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>> welcome to france 24. we are live from paris. violence arrives in hong kong as china celebrates 70 years of communist party rule. people are injured and one protester has been shot in the chest. forill cross live to oliver the latest. donaldld trump lashes out againt the lawmaker leaving the impeachment inqnquiry againinst. he suggegested adam schiff bebe arrested for treason. the prime minister traveled to reassure residents after a fire
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at a chemimical plant t last we. a spying scandal at one of switzerland's biggest banks. it cost an executive his job. stephen carroll will have more. stay with me. we are live from paris. police have fired tear gas on protesters. one person is in critical condition after being shot in the chest. demonstrators ramp up the pressure as china celebrates 70 years of communist rule. people have been injured. troops marched alongside tanks we can go tosquare
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standing by.dent where are you and what is the situation? i am on hennessey road, on the north of hong kong island. the scene of intense battles between protesters and police. gotesters had tried to towards the beijing liaison office but decided to come back groupe there was a large of riot police. they were pushed back by water cannons. we were situated on an overpass about a mile west of here.
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delano: we are showing you images unfolding in hong kong. these protests have gone on for four months. >> they have escalated how much teargas they have released this month -- this week. this is pretty much unprecedented. there is the shooting of a teenager. he was shot point blank in the chest. appeared to show the youth youth with a baton.
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what can be said is hong kong for riote not trained situations. this had been possibly a case of an officer panicking. normally they would fire in the air. may have feared for his life. been --g protester has he is about 15 or 16 years old. >> this is anynything frfrom whi jinping would have wanted.
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>> if a screenwriter were --ting this, there would not he said no force can shape the chinese nation. about the sense that national unity cannot be challenged. this is a metaphor for the day's celebration. it is meant to commemomorate the first parade of the peoples liberation army on october 1 in 1949. every year, this has been a patriotic showcase.
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part of the image xi jinping has , to trying to per direct china to national journey from a to today, aation modern, rising power, which is the second or first largest economy. the pomp and pageantry we saw, including one of the biggest military parades beijing has sharply withasted the firebombs, the barricades, and the bonfires, including in the images we were seeing in hong kong. protesters chose this anniversary to upstage and hope the forced patrioticc
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if you don't, we will have to. that is the message. that is why these protests have taken a dynamic of their own. there is a vicious circle in the violence feeding into more violence. delano: thank you for that. donald trump's lawyer has been subpoenaed by congressional committees over his dealing with ukraine. trump lashes out on the democratic lawmaker leaving the impeachment inquiry against him. another front opened by democrats as an impeachment investigation into donald trump gathers momentum. rudy giuliani needs to hand over records asking him -- asking
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ukraine to -- trump claims he did nothing wrong. lashing out to both the whistltleblower and the chairman of the house intelligence committee. .> the call was perfect when the whistleblower reported it, he made it sound terrible. made upadam schiff, who my words, which i think is horrible. i have never seen nothing like that. the u.s.script showed president urged his counterpart to investigate the allegations against biden, one of trumps rivals in the 2020 election. there has been no evidence of wrongdoing by biden. since the allegations surface, trump has called for the whistleblower's identity to be revealed. he tweeted a pastor who warned
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of civil war. happen, itment to has to be taken up by the senate. >> the senate would have to take resolution ifent it came over from the house. >> getting two thirds of the vote needed in the senate could be a tall order. they have a republican majority. at least 20 members of trumps party would need to turn against him. >> a spokesperson for the australian government has and ask for help in in thesian interference u.s. election in 2016. lawmakers defied the president by putting the seats late into the night.
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>> a d drastic measure in his fight against corruption. the president has dissolved parliament. i hope future generations undersrstand the magnitude of te fight we are in against people that has harmed our country. lawmakers have refused to leave the chamber. the have voted to suspend president and replace them with the vice president. earlier monday, parliament pushed ahead with votes to of the almost all members, despite the president's warnrning. the president had criticized lawmakers for acting too quickly. he wanted them to consider rules he proposed on selecting
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magistrates to tackle corruption. the court is set to rule on a number of important cases, release awhether to woman whose party is the largest in parliament. welcomedion has been by hundreds wanting to get rid of the block. they gathered outside parliament monday night. instability for the country. plans on deporting 10,000 migrants to turgor -- to turkey by the end of the year. one woman dieded at a crowded migrant camp over the weekend. arrivals have increased, stretching facilities to the brink. the french prime minister says tests taken in the afaftermath f a a fire in nortrthern france
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indicate there is no risk to the populationon, despe the odor which stilill lingerin t the ai. >> a sanitary and envirironmentl catastrophe, or r an accident wh little health risk. are expressing fears about what they have been exposed to. some first responders filmed the scene. they have requested to remain anonymous. >> thousands of barrels had spilled. there was sludge on the floor. it was chaos. what was in the barrels? am i at risk? we should have been much further away. minister made the trip monday to reassure the
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population. smell wase disagreeable, but not dangerous. i am not saying the smells are not uncomfortable, but they are not dangerous, but they are uncomfortablble. that is what the resorts tell usus. >> the population is worried and skeptical. schools have re-open some have canceled classes out of precaution. have been told not to sellll produduce, eggs, or milk. the investigation is ongoing. and eyewitness accounts show the blaze began outside the factory. theyey havave decided to press charges, as have many residents affected. >> an american journalist has been sentenced for allegedly
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having an illegal abortion. for internaled bleeding. it sparks debates of personal freedoms in morocco. >> she is behind bars. the court ruled the journalist carried out an illegal abortion ad had sex outside wedlock, cover for what was not more than a political verdict. >> this confirms her arrest was motivated by revenge against her and her newspaper. i hohope the verdict will be amended. > her f fiance was handed the sameme sentetence. the gynecologist was given two years. one of the l lawyers called the verdict incomprehensible.
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>> a woman showed up to heal bleeding. does he let her die? impossible. no evidence shows there was pregnancy, only bleeding. init has sparked outrage morocco. it has whipped up reaction further afield. a week ago, hundreds signened an .pinion piece it was named after article 490. they declare themselves outlaws. as for the journalist, her lawyer has said he will heal the decision. >> violence interrupts in hong kong. 15 people are injured and one protester has been shot
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in the chest. lashes out against the lawmaker leaving the impeachment inquiry against him. he suggested adam schiff should be arrested for treason. it is may linger, but not unsafe. the french prime mister traveled too reassure residents after a fire at a chemical plant last week. at the business .ews you start out in switzerland, wherere a top p executivive ofrt suisse has resesned. stephen: he has quit after he ordered a former banker at the firm or be placed under surveillance.. he had ininitiated observavatiof the e former head of wealth managemement, who defecteted to. it camee after p police clclaime was being followed.
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ceoeo was unaware of the surveillance. zurich, churches, opera house, and its lakes, none of those bring to mind spying. that is the scandal rocking switzerland second-biggest bank, credit suisse. wealth management quit his job to join ubs. to poach he would try clients or bankers, credit suisse had him followed. was allegedly responsible for --.operation, uncovered by con
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wase have zero evidence he informed about it. apologizing, the bank added -- the board of directors considers the mandate was wrong and disproportionate. >> an internal investigation has shown he has never attempted to poach clients. there is an ongoing criminal investigation into the case. two of the majoror investors hae said he should stay in his position unless there is proof he broke the law. stephen: sellers using amazon will have to pay higher costs on giants, including
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amazon. they decided to pass this onto service,hat use the which makes the commission higherer than the british, g ge, or itatalian seses. today.nomic data out inflation in the euro zone fell to 0.09 percent. that is the lowest it has ever been in almost three years. global trade wilill see the slowest growth since the financial crisis. on the currency markets, the $1.09. trading for of carbont producer dioxide in new york has pledged to become carbon neutral by
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2040. they will shutter the conventional power stations in line with german policy too cloe all coal-fired stations by 2038. this comesfter rwe completed a swap deal with eon. haveonmental groups criticized the pledgdge, saying the company should be moving faster. japan has increased its saleles tax despite concerns s over thee effect it might have on the economy. the tax rises havave been d dely twtwice. today,y, it goes up from 8% to % as tokyo seeks to raise e more rerevenue to repay debt t for is agaging pupulation. consumers s haveeeeen rushingg o make purchases ahead of the increase. >> consumers rushed stores before the sales tax hike kicked
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in. all services and goods, except essential food items cost a bit more as the tax increasess from eight to 10%. bed am gladad i purchased my when the tax is still at 8%. >> there is concern it will slow down consumer spending. attackme shinzo abe racace -- raised the tax from 5% to 8%. recession.ed into they have taken a number of , like a to mitigate series of rebates. >> the government has taken steps and adding more security measures, japan's economy could
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return to deflation. thehe government will use money collected to improve its social security system, adapted to its aging population and help ouout young families. free child education and childcare will start. >> the goal of the tax hike is to pay back japan's government debt, which stands at 2.5 times its annual economimic output.. >> a big day in jajapan with the sales tax rise. they h have shut down their pagr service. >> from 1010, 20 years ago pepeople wouldld call the numbe, somebodydy -- >> a a text message on a tiny device. theyey have shut down that serve
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finally in japan. were doctors.rs it was a cute story about how the technology has moved on and left people behind. one final busininess story. asas the european courts considr an appeal by apple and ireland over a 13 billion euro tax bill. the iphone maker was forced to ruling of $14.4 million. reports from the watchdogs say part of the money is losing around 70 million euros a year because of negative interest rates. the appeals process is expected to take years. if ireland keeps the money, they may have lost hundreds of
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eric campbell: a wall that's dividing america, a caravan of desperate migrants trying to cross it... [child crying] and a president trying to stop them. president trump: and we're not letting them into our countrtry. they're not coming in. [crowd cheering] campbell: tonight, we walk in the shoes of two mums... [woman speaking spanish] campbell: and two boys fearing for their lives. [boboy speaking spspanish] campbell: one e of them willll makeke it to the u.s. the others will be trapapped in micico, ina new wave of migration that's created a political storm. trump: barbed wire used properly
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