thank you very much for being with us ten presidential candidates led by senator elizabeth warren is set to meet. on the debate stage for the first night of the democratic debates to offer that pitches to voters and attempt a breakout moment for that campaigns. for many of the white house hopefuls wednesdays that debate will be the highest profile opportunity yet to offer the vision for the country. and given the well massive field the debate was split over two nights with ten other candidates including. from vice president joe biden and the the most senator bernie sanders appearing on testing. election day is still more than a year away. but democratic comes it so already lining up to challenge and donald trump. this week twenty democratic contenders will battle it out in the first two televised debates of the twenty twenty contest. but they weren't -- debate together ten different candidates will take to the stage in miami each night. there are another five candidates who didn't qualify

for the debates. wednesday night to seize prominent democrats elizabeth warren it takes center stage. this is. to be able to talk to people all across this country. about how this. government. works better and better for me no. slice of the time. it's just not working for the rest of twenty twenty is our chance to change that that's how democracy works. what comes it's like warren often have the most to lose but if the other candidates attack? to her advantage as candidates gets more speaking time for responses. it's a chance the frontrunners to defend that position and today's weak in the polls to grab that moment in the spotlight. you for lesser known candidates you have to make some kind of mark in this debate -- because it will be a predicate for fundraising and media attention. says is debate has the most because his current frontrunner joe biden and previous

presidential candidate bernie sanders. the democratic playing field of this time around has a record number of women and is the most diverse in presidential history. let's get twenty analysis to the great question to some democrats support france tv thank you very much for being with us -- with donald trump already in campaign mode and some say you know to stop being campaign mode. it's really vital for the democrats to get that person man or woman selected quickly. and decisively as soon as possible. right. well it's important to keep in mind that tonight is the first democratic debate tomorrow is the second one they had to split the number of debates in two because of the large number of candidates who are running this time around -- but it's important to keep in mind at this time that the first primary elections are not gonna be taking place until february. two thousand twenty so we still have nine months until this first debate this first debate is really just to get to know you - time for the american public and

the americans abroad to find out who these candidates are what they stand -- for and what type of people they are. so at the u. fabian you face so you for having an old hand to be did you have any feeling yet as to how it should go how you'd like it to go. and there's there's no way to be able to say that at this point i mean i think that what what. democrat with democratic party really wants to see as the most inspirational -- candidate to be able to be chosen by the american voters -- again based on what what types of issues they focus on the debate so we know that right now -- one of the main issues that that has been of course coming up over and over again as the migration immigration crisis at the borde- the economy it was an issue in two thousand sixteen that was the predominant issue and one of the main reasons that that people believe that that trump ended up winning -- his presidency of course has shown us that he's profoundly on fat and incompetent to remain in this role. and the american people have

been through a lot and since he was inaugurated in two thousand seventeen so. at this point we need -- leadership we need the right person -- to just to guide the way forward it's been a very unstable time -- for america as the whole world has seen and not only for america because with trump being in being in power there -- and having his populist message spread it's also spread throughout the rest of the world now he's supposed to disagree complete with what you just said that about today the difficult time and how he's been a disaster and how what's happening is atrocious they would retreat that some i'm stayed. in that case will because my here to do that sorry who do you have -- that can be trumped because certainly in terms of his popularity although people say in the polls it isn't quite as high as it could have been he's still very popular. he's never but also there are many candidates out there i mean of course there are there are twenty five candidates -- they're only gonna be twenty who passed the threshold to be able to make it into the debates tonight and tomorrow based on

their level of support that they already have at this time -- tonight we'll be seeing elizabeth warren -- senator from massachusetts cory booker senator from new jersey -- at tomorrow night's -- joe biden of course -- keep would judge a number of other candidates come l. harris as well senator from california out there there are so many -- candidates like plan and and it's great to see women involved in such a high high number there are six female candidates -- six minority candidates and l. g. b. t. candidate so this pool of candidates that we have this year is extraordinarily diverse and it's it's really a record breaking. level of dies you the isn't biden though the only man who can be trump. axles are the only candidate in the trump into certainly there's not only one candidate who can beat trump their favorite maybe biden ends and pulls maybe leading with. the specific number percentage of support the house of course name recognition is important -- same thing happens in other countries biden was the vice

president under obama so many people are familiar with him elizabeth warren already ran bernie sanders already ran. so name recognition as something that of course raises the numbers but these debates and they're going to be -- i believe twelve debates over the course of the next year while waiting for the primaries are the chance for the other candidates to get name recognition and there's an extraordinary number of very inspirational -- motive room very motivating candidates i think that people will see if they do watch these debates to the programming to leave the thank you very much indeed of course will be following every - development in this debate as it happens that later on that and analyzing it for you here live from paris to the work of democrats will thank you very much indeed for joining us thank you. next a harrowing photograph of a father and his young daughter. washed up drowned on the banks of the rio grande sparked more anger of she and michael is trying to enter the united states in the past year two hundred eighty three migrants. have lost their lives trying to cross the us mexico border.

hotel which is made the human cost of the migrant crisis in central america hit home for many around the world. washed up on the banks of the rio grande. the bodies of a man and his two year old daughter. according to local authorities this is not the first such accidents. by local so wary of the rivers on the currents migrants in desperation i've tried to cross it before you do with the money we set up. but if you see the river and it pays very call in okay. i think that was what gave admin confidence. second the rio grande has many deep on the currents. back in el salvador [inaudible] from [inaudible] the grieving. this is a favorite doll this. one and the demons that had commanded style. the last message she sent me was on saturday. he said mama i love the moment post. he says and take care of yourselves because we are fine

here. when the lady is in fact? when i read that message is either? to cry because i saw it as a sort of good quality for one of the it is. it comes as conditions worsened. several migrants including babies have died from exposure to serene temperatures in recent weeks. as mexico has stepped up a crackdown on immigration in response to us pressure. the green to reinforce its southern border with six thousand national guardsmen experts say increasingly desperate measures from people trying to enter mexico or the u. on now lightly. then with this to rival bills are being discussed on capitol hill to begin to address the current crisis both with around four point five billion dollars. the key issue being how that cash will be spent at the democrats said bill coming through the house of representatives -- them blocked by the republican dominated senate on the republican bill is come to making the reverse jenny will begin at the news on that as it breaks. the clash is already installed

over the migrants on board a german ship entering italian waters forty two migrants rescued off libya's two weeks ago. are on the sea watch vessel. italy's deputy prime minister matteo salvini says the markets will not be allowed to land at lampedusa. they sailed back and forth near lampedusa for two weeks. now they've entered italian waters and are planning to disembark. on board the charity see watched reversal forty two migrants saved off libya. captain tweeted i decided to enter the port of lampedusa. i know what i'm risking but the forty two survivors i have on board or exhausted. i'm taking them to safety. italy has banned the ship from entering its waters and docking in lampedusa interior minister matteo salvini said that if the ship does enter export the crew would be heavily fined. the migrants will be sent to the netherlands.

check this *-*- big and bustlin. it's unbelievable that the dutch government as in cat a. v.. none of it it isn't respecting the lord have a gimmick that he's going to beat their endangering the lives of thousands of immigrants. political gains you for a squalid. and discussing political game. the european court of human rights has rejected the migrants appeal to enter italy but it has ruled that italy should provide treatment to the most vulnerable people. the country's hardline government has adopted a closed ports policy accusing ngos of eating migrant smugglers. four hundred migrants have arrived with smaller boats in italy in the past two weeks. next restrictions are slapped on drive is trying to use that because in paris this wednesday. this comes as the court as a court ruled that the state hadn't taken sufficient steps to limit appellation in and around the french capital. mother and daughter one that

test case but haven't been awarded compensation. the mafia everyone in paris and beyond the thirty plus degree heat here is set to get even hotter. is the mercury climbs into the high thirties friends is cracking down on heavy polices. color coded stickers classifying vehicles by age and the missions have become compulsory in many cities across the country. they used to limit the number of drivers on the road during pollution peaks in the summer and in the winter. when levels of fine particles are at the highest? older vehicles carrying numbers four and five for the usual targets but this time around paris and your rule so if the bidding because in lori's from category three from entering the city. meaning that patch of vehicles boards before two thousand and six and diesel vehicles before twenty eleven at parts of her own. thoughts around 60% of motor vehicles registered in crates of paris. police carry out checks as fines can rise to sixty eight year is

for college i've is and a hundred and thirty five for lorries. for the nas always applied as the measures can come as a surprise for some. people i didn't know so yes i took my call this morning. otherwise he would have followed the rules i would have yes. i didn't watch the news so why didn't know we were banned. other drivers are less open to the idea. on that ballot ambience lounge go into paris that his cancer three vehicles are banned it's a shame because i don't come off. i'm furious because of course if i had the money i would go ahead and buy a new car. and i would be allowed to drive. sid caesar instead providing special fares for public transport. and free because bases so commutes is can park and ride. meanwhile paris is head of police is confirms the measures will remain in place on thursda. to report really yes sets the stage fighting climate change and pollution started setting goals and taking measures that would cut down carbon emissions.

mass of france's my american hopes to do next week in the g. twenty summit. the strong statements on pollution come as a report shows from is not fulfilling its own pledges. paris has become a sort of symbol of the fight against climate change since the paris climate agreement was signed in. twenty fifteen resident in mandarin mccall has defended the deal especially since the us dropped out of it. and since it's been reported g. twenty countries would like to water down the fight against global warming. in their meeting on friday. the genial i have a red line if we don't go further on all climate some positions then we are meeting for nothing. but what are the results of france's policies against climate change so far a report issued on tuesday. shows friends isn't living up to its promises. well it's certainly a champion for the objectives and so it has a very high ambitions but

unfortunately so far it hasn't met its objectives. even though the emissions are decreasing in font friends they're not decreasing fast enough. france has cut down its greenhouse gas emissions but the only by one point 1% half its target. policies are reportedly too weak authorities have been unable to make transportation greener for example. it accounts for about 30% of the missions building heating represents about 20% of the missions france needs to better isolate its homes to limit thermal losses. the report also recommend suspending all financial aid for fossil fuels. authorities will have to tackle other factors they're not even taken into account in the repor. like exports the transport of goods across the globe. there are believed to be the cause of some 60% of all the missions.

some business committee joins us the six weeks on the sales period is kicked off across france with retailers hoping to make up for the losses incurred during the yellow. vest protests on wonder about the heat is going to help or hinder i don't know what you think we depends whether there's air conditioner. this is really a crucial period for a lot of retailers because the sometimes violent demonstrations really paralyzed city centers on saturdays for several months. and weighed on the entire retail sector comes waterhouse reports. the temperatures might be soaring but the prices are coming crashing down six weeks of sales kicked off in stores and online across fronts this wednesday. the mad scrum for discounts designer goods began early this paris department store. is owned it is up to some missiles represents around 11% of our annual revenues. so it's an extremely active period for us.

and it's important not to miss. but there's never the less still been a drop in sales in general. this so no new customers in allah. but drop is launching contributed to the months of yellow vest protests this winter and spring which paralyzed many high streets on consecutive saturdays. the anti government demonstrations bruised the retail sector with revenue tumbling 25% in the usually festive month of december alone. in the southwest city of bordeaux some stores have been forced to pull the shutters down permanently while others are still recovering. did you see the old if you please don't watch it's been hard for several weeks but we're trying to be strong. we're just about to managing to keep our heads above water. the sales of maybe allow us to buy next season stock but that was about to answer the question is it. too research carried out by the feedback institute has found that 86% of french people will take advantage of the sales. with the average spend forecast to range from one hundred to two

hundred and fifty euros. investors around the world are keeping an eye on the upcoming g. twenty summit in japan. along with a number of geo political issues trade will be front and center and in particular donald trumps plans to meet with his chinese counterpart in an effort to end the trade war. between the world's two largest economies well just two days before that summit kicks off the us president told fox business it was absolutely possible that a deal would be struck. but his backup plan remains increasing tariffs on chinese goods possibly 10% he suggested that rather than the 25% he had previously threatened. negotiators from both sides of already launched preliminary talks and investors and analysts alike are hopeful that a further escalation will be avoided. i have to believe it's good new- i have to believe that both -- shizhen paying and donald trump would like it and way out of this trade impasse so i think it's a good -- good saying what worries me of course is that president trump doesn't seem to ever want to have -- really

strong preparation for these meetings so essentially by the time they meet -- nothing's been agreed and the meeting could end in a failure in which case the situation could get worse. let's check in on today's trading action now wall street was mixed by the closing bell of the s. and p. five hundred falling for the fourth day in a row. chipmaker micron searchers up 13% though after it said it could lawfully resume shipments to china's why why are the nasdaq about a third of a percent there. earlier we saw another mixed close for the major european indices the cat count losing about a quarter of a percentage point here in paris. environmental activists in kenya have won their long battle to stop a coal fired powerstation from being constructed. the developers now have thirty days to appeal the ruling with the government saying that the clean coal is still the best fuel to use if the countries to meet its energy targets. he is of relief. and songs of joy. emotions run high inside can use

environment court on wednesday after judges hunted campaign is a known drug told victory. the chimneys and turbines of a nine hundred and eighty one mega watts coal fired power station words be built just yet. long the unspoiled shoals of the numbing archipelago. we appreciate -- all those who supported that is in the city. and this is a big a day for some people. is a big day for kenya. after refusing to hand out to license judges have now us the developers a. m. you power to carry out to new environmental impact assessment if they once the projects to continue. this is the lush green spots a stone's throw from a unesco world heritage site which has been picked for the one point seven billion euro plants. green peace has predicted that the emissions from the site would lead to acid rain well the plant's cooling system would threaten the area's rich marine life. and the locals who make a living from fishing and tourism would

also be hard hits. the disaster is gonna come from that's quite a plant is going to reach. out. to you so just imagine of but then i'm all people you know two fifty the government has repeatedly defended the plans saying the coal power is still the best option. if energy goals are to be met b. twenty thirty a temporary reprieve mark -- but only temporary for kenya. okay thank you actually came with all the business. that's because the studio. james credence awaiting but mediawatch margins of starting with a really. harrowing a photograph that has emerged. of to migrants father and he's totally daughter -- lying face down dead at the rio grande at trying to cross the border from mexico to the us and this. has gone viral and is causing and raising all sorts of questions about what happens to my friends in the us. that's right so the photo

straight away has been linked to policy and it in the headlines straight away so it's it's it's it's it's a it's a it's a human image but it's also a political image in some respects what he's become not. shocking photo drawn father daughter highlights migrants border border. peril so at this was taken by juliet led to a journalist with lots or not the mexican newspaper -- this was as it wer. well they they drowned essentially and you can see that to their honden arm in arm essentially with the teacher to pull this teacher combining the two of them together so it's a heartbreaking image. and it evokes mark addy it reminds us of the image -- from twenty fifteen of island cool deep the little at refugee serena fiji boy he was trying to make it. to europe and washed up on the coast of turkey that image because he was face up was not broadcast by a lot of media including our own -- there was a whole kind of ethical question runs the image but certainly it did. highlight the power of photography in instances such as this and want ad that was another image actually from in

not not not of it a dead child in this case but if a child caught up in. the conflict in aleppo and again it elicited a huge amount of emotion and reactions note at the island curti case in particular is is it coming to mind along with the at this very tragic image from the border. at that both are they're kind of being linked in some respects and the journey the columbia journalism review is having a look at the kind of questions about the impact of an image mark. and what's interesting here is a set has been a lot of reporting in the last few weeks about the conditions in which children are being held in these. camps along the border some people even using the terminology concentration camp which is obviously. single controversial you've had at the democratic politician alexandria because the court has using that term to the whole debate around us but it very importantly there has been a lot of reporting. on the conditions in which these children are being held and those conditions are not great but actually this image seems to have caught through a lot of that. and had a more powerful impact so what the columbia journalism

review is looking at is. whether or not the impact is lasting and they say in the case of island forty three years down the line without love reporting from about eight refugee camps increase showing the migrant children living in horrifying conditions in other words. what they conclude is empathy is important but not sufficient when it comes to actually changing? policy i'll show you a couple of a at cartoons in this regard mark because this as i said is being. really tied -- to donald trump's policies when it comes the very harsh policies when it comes to migration the american dream this is a a cartoonist from mexico antonio rodriguez and you can see. the way in which image is now being politicized this is another mexican cartoonist. and again there you can see at a lot of people would i think politically have take issue with an image like top but this is. this is what's happening it's been tied to trump's policies. fairly or unfairly that's just how it's been perceived by many the zero tolerance policy has

been reverse but clearly this is the legacy of what's. become a way of treating migrants include what we're seeing is something that's unacceptable. anybody's political stance i think the way to a victory could certainly behind the in the detention centers and what's happened to this this poor father and and his child. is absolutely heartbreaking between human application i think it's just it's put the human being back at the center of this discussion about a waste on political it is heartbreakin. at next the french digital fans minister -- has a plan to tackle fake news my plan is what just because we do from. he says that journalists in and of themselves sort of like doctors have medical council where it but peopled by peers that journalists need to the same needs to be an ethics council the need to call it fake news any to alert our colleague. at regarding this and it wouldn't necessarily have sanctions but it would have at the the power to alert the public -- now who's inhaler melinda the thing is what he said also is if journalists don't do it themselves the state will intervene and that's what's

got a lot of people's backs up there like hold on a minute the state will intervene in terms of an ethics council vis a vis. the bottom censorship and it raises more questions of ray's own there and you've had a lot of people and making comments in that regard french government announced its intention to impose a turn on journalists in order that would regulate fake news. and people don't like top this is a researcher at to the same address institute here in franc. as she says this is a threat to democracy -- and this historian- whoops from from the store any question of an historian also taking issue with that and this is a cartoon even pointing to what that could. morph into down the track at a form of censorship that's what people are afraid of ethics canceled. turns into kind of sort of censorship every media organizations to send one person to a committee every month to sit down and discuss it the keep the same salary to do it that way everyone cooperates. with the same thing consummated it. clashes paving the idea and put it full would have to be done correctly. quick one on the wife or if it is a very strong very quickly on this at twenty fourteen we had

the telephone weather reports projecting what was going to look like in twenty fifteen market cut without the trends of the time. to actually tomorrow's weather report basically. and i just that's how it's gonna bensimon ho it's look tomorrow and in twenty nineteen flame things out for twenty fifteen yeah and they were predicting. twenty fifty i'm i'm i'm gonna be cheeky this is a french meteorologist this is also tomorrow's weather report. that he's a meter on to the to the actually. the weather report looks like winches clean and it does

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