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>> we have all been tempted by it. >> reportersrs come on france 24 and frfrance24.com. on's sosomers o of said -- of susudan us seven council e sworn in. this four months after omar bashir was ousted. will startsident consulting party leaders after the government collapsed and the prime minister resigned on tuesday.
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and cardinal george pell loses his appeal in australia against his sexual abuse conviction. the 78-year-old maintains his innocence and his legal team is considering going to the high court. hello and welcome back. i am clalaire pryde. it is good to have you with us. we start with a swearing in of the 11 memembers of sudan's sovereign counsel. there are five military officers, including the outgoing mimitary leader, and six civilians. they will be in charge of the country for three years until elections can be held. the military and protesters have bebeen negotiating over sudan's future on it off for four months. our correspondent has more. >> a new face beginsns toward democracy. >> the president of thee tranansitional military council has just issued a constitutional decree establishing the sovereign counsel. body is mamade up of 11
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members, five of f them army genenerals, the other six civilians, including two remaining. it will run the country for over three years until elections. an e economist, nominated by the opposition, is poised to bee sworn in as prime minister. the council is initially being led by general abdel fattah al-burhan. he headed the transitional military council after the overthrow of president omar al-bashir. another leader will take over after 20 months. the signing of the deal at the celebrating in the streets with joy. it came after months of political stalemate and a bloody crackdown on protesters. and intense pressure from sudan's arab allies in the united states. although the agreement raises
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hope for a democratic transition, uncertainty remains as the new government tackles the main challenge for addressing the country's economic crisis. the man considered to be the most powerful player also sits on the council. the former warlord from darfur has recently been accused of allowing paramilitary men to kill bended -- to kill emmons traders. topics include pension reform, the 2020 budget, education, and ending up and on ivf for couples and single women. he joins me know from the palace. chris, the last year being pretty tough for president macron. how is he hoping around, shape things up? has, yes.ainly those protests are realllly
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knocking the wind out of sails.l macron's of the challenge for macron is going to be seeking not to rile that part of the french public, once again resetting his presidency, as it were. as you said, he is planning to continue with his reform agenda, and there are a couple of particularly divisive issues. among them, pension reform. president macron said things cannot go on as it is. people are living longer and they need to raise the minimum retirement age. people promised to go on strike for that. and then there is the reform of doling out state-funded ivf treatment to all women here in france. it is pretty popular amamongst most of the public, but there is a vocal minority. some of the same people who protested against the legalization of gay marriage
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under francois hollande are threatening to take to the streets. it is kind of an opportunity for emmanuel macron, not just about the substance of his policies, but about his style the rhetoroc is therd is that he aloof president, the president of the rich, and in terms of commit occasion, he embarked on that series of town hall visits in the wake of the p protests, d ththat has been some -- that has gone some way to clawing back his approval among the public. they will be listening, they will be consulting. none of this will be forced through from on high. claire: thank, chris moore, reporting. presidentwhere salvini is to consult party leaders after the president resigned. salvinier the attack on
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after conte resigned. the others are forming a n new majority and in stake -- and installing a governmenent. our correspondent explains. >> the italian prime minister has resigned, and italy is once again in a deep political fix. what happens now is up to the president, sergio mattarella. he has the power to call new elections, which needs to happen within 70 days' time. this is what deputy prime minister matteo salvini is hoping for. he had fourth a no-confidence motion against the prime minister and said he could no longer work with his coalition, five star. it was a an attempt to capitalie on the growing popularity of his far right party. >> i would do everything i did again, everything. i am a free man.
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i do not fear the judgment of the italian people. the league is pulling in first place at just under 40%. took just under 17% of the vote in elections last year, but president matta rella can look if they can form an alliance, it means salvini's gamble will have backfired, but there is a new chance and new coalition without a new election would alienate voters and further boost his appeal. there is a third option for the president. he can install a caretaker government. in any case, the upheaval comes at a sensitive time. italy must present its draft budget for 2020 by the end of septemember. claire: whoever becomes italy's next leader will inherit a difficult economomic situation. among first challenges will be to draw up a budget for 2020.
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theust pass scrutiny by european union. our business editor is here with more. italy is the fourth largest economy in the e.u., but there have been plenty of warnings about it in recent years. >> not lay mainly because of the size of its debt. italy has a massive debt mountain, one of the busiest in the e.u. that's one of the biggest in the e.u. with 2.3 trillion euros, a 10 digit figure. it is worth more than 130% of its gdp. that is everything over the coururse of the year produced in the economy. after same time, economic growth has stagnated, unemployment in italy is high, particularly among young people. under 25.among so big economic challenges facing whoever comes into the job next. the other issue is in an economy
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with stagnated growth and with debt that high, borrowing costs could be a huge problem. any political turmoil could spook the markets, force investors to look for higher returns on their investments, and that could be a big problem for a country like italy that has so much debt. claire:: how did the markets react to the latest political crisis? stephen: we had a little bit of a wobble when the news of the snap elections started to emerge. otherwise, there was not much reaction to giuseppe conte's announcement on tuesday. we actually saw things fall. now it is at its lowest level in around a year. we look at italaly's 10 year bod deal, it's most reliable guide , onong-term government debt the stock market, the ftse in the landfill i 1.1% per today up over 1.7% a short time ago. so investors are bouncing back. no great worries in the market just yet. claire: it is against this
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budget that salvini will begin in 2020. stephen: last time around, italy and the european union clashed over public spending plans per the italian government wants to increase spending on public services, onon welfare benefits. rome had to agree to a big increase in vat, the tax on goods and services, to get it passed european muster. it is usually punishing for consumers and very politically unpopular. it is worth 23 billion euros to the italian budget, so they will have to find some way of plugging that hole if they want to avoid that tax increase. generally speaking, getting the deficit down is going to be a big priority for whoever, finding the money and stimulating the economy at the same time. this is a long challenge in italy's history. there has not been great growth in recent years. so there are plenty of ideas how to do it.
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matteo salvini calling for a 50 billion euro spending plan for the budget. very difficult to see where he would find the money to fund that because this budget, like all budgets for e.u. member states, have to be approved i the european commission, and they have to submit that draft by mid-october. claire: thank you, stephehen. turning our attention to australia, where cardinal george pell has lost his appeal against his sexual abuse conviction. the 78-year-old has been in prison since his sentencing in march. he is the most senior catholic cleric in the world to be convicted of child sexual assault. claire rush has more. of 2-1, therity court of appeal has dismissed cardinal george pell's appeal against his conviction forr the commission of sexual offenses. >> cardinal george pell is going back to prison. the world's most senior catholic
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to be found guilty of child abuse, pell is serving six years from a listing 213-year-old choirboys more than 20 years -- 13-year-oldng two choirboys more than 20 years ago. one victim shared his reaction to the ruling through a statement t read by his lawyer. relieved d by the decision of the court of appeals. it is four years since i reported to the police. the criminal process has been stressssful. ththe journeney has takeken me o places that, in my darkest moments, i feared i would not return from. for pell saidson his lawyers will examine the judgment and consider an appeal to australia's high court. the vatican has acknowledged the decision while reiterating its support for pell. >> the cardinal has always maintained his innocence
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throughout the judicial process, and it is his right to appeal to the high court. washe 78-year-old cardinal once an advisor to pope francis and ranks the third most powerful man in the vatican. his is the highest profile sentence in the global child sex abuse scandal that has stained the catholic church's image. attention tong our the largest tangoe event in the world. 0 couples took part, but twice that number competed in the initial stages. in the end, an argentine woman and a russian man came out on top. ,> when it comes to tango argentina often wipes the floor with competitors. over the years, almost all of the world championships have hailed from the -- almost all the winners of the world championships have hailed from the south american country. this year, mn from russia scoop
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to the floor with his argentine partner. >> it is an indescribable feeling. i am still a little in shock and cannot convey all my emotions. we just tried to enjoy ourselves on the dance floor. >> i have no words. no words can explain our joy and happiness. we were hoping for this but did not think it could be possible. every second was incredible. >> buenos aires has held the competition every year since 2003. 100 couples around the world are taken to swell their way to , a dancen the tango said to have originated among immigrants in the argentinian capital and categorized by is musicality, and grace of the partners.
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>> that is it for now. thanks for watching. stay tuned. >> in the east of greenland, in the ramon desk in the remote arctic, it is 3:00 in the morning and the temperature is minus five degrees and these teenagers are not sleeping. in the frozen white of the night, they meet to listen to american pop music. >> they have wi-fi and they watch videos of famous people on try to bend then they them.
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show off their skill sets, dancing. [music plays] areheir parents, meanwhile, whiling away at the village bar. there steps are heavy with the free-flowing alcohol. there steps are heavyvy with the freeee-flowing alclcohol. we are a world away from the wild and mystic greenland of the postcards. within 1600 0 inhabitants,s, ths ththe only t town in a region ne size of f france. ago, the people living here were self-sufficient, relying on hunting and fishing. that all vanished when danish
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colonizers decided to settle the population and establish a town. roads, schools, dispensaries arrived at the same time as the consumer society. and with it, unemployment. residence rely on -- at the start of each month, the same people gather at the head dispensers of this supermarket, where we meet up again with benjamin, the nighttime dancer. >> there is too which alcohol. it is bad. drink is hidden behind these curtains to try to reduce consumption, which is creating havoc. unemployment, crises of identity, loneliness.
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between t traditional andnd modedern life, i it is the youno are the most vulnerable. 21 years old, he dreams of being a footballer, but for the moment he wastes s his time on the streets ofof tassel lack -- of tasiilaq. >> we need more jobs here. but many of them are drinking alcohol and they will not work. they are just ringing beers. the future vision of shared by young people. greenland wins the prize every year for hopelessness. with a suicide rate the highest in the world, eight times higher than france. he lost his b bt friend l last year. >> he was drunk and his
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girlfriend is with another boy. hehe is angry and drunk, so went home and killlled himself. i was thinking i cannot continue anymore. so i cried every day, so i go andd cry and talk to him. undnder the snow w is an area e size o of a a football l nch. average, they bury a teenager every month. i cannot really remember which one is my best friend. i think it is this one.
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>> now some people are looking for ways to fight back. this theater group has created a show which exposes things that most people in t tasiilaq would prefer to ignore. have two show that it is hard-fought for everyone here.e. so many people are killing themselves. it is s hard. young people have a lot of they cannot say anythihing. help youngd to people. in telling the story of their lives.
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, telling them crying problems they had. these scenes reveal the country's greatest taboo. -- just thedren biggest problem. >> nearly a third of young green lenders are victims of sexual -- of young greenlanders are victims of sexual aggression. it is one of the main causes of the epidemic of suicides. -- theater seems to exercise seeks to exercise their traumas. >> it liberates us. >> yes, we feel stronger. when i heard what my brother had
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done, it left me all alone. it was terrible. i was inconsolable. it is a good thing i found support here. age 16, this is the youngest sister of the one who committed suicide last year. every afternoon she meets her theater friends. they go t to one ofof the rare theaters in tax lack -- in tasiilaq, , where one cacan be . >> w when our parenents drank, y said awful things to us, like they did not want us anymore. they are waiting for us to die. my brother, when his girlfriend left him, my brother felt completely abandoned. however often i go to o his gra, it still does not comfort me. >> it is terrible.
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this way out by suicide, we have all been tempted by it at some time. to offer ater seeks different perspective. today thehey are meeting at the group founder's house. rejected during childhood because of his feminine appearance, 17-year-old -- the 17-year-old now fully accepts his difference. in his bedroom, the american styles have inspspired h his drm to become an actor. my motivation. his parents are the only ones supporting the theater project. they are proud that young people at last are lifting the veil on a social taboo. >> in my opinion, they are very courageous to go back over all these traumatic events.
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they support each other. it is a good thing. i am sure they could bring down the suicide rate. support which is all the more crucial because psychologisists here, as in the rest o of greenland,d, are extxtremely ra. when a y young person n goes as, he or she is taken in by this establishment, where about one dozen people, learning the job as they go along, attempt to help them. we have a psychologist that comes each month for the capital, but he only stays two or three days, so it is not long. workers try to reestablish the parents-child relationship, which is often broken down. >> parents have great difficulty in bringing up their children. when they y are not drinking, ty spoil them too mucuch.
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they over protect them, and as soon as they start drinking, they forget about them completely. it t is the last were herschel before they gogo live on stagegn front of their parents. -- it is the last rehearsal forr they go live on stage in front of theirir parents. it is our r last chance e to prt a form of confession. >> [spspeaking natee language]
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lananguage]tive they come to see and they say thank you. shohow,n the day of the ththe parents have not turned u. a few minutes before cucurtain , the audience is made up of mostly young people anand their teachers. >> today our show is a bit different. we have decided to share with you the difficult experiences that we have been through. this is the first time we have spoken about them.
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donald d trump: i'm establilishg new vettining measures to keep radical islamamic terrorists out of the united states of america. we don't want 'em here. larara kiswani:i: there's a stia of ararab people, , muslim peoee in ththis country designed to perprpetuate andnd justify t thr on teterror, and that's what a lot of arabs and muslims are facing today, sort of a really undignified struggle to just live. dr. raramzi salti: it takess courage e to be able to stand dp to racisism, turn itit into a positive moment a momoment of learning g where you u actually use that momement to educate, to let people know about the rich diversity of your culturere. lamees dahbour: we e want our community,y, like, sanan francio

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