constantly for .com. solidarity with christian pakistani prime minister imran khan spends his country's independence day in the part of kashmir controlled by pakistan as new tensions flare with india over the disputed region. protesters in hong kong are keeping up their pro democracy campaign despite pressure from beijing demonstrators clashed with police on the street those of the airport ask for forgiveness for tuesday's violence. and the land of fire and ice is standing in for the red planet nasa tests out its new mars rover in iceland before the space e agency heads on a a new

mission there in twenty twenty. hello welcome back to friends refer newsroom among co lead thank you for joining us again. wawas pakistan celebrates its independence day the spotlight has fallen on kashmir. the region claimed by both india and pakistan has once again become a point of contention since india it revoked its special status on august fifth. pakistan have condemned the move and prime minister imran khan drove home the point by spending independence day in kashmir. throwing his support behind kashmiri's and issuing a stern warning to india. the manager there i am sending never end remotely a message here and now but if you take action. we will give a solid response. a summer spy it may be coming for the residents in indian administered kashmir india says that it will gradually begin lifting the crippling tend a curfew in kashmir on thursday to mark its independence day. for now the vavalley is still on lockdown

informrmation is struggling to get in and out of the area our correspondents to sir robbie ten done and ideal but traveled to the region for five daysys to bring us this exclusive report. in srinagar. cut off from the world people are queuing up outside a government office to reach their loved ones. authorities havave meat to phons available. they are allowed one call. back leave ma'am. we are facing a lot of problems but it's. under my kids are in delhi whatat can i do what i'm worried. i mean five days what will become of us. angle and frustration a growingng in the value. c catch m me these hahavn througugh many curfrfews and lockdownssut the c. they've never seenen something like this before. ththis famamily agreed o speak to us on the condition that we don't name them for fear of backlash from the government. these are the kinds of weddings and. we came from

saudi arabia to act in the madison money off of her early teens. so i g guess it again due to the c curfew due to o the circumstances of the government imposed to have that in a cage we have totally. kind o of cut off from the rest of the world we don't know what's happening ououtside. and one of those solution offered a problem we. in the next in seeing the future. even not and the most important thing regarding okay this offer the education system is completely shut down. like many kiss me these she's worried about how to feed her family when shops are being intermittently shop and civilian movement civility to stream. there's nothing i'm sorry we yesterday we get to. thanks for the door. the store for them and we don't have. it was a- very is they have been

taught them thank you and we thought it lilike thahat we aret able to achieve these things like this the government says things under control. but sporadic protests have broken. out against the scrapping of article three seventeen. some political leaders in cash means had warned of a possible backlash in t the already restie region when militants have b ben fighting indian n jewelry for nearly thirty years. moving on a pro democracy protesters in hong kong have once again clashed with police who fired tear gas at them in the citity streets. the weeks long movement still going strong with more street marches planned this despite mounting pressure from beijing chinese authorities denounced what they call in near terrorist acts seen at hong kong's international airport on tuesday. italy has more. shining a laser is on the walls of the police station on concrete test and make it known that the right. its laser pens or new tool of civil

disobedience. please turn to a tried and tested instrument to discuss them take yeah. hong kong's pro democracy movement continues across the chinese controlled territory including at the main airport. flights resumed off to two days of deadlock at the international hub by wednesday only a few protesters were left. what that what that pricing down. andd what i feel about them by. can understand why this upset and angry. the night the full a masters in descended into chaos two individuals suspected of being undercover policemen would be set up one of the men with lace identified as a reporter the chinese state media group for time. on companies claimed. they cooled extremists the cheese days violence. the hong kong police have always facilitate peaceful and orderly protests over the years. but the extremely

radical and violent acts have certainly crossed the line. and not to be the- most severely condemned. a leaderless movements tenth and particularly chaotic week prompted soul searching among pre test is about how to proceed meanwhile washington urged beijing to guarantee hong kong its high degree of autonomy this as the us reiterated its concern about chinese e troops gathering a alg hong k kong borda. it's time now for me to watch and for that we can say hello to james create an hi james i was even looking at the information were online regarding those hong kong protest. that's right so of course is the social media mentions the story is very considerable and there's a greater degree sympathy i think internationally in the west and the case for the hong kong protestors and you see images going up on social media. that have really sort of taken off it's a very image driven at at kind of a series of protests and these are a mosque for example i patch has become a

symbol all of our support for the movement. i punch becomes a symbol of freedom in hong kong and not refers to an incident that took place on sunday were at the police injured a protester who who subsequently under her all eat quite fondly injured it's interesting to see how that is being portrayed. in the that that the barlas specs where it's been used in some regards as as a symbol all of us all of the movements and it it is calling i think favor and sympathy for the movement. but actually the new york times is talking about how that has been portrayed in at the chinese media so it they have been if china date that the state television network reported that the woman had been injured not by one of the police is. being by grounds i bought by a protester so there's been a hold we spend on last they've even suggested that she was as somehow at issue there was insinuation that the protester was in fact paid if they showed images of our online accepting cash and such an uncensored it's a completely parallel version. of that incident at

that has gone viral online you can also see effort i'm pull out i'm on a tweet said that her arab are are are circulating about. supporting hong kong and box china's active disisinformation campaign going on with that differerent images at being talked on to those at particular at tweets supporting at beijing for example there was also an incident on on on earlier in the week at the airports where a journalist as mentioned in the report we just so far. as far as- for it for the a global. testers are words such as terrorism being used torture and what not. the people's daily newspaper here asking what really happens at hong kong international airport and again boards like torture humiliation and even you can

see here in this particular at video with that's gone at at that's been put up online as well by global times no right not risers but only terrorists is at the message coming at through their nose. somewhat alarmingly if you look at into the details of at their reports and opinion pieces this again the global times at they are talking about how all of this would juststify a verery strong response from beijing and that's it's almost like summoning at the nemesis of these protesters with the rampaging writers having crossed a legal and ethical limits. voices a call for a harsh crackckdown are rising water weight water weight sam is the long arm of all vaguer it's a i think it's pretty clear narrative thread and indeed it just fine a point on this is new york times reporting on the disinformation more they're saying that and we bow and other social media china are usually heavily heavily censored. but actually what's been left off on these sites are very kind of violence comments against at the hong kong protestors i for example one comment saying they must be beaten to death just send in a

few tanks a just send over a few times to clean them all comments like that would usually be wiped if beijing wanted. a message like that to be white but the fact that they're being left online is an indication that's at their parties are quite happy to see at that sort of messaging vehicles i mean we see this over and over again right disinformation and information being used as a weapon from both sides should be intereststing to see how this al plays. out thank very much james harden with me to watch. moving on military officials in somalia say an army base in the southern part of the country was struck by bombs and gunfire on wednesday. they also bob militant group claimed the attack. saying they launched two car bombs and killed dozens of people. that's the latest in a long string of attacks and also bob has claimed over the past decade. the federation of somali journalist said that a journalist who was embedded with the army was also killed in the attack. investigators in the united states are still trying to clarify the circumstances of billionaire jeffrey abstains death. and details of the case against

him. one womanan accusing him of sexual assault has suit is a state for damages. reports in us media claim that his prison guards were asleep before exiting dieied from an apparent suicide in his cell. surely saddam has that story. the probe into jeffrey abstinence death presses on. how and why did the financier dying at the metropolitan correctional center once considered highly secure. the first findings have led the department of justice to temporarily remove the prison warden and suspend two guards were supposed to check on an obscene every half hour. according to news reports citing a prison source surveillance video showed the guards did not carry out their checks in the morning asking died and falsified log entries pretending they did. a probe into the case itself abstains alleged sex trafficking involving dozens of underagaged girlrls continues fbi agents raided the financiers private island of little same james

nickname the island of st one of the properties were alleged victims say they were abused.d. the us department of justice says it's determined to investigate the charges and find alleged accomplices. meanwhile president donald trump defended his re tweets posted hours after the money managers death the us president which was once a frienend of abstinence re tweeeeted a messae accusing former president bill clinton of being responsible for his death. trump was then accused of promoting conspiracy theories. the president three insisting though that investigators should look into bill clinton's contacts would abstain. clinton has said he had only had limited contactct wiwith a financier and o only in

relation with his charity which have seen had invested and could still drastically change lives for the better. finally nasa is preparing for a new mission on the red planet in twenty twenty a new what mars rover will take over from the cuririosity which is looking for signs of life on the planet since twenty twelve. so how does one prepare for such a mission scientists arere in icelanand to replicate the planet's barren terrain sam bradley says mark. desolate rocky and weather beaten by freezing winds. i slimmed is the dream location for the scientists of nasa. researchers think malls looked a lot like this before becoming an oxy wasteland. on these lava fields in the west of the country nasa attesting that prototype of a robot that will one day explore the solar system's seventh biggesest planets. scientificaly we chose the site bececause we'e interested in how the sand and rocks change from both their

chemistry and their physical properties. the ray books name signed e. is tested in conditions as close to the real deal as possible it needs further improvements if it is to collect samples on miles. with the computer three d. sensors cameras and batteries sandy weighs in that's about five hundred and seventy five kilograms and surprisingly i it moves pretty slowly. i think right now we drive. around twenty centimeters per second one were driving remotely nasa used to train astronauts ally slammed back in the sixties and will carry out further testing next summer. all of this must be completed before the launch of the mars rover mission scheduled for some point between july seventeenth and will cause fifth twenty twenty. but frorom the newsroom thanks for watching and stay tuned there's still much more coming up here in france twenty four .

still the thought. that she likes it but not. as the facility only by the two on n te adult. the mobile phone you have the power to change it the way you e eat and improve this would you chchoose. welcome to musician all fronts in focus i'm not a shelby and this week we're looking into the french approach to food quality. join us here in one of paris's famed covered markets the maxis is among the perfect place to load up on fresh produce now is the home and gastronomy. specs on to lead the pack on issues such as traceability controversial

additives inside the country has had its share of scandals. leaving consumers with eight nasty aftertaste. milk eggs and meets basic food products that have sparked scandals in france over the last ten years. in twenty thirteen lasagna and france was found to contain forced me. even though it's packaging said it contained be. at the heart of the affair spahn hero the french company was accused of false advertising after the government founded had use romanian forced meet in products labeled as containing b. if we m make the f. as it is possible even easy to trace where products come from. take the horsemen scandal for example if i have in the final manufacturer i would have noticed the fords unless i was perhaps the blind to it. in twenty seventeen frances rocked by scandal involving fit burnell. the anti parasitic drugs approved for pets the band for medium. despite the ban x. tainted by for bruno

were found throughout the u. market. nearly two hundred and fifty thousand were sold in france alone in just a few months. later that year controversy hits frances like tallies one of the world's top dairy companies. it's baby formula was found to be contaminated with salmonella. according to french health authorities the contamination was responsible for thirty seven cases of infant salmonella poisoning. but like teddy's initially refused to recall the product. seafood buffet the global issue if there had been closer cooperation i i wouldn't have been obliged to recacall six hundred patches of potentially contaminatedaby formulala she's someone who the dow fontina detector at leasas the c city si made this decision because like calluses didn't accept responsibility. like that emailed a fade supermarkets also came under fire chains such as the clerk show and car for admitted they continue to sell the baby formula despite the government ban. in total

over. seven thousand tons of the products were recalled. some say the safety scandals point to corruption in france's food processing industry. health authorities respond to each affair by vowing to fight fraud and increase regulations but the indusustrial fooood chan remains opaque complicating traceability indenting consumer confidence in france. consumers all the industry to account was not as easy as it seems on the face of bad publicity and increasingly stringent political response to such scandals the french food industry knows how to wield its influence. there's a look now at france's powerful food lobby. whether it's keeping harmful components out of lists of ingredients cracking down on advertising. the go to solutioin in the food business is lobbying. polilitical p pressure that mp luigi preterm witnessed first hand when he headed up an

investigative committee last year. the group's decision to limit certain additives in processed foods was practically unanimous but when the bill was put to the parliamentary commission for social affairs he was in for a surprise. you know it the- all of the closes with phone now by the pupublic n march h party. could not be down to if it is an external pressure. financial pressure on the us lobby seeking to maintain the status quo chris junkies who has a trickle down effect this pressure on the mps but there's also pressure in the ministry. make that felt enough parliamentary majorities before we'll see all this on was some. sort of marshall with about a month from invitations to seminars and conferences to conflict mail out. the food industry costs a wide net seeking to influence axes at every level of the public sector. even those rights at the shop. here attempts to regulalate the industry are oftn deliberately depicted as

impediments to economic development. like when stefan referred then minister for agriculture spoken out against the so called stigmatize ation of regional produce to ward off a new l labelingg. system basedn nutritional information. in frfrance the major lobby is anya the national association for the food industry and it's coming out in the sector dwarfs the efforts of consumer rights groups. on the budget well we're clearly not on an equal footing they're just six staff members here at food watch and when you compare that to industry lobbies it's david and goliath in the vehicle toward that in twenty sixteen investigative journalists from many accounts revealed that certain amendments to health rules. were actually written by anya and then simply signed by mps. and one political pressure doesn't work the indusustry goes straight to the sosoles lasseses the scientific studies that legislatioion is often baseded . studies that can be thrown intoo doubt by questioning methodology all results. and news and ucsf prieta questions

the manufacturers rely on the specialized media but also on a certain number of scientists who eventually become spokespeople for them or for example to try to express probing scientific doubts about the study when in fact the scientists have a direct relationship with the businesses in question. you'll one young defect of exes and use the. another to let their disposal bodies that appears to be independent but all once again link directly or indirectly to the manufacturers. research institutes reference centers nonprofit associations organizations that allow lobbies to influence public discourse they can a also help deflect attention away from scandalsls and improve the company's image. one example in france the company's importing palm oil they creatated the forest conservation alliance which works to reduce deforestation. for us it's about desire to push this channel to get toward business school which is we put a stop

to deforestation in our supply chain. the sort of adverertising the ngos use but definitely has an impact on our corporate image. clear virtue signalling which is another way for the food lobbies to achieve the ultimate goal competitive it see any cost. when i was a witness on the issue groans perhaps the biggest obstacle faced by french consumers is information. all hands. on any resumes meal processes. why isi. thankfully technologies increasingly being put to task can i come to a supermarket to meet with yes let me she's behind an app that helps translate and sift through this data. . thank you very y much fr being with us i did just about

telling us about the thinking behind open food facts open food factor is kind of a wikipedia for food. so it's an application but lose you to scan the barcode on the food product and get information about teach like for instance the neuter score which gives you in a kia notes. the nutritional quality of the product or the know thth groupss which he will tell you whether v. food is our truck processed or not. okay so the idea is to empower consumers rather than tell them what's right and wrong yes basically osterman is yes we scanned so it's the idea that we have a mobile phone you have the power to chchange the- way you eat. and improve this would you choose and you said this is in an intnternational system but is s france ahead of the game on the sort of issue well where what when we started back in two thousand twelve there was a couple of thousand people who wear scanning their food. i know it's a mass phenomenon there is ann estimation but 40% of the french population is actually using an app t to scan their

food. your app isn't the only one if it has been some controversy over r these apps i see contradicting each other is not not sort of complicating was already a complicated process so open food fact is that a free database so many apps we use our data including by thehe way scientist. but we choose t tstick t to a fact and to science so for instatance the nutri score which was developed by french researcher the new by groups about processing which ready for a by a brazilian teamam. and so on and so on tell us more about nutri school system that this particular supermarket chain uses so knitters core is a great from eight to eatat. is simple a a gt liking school that you can use to compare products in a supermarket okay so a will be a product we've y y too fat sold sugar x.. said to run. and he will be the worse great so as you just mentioned at french consumers increasinglyy. on

board will these apps what about the french f food industry we. everyone benefits but i can see on the products around us that new fiscal isn't on every single packaging. yes of the industryry managed to make it optional but this is the new to score is statarting to get stea. and several countrieses in euroe such as benjamin spain. iced opted to use it so you're telling me that need to school was created here in france. and yes in p phones it't's- optioiol it's k kd of a paradox yeah it was a showing friends. benjamin spain abducted it our hope is that beyond those apps. there will be like it would be compulsory so but everyone even a five year old. can basically choose the right product in the supermarket. and do you think that perhaps these axles are help consumers put pressure on the food industry to change. yeah in just six years we think that the poorest shifted from the industry to the consumer.

and we really hope that it will in every country i it will be te same. and about products would be better for your health better for the environment. and we'lll be we'll have more. healthy choices i'll be easier to access that information. is in the environment that and that is growing awareness here in front about environmental issues is that also a game changer. yeah it has a claim it urgency a and we're computing te carbon from prprint on many products. so that people can choose the better of the pregegnant notot only better for them. but also better for the. planet thank you very much i haven't spoken to us thank

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