four and france twenty four dot com. candidates is welcome to live from paris on marco in these are the headlines. donald trurump is t to makes second state of the union addresess the us presesident hoping to emerge. as a leader khalid put together some optimism but its congressional critics say spendthrift and sixty four days a year trying to divide the nation. and only one calling for unity. at least ten people killed in a fire at a paris apartment block. glazes allegedly started deliberately woman known to have psychiatric problems is now in custody. french lawmakers passed a bill that will allow the police to ban suspected troublemakers from demonstrating. without going through the

usual g. legal process critics say it's playing into the hands of the political far right. and they say that they feel a slight towards the state. thank you very much for being with us in a few hours the us president donald trump is to deliver his second state of the union address. he's expected to call for unity and optimism across the fifty statates b but the is thehe t threat. of the second government shutdown looming critics saying he e spends most of e area trying to divide the nation just this one d day calling for people to work together. trump needs this togetherness to get funding for ththe projects that he promised his voters. most notably the controversiaial six billion dollar portable with mexico which democrats say. well he'll never get the money for it d davidge that

davidd smith is the a bureau chief of the guardian newspaper h he joins us now from his base in washington david as a good evening to you. tell u us more about what we can expect from trump. yeah i i sitting - -- just outside thehe hououse chamber whehen if you i i ws double trouble delivered this addreress. from the white house it is going to be a m message of unity of bearing some of those by plug those points and divisions of trying to come together on issues ranging from -- rebuilding america's infrastructure which is seventy needed it -- due to lowering gad drug -- also ways to keep the congress to approve his -- you trade deals -- and buses trade war with china but certainly i think it's it's going to be a slightly bumpy ride -- you know he's by those sort of appeals before. and i was just asked that press conference with the members of the democratic

women's -- focus and they said let's please. all of the words with actions i i think it's gonna be a loss of that skepticis. from the the democrats in that in the house chamber who's going to be more -- more numerous than ever. and came to point out t tody if donald trump. touts his war on the u. s. mexico border again -- that it's going to go down very badly and i see that as a very divisive issue that will -- will do the opposites of bringing more unity. and trump is delayed the speech because of the partial government shutdown but there is another. similar situation looming. that's right does the first state of the union address to have been postponed sinc- ronald reagan in the mid nineteen eighties following- the space shuttle -- disaster -- and that was because of the government. shut down-

the government has reopened but possibility three weeks. riright now members of congress saw. trying to negotiate a deal that we satisfied demands of both sides -- trump of course once is portable democrats are still adamant so h he's not goingo guess it's and if not in class. continues ben ben come mid february -- we could indeed that potentially see the government. shut down again although i think most people in washington -- just believe republicans would would not have the stomach for asset was so. basically damaging last tim- trucks alternative which she keeps talking about is -- declaring a national emergency yeah he he could even do it in the speech tonight so although. what we're hearing that's that's probably unlikely -- and even that. could could suddenly divide his own policy the republicans you. said i was at a dangerous precedent that is that is a bad idea i'm so it was again

he's the stock over this -- the signature issue of the wall. tim smith we are. waiting to see what happens maybe we speaking later on thank you very much indeed debbie smith the at guardian bureau chief in washington. out with that analysis. stay with masses trumpet cash the influence scandalous closing in on the us president -- his in over committee has been subpoenaed investigation into allegations of miss spenendg some o of the record one hundred and seven million dollars raise from donors. the focus is on whether some of the committees down sh for policy concessions influencing administration positions or access to the incoming. admininistration. hi donald john trump do solemnmn swear it was the most expensive inauguration in u. s. history. now federal prosecutors in new york are investigating where that money came from and how it was spent after opening an investigation late last year they're now demanding records from

trump's inaugural committee. we have just received a subpoena for documents while we are still reviewing the subpoena it is our intention to cooperate with the inquiry. according to copies of the subpoena viewed by reporters if requests all documents relating to o the inaugural committee's donors and vendors. inincluding records of benenefits providedd to dons such as tickets and photo ops payments made directly from donors to contractors are vevendors and donations made by or on behalf of foreign nationals. foreign conontributions to inaugurall committees are legal under u. s. federal law. in december the new york times reported that prosecutors were investigating whether individuals from m qatar sai arabia and the uae gave money in the hopes of buying influence with the new president. and the wall street journal has reported suspicions that top american donors gave money in exchange for political favors. requesting the subpoena prosecututors said they are interested in a range of crimes related to fraud

including money laundering. all together donald trump's inauguration team raised a record one hundred and seven million dollars morore than twicee the fifty three million raise for barack obama's first inauguration which that records at the time. with more reaction and analysis on the state of the union but it happens -- in the wee small hours here paris time. next police in paris detained a woman s suspected of s starting a fight deliberately that killed at least ten people. the blaze had gotten apartment b block in the sixteen county some of the french capital. people rescued from the inferno by the paris fire brigade who wants to undergo a series of medical examinations she's going to have psychiatric issues. the blaze broke out in the early hours on tuesday surprising residents in their sleep. one womaman stl in shock was jolted out of bed by a blaring fire alarm. ys. when talk around half past

midnight? it was already black whichch is in n my i live on the eighth floor. the top floor. and so i hunung over the ede of the balcony to try and protect myself. the fire began on the upper floor and spread quickly downwards burning f for over five hours. a complex is located in the capital's chic sixteenth diststrict it's narrow courtyard m made it difficut for firefifighters to acces. they had to o scale the building's walls to rescue people from the roof balconies and outside of window. for the climbs to escape the flames. we worked in relays a mall i still firefighters so tight they lay on the ground opposite like a lot order. covered in smoke resting. drinking water is all you want -- door exit and it continued authorities say those killed were found suffocated or through themselves from the building. one resident

described scenes of panic as she woke up to the sound of screaming. since you went to the window and owner. i heard saving you from every direction including. the key fault they were horrible scream. french police say the fire was no accident they've opened a criminal investigation into voluntnty arson arresting a a forty yr old women withh a history of psychiatric problems. she was transferred to a police infirmary tuesday evening. several residents say they heard the sususpect and her neneighbor arguing before te fire broke out. right at her neighbors she was threatening him she said if you move ur dad. throughout the day firefighters searched e each and every burnt out apartment for bodies. it's the worst fire pairs has seen in fourteen years. with you on that story as it develops you just learn from that report one of my colleagues who was in the building is safe. and anyway -- pleased for bad news. next french mps approved an

anti rioting bill giving security forces the power to ban suspected hooligans from demonstrating. its controversial. crackdown that the modem promise that is not the yellow vest protests of the last three months. opponents say the bill which has beenen approved by the lower house of parliament by three hundred eighty seven votes. to eighty seven contravenes the constitutional right to demonstrate represents a risk to freedom of expression because it bypasses the g. legal process and some of added that they fear could be abused by future. administrarations. xp make up souls on this anti rioting bilill is the french government's response to the wave of violence which has. erupted in recent months along side the z. leizhou no yeyellow vest protest movemt authorities h here sayay thy need new powers to crack down on their use he's been wreaking havoc he come out. any to fight with police so damage property -- public monuments and say best seeking new powers to

bomb certain individuals from street protest. they also want to set up a police database wish to record those suspected of being riotous and any demonstrators hoops kewl their faces with balaclavas. gas masks or helmets could face a fine or even a prison sentence. now even though this bill post its first hurdle here in the french parliament being out of eighty three by three hundred ninety seven votes. to ninety two it's proved highly controversial left wing opposition mps have hit town today saying that it threatens fundamental freedoms the freedom to come out and demonstrate and that it undermines frances democrac. they point out that you don't have to have been conveyed then by at cool to floor. amnesty international has described this bill as extremely dangerous among centrist and be even combat

it to you vichy france the world war two government hey which collaborated with the *. and has even been discontent from within emmanuel qualms are not ruling policy fifty of his mps abstained from voting they refused to back this tax. now the m. t. writing though isn't yet lloyd has to pass now to the french senate swears expected today. three returning here to the assembly nestor now on the twelfth of march. catherine restaurant that reported from the national assembly. france's yellow vest protest movement is john pranks with a major union for a day of nationwidede protests of the taxes. anand spending power first f the both of movements that a brief scuffles and police myself around a tear gas at the demonstration in paris claim troublemakers the other in plaster like on cool. we could protest even held since november by the other vessel judicial to demand what they're calling fiscal and social justice. major challenge to president

emmanuel michael. in the streets of paris. slogans calling for social equality and fiscal justice. and for the first time yellow vest protesters in unions demonstrating together. groups had previously refused to align themselves with one another. put some yellow vests have agreed to join forces with the unions and the name of solidarity. a trend seen all across france. give us clues seven just because we're non partisan doesn't mean we don't want to join the social movement. no many of our demands are the same as the unions. so we want to stand in solidarity with them. as for the unions they say their new alliance with some yellow best doesn't take away their autonomy. you. can do what they want their independence so we we make our own decisions that we know we must work together at some point forget that he also.

strikes were also stageged y civil servants including teachers. according to the education ministry some five this went on strike. brief scuffles marked the mostly chrome paris protest with police firing tear gas. the cg team one of france's biggest unions has called for another day of nationwide strikes in mid march. the coast looking very close at every developments on every issue related to the at your the best protests. here in france. the united states is sending food and medical supplies to colombia's border with venezuela intentions to create a stockpile until they can all be delivered to the people in need. as well as chronic shortages of food and medicines at the sites all of it as a result of mismanagement under the present administration of nicolas maduro and his predecessor the late. shop as pope francis says to mediate in the conference with the crisis if both sides asking. too so it was revealed that he's received a letter from nicolas maduro which he

hasn't yet read. the jurors reelection last may's been discredited in the claims of a week about. this not challenged by the self proclaimed interim president one q quite old. and is growing number of international back as such as united states and most of the year. what francis says spoke about them as well on his flight out of abu dhabi? just. one day before thehe bus the are small steps that need to be taken. away that maybe it's you and the last. one is mediation. because negotiators not only in the vance can. need to come close together. to begin the possibility of dialogue. that is how diplomacy is carried out. preparations are underway in the south of france for the knicks accountable. the russian president vladimir putin and the us president donald trump will join the likes of charlie chaplilin and haharvey wein. rated on the coke bezell

hustle micronett from someoe on the carnival held in the mediterranean city since. eighteen seventy three on february sixteenth in foror marchh the second the theme this year is king of cinema. on the one hundredth anniversary of the victorinox studios mainstay of the mystery. in the south of france. time to turn around a businessman for that who better than keightley who's looking ahead to donald trump state of the union address where he's likely to tout. a strong economy under his administration but do. the numbers back up the boasts kate the answer this. in many ways they d do marka data show that many of the fundamentals of the american economy are strong. whether the president can take credit for them is. gdp growth is expected to hit 3% for twenty eighteen as a whohole thahat would bs fastest rate e thirteen years. like the rest of the world howevever thererere signs oa slowdown. in the months and years to come for the w wld's largegt economy they'll be expecting

the us president to talk about his trade strategy ignoring the negative effects of his terror -- for that's the farmers and businesses in particular been suffering he'll be putting a positive spin on on going but so far stalled trade talks with beijing. is expected to repeat last year's called for renewed investment in the nation's crumbling infrastructure. and focus on the 4% unemployment rate the official jobless rate was about four point 7% when he took office. the economists broadly say that change is not directly linked to the administration's policies. number thirty five day government shutdown will be mentioned all the president's likely to focus on the funding for his wall and notot the cost of that month long stalemate. the congressional budget office says the shutdown cost eleven billion dollars in lost economic output a half percentage point to gdp for the first quarter. federal employees meanwhile lost a total of nine billion dollars in compensatation. meanwhile one of his favorite is inaccurate measures of economic growth is the stock market which has been volatile from last year had its worst twelve

months in a decade. that brings to a look at today's trading action wall street closed up as the water was among the strongest performers shares the beauty group up 12%. of google's parent company alphabet rose less than 1% asas investors are focused n a rise in spending rather than revenue. it was a strong finish for the major european in week highs on good company earnings. london's footsie one hundred was up 2% shows the oil giant bp jumped. fiveve apple has agreed t ty the french government half a billion euros representing a decade's worth of back taxe. like many other international corporations apple has come under fire for channeneling its europen profits through its headquarters in ireland. which has a much lower corporate tax rate than other you member states. the frfrench government says the case underscores the need for a new europeaean strategy for taxing digital giants. block has so far been unable to reach a compromise of finance minister brutal america's been touting his efforts to push ahead with the unilateral tax here in

france. it is up there are significant obstacles to overcome they are not insurmountable it is a question of good will and compromise. frfronts has shown it is capable of compromising. the issue of digital taxation is a moment of truth for europe it will either be a proof of unity all it will show it remains divided and we s saw before. germany's economy minister wants to create a state investment fund which could step in to boost struggling firms in key sectors. to avoid they're having to seek help from foreign competitors. proposals amount to a thinly veiled shot at china and in particular its technology firms. the trick of reports. germany's economy minister bill data national industrial strategy for the next decade. a central thrust of his paper. protecting certain german firms three state intervention is kind of this value investor status. it may take even the state to temporarily participating companies not to nationalize them and manage them permanently but to prevent companies that are important

for the key technology and skills of this country. from being bought away leaving the kind log on a national fund with clear rules could be used to pay for such investment. in the economy ministers view that would keep gemini competitive in the face of increasing challenges in particular from the united states and china. strategigic sectotors likike telecommunications energy and defense have ramped up over the last two years. culminating in december with lowering the threshold for the state involvement in such areas. it comes against a backdrop of mounting fears over chinese firms proximity to beijing almost mon -- even with you know some of us place and we need to talk to china to ensure the companies do not simply give up all data that is used to the chinese state. but that there are safeguards. and that when you are working in germany thought that the chinese state cannot access the data on all chinese products.

looked at some clay from khan. it's hoped the proposal will jump start the discussion not just in germany boss in europe to which is seeking a measure of unity in the face of a us chinese trade spots and global economic uncertainty. we'll see if the government's able to enact those proposals they've put forward and we know that you'll bring everything to us as it happens kv as of a thank you from you see places you kate with all that. busineness. james dream revved up ready to give me too often he says hi mark nice to see like ways now than starting with the backslash hoo ha. genuine concerns of many think over this anti. riot to low approved today by massive. majority by the lower house- in france so many people worried this could give ammunition to say future florida straight to be even more wet behind it. liberties of people's freedoms that's right and one of the headlight one of the words that appear to lawson headlines today was the back to see. which is a french word meaning killing of freedom it's the kid that it's a kind of there is no in the

equivalent in english i guess you could say but at is the anti writing little. and that's a that's a question that's been asked a lot of people are. a lot of our articless are answering in the affirmativ- and indeed we saw on the c. international a couple days ago coming out and condemning -- that friendship anti vandall of one of their spokespeople nicolette come i ate at said that the first thing is is that this lower presents a big return to the administration. at for beating the right to protest and it gives all the power to political and police authorities to determine if someone is a right to protest and all. and what's the added on other things as well such that you can't have a a scarf over your face recount half cover -- fully cover your face that's always been the bonuses tha. unless it's it's for legitimate reasons that they say so i'm i'm wondering where for example say comes your gas would fall in in the it case. it does seem like it's giving the police a lot of power to interpret situations like that in a favorable way to them and in a way that's props on favorable. to dedemonstratos in any case on the street

for national criticize you also french human rights bodies that been crititicizg it as well thihing that actually the legal mechanisms are already ther- far at the authorities and it. fell to deal with situations such as it's in the art. what is acceptable -- the media parts to it with that they've been very critical of this is well the left leaning website by france's planned on to write a real threatens citizens not criminals in other words the constitutional rights. to protest which is in trying to french law european one elsewhere. is really being a talk too eveven had o one centrtristy the name of c charlotte the cool sonong who at had an outburst in parliament. and he said this i is this s a a return to vichchy france withth a legal a and changes such as a suit lapel tell you the extent to which marc that. it's really gonna people's at nurses still feeling but i think it's by far is now perhaps a bit far fifty over the majority and peas

abstain from the vote so even with an eye on your michaels majority. and the mododem t the alliae at there there were a lot of people were talking about this okay and of course this'll a response to the yellow vest protests right violence and having means of and national within that an officer this is kind of the sponsor. marks on see how it works now to a social media storm kicked off by a hollywood actor. by the name of the employee- who admititted to having racist impulses -- following the rape of a friend wanted the liam neeson speak about this when adam some forty odd years ago says it but he was promoting the film cold cold pursuit so it is that this hass come into thehe thehe e discussion around it was this is somewhat cynical bi. to draw attention at two at the film daisy was so livid that he was ready to take revenge on anyone of that ethnic background.

happened to be a black eye but he said it could have been something else he would have had that same hatred towards whatever other ethnicity it might have bee. so many cases forty years ago when he doesn'n't feel that way a anymore right soo he's so is impulse was governeded by the fact that his his his friend a woman was raped by someone who was black bypasses black. and so that's kind of pushed into was making this racist things have done these issue being event and any other company within the same thing the same facts what he was what what he was doing i think was trying to give an insight into hateful thinking which can lead. to hateful actions and he said look i was there or thereabouts luckily nothing happens and i gotot. i i calling on the control of my impulses before something happened but this was. this was my inner process forty years ago i went and spoke to people i got myself sorted out. and he what he was talking about he was talking about in the context of this film cold cold pursuit. at which deals with the notion of a retribution or revenge one of the characters and so. does the question how did you get inside a character i okay okay good so that's the background but you had you had a lot of people. piers morgan and otherss saying thahat s said if youk

like a m murder is racacistd then y you are murdersrs ras murderers racist i mean. at o s simple poinint. onon his ownwn statemementsl kindnd of personon he is ths how are y you goo b but it d set o off a bigig debatate - yoyou had foror examplele ie us r representntatives a are spokespepeople o of the and double acp the african americanan associaiation sag paints offered in other words he was giving an explanation for why he felt this way. is not an excuse for racism and a lot of people agree with that sentiment. you had then in in england you had at m.. john burns who actually defended liam neeson said look. he was ashamed he was trying to explain what happened forty years ago and he's ashamed of us so. i'm gonna write another channel jump once in a jump out quite well and he his line is that. if you castigate someone who said it yeah you gotta is that this so much hidden bases in which is still there anyway and express itself in a different way. jump on his take is really quite you'll stories it and he's very interested i guess a lot of the time in the intruders forms like this

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