted with sexual insalts in 2017. but there were just four convictions for these events. the reporting by the french council of policy is the first official investigation into sectionism in a a european country. the report describing sectionist abuse as daily violence is rarely reported. joining me in the s studio is claireho w word fofor the association that wrote the report. thanks for coming in. 1.2 million french women say that they were the tarlinget of

sexual abuse in 2017. other surveys have shown a very high percentage of french women experience on a daily basis some form of sexual harassment or abuse. is this a problem specificallll related to france? is it worse in france than elsewhere in the world? >> actually we don't really have theigures to o compare it with. still a big problem in french concerning thiss issue 1. millin women, they have sexual assaults every day. anand we know that on the condemnation of the pronounced -- it's inteterestintoto see al that 3% of the women reported sexist insult. it means it's a a very, very few number of woman whwho considere it as not normal or who knoww itit's forbidden. in france sexual a assault and e initiative by one year in

incarceration and 45,000 euros of fines. bus it's rarely known it's forbidden. >> this is a country who sees itself as having love and seduction and gallantry. and there have been some people who say it's all part of the cause forr w women to experienc commentsts otheieir appeaearanc when you look at those figures, it shows somomething else, doest it? >> it shows that sexism is in ththe daily life and what w we it say. that the sexism, it's an ideology and acts have that consequences on women in their daily lives. in the morning they hear on the radio or oo tv, a joke, thenn they go in the metro andnd they have to street harassment, and they go to their jobs and they have the gender gap. and go back home and they have to take care of other duties with their children or with their house. sexism is an ideology that has consequences.

it's harmful for the womomen in france. it's's what we wanted to put th focus on that subject and can call for action as to fight this. >> in the government in the last year, industry from different -- by contrast, up to 90 euros if the man is found guilty of harassing a womanan. y you think t that legislation goes far e eugh? >> there is a a lot of progress in the session in the past years. since the second half of the 20th century. so still there are some gaps in the legislation and we continue to make progress. but now the issue is the priority is to make this a reality. actually the legislation is resurrected. the gender gap, it's forbidden to pay on a a different wage a woman or man. but still it's a reality in france because the law is not

reality in the life. and there is not enough control on function when people don't respect the law. >> people would say, though, that there's been a generational shift. that many more younger frencnch women will l not accept this so of behavavior that the e old wo wowould. would you agree? >> definitely agree. i think we can see every day. now sexism is every day and there is not one day without it on the social network about the comments or sexist ads or stories. stories that are different for boys or girls. we see there is a very big mobilization from the younger generation. they are really on this, very concerned by this. they want to challenge the reality. it's on the figures. the sexist jokes, if we can call the jokes, jokes, so we hahave e ththird of men who consider it

funny. when they hear the sexist jokes. it's one woman out of seven. the number is even lower when it's comes to younger women. we really see the difference is increasing w with the younger generation. >> as you pointed out, the problem is there is legislation. there are laws. there are ways of prosecuting people and stopping this behavior. but the problem lie was women not comoming forwd d and reportg it to begin with. how do you get the message across to women to understand it is important to step forward and alert authorities of such behavior? > i thinknk comomplaints are key and the recommendation that we do to the government and parliamement, we see the government has a veryy high speech, strong s sech on sexexi. and it ceses with awareness to explain what is this ideology.

to help identify and see. usually sexism can be seen as natural or normal. and you don't see it. we need campapans and tooools t bebe able to seeee the sexism ir everayay life. >> thank you so much. ime now for business news. nenext week'k's world economic forum. >> u.s. presidentt donald trump says t that not only himself, b the whole u.s. delegatition wil stay away from the cononference but t th's not t t only mininim wagegeor itetem from the annnua busineness summit t which comesm mounting economic uncertainty. >> grappling with the longest shutdown of the u.s. federal government in history, president donald trump had already planned to miss ththe nick forum. now the white house says the u.s. won't send a delegation at all a. >> out of consideration for the

800,000 american workers not receiving pay, and to ensure his team can assist as needed, president trump has canceled his delegation's trip to the world economic forum in davos. >> trump's not the only world leader to skip the annual power dealing with domestic issues. macron who this week dwelling frantz's protest movement will stay home. so will the british prime minister, theresa may. with parliament's rejection of the proposed brexit deal. >> the house does not support this deal. >> a gloomy backdrop for a conference already marked by economic uncertainty. over trade disputes to fears of a global slowdown. by see everybody upset management, we look at the future. we want to be more opportunity. not necessarily talking about the present crisis by which absolved.world is

>> people still expected to gather in davos next week.. among issues on ththe dococket, technologicacal innovovation, a growing g tre friction. > the u.s. governmentrarappl with the l longest government shutdown on recordrd, the international monetary fund, stressing that it's too early to set the economic impact of the shutdown. the i.m.f. is due to release a quarterly update on monday which will increase a new growth estimate for the united states. >> perhaps what i would say is the longer the shut down is in effect, the bigger effect -- impact it will have on the economy. so we encourage the u.s. authorities in both congress and the executive branch to work together in the spirit of compromise to pass a funding

bill that cacan reopen the fedel offifices. >> turning to the auto indudust, chrysler says it's cutting 7% ofis it's full-time work force and 10,000 contractors they are keeping. the electric carmaker has been looking to cut cost to consistently turn a profit. while it rampsps up the productn of the mass market model 3. the c.e.o. defended ththe decisn to cut thoususands of j jobs sa there isn't any other way. the news comes just after china announced that more than 14,000 were a -- tesla model s being recalled fofor thee fault airbrbag. tesla's sharess plunged i in premarket trading. currently off by more than 7%. as you can see there i is minus 7.% now. seeing a broad rallyly this fry. following a report from "wall street journal" which s said th

u.s. is considering listing some or all of the recent numbers on chinese imports to move the trade talalks forwaward. neesan s says thathey improperly received eight millionure rows in compensation. the company was established in 2017 after mitsubishi joined the nissan alliance a. the carmaker's internal investigation gound that gon was pid by the venture in the netherlands without approval or the knowledge of the two other board directors. the c.e.o.'s of nissan and mitsubishi. >> we had absolutely no knowledge of this imimproper payment. we found the c.e.o., myself, none of us weree supposed to receive e any salary payments. we'll consider appropriate measures, including filing a

civivil suiuit to claim damages. >> therereby formally y chard dh finanancial misconduct inin jap. hilalawyer has filed a a new request for bail after it was denied earlier in the week. more of the top business stories we're covering this year. ryan air issued a second profit warning. it now expects net profits of around one billion euros for the year in maximum. the irish low cost carrier said it sold more than expected but much lower prices. the company said overcapacity in the sector was to blame. the c.e.o. of treaty publishing stepped down weeks after a the company rejected a a takeover rom a a a rival pubublisher.. he wilill be replaced by knight. they include newspapers such as the "chicago tribune" by "new york daily news."

the u.s. federal grand grande jury h has indicted four more managers of audi in connection with the diesel gate and cheating scandal. audi's luxury unit of german car vivideocassetter vololkswagen ta admitted in 2015 to secretly selling software to evade the government emissions test and pleaded guilty in 2017 to o thesese charges. >> despite weeks of protests, srsrupting the retail sectctor, france saw a record number of tourists visiting the country last year. many had switched from sleeping in expensive hotels to staying in short-term rental homes like airbnb. the company is set to pay 4 million euros in the ack uponcy text ---occupancy tax. >> a common question, tourists coming to paris to stay in a hotel or airbnb?

increasingly popular option. the french capital more than 65,000 papts are being rented out in a platform. more than any other city. over the last few years air bmb has been forced to pay occupancy taxes. paparis was amongg the firstst. since last year, the list includes more than 23,000 cities and towns nationwide. on all the american housing american rental platform hohost4 million euros in taxes. surprisingly paris leads the back with more than seven million euros collected. cities will rake in the most revenunue. smaller towns are set to win out too, many in the south. it's not just france. airbnb pays some form of occupancy taxes, a tourist tax, in 400 jurisdictions worldwide. from newew york city and new to lisbon, portugal.

cities like barcelona are taking other steps to regulate short-term stays. by requiring hosts to apply fof licecenses before renting ou inin an effortrt to remamain in market only continues s to grow. >> that's it for this edition. be back after a short break. stay with us here on "france 24." peaking a foreign language] >> we visited some of the key people and places of the lastt 0 years of world news. peaking a foreign language] >> i came here because of the

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