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with front twenty fourteen follow the women's world cup. the end of the two swapping to live from paris world news and analysis from france. twenty four i'm margot and these are the headlines bob morsi drops dead in that kind of corporate. ousted president of egypt the leader of the outlawed muslim brotherhood was already serving a seven year sentence of falsifying his candidacy he was appearing in court. today facing espionage charges.
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around one set in ten days it will surpass the uranium stockpile limit set under the twenty fifteen nuclear deal and announcement set to increase tension. between washington and tehran president microns urging tehran to be patient i'm responsible. democracy activists joshua wong is set free he says he's joining the campaign to stop the expedition bowl. one was among the protest is calling for the resignation of the hong kong chief executive carried lore. is monday. thank you very much for being with us egypt's state television says the country's ousted president mohammed morsi collapsed during the court session. and died the broken to set the sixty seven year old mostly was attending a session. his trial on espionage charges when he was when he blacked out and then died it's reported more
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sees body was then taken to hospital. well she was already serving a seven year sentence of falsifying his candidacy. let's bring in timothy called us from the tapia institute for middle east policy based in cairo thank you from suffolk joining us. and tell us all about the reaction to what's happened that the death of my habit mostly. i mean i think that it's at this point it's mostly shock obviously -- the the way anyone will react kind of depends on the political views so [inaudible] thanks mark [inaudible] strato losses. see and those who are opponents is mike -- but i think overall. it's so it's mostly at this point it's just kind of i think shock is really upsetting and people are. getting is the idea that something happened what is the significance likely to be the of the staff. i think that remains to be seen i i think that some people might
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be inclined. to overstate and overestimate how much this will change things the reality is that ross suggestions whether or not they support him it sunk in that is. returned to office was almost certainly never going out then even his even his -- release was unlikely anytime in the foreseeable future and so. there wasn't really a lot of expectation around him for most people -- i don't i don't know that there's much. thanks for a lot of people to be awesome. and in terms of a wide a reaction on the ground it seems like you saying that this really is is is is any significant event in many ways. i mean it's significant in that its historic this is the first - present egypt to die since nineteen eighty one one so that was assassinated and it's also obviously the first democratically elected presiden. right. so this is our it's still it's still quite consequential i just don't know that it's going to necessarily be a catalyst for much beyond.
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the the kind of reflection on where we are and where we i think the unfortunate reality is that the time that he spent that office was a very brief experiment. with democracy -- very problematic and in some ways but still actually experiments maqrizi with free speech with opposition -- and that that experiment has come to a very fine explosives overthrown. two thousand thirteen and this time it was just another opportunity to reflect on that - unfortunate turn of events and die and what is taking place transpired since then. egypt and going full circle back to where it was pre arab spring. i would argue that it's actually even more so i think that the level of repression receipts date towards what we saw on in the late yours and bark -- the reality is there's much more political imprisonment there is much more disappearing of persons as much less tolerance for any sort of criticism even since your call -- characterizations the pleats in fillmore and at television shows
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no longer tolerated. by the scale of control over media and information something we've never seen before egypt and in its modern times -- it's no i think that we it's it's gotten worse than before not just as bad. tim the callous of the get tough we as it should for east middle east policy. thank you so very much for joining us. here live from paris attempt to kill the staff of the totally institute junius up from car will have more. from car on the policy of habitable see dying. after collapsing in a courtroom in cairo these on monday. next tension between washington and tehran has been turned up a notch with iran's announcement. that is about to exceed the limit on its stockpile of enriched uranium which you bring him is a critical component of both civil. nuclear power and military nuclear weapons limit was set in the twenty fifteen nuclear deal french president emmanuel macron is urging tehran to be patient
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and responsible. jerusalem and announcements for the more that's almost certain to heighten tensions. today the countdown to having more than three hundred kilograms of enriched uranium reserves has started. should be stopped in ten days. in other words on june twenty seventh. we will reach this target selection who work for you. it's the latest threat to abandon the nuclear pact which the united states withdrew from last year before putting into place crippling sanctions against iran. monday's move is designed to ramp up pressure on the european union which is still part of the deal. tehran has repeatedly called for its help in circumventing us sanctions. and restoring the benefits of the agreement. israel slammed the move calling for further sanctions against iran. israel is standing on the same front with the united states moderate arab states and with other countries and its opposition to iranian aggressio. in any event israel will not allow iran to get nuclear
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weapons [inaudible] mission. iran's announcement comes at an especially tense time. last week to oil tankers were attacked in the gulf of oman. near the strait of hormuz a key passage for the world's oil supply. the us and saudi arabia blame iran. or the european union has called for a careful investigation of the incident. at a meeting of the foreign ministers in luxembourg germany's top diplomat wait in. jennifer what's on that information is being exchanged with countries like the us and the uk we have different views on how to deal with the nuclear agreement. nothing has changed and not. in a later meeting with the french ambassador to his countr. iranian president hassan rouhani said there's a limited time to save the nation's nuclear deal. will be more that said as it develops next hong kong democracy activists joshua wong has been set free he says he's joining the campaign now to stop the extradition little wong said half of the two month sentence for his role in the previous
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books protest the twenty fourteen is. among the protest this monday calling for the resignation of the chief executive of hong kong carrie lam not she's announced a halt. to the legislation the change on extradition bills this came as two million people took to the streets in protest this weekend. was me the further comment now steve stang whose -- director of s. away as china institute steve thank you very much me with a c. on france -- twenty four do you read what's happening now as a victory for people power in hong kong. well so far he the music was. recorded a complete victory things can you. a nasty so we still have to be what to be straight. carrie lam is standing firm of the her own position. does this mean that the extradition law is likely to be. reintroduced to go for what the suspension is just a temporary thing. yeah well i think the reintroduction all the rooms are spacious stand.
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is very very unlikely almost impossible now he real easily now is whether people in hong kong. the focus on the land and tries to get close to re sign. all you they may potentially tries to escalate and iraq's the anger against chinese. and you put together a stingy. to eighteen eighty so eighteen main yes react quite strong. and is it really just the countdown before that happens steve the issue being that beijing is seeking to it. to increase its influence in hong kong to stretch it tom of control into the territory. beijing has been trying to increase his control over hong kong. but the current crisis. happens because for eighteen told cabinet and what do is als. in a legal with gene. forty renditions all mean that the
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troops with home call faxed to mainland china. it was every eleven forty in the city. what instance sculptor at all which street yeah you mean last rocks? will catch you all call. one country two systems was the the clarion call out one stage. it seems that is breaking down in many ways it is the long term view oblique one for hong kong. well the one country two still sit two systems model was a promise. china make to hong kong and to the world but he was always meant for lost. for fifty years ask from. nineteen ninety seven is a termination date. and everything's continue our state our by twenty forty seven the chinese government would expect all called to be much more like shanghai.
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like phone calls today. thank you to leave that thank you very much indeed for joining us this season thank the director of s. o. s. china instituto that analysis on the situation in hong kong carrie lam. under pressure from the protest is to resign joshua wong the mocs activists is been released to join the campaign against the extradition bowl which is been suspended for the time being. steve sang saying that it will go through but maybe not in the form that it is now we will keep watching old balance on the story for you. xto live from paris. rains new president's been in talks with the french president emmanuel macron this monday let me as a lansky's visit is seen as a chance the mac on to try to influence. key issues for kevin cleaning the peace process for the east of ukraine. every july this available neighbors fated okay believe that. cannot be fully secure as long as russia behaves as though instructional lotus notes this is a little bit but it made it was night it was a mutual runs as well as other western allies of ukraine and know what causes
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pain to every. cranium which could maybe once you crank to become a powder keg forms crimea and done by simply the fuses not all of the view of many more from school admin craning people have trusted me to make difficult compromises in line with the minsk protocol. and in the war and reclaiming annexed ukrainian territory on main tacitly family evelyn as of dying. crane said ominous to that of london mia is -- in ski -- on his visit to the leasing. away match with sarah. let me -- parts gives me with. emanuel michael. nextel live from paris at least thirty people reported killed in a triple suicide bombing in nigeria. please say it best the hallmarks of an attack by the islamist terror group boko haram. the incident happened on sunday and come to guide you to muddy kyrie borneo state. bombs detonated among a crowd gathered to watch football on television. branch school students of sort
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of their final exams the bacchanalia or the back short. stop over seven hundred and forty thousand candidates here france twenty four after hilly explains why the back is seen as something crucial. the french teenagers career prospects. it's about time of year again. monday marks the start of what some describe as the most grueling and stressful rites of passage in france. the bacchanalia locally in cold on the back. this year more than seven hundred and forty thousand students all over the country will say it's the end of high school exam. which was introduced by napoleon in. eighteen oh eight there are three different categories of back at all the exams. professional focused on trades like carpentry. technological which is centered on computer sciences. and the general by columbia. a majority of students take the general by columbia for which they must choose between a three tracks. science -- economic and social sciences or literature.
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but the choice represents much more than just a preference. the backspace charity moralistic terms what coming to further studies and eventually correa's students campus you. all baccalaureate candidates on regardless of their chosen tracks must sit for tests in french history and geography and philosophy. every year the test starts with perhaps the hardest subject philosophy. the question is this year include is it possible to escape time. and does one sacrifice freedom by recognizing one's duties. i explained that we can't really keep time instead we have decided to think differently by considering how we can optimize time music don't stand a huge hit and it was an interesting question. with reams link to conscience. the truth. in our will power enough of them the this is the penultimate jed the exam will be set in its current format. from two thousand and twenty one on which the micro governments education reforms which include an overhaul of the back will
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kick in. good luck if you sit in your back a little area it's not as bad as you think it's going to be. time now for a business update and i'm pleased to say uncle joins us in studio good evening to you. the touch on his second shot hallway is starting to buckle under pressure from the united states tells me when i try to always ceo and founder saying today that the impact of the u. s. ban is more severe than expected now that is a sharp change of tone from. the defiant stance that the company has maintained in recent weeks always slashed its revenue forecast by thirty billion dollars over the next two years. rendering face saying that both sides would pay the price of the trump administration's actions must in corning has the details. for weeks chinese telecom giant hallway downplayed the effects of being put on the u. s. export blacklist company executives issue defiant comments assuring investors and observers that why waste technology was self suffient. but for the first time the company has admitted that the fan is hitting hallway hard in the admission came from the
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founder himself. that gorgeous sunset are cellphone sales dropped by 40%. yes yes they did drop by 40%. the sanctions may also be stopping while we seemingly endless expansion dead in its tracks the company has slashed revenue expectations for twenty nineteen from one hundred and thirty billion dollars to one hundred billion dollars. that's less than last year trails near waterways headquarters in shin jin jin john fay admitted he had been completely sideswiped by the sanctions. may your shopping dollar may we never thought that the us is determination to attack while way would be so strong so first. at the same time it didn't occur to us that the us would carry out such a wide ranging campaign against us. troops for having fun. what we landed on the u. s. export blacklist because of quote national security concerns expressed by the trump administration the sanctions effectively ban u. s. of players from selling material to while away without special approval?
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that in turn has also heard american companies reuters reports us chip suppliers like qualcomm an intel had been lobbying the us government to ease its ban on sales of one wa. out of the seventy billion dollars the chinese companies spend buying parts last year eleven billion went to u. s. tech companies. let's take a look at the day's trading actions the start of a busy week with some key interest rate decisions expected notably from the us federal reserve. and europe investors were cautious but optimistic markets finished the day marginally higher. stands a stock strap dragging the dax into the red after the german airline issued a profit warning. on wall street which are green across the board at close as investors look forward to that fed meeting on wednesday. and hope for a plan to cut interest rates. tech stocks outperforming the rest which is giving the nasdaq a boost to close up around six tenths of a percent. here in paris the air show is under way the biennial event
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that gathers airlines plane manufacturers industries on each level of the production chain. this year's event is overshadowed by the potential of a slowdown in air passenger growth trade tensions between the us and china the boeing seven thirty seven max safety scandal. and concerns about the environmental impact of air travel. that's a lot to unpack at this year's air flow but despite all of that there's still a chance for up and coming technology to have its moment under the spotlight. our business editor kate moody is in a wheelchair looking at the next generation of travel. flying at taxis. well anyone who's ever sat stuck in rush hour traffic his dreams of escaping into the skies. that vision is coming a few steps closer to reality as the likes of airbus boeing and even over begin testing freight and passenger drones. essentially flying taxis and the idea is to have more than -- twenty thousand taxi drone in the world -- up -- to two
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thousand thirty five so we are expecting this really. and are we on route to have that happen to people developing things fast enough yes yes and and that not just the vagaries but also on the system around the drones. how are we going to regular meant this how are we going to make sure that? flying taxis for example aren't having the same accidents that normal taxes have now okay the question is how you will maintain that the safety of the operation. and that the idea is to have a collaborative system in between the different operators. the operators of of the at traffic standard at traffic. and the operators of the drones we'll have to talk together and to be sure that they have a safety system. so not without its challenges but certainly a peek into the future that brings air traffic control out of airports and into our daily lives and commute. the restaurant was business business editor kate movie will be following at the air show tomorrow as well. finally after thirty one years
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as a publicly traded company the international auction house sotheby's is on track to go private. french billionaire an art collector patrick draft he has agreed to by sotheby's for three point seven billion dollars including its debt. and dries deal goes through it will mean the two top auction houses in the world sotheby's and its rival christie's will both be under the ownership of french billionaire. christy was bought by the holding company for frances you know family. the owner is taking over at the art auction world going going gong as you might say okay thank you much and welcome to the world of business that thank yo. that's because the studio james creedon mediawatch good evening sir hi marc you've been looking at hong kong on social media. that's right so. and some of the faces that have been emerging from the protest at the protest movements there and one particular him keep he had already made the front page of time magazine a few years ag- the movements defines democracy. and he had been in prisons more recently again in the in the
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latest. upsurge of protests and then released and he's become a real sort of vocal figure head in some respects far. the movement josh what warm there a release from jail few hours ago addressing the crowd and then very quickly taking to twitter. and saying hello world and hello freedom. i have just been released from prison goal hong kong withdrawal the extradition bill carrie lam step down so his voice is is certainly being very much heard in in the midst of all of this. then there was a very tragic incident where -- a twenty five year old mom. the surname long i didn't manage to locate is is is is first nam. fell from a building scaffolding rather you can see this -- moments before he fell and he'd been brandishing a sign as well for hours on end at and i'm not message that he was brandishing is also being spread around the web if you like we are not writers storage section of the of the authorities labeling at the protest movement. as i've writers at release the students and when the protesters carrie lam stepped down and that
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was even this -- quite well regarded at well known as dissidents cartoonist at bad you cope you does -- i suppose -- cartoons political cartoons and what not i'm here he he has depicted as the man who became known as rain called mom before his name was known. in made full mark and his message. at being carried through that as well. and many people who held up flowers in the save the falloff in memory of him and also to keep up pressure on the authorities to get that extradition bill which many people see is. basically beijing's creeping judicial authority over hong kong at to keep that pressure open it is partly working. but carrie lam even if she is a being somewhat apologetic i'm trying to strike a humble home a lot of people aren't. convinced for not she seen as being overly harsh and was even wonder user at french tutor user treating here in english i'm not i'm not old gig. saying somewhat similar to the criticisms of a manual mccall a towards the beginning of the judicial movement where you've is style with something that
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worked the protesters are not not just. at the meat and bones of of of the issues but issues of humility and walking off. in any case -- just to moving on from thought to have also at taiwan not for the first time. through official organs this is the kind of the ministry of foreign affairs coming in and saying we support the protest movement taiwan of course. twenty thousand somewhat similar situation hong kong at where beijing would like to extend its control and they're resisting saying we're not. interested in for the control many people understand online complimenting the order and discipline that the protesters have shown. that's right and and pay themselves are rejecting term the term razor or writing. they know how to protest politely in hong kong this is a scene the cultured. lots and lots and lots what you can see here is at the crowd parting ways i had to leave an ambulance through and actually the right to resume boarding. at the screen be emergency services as they bring. somebody to say the least it is
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kind of extraordinary -- and they they closed in behind them is in it's kind of it's it's it's a very impressive scene in terms of discipline and crowds behaving well then it was seen over -- somebody at putting a fire in a bin i was very very quickly. and dont see also got shared a loss. and and people have been cut catching for protesters brushing to put it out some people think writes all the world set the bins on fire writes on kong. depends on our products so that people have been picking up on at the b. r. disciplines. the nature all that much of the off of the protest movement and some beautiful images as well taken from its like ice two billion people after eight and and an image i got really kind of it's phenomenal so that is certainly a for pet place a dozen of a massive. population counter recipes we continue obviously looking every that happens in hong kong for you. james this film to this major gaff in pakistan where a political press conference was livestreamed. you tell us about the gaffe.
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it's funny and this was and this was in pakistan's keeper doctrine coop ag provincial governments right so it's a local it's a it's a regional governments. and they were. developed an official press conference going on with official official kind of peopl. and while the look at the cat filter then on the on faces tha. that that this is a live stream on facebook went on for for quite awhile and somebody had not turned the cut filter all snow as i was saying earlier why would you put half of all in the first place i mean. i think it was dave said human error boss i ate a basically went completely viral and surprised and you had people commenting on it as it was going on because they didn't realize went on and on and people didn't realize and i suppose it's just not the most dignified. look is this if you're at an official i'm making you know what comments on matters of policy and you've got. cashiers in which it could be it could be anything because it could be a good to be extremely serious mental live stream but you have a cat face it's because contacted seriously and some
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people think they want to see this in canada or the us sells for this a great. move maybe even a front. twenty four other saying it's a sign the cats are slowly but surely. on the way to winning the world i still on the people to say they've been through in the world from. reading. the certainly give that imperious sort of a look at you in a house is the dog the rules on a rifle should maybe channeling to see if the campaign line up with james thank you very much indigents cream of it was great to see you thanks. to talk with the business thank you very much indeed i thank you for watching two stables would
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06/17/19 06/17/19 [captioning made possible by democracy now!] amy: from new york, this is democracy now! >> hong kong people do understand we have to

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