is about its people and ththeir storieies. what you want to live in paris in front twenty four the headlines this hour? nigeria's opposition party calls for an immediate holds to the partial release all the presidential election results an early vote count points to victory for the incumbent mahamadou bihari will have the very latest from all correspondence. chica do a in abuja in just a few moments. iran's president neitherer accepted nor rejected sees a foreign mininisters resesignatin motorists have rallied around mohammad javad zarif who is the architect. of the international nuclear de. and indeed it carries out an airstrike on pakistani territory for the first time in decades. islamabad denies india's claim

that a large number of militants died but has vowed to retaliate . we begin this hour in nigeria where people are waiting for the outcome of last weekend's presidential election the main opposition party i is now callig on authorities to stop releasing partial results. until it can provide data on those who voted will any results point to a victorory for the incumbent president mahamadou bihari he's facing a challenge by the former vice president and businessmen atiku abubakar. dozens of people have died in an yes since campaigning began in october but let's get the very latest -- corresponded to go do it joins us now from abuja and she could tell us a bit more about the book the opposition is saying.

well yes that's the main opposition party the people's democratic party or pdp it's come out to say that it is rejecting the partial results that have come out thus far -- the party actually held an emergency meeting just a few hours ago to give a set of demands one of those demands is to actually s stop the collation process were on day. two of the official counting of results here in nigegeria about twenty eight outut of nigeria thirty six states have already released its results the pdp wants s us to o stop immediatel. the second demand it's calling for the cancellation of results in four states threeee out of those states are in the north it's saying that there were gross irregularitiess that actually render the credibility. of these -- state results in one of those states actually the number of votes far exceeded the number of registered voters of course in such a situation several questions can be raised and people are demanding. answers the pdp is also alleging that -- the card readers that are used to validate voters were actually

reconfigured in favor of the ruling apc party. it's also alleging that to biharis ruling party the nigerian president -- is using state security agents to intimidate voters that's what they did so in last week's election so these are come some of the claims that the pdp is demanding it it's made its position now t to the independet national commission. and it remains to be seen what's going to happen there ready to actually form a legal team to take this up in the court of la. and and check what is this latest development doing ready conspiring for a week wasn't one of people saying to you. well there is a huge trust deficit here in nigeria between the majority of the people and the political class this vote that happened just a few days ago there was a very low voter turnout about 3240% it's because of slower than twenty eleven lower than. two thousand three so this shows that there is still a lot of distrust in the system --

people aren't sure if they're both actually be counted -- but so far bahari is leading with about more than three point five million votes ahead of its main rival atiku abubabakar he s the former vice president. and a veryy wealthy businessman of course but again many nigerians are doubting the results because there is so much uncertainty there was a a cloud of voter intimidation that happened a few days ago. and even election observers have come out to really ask questions about what exactly happened on election day here in nigeria. chico do in abuja thank you very much in date. no protests continue for fifth day in algeria thousands of students have taken to the streets of cities across the country calling on the aging president abdelaziz bouteflika. to step down the eighty one year old has confirmed he will seek a fifth term despite having been in power for twenty years. 70% of algerians are on the sassy and a quarter of these young people are unemployed he entity has more --

to pick a guesthouse in students gathered on the main campus of the university of algiers on tuesday. to protest against president abdelaziz bouteflika state for fifth term. on the other side of the gate dozens of policemen trying to stop them from spending on to the streets. from the northwestern city of or on to and about in the east and also in the capital algiers. university students across the country residents. we here to make a change because really being in a terrible situation we are against a fixed term and we must act together to make change in this country although the need. to set some point the house to let go of power it's mandatory it's a democracy not the kingdom or whatever. we'll all disgusted today when we are united for change. last week tens of thousands of people took to the streets across the country including in

the capital algiers. demonstration agent. president abdelaziz -- two feca has held office since nineteen ninety nine this is ready being seen in public since suffering a stroke in. twenty thirteen he was re elected a year later and announced he would seek a fifth term in office earlier this month his campaign manager confirmed on she's day he would submit an offificial application for reelection on march third. despite widespread anger against the move. noww to a major escalation between you care on tonight as india and pakistan india says it's carried out s. strikes on targets in. pakistani territory the first violation of its neighbors espy espace in decades islamabad denies there were any casualties but has failed to retaliates tensions are running high after deadly attackk o on indianan so. in the disputed territory of kashmir earlier thiss month time of honor has the story. an emergenency security meeting with pakistani primeme minister

imran khan.. security officials gathered in islamabad off to india said it carried out and strikes on pakistani territory. at the same moment in new delhi india confirms that to medicine camp had been destroyed in pakistan's northwest in khyber pakhtunkhwa province. credible individuals was received. that the gesture moment was attempting other suicide did attacks in various parts of the countrtry. in the face of imminent danger. a preempmptive strtrike became absolutely necessary. india says the camp was located in a ballad called a town that fly some fifty kilometers from the line of control. the de facto border between india and pakistan in the disputed kashmir region. it was apparently used as a training ground by choice and muhammad's a group that was behind the attack on engine police on the fourteenth of february. that killed forty offices. pakistan meanwhile down plates

the severity of the attack saying pakistani warplanes taste off engine jets forcing them to drop the payload in india by forest. causing no casualties and no serious material damage. pakistan's foreign ministeter however warns that his country would respond onlnly aj pakistan get kind of jedi it. this is a violation of the line of control. and i consider it to be just us is common linine of control givi listen to some work at the home. pakistan reserves the rights for an appropriate respoponse on the right to self defense o our rigt to self defense rector hey i began embodied. to stay strong so the first launch to cross the line of controll since the war between pakistan and india in. nineteen seventy one they come amid escalating tensions between the two nuclear nation and the international powers to call for restraint. joining me now i is far as on a shake she's an associate fellow at the asia pacific program at chatham house thank you for being with us on front twenty

four tonight. at visible how worried should we be about this latest escalation between india and pakistan. well the tension a a this iss a very serious situauation because asas you well know a and down ps song -- b both -- new kipip bosnia on to pause and any confrontation involviving nuclear pileses must be taken seriously so we all facing - -- facing quite a serious crisisis. how do you expect pakistan to respond as i it has about? two sh well -- we're going to have to wait and see i thinknk at ththe moment -- old sign suggests the pockets song is not interested in escalatingng this cririsis -- any further than that neeeed toe i mean itt h hasn the whole tendeded to downplay the impact all the indiann strike for examplple i it hasas claimed the strike was - -- mainly of a ceasefifire violatin

or violations an incursion across the line off controlled in kashmir a contradicting of course what's the indians claim which is that they attacked a militant camp some fifty or sixty kilometers. deep inside pockets sani terror tree now this would suggest that bacchus on is not keen -- to to to to ratchet up yeah that it may come under increased pressure at home from an angry public to retaliate against india with possibly disastrous consequences if there any legitimacy to india's. claim that pakistan is allowing add these terrorist groups to flourish in its territory to function in the teterritory. well a many in the international community certainly are inclined to believe the indian claim.

pockets on as we know has denied this and has continued -- to clalaim that it has done allt can to control of the acactivity all of terror groups -- on operating on from xterra tree but i think it's quite significant that it was ready several us between twelve and fourteen out as data that we got the first condemnation of the indian attack on pockets long -- from the organization of the islamic conferencnce -- it took it's t time to comeme o- with with condemnatation on the whole i international reaction. in in the fororm of a condemnatn has been rather muted though there have been very strong -- appealss to both india a and bon to exercise restraint as far as on a shake at chatham house thank you very much.

thank you. no confusion is the watchword in iran thiss tuesdsday twenty four hours after the surprise resignation of the foreign minister the still nice on president rouhani has accepted it. mohammad javavad zarifif was the ararchitect of the nuclear accod to the j. c. po a thatt was signed with well powers but he has been under pressure. from hardline elements within iran to explain why tehran is still keeping up its end of the bargain when the west is not ronnie and other entities have made public their support for the roof as in any now reports. he's the only man for the job according to the iranian presidency has than ronnie's chief of staff took to instagram to say that there was only one foreign policy and one foreign minister in the islamic republi. this in response to foreign miminister mohammadd resignation monday. a reaction echoed by the foreign ministry itself. as the chief of staff of the president of iran said today the

reresignation has not been accepted. tuesday the president publicly thank you very for being one of the main figure in the fight against the united states without mentioning his resignation. hi miles or you look to is that i want to thank doctor sorry five talk to him multi and engineer is i'm gonna you know and you all you would then k. figures who have stood in the primary frontline and conontinue to hold the linine. please so down. shout out came a day off just a reflex sight lines during a surprise meeting with the shot aside. the syrian president met notot only suprememely to herman a andrew honeyey but also general cast them for the money of the islamic revolutionary guard. tensions between iran's hard liners and moderates have goring since the us pulls out of the iran nuclear deal and we imimpoe sanctions on the isolated country. abroad the reef is mostly known for its instrumental role in creating the accord in. twenty fifteen thahat says donad trump election has been struggling to keep it in place.

it. was my posse is an expepense on iranian politics and is a senior lecturer at lund universitity in sweden at a i'll scan what was behind the delay in president rouhani reaction. the reserve for mister has been a great asset to the president and to ron in its dealings with them. outside world so losing him would both be. detrimenental to hiss pro. seasons of the the rest of the book -- so connected to the nuclearar agreement which is under attack entering into mystical. is this about a schism between the hardliners on the moderates like cuts on ronnie and javad zarif. we it's not it i is a bit more complicated than thahat but obviously there is a fight about what the legacy of thehe g. c... away the nuclear agreeeement da. and to what extent it'ss worthwhile for you wantt to stay in i it w when they're not gettg what they were supposed to get from the europeans.

think that sounds that's why these grere backgrounund but thn there isis a lot more details. and issues where there arere fifights. with the crisscrossingng the lis between moderates and hard line. can we expect the supreme later true white intnto this andnd coe down on one e side or another. well the foreign ministry and and who heads it is one of those posts where the supreme leader has the final say. both when it comes to whwho gets appoininted but thehen also w wr there is any nations are are accepted. so in that sense at some point supreme leader will also have to signal when you re agrees or no. even i in system thirty states that could act ass an extra boot of support was enraged because then you can literally say. the s supreme leader backs zen s role as the foreign minister. of course it isn't greener increased his resignation ten thirty piece out of the picture. the us president donald trump on the north korean leader kim jong

un have arrived in vietnam for that second summits and they're expected to build on the loose agreement reached in singapore last year. criticize say this meeting is little more than a pale stand for both leaders in the seems. the paper of hanoi that all happy that this city is hosting the summit france twenty four channels pentagram what's. as a tourist destination and hot spot famous around the world vietnam and its capital hanoi were ready to hahandle the three thousand or so members of the foreign media here to attend. the trump kim jong hoon summit - indeed a last year over fifteen mimillion visitorss came to the southeast asian nation that doesn't mean thahat the tourism indudustry w wasn't readydy to capitalize on this summit indeed a number of shops were selling. t. shirts marking the occasion of this meeting between the donald trump and kim jong hoon i spokee to someme of f those vens and for thehem it's nonot just t good business. it's alsoo a poioint of f persol pridee.

well not all so that i could have been the lab but nothing i'm so proud. of this summit is gooood for my mom's development it's a good opportunity f for people to g go know our country and especially the city of conoid. whichh will be known as a a citf the release. maybe i'm really happy that this time vietnam gotot to organize e summit between the us and north korerea. but let we need t to make up it ma'am. however most of the preparations here in the vietnamese capital have been about security issues indeed police and army forces from all over the country have been called in to annoy. to patrol the streets this o on ordeders off the vietnamese prie minister who said that security should be the top priority thus ensuring that hanoi which was awawarded the title of city for peace by unesco in. nineteen ninety nine lives up to its name. charles how to buy their posing and and now an australian cardinal has become the h highet ranking memberr of the catholic

church to be convicted of child abuse. george pal was found guilty in december five counts of child sex offenses the media had been prevented from reporting on the trial until today. frost twenty four as it was meant to has more from sydney. it was one person's word against another because although to choirboys and the allegation was a whole court case was that two choirboys were assaulted back i. nineteen ninety six in december after they'd been singing in the choir at sunday mass only one of those choir boys is alive in twenty fourteen the other one died of a heroin overdose so it really is one person's account versus another. and in this court case cuddle pale and called n no witnesses o it was all down to what t the prosecution could bring. and what confusion the defense barrister could sorrow but in the end -- it was a unanimous verdict after

three days. of deliberations the jury said that cordle pale was guilty on all counts that he had abused the boys they believed that men's memory of what happened to more than twenty years ago when he was just thirteen or fourteen and when he said. the khan will bill hell surprise them they'd run out after the mass and they've gone in into the secret passages behind the sector street and they found the sacramental wine and they were drinking us -- so they've done the wrong thing connell tell surprise them he told them they were in big trouble and then he sexually molested them and that account is one that the jury believed. and that account has seen this prince of the church now in the position w where tomorrorow he s a sentencing. there is back to the reporting from sydney lets his business we now k. metes bout with us in the studio and came to start with at comic is. a major new expansion in the united states yeah yet chrysler lore is gonna be investing for a half a billion euros. dollars rather in the detroit area in the statate of michigant

upgrade five existing factories and build a new. one they'll be devoted to electric vehicles and the popular jeep and ram trucks. now 600-050-0 jobs will be created in a much needed boost for the midwest. rival automaker general motors has could cost them billions and hundreds jobs. well it's been nearly zhou has been sold in the united states now the french car brand is preparing to hit the streets again. as part of its owners push to reduce reliance on its european market. the announcemement wasas made ae psaa group posted record earnins for the end of twenty eighteen uncle has the story. and historic earnings report for the french auto group psa during a a chaotic here for the globall car industry. psa sales jumped 19% in twenty eighteen to a record seventy four billion euros.

and operating income beat expectations with a 43% increase to five point seven billion euros. the record breaking resultsts we powered by the twenty sixteen acquisition of opel vauxhall. last year the division reported its first annual profit in nearly two decades contributing one point three five billion euros of positive cash flow to the group. the motion is because of imagage what it means for team got off to a twenty years of negative results has finally found. off of your profitability. come obviously very happy i'm very proud of the work that's being done by all teams of people to keep. to thank his teams the ceo is increasing their end of year bonuses french employees earning less than twice the minimum wage will now receive three thousand eight hundred and ten euros. but the car makers still has a persistent achililles heel. and over d dependence on the european market. europe currently accounts 480% of psas global vehicle sales. the group is aiming to increase group sales 50% before.

twenty twenty one central to the strategy to push -- brands which will re launch vehicle sales in the united states for the first time since. nineteen ninety one the situation brand will also launch in india what opal will return to russiaa. psa forecast of flat market in europe over the next years warning that a hard briggs it could make matters worse. the dutch government has bought a twelve point 7% stake in air france klm for six hundred and eighty eight million euros. it plans to go even further until it matches the french government's 14% share in that flagship airline. kaelin is the strongest plank in the franco dutch alliance which is p played a role in recentt tensions between french unions and management. sterling is jump since theresa may open the door to delaying the march twenty ninth brags that deadline. bridgege currency rally to its highest level against the dollar in twenty one months this tuesday -- trading in just under a dollar thirty three there up about one

and a third p percent this hour were nearly one at your seventeen the worst case scenario for investors and businesses is a no deal for exi. so any effort to avoid thahat en if it's just to buyy more time s being very well received. still the uncertainty about the u. k.'s futures cat england's as it stands ready to give more support to the british economy if needed. bubu that its options will be limited. we'll do what we can -- but we should not oversell what we can do -- the real drivers of economic outcomes here willl b b what happens to the productive capacity of the economy -- and then the reaction to businenesses and households and are for and you know what customers -- the customers overer exporters. as you can on the e rest of the day's trading action now london's footsieie one hundred lost about half a percentage point on the close. of the other major european indices though so modest gains as the retail sector here in europepe rose water it's been hovering near the flat line way

down in part. by new data showing a home building in the u. s. tumbled to a two year low in the month of december. that we can see stocks making an effort for the closing bell for you coming up later. investors are also reacting to contract congressional testimony by the us federal reserve chief drum powell he said the bank would remain patient in raising interest rates. and warned of slower economic growth to come. if you currently konami conditions as healthy and economic outlook is favorable over the past few months we have seen. some cross currents and conflicting signals uncertainty is e elevated around some unresolved government policy issues including brexit an ongoing trade negotiations. some quick witted entrepreneurs in hanoi are making the most of the summit become between donald trump and kim jong moon. bars and restaurants have offered up some special offerings to mark the historic occasion. there even the special tours to

take in the sights touch on another reports. making burgers great again restaurants and bars in hanoi are hoping to cash in on the summits between us president donald trump. and north koreaean leader kimimg oil and put a humorous twist on an otherwise tenense situauatio. starting with the dirty donald and the kim jong young burgers. the extravagances the double beef double bacon double cheese fried pickles and then topped off with the chicken floss to represent. the head of hair that mr trump bebecause the trump burger is ao she can be served with russian dressing. nearby at the unicorn bar. including the supreme rockets man cocktail. further more travel companies have organized tours for those hoping to see history in the making. stopping at sites such as the hotel hosting kim jong moon.

is not just a s story l location where it's a positive occasion you and all the ones working towards a peaceful resolution and we all want to live in a peaceful ward so yeah i mean it's it's it's a good place to be and i world. entrepreneneurs are not just hoping to make a few extra bucks or dongs i in vietnanamese curr. but also to mark a meeting of two historically hall style nations. it is all happening in hanoi vietnam get stuff i've been that great city kay thank you very much indeed okay we do that with a business with taking a short break don't go away. much more still to come

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