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>> this is france 24.
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it is time for 60 minutes live around the world. i am genie godula. these are the headlines. protests as a u.s. unveils a middle east prosperity plan in bahrain. palestinians have rejected the plan, saying it doesn't address the political issues with the israelis. i will speak to our correspondent in jerusalem in a moment. iran has slammed the trump administration over sanctions supreme leader.' hassan ronnie calling the sanctions -- sans rouhani -- huss sans rouhani -- hassan rouhani calling me sanctions idiotic. 18 american billionaires join forces calling for more taxes on the superrich.
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the details coming up. madrid, for a special show marking the famous spanish museum. first, our top story live from paris. gaza residents have gone on it includes a $50 billion investment in the palestinian territories and neighboring nations. jared kushner crafted the plan and is presenting at today at a workshop in bahrain. palestinians have slammed the economy first deal, sing and has
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no details about a political solution to the conflict with the israelis. joined live from jerusalem. why are the palestinians against the plan, even before it has been unveiled? boycotting theen workshop in bahrain meant to arrange funding for them. prosperity.e to they say you will not have prosperity if you don't have peace. everything is upside down. you need a political solution first and then you can discuss the economics. the facte like this, anything you invest in could be destroyed because of one side, both sides, any altercation here, that is a deterrent to investment. it is possible in the west bank
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and likely in gaza, that anything you invest in will be destroyed over certain. period -- over a certain of time. palestinians say they are not attending this conference for them for their funding, for their welfare being held at the bahrain. genie: jared kushner, the co-architect of the plan is talking it up. is there any chance it will be successful? let's look at who is attending. there are no russians, no chinese. as a result, there are no israelis because washington did not invite them. it is limited.
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it was a conference and has been downgraded to a workshop. one israel he analyst said it is a utopian project with nonexistent funds for a peace deal unlikely to come about. genie: talk about what is happening in gaza, where a strike is underway to protest this conference in bahrain. there are strikes and there were protests across the west bank. they are low-level protests. it feels unreal to most palestinians. large, 50s are so billion dollars, one million jobs, the involvement of the whole world, but plans have not been published in arabic for people to see them. it seems unreal. palestinians no their own leadership has rejected this as a first base. they do not support it because they want a political solution.
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to them,ot seem real which is why the numbers are not high. they may increase tomorrow and certainly friday. you.e: thank all of that comes as iran has slammed the trump administration over sanctions targeting iran's supreme leader. the claimsani called outrageous and idiotic. an shots kick up after irn down a u.s. spy drone. nick has the details. detail -- diplomacy is over as far as tehran is concerned. uhani address the
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sanctions. >> u.s. leaders are suffering from mental disability. the white house is affected by mental retardation and does not know what to do. >> the united states accused iran of shooting down one of its drones over international waters. the trump administration said financial sanctions have been on the cards. a way to try to get iran back to the negotiating table. john bolton says the white house is open to talks. >> the president has held the door open to real negotiation, to eliminate iran's nuclear weapons program, its pursuit of ballistic delivery missile systems and other maligned behavior worldwide. is walk need to do through the open door. theehran says sanctions on
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supreme leader are futile. tensions are escalating as mike pompeo is trying to build support against what it calls a military threat from iran. delegation hasn locked out in protest after russian mps returned after five years after the annexation of crimea. saidead of the delegation ukraine would halt its work. he assembly agreed tuesday to representatives to return to the body after russian voting rights were stripped over
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crimea. he kept his plans vague and refused to answer questions about his personal life, fueling criticisms that he avoids the hard questions. >> my plan is to come out of the of october.st isthe current brexit deal dead. the only way to get a better one is to put a hard brexit back on the table. understand howto preparewe are is to confidently and seriously for a
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wto or no deal outcome. >> he wants to work on a new plan and says he is willing to use the agreed divorce deal as leverage. he waved away the biggest sticking point, the irish border backstop, saying no one wants a ireland.er in can make sure you don't have to have checks at the border. notsed for details, he did elaborate on a solution to the problem. he refused to comment on an incident and says he does not matters.family
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jeremy hunt called him a coward for avoiding media scrutiny. genie: doug has been taking a look at boris johnson. there are similar issues affecting this. -- boris johnson has been called trump without vocabulary. these are men who has been known for their objectionable behavior. some would call it offensive behavior. the washington post has its running counter of donald trump's false or misleading claims. withsaid his flirtation
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dishonesty has cost him at least three jobs, including being sacked from the london times newspaper. he has a long list of mistakes. he was facing private voterstion for lying to during the eu referendum campaign. you could say there is a lot of separated at birth type similarities. their marriages, trump has five kids from three marriages. boris johnson has never said how many children he has. he has four children from his second marriage, one child from an extramarital affair, a former mistress who had an abortion. orh of these politicians celebrities of a sort.
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boris johnson, he was on a satirical tv show. they are not known for knowing their briefing papers. donald trump, make america great again and a boris johnson, as far as his real campaign pledge is out with or without a deal. these are men who have been called demagogues. they appeal to citizens seeking salvation. people look at them as politician, the only who could solve their problems, a real champion. >> the charge sheet against donald trump is much more serious.
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has come forward to accuse donald trump of violent encounter. she did not use the word rape. , donaldription of it trump throwing her against the wall of a dressing room in a department store 23 years ago, and as she said it, penetrating she donald trump has said is not my type, denying it. ,lso saying he never knew her it didn't happen and he never knew her. new york magazine published a photo of donald trump with her and her husband in the 1980's. britain, boris johnson refusing to say anything, radio silence about an incident in which police were called by a neighbor because they heard banging, shouting, and screaming at a house boris johnson shares
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with his girlfriend. residents.tioned the opponent, jeremy hunt has asked boris johnson to come clean. he said your private life in this case, that is something in public interest because it goes to the heart of the character issue. boris johnson and donald trump have character issues. everythingupporters, rubs off of them. not they believe they are telling the truth or not, they embrace them. close to 250 migrant children have been taken out of a remote border patrol station after reports came out about
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squalid conditions. lawyers saw toddlers without diapers being cared for by older children in detention, sleeping on concrete floors with very little food and water. be file pictures, but eyewitness reports make it clear the u.s. immigration crisis has hit a new, distressing low. reportedon attorneys talking to children experiencing unsafe and unsanitary conditions. >> we have seen the worst conditions we have seen in the last three years of conducting these visits. six children, dirty children, hungry children, children separated from parents and other family members. goneme family members had
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for weeks without access to soap, clean close, and food. 15 were sick with the flu and another 10 or in medical quarantine. wereof the children detained by u.s. authorities. blame trump deflected the towards his predecessor, saying they were separated under president obama and he ended it. have triggered uproar on both sides of the political aisle following reports the u.s. government removed most of the children, but it is unclear where they were removed two. authorities have claimed a massive influx of migrants have strained facilities. the crisis continues. monday, texas authorities say several were found dead along toddlerer, including a and two infants.
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a law enforcement official says they likely died of dehydration and heat exposure. authorities are rolling out emergency measures hoping to a heat wave. >> this is one of the lasting images of the heatwave of 2003. frenchst 2000 three, authorities were struggling to cope. emergency services were strained to capacity. deaths was rising quickly. authorities talked about natural death, the anger of many hospital staff. >> what are health authorities playing at? we have a problem, we have people dying.
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they should not have died. between 15000 and 19,000 people died as a result of the extreme temperatures in august 2003. every residential home for the elderly has to have at least one room with air conditioning. elderly people living on their awareness public campaigns on how to survive the intense heat. the government came under huge criticism for neglecting the problem. france's current health minister warned people not to take unnecessary risk. showedprevious heatwave those working outside, nobody is superhuman when it comes to heat waves. >> campaigners say the problem is a lack of staff. >> what is needed is to increase
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the number of helpers for the elderly, to accompany them during this crisis. authoritiesave, fear an increase in mortality rates. madrid's prada museum is inaugurating a huge exhibition. the idea is to show the links between the artists with a european message at its heart. is an expedition with -- and exhibition with a message. we are going back to the 16th rembrandt.ntury with the idea, demonstrating artistic influence did not stop at geographic borders.
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>> for 200 years, history has set each place corresponds to a painting. this is not always true. painting shows it is completely opposite. culture,european flowing from everywhere in europe. baroque painters with different styles and from different worlds. portraits, the great figures of spain, his family. rembrandt was interested neither in beauty nor wealth and more those worn down by life. forother, remains known domestic life, that of a better world than the one that inspired him. what brings them together, a common interest in showing the contrast of light and darkness.
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the work of -- is proof. oure: let's focus on business news. a deal in the pharmaceutical industry. drugs company is buying allergan. in their some overlap business, drugs that treat brain, stomach, and other disorders. it is a 45% premium on allergan's share price on monday. the first annual meeting of nissan shareholders. they have been voting on changes to how the company is run. they approved a new system of oversight committees and keeping the ceo on the board.
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there were questions over the country with renault.-- with becomes a win lose situation, this arrangement is going to break up quickly. there has to be a benefit to both sides, a mutually beneficial relationship. it has to appear on the profit and loss statements of both companies. this is something we have to continue to work out. improvements will have to be made. and washington are talking about their trade dispute. >> the chinese prime minister spoke with robert lighthizer and steve mnuchin.
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comes ahead of an anticipated encounter between donald trump and xi jinping. investors are hoping for progress. the trade dispute has been an issue for the stock markets. news of the phone call not enough to boost european shares. -- is still trading in the red. renault down. the price of gold at its highest in six years. >> it is aware investors put their money in times of uncertainty. have seen it rise steadily, over 9% this month.
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call from a group of billionaires who want to get taxed more. >> it seems unbelievable. there is a letter signed by 18 of the richest people in america. they are calling on a tax on the thethiest 1% of people in united states. >> 17 mega-wealthy americans are united. they want to pay more tax. they have urged presidential candidates to back higher taxes on the 1%. >> it could help address the climate crisis, improve house outcomes, create opportunity and strengthen our democratic
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freedoms, it is in the interest of our republic. thehey praised support for .dea senator warren wants to raise taxes on those with more than $50 million on assets, a measure expected to affect the 75,000 wealthiest families in the united states. the letter says it is nonpartisan and does not endorse particular candidates. most voters would alcome such attacks -- such tax. >> a british digital banking app
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has seen its valuation sore. the company raised more than 126 million euros. they said they would spend the money on expanding in the united states. it has more than 2 million users 37 millionnd made euros in 2018. genie: the sizzle is going out of one of the hottest new companies on the market. >> beyond me saw its shares more than double in value.
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