twenty full. hello and welcome to france twenty four on the lawn it issueses and we are live from paris headlines this hour. tensions running high in venezuela as one plato heads to the border with colombia to lead in humanitarian aid. security forces attempt to stop one of the convoy's from making the journey nicolas maduro meanwhile threatens to shut the border with colombia. pope francis attempts to rightt the wrongs of the past the point of calling on bishop to listen to thehe cries of the little one seeking justice. as he kicks off a conference on child sex abuse at the vatican. french authorities are working to confirm if not beyond a lot

has been killed according to reports the man whose voice. claimed responsibility for the paris attacks back in november twenty fifteen died in an airstrike in syria. pope francis says he wants to fight the enemy w within the pontiff promising more than just a public relations exercise this as he opened a conference aimed at confronting the child sex abuse scandal in the catholic church. the pope urged bishops who have gathered from around the world to listen to the cries of the little ones seeking justice. top bishops from all over the world gather in the vatican for the first day of a landmark summit on sexual abuse in the catholic church. but lurking in the shadows of the conference skepticism from some abuse survivors for whom the event resembles more of a public relations exercise than a

genuine push for change. perhaps in anticipation of such doubt in his opening remarks the pope recognized the victims expects substandard action to be taken. sensible put the hopi people of god look at us and expect from us not simple and obvious combinations but concrete and effective measures to put into place. we need to increase theirir so t us begegin our journey on the faith of the spirit of maximum boldness courage and concrete ness. he might have to the pope's opening remarks cardinal louise tangle of the philippines widely considered a contender to be the next pope. delivered an emotional keynote speech. focused on the theme of responsibility.. knowledge the church's failure to address crimes perpetrated even to the point of rejecting them. andd coverering up the scandal o protect. perpetrators and t the institut.

has injured our people. leaving a deep wound in our relationship. with those we are sent to serve the the one day summit is centered around three themes. responsibility and accountability and transparency. it will include talks on the best practices with doctors to confront abuse. group discussions among bisishos and the cerememony for abuse survivors. to venezuela next where tensions are running high opposition leader one quite a ways currently on his way to the border with colombia. the man considered venezuela's legitimate head of state is determined to lead in humanitarian aid into the country by this saturday. he's traveling to the colombian border with some eighteen lawmakers and security forces did try to stop some off his convoy from making the journeyey nonow face pot nicicolas maduro denies. there iss a humanitarian crisis in the country he's close the border with brazil and has threatened to do the s same with

columbia now i'm it's all this tension. rival concerts will be held tomorrow hosting a pro eigight concert on the colombian side of the border. why artists loyal to nicolas maduro will be playing just some three hundred meters away for more on all this we can go across to anna herero? standing by for us in a caracas i'm not one wait -- says aid will be coming intoo venezuelaa on the twenty third f this monthth is that likikely to happen. well it's not likely we and if we look at what's going on toda- several members of the congress tried to leave again i guessss d they couldn't make it has -- this state of credible -- we're talking about a twelve hour right we're apparently allegedly why no was following them not we don't know exactly where where the might be -- i report from a spanish agency

said that he's already on the border which means that he maybe lacked earlier and before at this congress members -- but still this is not your friend mikey stamp -- but yeah i m mean we're we'e're looking at national guauard just blococking the way a and there a bdo i'm going to run. force them to block the way so that the congress members getttting pasast that now. as you said -- already blocked the the border withth brazil t that is -- starting eight eigight pm m locl time tododay and there is no on there are no communications when i do work with us or one night is so he also said that he is -- ththinking about doing the same with t the colombianan border. we don't know what's going to happen but it doesn'tt seem very likelyly the only way the opposisition haas -- to make thisis hpen to make these real is have the military-

and cooperate with them. now i wanna people way you are saying about these rival concerts that scann a take place tomorrow one on thehe colombian side of the border. and one just three hundred meteters away in venezuela. well peoplee are trying to see what's going to happen after the concert on a some are trying to cross over to o book witith t t- because our w with internatitiol order has more than t twenty artists and and the government did a and announcnced that. they'll be artist and they are saying it was a little sadad th. you and that he expected peoeope to be very useful -- to morrow now then government also knows that account is gogog to be it's going to happen for two days gap on the first day it's gonna be tomorrow then

saturday -- and also on saturday according to them they are going to deliver whahat they call humanitarian aid. meaning all this is that the boxes of they deliver to all who neighbhborhood. in venezuela they thehe same twenty thoususand ofhohose boxes are going to look at because according to the government. the group with the people. that need it because you're suffering -- because it was a very bad -- okay very bad government. okay i wanna thank you very much for the update on a rare reporting that for us some caracas. in other news atop a friend she how this within the islamic state group has been reportedly killed inn an air strike. security sources confirming the information of far beyond class debt to french.

a forty one year r old jihadisin interpol's most wanted list. is believed to have been killed in a coalition airstrike at this camping bath lose the last pockets of the minute instead it tree in syria. his brother john michelle here on the left is saiaid to have bn seriously wounded i in the air rightt. according to us intelligence the brothers were identified to o be living here three months ago. and hunting followed closely for several days before the targeted as strike. idea francaise that the french government is waiting for a dna analysis in order to confirm the months that. ibm clan is known as the french voice of the islamic state grou. it w was him terror attacks

that'll tough. in the early two thousands clan joined a terrorist recruititment cell in the village called off to get you to lose in the south of france. they're a group of youths became radicalized. among its other members mohammed merah the perpetrators twenty twelve shooting attacks. the cell was led by some offices preacher olivier coral known as the white imia. in two thousand and nine klum was sentenced to four years in prison for helping send young jijihadists to fight in iraq. a few years laterer climb along with his brother left for syria withth a crash and he rose throh the ranks of f the islamic stste group. now a new study that's come out here and from shows life expectancy of the country citizens is growing but at a slower rate man have a life expectancy of just over seventy nine years. while women can expect to live past the age of eighty five but it's not all good news. man in the country can expect it to be in good health until the age of sixty two while women the

age of sixty four that's below the european average. . to talk more about this we can bring in and jay olshansky professor in the school of public health at the university of illinois at chicago thank you very much for joining us here on funds. twenty four how do you read these numbers for france -- will keep in mind the numbers for france are based on highly reliable. final registration data for thee country -- so we're pretty comfortable with the reliability of the numbers themselves. interestingly enough we're seeing the exact same phenomenon in most parts of the developed world today. seeing a deceleration in the rate of increase in life expectancy. in some countries in awhile leveling off in others and even a decline. in the united states so it's not unheard of phenomena does life expectancy have to plateau at some point in your opinion. course i mean thinink about it really. do you think we can allll l livo hundred fifty or two hundred years for the same reason.

that we're seeing plateaus and olympic events like how fast you can skate or how far we can. throw something or run the same reason we see fundamental limits on how long humans can live in his little or no question. that that they exist the question is have we get them we get those limits yetet. there seeeems to be some evidene to suggest. that we have ever released approaching now you said there there has been a decline in the united states why. in the us -- we've seen a pretty dramatic increase an adult onset. in childhood obesity that's beginning to play itself out in higher death rates it middle ages. also the obesity epidemic has been a very powerful. negative for sun life expectancy of course diabetes and cardrdiovascular disease is associated with some forms of cancer. as well but we also have an opioid epidemic. is having a powerful negative affect on death rates in life

expectancy at miller our whole. influence on life expectancy i don't know yes opioids are having the same effect in the entrance but certainly the obesity epidemic yes. okay simply not as rampant in france i want to bring it back to france now because as you know france has one of the best social security systems in the world so why is it then. that the you know the age of good health the the age is lower than the european average. so that's an interesting question and some of us believe that it may be associated with the fact. that france has one of the highest life expectancies anywhere in the world. so -- you know keep in mind the longer you live the higher the probability. that you're gonna face somome aging r related issue. so if you push out thehe enveloe of survival for women for example e cast. eightyty five it's's inevitablet mamany of t them are gonnaa. facece the negative consequenens of aging so it may be up a by product of six us.

i mean the e longer you live e e higher the prorobably ability wl occur so i'm not surprised. if you see something like this okay jail sounds giving after leaving that thank you very much for joining us on the program today. in other news sportswear company nike is in damage control the company says it's trying to figure out what happened. off to us college basketball player signed williamson suffered a knee injury when he's too shredded thirty six seconds into the game between duke and the university of north carolina take a look. she was thirty six seconds into the game when this happened. williamson it turned out to be a mild knee sprain for eighteen year olds i on williamson seen by some as the next lebron jame. barack obama shouted out he shoe brokee look at is the former us president tweeted his support for the star off to it's saying is i on william seems like a nice young man. as well as an outstanding basketball player wishing him a

speedy recovery. it did not stop there thoughh it was a field day for nike's rivals including puma which tweeted that the plalayers shoud have warned that shoes. tweet was subsequently deleted which in itsese made the headlines usa today calling the tweet poor taste over a mishap. nike shares took a hit the company said. the quality and performance of our products are of utmost importance while this is an isolated occurrence we are working to identify the issue. the incident with williams shoe is not the first with nike products nike replaced at the dust in two thousand and seventeen is the official supplier of basketball jerseys to the nba. and that means some complaints about the shirt to ripping. well she has dipped the memesn twittete sold. nike having a very bad shoe day. timex for the business use with a cake movie could indicate either we're counting down to the end of that tax truce

between the world's two largest economies yes next friday -- so we really have a lot of pressure as these us and chinese negotiators kick off their fourth round of high level talks into defusing the brewing trade war. terrace are set to increase on march first if donald trump has raised the possibility of shifting that deadline. on thursday us media reports led by reuters suggested that the two sides are makining progressn some key issues. that they're working on six memoranda of understanding. to tackle differences over agriculture currency -- forced technology transfers and cyber theft. intellectual property rights non tariff barriers to change and the exchange of services. you can see that list as reported by reuters. the meetings are due to wrap up on friday but they could be extended as the end of the month deadline approaches. meanwhile donald trump appear to hold out something of an olive branch to chinese tech giant far away. here's president tweeted that he wants american companies to take

the lead in rolling out five and currently nonexistent six g. wireless networks. but he said they should win through competition not by blocking out currently more advanced technologies. his administration has been leading a campaign against walleye encouraging its allies to power it on security concern. let's check inn on today's trading action n now is all m md close for the major european indices at the banking sector was the weakest as a swedish lander was d drawn into danske bank's money laundering scandal. for the one hundred down eight over eight tenths of 1% in london -- on wall street we saw a negative a close there at the nasdaq snappiping an eight day winning streak at close below the flat line. some mixed economic data weighing on you that included a slight rise in durable goods orders about a drop in confidence and activity according to three separate surveys. shares of domino's pizza dragged 9% on disappointing sales.

i senegal prepares for this weekend's elections the economy has been a central issue on the campaign trail. incumbent mackey cells been pushing his platform to open a new era of developmentnt focused on infrastructure and education arrest reports. putting senegal on track for new economomic future. this new trarain line inanaugurd by presisident m macky salll is symbolic of his economimic visin for the country. along with the new international airport. in oveve two hundred kilometets of highwhways theheir k key pilf his emerging senegal plans the mckenna's the klan was launched in twenty fifteen level in the four years since then we've had an average growth rate of six point 5% issues with the sample. the over 6% growth rate was one of the highest in africa last year. it was largely driven by mining construction and services according toto the i am math.

analyststs predict further growh in the coming years. following the recent discovery of offshore oil and gas reserve. but over a quarter of the population works in agriculture according to the world bank. the seasonal nature of the industry means that underer employment as a problem affecting some 40% of the work force. while 90% of workers are in the informal labor market but overall the unemployment rate is low around 6%. for some senegalese there are more pressing issues than the econom. some will be we are an underdeveloped c country we hava base level means water electricity education and health in the discussions about something. despite sustained growth nearly half the population lives below the poverty line according to the last official survey in. twenty eleven translating growth into poverty reduction will remain a challenge for the next president. cuba has reported record sales of cigars and tobacco production

despite the global trend away from smoking. sales of cuban cigars rose 7% to a record five hundred and thirty seven million dollars last year. spain is the number one buyerer although fastest in china. and other countries in east asia fronts which used to be number two on the list so i did in saleles ass a 17%7% tax on tobao products -- took effect. that's all for me for t the natolin a a you n never see anye smoking cigars in france very rarely norman speaking for that. because i didn't know they were number one perhaps they're buying and not smoking it's hard to tell keeping indoors thank you very much for that couldn't be there with a look at the day's business news. it's time now for media watch which james creed including james eyes on your starting out with reactions -- as the catholic church convenes at summit on child sex abuse over at the vatican yes that's right -- let's spend until not as you can imagine at pedophilia plague francis's battle against abuse. and silence not very cheerful headlines at least but actually

there been very future flatlands and comes the catholic church for quite a while and just give it. just give up for kind of a quick flick through what we've been seeing the last week here's another very cheerful headline for african. and this was evident in relation to a book released by a french sociologist and in the last -- in the last -- week and half of that he did not tell -- it's called salt amman and it's okay but who 80% of the carriagage in the vatican okay sexual and about all the issues kind of related stocks. and youou can seeee they'rere kf fufunky grapaphics iss it't's ie at casa jewettt won a silverr br in berlin. by the grarace of gogod put t te spotlilight on some o of the moe itit's a very y a kinind of i se bubut itt wouldld fall father pe one particular case all of predatory sexual abuse. and indeed start from the beginning a lot of tension here in france this is an interview with one of the real life victims the top drama is based on on was so this is the kind of

stuff we've been seeing the run off. and to add to this conference and indeed a lot of people saying you know what is really going to change we've been hearing a lot of the same rhetoric coming into the mosque in there for a decade or longer. two decades even walk me expect to change this is an interview with peter stanford. former editor of the catholic herald newspaper and he said look if you go back to the nineties john paul the sececond referred. to a few bad apples who abused children obviously we don't know that it was much more than not. the currents at pope has you know it's he blames the devil sing on the line for stenting otherwise gooood priests. at is what is to blame for the sexual abuse of children so he asked is there any real possibility of a road to damascus shift or change. our our moments for catalysis and and he says naively perhaps i continue to hope so it will it will involve he thinks rethinking an entire approach to sexuality that is peculiar. punitive and often pain perverse i think though every meeting plannedd for big bang r reformso come out of the vatican which

don't evever come out but that's right so there is a great a great script skepticism online as well but there are some voices like nothing look. this could be theehinking that wiwill see things shift and what we are i suppose it it has elements i would almost say of maybe peace and reconciliation taught moments where at least people getting to air their grievanceses. thee pope -- as is often the case is speaking out about forgiveness referring. to you know a lot of language such as the holy spirit to sustain us through these days to help us to transform this evil into an opportunity for awareness and purification. so cold very much in the language of catholicism and forgiveness but actually one at one am piece all one moments todaday got a lot of applalause realally because instead off tatalking forgiveness it wass at of t talk here of sufferiring ai think the sense thahat. at thihis n needs to o be a momr e airingng of thihis is a filipi cardrdinal and he spoke a agains was very quick catholic language to keep its the wounds of chris. and suffering a model just

finish with dots. wilder -- green cartoon this is in the moment at breaking up to boot is at that that that the byline for the cartoon and you can see they're very scenes that indication views. and a broken stained glass window breaking through at the two okay - -- in otherer news -- james and officials att nininety are scratching their heads. after is assigned williamson's shoe split during game that's right the very bible shoes aren't supposed to do that circling on after i fleets. and this was thirty minutes and he got a twisted ankle as result of it and there is a very -- six seconds into it at four thirty seconds and well it certainly isn't a good image f r nike andnd what we're seeing hee is thahat. at various commementators this - kevin frazier of entertatainment tv n now it's bebetter if the'ss pepeople abobout sayining man yl better get that t kid some legit shoes. so i canannot doesesn't i'm su night t weren'tt sign williamson

and puma -- toasted win in this -- wouldn't happen to the puma stately stop of course thing you that would be screen grabbed mean time. and then we have a constant even something even if it means producing an inferior product the contact number one keeping one pair in the country safe on possssible. moscopopole courtrt not just wih lots of refeferences and two wasnsn't revenge by a childld mamanufactururer somewhehere ate bad taste was look i think now i can. cushion at the they went down in the stocks political back up. and very quickly james now a a bit don't kick into his yes aren't happy that. it won't be included as an olympic sport. thrice a eight said you clear tone very sports such as don't break dancing are being proposed for inclusion in the olympics and not it's probably through along with her if you want. but there wasn't we have shot ground influence to the in france today as the toll calls. schools has. been told to get in on this -- one publication those observers with planets boon to occur at

which sounds weird french as it does heavy aren't bowls and it seems to hit one ball that it's all that break dancing would be. you know salacious selected and and not pay tonquin up it'll it's true. it's true at anyway much more i'm sure. yes much more on the special prosecutor okay james thank y yu very much for that jamames could inin that with media what you're gonna take a quick break stay with us more to come we're live from paris

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