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morocco's king wants to injected new blood in government to meet the country's development needs he says he mocks twenty years on the throne. as the world's two largest economies resume trade talks in shanghai the u. s. president takes to twitter accusing china of failing to deliver. and the french prime minister dismisses claims that police heavy handedness cause the death of a man in the western city of nantes last m month. this offer body was recoverered from the law river and has now been identified as that. of steve can you sell. good to have you with us on
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fronts money for first celebrations are being held across morocco to mocking muhammad the six twentieth year on the throne. towns and cities have been decked out the flags and newspapers have published editorials praising the monarchs cheap mints. but there's also been descent with some pointing to inequality in the high rate of youth unemployment. newman lloyd reports. it was twenty years ago that king muhammad the sixth of morocco came to the throne. after the death of his father house and the second. he spent his childhood being prepareded for the role. his coronation the thirty five year old promise to come to poverty unemployment and social inequality. there were high hopes for a reformist king after the brutal regime of his father. two decades on what progress has there b been. economic g growth has been steay the country has seen major construction projects like the world's largest concentrated solar power plant on the edge of
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the sahara desert. and africa's first if a high speed rail line. but the gap between rich and poor has widened and is the highest in north africa. youth unemployment is at around 25%. when the fear we are proud of what has been achieved? however maybe not incentive to all the imperfections. and what's still wantt to do i totally exempted feature want to skip is that fair. the arab spring protests sold tens of thousands of moroccans take to the streets calling for democratic constitutional monarchy. the king promised reforms and approved a new constitution bossip service say little has changed the king still holds absolute power not in a newborn mrs. despite the promises that were made at the start of the king's reign despite the twenty eleven promises with the twentieth of february movement also. we find ourselves here today living in a royal autocracy the king who decides everything the constitution.
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is not respected. citizen a perspective. under his reign freedom of the press has declined maraca ranks a hundred and thirty fifth in the world for press freedom. now fifty five can muhammad the six has kept stability in a turbulent region. points of tension remain in the country's northern riff area where -- flutie's have cracked down on anti poverty protest is calling for jobs and economic developments. thousands of protesters have taken to the streets across the don they're protesting the violent tactics used yesterdayay to disperse a demonstration five high school students were left dead. office security forces opened fire on this tuesday talks to finalize a power sharing agreement between the military and civivilian l leaders was postponed serena psych supports. mon ching in defiance. the school children take to the streets in the capitol calls him on tuesday to condemn the previous day's bloodshed's.
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on monday a student led protests in the city of and obeyeyed endd in massacre according to a doctor's committee on line to the pro democracy movements. security forces opened fire on the crowns killing four teenagers and adults. unicef called on the sudanese governments to launch an investigation saying their child should be buried in this school uniform. saddam's militarary leader on te actiting govovernor of the r ren have condemned the killings. events escalated quickly [inaudible] no. this led to five deaths. we ask god to bestow his mercy on them. to come for their families and beloved ones. suggestion has been opened. the violence camee ass protest leaders were jews hold towards of generals in this hotel in call too on the final details of transitioning to civilian rule. a power sharing deal reached earlier in july you agreed on the establishment of a new governing bodyy of six civilians
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on five generals. instead of attending the talks protest leaders visited elevate with the five people were kille. the ruling transitional minute tree council has imposed a curfew in the region. all schools have been ordered to suspend classes. when users coming into our schools are at shows a two shot old wednesday in so don - -- asa result of those five students who were killed in a protest on monday. in other news protests erupted in hong kong after dorothy's charge forty four activists with rising it's the first time the writing charge has been used since protests erupted over a controversial extradition bill. which china rising carries a maximum ten year sentence in hong kong and the activists alleged they've done nothing wrong at a at this tuesday protesters blocked train services. during rush hour traffic in the city. now the us and china have opened another round of trade talks the first since donald trump
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incision paying agreed a truce at last month's g. twenty summi. expectations of a breakthrough in shanghai are low and the american president has accused beijing off not following through on its previous commitments. so how did the trade war between the world's two largest economies begin catherine bennett has been finding out -- we will make america great again make america great again it's been dental terms amos since he ran f for the presidency. and he wants to do it by targeting thehe enormous trade deficit between his country and china. in two thousand and eighteen china sold almost five hundred and forty billion dollars worth of consumer products the united states. is mostly mobile phones computers clothes and toys. the us meanwhile exported a hundred and twenty billion dollars worth of goods to china. including planes calls and
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soybeans. the results the us reaching a record trade deficit of four hundred and twenty billion dollars with china in two thousand and eighteen that's forty times more than in. nineteen ninety donald trump things the u. s. is the victim of unfair competition by china. he wants to put pressure on beijing to negotiate a trade deal and lay out his own conditions. trump wants china to stop giving a helping hand to state owned companies and to stop undervaluing its currency in order to boost exports. he also accuses beijing of stealing american intellectual property. the beginning of two thousand eighteen tensions between the two countries and jump up a notch. the u. s. decides for us to raise tariffs on imports of solar panels s from china. than other products the steel and aluminium. the list of goods gets longer and by the end of two thousand eighteen always hall for the products of the us imports from china has been hit with higher tariffs. on the first of december two thousand eighteen the chinese
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president on the u. s. presiden. when the site is off to the g. twenty summit? it's the start of the troops in the trade war. almost five months later the two countries even seem close to a trade deal chinese negotiators are coming to washington for a final round of talks. another guy that smoothly when it comes to donald trump. he suddenly announces a new tariff hike on chinese goods and even freshens charge duties on chininese products the u. s. bellies. a few days later relations between the two countries it deteriorate even furthth.. the e united statetes takes aimt the chinese telecoms giant wall way and effectively blacklisted from doing business with us companies. there's now a new angles to the trade war and many fit the start of a t tech cold war -- and the french prime minister has dismissed clalaims that heavy handed tactics used by police in the western city of north contributed to the death of a
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young man. an autopsy done on a body recovered in t the law river yesterday has been identified as steve can be so. the twenty four year old went missing off the police raided a music festival on the banks of the river. last month.. z zero days zero te from today we will be releasing to the public the national police inspectorates reports. that there you have it the multi which the interior minister requested on the twenty fofourth of june thirtieth. it indicates that in light of nine fax at the time of publication i quotes.. a link cannot speak established between the intervention of police f forces. and the disappearance of mister steveve my candy so. my jack and stuff. for more on this story here as france twenty fourth kathanar stranger puttit. french prime minister edouard philip standing next to the country's interior minister announced that he was opening a new high level enquiring into the death.
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of steve my at county so the young man who died falling into a river roster police operation to shut down a party on the banks of the river a lot back. in june well they've been many questions ever since about whether there was a any police heavy handedness during that operation they fired tear gas. at the party goes some of him and replied throwing bottles and projectileles police what has bn a preliminary inquiry the prime minister said which did not. prove any link between the police operation and the death of steve my account he said but there was still some confusion he said and he wanted. to cost all possible light on the events of that night and he said that he possibly with bad the consequences. now the death of steve has become a big story in france in recent weeks because it's tied in to other allegations. of potential police at the heavy handedness even police brutality
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no to be linked to the yellow vest. demonstrations the asian steve's name has been chanted at recent yellow vest at demonstrations throughout france with protest as saying the authorities have been toooo slow to investigate. and to react to his disappearance. kathy norris transporting them. in other news brazilian police have decided to drop by a rape charges against football star neymar for more on that story we can bring in our sports editor kent divine and gorgeous donnie could even get up on this is me that name i w was completely cleared of wrongdoioing in. this case well it said at least a step in that direction because the police say that there is. not enough evidence and to actually go ahead with the that case it but the final decision still does lie with the the prosecutor's office. at the prosecutors who have now fifteen days to decide whether to follow that recommendation or go ahead and file a rape charges anyway although at the
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prosecutors usually do follow police and guidance now at this case were started when brazilian model. and you are trained on the accused at the twenty seven year old striker flying her to paris then raping her in a hotel back in may he has always denied the accusation. saying that their relations were consensual he later accused her of blackmail releasing private texan explicit photos said that they had exchanged to prove his point this. has led to a separate investigation into whether he has actually committed as cyber crime by posting intimate pictures online. his accuser also went public giving a televised interview and releasing footage in a video clip allegedly showing an altercation between the two but was then. a drop by several of her lawyers she is now being investigated for at least like julie filing a false report. the brazilian police are also suing and the model for at defamation this after -- she alleged that thehe police forcen
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brazil were correct now -- given this case has gripped brazil for months now but but here in europe name has also been making headlines. as a brazililian looks leave bodies on tomorroww yeses and is a really neat -- transfer saga of at this summer will name mark leave paris to return at two at barcelona every day we have a new rumors new information -- price sounds i'm of course have a recently opened the door for name ours a departure they've been very reluctant though in their negotiations with the catalan side. according to some spanish media reports by sometime have reportedly agreed to reduce the price tag i from three hundred to two hundred and million euros that's pretty much what they have paid to sign him. from barcelona two years ago i burst out however do not exactly have the finances right now and they're pushing for a swap involving several of their players in this is adam on a really the sticking point because probably sometime i have said that they wanant the casas.
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not swapping players so the saga is likely. to go on for much of the summer we'll l see what happens and wel see how much -- is what numbers come out of that that's our only big one say how is indeed that case and i thank you very much for that and that's what we leave it stay with us is on twenenty four okay don't compensate your locals. missing also have reined truee. to get the result the moneyey magazine. welcome to the laptop or not. he did a sixty two to be
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answerable to cash. welcome to a new addition i'm not a shelby and this week we're taking a look at france's attitude to wait. specifically because of the and of the scales well the french cliche of an effort to some trim population of this thing doesn't hold true. the country does seem to harbor a deep rooted to staying five which people especially here in the capital to the extent the since twenty seventeen paris city hall. as i did to tackle the issue with an annual anti sizes and day a chance to call out social prejududice. but also to put the focus on discrimination in the workplace and was surprisingly in the medical field was stereotypes die hard and can have very serious consequences. marjorie is thirty nine years old she's been battling her weight she was a child. and has had to put up with bullying from a young age.
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how much on on me they used to call me the beach ball the barrel? you feel like you have to play it's a bit like that. marjorie has encountered the same prejudices from the medical profession. whwhen she was a a teenager her first visit to a gynecologist was bubut taking unpleasant? and my the position that it looks it she looked me up and down and said maybe you should stop making a pig of yourself and crarack open s she i thihinf she had slapped me in the face that would have hurt lasted a concert this room. for the rest of the consultation she didn't say much but i could tell from the way she looked at me and when she touched my stomach for the exam. i could tell she was disgusted to deng saloon. ma'am with citrus commenting forfeits. such humiliating treatment can be common place for these peopl. judge for the families that often reminded of that week by the docks his. even if the original motive for the consultation or something else entirely. what about marjorie's nutritionist argues it's a doctor's job to one that
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patients that being overweight is dangerous for the health? this debate is more it may seem intrusive for some patients but for the medical well being it's essential. that it has alsoo - -- a secondy problem does in their thougughts and medical examinations that's a more complicated to perform on a. b. c. people. sometimes patients can be mis diagnosed. as the test results on accurate because the person is a beast. and that is for a dog to its very unsatisfactory four point some. services. for some reasonable conclusion to the show room this hospital in real has developed a training program to teach doctors how to treat it awake people. part of the process involves putting on a seventeen kilogram fat suit [inaudible] yeah okay. which affects the dominoes when you're in the mood is home putting on the obesity suit allows them to get into the skin of the patient. i understand the difficulties they face just performing daily
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town. in terms of mobility but also in their line. the looks they get from other people the difficulty they have doing things that we can d do withouout a seconond thougught.o school fares on people see. if you seen climbingng staff as scan [inaudible] for just walking down the street. the simple tasks can be daily tests for obese people. well sort of personal take on this issue i'm joined by also get the a dg. first hand experience of thought phobia is now being turned into tv film. this initiative for gross margin because we had. i think this is the fact. to come on the deck o on the box.
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hello thank you for being witith us. tonight at the world and also for me old fat phobia into french dictionaries in. twenty e eighteen find it for us fast lococals without fabia is a form of discrimination linked to wait to be. forty and its multi layered. it manifests is discrimination in the workplace boxing with rerecruitment. discrimination in the medical field and then of f course every day discrimination. i mean that's on record. so what's been your personal experience off fat phohobia. of unfortunately i can say i've taken over the thought they'd be a boxes -- zeke when i've experienenced discrimination in the workplace lafrance or if i played for a job as a pr manage. and was told would not giving me the job b because you only you s inversely proportional to o bmi body mass index. let them h have someoneo o talko the piece i've been confronted with. sense of it and one of my
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previous jobs i was also harassed and told. i don't want to work with a fat person or when talking about retirement about colleagues would sasaying g gabrielle's luy she'll never face the difficulties of retirement. because she'll die and have fought long before that all segmgments of all. not to see how they get translates in the wororkplace. then in the medical field i've come across a callous doctors for many young like a dentist he told me that the reason i had cavities was because i was brushing my teeth with caramel. or i've been refused exam such as ultrasound on the basis that quite. you'll find will make it impossible to see what's in your stomach. and it will be a waste of the taxpayers money. that kind of thing that it was over and finally every day for a beer is not beingng able to fixn chat cafe terrace struggling to get three tight underground access. not being able to sit in a cinema that sort of thing. in reality -- just 5% of french women wear a size 813% a size ten well he's 40% of the country's women wear a size. foururteen i'm and yet we feel t
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the french population has this idea of being magic he said as the repepation we e ve a broadad and is the sense of fat fabia how do you exexain. of it that's s a nation is thisa much about french women it's more a generalization of some mythical pyrenean woman. he seems a little cigarettes and wine i never eat any s solid fe. one around 17% of the french population is s classified as a beast. they're a clear geographic disparities in the capital for instance we have the l lowest number of fat p people it's arod 10% in paris. where is in the most impoverished areas of the country like the normal parts of the south 26% of the population is classified as a beast? that's right because y you mentioned the polar regions of frogs that and that's because as a sococio economic aspects to te city and the full fat fabia. ruby c city is undoubtededly a social marca ago claim on you just have to look at the figures provided by the international labor organization a talk on us and i do because i own the courting today statistics here in francee 30% of welfare benefits trees are being. i saw falls.
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a compass also did not figure gaze down to juju 7% among the two and four thousand year r isa montnth or more.. song -- do business is a yes the maps jotting poverty alcoholism and depression and to be city across france. look the same. it is also a gender aspect to this week a b. c. d. rates the pretty much the same for men and for women. but the social stigma is very differenent if i'm n not that'sy women g go under the knifefe a t more than that on a day yes and there's a similar disparity inn the work place e open ticket. statistics show that during the recruitment process over weight women are. times more likely to be discriminated agagainst in this land the counterpaparts. byby comparisonn minutes three times more likely to face discrimination issues -- support for i'm one of the effects of that five young people who are overweight. often what you need to understand i is the thoughtht fn feed the beast thehe tea and itt can e even kill. because people commit suicide as a result of the abuse and emotional distress. and when people have a tendency
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to eat that feelings allll thaht discriminanation just ends up ad using more weight gain. one of the ways of breaking that vicious cycle is to raise awarenesss which is exactly what axle peres's doioing with his latest exhibition. the photographer spent three months in a specialized trainin. capturing the harsh reality of a b. c. and its treatment but a ao offefering patients the opportunityy to shine in a seris of stunning artistic portrayed. chance of his subjectcts and the public at large to come to grips with the simple truth. often people who are obese or simply overweight have sererious issues with that body image. and i wanted to show them that bebeing fat doesn't mean they count. for and this is initial concerns about how visitors might react to the pictures with quickly as wage. the feedback i get from visitors that is as really change that perception that many tolold me that when they first entered the gallerery. they weree apprehensive. thinking the pictures might be somewhat voyeuristic.
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well that may be confronted with bodies that would make them comfortable even spock discusse. at the end that perception of all. suddenly they found themselves able to see beautyty what they couldn't before. well the body positive movement begins to take hold from this famed fashion industry is having to reassess its approach to physical norms. the number of a high end retailers it continues to restrict sizes too in shorts clothing is anyone by a certain body type. hi street friends seem increasingly keen to offer eight plus sizee version of the collecections and use a wide variety of models in the campaigns take a look. in thehe french countryside a phphoto shoots on the way that it's changing enough a landscape the house of modeling. this is a new collective crane from the body positive movement in the united states. using plus size models to break through preconceptions about the female body. and it's an h..
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does everybody decisively shaped skin color and culture to talk about the positive body image to accept oneself and all women with a small little slim more large amounts. of london's wanna which can see it will gorgeous. well can be well kinds of shshas with them as several brandnds he recently moved to align themselves closer to the reality of average body types and appeal to larger women three around the time i sing. this luxury retailer is one example with larger sizes accounting for a third of the sales. all khan women always come in knowing what will suit them. there are a d. e. or f. cup will before they would say oh i didn't know you did anything other than the smaller sizes. when it comes to french women for instance that far from the avererage you often see in glosy magazines? around sixty three key lies in
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wait -- for one me to sixty five in height and the bust of ninety three centimeters. head to an average talk more than the fifty seven kilos one meter eighty toll and eighty six centimeters around the chest. even modeling agencies a are getting with the times. this paris firm has seen far more diverse city take routes over the last sixix months - -- window at the plant we have maybe one or two costing so we and when we look from all curvy women. that best of luck people must've noticed that women want to be represented in their entirety because onto the local but that on just pre pubescent women. there also actual women season the from from. the collective hopes to inspire other fashion initiatives to burst forth breaking down even more by areas with public events like this. one the end of april in paris. terrorists looked all around twenty models of all sizes struck down at the eiffel tower.
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