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for 60 minutes live around the world. these are the headlines. emmanuel macron says h he wantso rebuild notre e dame in five years. the government annnnouncing measures, including more taxax breaks for donations to rebuild and anan international contest o re-create the spire that fell in the fire. correspondent is standing by with more. indonesia wraps up voting for a
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new president and parliament. tosident joko widodo looking win again against the x general he narrowly defeated five years ago. al bashir is transported to prison. coming up in business, china latest economic data weights to a recovery from a recent slowdown. our stimulus measures creating too much debt risk? was in paris last night. support.er words of
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emmanuel macron wants to see notre-dame cathedral rebuilt within the next five years. most of the roof and thee cathedral's spire were destroyed two days ago. it took 400 firefifighters 14 hours to stop the flamames. ededouard phphilippe hasas been , talking aboutis the reconstruction efforts. >> we will introduce legislation during the cabinet meeting. this will create legal framework for donation process that the president has launched. c will guarantee trans maren -- transparency. every euro given to the
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reconstruction will be used for pose and notothing else. what: tell us more about the prime minister had to say today. following a wednesday morning cabinet meeting dedicated to the reconstruction of notre dame, the french prime minisister said thee dame would become construction site of a generation. he thanked people in france and donations.their four organizations will be charged with collecting donations. he said as of next week, the government is going to introduce a draft bill that aims to guarantee the transparency and accountability of the donation
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process. part of the bill would include proposed tax cuts for normal french citizens. we are not talking about multimillionaires. normal, french citizens. heard the prime minister stay he was going to call on a number the bestries to gather minds available in france, people who are going to be at the core of this reconstruction process. he announced the creation of a competition. we saw the famous spire crumbling to the ground monday night. edouard philippe saying it was not certain the spire will be constructed again. he says if it is, the question
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we have to ask is is it going to be created in the same style or is it time for a new spire to take its place. genie: there were images of the roof being burned and the spire falling down. do we have an idea of the timeframe. inron says he wants it done five years. is that realistic? that is a big question. macron wants it done in five 2024 in time for the olympic gagames. exexperts say y it is likely toe a lot longer. this is a huge amount ofof work. the damagessessing have not had the opportunity to inspect it in its entirety. fighters may be a little optimistic.
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genie: thank you. indonesians voted today for a new president and parliament in the biggest one-day election. the current president joko widodo is running against the ex general he narrowly defeated. earlier results are putting joko widodo ahead b by a comfortable margin. aboutore can you tell us these results, jack? >> we have quick count's, completed about 80% to 90%. we are looking at a return of about a 10 point lead for joko widodo. it is just a queuestion of how much before we find out the official result in may. looks like about 10 points. that could be revised up or
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down. ather way, it looks l like convincing win. the opposition candidate disputed the results, claiming he has won according to o privae polling. death sheouraged his has discouraged his supporters from writing. rioting. it is very diplomatic given the indication of his lead. it looks like a big victory for him today. looking on his first term in office, what kind of president has he been? >> his signature policy is about infrastructure devevelopment. can see toll roads, new
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airports, neww ports. this has been his signature policy. you cacan see it happening aroud the country. -- in regards to the economy. he is invested in health care and education. he is the first president f from outside the e political elite of this c country who has managed o become president and stay prpresident. he wasas a furniture salesman before he entered politics.
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it appears he has been given a strong mandate to continue his work. two sudan, where antigovernment protests are showing no sign of slowing down. achieve the goal of getting omar al-bashir out of the office and now they want the military to relinquish control to citizens. correspondent told us more. >> this is an intimate prison in khartoum. this is the same place where over the last decade, many pepeople who werere dissident or activists, members of the opposition would have been taken to this location and detained
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and tortured and executeted. this place i is well known to people. the sheriff has been transferred there. just last week, a large number of political prisoners who had werepart of the protests released and have joined the protests. genie: this comes as uganda said it would consider offering asylum to omar al-bashir. what more can you tell us about that? been in powerhas for more than three decades. a spokesman for one of the they would bed willing to consider offering
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ishir asylum, considering he facing charges. there are a lot of questions about what should happen because he is facing international charges. him toave been calls for see the consequences within his own country. there are a lot of questions. if this asylum offer were to stand, what that would mean for him facing consequences for decades of human rights abuses. libya, shells hit a suburb of tripoli. it is the latest in an assault. he is trying to take tripoli back.. generalee the 75-year-old as a dangerous would be dictator
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of my market off he. >> the battle is very large. decisive. will be we are taking steps to ensure victory. genie: in egypt, parliament has approved amendments to the constitution that could keep the president and power for another 11 years. they have to be validated in a referendum. lauren reports. consolidate.
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approved constitutional amamdments allllowing the prpresident to e extend his terr two years and run for six years after r that. he could stay on until 2030. the president's supporters say changes are necessary to allow him to complete political and economic reform. >> we have trust in the political leadership. we approve of the constitutional amendments. lcc has been criticized for cracking down on political opponents with authorities having jailed thousands since he took power in 2014. the amendments to extend his term limits were slammed by
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human rights groups and opposition mps who announced an attempt at a power grab. >> it is a moral principle created by the revolution. it is important -- it is impossible to tamper with this. >> this binds the ruler. >> outnumbered and parliament, there was little the opposition could do to blblock the amendments, which must be put to a nationwide referendum. authorities blocked a petition announcing the changes. banners and billboards urged people to vote for the amendments and have begun to flood the streets of cairo. of protests in algeria forced the interim president to name a new head of the constitutional council. they are seen as part of the
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discredited regime of abdulaziz bouteflika. he resigned after months of protests. the outpouring of public anger continues. it is not enough that abdelaziz bouteflika resigned. they want a large-scale cleanup of politics. >> i want the gangsters to leave. to been solid, no to bella z's. to bin salman. no to belaziz. -- he was head of the constitutional council, which plays a key role and there
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was no way the elections planned for july 4 could be free and m partial -- free and impartial. nonviolent. stated a professional army. the army is keen to make sure there is not a drop of algerian blood spilt, which would serve the interest of our enemies. patients asal urged the military considers how to resolve the crisis. protesters want to general to leave, too. >> the first shipment of humanitarian aid has finally arrived. copetals are struggling to
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with equipment shortages and power outages. after weeks of deadlock, a sigh of relief for venezuela. a shipment of aid landed in caracas on tuesday, caring some 5000 liters of water. >> we are grateful to all of the states and private institutions who make possible the access of this. >> the material will be distributed across the country and could help more than 600,000 people in need. have begun queuing in hopes of receiving precious supplies. be able toappy to purify thehe water. with this, we can protect ourselves.
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>> it comes after nicolas maduro reached an agreement with the red cross. the delivery of aid has become a .olitical battle >> it is a palette to measure to maintain the emergency. evenis not enough, not close. way.re aid is on its in recent years, an estimated 3.7 million people have fled venezuela. a quarter of the population is in need of humanitarian assistance. genie: michelle obama continued her around the world book tour with a stop in paris last night. cheernds turned out to
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her on and talk about her book. she spoke about when she first heard about the devastating fire at the notre dame cathedral. disbelief. the security driver, we were en route and he said notre dame is burning. i thought -- you must be joking, you sort of hope it is a fire nearby or someththing near. you cannot imagine you would see .his fire fall it did not hit me until i saw the images all of you saw and all of that ran through my mind was all that cathedral meant in my small life. time for our busineness upupdate. a stimulus measure seems to be having the desired effect. steadyese growth holding
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in the first three months of 2019. it defies analyst expectations. experts aree warnining measures could have unintended consequences. >> china's economy showing signs of stabilizing after months of slowdown. generally speaking, the economy performed within an appropriate range, showing p progress and stability, along with increasingly positive factors. this lays the foundation for sound economic development for the year. >> according to government figures, the economy g grew at x point 4% in the first quarter of 2019.. that is slightly higher than analyst projections. the government unveiled better investment.d
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the data is set to ease concerns about the state of the world's second-largest economy. the oecd has warned stimulus could lead to problems later, whilile cheering current growth, it called on chinese authorities to control debt. >> this is not a bad environment for the economy to go forward. maintain the favorable economic environment is structural reform. >> growth is expected to fall to 6.2%, it's weakest rate in nearly 30 years. talk us through the markets. >> muted g gains. chinese markets are up 30% thihs
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year. aseurope, a mixed picture mining stocks are slumping. the ftse 100 is down. shares of l'oreal pushing back germany has lowered its 2019 growth. it is forecast at half a percent. quartert dax gaining a of a percent at midday. -- a wind farm in the baltic sea. it is supplying 380 five megawatts of electricity, enough for 400,000 homes. electricity provider has signed a contract. she highlighted her country's duty to clean energy.
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we have a responsibility becacause we have committed a lt of sins into the air. ands a question of justice corporation -- and cooperation. genie: apple and qualcomm have put t an abrbrupt end d to a lel dispute. >> qualcomm makes chips for mobile devices accused apple of not paying for technology. apple accused qualcomm of tosing market dominance charge high fees.
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backups after apple's business was delayed. >> t-mobile and sprint are the third-largest wireless carriers. the wall street journal is reporting the current plan in which t-mobile would buy sprint has hit resistance from antitrust regulators. officials telling the company the deal is unlikely to be approved on the g grounds it t l harm c competition. the justice department has declined to comment so far. the european union is taking steps to ensure the
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rights of wororkers. >> european parliament has approved regulations setting minimum rights. uber drivers and carareers are among those brussels i is trying to protect. legislationed the is missing its tararget as the countrtriecontntinue to avoid classifying workers as employees. >> a small step towards justice. that is how supporters frame their directive. workekers who have been in limbo have their rights tataken away. from now on, they will have the european court of justicece and this directive to ensure no one over exploit the flexibilitity we need. of thoseng to all working more than three hours a
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week, the director requires companies to inform employees about hours and pay rates and bar them from prohibiting employees from other employment at the same time. platforms rely on independent contractors. directive is unlikely to bring an end to the debate. they have already said delivery workers are independent and it is unaffected by the new rules, which only applied to employees. workers likeare everyone e else. the e company is appealing those decisions. in france, many are in shock after the historic notre dame cathedralalas ravageded by fifi. french readers are turning to literature to make themselves
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fefeel betteter. >> indeed. dame"unchbaback of notree has shot to the top of the reader list on amazon.com.
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