>> movement t in hong kong i is showining no signs of running ot of s steam. hundreds of demonstrators gathereded at the arrival hallsf the city's airport. childrenwomen, and appear dead after the apparent shipwreck off the coast of libya. and after a 16-year freeze, the u.s. justice department announced a practice of

executing death row inmates at a federal level will resume later this year. welcome back to the france 24 newsroom in paris. thank you indeed for joining us. first, angry protests are continuing in hong kong. today, 1000 demonstrators dressed in black, filled the arrival hallll of hong kong international airport, greeting surprised visitors at one of the busiest airports in the world. month, cacalling for democratic reforms, the movement has already forced authorities to back down on a cocontroversial extrtradition b. another march is scheduled to take place on saturday, and the same area where triad gangsters attacked people who took part in a pro-democracy rally. let's look at what some of the protesters had to say. speaking there i in hong kong.

our correspondedent from our international affairs desk. perhaps it is no accident that the airport was chosen. that is a very visible choice of venue for such a protest. >> the protesters are going for maximum visibility, and it is important for them that this protest at the airport does not descend into violence because honest -- because obviously that would tarnish the image with people arriving, with business people, tourists, and so forth going through the airport. but i think it is a also an exexample of some of the hybrid tactics this movement has used in different locations, trying to take the legislative council by storm, tracking the police at their own headquarters, or staging something like a flash andat the revenue immigration towers. there has been a mix of peaceful and more aggressive action so

far this looks like one of the more peaceful actions. but the airport is the latest twist in this evolving hybrid set of tactics. and, as you pointed out, this protest marks what is expected to be very tense. onhave a protest planned saturday, against the beating up of the pro-democracy demonstrators by the triad. that is saturday. then sunday, another protest is being planned, which is supposed to end close to china apostle liaison. that is a sensitive location. both in terms of the whole political dimension of all of this, and in terms of the challeng t that it is going to pose to the local police, and we will have to see how things shape up. issue of the triad gangster thing involved, that is

clearly reaeally raw, and that s part of that protest, it would appear, judging from the banners. earlier in the week there was a warning from beijing, kind of a rare sorort of warning. what did it actually say? >> the defense ministry earlier this week said the people's liberation army, the chinese army, can legally intervene to help hong kong maintain social order. but there is a caveat. it says it can do that if it is requested to do so by the government of hong kong. it has not been asked to do that. but i suppose beijing is upping the pressure by making this statement. if you think about it, deploying chinese troops on the streets at the request of the hong kong government would carry massive risks because there would be bloodshed, and you cannot shoot one million people anyway. plus there would be a massive black lash -- a massive backlash

in terms of sanctions, collapse of confidence in the chinese economy perhaps, and the hong kong economy. it might not be very effective if china finally did this. but at the same time, obviously xi jinping cannot allow the kind of reforms that these pro-democracy protesters want their there is no way that he can allow these legislative council to be directly elected. -- the legislative council to be directly elected. there will not be universal suffrage under china apostle watch. there would be a very difficult choice for xi jinping to make, to go ahead with the military intervention or possibly face the situation that mikhail gorbachev faced at the end of the soviet union. chinese leadership has studied the end of the soviet union very carefully becacause they do not want the similar kind of unraveling. >> thank you so much.

carriedday, north korea out a ballistic missile test, which was accompapanied by a warning to sououth korea. in a matter of weeks after president trump became the first u.s. president ever to set foot in north korea, pyongyang made no verbal attacks on washington. our correspondent tells us more. keenly.onong-un looksks on these photos released by north korea state media show him attending a test of what many say is the country's new guided weapons system on thursday. two missiles flew around 600 kilometers into the sea, what nortrth korea called a warning o south korean military warmongers. >> we will continue to develop weapapon systetems to eliminate potential l d direct threats to our national security from the south. >> the north is angry about the upcoming military exercises between the u.s. and south korea. though it has been scaled down this year.

the missiles have the range to cover the entire paper -- the entire korean and insular. the threat has been downplayed. -- the entire korean peninsula. the threat has been downplayed. >> this was not a threat directed at the republic of korea or at the u.s. and has no impact on our defense posture. >> next week, the u.s. secretary of state and top officials from china, japan, and south korea will be in bangkok for meetings with south korean -- with southeast asian nations. people areas 150 feared to have lost their lives following a shipwreck off the coast of libya. amongst them, women and children , dreaming of reaching europe one day. it is being said to be the worst such tragedy of its kind this year. on the shorescene

of eastern tripoli. off, -- headset migrants headset off, wondered 50 people. about 140 people were rescued and got back here. the harrowing experience e r the survrvivors. started swimmmming for almomost seven hours, and then e were rescued by fishermen. we have been here for two days, and no one has come to take us. ththe has b been a dead bodody h usus for the past two days.. itit is like we are fightiting h in the sea, and now we are fighting death on the ground. >> the latest tragedy is the deadliest t in the mediterranenn so far this year. the u.n. says it should lead to action. >> we mustst now see a c changen approach to the situation n in libya and the mediterranenean tt has as its core sasaving lives s

a priorityty. we must see more search-and-rescue boats opererating on the medititerrann as well as the immediate release of people from thesese detention centerers in libya, and the stae to help us evacuate refugees out of libya safely. >> the e.u. has been criticized for partnering with libya to prevent migrants from making the journey to europe. earlier this week, european ministers met in paris to discuss alternative approaches. rights groups have repeatedly called for sururvivors not to be returned t to libya, where they arare routinely jailed in inhume conditions. inleast 2500 are detaineded and around centers in tripoli. >> washington has announced sanctions charging individuals linked to venezuelan president nicolas maduro. amongst them, three of his stepsons. those targeted are running what is described as a corruption network, believed to be

profiteering from emergency food imports. essentially stealing food from the poorest people in venezuela, building up profits for regime members and for their family members. president maduro says these sanctions will not change a thing. wasashington,ack at over a fresh round of economic sanctitions. they announce sanctions over and over, and i say, dear american empire, not even with a million sanctions can you stop our national food program. it belongs to the people, and no one will take it away from them. >> on thursday, the u.s. treasury department had announced new sancnctions agagat three of maduro's stepsons, a colombian businessman, and a dozen other companies suspected of being involved in a corrupuption netwowork around emergency y food imports. u.s. treasury secretary steve mnuchin accused the men of repeatedly siphoning money from

the national food program at a time when millions of venezuelans continue to struggle with value nutrition -- with malnutrition. >> they use food of a -- as a form of socials -- they use food as a form of social control, while pocketing millions of dollars for a number ofof schem. >> the use that -- the u.s. said would not stopns food and medicine from being sent to venenezuela on humanitarianan grounds. the country isis still facininga massive economic crisis, which maduro has blamed on u.s. sanctions, and that has seen over 3 million venezuelans flee their homeland in the past four years. a 1 16-year freeze, the u.s. justice department has announced the federal government will resume executions o of deah row inmates. capital punishment is legal in 30 states, but executions at a

federal level are extremely rare. the attorney general, william barr, as issued instructions for the practice to resume in december w with the first f five people to receive the deaeath penalty all accused of mumurderg children. our correspondent has this report. a federal prison in indiana and its death chamber. no execution has been carried out here for years. but in five months, in december and january, five detainees will be executed right here. attotorney general wililliam bar stressed all the men had murdered children. >> we owe it to the victims and their r families to carry forwad the sentence imposed by our justice system. >> u.s. public opinion has evolved over capital punishment. three quarters of americans used to support it in the 1990's, saying it could be a strong deterrent. but in recent years, that backing has strunk -- has shrunk

to 60%. dozens of convictions have been overturned, and there is a growing belief that the system discscminates agagainst minorits and d the or. >> one thing we know in the federal s stem and ththe state system is the impact on people of color is much more than the percentata of people in the population. it is called racial disparity. it is also disproportionately visited on people who do not have money. wealthy people do not tend to get the death penalty, things like that. >> president trump has p pleaded for more executions, saying he wants to use the death penalty in the fight against terrorism and drug t trafficking. >> paleontologists in southwesternrn france have this havedug up the fiber -- dug up a a giantnt dinosaur. betweenur which weighghed 40 and 50 tons, about 140

million years ago. hundreds of other fossils have been discovered n nr the citytyf cocognac. our correspopoent has momore. >> it is a great discovery in more ways thahan one. exceptionally good condition, as much larger bones collapse into fragments over time. we have cocome to the site for the past decade.e. we have e found fossils that hae all been identified. what is interesting is that we have a huge diversity of fossils. we have found the remains of over 40 animals. > the site's extensive fossil discoveries makes it one of f te most proroductive digs i in eur. is thought to come from a plant eating dinosaur that

would tear off leaves from the tallest trees like a giraffe. the femur alone weighs over 450 kilos. the sauropod walked the earth over 140 millilion years ago. >> that bringsgs us up t to date with world news. stay with us for france 24. >> they were only 20 years old and had never left america. operatorller, a radio at omaha beach, was wounded twicee but complpleted his tour ter serving g in normandy, and later,r, in the babattle of the bulge.

lawrence w was an avaviator. >> i had hair on my head then. >> he flew 30 combat missions over france. bombs inon was to drop the right places. >> i was supposed to have -- anglerell angle -- harold .rrived >> we liberated small french villages. many of the french people came wineglassesoad with , offering french wine to the soldiers as they walked along. >> the three men did not know each other.

their paths never met. but together they helped chahane history. today they are among the last witnesses of what happened on june 6, 1944. they are almost 100 years old now. their gestures might be a bit hesitant, but their memories are very much intact. well -- let's leave a couple buttons on it. the top one and the bottom one. jacket is gooood, 75 yearars olold. >> wow. t thing youhat little call the oak leaf cluster? that is -- that means you h have two o of them. the next one is a good conduct medal.

everybody gets one of those unless they screw up somewhere. and then i have t those -- i forget what two of them are. but the one, the three lone stars are combat that i have been in. >> donald keller is unsure about the exact dates of his first injury. >> it had to be. we came down the rope ladders on for the and waited landing craft to get up closer and ththen jumped in it. and then it took us over as far as it could go. dropped us down in the water, and through that, to the beach.

we had to go to our left slightly. , said we aref probably still here. we went up through there to the ground, wen the high will call it. >> whichch beach was it? > it was omaha. >> just before donald d and his comrades in arms reacached the dunes of omomaha beach, faced wh the fire of german machine guns, the u.s.s. air force had been st in. they had to pound ththe nazi positions on the coast of normandy. that was the missision of lawree scully, aboaoard hisis b-17 bom. >> t they did not tell us until the night before that that was going to be d-dayay.

main briefing. everyone sat down and heard about it. that lasted for about a half-hour. then they wowould break them up. that pertains to what your duty was going to be on that particular mission. we did not get more than a couple hours' sleep that night. and, b boy, we were only h half awake, believe me. >> very nervous.s. i was a radio operator. we came down, and that is when they dropped the shell on all of us. four of us were hit. there b beside,ht callining his mother.. were two o others down on the g ground, and i was t the oy one standing. i had blood running out of my mouth, had two t teethnonocked out, and threeee pieces of

shrapnpnel that they dugug out r in england. four of the guys ran and got out of there. leave theseing to lefttys layining there, so i and got four guys to come back and carry them back out. so i saved two guys's' lives. >> with the helplp of hiss daughter, lawawrence attends to the souvenirs of that day. >> fortunately, d-day was only about 30 minutes or so from where we were in england. across the channel. and it was a short mission. only for a couple of hours, where usually we went out for

maybe six to eight houours on aa mimission. flak was not too bad because the germans were expecting us in that area at that time. it was a surprise to them. yes. who weref the people still there in the village that nazi occupation of their village, they were so thejoyed, the fact that allied forces finally liberatedd theirr town from the germans. --the name of the city therere hardly w wasn't a singne time that fighters attacked that we did not take down a bomber.

they w were that accatate. >> and this was the time t that- yes.s, oh gosh, many. >> on the ground, donald keller saw how many y american bombers crashed on french soil. i saw a lot of them shut down. they flattened that place out. there was nothing left of it. over and-17's came almost blackened the skyky. as soon n they dropped the bomb, they brougught themselves back o england. i have a clock up there i can show you out of a b-17 that was shot down. it still works. you wind it up, it will run. >> at this point during d-day, harold angle had not yet reached

normandy. his particular battalion was part of the second wave. the army units sent into battle inland. ,> when i was first abducted they stamped my paperwork -- when i was first inducted, they stamped my paperwork for the u.s. navy, and lo and behold, the next morning, i was on that troop train going to a u.s. army location. so i could not understand how it ideaixed up, but i had an that because of the amount of soldiers that were killed and ,ounded in the d-day invasion that they probably needed morere replacacements. >> lawrence e also lost many friends and members of his squadron. it was the death of his friend julian that had the biggest

impact. he flew onhe cruiuise got shot dow andnd he wass killed. it was his l last missssion. are the accidents that happeneded. unfortunately, we saw men that were l lost on their first mission. we saw some go 30 missions and and up being killed, you know. >> this is a letter that was written by -- this is julian. friends, only, dear saturday, august when he 6, 1944, i received a telegram from the war department that advised , gunnar ofhusband the crewew on which the lilieutt was a member, was missing in action august 15. i am wririting you in effffort o obtain any infnformation you mit bebe able too provide."

after his second injuryry, donald keller war entereded in versailles -- ended in versailles, at the allied headquarters. in 1945 he met churchill and eisenhower. and then he just went home, back to his house, where he lived with his family for 75 years. angle, the war continued to germany. inone of those bullets came and hit me right in the brim of the helmet. so i still have that souvenir. here is the bullet. >> years later, harold's story was brought to the attention of a famous video game producer. >> wanted to get the stories of actual world war ii veteterans, thatat they could inincorporatee

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