cocorrespondentsroround the wor. welcomee back to francece twenty four on the lawn didiss and we live from paris to headlines this hour. nicolas maduro calalls for mililitary unity this two days after opppposition leader one gradoo cool f for mas defections after appearing in a v video wih some and natnanal guardsdsmen. negotiations between the military council and civilian leaders stole in sit down protestt leaders expect a millin people to tatake to the stree in defiancece of the armymy. and france and italyly putut thr differences aside and mark i five hundred years since the death of leoeonardo d da vinci. many of mimiael adding the bond between rome and pararis is in destructible .

nicolas maduroas school for military unity the venezuelan presidt making thehe appeal in an appearance with soldidiers it comemes t two days after opposin you to one great okay. called for most affections after appearing in a videdeo with some and natioiol guauardsmen. despitee a g grados appeaealed e military by and large remaiained loloyato nicolasas maduro. early exposureorrespondedence simoniruno in caracas and auststin made the situauation oe ground remain tense. is muchh lesss expxpensive thahe past days -- we e can take it ts is the firstst day since t the attempmpted cououp whehen t the situationn camee backk to norma- actually you can see on mymy bak right there t that's like a lot that military base that't's whee everything happens -- thehe dayf ththe thirtrty old april and noe

situatation is p ptty quiet you can see the helicicopter to stay on the ground -- also presidedet maduroro - -- was pretty selelf confident today you walkk the streets of caracas and it tests the population say thatt -- deku as being defeated all anyway did they have -- to keep on there becacause prorobably something e to bee scamming -- anyway -- president - -- self nominated president - -- will palm m white bill.. saidid that colds to a strike -- strike of t the public workers d he said that the s sike might take to a national wide strike in the next few days so -- apapt from beess in n this situatitioe in cararacas is s pretty quiet - the cd goes on normally there are not be confrontation bigig fights betweween - -- the two ps at the moment so is it a good time for y to calm seems to have come back to o caracas for the moment similarly the fact that calm has been restored to caracas as you've been n sayingo

seset s signal t that. onene qu- has already lostt the momentumme had d just two days ago. well- we we were talking to some sportivive of your position the every y kind act as a and ty are saying exactly what you say they're sayingng.. you know -- if you if seem like they keep p the decries wolf and and and and for thehe moment to nothing is h happening in thee morning g got thehe thirty whene said that when you setet. up all the l little bits and t y said thahat the mimilitary's whe onlyly side thehe population bee team. and and now if youu will hourss later he hadad to go back a andk agaiain t the support for thehe military.. and the situation seem m to hav- to have to go o back - -- to coe of months ago so not improving nott going on andnd peoplple tht that be losing - -- they hold tt somethining is going to changege somehow they feel that he was a stanand o of a one wadedeal.

simoni bruruno reportiting there from caracas ideaa.. nono protests continue in saddam as a go see shins betetween the mililitary council and civilian store. today the forces -- for the declaration of freedom expect a million people to take to thee streets they see the show w force is yetet another sign the sudanese people w won't be givig up on thehe demand for civilian government. for more on this storyy we cacan g go across frae twenty four was a julius years in khartoum. juliet what'ss t the atmosphere like wherere you are. well we just came from t the protesters to add a little while ago andd indeed therere are thousands of people there pourining ioo the side of the st anand they starteted g gatherine in the capitalal khartoum add ts afternoon -- taking shiftss protesteters were takingg shift- to y you stay out of the heatt n order to be able to stay out there all night so as you said the sudanese prossionals associciation one off the organinizations -- behind thehel of this year and behinind these negotiations with the mililitary cacall for people to turn out -- called for a million man march

today and certainly whahat we've seen here e in khartoum if peope heeded that call thehere's a rel sense of urgency -- to o contine pressuring the military to handd over power to civilians and i think t the protestors b believe that they'y're only sorort of leverage to o that and is s to w that they can s still -- takakeo thee streets in large n numbers which they certatainly didid ear today and they're continuing too do tononight. okokay so this is thisis onn ond put us on the oppososition n wao cocontinueue t to ramp up thee e but therere aree some off the opposisition. we don't want the protetest leaders to go too far what exactly are e the afraid off. i think they're a afraid of ultimatetely -- a violent confrontatation with thehe secuy forces it's importantnt to keepn mind that this is some of f the leaders o of this transitional mililitary council were. yoyou know leadeder is out off e security forcess before the fall of this year t the people whore perceived to have a large amount of sway over the security forces which up u until now since bashr bell havave -- you know remaiais peaceful on the streets safe not fired on ththe protesters as we

saw them do in the p past so certrtainly there are calalls fr calm theheir calls for prorobles from thehe international commun. from the community here in the capital ass well -- w we y you w as we'veve seen rhetoric ramp up the mililitary and the civivilin lead negotiaiators -- there's's grgreat cononcern that it could escalate i into something furthr andd so i t think that't's partf the reason whyhy you why you are also hearing these calalls f for common and thesese calls a sortf stepep back and not provoke the military. okay julia thank you verery much for the update to this year's reporting g that from khartoumor us. in other news hureds took to the streets of beninin today foa second day o of protests followi controversrsial pliamamentary polllls. ththey were heleld with no opposition canandidatess nowow chorng two e eyewitnessess security forces fired livee rounds t to break upp demonstra. many was once held up as a role model for democracycy but now ririts groupups say that reputation is atat risk. escalalating violence between

soldie and protesters. amateur footage frorom beingean shshow security forceces shohooa dedemonstrators in cototonou on thursday. leaving several casualties near the e home of former president toma boniadi. this a soldier sought to brbreak the sececond day o of demonstratioions against a controversial parliamentary p pl that was held on sunday without a singngle opposition candidate. okay. will continue will continue with not afraid of prison prison as well. it's the m man i because d demoy is precious to the peoplee. that's why i was standing up. president pets s please tell los government e effectively barre opposition pararties from runni. one of the changes required parties to pay nearly three hundrered and eighty thousasand eueuros to feel the list. as a result only twowo parties both pro government c contested seat. the electoral refororm leded man vain to wake up the poll. which had a voter turnout of just 23% accorording to

preleliminary resulults. an unusual figure for thehe west african state. where turnout hasn't dropppped below 50% since its t transition to democracy in? neteen n ninety benning has been viewed as one of the mosost stae democracies in the region. with relativelyy peacefuful elections featutung dozens of parties s on the ballot. but rights g groups fear that te rerecent vioiolence a and electl changes may threaten the democratic process in the countrtry. the easternrn coastst off indias bracing itself foror cyclone th's e expected to mamake landfl tomorrow that's friday. cyclone fununny is expecected to bring gale force winds and heavy rain. in the disasterr management authorities for because high to phenomenal sea condiditions for most of the states ang the bay of bengal. more than eight hundred thousand people have been evacuated from low lying areasas and the i indn navy air force and coastst guar. have been placed o on high aler.

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right to publishh truthful information it't's about journalisticic freedom. there's no douou in anybody's mind though that this is the case. wikileaks has published hundreds ofof thousandsds of assified document incncluding military files and diplomatic cables. i saw his legal team is now concererned that if he werer toe exextradited to the u. s.. he may face further charges and en risk a a deat s sentence. there is widesprpread speculatin abou whatt thehe nature of thee charges may end up b being if ty will add for the charges the extra reqequest. boriring date out more chaharges once he'ss back in the u. s. and we a are concerned abobout that. so it's what you very closely. the extradition case could take many months in the meantime judy an assauault is being held in london's belmarsh p prison where he's serving a fifty week sentence for skipping baiail in. twenty twewelve and taking refue in ecuador's embasassy. the h head of passes p public hospitital says he is fililing a police complaint off to some prototesters tried to force ther

way into a h hospital in the catatal duringg yesterday's made a protest. the f french g government h haso voiced angnger at radicals over storming the visit facacility bt prototesters version of events seems to be d different you can roll it has a ststor. his mobilee p phone ftage was taken f from one of the p paties rooms. capped at thehe moment when riot police tastete se m mayday protesters on t to the premisesf the pta sympatry hospital. some of them headed to the postt surgery bold to try y and go inside the building. yeahah -- circrcle all off a sun we s saw arounund fiftyty people coming our way trying to push the door o open for them all --e rush to help the nurses t to stp people from entering his offffie you do dante. the break in dress shop response frfrom the government the prime minister edward feet denouncncig it is totallyy irresponsible. and the interior minter dedescribing it as aattack. the protesters argue that they

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were taken into custody as a result of the breakiking. ththe french presisident and his italia c counterpart kicked off commemorations tomorrow five hundred yeyears since the deathf leonardo da vinci. the renaissance painter spent the last t three years of his le here in france.. many o of my y call toll s sergo mattarella the bond between rome anand paris was indestructible this despite months of diplomatic tensions between. the two neigighborss. now theyey're county fewer than twenty leonardo da vinci painting seven e existence fivef them includingng the mona lisa. i at thehe louvrvre museum heren paris for yearsrs italy and frae have s sparred over an n accord ununder which itataly willl and several of the artists works to the movee. clclaire rushed now takes a look at the heart of the tussle. the loop home to o nearly a thid of leonardrdo da vinci's's pains isis marking the five huredth anniversary of his death with an exhibibition in october. curators had hoped italy would land the annunciation and the adoration of the magi for the casion. but onlyy a few works mainly

drawings are set to be l loanedy italian museums as tensions over politicscs spilloverer intnto ce recorded i don't k know. and d i have been a credit card the difference up at all news and are just looooking at a cost ofhehe i'm katie dieied on me si could not able to dial ouout sw. meet thahat be thought he got alallies video box out what andi kn you guyss i.. g. billlly die yeah i hit. it in n the offff i is it. frfrance has defended the exhibitionon. this amidd strange diplomatic relatitions with its neighborr mainly over the hardline anti immigration and antii youou poly pushed by italaly's rightht wing populist government since taking power nearly a aear ago. he s says youou down across -- e vf it willll get easieier envels sitionalal show do not events people -- a sensible noon on a ninety three i'm on the phone and he saiaid to let t you knowf you think uu puts ththat you.

italy says there hasasn't been reciprococity. is unknown sugars and i put i it in thehere because it was then whwhat i'm going to much of the french is a bad idea b but in te geological. wawas in minnesota to come upp h a plan to put t that letter that . upup without any money. some italians agrgreed with ther governrnment's position on the issue. fourteen n question what broke why a particur modod it i'm on my knees up under the ada and chat. for r more on this sty we canan briring in a christiann blast by professor of contemporary history at louis agreed -- kylilie universitity t thanank you very much for joinig us on the program today you heard there from many itatalians regular folk onn the street as well as a deputy prime minister. that the monona lisa should be retuturned to italy should it be

returned to italy. well i think malayss i in p pars has about a long story and it was actually done in a time when such kind of nationalalistic feelining t this is s mind is is and give me about mine b back. ththese thingsgs just didn't han no not i mean n sh stands s ask- of course an italian yes but also international artists a as someone e who has s given.. his talents to the world and frantztz yeses profited f from t franance was also representing very much the power in eueuropet the time and it was representing the world. in europope soo --- i thihink is also right that -- sucuch a powr who o take advantagege of the af the of the talents of leononardo da v vinci and thenn in n the ts when thiss took p place nationat feelings -- just -- hadn't b bes imported like that have they have to date so i believe that - i think -- the t the mololly's i

shouldld remain iparis whehere t has been for sucuch a l long tit is not an act of a robbebery o n act of criminal --- full session but it has been an act of arts giving s so i believeve that --s is a quite exaggerated okay so the piece of work was n not pillllaged in yoyour opinion noi want to ask you f first see what makes a m morally says so greatt because i just saw it. ththis pastt s sunday and if ite it wasn't for the crorowd in the room i w would not k know that s was the mona lisa. yoyou know there was a h huge fu out t it. yeah in fact -- it is always like this that wewe have seen it only once in my lifefe and the t was ththe what fascininating a certain sensnse that in thehe vy and d that is -- smallller bandd thinkk it is something t thatbui regards all grarades -- a all gt art you alway i if you have not seen it you always expepect somethingg huge sosomething

enormous in the very and these - artt over ususalf their value more in the small things rather than in theirir greatness the physical greatness. so -- i believe t that -- the te values i also one has to look at it one has -- t tcontemplatated and really undnderstan t the t internrnal -- internanal power f that image a and it t doesn't nd to be great f for this so t this ii believeve --- well i have toy i'm not t an expert inin an arts that --- this what what i felt whenen i sold and when a lease undeder preciado a after -- some not more but at the beginning but after some time. and then onene has to o e a andd art. piece of art also within the times when it has to be c creatd and of course it represents. a very much the the both the symbol of off. duty all the time when when they will n not be getting into was once living so we're talking about fifive hundred years ago d indeed. has changed over timime and maye

with -- two days ---- i is -- surely one house that's different ideals i believe but looking in for a long time and trying to o interact with the wh the picture one really understatands actctually what le another must have felt t when he wawas drawing. itit's not what i believe that someone who is this it -- i repeat not not an expert on not so -- art experts my correct. okay kristenast but ththank you very much fofor joinining us one program today. it's time makess for a look at the day's business news with kate rudy grieving kakate other trump administrationon is dodoug downwn on its efffforts to isole cuba y yeah so this is a new law that's's being in. it'snly just s starting t to be enfoforced. washingtoton it couldld lead to what rooms against companies that havave a presence in cuba. and d are using proroperty whics

confisiscated by the communist government over the last six yearars. the first case has already been filed it's a family which claims that carnival c cruise line docs sports in havana which used to be owned by their relatives. were seized by the castro regime in the nineteen sixties they're stickiking it. europeanan compapaes in parartir have invesested hundrededs of millions of eurosos in cuba in recent years. and the e. u. hasas s said it wl try to protetect their interest. not the man was wonderful and we dodo not fear a fght of investmements yeah. we t trust and g get deal you wl take all msusures to prototect s investors. and it's under banananas. a a slim and we trust that the decicision to continue business with cuba. on the basis that it is established and legally otected. will prevail you getetouble the heatater. let me.. well the trump admininistrationn has alsoso f formally endnded te

waivers which allowed some countries to continue b buying l from iran. china india and turkey are among those w who will now fac us sanctions if they donon't end there imports all together.. ththe sanctions were impmposed n nonovember as wasashington s seo block tehraras crucial energy sectctor. oil pricess did drop sharply ths thursday it was a us wti tumbling as much as 4%. before recovering slightly it's trading at about sixty one dollars seventy six cents a barrel the international brent about seventyty sixty five you n see there. closining down its operations sn nonorthern ireland. margieie's northern i ireland'ss biggesest emploloyer with sosome thousand six hundred w workers thouousands more jobs acrosss te reregion depend on supplyingng e sisite in belfasast. mes for house reports.. it's bad news for belfast is the central pillar of the city's economy and industrial heritage collapses.

northern ireland's biggest employer bombala da is announced it shutting its hanger d doors n the banks of the lake and the good. the canadian aerospa joined to selling thehelants as well a itss sigights and as papart o oa wider restructuring and cost cutting initiative. as the company moves to optimize its global manufacturing footprint. babar da will pursue the divestituree the belfast in morocco aerostructures businesses. these are great businesesses wih tremdodous capababilities. back in november the plalane a d train makaker had already announced it was cuttingng some five thousanand jobs internationally withh four hundred ninety axedd in belfast already. a further three thohousand six hundred northehern irish jobs on now at risk. trade unions have e expressed shoc with thehe gnb s saying its hihigh time workers were treated with the respect they deserve. onon body aa house howowever pre to remain comommitted to finding the right buyer foror the sites.

until then it plans to focus onn its r remaining p ponds in montl mexicoco and texas. a french court h has given approvoval for british steel to buy thehe basketball steel plant in northern france. there been months of protests over the factories fatate two hundred and sevenenty jobs had been at risk and unions were quick to welclcome the court decision which is expected to see t the site to continue operatating. british s steel was formed f fra divisision of tauaught uss dealn it w was sold ofoff in. twenty sixteen the acquisition givess the company a stronger footing in europ. the bankf england has a slightly upgradedd i its economc foforecast for the comoming mons while keepeping intestt rates on hold at three quartersrs of 1 1. it w was the first policy meetig for the cecentral bank s since e agreement to extend the deadline for the uk's withdrawal from the european union. policy makers s is said they now expected gdp abobout one a and a half percentnt in. one point 2 2% p previously fec. governoror mark k carney saidd e

bibirds at to o break that deadlock is broken andnd the economy performs better than expeed. he would support more frequenent rate hikes. the bank also said thahat ongoig breaks it related uncertainty had the potential to hit the business community hard. underscoring the shadowast by the e pending changes. this argument is trading actionn now london's footsie one hundred dropped by about half a percentage point as the bank made those announcements can i count was down sharper in paris afterata showed a contraction in factory activity across the eurozone. the tax only slightly bolstered by volkswagen shares. they were about 4% after the carmaker reported quarterly profits inn line with expectations. wallstreet is trending down a day after the federal reserve said it would hold interest rates steady despite encouragement from donald trump. cut them we're seeing is the major stocks paring back some of their earlier sharp losseses the dow jones had been down over two hundred points earlier slightly leless as we a approach the clcg

bell. tetesla is hopingng to raise soe two o billion dollars in a fresh offefering of stock and debtt on ththe markets. last week the electric car maker revealed losses of more than sevehundred mimillion dollars and a shrinking cash balance in the first quarter. a sales tumbled. founder and ceo jahn musk says he believes the firm will still return to profit in the coming monthshs. in self could buyuy up to teten mimillion dollars worth of neww shares to underscocore his confidence iththe ground. francece and germany are powerig ahead with a new a alliancee to develop the batteriries f for electric vehicless. the five to six billion euro project is designed to rival market leaders in asia and the united states. you'll receive the bulk of its fincncing frorom privee firirms including carmakers. as well asne point two bilillion euros in public subsidieses from the u u.. finance ministers meeting in paris said it was a crucial step towards marking europopean i ino indedependence and leaeadershipn the techchnology industry. the leagugue's owner this isis a good bike gatheringng europe's n

technological financial and industririal powers new bitss allows us to be competitive. in the face of china he told the united s states. so it up we want to do more than justst cover theemands of eupepean car indndtry. we also want to export internationally on ththe world markets. by t this make it clear that the batteries m made in eueurope. a going to be an important quality standards. there's a made in europepehey're trying to branded across the batterieies arounund the world e see how it takes offff w we'll e to see thank you very y much for that kate k kate moody there wih a a look at t the day's busines. when i takee a qck break when he's coming up this fall

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